1
00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840
Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

2
00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,880
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

3
00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,800
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

4
00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,680
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

5
00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,000
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see Gods moving in

6
00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:19,480
Speaker 2: your life. Enjoy the message what enjoy to be with

7
00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:19,880
Speaker 2: you today.

8
00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,320
Speaker 3: My name is Larry Bryan, one of the pastors here

9
00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,280
Speaker 3: at Elevation Church.

10
00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,760
Speaker 1: But all my friends call me ld and.

11
00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,600
Speaker 3: My wife and I had the distinct privilege of being

12
00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,599
Speaker 3: one of the original eight families eighteen plus years ago

13
00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,120
Speaker 3: to start Elevation Church with Eric, my friend here and

14
00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,240
Speaker 3: I saw Jay Raven around here. And when we started

15
00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,720
Speaker 3: the church eighteen years ago, my wife and I moved

16
00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,239
Speaker 3: into our house on a Friday night right when the

17
00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,200
Speaker 3: church started, went to the hospital the next Wednesday, had

18
00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,120
Speaker 3: our first born son. Here's a picture of how it

19
00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:56,120
Speaker 3: started eighteen years ago. I think we got a picture

20
00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:01,840
Speaker 3: to pop up there. That's my boy, Corbyn Charles Brye

21
00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,480
Speaker 3: and I remember when we took him to e Kids

22
00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,200
Speaker 3: Children's Ministry the very first I Miss Marie Neil was

23
00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:10,640
Speaker 3: the first volunteer to hold him.

24
00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,160
Speaker 1: She's still holding.

25
00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,240
Speaker 3: Babies eighteen years later at Elevation Blakeney.

26
00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:16,720
Speaker 1: Thank you, Marie Neial.

27
00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,440
Speaker 3: Thank you to all the Eat kids, Heather and Anthony,

28
00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,600
Speaker 3: and all the people that have sown into my son

29
00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,080
Speaker 3: and all of our kids. I think the unsung heroes

30
00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 3: of this ministry are the people that show up every week,

31
00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,200
Speaker 3: that serve our children and raise them up.

32
00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,360
Speaker 1: And now this is my son, this is now, this is.

33
00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,000
Speaker 3: Just a couple of weeks ago, my man, my boy.

34
00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,399
Speaker 1: Yeah.

35
00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,080
Speaker 3: And so on the day he was born, my wife Janet,

36
00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,440
Speaker 3: when she was pregnant, we weren't pregnant, she was pregnant.

37
00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,080
Speaker 3: She would listen to the same songs every day in

38
00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,800
Speaker 3: the morning, and there was a song by Chris Tomlin.

39
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:55,520
Speaker 1: What was it, honey?

40
00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,960
Speaker 3: It was how Great is Our God? Do I remember

41
00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,000
Speaker 3: that old song? She would listen to it every day

42
00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,240
Speaker 3: and he would jump in her belly. He would do

43
00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,040
Speaker 3: like cartwheels. And on the day he was born, he

44
00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,079
Speaker 3: was not jumping to that song. My wife got real

45
00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:09,600
Speaker 3: freaked out.

46
00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:10,160
Speaker 1: She calls me.

47
00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,720
Speaker 3: Turns out the cord was wrapped around his neck and

48
00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,240
Speaker 3: that was his way of telling us, you need to

49
00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,480
Speaker 3: come take me. He arrived Emergency Sea section. Like an

50
00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,360
Speaker 3: hour or so later, my wife calls me. I'm trying

51
00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,040
Speaker 3: to hold it together and I'm freaking out, like.

52
00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,360
Speaker 1: Babe, it's gonna be okay. And I got off the phone.

53
00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,679
Speaker 3: First person I called was Pastor Stephen, and I can't

54
00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,440
Speaker 3: tell you what he told me, but I do remember

55
00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,040
Speaker 3: how he made me feel. He made me feel like

56
00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,040
Speaker 3: God was with me. He's in it, fighting for me,

57
00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,600
Speaker 3: and God is not against me. Thank you, Pastor Stephen

58
00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,400
Speaker 3: and Pastor Holly for eighteen years faithfully doing that in

59
00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:42,120
Speaker 3: this house.

60
00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,919
Speaker 1: We love you, We honor you.

61
00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,600
Speaker 3: Hey, let me give you the passage I want to

62
00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,400
Speaker 3: preach from today. It's two verses, Mark chapter one, Verses

63
00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,280
Speaker 3: sixteen and seventeen. This is the word that God has

64
00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,280
Speaker 3: given me. This is my assignment to deliver it to

65
00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:56,760
Speaker 3: you today.

66
00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:58,400
Speaker 1: I've been praying that you.

67
00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,280
Speaker 3: Would be good soil, because this is good and when

68
00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,959
Speaker 3: good seed meets good soil, it produces a great harvest

69
00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:04,760
Speaker 3: for his glory.

70
00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:06,560
Speaker 1: Mark Chapter one.

71
00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,880
Speaker 3: This is Jesus walked by the sea of Galilee. He

72
00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,000
Speaker 3: saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into

73
00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,200
Speaker 3: the lake, for they were fishermen. Come follow me, Jesus said,

74
00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,280
Speaker 3: and I will send you out to fish for people

75
00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,640
Speaker 3: one more time. Let me pray, Father, this is good seed.

76
00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,840
Speaker 3: Sons and daughters of this house and watching online around

77
00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,000
Speaker 3: the world are good soil. Take your good seed, put

78
00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,520
Speaker 3: it in the soil of their heart. Produce a harvest

79
00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,400
Speaker 3: of righteousness for your glory.

80
00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:37,920
Speaker 1: Amen.

81
00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,520
Speaker 3: Amen, let me give you the title. Then you can

82
00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,240
Speaker 3: have a seat. This is the title for today, Destiny

83
00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,560
Speaker 3: and Direction. Look at your favorite person around you, give

84
00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:47,480
Speaker 3: them a hogins say.

85
00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,200
Speaker 1: Destiny and Direction.

86
00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:58,280
Speaker 3: Thank you, worship team. This is an incredible story because

87
00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,080
Speaker 3: many things are happening in this scene at the same time.

88
00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,120
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew Simon. Well Simon, he's Simon.

89
00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,200
Speaker 3: Simon is a part of him that's parting on on

90
00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,840
Speaker 3: Saturday night. But Peter's the side of him that's praising

91
00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,000
Speaker 3: on Sunday morning. You know, because all of you got

92
00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,880
Speaker 3: a little bit of a little bit of Simon in you,

93
00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,040
Speaker 3: then you also got some some Peter in you.

94
00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:17,599
Speaker 1: That's that guy.

95
00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,000
Speaker 3: He's out casting nets. I don't know what he did

96
00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,599
Speaker 3: the night before, but Jesus shows up on the scene

97
00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,839
Speaker 3: an ordinary day in Peter's life that encounters a radical

98
00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,080
Speaker 3: savior that's about to change the trajectory of his life.

99
00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,840
Speaker 3: He did not know that was gonna happen when he

100
00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,000
Speaker 3: set out on his day. At the same time that's happening,

101
00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,040
Speaker 3: Jesus is also establishing his earthly ministry. He's saying it

102
00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,360
Speaker 3: is time to go. He's prepared himself for the assignment

103
00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,520
Speaker 3: of going to the cross, and now he's gonna pick

104
00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,280
Speaker 3: the team to follow him. And he shows up and

105
00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:53,359
Speaker 3: he's walking along and it says he sees Simon, he

106
00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,599
Speaker 3: sees him casting a net into the lake. Because another

107
00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,280
Speaker 3: thing that's happening at that moment. You have no idea

108
00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,040
Speaker 3: what God's doing on you row. You have no idea

109
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,680
Speaker 3: the stories that are ending and beginning. And God is

110
00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,560
Speaker 3: doing something significant in our midst today. Oh, if we

111
00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,080
Speaker 3: would perceive in the spiritual realm what God is doing

112
00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,080
Speaker 3: in this place. And because Jesus is about to establish

113
00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,120
Speaker 3: kingdom culture, say kingdom culture. You see the culture of

114
00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,600
Speaker 3: the world when someone would find a teacher or a rabbi.

115
00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,800
Speaker 3: That's what Jesus is about to become to these these disciples,

116
00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,560
Speaker 3: is He's about to become their teacher, their rabbi in

117
00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,200
Speaker 3: that culture. The way that a rabbi would be selected

118
00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:31,800
Speaker 3: wouldn't be the rabbi would not.

119
00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:32,080
Speaker 1: Come to you.

120
00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,080
Speaker 3: Oh no, he would never stoop so low as the

121
00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,720
Speaker 3: step into your lowly place. Rabbis would stand at a distance,

122
00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,760
Speaker 3: and people would come to him and beg, oh, please please,

123
00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,880
Speaker 3: could I be your student?

124
00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:42,880
Speaker 1: Could I learn from you?

125
00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:44,719
Speaker 3: And they would say, well, show me how smart you are.

126
00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,800
Speaker 3: That's the culture of the world. That is religion trying

127
00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,880
Speaker 3: to prove that you should be picked. Some of you

128
00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,760
Speaker 3: are exhausted because you have lived your whole life trying

129
00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,520
Speaker 3: to prove that you should be picked. And Jesus is

130
00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:03,000
Speaker 3: about to establish kingdom culture on earth as it is

131
00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,640
Speaker 3: in heaven. That's what he's bringing into the kingdom on

132
00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,680
Speaker 3: earth as it is in heaven, because it's the upside

133
00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,960
Speaker 3: down culture. The first shall be the last, and the

134
00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,839
Speaker 3: last shall be the first. And Jesus comes to them,

135
00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,919
Speaker 3: and he comes to you, and he sees you.

136
00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,440
Speaker 1: He sees all of you. He sees what you did,

137
00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:19,240
Speaker 1: he sees.

138
00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,280
Speaker 3: Where you're doing right now, and he sees what you're

139
00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,120
Speaker 3: going to do in the future. And he comes to

140
00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,360
Speaker 3: you and he picks you. That's the kind of God

141
00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,880
Speaker 3: that we have, that's the kind of savior that we have.

142
00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,119
Speaker 3: He pushes through all of the stuff and he comes

143
00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,520
Speaker 3: to you because he's establishing kingdom culture, and it's beautiful.

144
00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,039
Speaker 3: And he takes the criteria that none of us would

145
00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,560
Speaker 3: have ever used to pick his first disciples, none of

146
00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,239
Speaker 3: us would have been tall enough, good enough, smart enough.

147
00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,400
Speaker 3: When Jesus says, I am doing something new, something different,

148
00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,000
Speaker 3: and I think that same spirit is happening in this

149
00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,200
Speaker 3: place today. Now, this guy named Simon, who would later

150
00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,960
Speaker 3: be called Peter, he writes two books of the Bible.

151
00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,200
Speaker 3: So when Jesus shows up in Mark one, Simon would

152
00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,520
Speaker 3: have been Peter would have been about mid twenties, late twenties,

153
00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,000
Speaker 3: and he would write two books of the Bible, first

154
00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:10,960
Speaker 3: Peter and second Peter.

155
00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:12,920
Speaker 1: And in Second Peter.

156
00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,760
Speaker 3: The very last words he writes some forty years later

157
00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,880
Speaker 3: after this incident, looking back on his life, looking back

158
00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,679
Speaker 3: on all of the high points and low points.

159
00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:23,880
Speaker 1: Remember when when.

160
00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,200
Speaker 3: Jesus saw him casting a net into the lake, and

161
00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,680
Speaker 3: Jesus came to him, remembering the denials, remembering standing up

162
00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,560
Speaker 3: on pentagons, reminding him of all the places where he

163
00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,800
Speaker 3: got it right and got it wrong. He looks back

164
00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,640
Speaker 3: with wisdom, and he pens the very last words of

165
00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,520
Speaker 3: his second letter. This is his last letter, his last words.

166
00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,040
Speaker 3: And there's something about your last words. There's something about

167
00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,680
Speaker 3: the wisdom of your life looking back on it, when

168
00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,080
Speaker 3: you want to give somebody the wisdom to say, if

169
00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,840
Speaker 3: you only remember one thing, this is it. He writes

170
00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,280
Speaker 3: this in Second Peter three eighteen. He says, but grow

171
00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,400
Speaker 3: in the grace in knowledge of our Lord and savior,

172
00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,640
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. Peter gives this profound wisdom. Looking back, he says, grow,

173
00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,840
Speaker 3: say grow. Some of us are working hard to grow

174
00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 3: our bank account, but are growing in the grace. We're

175
00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,640
Speaker 3: growing our followers, but are we growing our faith?

176
00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:19,960
Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk about today.

177
00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,720
Speaker 3: And Peter says, I want you to grow in the

178
00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:26,800
Speaker 3: grace and knowledge. You see, when you have knowledge without grace,

179
00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:31,560
Speaker 3: your self righteous. I'm trying to prove how smart you are.

180
00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,400
Speaker 3: But grace without knowledge is a leaky bucket because you

181
00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:40,200
Speaker 3: can't hold what God reveals to you. And Peter speaks

182
00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,319
Speaker 3: to two distinct offices. Jesus is so much, he's indescribable,

183
00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,800
Speaker 3: but he speaks of two distinct roles that Jesus must

184
00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:47,680
Speaker 3: occupy in your life.

185
00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:48,679
Speaker 1: First is as Savior.

186
00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,600
Speaker 3: The second is that Lord, because the Savior determines the

187
00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,520
Speaker 3: destiny and the Lord sets the direction.

188
00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,360
Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk about for a few minutes.

189
00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,280
Speaker 3: As we begin a relationship with Jesus, we got to

190
00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,559
Speaker 3: grow in that relationship with Jesus. It's called progressive revelation.

191
00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,920
Speaker 3: Progressive revelation. I've got my twelve year old daughter, she

192
00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,160
Speaker 3: will turn thirteen next week, Miss Carson here, she's amazing.

193
00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,360
Speaker 3: She's my favorite child that I'm looking at right now.

194
00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,160
Speaker 3: We've got four, which every one is in front of me.

195
00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:24,480
Speaker 3: Is my favorite kid. So progressive revelation is this. She says, Daddy,

196
00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,280
Speaker 3: I love you. She drove with me to church this morning,

197
00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,600
Speaker 3: She's like, Daddy, I love you. I remember dropping her

198
00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,800
Speaker 3: off in kindergarten first.

199
00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,160
Speaker 1: And she's like, Daddy, I love you.

200
00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,680
Speaker 3: But now when she gets around some of her middle

201
00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,720
Speaker 3: school friends, she's like, Dad, I'm like, you better say

202
00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,320
Speaker 3: you love me. But I know that she'll graduate from

203
00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,200
Speaker 3: high school one day and she'll say, Dad, I love you.

204
00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,480
Speaker 3: She'll get married one day and on the night before

205
00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,280
Speaker 3: her wedding, or as I get ready to walk her

206
00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,880
Speaker 3: down the aisle, she'll look at me and says, dad,

207
00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,760
Speaker 3: I love you. Then, but she holds her firstborn child,

208
00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,480
Speaker 3: she will look at me and say, Dad, I love you.

209
00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,080
Speaker 3: She's used the same word her whole life, but her

210
00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,840
Speaker 3: understanding has changed over time. That is agressive revelation in

211
00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,200
Speaker 3: our relationship with Jesus. Some of us are stuck in

212
00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,920
Speaker 3: a flannel revelation of Jesus. You have not upgraded your

213
00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,360
Speaker 3: definition of Jesus in a very long time. And that's

214
00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,360
Speaker 3: what God is trying to do today. He's trying to

215
00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,480
Speaker 3: upgrade your definition because you're living in an outdated revelation.

216
00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,880
Speaker 3: And Peter is saying, I need you to grow in

217
00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:24,200
Speaker 3: the grace of Jesus, your Lord and Savior. If we

218
00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,000
Speaker 3: fast forward to one of the pivot points of Peter's journey,

219
00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,559
Speaker 3: and that's who we're really going to focus on today,

220
00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,440
Speaker 3: is this character Peter. In Matthew chapter sixteen, it says this,

221
00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,839
Speaker 3: starting in verse thirteen, when Jesus came to the region

222
00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,400
Speaker 3: of cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, who.

223
00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,040
Speaker 1: Do people say the Son of Man is? Now?

224
00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,360
Speaker 3: This is about two years after Peter started Jesus on

225
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:49,280
Speaker 3: the journey.

226
00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,360
Speaker 1: He's been walking with him for a while. This is

227
00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,000
Speaker 1: not brand new.

228
00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,720
Speaker 3: He's been seeing the miracles, he's heard the sermons, he's

229
00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,080
Speaker 3: been there, done all this stuff. And now Jesus is

230
00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,000
Speaker 3: flipping the script, and he's asking him who do they

231
00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,120
Speaker 3: say that? I am question for you, for those of

232
00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,960
Speaker 3: you who claim Christ. If your words are paint and

233
00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,800
Speaker 3: your life is a canvas, what portrait of Jesus are

234
00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:10,640
Speaker 3: you painting.

235
00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:10,800
Speaker 1: To the world.

236
00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,600
Speaker 3: If I were to go into the environments around you

237
00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,200
Speaker 3: and see the people closest to you, what would they

238
00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,320
Speaker 3: say about Jesus?

239
00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,360
Speaker 1: Who is Jesus?

240
00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,320
Speaker 3: Because some of you need to understand, you are the

241
00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,680
Speaker 3: only Jesus some people will ever see.

242
00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,960
Speaker 1: Who do they say? He did not give you that

243
00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:28,080
Speaker 1: job for an income.

244
00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,680
Speaker 3: He gave you for influence. God puts you in that

245
00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,680
Speaker 3: place to exert his influence.

246
00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,000
Speaker 1: For his glory.

247
00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:35,600
Speaker 2: Oh.

248
00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,120
Speaker 3: I love what Jesus is doing here because he's flipping

249
00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,840
Speaker 3: the script. He's pushing out the casual Christianity, and he's

250
00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,440
Speaker 3: forcing the complacency to come to the surface because you

251
00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,760
Speaker 3: cannot live at that place and love Jesus at the

252
00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,840
Speaker 3: level that he's called you to.

253
00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:49,800
Speaker 1: And he flips the.

254
00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,680
Speaker 3: Script and now he continues in the conversations and he

255
00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,560
Speaker 3: flips it. He says, but what about you? Who do

256
00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:00,280
Speaker 3: you say that I am? I love this question, who

257
00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,160
Speaker 3: do you say that I am? All of humanity hinges

258
00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,760
Speaker 3: on this one question. All of scripture is pointing to

259
00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,040
Speaker 3: one person, and his name is Jesus. In the Old Testament,

260
00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,840
Speaker 3: Jesus is concealed, and in the New Testament.

261
00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 1: Jesus is revealed. This is all about.

262
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,880
Speaker 3: Jesus, and the gospel writers says, they pen the story

263
00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:25,480
Speaker 3: of Jesus going through humanity. It's what created the casual

264
00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,640
Speaker 3: crowd to come to Christ because they're asking, are these

265
00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,400
Speaker 3: miracles really happening? But then the critics and the skeptics

266
00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,319
Speaker 3: are saying, what did he say? But then the Pharisees

267
00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,680
Speaker 3: and the teachers of the laws are all saying, who

268
00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,800
Speaker 3: does he think he is? Than even herod king, herod

269
00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,040
Speaker 3: pilate kings and people in authority who would say.

270
00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:48,640
Speaker 1: Are you a king?

271
00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,080
Speaker 3: All of creation has been asking the question who is Jesus?

272
00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,120
Speaker 3: And it's the question that Jesus brings his disciples to

273
00:12:58,200 --> 00:12:59,920
Speaker 3: in this moment, and he asks him very point to

274
00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,000
Speaker 3: who do you say that I am? And I think

275
00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,440
Speaker 3: my assignment today is to ask everybody under the sound

276
00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,160
Speaker 3: of my voice. The most important question you could ever ask,

277
00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,360
Speaker 3: because your destiny is determined by a decision, and the

278
00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,600
Speaker 3: decision is who is Jesus. It's not about being a

279
00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,160
Speaker 3: good person. It's not about trying harder. It's not about

280
00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,360
Speaker 3: religious attendance. It's not about scripture reading. It is about

281
00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,600
Speaker 3: who is Jesus. Who is your Jesus. He's the Alpha

282
00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,920
Speaker 3: and the Omega. He's the author and perfector of our faith.

283
00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,199
Speaker 3: He is the bright in morning star. He is the cornerstone.

284
00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,079
Speaker 3: He is the great high Priests. He is the head

285
00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,000
Speaker 3: of the Church. He is the Holy One. He is

286
00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,880
Speaker 3: the Great i Am. He is Jehovah, he is Emmanuel.

287
00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:49,480
Speaker 3: He is our Redeemer, our prophet, and our Savior. And

288
00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,760
Speaker 3: in this moment in verse seventeen, here is in verse sixteen.

289
00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,080
Speaker 1: Simon Peter answered.

290
00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,480
Speaker 3: You are the Messiah, the son.

291
00:13:59,320 --> 00:13:59,920
Speaker 1: Of the Living God.

292
00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,840
Speaker 3: Jesus replied, blessed her, you, Simon's son of Jonah. For

293
00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:04,959
Speaker 3: this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood,

294
00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,360
Speaker 3: but by my Father in heaven.

295
00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,319
Speaker 1: You are the Messiah.

296
00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,760
Speaker 3: It means savior, redeemer, and what Jesus came to save

297
00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,880
Speaker 3: you from is not your bad decisions, a bad marriage,

298
00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,360
Speaker 3: or a bad job. He came to save you from

299
00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,640
Speaker 3: your sins. That's why he had to die, to save

300
00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,560
Speaker 3: you of your sins, to.

301
00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:24,960
Speaker 1: Redeem you from it.

302
00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,880
Speaker 3: Oh, but some of us come to church because we

303
00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,680
Speaker 3: feel bad, and we follow Jesus for two years and

304
00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:31,880
Speaker 3: I got the Bible.

305
00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,920
Speaker 1: But have never seen him as the Messiah.

306
00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,880
Speaker 3: And it's beautiful from the Scripture says this was not

307
00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,800
Speaker 3: revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by Father.

308
00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,640
Speaker 1: What he's saying is the grace you see.

309
00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,120
Speaker 3: You and I are dead in our sin. We're born dead.

310
00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,400
Speaker 3: The scriptural the definition that Theologians have agreed to throughout

311
00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,200
Speaker 3: time is dead means you're dead dead. It means you're

312
00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,800
Speaker 3: so dead you cannot make a live choice. It means

313
00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,280
Speaker 3: that you if you don't come to God because it's

314
00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,600
Speaker 3: a good idea or it's a cool emotional thing that

315
00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,680
Speaker 3: somebody got stirred up inside of you. Know, what it

316
00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,880
Speaker 3: means is that right now the grace of God is

317
00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,320
Speaker 3: going forward, and some of you are leaning in because

318
00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,840
Speaker 3: when I picture this scene, because this is the scene

319
00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,640
Speaker 3: where Jesus became the Messiah of Peter, he had been

320
00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,440
Speaker 3: walking with him for two years. But he had never

321
00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,320
Speaker 3: been forgiven of a since, I think until that moment,

322
00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,480
Speaker 3: Because in that moment, the grace of God, the spirit

323
00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,280
Speaker 3: of God made him go. Oh, the Messiah, he was

324
00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:28,120
Speaker 3: a revelation.

325
00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:29,640
Speaker 1: It says this.

326
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,960
Speaker 3: It says this in Ephesians chapter two, verse eight, it says,

327
00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,960
Speaker 3: for it is by grace that you have been saved

328
00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:37,560
Speaker 3: through faith.

329
00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,640
Speaker 1: This is not from yourselves. It is a gift of God.

330
00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,560
Speaker 3: So the grace of God goes forth, and the grace

331
00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,360
Speaker 3: is what enables you to consider him. The grace is

332
00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,560
Speaker 3: what enables you to look at him now. Faith is

333
00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,560
Speaker 3: your response to the grace that you just received. Some

334
00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,200
Speaker 3: of you have been coming to church for a very

335
00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,960
Speaker 3: long time, but you have resisted the grace, standing on

336
00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,240
Speaker 3: the outside because you feel like I'm too dirty, I've

337
00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,720
Speaker 3: done too much to clean myself up before I come

338
00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,920
Speaker 3: to God. You'll come to elevation every week, you'll sit

339
00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,240
Speaker 3: in the same seat, but you have not trusted in

340
00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,880
Speaker 3: Him as your Lord and savior. You've stood at a distance.

341
00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,200
Speaker 3: Peter traveled with Jesus for two years, but this is

342
00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,560
Speaker 3: the moment that his destiny was secured in the hands

343
00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,840
Speaker 3: of his savior because he said, you are the Messiah,

344
00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,200
Speaker 3: and I believe the grace of God is leaning into

345
00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,600
Speaker 3: your heart right now, and for some of you it

346
00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,560
Speaker 3: is beating out of your chest. And God is saying,

347
00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,960
Speaker 3: will you respond to the grace that is going forward?

348
00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,920
Speaker 3: It is by grace through faith. Faith is your response.

349
00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,400
Speaker 3: Will you receive it? You can't save yourself, but will

350
00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,840
Speaker 3: you receive the grace? And normally we would give an

351
00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,480
Speaker 3: invitation for salvation at the end of the experience. I'm

352
00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,280
Speaker 3: not gonna wait till then because i wanted to do

353
00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,320
Speaker 3: it right now and I'm not gonna bring the band up.

354
00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,360
Speaker 3: There's gonna be no pad behind this. And what I'm

355
00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,400
Speaker 3: gonna do in just a second at all of our locations.

356
00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,120
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna ask all of you who need to

357
00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,000
Speaker 3: begin a relationship with Jesus to stand to your feet.

358
00:16:58,040 --> 00:16:59,040
Speaker 1: I'm in just a second.

359
00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,080
Speaker 3: And some are like, oh my gosh, you're gonna make

360
00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,320
Speaker 3: me stand with Yes, he died a very public death

361
00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:04,760
Speaker 3: for you.

362
00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,119
Speaker 1: He did. He died a very public death.

363
00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,879
Speaker 3: And the reason I want some of you to stand

364
00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,800
Speaker 3: is because you're sitting.

365
00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,760
Speaker 1: Down in sin and I need you to remember that.

366
00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,840
Speaker 3: The next time the voice of the enemy tries to

367
00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,080
Speaker 3: get you to sit in that sin.

368
00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,320
Speaker 1: You can stand and say, no, I have been redeemed.

369
00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,920
Speaker 3: I have been forgiven my Jehovah, Jirah, my Jehovah nieces

370
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:34,439
Speaker 3: Jehovah Shaba. He changed me, He's redeemed me. This is

371
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,440
Speaker 3: not emotionalism. This is not me being a good motivational speaker.

372
00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,679
Speaker 3: I'm not that good. But the grace of God is

373
00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,840
Speaker 3: that good. And so at all of our locations in

374
00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,920
Speaker 3: online this is for you too. And if you need

375
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,440
Speaker 3: to stand to place your faith in Jesus, I'm gonna

376
00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,200
Speaker 3: ask you, with the count of three, without hesitation, to

377
00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,240
Speaker 3: boldly stand. I know, all eyes open, normally we do

378
00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,320
Speaker 3: every head bout every no eyes open, eyes wide open,

379
00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,800
Speaker 3: clear conscience, making a commitment to follow Jesus. No longer

380
00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,080
Speaker 3: doing it in the shadows, standing out in the life. Surprise,

381
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,399
Speaker 3: they're already standing here at balance high. If you need

382
00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,320
Speaker 3: to place your faith in Jesus, stand to your feet. One,

383
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:16,600
Speaker 3: two three, stand up, Oh my soul, hey, stand to

384
00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,600
Speaker 3: your feet. All of our locations, someone at Lake Norman,

385
00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,040
Speaker 3: someone in Raleigh right now, stand to your feet, stand

386
00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:28,159
Speaker 3: to your feet. Come on, stay standing stay standing, stay standing.

387
00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,560
Speaker 3: In all of our locations, I don't know what it

388
00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:36,080
Speaker 3: looks like other way. We're right here, so many are standing. Hey,

389
00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:42,200
Speaker 3: stay standing, stay standing. Here's what we're gonna do. We're

390
00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,520
Speaker 3: gonna say you pray together, stay standing, stay standing. We're

391
00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,920
Speaker 3: gonna say a pray together, out loud. There's nothing magical

392
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,159
Speaker 3: about these words. But the Bible says, when you confess

393
00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,399
Speaker 3: with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in

394
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,280
Speaker 3: your heart that he was raised from the dead, you

395
00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,200
Speaker 3: will be saved. And if you have placed your faith

396
00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,600
Speaker 3: in Jesus and you're around these people, oh and be

397
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,960
Speaker 3: praying for him, be praying with me. But there are

398
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,760
Speaker 3: a couple of people. You haven't stood yet. And what

399
00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:06,800
Speaker 3: I want to tell you, standing doesn't save you. Jesus

400
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 3: saves you. But standing is our response to take a stand.

401
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,440
Speaker 3: So if you need to still stand, stay to your feet.

402
00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 3: Right now, church family, let's say this prayer out loud,

403
00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:21,240
Speaker 3: eyes wide open, clear conscience, knowing that we are following

404
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:25,040
Speaker 3: Jesus as our savior. Pray this with me. I believe

405
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:30,040
Speaker 3: that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died

406
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:34,000
Speaker 3: on the cross and rose from the grave. To forgive

407
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,680
Speaker 3: me of my sins. I give you my life, I

408
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:42,040
Speaker 3: give you my sin, I give you my shame. Forgive me,

409
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:47,000
Speaker 3: and I'll spend my life following you. Now, give God

410
00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,320
Speaker 3: the biggest praise you can give.

411
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:48,919
Speaker 1: Him in this place.

412
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,320
Speaker 3: Hey, if you're around those people, hug them, high five them,

413
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 3: let them know that they're not alone. We're proud of you.

414
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,960
Speaker 3: Come on, give them a hug. Don't let them be alone.

415
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,400
Speaker 3: All all oak since church families surround him. Love on them.

416
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 3: Do it, do it, do it in that beautiful in

417
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 3: that beautiful. Oh, you can sit back now, but you

418
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:18,560
Speaker 3: can stand up anytime you need to.

419
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,720
Speaker 1: Is God not good?

420
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,439
Speaker 3: Oh, my soul, Your destiny, Your destiny is connected to

421
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:32,920
Speaker 3: a decision. And the decision is who is Jesus. He's

422
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,000
Speaker 3: a fairy tale of figment of their imagination or is

423
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,479
Speaker 3: a fictional character. No, for some of you, he just

424
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 3: became your messiah, your savior. That's exactly what Peter said

425
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 3: to do. Grow into grace. Is Jesus our savior and Lord.

426
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,919
Speaker 3: But here's the reality. It's easier to trust Jesus with

427
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,439
Speaker 3: my destiny than my direction. It is so much easier

428
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 3: to say one day by and by Jesus will trust

429
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 3: you with that, but trust you with the hero And now, ooh,

430
00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 3: that's so much harder.

431
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:01,120
Speaker 1: Why is it hard.

432
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,440
Speaker 3: To trust Jesus with the direction of our lives? You see,

433
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 3: saved is used in multiple boys. I was saved meaning

434
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,200
Speaker 3: there was a moment that Jesus became.

435
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: Your Oh, you are the Messiah.

436
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 3: That moment for some of you, that moment just happened

437
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 3: June thirtieth. Side note, today is my birthday. The best

438
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 3: birthday present I could ever have is to be with

439
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 3: my church family. And so in scripture, thank you. In

440
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 3: scripture you were saved. You will be saved, meaning you

441
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 3: will see him face to face and he will say

442
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 3: either well done, good and faithful servant, or depart from me,

443
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 3: for I never knew you. You see, religious activity does

444
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,439
Speaker 3: not matter in that moment. That's why you gotta have

445
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,880
Speaker 3: this moment that the revelation of God. The grace is

446
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 3: you are the Messiah, and the faith is I choose

447
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:58,119
Speaker 3: to receive it. I was saved. I will be saved

448
00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 3: being made like him one day when we see it.

449
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: But between these two, I'm.

450
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 3: Being saved the sanctification. This is trusting Jesus with the

451
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,199
Speaker 3: direction of our lives? Why is it so hard to

452
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 3: trust Jesus with the direction? And I want to show

453
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 3: you from Peter's life why he struggled with this fundamental

454
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 3: faith issue, Because to say, Jesus one day, by and by,

455
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 3: but I got my plan, I got my goal, I

456
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 3: got my thing. Now would you bless my thing in Jesus' name?

457
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: If I'm honest, I live in that.

458
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 3: Place anybody else would you confess with me that you

459
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 3: Why do we struggle with that? And I'm going to

460
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,400
Speaker 3: go to a story in Peter's journey that I think

461
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 3: so poignantly paints a picture of the tension that we

462
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 3: face of why is it hard to trust Jesus with the.

463
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: Direction of our lives?

464
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,399
Speaker 3: In Mark chapter six, it says the apostles gathered around

465
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 3: Jesus and reported them all they had done and talk.

466
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: Let me give it a little context.

467
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 3: Up to Mark chapter six, Jesus had been performing miracles,

468
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 3: he'd been casting out demons, he had been preaching the

469
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 3: word of God. Then he eventually he gets to the

470
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 3: point that he's prepping his disciples for when he would leave,

471
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 3: because he says, after I go, it must continue on.

472
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 3: So those of you, the ones that I picked that

473
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 3: I revealed myself to, It is gonna be your assignment

474
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 3: to do what I have been doing.

475
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: So he sends them out like Noah's.

476
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 3: Art principal two by two, and they're gonna go cast

477
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,880
Speaker 3: out demons. They're gonna preach uh, and they're gonna they're

478
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 3: gonna perform miracles. And now they come back to Jesus

479
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 3: like googly little school kids, like.

480
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: Jesus, look what we did. We talked to demons.

481
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 3: And here's the reality of what I was reading that

482
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 3: scripture this morning. I saw some of us living beneath

483
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 3: the authority Jesus gave us. Why are you living underneath

484
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 3: that oppressive spirit? When God give you authority over it?

485
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: Stop it, stop it. Start standing in the authority he

486
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: has given you.

487
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about walking into work slapping your boss

488
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 3: in the fore and say get out demon. I'm not

489
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 3: saying dumb stuff, but I am saying God will give

490
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 3: you the strength to endure up under it. Quit wilting

491
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 3: underneath it. Stand in the authority He's given you. It's

492
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 3: insulting when you act like that.

493
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: Stop it.

494
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 3: So they go out and then they come back to Jesus.

495
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 3: And now they're like reporting to.

496
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: Them, Jesus, it was amazing. We cats out David's it

497
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: was incredible. Ha ha, And then verse thirty one.

498
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 3: Then because so many people were coming and going, they

499
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 3: did not even get a chance to eat.

500
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 1: They were hungry.

501
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 3: He said to them, come by yourselves to a quiet

502
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 3: place and get some rest. So they went away by

503
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 3: themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

504
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: Now let me pause there.

505
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 3: Jesus says, you're tired, you're hungry, you're exhausted. Come on,

506
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 3: let's go get some rest a quiet place by ourselves.

507
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 3: What picture are you seeing in your head? Like, we're

508
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 3: gonna get on a boat. This is gonna be amazing.

509
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to a B and B get some

510
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 3: R and R. I'm gonna get a manny petty. I'm

511
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 3: gonna put my feet up in a hammock. This is

512
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 3: gonna be freaking amazing.

513
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: Okay, I need some resp.

514
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 3: Yes, what image of rest comes to mind some mom

515
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 3: or dad? You've been working all week in a job

516
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 3: you don't even like, and you're like, if I can

517
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 3: just get to Friday night, I'm gonna get some rest.

518
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 3: And you got this picture of rest in your head,

519
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 3: of what you think it's going to be. But then

520
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 3: you come home, the kids are running around the house, naked,

521
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 3: stuff is burning on the stove, the dogs are barking.

522
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 3: It is complete chaos. Do any of you look at

523
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 3: that and go like.

524
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: Oh?

525
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 3: Because all of us have an image of what we're expecting.

526
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 3: But what do we do and what we pictured doesn't

527
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 3: line up with what we see. Because the story continues

528
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,640
Speaker 3: with the disciples here, he says, But many who saw

529
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 3: them leave and recognize them, and ran on foot from

530
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 3: all the towns and got their ahead of them. This

531
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 3: is the feeding of the five thousand. When Jesus landed

532
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 3: and saw such a large crowd, he had compassion on

533
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, began

534
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 3: to teach them many things. Jesus had compassion for them.

535
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 3: What the disciples feel for the crowds?

536
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: Contempt, frustration? Are you freaking kidding me?

537
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 3: Jesus?

538
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: Question for you.

539
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 3: Jesus says, let's go to a quiet place by yourselves,

540
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 3: to a solitary place and get some rest.

541
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: They get across the lake.

542
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 3: Does this line up with anybody's picture of what you

543
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 3: thought rest would be? No, But what do you do

544
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 3: when it doesn't line up with what you thought it

545
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 3: would be? So question, was Jesus lying to them?

546
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: Like it was just like who doing them to?

547
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 3: Like I just need to get in the boat, say

548
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: I'll lie to you just to get you here. No,

549
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 3: Jesus is incapable of lying.

550
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: He is truth.

551
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 3: He is truth personified. He by deafine is truth. He

552
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 3: is the truth. Did Jesus just not what was waiting

553
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 3: for them on the other side of the lake. No,

554
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 3: he's omniscient, he's all knowing. So he knew what was

555
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 3: on the other side of the lake, and he did

556
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 3: not lie to the disciples. So how do you explain

557
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 3: the discrepancy? They had a different definition of rest. And

558
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 3: here's where it's so hard to trust Jesus with the direction,

559
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: because when you have a different definition, you won't trust

560
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 3: the direction. You see, when Jesus says, let's go to

561
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 3: a solitary place by yourselves to get some rest, it's

562
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 3: the same word that is used of Jesus in Mark

563
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: chapter one. It says he was baptized and then he

564
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: was driven by the spirit into the wilderness. You see

565
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 3: what you and I call wilderness. God calls rest. Jesus

566
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 3: was taken to the wilderness because the wilderness is the

567
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: place that you experience grace. Because the only way you

568
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 3: experience grace is when you get to the end of

569
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 3: yourself and you.

570
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: See the beginning of God.

571
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,239
Speaker 3: Oh, Jesus is taking them to the wilderness, not to

572
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: punish them, but to speak to them, because.

573
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: The wilderness is the place.

574
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 3: That gives you the grace that you start with, I can't,

575
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,479
Speaker 3: but you can. Grace is what gives you the ability

576
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 3: to look at a situation.

577
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: You want to run from and you say I won't.

578
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 3: But God, nevertheless, your will be done. Grace is what

579
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 3: gives you the capacity to say I'm not, but you are.

580
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 3: They had a different definition.

581
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: Pastor Tim.

582
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 3: When you lead so much, you lead so well in

583
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 3: our church, leads our next gen teams, phenomenal leader. As

584
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 3: a leader, don't settle for common language, push for unity

585
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 3: of definition. Because I was doing marital counseling a couple

586
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 3: of years ago with a young couple just been married,

587
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: like six or eight months, and they both come in

588
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 3: and their arms crossed, just not like you, they love

589
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 3: each other, They just don't like each other. And they said,

590
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 3: we just don't communicate very well. And I asked the wife,

591
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 3: I said, how do you define communication? She goes, I

592
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 3: think about him all day long when he's at work,

593
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 3: and I wonder what he's doing and how he's feeling,

594
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 3: and how is experiencing all of those things. And I

595
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: cannot wait till the moment he walks in the door,

596
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 3: and I just want him to share the deepest, darkest

597
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: parts of his stars. Don't spare any detail. Give me

598
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: everything that happened in your day, and ask him how

599
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 3: was your day? And all he said is fine. She

600
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 3: had a definition of communication. I asked him to find communication.

601
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: He said, we just need to have more sex.

602
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 3: You'll never have unity when you've got different definitions. You

603
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: might have a common word, but you don't have a

604
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 3: common definition. I just gave somebody mertal counseling in here.

605
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Won't God do it?

606
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 3: But you won't trust God with the direction when it

607
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 3: doesn't line up with your definition. And that's where the

608
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 3: disciples are at. And it's this amazing journey of some

609
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 3: of you that you're sitting in a situation. You didn't

610
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 3: think it would look like this, he said. I wanted

611
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 3: to get married, and this isn't what I picture.

612
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: And I wanted so.

613
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: Much to get out of high school to be my

614
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 3: own person, But now I got the dysfunction, and this

615
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 3: isn't what I thought it was going to be. And

616
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 3: what happens is when it doesn't line up according to

617
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: your definition, you withhold and you don't trust God with

618
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 3: the direction anymore, not because you don't love God, you

619
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 3: just don't want to be disappointed anymore. That's what I

620
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 3: saw for some of you holding on to this updated definition. Maybe,

621
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: just maybe, Holy Spirit, would you upgrade somebody's definition in

622
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 3: here a good marriage, Define it sacrificial rather than receiving

623
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 3: what would be an upgraded Definitely take whatever area you're

624
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 3: frustrated in right now, God, upgrade their definition. Let them

625
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: see it differently, let them see it as you see it,

626
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 3: not as we've defined it, but let us see it

627
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 3: as you see it. And now the disciples have been

628
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 3: watching Jesus preach for about nine hours, nine hours. It

629
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 3: started about nine in the morning. Now Peter's gonna come

630
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 3: to him at six in the evening. They've been sitting back.

631
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 3: They're like, oh my gosh, good summon, LJ. Can you

632
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 3: please play the ham and B three and close this

633
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 3: thing up?

634
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: Can we shut this thing down?

635
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 3: Because the disciples, remember, they're hungry, they're tired, they're exhausted,

636
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 3: and they're looking at the whole scene, and I think

637
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 3: they're resenting everything that's going down.

638
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: Jesus had compassion. They did not.

639
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 3: So finally they all nudge Peter like you're the obnoxious.

640
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: One, go say something to him.

641
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 3: By Verse thirty five says by this time it was

642
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 3: late in the day, so the disciples came to him.

643
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 3: This is a remote place, they said, and it's already

644
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 3: very late. Send the people away so they can go

645
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 3: to the surrounding countrysides and villages and buy themselves something

646
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: to eat. But he answered them, you give them something

647
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: to eat.

648
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: In this most interesting scene, because here's the reality.

649
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: The wilderness means desolate places, but also desolate people. Jesus

650
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 3: brought them to the wilderness to see the wilderness, and

651
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 3: their wilderness was the people without a shepherd. That's why

652
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 3: he had compassion on them. And they come to Jesus. Hey,

653
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 3: Jesus is late in the day. Can you send them

654
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: away to give them something to eat? She said, I've

655
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 3: been feeding him for five hours I've been feeding it

656
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 3: for nine hours. I've been feeding him since I stepped

657
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: off the boat. I've been feeding them the bread of life,

658
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 3: the word of God. You just haven't seen it because

659
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 3: you were so starving in the carnal flesh. You could

660
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 3: not see what I was doing in the spirit. Here's

661
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 3: the reality. The reason you couldn't see me feeding them

662
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 3: is because you were feeding yourself. Why is it so

663
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 3: hard to trust God with the direction? Because you're feeding

664
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 3: the wrong things. And Jesus says to him, you give

665
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 3: them something to eat. He said, we don't have anything,

666
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 3: and he goes, you're right, because you've been feeding your

667
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 3: doubt and you're insecurity. You've been feeding all of your

668
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: cardinal stuff since we got here. You're right, you don't

669
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 3: have anything for them to eat. But I'm good and

670
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 3: I'm great, and I'm going to feed the people, and

671
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 3: I'm going to use your frustrated heart to serve them.

672
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 3: So take the bread and break it. And Jesus fed

673
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 3: the people. But the miracle was not for the five thousand.

674
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 3: It was for the disciples, and they did not see

675
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 3: it because they had the wrong definition of what rest

676
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 3: looked like. You see the kingdom culture, the upside down

677
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 3: culture that Jesus is establishing is those who were fresh others,

678
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 3: would they themselves be refreshed?

679
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: One person, thank you.

680
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: And then, if you skip a couple of verses, Jesus

681
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 3: finishes the miracle. He puts the disciples on the boat,

682
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 3: and he sends them back across the lake.

683
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: In chapter six, verse.

684
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 3: Fifty one, it says this, Jesus, he goes up to

685
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 3: the mountaintop. He's up there praying, And there they're rowing

686
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: back across the lake to where the journey began. It's

687
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 3: taking of five times as long, and they're only going

688
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: gone half as far. It speaks to them doing it

689
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 3: in their own flesh and in their own frustration, into

690
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 3: their own flesh. And verse fifty one it says this says,

691
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 3: then he climbed into the boat with them.

692
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: The wind died down. They were completely amazed.

693
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 3: You've never heard this verse before fifty two, for they

694
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 3: had not understood about the loaves.

695
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: Their hearts were hardened.

696
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 3: What did the conversation sound like on the boat after

697
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 3: they fed the five thousand? Oh, look at Jesus up

698
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 3: there on the mountain. Thinks he's better than us. You're

699
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 3: just gonna sit up there, and now we gotta roll back. Oh,

700
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 3: now here you come walking across the water. Finally you

701
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 3: showed up.

702
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: Jesus. We've been doing this all day, haven't you seen us.

703
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 3: We're still hungry, we're still tired. And they were offended.

704
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 3: The reason some of you cannot feed someone around you

705
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 3: has been feeding your own offence.

706
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 1: And here's the thing.

707
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 3: Because Jesus, immediately after he said I'm the Messiah, he

708
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 3: began to talk about I must go to the cross

709
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 3: and die, and then he gave him these marching orders.

710
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 3: If anyone would come after me, he must pick hip

711
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 3: his cross daily, deny himself and follow me. It's a

712
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 3: cheat code just to follow the direction can only happen

713
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: with a denial. And now one of the pivot points

714
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 3: in Peter's journey where all this thing comes full circle.

715
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 3: Here you see in Luke chapter twenty two, this is

716
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 3: we fast forward in the timeline of our savior. We're

717
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: going to go to We're gonna go to the Last Supper.

718
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 3: This is the Thursday night meal. It's about six pm.

719
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 3: Jesus would hang on across Twelve hours later is when

720
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 3: he would be sentenced, and then he would be crucified,

721
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 3: and at this last supper he looks at at Peter.

722
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 3: He says this in verse thirty one, he says, Simon, Simon.

723
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 3: Anytime you see a name repeated in scripture, it's a

724
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 3: Hebrew term of intimacy. When you read a double name,

725
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 3: read it as a whisper. What it means that God

726
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 3: is close Moses Moses.

727
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: Simon Simon.

728
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: He doesn't call him Peter. It's very important you see

729
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 3: that he called him Simon, Simon Simon. Satan is asked

730
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 3: to sift you as weak. And if that's me, my

731
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 3: eyes get really wide.

732
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: Like what been calling for me by name?

733
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he sees how deadly you can be when

734
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 3: you're when you're following the direction. He sees the weapon

735
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: you can become in the hands of a master. But

736
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 3: when you don't follow the direction, it's the people that

737
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 3: you're leading that get punished. And he says to him,

738
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 3: Satan's asked you, but I have prayed for you, Simon,

739
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 3: that your faith may not fail.

740
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: Oh.

741
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 3: If I just stopped there, Jesus is praying for me

742
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 3: by name. I'm good, I'm covered. I pray that your

743
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 3: faith would not fail. But then he said to him,

744
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 3: and when you turn back, strengthen your brothers. But he replied, Lord,

745
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 3: I'm ready to go to prison and to death. Jesus answered,

746
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 3: I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you

747
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 3: will deny three times that you know me. Here's the

748
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: truth of what I want to tell you today. Your

749
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 3: destiny is connected to a decision, but the direction is

750
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 3: directed by the daily denials of self. If anyone would

751
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 3: come after me is pick up his crossing daily and

752
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 3: follow me. This is what Jesus is saying to him.

753
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 3: He says, you're gonna deny me three times. Peter, You're

754
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 3: gonna deny me. And what happens is you're gonna want

755
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 3: to walk away from me. But when you turn back,

756
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 3: it means when you repent and come back the right direction,

757
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 3: strengthen your brothers. You know what the word strengthen means.

758
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 3: There means to feed connect the dots. Earlier to feeding

759
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 3: of the five thousand, Peter was only feeding himself, which

760
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 3: he didn't see how he could feed the people. And

761
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 3: Jesus is trying to connect some dots here. The only

762
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 3: way that you're gonna be able to feed somebody else

763
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,720
Speaker 3: is if you deny yourself.

764
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 1: Here's the reality. The direction of your life is daily.

765
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 3: It is multiple times every day you're gonna come to

766
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 3: these crossroads, and the direction will be determined by do

767
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 3: I deny Jesus or do I deny myself.

768
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: That's where life comes down to.

769
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 3: The direction of your life is connected to the denial.

770
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: Let me ask it the opposite side. What are you

771
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 3: feeding that God told you to starve? If you want

772
00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:01,959
Speaker 3: something to die, starve it, starve it, Holy Spirit.

773
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: Make it plain in this house today.

774
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 3: Some of you are feeding self deprecation, and that's what's

775
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: going to grow.

776
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: Some of you are feeding greed and envy.

777
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 3: You're feeding insecurity, You're feeding the assuming the worst of others.

778
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 3: You're feeding those lustful thoughts. You're feeding gossip and slander.

779
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 3: And what God is trying to tell you is the

780
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: direction of your life is connected to the denial in

781
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 3: your life. If you want something to die, starve it.

782
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 3: I want to make it plain. What is the thing

783
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: that God told you to starve? Deny that thing? Can

784
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 3: I be really honest? I am addicted to my opinion,

785
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: I said it. I am so addicted to my opinion,

786
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 3: Like if I almost feel like sometimes if I don't

787
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 3: share my opinion, I get like a visceral response, like

788
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw up, Like no one has ever been

789
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 3: one of the Gospel by my opinion, no one has

790
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: ever been redeemed because of my opinion. Yet I can

791
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 3: become so addicted to my opinion to start an opinion

792
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 3: an anonymous club. Anybody else want to join my opinion club?

793
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 3: Thank you for a few to only be up here

794
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 3: by myself. What would it look like if you went

795
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: into twenty one day opinion fast? You want that thing

796
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 3: to die, starve it. I don't want it to be

797
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 3: in ethereal, deny yourself. I want it to be very practical.

798
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 3: What are you feeding that God said you need to

799
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 3: starve that thing? Write it down in your phone, write

800
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 3: it down in that piece of paper, that pen you're

801
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: gonna steal anyway, Just.

802
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm serious.

803
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 3: Here's what God told me to tell some of you.

804
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 3: An unnamed enemy will never be defeated. You only hide

805
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 3: your friends, and you expose your enemies. And what happens

806
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 3: is when you do not expose that thing, you make

807
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 3: it a friend. God will not deliver you from your friends.

808
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: He will deliver you from your enemies, What do you

809
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 3: need to starve? Now we fast forward, Jesus goes to

810
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 3: the cross. Peter denies Jesus three times, just like he said.

811
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 3: And in one of the Gospels it says that Peter

812
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 3: saw Jesus and he wept bitterly because his direction he

813
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 3: felt like had been so derailed by his denial of Jesus.

814
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 3: He went back to where it all began. He went

815
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 3: back to being a fisherman. And I love the fact

816
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 3: that our Savior said, I cannot.

817
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: Leave you like that.

818
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 3: Oh, he sees you and the beauty of the grace

819
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 3: of God as it comes to you, and it calls

820
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 3: you by name. And as Jesus saw Peter out fishing,

821
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 3: he called to.

822
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: Him, here's the image I need you to see.

823
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 3: As you're going your direction and you're denying Jesus, because

824
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: you're not denying yourself. The grace of God is still

825
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 3: calling your name, is still calling your name. And when

826
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: it said Peter, Simon, Simon, when you have turned back

827
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: means to repent. Jesus, I've been feeding that thing. Forgive me.

828
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 3: I've been going my own direction. Forgive me.

829
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: And then you come back and strengthen your brothers In.

830
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 3: John twenty one, we have this intimate story of Jesus

831
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 3: coming to Peter him and he calls him in and

832
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 3: he has a meal waiting for him on the shore. Oh,

833
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 3: it's just this beautiful picture of the grace of God.

834
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: And he comes to him.

835
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 3: In verse fifteen, it says, and when they had finished eating,

836
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 3: Jesus said to Simon, Peter Simon, son of John, do

837
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 3: you love me more than these?

838
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 2: Yes?

839
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,760
Speaker 1: Lord, you know that I love you. Jesus said, feed

840
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: my lambs.

841
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: Jesus would ask him three times, one for each of

842
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 3: the denials. But I think what's even better there is.

843
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 3: Peter responds three times with the word lord. You see,

844
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 3: I showed you the moment where Jesus became the savior.

845
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 3: This is the moment where Jesus became the lord, because

846
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 3: the Lord determines the direction.

847
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: And he asked Peter, Peter, do you love me?

848
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,919
Speaker 3: And he goes, you know that I love you. There's

849
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 3: three different words to describe love. And Jesus asked, do

850
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 3: you agape me?

851
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: Do you love me like your lord?

852
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 3: Peter responds back with you know that I love you? Fileoh,

853
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 3: I love you like a brother. You see, Jesus is

854
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 3: a gracious he's correcting his definition because he asked him

855
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 3: a second time. I didn't ask you if you loved

856
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 3: me like a brother. I said, do you love me

857
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: like your lord? Feed my sheep. There's something so much

858
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 3: deeper going on here. It's significant that he gives him

859
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 3: three times the opportunity to respond, Lord, and then again

860
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 3: Jesus said, Simon, do you love me? He answered, yes, Lord,

861
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 3: you know that I love you. Take care of my sheep.

862
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 3: The third time he said to him, Simon, son of John,

863
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 3: do you love me. Peter was hurt because Jesus asked

864
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 3: him a third time do you love me? He said, Lords,

865
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 3: you know all things. You know that I love you.

866
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 3: Jesus said, feed my sheep. This would not have been

867
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 3: the first time that Peter would have heard you feed them.

868
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: Remember back to the feeding of the five thousand.

869
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: You give him some deed. I don't have anything.

870
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 3: You're right, you don't have anything because you've been feeding yourself.

871
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 3: But now you went to the wilderness with your own despair.

872
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 3: You went to the wilderness because of your own decisions.

873
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 3: You went to the wilderness because you went back to

874
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 3: old things, and you denied me. But I love you

875
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 3: so much. I came to the wilderness to bring you

876
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 3: out of it. That's how good our God is. And

877
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 3: three times he asked him, do you love me?

878
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: Do you love me? Here's how I picture the whole scene.

879
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: The second time and the third time.

880
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 3: Peter's face is down because you can't he can't even

881
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 3: look himself in the eyes, let alone look Jesus in

882
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 3: the face. I pictured Jesus reaching in and grabbing Peter

883
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 3: by the chin at that table and lifting his chin,

884
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: and he looks grace in the face.

885
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: Do you love me? Feed my sheep?

886
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 3: You didn't have anything to feed him the first time.

887
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: Now what you just ate the grace. That's what you're

888
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 3: going to go feed. That's why I called you out

889
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 3: better three times?

890
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: Do you love me? Do you love me? Now? Feed

891
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: my sheep?

892
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 3: Used him the word lord three times, And then verse eighteen,

893
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 3: he says, very truly, I tell you, when you were younger,

894
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 3: you dressed yourself and went where you wanted.

895
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 2: You.

896
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 3: See, maturity is not a product of age. It's a

897
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 3: byproduct of direction. Some of you are very old, and

898
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 3: you are so immature into faith because you have gone

899
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 3: your own direction where you wanted to go. You picked

900
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 3: up your outfit and you did what you wanted, and jesuys,

901
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 3: I will not love you any less, but you will

902
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: not be aware of how much I love you when

903
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: you live like that, and you can't feed anybody else

904
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 3: when you've been feeding yourself. And the reason that you're

905
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 3: putting on that new outfit is you're trying to cover

906
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 3: that old part of you that only I.

907
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: Can Only I can cover that where you want it.

908
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 3: But here's the moment that Jesus became the lord of

909
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 3: Peter's life. But when you are old, you will stretch

910
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 3: out your hands and someone else will lead you, or

911
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 3: someone else will dress you and lead you to where

912
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 3: you do.

913
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: Not want to go.

914
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 3: Lord, I don't know if I want to go that direction.

915
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 3: You'll either deny Jesus or you'll deny yourself. And the

916
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 3: beauty of our God is he'll bring you back to

917
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 3: that point again and again and again and again, and.

918
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: Someone else address you lead you. Do you not want

919
00:45:59,560 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: to go?

920
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 3: Jesus had this to indicate the kind of death by

921
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 3: which Peter would glorify God, and then he said, follow me.

922
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: I thought Jesus only.

923
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 3: Asked Peter wants to follow him, follow me. I'll make

924
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: you fishers of men. The first time was to learn

925
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 3: how to fish. The second time was to learn how

926
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 3: to feed. And when Jesus becomes the lord of your life,

927
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 3: you start being more concerned with feeding others than feeding yourself,

928
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 3: saying you feed at all of our locations.

929
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to pray for you in just a second.

930
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 3: And as I was praying for everybody in our church,

931
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 3: I kept getting this image of people feeling like, but LB,

932
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 3: you don't know. I got these big decisions in life.

933
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: I got these big decisions I need to make.

934
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 3: Here's what I have looking back as an old man.

935
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 3: The direction of your life is controlled more by the

936
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 3: small daily denials than the big decisions. It always is,

937
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 3: because here's the image I want to give you. When

938
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 3: my kids were young, I would take him to the

939
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 3: beach and the waves would come in at an angle,

940
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 3: and so every time they would go out and surf,

941
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 3: they would just get pushed out just a little bit.

942
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 3: And they go out and surf, and they just get

943
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 3: pushed up shore just a little bit, and they go

944
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 3: out and surf again. They just just little little, little,

945
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 3: little little directional shifts and they just get pushed up shore,

946
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 3: up shore, and ten minutes later they're way over here

947
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 3: and they wonder how did I get her?

948
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: No one of those was a big decision.

949
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 3: It was small self denials that were not show us it.

950
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 3: But the grace of God calls your voice, and he says, Peter,

951
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 3: when you come back, strengthen your brothers. Making Jesus the

952
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 3: savior of your life is a one time decision. He

953
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 3: holds you in his hand. No man can take you

954
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 3: from it. If you can't save yourself, you can't unsave yourself.

955
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 3: But the decision for him to be Lord is a daily,

956
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 3: many times a day, daily decision. Will I deny him.

957
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: Or will I deny me?

958
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 3: But I want to challenge you at a very practical level,

959
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 3: what's the thing you've been feeding.

960
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: That God said, I need you to starve deny that thing.

961
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 3: As you do that, that will be the grace that

962
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 3: you will feed the others. Father, I thank you that

963
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 3: your word is true, it's strong, it's right, it's powerful,

964
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 3: it's effective. I pray for everyone and the sound of

965
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 3: my voice who made a decision today that trust Jesus

966
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 3: as their savior. Hallelujah and amen they're calling is an election, sure,

967
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 3: and you hold them in their hands.

968
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: Nobody can take you from it.

969
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 3: But the decision to let you be lord of our

970
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 3: lives is a many times a day decision. Make it

971
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 3: plain in our lives. Show us one area that we

972
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 3: have been feeding that you have called us to starve,

973
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 3: Give us the grace in that space to deny that

974
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 3: thing rather than to deny you. And every time we

975
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 3: deny ourselves, we receive more of your grace, not to

976
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 3: be kept to ourselves, but to be given out to

977
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 3: the world. Father, we love you, we honor you, we

978
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 3: praise you, we thank you, and all God's people said, Amen,

979
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 3: come on, let's put our hands together, Come on us.

980
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of

981
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of

982
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 2: you that this ministry is possible. You can click the

983
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 2: link in the description to give now, or visit Elevationchurch

984
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 2: dot org slash podcast for more information and if you

985
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 2: enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it

986
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 2: with your friends. You can click the share button, take

987
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 2: a screenshot and share it on your social stories and

988
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 2: tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks again for listening. God

989
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 2: bless you.