Speaker 1: I am so excited with like ten extra o's about
Speaker 1: this message that you're about to hear today that God
Speaker 1: gave me for you. But before that special message, I
Speaker 1: have this special message. I want to see you at
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Speaker 1: And now to the word be blessed. Let me know
Speaker 1: in the comments where you're watching from. I see you
Speaker 1: on the other side. Youdom, lift your hands. Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Savior of the world.
Speaker 1: We came today to crown you, not like you need
Speaker 1: our crown to be worthy, but we just want to
Speaker 1: join in with what Heaven already knows, what has already
Speaker 1: been demonstrated by your sinless life, your unjust death, You're
Speaker 1: unprecedented resurrection from the dead, your ascension into heaven, where
Speaker 1: we know that now you are seated at the right
Speaker 1: hand of God. We lift our hands to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: there is no one higher than you, no one greater
Speaker 1: than you. We lift our hands to acknowledge that all
Speaker 1: authority in heaven and on earth has been given to you.
Speaker 1: And when we proclaim the name of Jesus, we are
Speaker 1: seated in heavenly places with you today, forgiven of our sin,
Speaker 1: filled with your spirit, assured of our place in your family,
Speaker 1: and called to be your friends. Now, God, I pray
Speaker 1: for the sleeper to wake up. I thank you that
Speaker 1: today is a divine wake up call. God. I pray
Speaker 1: that today, as we have been singing the truth of
Speaker 1: the Gospel, that people have been shaking and they can't
Speaker 1: hit the snooze button one more time, because the King
Speaker 1: is here and resurrection is real and nothing is impossible
Speaker 1: for him who believes so. Half your way in this house, God,
Speaker 1: we're full of faith. We give you praise and honor.
Speaker 1: Employ in Jesus' name, a man clap those hands and
Speaker 1: give him, praise good to see you. Welcome all of
Speaker 1: our EPAM around the world the Easter to our etham
Speaker 1: all over the world. Good grief. If I told you
Speaker 1: where everyone was joining us from, you would think I
Speaker 1: was just making stuff up. But when they go on
Speaker 1: the chat and say here's where I'm watching from, do
Speaker 1: that right now. Okay, those of you watching on YouTube
Speaker 1: and Facebook, let us know where you're joining us from.
Speaker 1: And we from We're from the country. We're here from Charlotte,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, just to welcome you into the presence of God.
Speaker 1: Such an exciting day. Man, Chris, I've rounded the corner
Speaker 1: and you were preaching. Man, whoa you were preaching? You
Speaker 1: were preaching like the devil is defeated. I was impressed.
Speaker 1: He was going on and on about the scripture, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, he really knows the word. And
Speaker 1: then I got around the corner and he was holding
Speaker 1: a Bible. I thought he hid it in his heart
Speaker 1: that he might not sin against God. Now he was
Speaker 1: holding it in his hand. Well, I can't possibly name
Speaker 1: everyone who's joining us, but just from all over the world,
Speaker 1: whether Missouri, UK Houston Abbey shouted out a few people
Speaker 1: during the welcome, and I just want to join in
Speaker 1: welcoming you into the presence of God. Sometimes the question
Speaker 1: is not whether we are welcome in his presence, it's
Speaker 1: whether we will really let Him into the places of
Speaker 1: our life that we hide from others. So there's always
Speaker 1: a guilt trip that preachers put on people on Easter
Speaker 1: and Christmas. And they call them. They say, it's good
Speaker 1: to see all the CEOs the Christmas and Easter, only Christians,
Speaker 1: and everybody goes ha ha, and they laugh, so nobody
Speaker 1: will know it's them, and a fear you might sink
Speaker 1: through the floor because you know you haven't been here.
Speaker 1: But that's not our message today. Our message today is
Speaker 1: you are welcome in the presence of God, and you're
Speaker 1: welcome in our church. But the song that we were singing,
Speaker 1: that's the real question of Easter. Will you welcome resurrection
Speaker 1: and listen in an irony and ironic twist of fake,
Speaker 1: cruel twist of faith on the biggest Sunday that we
Speaker 1: have is the church Easter. I have the shortest preaching
Speaker 1: time because the most people come and if I go
Speaker 1: too long, it will cause confusion, and then people will
Speaker 1: in the parking lot will get violent and somebody might
Speaker 1: get shot, and I can't raise you from the dead.
Speaker 1: I'm not Jesus. So what I have to do is
Speaker 1: stay on my clock today. Y'all know how difficult that
Speaker 1: is for me to do. So rather than get into
Speaker 1: the formalities, any information you need, you'll have to get
Speaker 1: it from somebody else. I'm going to get right into
Speaker 1: the word God gave me today. I'm gonna get right
Speaker 1: into it. Praise the Lord. We've been singing, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you missed the singing and missed the worship,
Speaker 1: but it was glorious. And now we want to turn
Speaker 1: our attention to the word that God has for us today.
Speaker 1: And I want to start in John chapter twenty, pick
Speaker 1: up two verses from the end of that chapter, and
Speaker 1: then I want to read a little story from the
Speaker 1: next chapter. At the Easter Man at the Eastern you
Speaker 1: made it. You made it, You made it. Tell somebody,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud to be sitting next to somebody who
Speaker 1: looks as good as you on Easter Sunday. Makes me
Speaker 1: feel beautiful. Now listen to this from John twenty, verse thirty.
Speaker 1: John says Jesus performed many other signs in the presence
Speaker 1: of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book,
Speaker 1: but these are written that you may believe, believe what
Speaker 1: that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and
Speaker 1: that by believing you may have life in his name. Y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad it doesn't say by behaving, I may
Speaker 1: have life in his name, because I know you're on
Speaker 1: your best behavior today. But if we would have followed
Speaker 1: you this week, you'd be shouting over that verse by believing,
Speaker 1: because if we based it on your behavior, you might
Speaker 1: go to the other place. But by believing you may
Speaker 1: have life in his name. Now it would appear that
Speaker 1: John is drawing his gospel count to a close with
Speaker 1: those verses. But there is an entire chapter that follows,
Speaker 1: and I won't read the whole thing, but I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that it was put in as an epilogue or
Speaker 1: as a ps in John twenty one, because I think
Speaker 1: there's something very important for you to know today. That
Speaker 1: John really ended his gospel account and he said, hey,
Speaker 1: Jesus did a lot of other things. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you everything, and then he opens back up, Oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, let me tell you one other thing he
Speaker 1: did he's not finished yet. He's not finished yet. That's
Speaker 1: what I need you to know. More than you know
Speaker 1: anything that you know or think you know. I need
Speaker 1: you to know that better than you know your name.
Speaker 1: I need you to know that, better than you know
Speaker 1: your Social Security number. I need you to know that better.
Speaker 1: You don't even know your phone number anymore because you
Speaker 1: don't have to. But I need you to know that.
Speaker 1: You know that he's not finished. I need every single
Speaker 1: solitary person under the sound of my voice to find
Speaker 1: one person and tell him he's not finished and put
Speaker 1: it in the chat too. Put it in the chat
Speaker 1: right now. He's not finished. He's not finished. Now listen
Speaker 1: to the next part. This is where my sermon comes from.
Speaker 1: That was the frame. Here's the picture. Afterward, Jesus appeared
Speaker 1: again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. It
Speaker 1: happened this way. Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didamus.
Speaker 1: He gets called douting Thomas in a lot of churches.
Speaker 1: Not here, we don't call him that. We call him
Speaker 1: honest Thomas, because he had the faith to say, I
Speaker 1: need to see for myself and guess what Jesus did.
Speaker 1: Showed up. So it was Simon Peter Thomas also known
Speaker 1: as Didamus Nathaniel from Cana and Galilee. The sons of Zebedee,
Speaker 1: James and John, and two other disciples were together, so
Speaker 1: that's seven total they were all together. Verse three. I'm
Speaker 1: going out to fish, Simon Peter told them, and they said,
Speaker 1: we'll go with you. No to do, got to eat somehow,
Speaker 1: So they went out, got in the boat, but that
Speaker 1: night they caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood
Speaker 1: on the shore, but the disciples didn't realize it was Jesus.
Speaker 1: He called out to them, friends, friends, friends, keep that
Speaker 1: right there in your reticular activating system that were friends.
Speaker 1: Haven't you any fish? No? The answer no no. When
Speaker 1: I was like, do you you know? Do you have
Speaker 1: joy today? No? Do you have peace in your heart?
Speaker 1: How many of you have faith? To No? Sometimes the
Speaker 1: greatest way you can invite God into your life is
Speaker 1: with an honest no yeah. Practice one time, just say
Speaker 1: no yeah. And if you would get better at saying
Speaker 1: that in your everyday life, you wouldn't have so much
Speaker 1: ulcers from committing to so many things that you don't
Speaker 1: even need to be doing to begin with. So now
Speaker 1: let's really zone in here we need to focus. He said,
Speaker 1: throw your net on the right side of the boat
Speaker 1: and you will find some. And when they did, they
Speaker 1: were unable to haul the net in because of the
Speaker 1: large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus loved,
Speaker 1: that's the nickname John gave himself, said to Peter, it
Speaker 1: is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard him
Speaker 1: say it is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment
Speaker 1: around him, for he had taken it off, and jumped
Speaker 1: into the water. And the other disciples followed in the boat,
Speaker 1: towing the net full of fish, for they were not
Speaker 1: far from the shore, about one hundred yards. Peter, you
Speaker 1: could wait one hundred yards now. When they landed, they
Speaker 1: saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on
Speaker 1: it and some bread, and Jesus said to them, bring
Speaker 1: some of the fish you have just caught. So Simon
Speaker 1: Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore.
Speaker 1: It was full of large fish one hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 1: But even with so many live fish. You know how
Speaker 1: hard it is to haul in live fish. I never
Speaker 1: did it, but it sounds hard. One guy said it
Speaker 1: was three hundred pounds of fish, and Peter hauled it
Speaker 1: in all by him self. When he saw Jesus, some
Speaker 1: kind of strength kicked in that he didn't have when
Speaker 1: the rooster was crowing. When he saw Jesus, he dragged
Speaker 1: three hundred pounds of fish behind him, And even with
Speaker 1: so many, the net was not torn. And Jesus said
Speaker 1: to them, come have bread, bakfast. None of the disciples
Speaker 1: dared ask him, who are you? They knew it was
Speaker 1: the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread, gave it to them,
Speaker 1: and did the same with the fish. This was now
Speaker 1: the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he
Speaker 1: was raised from the dead. So here's what we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about today. We're going to talk about life
Speaker 1: after the letdown, Life after the letdown. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the ministry of your word as it goes forth today,
Speaker 1: May it do so with convicting power and with life giving, changing,
Speaker 1: saving resurrection power. In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated.
Speaker 1: I collect Easter sermon ideas because it comes around once
Speaker 1: a year. I have big lists going into this Easter.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said, this will not be your sermon text.
Speaker 1: You're going to talk to the people about life after
Speaker 1: the letdown. And it was weird for me yesterday because
Speaker 1: I wanted to be happy about Easter, excited about Easter.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be I wanted to be full of energy.
Speaker 1: But I felt like I spent all day living in
Speaker 1: your letdowns. Because I've studied my text, right, I already
Speaker 1: figured out what the Hebrew and the Greek means down
Speaker 1: in John chapter twenty one, where Jesus says to Peter
Speaker 1: three times. We didn't read this part do you love me?
Speaker 1: And he said yes? And he said do you love me?
Speaker 1: And he said yes, And he said do you love me?
Speaker 1: And he said yes? And I had already read how
Speaker 1: that's not really about what I heard growing up, where
Speaker 1: Jesus was saying different words for love, the Greek words
Speaker 1: for love, you know, fialo which is like a brotherly love,
Speaker 1: and agape, which is the god kind of love, And
Speaker 1: he was really trying to get Peter to a new
Speaker 1: level of love because Jesus didn't speak Greek, so I'd
Speaker 1: already studied that part about how really, when Jesus asked
Speaker 1: three times Peter, do you love me? It wasn't really
Speaker 1: so he could give him a vocabulary lesson about different
Speaker 1: types of love. Really, the meaning in that three times
Speaker 1: is not in the words he uses it at all.
Speaker 1: It's in the math, because if you go back just
Speaker 1: a few verses before Jesus comes to Peter on the shore,
Speaker 1: Peter has just denied Jesus three times. And it helped
Speaker 1: me to see that it was a full circle moment
Speaker 1: for Jesus and Peter, that he was giving him grace
Speaker 1: to cover all of his failure, and that Peter didn't
Speaker 1: have more denial than Jesus had grace, that Peter didn't
Speaker 1: have more doubt than Jesus had mercy. But after studying
Speaker 1: all of those nice things about Greek and Hebrew and
Speaker 1: numbers and all of the things that I studied during
Speaker 1: the week so that I can be prepared to serve
Speaker 1: you a good meal and you don't choke on the
Speaker 1: bones of a sermon that I didn't prepare correctly, it
Speaker 1: came to me that, really, unless we make this message
Speaker 1: very personal for you, it will be yet another superstitious
Speaker 1: activity that you fulfill. Thinking God, you did him a
Speaker 1: favor by putting on perfume and sitting still for an
Speaker 1: hour in fifteen minutes and we don't want this Easter
Speaker 1: to pass us by and it just be another ticket
Speaker 1: punching thing on our list in case we die before
Speaker 1: the next one. Now, I believe that because of what
Speaker 1: Jesus did for me, I'm going to get to go
Speaker 1: to Heaven when I die. I believe that, And I
Speaker 1: believe that even if you don't like me, I get
Speaker 1: to go. I believe that even if you don't think
Speaker 1: my theology is exactly correct, or you don't think that
Speaker 1: my Easter attire is dressy enough, because the Lord deserves
Speaker 1: our best, I still get to go to Heaven. And
Speaker 1: so you should be nice to me and what you
Speaker 1: say to me, because when we get to Heaven, I
Speaker 1: might be your neighbor. And wouldn't it be weird for
Speaker 1: all the people that you didn't like on Earth and
Speaker 1: you get to Heaven and they say, hi, neighbor, all
Speaker 1: the people that you thought they didn't have the correct
Speaker 1: you know, the all of the theological suppositions and share
Speaker 1: all the same common beliefs. You might get next door
Speaker 1: to them in heaven and realize you have to spend
Speaker 1: eternity with them. Yet, as much as I believe that
Speaker 1: what Jesus did for me prepares me for heaven. I
Speaker 1: think that often the message of resurrection gets weaken in
Speaker 1: our tendency to defer its implications to the next life.
Speaker 1: For us to think that John is saying believing gives
Speaker 1: us life in Jesus' name after we die is an
Speaker 1: unnecessary limitation of the finished work of Christ. For me
Speaker 1: to believe that I'm gonna get to heaven one day
Speaker 1: and play a harp and whatever they're doing in heaven,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it with them, all right. If they're
Speaker 1: playing hearts, I'm gonna take heart lessons. If they're dancing,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take dancing lessons. There will not be any
Speaker 1: TikTok in heaven, so I will not have to be
Speaker 1: shown to the world. But if they're dancing in heaven,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find a corner and practice how to dance.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it all when I get to heaven. Yet,
Speaker 1: there are some things that I need Jesus for while
Speaker 1: I am still here right now. That's why John twenty one, listen, Jody,
Speaker 1: That's why John twenty one had to be in the
Speaker 1: b Because if it just ended on this note of
Speaker 1: abstract universal reality called belief in life. We would kick
Speaker 1: it somewhere someday to amazing grace and the sweet by
Speaker 1: and by and potato pie in the sky, and then
Speaker 1: here on earth we would continue to suppress the questions
Speaker 1: that we have and the fears that we wrestle with,
Speaker 1: and the ugliness that mars our own self concept and
Speaker 1: our identity. Just press it down and keep pressing it
Speaker 1: down and hope that it never comes out. That's why
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about life after the letdown.
Speaker 1: When I say the letdown, I am leaving it open
Speaker 1: ended so that you can supply your own event, experience,
Speaker 1: or condition. Where I say the term letdown, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a code li language. Okay. I have secret
Speaker 1: hand signals with my family that mean things when we're
Speaker 1: in public and for the rest of our time. Today
Speaker 1: you are my family, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: our secret signal to each other. When I say let down,
Speaker 1: you put the one in there that you don't talk about.
Speaker 1: So when I say let down, you will have something
Speaker 1: that you may not even have language for that will
Speaker 1: come up when I talk about the letdown. We are
Speaker 1: so quick not only to want to get to heaven
Speaker 1: when we die one day, but to want to get
Speaker 1: to the part of the story where Jesus got up
Speaker 1: that we will waltz right past the part where he
Speaker 1: went to Jerusalem to be handed over and crucified at
Speaker 1: the hands of sinful men. There is really no way
Speaker 1: for us to experience Easter, the events of Easter, without
Speaker 1: experiencing the events of the Cross. And there is really
Speaker 1: no way for us to experience the event of the
Speaker 1: Cross like the Disciples did, because for us the cross
Speaker 1: has a certain measure of comfort. We know that our
Speaker 1: sin is nailed to that cross. We know that it
Speaker 1: canceled the written regulation that stood against us. We know
Speaker 1: that the power of shame was broken on the cross
Speaker 1: of Christ. We know all of that. So when we
Speaker 1: sing the Wonderful Cross, when we survey the wondrous Cross,
Speaker 1: we see the promise of redemption and atonement and his
Speaker 1: blood that was shed for us. But that same blood
Speaker 1: that we rejoice in represented for the disciples a broken
Speaker 1: promise and an unmet expectation of the kingdom that Jesus
Speaker 1: came to bring. These were his friends. Peter was a
Speaker 1: friend of Jesus. Everybody has crazy friends, and Peter was
Speaker 1: Jesus's crazy friend. Who's your crazy friend? I don't have
Speaker 1: any crazy friend. Then you are the crazy Peter was,
Speaker 1: Jesus is kind of crazy. One dude came over to
Speaker 1: the church. He said, I just followed my kids over
Speaker 1: here to see if you were running a cult. My
Speaker 1: kid came over. We was so excited about church. I said,
Speaker 1: my kid is excited about church, that must be a cult.
Speaker 1: And I came over to find out if you were crazy.
Speaker 1: I said, well, was I? And he said yeah, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a cult, but you are crazy, But you're my
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. And I gave him a Fis bump,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's all right, because this whole
Speaker 1: thing that we're celebrating today is kind of crazy. Try
Speaker 1: the side of the room. This side of the room
Speaker 1: has no anointing of honesty whatsoever. Today. This is kind
Speaker 1: of crazy. I'm gonna have to ap preach to the
Speaker 1: people in the back who got here late. This. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go out and preach it in the overflow.
Speaker 1: This is kind of crazy. It's crazy. It didn't seem
Speaker 1: crazy at first. When Peter met Jesus. All Jesus said
Speaker 1: was can I use your boat to preach. There's nothing
Speaker 1: crazy about preaching, and there's nothing crazy about doing it
Speaker 1: from a boat, because that would provide natural amplification for
Speaker 1: Jesus's voice. Matter of fact, if you really liked the Bible,
Speaker 1: you were confused when I read the story, because you're like,
Speaker 1: is this a resurrection scripture? Isn't this what happened when
Speaker 1: Jesus first called Peter? And you're right, it's the same
Speaker 1: story from the other side. It's the same story from
Speaker 1: the other side. But let me show you how it started.
Speaker 1: When Peter was out fishing one night and he caught nothing.
Speaker 1: The only thing that the stories have in common really
Speaker 1: is that Peter wasn't a very good fisherman, and either one.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I can really find that it's
Speaker 1: exactly the same as empty nets, right, And there's a
Speaker 1: message in that. There is a message in that about
Speaker 1: the God who loves to feel what is empty and
Speaker 1: the God who loves empty what is full. One is
Speaker 1: the nets, the other is the tomb. My faith is
Speaker 1: not in my own fullness. My faith is not in
Speaker 1: my own ability, My faith is not in my own righteousness.
Speaker 1: That's not how I'm getting to heaven. You get to
Speaker 1: heaven how you want to get to heaven. But I
Speaker 1: don't have the perfection pass. It's not going to let
Speaker 1: me through. I don't have my card punched. Not all
Speaker 1: the time. I'm honest, I'm sincere, I love the Lord
Speaker 1: in all of that. But sometimes I slip, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, and not in the Christian way of crazy. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that that's out of the way, let me show you.
Speaker 1: When Jesus called Peter, look at this. It says that
Speaker 1: Jesus looked five verst for had finished speaking, and he
Speaker 1: said to Simon, that's's given name, not the name Jesus
Speaker 1: gave him, but the name is parents gave him. He said,
Speaker 1: put out into deep water and let down the nets
Speaker 1: for a catch. Everybody say let down. Next verse, Peter said,
Speaker 1: this makes no sense. We fished all night, We've caught nothing.
Speaker 1: We're hanging it up for the night. There's no need
Speaker 1: for us to keep fishing in the daytime. The fish
Speaker 1: won't come to the surface when the water gets hot.
Speaker 1: But because you say so, I will let down the nets.
Speaker 1: I will let down the nets. This was the beginning
Speaker 1: of Peter's participation in the ministry of Jesus, and I
Speaker 1: preached about it many times in the church, so I
Speaker 1: won't bore you with the review today. But when he
Speaker 1: let down the nets in that passage of Scripture, he
Speaker 1: could have had no way of knowing how his life
Speaker 1: would change because of the moment that he let down
Speaker 1: the nets. He could have had no idea that he
Speaker 1: would be front row seat to blind eyes open when
Speaker 1: he let down the nets. He could have had no
Speaker 1: way of knowing that he would see the widow from
Speaker 1: named son raised from the dead when he let down
Speaker 1: the nets. He could have had no idea that he
Speaker 1: would have seen a roof come off a house. Because
Speaker 1: the ministry of Jesus would be so popular that people
Speaker 1: watch this on an Easter Sunday. If they couldn't get
Speaker 1: in the overflow, they would repel down the roof to
Speaker 1: see Jesus. I don't preach as good as Jesus, so
Speaker 1: the roof is still here. But Jesus had so much
Speaker 1: power that stuff started falling from the ceiling. When they
Speaker 1: said I'm so sorry, you'll have to sit in overflow,
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, I'm not sitting in overflow, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in the room. I got a need, and I
Speaker 1: got a friend who has a need, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get my friend to the feet of the one who
Speaker 1: has the word. He talked with so much tower and
Speaker 1: authority that the crowds and crowds loved him until he
Speaker 1: got to the park that they couldn't stomach until he
Speaker 1: let them down. Now, this is something I want to
Speaker 1: bring you today and see if it resonates with your heart.
Speaker 1: Are you a come up Christian? Only you know what
Speaker 1: I mean by come up. In the original Hebrew, come
Speaker 1: up means the part of the story where the success
Speaker 1: is accumulating and the benefits of a crue. It seems
Speaker 1: that Peter, as he followed Jesus through a certain season,
Speaker 1: was experiencing the come up, which made it the ultimate
Speaker 1: betrayal of Peter's faith when Jesus went to the cross.
Speaker 1: When Jesus said I'm going to the Peter said, no,
Speaker 1: not you, and the cross interrupted the come up. Now,
Speaker 1: we experienced the cross in the knowledge that Jesus isn't
Speaker 1: there anymore. We experienced the cross with the knowledge that
Speaker 1: the ultimate destruction can be transformed into the ultimate redemption.
Speaker 1: We experienced the cross that way, but for the disciples
Speaker 1: the cross was shaped like a question mark. Did we
Speaker 1: waste our lives? Did we throw our careers away? Should
Speaker 1: I have listened to my mom and not followed this
Speaker 1: carpenter's son all through the Galilean region? So I think
Speaker 1: before we rushed to the part where he got up,
Speaker 1: that's the eastern part. I can make everybody in the
Speaker 1: room claud real quick, high five or three people and say,
Speaker 1: he got up, he got up, he got up, he
Speaker 1: got up. What you won't see while they're high fiving
Speaker 1: you is the letdown that they pushed down. And that's
Speaker 1: why yesterday was hard for me, because I was imagining
Speaker 1: us together, and I knew you were going to wear
Speaker 1: your best button down shirt because Mom came to church
Speaker 1: with you today and you don't tell her you normally
Speaker 1: come to Elevation Church in a tank top, but you
Speaker 1: dressed up today. And I spent yesterday thinking about the
Speaker 1: fact that before he got up, they were let down.
Speaker 1: And the Lord was ministering to me about my letdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have some. I went through my camera role recently
Speaker 1: and I was laughing at some pictures and smiling at
Speaker 1: some pictures, and some of them made me want to cry,
Speaker 1: made me want to cry because I I could almost
Speaker 1: I could almost divide my camera roll into halves based
Speaker 1: on certain things, people, plans, and places where I experienced
Speaker 1: a letdown. One of them, in particular, was right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the summer twenty thirteen, when Dad died.
Speaker 1: I could see a dividing line almost between that year.
Speaker 1: That was a hard year for me in general. A
Speaker 1: lot of things happened that year. I'm not here to
Speaker 1: have you do therapy for me, and I want you
Speaker 1: to send me a bill, but I could almost see
Speaker 1: my eyes change in the pictures before and after. You
Speaker 1: know how we say that the birth of Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: changed everything, that's an incomplete statement because if he didn't die,
Speaker 1: it changed nothing. His teachings wouldn't be here, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: be recorded, and if he died and didn't rise, then
Speaker 1: his death was in vain. So really, the dividing line
Speaker 1: for for my understanding of my relationship with God is
Speaker 1: not that he was born in a manger, and not
Speaker 1: even that he died on a tree. As much as
Speaker 1: both of those things informed my faith, the fact that
Speaker 1: he got up is what divides my life. And yet
Speaker 1: don't don't, don't don't clap, because that's the part. Don't
Speaker 1: want me there so bad. Yes, yes, he got up,
Speaker 1: he got up, he got up, he got up, He
Speaker 1: got up like popcorn going up all over the church.
Speaker 1: The Lord directed me. Before we can really get to
Speaker 1: that in a way that matters more than a motivational speech.
Speaker 1: We need to decide. Is he the lord of your letdowns?
Speaker 1: Why did you give me this message for Easter or Sunday? Lord?
Speaker 1: This isn't both of the appy day. I was looking
Speaker 1: through the pictures and I thought, Man, that guy who
Speaker 1: was twenty eight didn't know what that guy knew who's
Speaker 1: forty two. And some of it, I feel like this
Speaker 1: gray hair gave me a little bit of authority wisdom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can't you feel it? But some of it I saw.
Speaker 1: Something had changed in my eyes after I found out
Speaker 1: what people can do to you, after I found out
Speaker 1: that not everything I'm gonna put on my wish list
Speaker 1: of God to do is gonna come. And here's the
Speaker 1: biggest one. Okay, Because a lot of times we talk
Speaker 1: about letdowns in terms of the thing that you went
Speaker 1: after that you wanted that you didn't get. Some of
Speaker 1: the biggest letdowns are the things that you wanted and
Speaker 1: you went after and you got them, and you can't
Speaker 1: send them back. Your letdown. I got one honest organist
Speaker 1: some of the things that you asked for. Do you
Speaker 1: know why I feel so uncomfortable when we get to
Speaker 1: this part of the story because we know the ending,
Speaker 1: so we just want to skip there. Peter did it.
Speaker 1: He went fishing. There's nothing wrong with fishing. Do you
Speaker 1: hate fishing? Princher, Are you saying fishing is the sin? No,
Speaker 1: Peter didn't do anything sinful. There's nothing wrong with fishing.
Speaker 1: Peter didn't go open a strip club. Oh well, I
Speaker 1: guess if God isn't gonna do what I want, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go sell drugs. I gotta perform. I gotta
Speaker 1: provide for my my baby's I gotta I gotta take
Speaker 1: care of my family. I gotta do what I gotta do.
Speaker 1: Peter went back to what he knew. It's not what
Speaker 1: he did that shocked me, it's when he did it.
Speaker 1: This is the third time he's seen Jesus since he's
Speaker 1: been alive from the dead. I can totally understand Peter
Speaker 1: goes fishing because Jesus hasn't made a special appearance yet.
Speaker 1: But he's already seen Jesus, and he's backfishing because he's
Speaker 1: still living in the letdown. I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, preacher. I trust God, So when God says yes,
Speaker 1: I accept it. But when he says no, I equally
Speaker 1: accept it, knowing that he knows what's best for me.
Speaker 1: This is not your Easter sermon. The Lord didn't give
Speaker 1: me a message for you, because apparently you are already
Speaker 1: in heaven. The rest of us, the rest of us
Speaker 1: need a message about the low moments of our faith.
Speaker 1: I don't just need than This is so powerful, It
Speaker 1: is so powerful, This is so powerful. How can you
Speaker 1: go fishing when there's a whole world to be reached?
Speaker 1: How can you go fishing when Jesus hasn't even a
Speaker 1: sending to heaven yet. This is only the second week
Speaker 1: after his resurrection. We've still got weeks to go. And
Speaker 1: Peter's fishing and Jesus has nothing better to do than
Speaker 1: to cook breakfast. What about that? Jesus needs a time
Speaker 1: management class. You want to change the whole world, and
Speaker 1: you have a message of resurrection, and you are wasting
Speaker 1: time here cooking for these jokers who forsook you on
Speaker 1: the cross, and not only that, he calls them his friends.
Speaker 1: I need God to help me to give me that
Speaker 1: kind of love because I have this certain line that
Speaker 1: when people cross it, I have a really hard time
Speaker 1: letting them back in again. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is right or wrong, but there is a certain line
Speaker 1: where if somebody lets me down long enough, I'll just
Speaker 1: start working around them. I won't cuss them out, i
Speaker 1: won't call down curses from Heaven on him. I'll just stop.
Speaker 1: I'll just stop letting them in. I'll just kill my
Speaker 1: expectation of you if you let me down long enough.
Speaker 1: I'm the same way about life. If I pray for something,
Speaker 1: or go after something, or work towards something, and I
Speaker 1: do it long enough, if I get let down long enough,
Speaker 1: I will not let hope in anymore. So Jesus stands
Speaker 1: as my model, and Peter stands as my message. Jesus
Speaker 1: is standing on the shore calling to the same disciples
Speaker 1: who let him down in his lowest moment, and he
Speaker 1: approaches them with empty nets and says, would you like
Speaker 1: to eat some breakfast? Now? This passage I selected because
Speaker 1: the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a well documented event.
Speaker 1: You believe it or you don't, But this part will
Speaker 1: redefine your relationship with the resurrected Christ, because if you
Speaker 1: think that he only got up for the moments where
Speaker 1: your faith is high, you have missed the message of
Speaker 1: John chapter twenty one, which says that before Jesus could
Speaker 1: go forward, before Jesus could be taken, before Jesus could
Speaker 1: be seated at the right hand of God, before Jesus
Speaker 1: could sit down and call his work on earth finished,
Speaker 1: he had defined Peter. This is not the first time,
Speaker 1: the second time, or the last time, but there is
Speaker 1: something significant about the third time. Peter had three denials.
Speaker 1: Jesus was dead for three days three times. This is
Speaker 1: the third time. It represents the point at which their
Speaker 1: expectation had run out, and Jesus steps into this moment,
Speaker 1: the moment at which they still had no fish. Jesus
Speaker 1: steps into the moment where the fog in the mist
Speaker 1: is so cold on the sea that it is blowing
Speaker 1: against their face and they cannot even recognize his presence.
Speaker 1: And he chooses the lowest moment of your life sometimes
Speaker 1: to reveal the greatest love. He chooses the lowest moment
Speaker 1: of your life sometimes to reveal His greatest love. So
Speaker 1: while we can praise God for all the great things
Speaker 1: that he has done, and while we can praise him
Speaker 1: that he got up because we read that part because
Speaker 1: it's in the Bible, but it wasn't in their Bible
Speaker 1: because this book hadn't been written yet, So they had
Speaker 1: to sit there in the boat and wonder in the
Speaker 1: middle of the storm. Just because he got up doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they knew what to do next. We preach it
Speaker 1: like that, like except Jesus and life will be wonderful.
Speaker 1: What I had found my Christian experience doesn't help me
Speaker 1: to avoid any of the disappointments of life. It's not avoidance.
Speaker 1: You keep thinking that more and more if you pray,
Speaker 1: God will help you avoid certain storms. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Faith doesn't make me avoid it. It helps me transform it.
Speaker 1: I can preach a little bit on Easter ride. I
Speaker 1: could teach a little bit on Easter, right. That's what
Speaker 1: the Cross means to us. It happened, he died, It happened,
Speaker 1: they buried him, it happened they mocked him. So for
Speaker 1: all of you who are coming to church for the
Speaker 1: message that God will never let you down. Peter wanted
Speaker 1: me to tell you sometimes he does a little bit,
Speaker 1: because see, you keep basing it on your expectation and
Speaker 1: calling it faith. You you customize the Bible to the
Speaker 1: parts that made you feel good and cut out all
Speaker 1: the parts where they fished and caught nothing like what
Speaker 1: I love about this message, what I really love about
Speaker 1: this message. If you want to know what I really
Speaker 1: love about this message, it can apply to the capital
Speaker 1: L letdown or the lowercase l letdown, capital l letdown.
Speaker 1: Jesus went to the cross and died. That's about as
Speaker 1: bad as it gets. The guy that you lost everything
Speaker 1: to follow dies and he's supposed to overthrow Rome and
Speaker 1: get the oppression out of the Yeah, he's supposed to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't. He dies. That's pretty bad. That's why
Speaker 1: I got to clarify. This is not man. I had
Speaker 1: really hoped they were going to do amazing grace at
Speaker 1: church today. This is not a I really hope, This
Speaker 1: is a I risk everything now. Some people are not
Speaker 1: disappointed in God because they never really hoped in him
Speaker 1: to begin with. Peter was the leader. When he said
Speaker 1: I'm fishing, they said we're fishing too. When he jumped
Speaker 1: off the boat. They were like, come on, let's go
Speaker 1: to the shore. Peter's going to the shore. They were
Speaker 1: following Peter more than they were following Jesus at that point.
Speaker 1: And the one with the greatest potential also experienced the
Speaker 1: greatest pain. Now that's a word for somebody. The more
Speaker 1: you hope and trust in God, the greater vulnerability there
Speaker 1: will be for those moments in your life where the
Speaker 1: enemy whispers God is not with you, for those low moments.
Speaker 1: Who's been in a low moment lately? He's the lord
Speaker 1: of those low moments. I know. Everybody tells you he's
Speaker 1: the resurrected Christ, and he is. But before he got up,
Speaker 1: he was laid down. See how this is cyclical. See
Speaker 1: how when Peter says I will let down the nets,
Speaker 1: that wasn't the last letdown in the scripture. If only
Speaker 1: that were the last letdown, If only Jesus didn't let
Speaker 1: Lazarus die. See, they've had practice for this, and so
Speaker 1: if you have had practice to know that what you're
Speaker 1: going through right now, that you don't think you're going
Speaker 1: to make it through, you thought you wouldn't make it
Speaker 1: through the last thing that you were going through that
Speaker 1: you thought you wouldn't make it through, and you made
Speaker 1: it through that. And so even you being here today
Speaker 1: is evidence of the fact that life will let you down.
Speaker 1: People will let you down. That's what I told Elijah
Speaker 1: the other day. I said, being a dad is my
Speaker 1: greatest privilege, next to being Holly's husband. Next to that.
Speaker 1: That's like, that's the main thing in my life because
Speaker 1: even me being a dad, I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: do it without her. I mean, she's the only thing
Speaker 1: that makes me look good most days anyway. But being
Speaker 1: a dad is amazing. But I'm disappointed in being a
Speaker 1: dad from this perspective. Not because of you, not because
Speaker 1: of you. Not because of you. You surprise me every
Speaker 1: day in good ways. No, I love it. I really
Speaker 1: love it. I really love it. I really love it.
Speaker 1: I love being a dad. But it's almost like when
Speaker 1: I thought of myself as a dad, I thought of
Speaker 1: myself like I would be coaching the players in a game,
Speaker 1: and I would be on the sidelines, calling the place,
Speaker 1: telling them how to follow God and telling them how
Speaker 1: to be disciplined and teaching them in the ways that
Speaker 1: they should go and training up a child. But in
Speaker 1: my picture of being a dad. I was doing all
Speaker 1: of this from the sidelines of parenthood. Nobody told me
Speaker 1: that they leave you in the game to get hit
Speaker 1: while you try to coach this team that is running
Speaker 1: down the field in the wrong direction. Nobody told me
Speaker 1: you don't get to take off the pads to be
Speaker 1: a parent. You still are getting hit, You're still dealing
Speaker 1: with whatever you brought into parenthood. There was no one.
Speaker 1: In fact, is there any couple in the room that
Speaker 1: has been married for a year or less? A yet
Speaker 1: you got that newly wet holy ghost love? Stand up
Speaker 1: right now, stand up right now. Oh let's give them
Speaker 1: my hand, y'all, let's give them my hand. Let's give
Speaker 1: on my hand or absolutely nothing. I ain't that wonderful?
Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful. Did you know the marriage vals? Did
Speaker 1: you write your own valuse? Did you write your own valuse?
Speaker 1: Did you put this part in? Look at each other
Speaker 1: right now? I'm gona real quick, Im gonna quick. I'm
Speaker 1: a day, I'm gone, I'm ore, day, I'm ordained to something.
Speaker 1: I'm more day. Say. I will let you down, now,
Speaker 1: sit down. I bet you didn't put it in. You
Speaker 1: didn't know to put it in. So what you haf
Speaker 1: in your relationship will not be known until after after after.
Speaker 1: I thought I'd be amazing parent because I thought I
Speaker 1: would have a box in the sky in a headset
Speaker 1: to call the place they would give to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I'd be out here getting hit too.
Speaker 1: I didn't no that I would let them down. Because
Speaker 1: the biggest thing in the passage to preach about isn't
Speaker 1: that Jesus let Peter down because he got up and
Speaker 1: he walked in locked doors to show Peter I told you.
Speaker 1: I told you. He walked through locked doors to show
Speaker 1: Thomas I died for you. But now this is the
Speaker 1: third appearance, and it seems that Jesus is no longer
Speaker 1: dealing with the fact that he let Peter down. Seems
Speaker 1: like now he's trying to deal with the fact that
Speaker 1: Peter let him down and denied that he even knew Jesus.
Speaker 1: And that's what Peter had to move through. He could
Speaker 1: get through the fact that it didn't end like I
Speaker 1: wanted because he saw the resurrected Christ. John twenty one
Speaker 1: is added in the Bible. Help me, Holy Spirit to
Speaker 1: show you that God knew the ways that you would
Speaker 1: let him down before he ever called your name to
Speaker 1: follow him, and that Jesus had gone back up to
Speaker 1: heaven before John twenty one. Peter could not have preached
Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecost. He was no longer living
Speaker 1: in the letdown of what Jesus didn't do. He was
Speaker 1: living in the letdown of what he didn't do for Jesus.
Speaker 1: And that is why it was important for Jesus to
Speaker 1: take time to cook breakfast for these disciples who denied him.
Speaker 1: Even the ones who didn't deny him, they disassociated from him,
Speaker 1: even the ones who said I will follow you to death,
Speaker 1: even loud mouthed Peter, who was willing to cut off
Speaker 1: an ear in the garden so that no one would
Speaker 1: take his Lord away, Even Peter who was willing to
Speaker 1: give Jesus his vote, not even knowing yet where this
Speaker 1: journey would lead. Even Peter, in the moment of crisis,
Speaker 1: he let him down. That's what I'm upset about, not
Speaker 1: that God let me down. If I'm honest, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing I have to process is that I constantly feel
Speaker 1: like I'm letting him down. That's why I go back fishing,
Speaker 1: doing what I know to do, because I don't want
Speaker 1: to let you down. God. I'm sorry, I'm here again.
Speaker 1: Here I am struggling with this again. I've already had
Speaker 1: help with this. I've already prayed about this. You already
Speaker 1: taught me about this. I remember Write's scripture. And here
Speaker 1: I am again. I let you down. I let you down.
Speaker 1: God said, Really, I wasn't aware that you were holding
Speaker 1: me up. That's why he got up out of the grave,
Speaker 1: not only holding his own not only he wasn't holding
Speaker 1: anything but the keys to death, Hell and the grave,
Speaker 1: all of your sin, all of your say, all of
Speaker 1: the record, all of the guilty stain. It was in
Speaker 1: the grave that he left. The only thing he was
Speaker 1: holding was the keys to let you know, Peter, that
Speaker 1: you can't let me down, because to disappoint God would
Speaker 1: mean that you had something deep down inside that he
Speaker 1: didn't see. And since God is this thing called omniscient,
Speaker 1: which means all knowing, and since he is all seeing,
Speaker 1: and since he fills everything in every space, even the
Speaker 1: spaces in between the things you show him, even the
Speaker 1: spaces between sundays where you struggle, even the spaces in
Speaker 1: between your great burst of faith, since he fills that space,
Speaker 1: he came to the shore to show you something that
Speaker 1: I want you to get, the revelation for today, not
Speaker 1: just that he got up. He got up. Oh isn't
Speaker 1: that wonderful? Not unless you believe that you can too.
Speaker 1: You've got to get up. You must it up. Your
Speaker 1: purpose demands it, your faith commends it. You must it up.
Speaker 1: You must it up. This is not a suggestion. It's
Speaker 1: a command. If you if you got to jump in
Speaker 1: the water, you musk it up. You must it up.
Speaker 1: It's a summons to faith. You musk it up because
Speaker 1: there is life after the letdown. There is life after
Speaker 1: the letdown, and confess it by faith with your own mouth.
Speaker 1: There is life after the letdown. Yeah, this didn't turn
Speaker 1: out how I wanted, But I'm going forward by faith
Speaker 1: because there is life after the letdown. A lot of
Speaker 1: people left me. They left Jesus too. He called them friends.
Speaker 1: He didn't get bitter. He fed them breakfast, because there
Speaker 1: is life after the leftown. That lets me know He
Speaker 1: can forgive any dirty, rotten, stinking, sinful thing I do.
Speaker 1: How do you know that? How do you know that?
Speaker 1: How do you know he can still use me? How
Speaker 1: do you know God's not disappointed in me. How do
Speaker 1: you know he hasn't changed his mind? How do you
Speaker 1: know I didn't blow it? How do you know the
Speaker 1: best things aren't behind me? How do you know I
Speaker 1: didn't make a mistake I can't come back from How
Speaker 1: do I know it? Because the fish told me so.
Speaker 1: Not the ones caught, the ones that Jesus was already
Speaker 1: cooking when he got to the shore. See, he's not
Speaker 1: finished with you yet. That's why you didn't die yet.
Speaker 1: That's why some of you made a plan to kill yourself,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't. That was the grace of God to
Speaker 1: hold you up. He won't let you down that far. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's where my solid rock kicks it. He got a
Speaker 1: purpose from me. He's got something to build through my life.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said, bring me some fish, and then they ate?
Speaker 1: Which fish did they eat? Not the ones that Peter caught,
Speaker 1: but the ones that Jesus had already cleaned. Was he
Speaker 1: trying to give us a little message this Easter about
Speaker 1: the ways that we think we've disqualified ourselves from his grace?
Speaker 1: Was he trying to tell you it's already clean? Was
Speaker 1: he trying to show you? Did he bring us here
Speaker 1: for this moment, for all the ways that life has
Speaker 1: let you down. I'm sorry for all the ways that
Speaker 1: you've let God down. He already knows. But he still
Speaker 1: got up, and he still called you friend. What would
Speaker 1: that have sounded like through the ears of failure? What
Speaker 1: would that have sounded like? What would that have looked
Speaker 1: like through the eyes of frustration of fishing all night
Speaker 1: catching nothing? Did God bring you to this moment to
Speaker 1: show you who he really is? They recognize Jesus after
Speaker 1: the letdown. I believe God is calling new life forth
Speaker 1: in this moment. Everyone's standing, everyone's standing, nobody moving, every
Speaker 1: head bow, every eye close. I invite you right now
Speaker 1: to come out of your grave and meet Jesus. I
Speaker 1: invite you right now to see the Christ upon the cross,
Speaker 1: who was wounded for your transgression, who was bruised for
Speaker 1: your iniquity. The chastisement that brought us peace was upon
Speaker 1: him by his stripes. We are healed. It's already done,
Speaker 1: it's already clean. The price has already been paid, the
Speaker 1: blood has already been shed. It is not that we
Speaker 1: are righteous that enables us to come to God. It
Speaker 1: is not that we will do better. It is my
Speaker 1: believing that you have life in his name. The scripture
Speaker 1: says that if you will confess with your mouth that
Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that he
Speaker 1: got up, that God raised him from the dead, that
Speaker 1: you can get up to and you can be saved,
Speaker 1: and you can have a new but and you can
Speaker 1: have a fresh start. And he will call you friend,
Speaker 1: and he will call you a child. And he never
Speaker 1: stopped loving you, and he never stopped pursuing you, and
Speaker 1: he never stopped wanting you, and he never stopped calling you,
Speaker 1: and he's still gonna use you. But this is your
Speaker 1: moment of decision. There is life after the letdown, after
Speaker 1: the worst possible thing, after the greatest possible pain. There
Speaker 1: is life after the letdown. This is the part of
Speaker 1: the sermon where you decide whether to walk out that
Speaker 1: door just like you can, or really let God into
Speaker 1: that place in your life where you need to be
Speaker 1: forgiven and save. With every head bowed in every eye closed.
Speaker 1: I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now.
Speaker 1: This prayer is not just magical words strung together. It's
Speaker 1: an actual declaration of faith for those of you who
Speaker 1: are standing there, and you're going God's speaking to me today.
Speaker 1: He's calling me to come out of my sin, to
Speaker 1: come out of my shame, and to receive him. This
Speaker 1: is your moment to be saved, and we're going to
Speaker 1: pray it all out loud together for the benefit of
Speaker 1: those who are making a decision to do what Peter
Speaker 1: did and follow Jesus Christ to receive his grace and
Speaker 1: new life and the forgiveness of sin. This is your
Speaker 1: resurrection moment for all of you who want to give
Speaker 1: your life to God, or you've been far from Him
Speaker 1: for a long time and you want to come back.
Speaker 1: Right now, repeat this prayer after me, Church family, praying
Speaker 1: out loud, Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation.
Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and
Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Speaker 1: and the savior of the world. And today I make
Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe you died
Speaker 1: that I would be forgiven and rose again to give
Speaker 1: me life. I receive this new life. This is my
Speaker 1: new beginning. On the counter of three shoots, your hand
Speaker 1: up if you prayed that one, two, three, all over
Speaker 1: this room, all over our campuses, come on Mouth, shoot
Speaker 1: it Up Hot, shoot it Up Hot for a third
Speaker 1: Day miracle, and the rest of us. Let's celebrate the
Speaker 1: resurrection of our gang today. Well, if you enjoy today's podcast,
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