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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church,

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Speaker 1: and this is our podcast and I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: We welcome you right now. Please be sure to let

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Speaker 1: us know right now in the comments or the chat

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Speaker 1: where you're joining us from is significant, and then our

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Speaker 1: prayer teams can just start praying for you by name

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Speaker 1: that God's presence would reach you in a powerful way.

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Speaker 1: I also wanted to announce to you what they didn't

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Speaker 1: tell you on Fox News or CNN. This is the

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Speaker 1: year of the Lord's Favor. Breaking news. The Lord is

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Speaker 1: good and his love endures forever. So just to give

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Speaker 1: you a preview, we're gonna finish with favor. The Lord

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Speaker 1: spoke that to me. He said, finish with favor, and

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Speaker 1: I'll preach about that in coming weeks. But right there

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Speaker 1: in the chat, right there in the comments, say I

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Speaker 1: want to finish with favor, and that's what Jesus did.

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Speaker 1: He said that it's the year of the Lord's Favor. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there are blind eyes that need to be open. Yes,

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Speaker 1: a poor that need to be helped. It's always been

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Speaker 1: this way, but this is the year of the Lord's favor.

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Speaker 1: This is the year of the Lord's favor. Now everybody

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Speaker 1: has an opportunity to participate in this and believe with

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Speaker 1: this because we're receiving a year end offering. We set

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Speaker 1: the date for December thirteenth. You can give any time

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Speaker 1: up until then. You can go to Elevation Church dot org.

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Speaker 1: And the best thing to do if you really believe

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Speaker 1: that everything you have came from God, is to set

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Speaker 1: up a recurring gift of a tithe. That's our way

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Speaker 1: of saying to God, I trust you and I thank

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Speaker 1: you all at the same time. Listen, listen, I feel

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Speaker 1: I'm clicking off. They're going to watch an old Charles

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Speaker 1: Stanley sermon or something like that. Listen, listen, look at me.

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Speaker 1: You get to thank him and trust him with the

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Speaker 1: I've been tied in since sixteen and so for every

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Speaker 1: can testify him? So I know it's like, well, this

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Speaker 1: has been a hard year, and yeah, it's been a

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Speaker 1: move forward expand God's kingdom. The offering is centered around

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Speaker 1: the word favor, so I just call it the Favor

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Speaker 1: Offering twenty twenty. We always choose a word and you

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Speaker 1: and beyond. Holly and I are going to give our

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Speaker 1: gift on December thirteenth, challenge you to do the same

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Speaker 1: all over the world. How many are grateful for the

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Speaker 1: givers that make it possible for these gospel messages to

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Speaker 1: go out? Thank God for you, Come on, say it

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Speaker 1: in a chat, Thank God for you, all of the givers.

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Speaker 1: God is doing great things through you, and God is

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Speaker 1: from this verse. And it's a very powerful verse found

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Speaker 1: in Luke chapter five. Thank you God for this little message.

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Speaker 1: Help me to communicate it in a way that will

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Speaker 1: The momentum of a decision. God, you're already doing such

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Speaker 1: We're listening, and our answer is a man in Jesus name.

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Speaker 1: You may be seated. Oh, Holly, I forgot to tell you.

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Speaker 1: same thing, same body of water. That's where Jesus ended

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Speaker 1: up basing his ministry, and this is where it started.

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Speaker 1: The people were crowding around him and listening to the

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Speaker 1: word of God, so no social distancing going on. In Luke,

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Speaker 1: chapter five, verse one, they're pressing in on him, and

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Speaker 1: he needs a little space so his voice can amplify.

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Speaker 1: So it's a very practical need. He saw at the

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Speaker 1: water's edge two boats left there by the fishermen who

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Speaker 1: were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats,

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Speaker 1: the one belonging to Simon, and asked them to put

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Speaker 1: out a little from shore. Then he sat down and

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Speaker 1: taught the people from the boat. When he finished speaking,

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Speaker 1: listen to this, he said to Simon, put out into

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Speaker 1: deep water. Everybody say deep water. Right there in the chat,

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Speaker 1: say deep water, deep water, and let down the nets

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Speaker 1: for a catch. So now I want you to put

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Speaker 1: let down. You already put deep water, and now I

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Speaker 1: want you to put let down. In the chat, everybody

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Speaker 1: say let down. Say it again, say let down, let

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Speaker 1: down the nets for a catch. And Simon, that's the

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Speaker 1: name of Peter. Before he was called Peter, his name

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Speaker 1: was Simon, and Jesus gave him the name Peter cephas

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Speaker 1: petros rot. Simon answered, Master, we've worked hard all night

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Speaker 1: and haven't caught anything. Besides, we're professional fisherman. And you're

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Speaker 1: a good preacher, and you were doing good with that sermon.

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Speaker 1: But the time to catch fish has already passed. And

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Speaker 1: it's fine that you're using my boat to preach, but

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Speaker 1: telling me how to fish is something different. You hear

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Speaker 1: the attitude. We've fished all night but caught nothing. But

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Speaker 1: because you say so, I will let down the nets.

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Speaker 1: And when they had done so verse six, they caught

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Speaker 1: such a large number of fish that their nets began

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Speaker 1: to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat,

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Speaker 1: this is so good to come and help them. And

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Speaker 1: they came and filled both boats so full that they

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Speaker 1: began to sing. When Simon Peters saw this, he fell

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Speaker 1: at Jesus's knees and said, go away from me. Lord.

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Speaker 1: I am a sinful man. For he and all his

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Speaker 1: companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,

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Speaker 1: and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee,

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Speaker 1: Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, don't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: From now on you will fish for people. So verse eleven,

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Speaker 1: right back where we started. They pulled their boats up

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Speaker 1: on shore, left everything and followed him. Now that you've

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Speaker 1: heard the chain of events, do you understand the decision

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Speaker 1: a little bit better? I do. It helped me because

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Speaker 1: as someone who is drawn to dramatic decisions. Day fast

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Speaker 1: thirty day fast, I've done both of those. Haven't done

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Speaker 1: it in a decade, but I did it one time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I just got to be honest about that. I haven't

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Speaker 1: done it in a long time, but I'm down with that.

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Speaker 1: And ask somebody who wants to go deeper in God.

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Speaker 1: I want to go deep, God, do something deep. God

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Speaker 1: has been speaking to me lately that the deepest things

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Speaker 1: he will do in my life start shallow. I know

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Speaker 1: it sounds like a contradiction of everything you would normally

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Speaker 1: hear in a pulpit, because we want we want a

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Speaker 1: deep sermon, a deep word from God, one that we

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Speaker 1: can't understand, so then we don't have to obey it.

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Speaker 1: But while I was reading the text, I was drawn

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Speaker 1: to first eleven. I was like, Yes, Lord, I want

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Speaker 1: to follow you wherever you leave, Do none go with me?

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Speaker 1: That's the second verse of him. You didn't learn when

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Speaker 1: you were a kid, cherishing one. You were at the

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Speaker 1: club and they were singing in church. They said they'll

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Speaker 1: go with me. I still will follow Yes, Lord, I

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Speaker 1: just want to go into the unknown. I will follow you, Lord,

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Speaker 1: I will follow you. Yay. Though I walked through the

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Speaker 1: Valley of the Shadow of Death, and the Lord's like,

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Speaker 1: can't you hadn't even read your version Bible plan start shallow.

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Speaker 1: That's about the deepest thing that you could do. Leave

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Speaker 1: everything and follow him. But notice in the verse. It's

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Speaker 1: in the verse. It's in the Bible. It's in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand everything about decision making science, but I

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Speaker 1: understand something about scripture, A little bit about scripture. I

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Speaker 1: understand a little bit about scripture. And it said that

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Speaker 1: the boats were at the water's edge, the crowds were

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Speaker 1: coming around, and in verse three, he got in a

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Speaker 1: boat and asked him to put out a little I

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Speaker 1: stopped when I read the word little, and I realized

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Speaker 1: that before they left everything, they did a little thing.

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Speaker 1: So the reason that we keep on deciding to do

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Speaker 1: stuff and then we go from deciding to disruption to denial.

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Speaker 1: It's a cycle, deciding to disruption to denial. The reason

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Speaker 1: sometimes is because we stay too deep. And I want

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Speaker 1: to give you a story that I never had the

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Speaker 1: guts to share before right now. But something about this

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Speaker 1: year has made me a little bolder. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's just that I think that Jesus is coming

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Speaker 1: back next Thursday and it doesn't matter anyway, so get

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Speaker 1: me out of here. Whatever. I feel a little conspiracy

519
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: theorist rising up in me this year. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I never had all that before, but it's coming now. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: When I was going through a period of criticism and

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to live in it because God knows it,

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Speaker 1: it's about this time in twenty thirteen, many were in

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Speaker 1: the church and it was weird because it was more

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Speaker 1: criticism than we had ever experienced as a church. It

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Speaker 1: kept coming. That's all I want to say about that part.

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Speaker 1: I lived in fear for six months, and to really

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Speaker 1: tell you the extent of it, let me tell you

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Speaker 1: the text that I sent to Chunks after about three

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Speaker 1: months of it. I said, if anything happens to me

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Speaker 1: and I don't make it, you got Holly and the kids. Right.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't suicidal. I just didn't know if I could

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Speaker 1: keep day after day after day. I was trying to

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Speaker 1: preach through it, and I didn't know if I could

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Speaker 1: or something bad would happen. I didn't know what bad

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Speaker 1: would happen. But so during that time, that'll make you pray,

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Speaker 1: and it'll make you pray deep things. Lord. I need

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Speaker 1: your peace. I need your vindication of the things. Many

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Speaker 1: of the things they're saying are not true and they're twisted,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to keep having to deal with this.

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Speaker 1: So Lord, to deliver me. When I tell you what

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Speaker 1: brought me peace, you are not going to be satisfied.

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Speaker 1: Because while I was praying the deep prayers, you know,

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Speaker 1: I found some prayers in the psalms where David was

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Speaker 1: praying stuff like smash my enemies heads against a rock.

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Speaker 1: I found some great scriptures during that time that I

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Speaker 1: never saw before, very very meaningful to me. But now

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Speaker 1: my answer wasn't on my Bible app. It was on

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Speaker 1: my Twitter app. And when I decided to delete Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds shallow, but that little I don't

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Speaker 1: even know if people use Twitter anymore because I haven't

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Speaker 1: been on it really in seven years. They put stuff

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Speaker 1: out that's not me, that's somebody on a computer somewhere

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Speaker 1: putting Bible verses out in my name. I can't go

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Speaker 1: on there. I can't go on there. And I was

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Speaker 1: telling my friend, it's like when I deleted all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna tell you what God's gonna speak to

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Speaker 1: some of you through the sermon today. He's going to

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Speaker 1: tell you to delete something that is defeating you because

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Speaker 1: you think victory is so deep. The battle is the lord's,

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Speaker 1: but the app is yours, the brain is yours, the

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Speaker 1: decision is yours. And when I deleted Twitter, I told

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Speaker 1: my friend, it's like I thought there were mountain lions

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Speaker 1: in my yard waiting to attack me, and then I

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Speaker 1: saw it was just squirrels. It was just squirrels, and

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Speaker 1: I thought I can't survive it because I was surrounded

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Speaker 1: by squirrels. I know it sounds so silly, I prayed.

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Speaker 1: I said, God, I can't tell them to do that.

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Speaker 1: I need to It's it's a lot of stuff going

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Speaker 1: on in people's life. I need to go to the

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Speaker 1: Book of Revelation, Book of Revelations. Put an s on it.

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Speaker 1: Book God, I need a book, a revelation. I need

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Speaker 1: to go into the beast, the market, a beast, the

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Speaker 1: six six six, the number of the beast. God said

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Speaker 1: some of the some of the some of the things

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Speaker 1: that they're praying for me to deliver them from. I

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Speaker 1: have given them the power to delete. Can I preach

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Speaker 1: a shallow sermon? Jesus didn't call them to leave their boats.

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Speaker 1: He called them to push out a little It's a

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Speaker 1: little decision I was. I was talking to a friend

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Speaker 1: about depression. They said, uh, uh, have you gone for

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00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: a walk today? Like you don't hear me? Is spiritual warfare?

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Speaker 1: They said? No? I said, wal not war. You're trying

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Speaker 1: to be so deep you don't need God to give

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Speaker 1: you the victory. You need to go get some vitamins.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that the

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Speaker 1: problem isn't deep. I'm saying that sometimes the solution is

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Speaker 1: so simple. Lord, give me a simple solution. Not just

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Speaker 1: what they did. Put out a little bit from the shore.

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Speaker 1: They put out a little bit from the shore. Hey

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Speaker 1: leave a little bit of this space. What one thing

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Speaker 1: are you willing to do different with this addiction that's

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Speaker 1: so deep in your life that you don't think you'll

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Speaker 1: ever be free from it. Will you do a little

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Speaker 1: thing different? And that that little event, that little thing,

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Speaker 1: let to something so massive. Peter would be the one

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Speaker 1: who would preach the Holy Spirit into the earth. The

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Speaker 1: next chapter two. If you Rediscernment and Acts two, you'll

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Speaker 1: be like, this dude is deep. He didn't start deep,

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Speaker 1: he started shallow. I just don't want you to think

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Speaker 1: it's always that deep. It was a little decision. How

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Speaker 1: many believe that's a little decision just to put your

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Speaker 1: boat out a little bit and let me use it

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Speaker 1: for a few minutes while I teach. That's a little decision.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna watch Church Elevation Church today. That

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00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: was a little decision. But God can do a deep

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Speaker 1: thing with the shallow star. Now. I think if I

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Speaker 1: were the devil, I'd try to get you so overwhelmed

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Speaker 1: with something that felt so deep that you wouldn't do

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Speaker 1: something so simple. I think that's his strategy. But God's

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00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: strategy was very simple. Remember, these are the ones that

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Speaker 1: Jesus wants to use. It's a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: trick because he's asking them to carry him in the boat,

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Speaker 1: but he really wants them to become boats so that

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Speaker 1: the Gospel can go out through them. And it's really

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Speaker 1: a picture. It's really a picture of the purpose that

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Speaker 1: he's given them. This helped me he put out a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and then Jesus preached. And then verse four,

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Speaker 1: when he had finished speaking, somebody say first the word.

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Speaker 1: First the word, he said to Simon Peter put out

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Speaker 1: into the deep water and let down the nets for

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Speaker 1: a catch. Now let's go deeper. So put out a little, now,

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Speaker 1: put down the nets. Put out a little. Now, put

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Speaker 1: down the nets. Put out a little, put down the nets.

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Speaker 1: Don't try to do too much at first. Don't leave

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Speaker 1: the boat yet. I need it right now, I little

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Speaker 1: put down the nets. I think this is really powerful.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think it's a small thing.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. The more I study it, the more

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Speaker 1: I realize that every decision that others see contains millions

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Speaker 1: of little decisions that were invisible. So how could they

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Speaker 1: do that? How could why would they make that decision?

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Speaker 1: There were a million little decisions when they said I do.

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Speaker 1: They never thought there would be a time when they didn't.

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Speaker 1: And I remember, early in our marriage, getting in a

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Speaker 1: fight with Holly on the phone and one of us

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Speaker 1: hung up on the other one. I don't know which

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Speaker 1: one hung up on the other one. I really don't

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Speaker 1: remember the details of this. Maybe conveniently. But I remember

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Speaker 1: one of us hanging up, and I remember talking about

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Speaker 1: that and saying, we're never going to do that again.

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Speaker 1: We're never going to hang up the phone on each

643
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Speaker 1: other in the middle of a conversation again. Because nobody

644
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Speaker 1: walks away from someone that they gave their heart to

645
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Speaker 1: all at once. Decisions have momentum. So today I hang

646
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Speaker 1: up on you. Five years later, I hate you because

647
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Speaker 1: I put out a little See this works both ways.

648
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Speaker 1: Nobody decides I would like to be straddled with an

649
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Speaker 1: addiction that will follow me to the grave. Nobody decides that.

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Speaker 1: What I do decide sometimes is I don't want to

651
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Speaker 1: feel the way I feel, so if I do that,

652
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Speaker 1: I won't have to feel this. The decision has momentum,

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Speaker 1: and then in a horrible thing for somebody who's who's eleven, twelve,

654
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Speaker 1: thirteen years old, that they can look at something on

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Speaker 1: their phone and out of curiosity they can see something

656
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Speaker 1: that will take them into a place that will wrap

657
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Speaker 1: them with something that will limit them the rest of

658
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Speaker 1: their life from being able to be free mentally. Nobody

659
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Speaker 1: decides I want to have something that masters me the

660
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Speaker 1: rest of my life. That's not the decision, but decisions

661
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: have momentum. Because I was impressed by what they did.

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Speaker 1: Push out the boat and let down the nets. These

663
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Speaker 1: are the nets they just got done washing. These are

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Speaker 1: the nets. These are big nets. One guy said that

665
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Speaker 1: they were twenty five feet in diameter, so it takes

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Speaker 1: a long time to clean them. And they're made of linen,

667
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Speaker 1: so if you don't clean them, they're gonna rot and

668
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Speaker 1: they're not gonna last very long. And I thought it

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Speaker 1: was cool that they were just fishing. They didn't go

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Speaker 1: out that day to decide to follow Jesus. They went

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Speaker 1: out to catch fish. Can we talk about daily decisions

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Speaker 1: for a moment. This is what they did every day.

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Speaker 1: What do you do every day? What do you do

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Speaker 1: every day? This is not what they did on Christmas

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Speaker 1: and Eastern This is what they did every day. This

676
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Speaker 1: is what that not what they did on New Year's Eve.

677
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Like the calendar is going to change your habits. I

678
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Speaker 1: have no idea what this motion is. Don't even worry

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Speaker 1: about it. The point of the illustrating, the point I

680
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Speaker 1: don't know where that came from. The point of the

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Speaker 1: illustration is this is what they did. What do you

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Speaker 1: do just by being there. Now, I'm telling you that

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Speaker 1: this is Bethsayeda. This is a fishing village. Bethsata means

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Speaker 1: house of the hunt. But they fished, they were fishermen.

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Speaker 1: They were from Bethseda. That's where Peter was from, Bethsata.

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Speaker 1: So guess what you do when you grow up in

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Speaker 1: a fishing village. You fish. It wasn't deep, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a decision. Peter didn't go to a job fair, taking

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Speaker 1: Enny of Graham and the Myers Briggs a est n

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Speaker 1: j elemento p a d d adhd, none of that.

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Speaker 1: We wanted a deep God. I want a calling from

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Speaker 1: you and a purpose of my life. And the deep

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Speaker 1: goes the deep. He he went fishing and he caught nothing.

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Speaker 1: Can you make a positive decision even after you've experienced

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Speaker 1: a negative result. This is what amazed me. See, when

696
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Speaker 1: I get on a roll, I can do amazing things.

697
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: I can do amazing things. When I get on a roll,

698
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Speaker 1: it's like boom, knock them down, Boom, there's another one. Boom,

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Speaker 1: another one, Boom, another one. I don't mean to bring

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Speaker 1: DJ call it up here with me on the stage,

701
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Speaker 1: but I just I feel like sometimes I can get

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Speaker 1: in a zone. This is not the situation, this is

703
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Speaker 1: not the event. It was after the event of a

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Speaker 1: failed night of fishing, at the point where they were

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Speaker 1: vulnerable because they were exhausted, that they did what he

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Speaker 1: said anyway. And twenty twenty has been a year for

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Speaker 1: us to have to learn how to do what we

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Speaker 1: know God has called us to do anyway, and to

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Speaker 1: know that we can have a feeling and not act

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Speaker 1: on it and make a different decision, have a temptation

711
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Speaker 1: and not act on it. You know how. Grace is

712
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Speaker 1: the power to cover your sin. It's also the power

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Speaker 1: to change your decisions. And only because you're frustrated doesn't

714
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Speaker 1: mean you have to make decisions that create more frustration.

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Speaker 1: When they did what Jesus told them to do, when

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Speaker 1: they obeyed the word of God, and that might mean

717
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Speaker 1: a lot of different things for a lot of different people.

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Speaker 1: That might not mean anything having to do with a

719
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Speaker 1: fishing that, but it could. It could be a career thing.

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Speaker 1: I always get scared when I preach like this that

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Speaker 1: people are going to take Loop five to eleven, quit

722
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Speaker 1: their jobs and leave their boats and follow him. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take something. If you leave your boat without a

724
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: backup plan. In this economy, it's gonna be a minute

725
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: before you're gonna leave your apartment, leave your house too,

726
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: because they are not going to take the message of

727
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: the Lord as a mortgage payment. So you better be

728
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Speaker 1: very careful that you put out a little bit from

729
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Speaker 1: the shore. Praised him glory to his holy name, and

730
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: the twenty four elders said, amen. But see, decisions have momentum, right,

731
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Speaker 1: so put out a little bit from the shore. Put

732
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Speaker 1: down the nets. Boom boom boom by bay bah, and

733
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: their nets were breaking. But the nets were not the

734
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Speaker 1: only thing that broke in that moment. When I obeyed

735
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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord, it breaks the flow of frustration.

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Speaker 1: We fished all night caught nothing frustration. When he put

737
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Speaker 1: down the nets. Not only did the nets break because

738
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Speaker 1: God blessed them so much, because they were just obedient.

739
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Speaker 1: Not only did the nets break, but so did the

740
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Speaker 1: flow of their frustration. So did the flow of their failure.

741
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Speaker 1: So did the flow of their fear. You do not

742
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Speaker 1: think your way out of the flow of fear, failure

743
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: in frustration by thinking deeper about it. It broke the

744
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Speaker 1: flow when they did something different. I'm gonna have to

745
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Speaker 1: talk to people different. I'm gonna have to manage my

746
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: thought life different. I'm gonna have to manage my time different.

747
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to manage my money different. And we

748
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: hear the truth, and we still won't tithe, And it

749
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: would break the flow. It would break the flow of

750
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Speaker 1: everything that comes to me is for me, and it

751
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Speaker 1: would open me to receive the blessing of God. And

752
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: we hear the truth, and the word of God speaks

753
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: from our boat, Jesus gets done speaking, and we still

754
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: won't drop the nets. I heard the Lord say, drop it.

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Speaker 1: I heard the Lord say, drop it. That applies to

756
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Speaker 1: every offense that you've been carrying. Drop it. That applies

757
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Speaker 1: to every empty net that's in your life, where you've

758
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: been failing and carrying the fail you're around a fishing

759
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,959
Speaker 1: all night and catching nothing, and what you did last week,

760
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: and even the fight that you had before you clicked

761
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: on this YouTube video, and even the stuff you looked

762
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: at online before you came to online church today. I

763
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: heard the Lord saying, drop that, drop that. Sometimes we

764
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Speaker 1: don't drop the net because we're so busy, we're so

765
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Speaker 1: we're so caught up in the discouragement. You know, it's

766
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 1: really hard to drop the net when you're drowning in disappointment.

767
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Speaker 1: I make good decisions when I'm in a good flow.

768
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Speaker 1: Oh this worked, and that worked, and this did good

769
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Speaker 1: and that did good. That is not the occasion in

770
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Speaker 1: Luke five. That is not why they left everything and

771
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Speaker 1: followed him. He got in their boat at a bad time.

772
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Speaker 1: How annoying is this? He came in their boat as

773
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Speaker 1: a distraction, you say, well, pastor Steve, Yeah, I'm back

774
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Speaker 1: on it. The Lord is never a distraction. It was

775
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Speaker 1: for Peter. He was trying to wash his nets. He

776
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Speaker 1: was still dealing with a knight of coming up empty,

777
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Speaker 1: and God was trying to fill him in that moment

778
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Speaker 1: with not only fish but faith. Now, can I keep going?

779
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: We can stop right now and I'll preach this again

780
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Speaker 1: in the future. Or we can go a little deeper.

781
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: We could go a little deeper. We can go a

782
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: little deeper. If you want to go deeper, say it

783
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Speaker 1: in the chat. I want to go deeper, say it

784
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: in the comments. Because none of this was really my message.

785
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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry that I tricked you into thinking that

786
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: I was preaching about Peter's decision. It would be irresponsible

787
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: for me to tell you Luke five eleven and not

788
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: tell you Matthew twenty six. And when they followed him

789
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: with the first step, they never knew what the next

790
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: step would bring. They never really understood Jesus, even though

791
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: they were attracted to him. They never really undersstood why

792
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: he came, even though they were willing to follow him

793
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Speaker 1: wherever he went until he went to the cross. And

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Speaker 1: Kyph has put him on trial. And look at Matthew

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Because they said they left everything and followed him,

796
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Speaker 1: But there were some things they didn't leave. Their concept

797
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: about what the Messiah would be, their concept about what

798
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: the Christ would be, their concept of what it would

799
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Speaker 1: mean to follow God. They left their nets and their boats.

800
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Speaker 1: But look what the Bible says. It says that all

801
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Speaker 1: this had taken place, that the writings of the prophets

802
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Speaker 1: might be fulfilled. In all the disciples deserted him and

803
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Speaker 1: fled receiving grace. Receiving grace is a one time decision.

804
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Speaker 1: Following Jesus is a by moment. Am I following in

805
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Speaker 1: this moment? Is this his thought? Am I walking in peace? Right? Now?

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Speaker 1: That's what we mean to say. You're a disciple. There's

807
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Speaker 1: a difference between the event of becoming a Christian and

808
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Speaker 1: the decision of being a disciple. You don't make the

809
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Speaker 1: decision of discipleship once you make it daily, daily, daily.

810
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Speaker 1: And I'm preaching to somebody who stopped following, and I

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Speaker 1: needed you to know that that decision doesn't mean God

812
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Speaker 1: can't use you. I also wanted you to know that

813
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Speaker 1: the disciples who started the movement of Christianity made the

814
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Speaker 1: same decision you did. And since you're wondering why Jesus

815
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Speaker 1: shows Peter, I think I'll tell you because he knew

816
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Speaker 1: he would do something dumb. He knew Peter would cut

817
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Speaker 1: off Malcus's ear in the garden. He knew Peter would

818
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Speaker 1: do something dumb. He knew Peter would speak up and

819
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Speaker 1: blurt out, you are the Christ. He knew Peter would

820
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Speaker 1: do something dumb. He knew Peter would drop his nets

821
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Speaker 1: after they were clean and put up for the night.

822
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Speaker 1: He knew Peter would do something dumb. I know a

823
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Speaker 1: preacher never told you this before, but do something dumb

824
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: for God. I don't mean something that's contrary to wisdom.

825
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Speaker 1: I don't mean burn down your life. I don't mean

826
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Speaker 1: any of that. You know, I don't mean do something unbiblical.

827
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Speaker 1: You know I don't mean that, I don't teach that.

828
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Speaker 1: But do something that seems dumb, but really what God

829
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Speaker 1: is using to take you deep. Because sometimes the dumbest

830
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Speaker 1: stuff on the surface leads to the deepest stuff later.

831
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Speaker 1: So it would be dumb for you to forgive them.

832
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Speaker 1: Do it. It would be dumb for you to trust

833
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Speaker 1: God and keep praising Him although your body is sick,

834
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Speaker 1: But do it. Do something dumb. It would be dumb

835
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Speaker 1: for you to sit and listen to a sermon for

836
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Speaker 1: two hours on the weekend, But do something dumb. It

837
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: would be dumb for you to believe that God is

838
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Speaker 1: still good while you're going through hell. Do something dumb.

839
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Speaker 1: That's why he chose Peter. He said, I need somebody

840
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Speaker 1: who will be dub enough by the world standard to

841
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Speaker 1: do what I say and not care what anybody think

842
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Speaker 1: some about it, Are you dub enough? The message of

843
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: the Cross is foolishness, foolishness to the world, but it

844
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Speaker 1: is the wisdom of God, the power of God. Not yet.

845
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Speaker 1: I want to tell you that the reason he picked Peter,

846
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Speaker 1: and the reason he chose you, and the reason you

847
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: can have confidence to know that there is no decision

848
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: that you can make that will predate God's purpose for

849
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 1: your life is because he knew you would do something dumb.

850
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Speaker 1: You did something dumb. You did something dumb, and you

851
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: learned from it and you grew from it. You did

852
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: something dumb. There's no honest people in the building, but

853
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: put in the chat. I did something dumb, and raise

854
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: your hand on an emoji. Since all the plastic saints

855
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:51,240
Speaker 1: came to church today, I did something dumb. Peter denied

856
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: Jesus just like the other disciples. The only one who

857
00:53:55,080 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: stayed was John. Peter did something dumb. And now if

858
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: God's purpose for Peter depends on Peter's decision is over,

859
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: you feel like that I screwed it up. You know

860
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: what we do. We go through things and they're painful,

861
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 1: and we don't take the opportunities and we weren't there

862
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 1: like we should have been there, and we go back

863
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: and say things that make absolutely no sense, like if

864
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: I move in, Well, I know now you didn't, but

865
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: now you do, and now you've got different wisdom. Right now,

866
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: in this moment, you've got wisdom from that painful experience.

867
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: You've got wisdom from that dumb decision. So I was

868
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: talking to one of my good friends the other day

869
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: and he was beating the crap out of himself. Not you,

870
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: It was somebody else. You were doing it too, But

871
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: this was another conversation. I've noticed a lot of people

872
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: are doing this lately. And he was saying, I should

873
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: have done it different. I would have done it different.

874
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: I could have done it different. I could have I

875
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: would have I should have done it different. And I said,

876
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: you would have and you will. But don't judge yesterday's

877
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: decisions with today's wisdom. That's only going to paralyze you,

878
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 1: and the momentum of shame will carry you to an

879
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: even deeper place of the spirit. How many have experienced this,

880
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: the momentum of saying I said, I said to my friend,

881
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:49,919
Speaker 1: I said, you are literally this was a deep pain.

882
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 1: This was not what he wished. He would have bought

883
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars in a on of zoom stock at

884
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: the beginning of the pandemic. This was much deeper than that.

885
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: I said you, you would have done it different, and

886
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: you will do it different. But you are using today's

887
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: wisdom as a weapon to beat yourself up for yesterday's decisions.

888
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: And God doesn't want you to do that, because in

889
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: the wisdom of God he chose you, knowing that you

890
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: would do something dumb. Do you believe that? I want

891
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: to help you. Believe that? And I want to help you.

892
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: From Luke chapter five, verse three, where the Bible says

893
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: that Jesus saw at the water's edge. Isn't that a

894
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: beautiful image? I'm on the edge. I could do it

895
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: this way, I could do it that way. I'm making

896
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: a decision. Jesus got into one of the boats, the

897
00:56:54,680 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon. He hadn't even changed his name yet,

898
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 1: but he chose his boat. That's his whole name. He

899
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: hadn't even grown yet. He hadn't even done anything right yet.

900
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: In fact, we find out later in this story that

901
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: Peter said, I'm a sinful man. Go away from me, Lord,

902
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: some of you been doing that. Not me, Lord, not me.

903
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: I'm not a good person, not me. I'm not a

904
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: good parent, not me. I'm dumb. I don't know what

905
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm doing, not me, anybody but me. That's what Peter said.

906
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: But put the verse back up, because this was the

907
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: revelation I got that Peter's destiny didn't begin with Peter's decision.

908
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: It said that there were two boats. That means Jesus chose.

909
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: You see, this is a fishing village. There's way more

910
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: than one boat available. And how did he choose? I

911
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: wonder did he go? Eenie meenie, miney moe. I'm picturing

912
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: Jesus right, I'm picturing Jesus is choosing whose vote do

913
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: I want to preach from. I'm launching a ministry. Not

914
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: only am I launching a boat, I'm launching a movement.

915
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm launching the gospel. I'm launching the work. Whose vote?

916
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: Here's a boat, there's a boat. Eenie meanie, miney moe.

917
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: Catch a disciple, buy his vote. And I felt like

918
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: God was saying, I knew what was in Peter when

919
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: I got in his boat. He got in your boat,

920
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: the one he knew where I was broken. When he

921
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: got in my boat, he knew what I didn't know.

922
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: When he got in my boat. He knew where I

923
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: would fail when he called me to follow us. So

924
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: it wasn't my decision that started this. He got in

925
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: the boat. See, we thought it started when Peter let

926
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: down the nets. No, we thought it started when Peter

927
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: let out a little from the shore. No, you thought

928
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: it started when you were born. No, he said, before

929
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: you were born. I formed you. I knew you. I

930
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: knew the good stuff, the funky stuff, the weird stuff,

931
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: the perverted stuff, the twisted stuff, the genetic stuff. I

932
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: knew your dumb stuff. And I got in your boat

933
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: because it's you I called, and it's you like shows,

934
00:59:52,800 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: and I know whose boat I'm stepping in. See, the

935
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: momentum depends on who made the decision. And if you

936
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: think you choset God, then it is dependent on you.

937
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: But when you get a revelation to Peter God much

938
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: later in his life, it took him years. Man he

939
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: went back fishing in John twenty one and didn't catch

940
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: fish again. He never really got it, but he still

941
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: preached why because Jesus knew his condition before he called him.

942
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything more important than this to

943
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: teach you about the grace of God and the life

944
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: of faith. Is that God's decision predated your dysfunction. He

945
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: knew Peter was a cussing mess when he got in

946
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: the boat. He knew he was an impulsive idiot when

947
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: he got in the boat. He knew you were predisposed

948
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: to these emotions when he got in your boat, when

949
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: he came in your art, he saved you by graze.

950
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: I just want you to know that, Gus, because where

951
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: it starts determines where it stops. And if God's purpose

952
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: for your life stopped with your last bad decision, it'd

953
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: be over for all of us, for all of us.

954
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: But Peter said something later in his life that I

955
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: think he learned in that boat. And this scripture came

956
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: to me right before I came out. It was the

957
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: last thing God gave me, and it's the last thing

958
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 1: I want to show you, he said. In second Peter,

959
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: you know he went on to write some of the Bible.

960
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool that God picked him as an author

961
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: of the Word of God. Well, he was cleaning empty nets.

962
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: We get so arrogant and we get so crazy that

963
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: we think something we brought to God drew him to us. No, No,

964
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: he chose you before all that, before the achievement. Put

965
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 1: all those trophies back in the basement. God doesn't need

966
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 1: any of that. God doesn't need any of that. And

967
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: I didn't even know where this scripture was. But it said.

968
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: I had to look it up. It said, no prophecy

969
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: ever had its origin in human will, but prophets, though human,

970
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: spoke from God as they were carried along by the

971
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. That's powerful all in itself. That no prophecy

972
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 1: has ever had its origin. It doesn't start with the

973
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: human will. It didn't start when they left their boats.

974
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: It started when Jesus stepped in. And the momentum of

975
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: that decision can carry you through any season of your life,

976
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: any set back, any shame, I'm saying anything you can name.

977
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: He took it all to the cross, buried it all

978
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: in the grave, and there's a resurrection that can happen

979
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: if you realize that no prophecy ever had its origin

980
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: in the human will the way I saw it, and

981
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: I had to set this up last minute, so you'll

982
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: pray it works. Bring me that little road case. I

983
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: asked him, Do you have anything that I can show

984
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: the people? And I want you to get this. Wherever

985
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: you are in the world, everybody say, momentum, momentum, momentum, momentum, momentum.

986
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: You've been praying for that in your life. You have

987
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: been very, very stuck and frustrated and disappointment and in

988
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: a state of disappointment this year. And the truth is

989
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: some of us are drowning in it. We're drowning in it.

990
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,479
Speaker 1: We fished all night, we fished all year, We've caught.

991
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: Nothing's changing now. I just said, give me something heavy

992
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: on the stage so I can leave them with an image,

993
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 1: because I know how you are. You're luck I am,

994
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: and we'll forget everything, but sometimes if we see it,

995
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: we can get it. It hit me. I need somebody

996
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: who's not very strong to come here real quick, and

997
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: you'll have to identify yourself. I'm certainly not going to

998
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: point at you, and I mean I need you to

999
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: be real weak. I need you to be like you

1000
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: hadn't seen a gym since COVID start, You hadn't seen

1001
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: a gym since why two K. That's who I need

1002
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: right now, y'all remember why two K. I need like

1003
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 1: you have not seen it. I mean, like you really

1004
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: are strong? Is she really not strong? I mean I

1005
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: don't mean her character, I mean just yeah, just so, so,

1006
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: who is it who's the weakest person in this section?

1007
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean I need the weakest. I wish you were

1008
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: all here so I could do a whole poll. Who

1009
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: is the weakest person in the room physically weakest person

1010
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 1: in the room? Is it you? Like? For real? Okay,

1011
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: come here overalls, and you got to hurry because this

1012
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: is winding down. Now, everybody in the room stand up.

1013
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you this and I need you to.

1014
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: I need you to just follow my instructions. Just follow,

1015
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 1: follow follow everybody say, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,

1016
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: follow follow, So thank you for volunteering. I chose you

1017
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: because you said you were weak. I chose you because

1018
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: I said, eenie meanie, miney mo. Remember how it went,

1019
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: catch you talk about to if he hollers, I could change.

1020
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: I could make a whole Christian song out of it.

1021
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: You know, if he sends, I won't let go eeny

1022
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: meanie miney mo. I could do all this stuff. This

1023
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 1: is what I do. And remember how we'd say my

1024
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 1: mama told me to pick the very best one. And

1025
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: I know this is so simple and so silly, but

1026
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: sometimes it's the shallow stuff that sticks with us. It

1027
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: was like, how did he pick Peter? And I heard

1028
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: my father told me to pick the very worst one,

1029
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: the weakest one, the most impulsive one. And he got

1030
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: in that boat, and that gave me hope because I

1031
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: may dumb decisions. So it's not my decision and my

1032
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: good decisions that I'm putting my faith in, not as

1033
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: a pastor, not as a parent, not as a husband,

1034
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: not as a man. His decision. Give that one good push.

1035
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 1: All you're allowed to do is push it as hard

1036
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: as you can with one push. Don't keep your hands

1037
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 1: on it. Three two one. Who's the strongest person in

1038
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: the room. Who's the strongest person in the room. I

1039
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 1: mean the strongest person in the room. I mean the

1040
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: strongest person in the room. I mean, who's the strongest

1041
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 1: person in the chat? Somebody, somebody give me a fleximoj

1042
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: in the jack Hong Kong. Who's the strongest person I

1043
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: need the strongest person in the room. I'm gonna have

1044
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: to say, I'm gonna have to select somebody. If somebody

1045
01:06:56,160 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: done volunteer, in fact, get get me, give me, give me,

1046
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: give me three strong people. Notice I didn't just say men.

1047
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: I am very very politically correct, y'all. I don't know

1048
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: ifend anybody who's the strongest give me the three strongest people.

1049
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: You're coming. They're all pointing at you. You, They're all coming.

1050
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: I know you got flowers on your surf, but they

1051
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: said you're strong. Come on, man, let's go. Let's go.

1052
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: I need one more burnie or you coming. Who else

1053
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: is coming, strongest guy in the room, Yeah he is,

1054
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: he is. Come on, come on, all three of you,

1055
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: come on up, Come on up, Come on up. And

1056
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to remind you of this. Y'all start clapping,

1057
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: because this is about to hit you. This is about

1058
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: to hit you. Line up, line up, line up, line up,

1059
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: line up, line up. When I say three all on

1060
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Speaker 1: one side, I want you to push it as hard

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Speaker 1: as you can. With one push, you don't get the

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Speaker 1: lock out, you don't get to do anything. But I

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Speaker 1: just want them to realize you can be there for

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Speaker 1: a backup in case we do it. But I heard

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Speaker 1: the I heard the scripture say at the water's edge

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Speaker 1: was a boat, and I was thinking about all my

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Speaker 1: dumb decisions and how prophecy in the word of God

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Speaker 1: over your life doesn't originate with the will of man.

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking about the momentum of the decision.

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Speaker 1: So what I thought about is how far it goes

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Speaker 1: depends upon how strong you are when you started. So

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Speaker 1: on three one two, three, push it. Look at that,

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Speaker 1: ketta kata katad Oh, look at that. And it's all

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Speaker 1: right because I wanted it to fall. And it's all

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Speaker 1: right because I planned for it to crash. And it's

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Speaker 1: all right because I set it up for the illustration,

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Speaker 1: and I knew it would fall when I call them,

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Speaker 1: and I knew it would break when I chose it,

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Speaker 1: and I knew what was in it when they pushed it.

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Speaker 1: So the question is who started this, Who brought you

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Speaker 1: into the earth, Who chose who? I don't think you

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Speaker 1: chose Jesus. I think he got in your boat a

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Speaker 1: long time ago. If I'm the one pushing it, eh,

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Speaker 1: no offense, Eh. If it's Peter's decision, If it's Peter's prophecy,

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Speaker 1: if it's human will it stops when I sin. But

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Speaker 1: if you understand that, no prophecy, no word God spoke

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Speaker 1: over your lot, no simony gave you. Nothing. He puts

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Speaker 1: you to do started with you. I hear the Lord saying,

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Speaker 1: the momentum is not based in your decision, It's based

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Speaker 1: in his. Clap your hands and give him praise. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Come on,

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Speaker 1: given praise, give him praise. Give him praise all over

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Speaker 1: the world. Give him praise. Come on a simple thing.

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Speaker 1: Clap your hands, a deep praise, a simple thing, a

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01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 1: simple illustration, a simple thing. If he started it, no

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Speaker 1: one can stop it. So sometimes I tell God, it's

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Speaker 1: your boat. You made me, You know me, you chose me.

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Speaker 1: I guess you knew what was in my heart when

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Speaker 1: you got in my boat. So use me. Lord. I

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Speaker 1: want to go deeper in this season, but I want

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Speaker 1: to call you right now to make a decision to

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Speaker 1: receive his grace. So bow your head and close your eyes.

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Speaker 1: The presence of the Lord is in this moment, and

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Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord was in the moment before that.

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Speaker 1: It'll be in the moment after this. But this is

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Speaker 1: a moment of decision for someone to place your faith

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Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ. The Lord spoke to me to do

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Speaker 1: the invitation myself today, which I don't always do. But

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Speaker 1: he said that there was someone who needed to stop

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Speaker 1: trying to save themself and stop trying to earn his love,

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Speaker 1: and stop trying to fix their life on their own,

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Speaker 1: but to receive his grace. Let him in your heart.

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Speaker 1: That's by grace through faith, right now I want to

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Speaker 1: pray a prayer with you, and I'm going to close

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Speaker 1: my eyes and bow my head, and I just want

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Speaker 1: us to think like it's just me and you and

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Speaker 1: God now, no distractions. And the Bible says that everyone

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Speaker 1: who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

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Speaker 1: Will you make this your day to leave your boat,

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Speaker 1: your nets, your old way of life and be a

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Speaker 1: follower of Christ. God has already decided what he thinks

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Speaker 1: about you. He demonstrates his love toward us in this

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Speaker 1: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us

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Speaker 1: and he wants to get in your life. He wants

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Speaker 1: to come in take over. So right now, if you'll

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Speaker 1: pray this prayer with me, I believe God will hear

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Speaker 1: and he'll enter your heart take your sin away. The

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Speaker 1: Bible says you will be born again from above. And

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Speaker 1: I want you to repeat this prayer after me, everyone

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Speaker 1: praying together for the benefit of those who are coming

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Speaker 1: to God, are coming back to God, who have stopped

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Speaker 1: following or who have never started following it all. This

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Speaker 1: is your moment of decision, the moment of decision. Repeat

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Speaker 1: after me, Heavenly Father, I am a sinner in need

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Speaker 1: of a savior. And I believe that Jesus Christ is

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Speaker 1: the Son of God and the savior of the world.

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Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 1: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

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Speaker 1: This is my new beginning. On the count of three,

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Speaker 1: if you prayed that prayer, raise your hand one, two, three.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching online, put it in the chest. Say

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Speaker 1: I receive Jesus. I receive Jesus. Say it in the chat,

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Speaker 1: say it in the comics. Come on, we want to

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Speaker 1: celebrate with the Acheles. That's the best decision of your life.

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Speaker 1: And God made that decision a long time ago. You

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Speaker 1: are accepted, you are chosen, you are predestined. You are

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Speaker 1: his child. Come on, let's give him praise on every

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Speaker 1: location all around the world. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.

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Speaker 1: I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to

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Speaker 1: follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back,

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Speaker 1: no turning back. Let's make it present tense. I am

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Speaker 1: deciding to follow Jesus this moment. I am deciding to

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Speaker 1: follow Jesus. I am deciding to follow Jesus every step,

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Speaker 1: no turning back, push off a little, no turn So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna even say simple things. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: am deciding to stop complaining. That's what it looks like

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Speaker 1: to follow Jesus. I am deciding to get off Facebook.

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Speaker 1: I'm modernizing the helm. Come on, saints, I am deciding

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Speaker 1: to follow Jesus. I am deciding to follow Jesus. I

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Speaker 1: am deciding to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning back. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's the end of my message's decision time. Now what

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Speaker 1: are you going to do with the word that you

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Speaker 1: just heard? I pray that you'll put it to work

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Speaker 1: in your life, put it into practice, use it as

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Speaker 1: a foundation to build your life on Christ. Know that

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Speaker 1: nothing that you have done or will do is going

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Speaker 1: to push His love away or earn it. He chose you.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says in John fifteen sixteen that I chose you.

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Speaker 1: You didn't choose me. But you know what, I'm really

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Speaker 1: thankful for those of you who choose to connect with

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Speaker 1: this ministry. You choose to pray, you choose to give,

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Speaker 1: you choose to serve, you choose to watch, you choose

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Speaker 1: to share the messages. That makes a big difference. And

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Speaker 1: I just want to remind you again that as we

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Speaker 1: get the word out together, like we don't have votes,

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Speaker 1: but we have broadband and Wi Fi and all of

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Speaker 1: these ways of sharing the gospel, that what you do matters.

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Speaker 1: So I know that we're praying for you. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you subscribe to the channel, and all of you who

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Speaker 1: are giving to our favor twenty twenty offering thank you

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Speaker 1: for all of you who are giving. Thank you. It's

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Speaker 1: because of you that the Gospel and the Word of

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Speaker 1: God goes out. And know that God chose you. You

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Speaker 1: got in the right boat. We love you, See you

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Speaker 1: next time.