WEBVTT - COOKED! 0:00:05.030 --> 0:00:06.190 Hey, this is Stephen Furtick. 0:00:06.210 --> 0:00:09.350 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.450 --> 0:00:11.570 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.630 --> 0:00:20.380 new sermons every week. Hope you're blessed today. You know, 0:00:20.420 --> 0:00:23.919 sometimes the miracle that you need is one modification away. 0:00:24.530 --> 0:00:28.230 So we say, I'm cooked, and God says, you're not cooked. 0:00:28.630 --> 0:00:30.990 You just need a correction. Do you know how many 0:00:31.050 --> 0:00:34.210 times you are just a little shift away from God 0:00:34.270 --> 0:00:38.019 doing something amazing in your life? I was so distracted 0:00:38.310 --> 0:00:41.400 by what I was struggling with. I did not see 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.260 what God had already done. He says, I know your 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.320 heart is breaking, and I know your nets are breaking. 0:00:47.620 --> 0:00:51.120 You are not cooked. You are called. You are chosen, 0:00:51.340 --> 0:00:55.810 and he's got you. I'm thankful to be back in 0:00:55.830 --> 0:00:58.270 this pulpit today, and I want to share with you 0:00:58.310 --> 0:01:00.860 a message from John chapter 21. 0:01:00.860 --> 0:01:02.120 And I'd like you to turn in your Bible. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.160 If you brought your Bible to John chapter 21, if 0:01:04.180 --> 0:01:05.819 you didn't, the scripture is going to come up on 0:01:05.860 --> 0:01:10.080 the screen. And this message comes from a story that 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.840 is very familiar to our church. I have preached it 0:01:12.900 --> 0:01:17.450 many times, and yet there is a revelation that God 0:01:17.510 --> 0:01:24.039 gave me that I think will be so relevant. to 0:01:24.100 --> 0:01:32.380 our lives today. John, chapter 21. If you don't like 0:01:32.420 --> 0:01:34.440 who you're sitting next to, you have about 20 seconds 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.729 to move around before I read this scripture. Ask the 0:01:39.750 --> 0:01:44.650 person next to you, are you a good partner? Because 0:01:44.670 --> 0:01:47.150 when Pastor Stephen preaches, I need somebody who's not scared 0:01:47.170 --> 0:01:50.710 to say amen. Come on, I need somebody who's not 0:01:50.770 --> 0:01:55.150 scrolling on Snapchat while he's preaching this word. I need 0:01:55.170 --> 0:01:57.590 somebody who's not just waiting to get to lunch. I 0:01:57.630 --> 0:02:00.330 need a word from God today. I have to make 0:02:00.370 --> 0:02:01.650 sure I'm on the right row. 0:02:03.510 --> 0:02:03.770 Come on. 0:02:03.810 --> 0:02:04.870 Look up and down your row. 0:02:04.890 --> 0:02:05.730 Do a row check. 0:02:05.790 --> 0:02:08.660 Is there anybody who looks like they're barely breathing? I 0:02:08.700 --> 0:02:11.740 want all the fired-up Christians on your row. How are 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.380 y'all doing back there, Legacy? Y'all ready for this word today? 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.340 All right. 0:02:18.740 --> 0:02:19.660 The Word of the Lord. 0:02:20.580 --> 0:02:24.359 John, chapter 21. I'm going to read up to verse 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.230 8 for now. John, chapter 21, verses 1 through 8. 0:02:29.230 --> 0:02:33.310 See if you remember this Bible story. It says, Afterward, 0:02:33.370 --> 0:02:37.450 Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. 0:02:38.290 --> 0:02:39.110 It happened this way. 0:02:40.110 --> 0:02:45.660 Simon Peter, Thomas, also known as Didymus … Yeah, if 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.360 Didymus was my second name, I'd go by Thomas too. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:55.850 Nathaniel from Cana in Galilee. the sons of Zebedee, and 0:02:55.970 --> 0:03:01.070 two other disciples were together. They were together. They were confused, 0:03:01.130 --> 0:03:04.430 but they were together. They were torn, but they were together. 0:03:05.330 --> 0:03:09.030 They were in transition, but they were together. Tell your neighbor, 0:03:09.050 --> 0:03:14.970 let's stick together. Let's stick together. Verse 3, I'm going 0:03:15.070 --> 0:03:19.470 out to fish, Simon Peter told them. Sounds more like 0:03:19.570 --> 0:03:23.910 Simon than Peter, you know. going back to his previous occupation. 0:03:25.850 --> 0:03:28.910 I'm going out to fish, Simon Peter told them, and 0:03:29.010 --> 0:03:32.500 they said, we'll go with you. So they went out 0:03:32.540 --> 0:03:36.160 and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 0:03:37.260 --> 0:03:39.920 Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.100 the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. He 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.980 called out to them, friends, haven't you any fish? 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.060 No, they answered. 0:03:51.330 --> 0:03:54.810 He said, throw your net on the right side of 0:03:54.850 --> 0:03:58.810 the boat and you will find some. When they did, 0:03:59.930 --> 0:04:03.220 when they did, when they did, not when they heard, 0:04:03.300 --> 0:04:09.619 when they did, not when they thought, when they, not 0:04:09.660 --> 0:04:12.960 when they argued, when they did, when they did, they 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.720 were unable to haul the net in because of the 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:21.700 large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus thought Loved. 0:04:21.740 --> 0:04:26.030 A little self-referential, isn't it, John? said to Peter, It 0:04:26.130 --> 0:04:26.870 is the Lord! 0:04:26.890 --> 0:04:28.710 And he wrapped his outer. 0:04:29.050 --> 0:04:31.589 Or, excuse me, as soon as Simon Peter heard him say, 0:04:32.089 --> 0:04:35.510 It is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment around him, 0:04:36.050 --> 0:04:38.970 for he had taken it off, and jumped into the water. 0:04:40.170 --> 0:04:44.100 The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.400 full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about. 0:04:49.820 --> 0:04:52.750 A hundred yards. That's the word of the Lord. 0:04:53.290 --> 0:04:55.910 Now, if I were preaching this message at the Methodist 0:04:55.930 --> 0:04:58.390 church where I grew up, I would call it. 0:04:58.430 --> 0:05:03.950 Something like faith to move forward through failure and frustration. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.000 I would give it a nice, dignified, self-explanatory title like that. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.280 But since I'm at elevation, since I'm back home, since 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.320 I hadn't seen you in three weeks, I want. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.200 To call this message something different. I'm going to call 0:05:19.260 --> 0:05:28.750 it cook. Cooked. Cooked. Everybody say cooked. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.700 If you know what I'm talking about when I say cooked, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.380 wave at me. If you're pretending like you know what 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.859 I'm talking about, but you kind of want me to clarify, wave. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.180 Y'all sit down. We'll talk about it. Cooked. 0:05:43.779 --> 0:05:47.680 It is a great honor and a great challenge to 0:05:47.740 --> 0:05:52.109 pastor such a diverse and broad body of believers. To 0:05:52.140 --> 0:05:55.520 know that some people in this room when I said 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:02.740 John 21, say, Yippee! I love John 21. I hope 0:06:02.900 --> 0:06:05.380 he gets to the part about the three different Greek 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.490 words for love. Some people are looking around for John. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.969 Who's John? Where's John? I love that. 0:06:12.270 --> 0:06:17.870 Diversity of biblical background, the diversity of cultural background. I 0:06:17.910 --> 0:06:20.270 love how some of you can't clap on rhythm, and 0:06:20.290 --> 0:06:24.510 you've been coming here nine years. but you're still trying 0:06:25.370 --> 0:06:28.950 and you keep coming. I love how our church is 0:06:29.010 --> 0:06:32.030 made up of some people who are going through the 0:06:32.070 --> 0:06:34.070 deepest valley of their life and some people who are 0:06:34.110 --> 0:06:35.309 standing on the highest mountain. 0:06:35.330 --> 0:06:36.170 I love all of that. 0:06:37.210 --> 0:06:41.330 I love how some of y'all are going gray with 0:06:41.390 --> 0:06:45.090 me and like me. Your hairline isn't as good as mine, 0:06:45.130 --> 0:06:49.169 but you're going gray with me. I love how at 0:06:49.210 --> 0:06:51.690 the same time I'm looking over here at about 100 0:06:51.690 --> 0:06:54.930 fired up students who love the Lord Jesus and are 0:06:54.970 --> 0:06:59.070 not afraid to mosh for the man on the middle cross. 0:06:59.089 --> 0:07:03.190 I almost got knocked over in the mosh pit when 0:07:03.210 --> 0:07:04.260 they came up here earlier. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.800 I was looking for security, man. 0:07:05.860 --> 0:07:10.060 I love that feeling of just on edge. Some of 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.040 y'all don't know the book of Ruth from a baby Ruth, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:12.860 and that's all right. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.860 Preacher jokes. 0:07:15.690 --> 0:07:17.590 I love how y'all laugh at preacher jokes, because some 0:07:17.610 --> 0:07:19.500 of you never heard them before. I love all of it, 0:07:19.550 --> 0:07:21.650 and so it's a challenge as well as a privilege, 0:07:21.730 --> 0:07:26.710 because When I say cooked, there are some of you 0:07:26.790 --> 0:07:28.150 who know. 0:07:28.070 --> 0:07:31.630 Exactly what that means in a cultural sense. 0:07:32.690 --> 0:07:35.270 I'm explaining to you real quick, just in case, because 0:07:35.310 --> 0:07:36.870 I get this stuff from my kids. 0:07:36.910 --> 0:07:38.890 I heard my kids say, I'm cooked a couple of 0:07:38.910 --> 0:07:43.770 years ago. I was like, huh? There's kind of a line. 0:07:43.910 --> 0:07:46.350 When you hear your kids saying stuff when you have teenagers, 0:07:46.550 --> 0:07:49.070 it's like a line is what you can say that 0:07:49.100 --> 0:07:52.810 they say. that won't make them cringe. Sometimes I like 0:07:52.820 --> 0:07:54.850 to say their words to make them cringe. It's just 0:07:54.910 --> 0:07:56.890 a form of revenge for all the hell they put 0:07:56.910 --> 0:07:57.250 me through. 0:07:57.270 --> 0:08:03.170 I first heard it from my son Elijah. He said, 0:08:03.190 --> 0:08:03.670 I'm cooked. 0:08:05.350 --> 0:08:11.210 Now, if somebody says, you cooked, well, that's a good thing. 0:08:13.910 --> 0:08:19.570 If they say, you cooked, that means you did that. 0:08:19.770 --> 0:08:22.670 That means you That means when they. 0:08:22.590 --> 0:08:27.390 Say, you cooked, you cooked, that's a compliment, right? Like, ooh, 0:08:27.610 --> 0:08:31.550 they're looking at your outfit. Ooh, that's nice. You cooked 0:08:31.570 --> 0:08:35.580 with that. You say, thank you. You cooked. 0:08:36.860 --> 0:08:38.860 Or sometimes I'll show my kids a song that I 0:08:38.900 --> 0:08:41.540 just wrote, and I'll play them the demo, and they'll 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.979 be like, ooh, y'all cooked today. 0:08:44.820 --> 0:08:47.120 I say, thank you. Yes, we did. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.429 We absolutely did. And even sometimes, you know, if you 0:08:52.450 --> 0:08:54.860 just do something that people just want to, like, gas 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:56.980 you up a little bit, they'll be like, you cooked 0:08:57.020 --> 0:08:58.860 when you really did it, like, just to make you 0:08:58.920 --> 0:08:59.360 feel better. 0:08:59.660 --> 0:09:04.100 But it's a compliment. You say, thank you. If, however, 0:09:04.179 --> 0:09:06.500 they say, you're cooked. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:16.460 Uh-oh. Because you're cooked is a problem, not a compliment. 0:09:17.020 --> 0:09:19.939 I know it's confusing because we're a multigenerational ministry, but 0:09:20.380 --> 0:09:25.880 you cooked, thank you. You're cooked, uh-oh. Two completely different things. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.280 Same word, but you just have to listen for the 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:28.080 nuance of it. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.660 I'm cooked. I got a test in an hour I 0:09:32.700 --> 0:09:35.020 didn't study. I'm cooked. 0:09:36.470 --> 0:09:36.900 Pray about it. 0:09:36.990 --> 0:09:39.370 It don't matter. God is not listening to the prayers 0:09:39.450 --> 0:09:51.930 of a sinner. I'm cooked. Oh, that's a cop. I'm 0:09:51.970 --> 0:09:55.470 going 87 miles an hour. It's because I was listening 0:09:55.510 --> 0:09:57.929 to Washed, but the cop isn't going to care that 0:09:57.970 --> 0:09:58.950 I was full. 0:09:58.830 --> 0:09:59.730 Of the Holy Spirit. 0:09:59.809 --> 0:10:01.440 I'm cooked. 0:10:02.420 --> 0:10:02.880 I'm cooked. 0:10:03.420 --> 0:10:10.280 Oh, my mom knows I turned my location off. I'm cooked. 0:10:12.670 --> 0:10:18.370 I'm cooked. There's no way out of this. You may 0:10:18.410 --> 0:10:20.370 never say that. That might not be your word. 0:10:20.429 --> 0:10:22.900 Your word might not be as appropriate as cooked, but 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.220 you know what I'm saying? It's just a word I heard, 0:10:26.540 --> 0:10:28.860 and I kind of latched onto it, because we all 0:10:28.900 --> 0:10:32.459 know what it feels like to come face to face 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.670 with something where you realize, I have more responsibilities than 0:10:36.710 --> 0:10:37.670 I have resources. 0:10:38.290 --> 0:10:40.840 I'm I'm cooked. I'm cooked. 0:10:41.260 --> 0:10:43.540 I'm looking at my schedule for the next three weeks, 0:10:43.660 --> 0:10:46.469 and I don't see a break, and I'm already exhausted, 0:10:46.510 --> 0:10:48.770 and I'm about to go into my busiest season. 0:10:49.650 --> 0:10:51.530 I'm cooked. I'm cooked. 0:10:51.550 --> 0:10:53.290 So, if I'm introducing you to this term for the 0:10:53.330 --> 0:10:56.950 first time, then great, but no doubt you know the feeling. 0:10:57.830 --> 0:10:58.350 I'm cooked. 0:10:59.929 --> 0:11:03.000 I'm never going to be able to get this problem 0:11:03.030 --> 0:11:03.580 behind me. 0:11:03.660 --> 0:11:04.140 I'm cooked. 0:11:05.620 --> 0:11:07.699 The doctor called me back and said it was important 0:11:07.740 --> 0:11:09.740 that I come in right away. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.100 I'm cooked. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.960 It usually signifies that there's nothing I can do but 0:11:16.020 --> 0:11:18.300 to accept the consequence. 0:11:19.260 --> 0:11:24.579 I'm cooked. I'm cooked. I wasted those years. Now I 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:29.530 can't get a job. I'm cooked. I knew my marriage 0:11:29.570 --> 0:11:30.170 was in trouble. 0:11:30.230 --> 0:11:32.130 I think she's really going to leave me this time. 0:11:33.250 --> 0:11:37.210 I'm cooked. See how I went from stupid stuff like 0:11:37.230 --> 0:11:39.350 your homework … and your. 0:11:39.230 --> 0:11:44.010 Outfit to something so serious as I think it's too 0:11:44.050 --> 0:11:45.890 late for me to beat this addiction. I think it's 0:11:45.910 --> 0:11:47.929 just in me now. I think it was in my 0:11:47.980 --> 0:11:51.120 dad and his dad, and I'm cooked, and now I've 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.480 run off all the people that helped me the first time. 0:11:54.300 --> 0:11:58.380 I'm cooked. Have you ever been cooked? 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.740 I think it's safe to say that in John chapter 21, 0:12:02.740 --> 0:12:05.960 Simon Peter was cooked. 0:12:07.059 --> 0:12:07.640 Think about it. 0:12:09.020 --> 0:12:13.679 Every aspect of this passage points not to the glorious 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.000 resurrection of Jesus, which has already happened, but the lack 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.900 of resolution in his own life, which he's still waiting for. 0:12:22.730 --> 0:12:28.790 The resurrection of Jesus was not resolution for Peter. Even 0:12:28.830 --> 0:12:32.150 though the finished work of the cross was done, the uncertain. 0:12:31.750 --> 0:12:35.890 Future of the disciple still loomed. He's cooked. 0:12:37.290 --> 0:12:41.829 He's cooked because He's ruined his reputation as a preacher, 0:12:42.550 --> 0:12:45.710 and he's given up his profession as a fisherman. We 0:12:45.750 --> 0:12:48.170 can tell he's out of practice because, as I read 0:12:48.190 --> 0:12:50.620 you in the text, he fished all night and. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:57.320 Caught nothing, cooked, frustrated, cooked a failure. 0:12:58.380 --> 0:13:01.400 Yet we see in the passage he's moving forward in 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:09.069 faith through failure and frustration because he's cooked. But even 0:13:09.170 --> 0:13:14.150 though you feel cooked, there's usually something you can do. 0:13:14.650 --> 0:13:15.309 Am I right about it? 0:13:16.550 --> 0:13:21.280 I find all of this all-or-nothing thinking or this overgeneralization … 0:13:21.780 --> 0:13:24.680 I learned these words when I started going to therapy 0:13:24.700 --> 0:13:28.699 to help me with my own issues. Sometimes what we 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.939 do is we slap a label on something, and once 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.780 we call it over, we don't have to work on. 0:13:34.740 --> 0:13:37.460 It anymore because I'm cooked. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.650 There's no need in me getting my grade up in 0:13:41.690 --> 0:13:45.599 this class because I'm already cooked. There's no need on 0:13:46.179 --> 0:13:48.140 me eating broccoli tomorrow. 0:13:48.860 --> 0:13:50.960 Because I just ate Krispy Kreme today. 0:13:51.350 --> 0:13:55.130 Why would I eat cauliflower tomorrow when I'm already cooked 0:13:55.170 --> 0:13:56.290 from the Krispy Kreme today? 0:13:56.570 --> 0:13:57.270 I'm already cooked. 0:13:57.290 --> 0:14:00.449 It kind of absolves you from the responsibility. Like, well, 0:14:00.650 --> 0:14:03.390 I already raised my voice. I ought to go ahead 0:14:03.650 --> 0:14:05.310 and do it at a black belt level now. Let 0:14:05.350 --> 0:14:07.500 me add some cuss words in here now, because I'm 0:14:07.580 --> 0:14:10.220 already cooked. Do you see how it can quickly become 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.020 a fatalistic state of mind to say something like,' It' s over. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.280 I'm done. It's cooked. It's too late. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:16.980 I'm cooked. 0:14:17.179 --> 0:14:17.620 I'm cooked. 0:14:18.220 --> 0:14:22.229 I want to challenge you from Peter's life that even 0:14:22.300 --> 0:14:24.890 when you feel cooked … Who am I preaching to? 0:14:25.490 --> 0:14:28.010 You don't say that. You don't say, I'm cooked. 0:14:28.050 --> 0:14:31.770 You're 63 years old, but you feel it in your bones. 0:14:32.110 --> 0:14:35.130 Too late now. Too old now. Too far gone now. 0:14:35.500 --> 0:14:37.300 Should have done it then. Would have done it then. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.920 Could have done it then. I'm cooked. They should have 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.920 done it for me. He should have been there for me. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.940 I'm cooked, and it's their fault. I'm cooked, and it's 0:14:43.980 --> 0:14:48.920 my fault. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. How 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.530 may I move forward by faith right now is the 0:14:53.570 --> 0:14:58.350 question we came to ask today. Peter said something in 0:14:58.390 --> 0:15:04.610 verse 3. He said, I'm going fishing. Even though fishing 0:15:04.690 --> 0:15:09.210 isn't going to fix it, that's all I know to do. So, 0:15:09.250 --> 0:15:12.740 when you don't know what to do, do what you 0:15:12.770 --> 0:15:17.490 can do. You mean you drove all the way out 0:15:17.510 --> 0:15:21.010 here to hear me say something that simple? Yep. One 0:15:21.050 --> 0:15:23.190 time I was going through a little bit of a 0:15:23.650 --> 0:15:27.270 meltdown in my mind, and I called a friend to 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.620 talk about all the issues. I was cooked and burned 0:15:30.740 --> 0:15:34.440 out and tired, and my friend said, Have you been 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:40.120 outside today? I said, Have you been listening to anything 0:15:40.340 --> 0:15:43.800 I've told you? I did not call you as my 0:15:43.940 --> 0:15:47.740 activity consultant. I called you to give me some advice 0:15:47.860 --> 0:15:50.250 about all of my problems, which I have just listed 0:15:50.300 --> 0:15:53.370 for you. I have staff members quitting on me. I 0:15:53.410 --> 0:15:56.950 have church drama. At the time, we had buildings we 0:15:56.990 --> 0:16:00.510 had to pay for. I have seven Easter services. 0:16:00.090 --> 0:16:02.150 I'm about to preach. I'm cooked. 0:16:02.310 --> 0:16:08.150 They said, it's a beautiful day outside. Would you maybe 0:16:08.190 --> 0:16:13.560 want to take a walk while we talk? Something about serotonin. 0:16:15.550 --> 0:16:20.340 Something about sunshine. Something about that simple. You know how 0:16:20.380 --> 0:16:23.580 you get in your head, and Peter is all in 0:16:23.620 --> 0:16:26.940 his head, and he's cooked, and I denied Christ, and 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.860 I cursed by the fire, and I said I wasn't 0:16:29.940 --> 0:16:32.500 one of his disciples, and I said I wouldn't let 0:16:32.540 --> 0:16:34.750 him down, and I was the first to let him down, 0:16:35.110 --> 0:16:37.850 and I've seen that he's risen, and I've seen that 0:16:37.890 --> 0:16:40.910 he lives, but I'm lost. You can know that he 0:16:40.990 --> 0:16:43.930 lives and still feel lost. You can know that he's 0:16:44.030 --> 0:16:47.030 risen and still not have resolution. You can be in 0:16:47.090 --> 0:16:49.750 between even though you've seen him, even though you know him, 0:16:50.030 --> 0:16:52.780 even though you've touched him, even though he showed Thomas. 0:16:53.060 --> 0:16:55.460 Put your hand in the side. Put your hand in 0:16:55.500 --> 0:16:57.720 the holes. Even though you have had evidence of the 0:16:57.780 --> 0:16:59.960 presence of God, there can be a sense in your 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.940 life where you feel paralyzed about what to do next. 0:17:02.980 --> 0:17:07.359 So Peter said, I know how to fish. Let me 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.119 get out there and do what I know how to do. 0:17:10.609 --> 0:17:15.949 Not just fish, but let me fish on the same sea, 0:17:15.970 --> 0:17:20.330 the Sea of Galilee, where he found me and he 0:17:20.410 --> 0:17:24.649 called me. Somebody say, he called me. I want to 0:17:24.670 --> 0:17:27.899 divide this sermon into three points today. The first one 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.990 is the call. I want to talk to you for 0:17:32.030 --> 0:17:36.030 a few moments today about the call, because the Sea 0:17:36.070 --> 0:17:38.290 of Galilee is not only where Peter. 0:17:38.050 --> 0:17:40.470 Went to fish after he failed Jesus. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.720 It was where he learned to follow Jesus to begin 0:17:43.780 --> 0:17:47.180 with in Luke, chapter 5, when Jesus said, let down 0:17:47.220 --> 0:17:48.439 the nets for. 0:17:48.300 --> 0:17:52.020 A catch after he had taught all day from Peter's boat. 0:17:52.619 --> 0:17:56.950 So, Peter, fresh from his failure, deep in frustration, not 0:17:57.170 --> 0:18:01.510 knowing what's next, completely cooked from a human standpoint, says 0:18:01.570 --> 0:18:05.350 something so simple. I'm going back to the place where 0:18:05.390 --> 0:18:08.600 he called me. I'm going back to the place where 0:18:08.630 --> 0:18:11.840 he got on my boat. I know this is so simple, 0:18:12.180 --> 0:18:15.340 but sometimes when you feel cooked, you just need to 0:18:15.420 --> 0:18:20.220 come back. Come back to some simple things. Come back 0:18:20.260 --> 0:18:22.900 to what you know. Come back to, he loves me. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.900 Come back to, he died for me. Sometimes you make 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.060 it too complicated. Sometimes you need God to show you 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.600 three steps. Sometimes God only needs to give you one step. 0:18:33.020 --> 0:18:38.290 Praise me. Worship me. Glorify me. Speak the name of Jesus. 0:18:38.710 --> 0:18:43.629 Get around somebody who loves God like you love God. Oh, 0:18:43.670 --> 0:18:46.870 magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his 0:18:46.930 --> 0:18:51.150 name together. Peter said to his partners, I'm going fishing, 0:18:51.490 --> 0:18:53.939 and they said, I'm going with you, so ask your 0:18:53.980 --> 0:18:57.040 neighbor a question. Will you praise him with me? I'm 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.020 going through some things right now, and I need somebody 0:19:00.060 --> 0:19:02.919 on my row right now who really knows what it's 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.370 like when he's alive. but you're a little lost to 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:12.830 come back to the place where he found you. Tell 0:19:12.850 --> 0:19:14.230 three people, I'm coming back. I'm coming back. 0:19:14.290 --> 0:19:15.310 I'm coming back. I'm coming back. 0:19:15.630 --> 0:19:16.950 I'm coming back. I'm coming back. 0:19:17.170 --> 0:19:17.670 I'm coming back. 0:19:17.930 --> 0:19:19.570 I don't know when I'll see him again, but I'm 0:19:19.609 --> 0:19:21.910 going back to the Sea of Galilee where he taught 0:19:21.950 --> 0:19:23.899 me how to obey him, where he said, let. 0:19:23.780 --> 0:19:25.080 Down the nets for a catch. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.260 Isn't it interesting that this miracle I read you resembles 0:19:28.340 --> 0:19:32.340 so closely the miracle that began Peter's ministry, and Jesus 0:19:32.420 --> 0:19:33.780 is bringing him full circle? 0:19:36.940 --> 0:19:43.090 Look at verse 5, y'all. He called out to them. 0:19:44.290 --> 0:19:47.530 Circle called, Justin. He called. 0:19:48.970 --> 0:20:00.740 Somebody say, I'm still called. Cooked, but I'm called. Confused, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:07.959 but I'm called. It's complicated, but I'm called. 0:20:07.980 --> 0:20:12.580 I'm back fishing for a minute. but when he went 0:20:12.660 --> 0:20:17.300 back to the place of his original call, the first love, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:23.870 the joy of my salvation, the place where I remember … 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.470 I do this every time we go out on Elevation Nights. 0:20:26.510 --> 0:20:29.390 You can ask the boys. I come in, and we pray. 0:20:29.410 --> 0:20:33.909 Usually, I say, remembering your mind when you were a 0:20:33.950 --> 0:20:36.130 little boy, when you were a little girl, and you 0:20:36.250 --> 0:20:39.570 prayed that God would use you to lead people to 0:20:39.630 --> 0:20:43.450 worship him. Remember that as we go into the next 0:20:43.500 --> 0:20:45.640 few nights, because you're going to get tired, and there's 0:20:45.660 --> 0:20:48.060 going to be resistance, and there are going to be 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:49.820 times where you're smelling his feet on the. 0:20:49.780 --> 0:20:51.320 Tour bus or whatever is happening. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:21:01.409 In order to have resilience, you need remembrance, the call. 0:21:01.750 --> 0:21:07.189 So, when he comes back to the place, Jesus, he 0:21:08.190 --> 0:21:12.530 called out to them. Check it out. It gets better. 0:21:12.930 --> 0:21:15.280 Not only did Jesus come to the sea and call 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:23.580 on the sea, look what he called them. Friends. Would 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.300 you have still called Peter your friend? 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.500 Me and Jesus must have a different definition of friend, 0:21:33.580 --> 0:21:36.400 because my definition of friendship has to be kind of reciprocal. 0:21:37.859 --> 0:21:42.409 If they're beating me, scourging me, mocking me, and the 0:21:42.470 --> 0:21:44.889 best you can do is stand back by the fire 0:21:44.950 --> 0:21:47.490 and warm your hands like you don't. 0:21:47.369 --> 0:21:51.530 Know me, look at it again. He called out to them. 0:21:51.550 --> 0:21:58.179 I can think of some other words. Fools, don't you 0:21:58.220 --> 0:21:59.119 have any fish? 0:22:00.500 --> 0:22:02.859 Because this is an opportunity for him to really shame 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:07.540 them should he choose to. Shame is like that blanket 0:22:07.580 --> 0:22:10.550 that gets on you and starts reminding you of the 0:22:10.609 --> 0:22:14.649 fact that not only did you fail Jesus, but you 0:22:14.690 --> 0:22:17.310 can't even catch fish. How many have had a thought 0:22:17.350 --> 0:22:18.890 like that this week? Let me break this down, Pastor, 0:22:18.910 --> 0:22:22.350 a little bit. You can't even get this right. You 0:22:22.369 --> 0:22:25.790 can't even get the thing. Not only are you not 0:22:25.850 --> 0:22:28.570 succeeding in this area, you're not even getting that right. 0:22:28.930 --> 0:22:32.510 I am telling you, the longer I pastor, the more 0:22:32.590 --> 0:22:36.649 I am compelled by the compassion of Christ than the 0:22:36.730 --> 0:22:42.970 condemnation that has often been leveled against his people in 0:22:43.050 --> 0:22:46.609 order to create leverage for behavior modification that is not 0:22:46.730 --> 0:22:48.010 grace-based change. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:23:00.320 He called out to them. I'm called. How do I 0:23:00.380 --> 0:23:06.460 continue when I'm cooked? Because I'm called. Because I'm called 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:10.950 when I'm cooked. Because I'm called when I'm consistent. I'm 0:23:10.990 --> 0:23:12.129 called when I'm sporadic. 0:23:13.230 --> 0:23:19.730 I'm called when I'm impulsive and crazy. And I'm called 0:23:20.130 --> 0:23:24.300 when my actions and my behaviors … I think we 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.720 have a different idea of called than God. See, when 0:23:27.859 --> 0:23:35.420 God called Peter, he also called Simon. And he knew 0:23:35.580 --> 0:23:39.860 all about Simon when he called Peter. Peter wasn't even 0:23:39.900 --> 0:23:42.220 his name before Jesus met him. Can I preach about 0:23:42.260 --> 0:23:46.690 Jesus for a minute? This is a Christian church. And see, 0:23:46.970 --> 0:23:49.390 whatever Jesus calls it, that's what it is. So when 0:23:49.450 --> 0:23:53.570 Jesus called Peter rock, that's what he was, even though 0:23:53.650 --> 0:23:58.110 his failure was still in his future. And although Peter 0:23:58.170 --> 0:24:01.170 was shocked by his denial of Christ, Christ wasn't. 0:24:02.780 --> 0:24:05.080 So I'm called. I'm called. 0:24:06.140 --> 0:24:11.300