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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: I hope this inspires you. I hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: I hope it gives you perspective to see God is

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Speaker 2: moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I have so much to share with you. I want

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Speaker 2: you to sit down and get ready for the Word

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Speaker 2: of God. Turn in your Bible to Luke 5, verses 1-11.

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Speaker 2: You're like, whoa, this is not how we do it.

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Speaker 2: You give us the scripture, then we sit down. All right,

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Speaker 2: but we're just changing around a bit. So sit down.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to give you my title yet either.

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Speaker 2: So if you need something to write down, because some

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Speaker 2: of you are so OCD that you can't hear anything

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Speaker 2: I say until you have a title to write down.

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Speaker 2: So write down Luke 5, 1 through 11, and use

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Speaker 2: that for a title for now. and Luke 5, 1

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Speaker 2: through 11. I went on a whole journey this week

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Speaker 2: to get to this passage, because I started.

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Speaker 1: Toward the end of Peter's ministry, and in.

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Speaker 2: Discovering the great faith that he finished with in his life,

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Speaker 2: it led me all the way back to the moment

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Speaker 2: when God called him This is what we're going to

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Speaker 2: study today.

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Speaker 1: This may be a two-week sermon. You don't need to

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Speaker 1: be nervous.

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Speaker 2: If I'm not done, we'll leave, and we'll see you

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Speaker 2: in seven days, and I'll finish it up. One day,

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Speaker 2: as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, Sea

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Speaker 2: of Galilee … I should have another name for it.

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Speaker 1: In the Old Testament, it was Kinneret.

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Speaker 2: That was the town it was around, so the Lake

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Speaker 2: of Gennesaret or the Sea of Galilee, the region where

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Speaker 2: Jesus based his ministry. The people were crowding around him,

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Speaker 2: ignoring the social distancing mandates of the county of Galilee,

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Speaker 2: and listening to the word of God. He saw at

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Speaker 2: the water's edge two boats left there by the fishermen.

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Speaker 1: Who were washing their nets or mending their nets.

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Speaker 2: He got into one of the boats, the one belonging

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Speaker 2: to Simon, and asked him to put out a little

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Speaker 2: from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said

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Speaker 2: to Simon, put out into deep water and let down

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Speaker 2: the nets for a catch. Simon answered, master, We've worked

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Speaker 2: hard all night and haven't caught anything, but because you

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Speaker 2: say so, this kind of makes me think the disciples

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Speaker 2: were teenagers. Peter is rolling his eyes, but I'm going

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Speaker 2: to do it. I will let down the nets. When

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Speaker 2: they had done so, they caught such a large number

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Speaker 2: of fish that their nets began to break. So, they

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Speaker 2: signaled their partners in the other boat to come and

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Speaker 2: help them, and they came and filled both boats so

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Speaker 2: full that they began to sink.

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Speaker 1: So, God said, I want to upgrade your problems. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to take away your problems. Stop praying God

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Speaker 1: is going to take away your problems. He said, I

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Speaker 1: want to give you HQP high-quality problems.

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Speaker 2: What kind of problems do you want this year? Empty

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Speaker 2: nets or sinking boats? So, stop complaining you're so busy.

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Speaker 2: That's the proof of life, is the problems. God can

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Speaker 2: clear your schedule real quick. I'm saying you could die,

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Speaker 2: and your schedule would be clear real quick. When they

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Speaker 2: And they came and filled both boats so full that

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Speaker 2: he fell at Jesus' knees and said, Go away from me, Lord.

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Speaker 2: I am a sinful man. For he and all his

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Speaker 2: companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken.

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Speaker 2: oil for today's message. Then Jesus said to Simon, don't

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Speaker 2: be afraid. From now on, you will fish for people.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but that's not very comforting

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Speaker 1: It's actually scarier. You're going to fish for, we're going

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Speaker 1: to what? How does that work? Fish for people. That's

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Speaker 1: actually kind of creepy, Jesus. Fish for people conjures up

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Speaker 2: But it says they pulled their boats up on shore,

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Speaker 2: make light of the passage, but it is a humorous exchange.

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Speaker 2: And It's one of the most familiar passages for people

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Speaker 2: about once or twice a year.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you why I end up here, because

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Speaker 1: it helps me.

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Speaker 2: With a question that I'm always wrestling with, just all

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Speaker 2: the time. I feel like I'm always wrestling with this question,

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Speaker 2: and it's, God, what do you see in me? I

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Speaker 2: want you to put that question in the chat or

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Speaker 2: in your phone or right there on your scroll, your notebook.

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Speaker 2: God … What do you see in me? Now, before

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Speaker 2: I came out to preach, my oldest son said, I

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Speaker 2: like your jacket. He liked what he saw on.

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Speaker 1: Me, but that's a jacket.

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Speaker 2: God, what do you see in me? That's the first

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Speaker 2: thing people notice, what's on you.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he got a haircut. Oh, you lost seven pounds.

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Speaker 1: They don't know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you gained bitterness. So, God, say it out loud. God,

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Speaker 2: what do you see in me? That's a great prayer. God,

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Speaker 2: what do you see in me? I know what my

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Speaker 2: family says about me. I know what I see in me.

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Speaker 2: But what do you see in me? God, what do

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Speaker 2: you see in me? I think in a good marriage,

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Speaker 2: both people feel a little lucky that the other one

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Speaker 2: chose them. I can't give you a Bible verse for this,

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Speaker 2: but I think in a good marriage, a healthy marriage,

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Speaker 2: as the years go on, you feel a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit like, wow, I can't believe I get to be

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Speaker 1: married to you. I certainly feel that way about Holly.

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Speaker 1: I'm not just saying it for points.

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Speaker 2: We don't do this whole dysfunctional marriage thing where we

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Speaker 2: run a sitcom in our house and just put each

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Speaker 2: other down all the time. Y'all can do that if

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Speaker 2: you want. Oh, well, culturally, that's normal. I don't care

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Speaker 2: if it's culturally normal. I want to be spiritually whole. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we fight, and yeah, we kind of … know what?

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Speaker 2: We don't fight as much as they did on all

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Speaker 2: the shows I watch, King of Queens and all these

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Speaker 1: That's not how we view marriage. One thing I've said

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Speaker 1: to Holly before is, what did you see in me?

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Speaker 1: She won't tell you all this, but they were lined

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Speaker 1: up to date her when she came to North Greenville College.

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Speaker 2: It was a Christian school. She had the whole book

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Speaker 2: of Philippians memorized, and she's beautiful. Everybody wanted to talk

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Speaker 2: to Holly.

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Speaker 1: She had this little exclusivity clause because she was dating

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Speaker 2: Little side note, only made her more attractive because men

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Speaker 2: love a chase. It's not, I've got to wait until

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Speaker 2: this year with Jesus, and it just made it that

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Speaker 2: much more appealing and alluring.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I promise you this all goes together. I promise.

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Speaker 1: Some of you, it's your first time here, and you're like,

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Speaker 1: he needs medication. No, I promise you. This is all

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Speaker 1: part of my message. There's a little part of me

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Speaker 1: that says, but you know what? She's said the same

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Speaker 1: thing to me before. She's like, Why did you choose

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you.

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Speaker 1: Can relate to this. I just knew. She's like, I

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Speaker 1: wasn't a great girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: She was still learning how to relate in that way

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Speaker 1: But she goes, it must have been something you saw

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Speaker 1: you want to know the truth how I feel about

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Speaker 2: Of course, I couldn't see all the support that she

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Speaker 1: At this moment.

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Speaker 2: I don't share this for ooey-gooey thing, but we're coming

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Speaker 2: up on 20 years of marriage this June. I don't

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Speaker 2: know where we're going to celebrate, but it's going to

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Speaker 2: be expensive. We're going there a long time, and we

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Speaker 2: praying for the best. I'm drawn to this passage because

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Speaker 2: I realize that at this moment in time, Peter has

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Speaker 2: to a simple instruction from Jesus. Much like you didn't

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Speaker 2: me at Golden Corral, that I would pop the question

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Speaker 2: and say, will you start a church with me? Even

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Speaker 2: when I said, will you start a church with me,

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Speaker 2: you did not know that we would be attacked like

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Speaker 2: we were attacked in 2013, but you also didn't.

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Speaker 1: Know that we would be in Singapore and Sydney and

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Speaker 1: all over the world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: And Ballantyne and Roanoke and Melbourne, Florida.

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Speaker 1: God, What do you see in me?

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Speaker 2: If you haven't studied the Bible a whole lot, you

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Speaker 2: when I read the Scripture, we're reading about Simon. It

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Speaker 2: the one belonging to Simon.

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Speaker 1: Jesus does this cool thing.

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Speaker 2: He changes the name of his chief apostle, but that

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Speaker 1: He's still Simon. He's called Simon. The name from Simeon

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Speaker 2: Yet, in all of the passage, it's very interesting because

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Speaker 2: Jesus and Simon, who would later be known as Peter,

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Speaker 2: are communicating without saying a whole lot of words. They

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Speaker 2: each only say a sentence, but their life is completely altered.

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Speaker 2: This lets me know that we're studying the interaction between

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Speaker 2: two men, Because men typically … I don't mean to

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Speaker 2: be stereotypical, but typically men can communicate without saying anything.

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Speaker 2: I prefer to communicate without saying anything. Buck used to

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Speaker 2: come over and lift weights with me. It'd be an

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Speaker 2: hour and a half. We would have lifted a cumulative

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Speaker 2: 2,000 pounds and not said a word to one another.

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Speaker 1: What an awesome gift we have as men. Would you agree?

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Speaker 2: Women have other gifts, but when women greet each other …

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Speaker 2: I noticed the other day women use vowel sounds.

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Speaker 1: We're like, Hey, how are you?

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Speaker 2: It's friendly.

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Speaker 1: It's warm. It's like, Oh, yeah. I love this about us.

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Speaker 2: We can nod at you, and know all we need

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Speaker 2: to know about you from how you nod back or

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Speaker 2: if you don't. If you don't nod back, you might

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Speaker 2: want to fight. All nods are not created equal. There

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Speaker 2: are different kinds of nods. Much like in Spanish, there's

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Speaker 2: formal and informal. There's a formal nod.

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Speaker 1: That's this. There's an informal nod when you nod up.

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Speaker 2: When I started noticing this was in COVID, when they

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Speaker 2: made it.

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Speaker 1: Illegal for us to touch each other for a year.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to walk through life not communicating with people.

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Speaker 1: Waving is kind of goofy. Hey!

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Speaker 2: It's a thing like, I don't want to touch you

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Speaker 2: because that's uncomfortable. Then they put a mask on us,

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Speaker 2: Appropriately titled, don't you think? Not first and second Simon.

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Speaker 1: To us today. But he's not even Peter the pebble yet.

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Speaker 1: He's still Simon. I have to make a confession to y'all.

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Speaker 1: I'm still Steven.

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Speaker 2: I know I need to be pastor for at least

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Speaker 2: about 25 more minutes. I'm not a hypocrite. I don't

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Speaker 2: I don't have a dog. I'm not getting one.

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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying? Go get in a car

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Speaker 2: My mind says it must already be his. It must

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Speaker 2: He said, That's crazy. When I asked Elijah, Could I

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to say. Your boat is borrowed. Your boat

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Speaker 2: because the breath is borrowed.

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Speaker 1: The breath is borrowed.

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Speaker 2: The breath is borrowed. If you've ever been in the hospital,

440
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: you get.

441
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: A new appreciation. The breath is borrowed. So now, let

442
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,020
Speaker 1: everything that hath breath.

443
00:27:10,619 --> 00:27:11,300
Speaker 2: Give it back.

444
00:27:11,980 --> 00:27:15,129
Speaker 1: Give it back. Give it back. Give it back. It's

445
00:27:15,230 --> 00:27:16,290
Speaker 1: your boat, God.

446
00:27:19,540 --> 00:27:22,220
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you 21 seconds to give it back.

447
00:27:24,140 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 3: Some people didn't see 2021, but look at you.

448
00:27:28,420 --> 00:27:29,620
Speaker 1: You survivor.

449
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 3: You Simon survivor.

450
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:33,379
Speaker 1: Storm survivor.

451
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 3: It was shaky, but I made it. It was wavy,

452
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,090
Speaker 3: but I made it. It was windy, but he picked

453
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:51,090
Speaker 3: me up. Come on, if you can't shout, at least nod.

454
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,190
Speaker 3: Just nod like this.

455
00:27:52,730 --> 00:27:53,810
Speaker 2: Just nod. Nod up.

456
00:27:53,950 --> 00:27:57,629
Speaker 1: Nod down. Nod all around. Shake it back and forth. No, devil,

457
00:27:57,670 --> 00:27:58,530
Speaker 1: you can't have it.

458
00:27:58,790 --> 00:28:00,190
Speaker 3: It belongs to no devil.

459
00:28:00,490 --> 00:28:03,830
Speaker 1: Shake your head like this. Come on.

460
00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:06,170
Speaker 2: You can't have my kids.

461
00:28:06,810 --> 00:28:10,090
Speaker 3: You can't have my house. You can't have my peace.

462
00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 3: You can't have my praise, devil.

463
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:23,220
Speaker 1: It's God's fault. Nod if I'm talking to you.

464
00:28:29,270 --> 00:28:31,790
Speaker 2: You don't even have to let anybody know what you're

465
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Speaker 2: nodding about.

466
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Speaker 1: Just nod at your neighbor. Say, yeah, he did it. Yeah,

467
00:28:36,710 --> 00:28:41,430
Speaker 1: he did it. He got in my boat, and I'm

468
00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:42,050
Speaker 1: still Simon.

469
00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:50,150
Speaker 2: I think the challenge is, how can you believe you

470
00:28:50,190 --> 00:28:52,030
Speaker 2: have the potential to be Peter when you act so

471
00:28:52,070 --> 00:28:59,690
Speaker 2: much like Simon. The inner Simon … I have to

472
00:28:59,730 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: put some cardio in the regimen if we're going to

473
00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:10,060
Speaker 2: preach like this in church. Let me show you another Scripture.

474
00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: Just say, I'm still Simon. One connotation of Simon is

475
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: it's like a reed.

476
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,380
Speaker 1: It means he hears.

477
00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:32,940
Speaker 2: It's so funny, because Simon's name means he listens, but

478
00:29:33,290 --> 00:29:34,990
Speaker 2: he's in trouble only when he's talking.

479
00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: Only when he's talking. We fished all night and caught nothing.

480
00:29:40,460 --> 00:29:44,190
Speaker 1: Shut up, Simon. Maybe that's what I'll call the message.

481
00:29:44,610 --> 00:29:45,470
Speaker 1: Shut up, Simon.

482
00:29:47,570 --> 00:29:50,710
Speaker 2: Sometimes I need my Simon on the inside, the one

483
00:29:50,730 --> 00:29:53,150
Speaker 2: who's always saying, Oh, you're so stupid, and you're so weak,

484
00:29:53,210 --> 00:29:55,530
Speaker 2: and look at you. You're so dumb, and everything's so horrible,

485
00:29:55,550 --> 00:30:00,730
Speaker 2: and everybody is so dumb, too, and Let's play the

486
00:30:00,750 --> 00:30:05,130
Speaker 2: quiet game. All right, Simon, let's find a game on

487
00:30:05,150 --> 00:30:09,410
Speaker 2: your iPad. You shut up, because Peter has a purpose

488
00:30:09,430 --> 00:30:13,550
Speaker 2: to accomplish. I need to flow right now with God

489
00:30:13,610 --> 00:30:15,690
Speaker 2: and follow Jesus in the season of my life, and

490
00:30:15,730 --> 00:30:19,830
Speaker 2: I can't be this little child anymore that's always listening

491
00:30:19,870 --> 00:30:23,690
Speaker 2: to my screaming, emotional five-year-old in the backseat telling me

492
00:30:23,710 --> 00:30:25,550
Speaker 2: to pull over. We can't do it, because it's too

493
00:30:25,630 --> 00:30:28,540
Speaker 2: hard and Nobody appreciates me.

494
00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:34,020
Speaker 1: Be quiet, Simon. Is that better? Be quiet, Simon. Shut up, Simon.

495
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:42,420
Speaker 1: Shut up, Simon. I don't want to feel bad. Y'all

496
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: say it. Shut up, Simon. Put it in the chat.

497
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: Shut up, Simon. Let Peter preach. There's a Peter in

498
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,860
Speaker 1: me too. Pebble, rock, firm, small but a solid.

499
00:30:57,470 --> 00:30:59,750
Speaker 2: Then there's Simon. The Scripture I want to show you

500
00:30:59,770 --> 00:31:02,230
Speaker 2: is Luke 22. I was looking at it because I

501
00:31:02,490 --> 00:31:04,070
Speaker 2: wanted to break it down where you could really get

502
00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:07,630
Speaker 2: it and not just go, oh, that's nice, but really

503
00:31:07,650 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 2: get it. When Jesus was eating Passover with his disciples

504
00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: before he went to Jerusalem … Remember, Jerusalem is where

505
00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:18,420
Speaker 2: he died. Sea of Galilee, Kinnereth, Harp. That's where he lived.

506
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,220
Speaker 2: That's where he ministered. That's where he based. But Jerusalem

507
00:31:22,270 --> 00:31:25,090
Speaker 2: is where he was always headed. So, where his ministry

508
00:31:25,130 --> 00:31:28,190
Speaker 2: started is not where it finished. and where your life

509
00:31:28,230 --> 00:31:29,610
Speaker 2: starts is not where it finishes either.

510
00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:32,670
Speaker 1: Simon.

511
00:31:34,790 --> 00:31:36,330
Speaker 2: But in order to get to his purpose, he had

512
00:31:36,370 --> 00:31:39,650
Speaker 2: to go through a kind of death, so that for

513
00:31:39,710 --> 00:31:43,010
Speaker 2: Peter to rise, Simon kind of had to die. Yet,

514
00:31:43,090 --> 00:31:48,570
Speaker 2: here's what's interesting. Jesus is speaking to this disciple, one

515
00:31:48,590 --> 00:31:50,670
Speaker 2: of the three church fathers. The reason the church is

516
00:31:50,710 --> 00:31:53,090
Speaker 2: here today, really, is because of what he did for

517
00:31:53,110 --> 00:31:56,690
Speaker 2: the Gentiles, those of us who are not Jews by ethnicity,

518
00:31:56,730 --> 00:32:00,910
Speaker 2: but we're in Christ spiritually. We're grafted in. That's what

519
00:32:00,950 --> 00:32:02,950
Speaker 2: started me studying. I was studying when Peter took the

520
00:32:02,990 --> 00:32:04,620
Speaker 2: gospel to the Gentiles. He didn't want to do it,

521
00:32:04,620 --> 00:32:07,700
Speaker 2: because Simon was telling him, this is not who you

522
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,380
Speaker 2: should preach to. This is not in the realm of

523
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,300
Speaker 2: your experience. This is not in your family background. This

524
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,660
Speaker 2: is not for you. But God knew how to pull

525
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:23,860
Speaker 2: the Peter out of Simon. God knows how to pull

526
00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: the grown man out of you. grown woman out of you,

527
00:32:28,140 --> 00:32:30,900
Speaker 2: the patience out of you, the fortitude out of you,

528
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: the discipline out of you. He knows how to pull

529
00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:38,820
Speaker 2: the Peter out of Simon. But even after Jesus changed

530
00:32:38,860 --> 00:32:40,460
Speaker 2: his name to Peter … I don't have time to

531
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,490
Speaker 2: show you that, but Jesus said, Who do you say

532
00:32:46,510 --> 00:32:46,700
Speaker 2: I am?

533
00:32:46,930 --> 00:32:48,670
Speaker 1: He said, You're the Christ, the Son of the living God.

534
00:32:48,890 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: Jesus said, Well, you are Peter. I am? You are? Pebble.

535
00:32:55,210 --> 00:32:58,330
Speaker 1: and upon this rock I'll build my church. You're a pebble.

536
00:32:58,350 --> 00:33:01,890
Speaker 1: You're made of the same stuff as me. You're made

537
00:33:01,910 --> 00:33:03,030
Speaker 1: in the image of God. You're Peter.

538
00:33:05,010 --> 00:33:08,050
Speaker 2: You don't even know what you're made of yet. You

539
00:33:08,070 --> 00:33:09,630
Speaker 2: don't even know what you're made of yet. When people

540
00:33:09,670 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 2: tell you, oh, just do you, that'd be fine if

541
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: you knew you. One day I'm going to preach a

542
00:33:19,260 --> 00:33:22,990
Speaker 2: message called Do the New You, N-E-W. Do the new you.

543
00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:26,260
Speaker 2: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. So,

544
00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:29,180
Speaker 2: when people say, do you, we use that as an excuse.

545
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: Oh, throw a temper tantrum. Do you. Just be however

546
00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: you are. Do you.

547
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,630
Speaker 2: Are you still taking advice from your fifth-grade yearbook, raise

548
00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:41,430
Speaker 2: hell over the summer and never change?

549
00:33:41,450 --> 00:33:49,690
Speaker 1: No, I'm changing. I'm changing.

550
00:33:51,370 --> 00:33:55,930
Speaker 2: Like the sea is changing. I'm changing like the seasons

551
00:33:55,990 --> 00:33:58,910
Speaker 2: are changing. God is pulling the.

552
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:06,140
Speaker 1: Peter, the solid, out of the Stephen. He doesn't hate Simon.

553
00:34:07,460 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: He said, you are Peter. Deeper in you, there is purpose.

554
00:34:13,310 --> 00:34:15,410
Speaker 2: On the surface, there is stuff that keeps you from

555
00:34:15,530 --> 00:34:18,549
Speaker 2: seeing it, but God, what do you see in me?

556
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,420
Speaker 1: Beneath the sand of Stephen, beneath the sand of Simon,

557
00:34:25,540 --> 00:34:29,299
Speaker 1: feelings and past and pain and trauma, what do you

558
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: see in me? Jesus said, you're Peter.

559
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 2: That confession you made, you're the Christ, the Son of

560
00:34:34,860 --> 00:34:37,509
Speaker 2: the living God. You know who I am, and I'm

561
00:34:37,530 --> 00:34:39,170
Speaker 2: going to show you who you are, because you don't

562
00:34:39,190 --> 00:34:41,350
Speaker 2: even know yet, and this is a grown man, and

563
00:34:41,390 --> 00:34:43,089
Speaker 2: he's just discovering who he is.

564
00:34:44,910 --> 00:34:46,350
Speaker 1: Who told you that's all you could be?

565
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: I don't let anybody tell me what I can do

566
00:34:51,219 --> 00:34:56,100
Speaker 2: because I'm white or because I'm short or because I'm

567
00:34:56,100 --> 00:35:00,739
Speaker 2: 41 or because I'm a man or because I'm from

568
00:35:00,780 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: Moncks Corner. You don't get to tell me that. What

569
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,540
Speaker 2: you see on me might have nothing to do with

570
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:08,700
Speaker 2: what God sees in me.

571
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: All right. I got the nod from God.

572
00:35:24,020 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 2: That's the third nod. I didn't tell you about that one.

573
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,060
Speaker 2: There's the up nod, the down nod, and the God nod.

574
00:35:31,969 --> 00:35:35,030
Speaker 2: When God gives you the nod, he doesn't look around

575
00:35:35,110 --> 00:35:35,990
Speaker 2: to see who agrees.

576
00:35:40,530 --> 00:35:41,090
Speaker 1: Aren't you glad?

577
00:35:42,150 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: He doesn't ask your X. He doesn't ask your Y.

578
00:35:45,170 --> 00:35:48,790
Speaker 2: He doesn't ask your Z. He doesn't ask any of that.

579
00:35:49,030 --> 00:35:49,810
Speaker 2: He doesn't look around.

580
00:35:50,030 --> 00:35:51,630
Speaker 1: Y'all good with that? Y'all good if I bless her?

581
00:35:51,810 --> 00:35:53,410
Speaker 1: Y'all good if I send her a new person? Y'all

582
00:35:53,430 --> 00:35:54,910
Speaker 1: good if I forgive him? Y'all good if I use

583
00:35:54,950 --> 00:35:56,609
Speaker 1: him anyway? Y'all good if I raise him up? Y'all

584
00:35:56,650 --> 00:35:58,469
Speaker 1: good if I use this boat? He didn't ask any

585
00:35:58,489 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: of that. He got in.

586
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 3: He got into the boat before he even asked Peter

587
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,180
Speaker 3: if Peter wanted to be Peter.

588
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:12,190
Speaker 1: He just said, that's what you are. He didn't even ask.

589
00:36:13,890 --> 00:36:18,569
Speaker 1: He just got it. You are Peter, but watch this

590
00:36:19,030 --> 00:36:23,210
Speaker 1: in Luke 22. He's about to go to the cross.

591
00:36:23,370 --> 00:36:25,130
Speaker 1: He's headed to Jerusalem. Peter doesn't want him to go.

592
00:36:25,969 --> 00:36:26,430
Speaker 1: Come on, man.

593
00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: Let's keep going on the sea. I'll keep taking you

594
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 2: around in this boat. We can preach and heal and

595
00:36:31,260 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: do this stuff, but he had to die. He had

596
00:36:34,580 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 2: to die to pay for your sin. He had to

597
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,340
Speaker 2: die to pay the ultimate price for you so you

598
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,419
Speaker 2: could put your faith in him. He had to die

599
00:36:41,460 --> 00:36:45,100
Speaker 2: so Simon could become Peter, so the Spirit could come.

600
00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:46,980
Speaker 2: Peter wanted to keep Jesus from doing the very thing

601
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,140
Speaker 2: that would make him who he was supposed to be.

602
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,790
Speaker 2: Jesus is telling the disciples, this is not going to

603
00:36:53,830 --> 00:36:56,109
Speaker 2: go good. I'm going to rise in three days, but

604
00:36:56,130 --> 00:37:00,469
Speaker 2: you're all going to fall away. He turns to one

605
00:37:00,489 --> 00:37:06,509
Speaker 2: disciple and says, Simon, Simon. In Scripture, two is covenant.

606
00:37:07,820 --> 00:37:11,250
Speaker 2: Two means covenant. Moses, Moses, take off your shoes. he

607
00:37:11,370 --> 00:37:12,170
Speaker 2: says the name twice.

608
00:37:12,610 --> 00:37:16,970
Speaker 1: It's covenant. It's partnership. I got you. Two boats. Simon, Simon.

609
00:37:19,330 --> 00:37:21,850
Speaker 1: Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat,

610
00:37:25,310 --> 00:37:29,609
Speaker 1: but I have prayed for you, Simon. Aren't you glad

611
00:37:29,630 --> 00:37:36,910
Speaker 1: that Jesus prays for Simon, not just Peter? That he

612
00:37:36,969 --> 00:37:41,969
Speaker 1: sticks with Simon, not just Peter? I bet Jesus is

613
00:37:42,050 --> 00:37:43,310
Speaker 1: proud of me when I preach good.

614
00:37:46,489 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 2: I bet he's still in love with me when I hurt,

615
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 2: when I struggle, and I need.

616
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,380
Speaker 1: That, because I am a pastor.

617
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: I'm still Stephen. Put your name in the chat right now.

618
00:38:01,219 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 2: I'm still … Say your name, and say it out loud.

619
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:08,730
Speaker 2: I'm still … Don't let the hard surface fool you.

620
00:38:10,330 --> 00:38:13,489
Speaker 2: I know I was lifting my hands in worship, but

621
00:38:13,530 --> 00:38:17,149
Speaker 2: I don't always act like that. I don't always walk

622
00:38:17,170 --> 00:38:18,190
Speaker 2: around the ball field, give.

623
00:38:18,070 --> 00:38:24,270
Speaker 1: God a praise. Come on, give him praise in the dugout.

624
00:38:29,450 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: Even sometimes, I hate to tell you this, but sometimes

625
00:38:32,460 --> 00:38:35,020
Speaker 2: Stephen comes out in places where a pastor is supposed

626
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:35,259
Speaker 2: to be.

627
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: Y'all are acting. Real, real, real Judasian here today.

628
00:38:49,290 --> 00:38:50,930
Speaker 2: I was out to eat with this other preacher, and

629
00:38:50,969 --> 00:38:53,569
Speaker 2: he's like the nicest person in the world. Not the

630
00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:56,969
Speaker 2: nicest preacher, the nicest person in the world. We're far

631
00:38:57,010 --> 00:38:59,130
Speaker 2: away from home having a meal together. I'm not going

632
00:38:59,150 --> 00:39:00,609
Speaker 2: to tell you who the preacher was. You could probably

633
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:04,370
Speaker 2: figure it out. The nicest person in the world. I

634
00:39:04,390 --> 00:39:06,969
Speaker 2: leave the table. We're having a great conversation. Families are there.

635
00:39:07,350 --> 00:39:08,790
Speaker 2: I'm going to the bathroom. This was a few months ago.

636
00:39:10,450 --> 00:39:14,140
Speaker 2: As I go around to the bathroom, it's a small space.

637
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 2: There's a whole other thing. Men nodding is something I

638
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:19,100
Speaker 2: can teach you. Men in the bathroom is a whole

639
00:39:19,140 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: other breakout session. We'll do a men's night about this.

640
00:39:22,219 --> 00:39:23,069
Speaker 2: There are rules there too.

641
00:39:23,810 --> 00:39:27,069
Speaker 1: Before I go in, it's a one-seater. Before I go in,

642
00:39:27,390 --> 00:39:29,950
Speaker 1: there's a dude there talking loud on his phone, sitting there.

643
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,700
Speaker 2: Right outside the bathroom door, and it's cramped. I say,

644
00:39:33,739 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: he has no mask on. He's talking on the phone,

645
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,100
Speaker 2: just over there talking on the phone.

646
00:39:38,020 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 1: It's a one-seater.

647
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,540
Speaker 2: I say, this is protocol, right? I say, hey, are

648
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 2: you waiting for the bathroom? The man looks at me. Cold-blooded,

649
00:39:46,219 --> 00:39:46,570
Speaker 2: he says.

650
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,049
Speaker 1: I need six feet. Get back.

651
00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:57,330
Speaker 2: While he's talking on the phone, spitting on me, because

652
00:39:57,350 --> 00:40:00,629
Speaker 2: what I'm hearing is, oh, you want to be six

653
00:40:00,690 --> 00:40:03,410
Speaker 2: feet under? You want me to kill you? That's what

654
00:40:03,430 --> 00:40:13,380
Speaker 2: you're saying? Because I'm still Steven. But I looked around

655
00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 2: real quick. I'm like, does anybody know me in here?

656
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:24,850
Speaker 2: I'm far away from home. Have you ever had your

657
00:40:24,910 --> 00:40:28,730
Speaker 2: inner Peter just in time kick in? I mean, just

658
00:40:28,790 --> 00:40:32,089
Speaker 2: in the nick of time, right as Stephen is coming out,

659
00:40:32,350 --> 00:40:34,510
Speaker 2: right as Hebrew.

660
00:40:34,170 --> 00:40:36,930
Speaker 1: And Greek words are coming out, right as I'm about.

661
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 2: To speak in tongues and tell him about six feet.

662
00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:42,940
Speaker 2: I'm about to put six feet. I'm right at the moment,

663
00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: because I'm still Stephen. I'm doing better than I did.

664
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Speaker 1: Because I didn't do it. I looked over.

665
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,340
Speaker 2: I was like, you cannot get in a fight while

666
00:40:50,380 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 2: you're out to dinner.

667
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:53,970
Speaker 1: With Joel Osteen. You can't do that.

668
00:40:55,530 --> 00:40:58,150
Speaker 2: Joel's at the table smiling, playing with Abby.

669
00:40:58,170 --> 00:41:06,810
Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, Stephen, keep it down. Move through it. Stephen, Stephen.

670
00:41:09,739 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I didn't do anything, but just go

671
00:41:12,020 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: to the bathroom.

672
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:14,259
Speaker 2: Now, I did hover at his table a little when

673
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,259
Speaker 2: I walked back by just a minute, because he wasn't

674
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 2: even big, y'all.

675
00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:19,299
Speaker 1: And he was old.

676
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:26,219
Speaker 2: So, as soon as I get to the table, I'm

677
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,450
Speaker 2: so glad that Peter won that day, because the person

678
00:41:30,810 --> 00:41:34,989
Speaker 2: that was standing at the table talking to Pastor Joel said,

679
00:41:35,290 --> 00:41:36,569
Speaker 2: Pastor Stephen!

680
00:41:38,510 --> 00:41:42,419
Speaker 1: And I became pastor real quick. God bless you.

681
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 2: I did my best Joel Osteen interpretation, my impersonation. Nobody

682
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,709
Speaker 2: knew that Stephen was still standing in that.

683
00:41:50,630 --> 00:41:56,310
Speaker 5: Bathroom, wanting to come out with an S on his chest.

684
00:41:56,550 --> 00:41:58,790
Speaker 5: I'm not even that good a fighter, but I'm crazy.

685
00:41:58,810 --> 00:42:02,739
Speaker 5: I'm crazy!

686
00:42:06,780 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 2: Jesus knew Peter was going to cut off Barabbas' ear,

687
00:42:12,430 --> 00:42:18,890
Speaker 2: and he called him Peter anyway. Jesus knew Peter was

688
00:42:18,910 --> 00:42:20,630
Speaker 2: going to cuss him out by the fire.

689
00:42:21,370 --> 00:42:23,210
Speaker 1: I don't know him, swear word. I don't know him,

690
00:42:23,270 --> 00:42:28,340
Speaker 1: swear word. He knew Simon was still inside. But you

691
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,300
Speaker 1: know what I love about Luke 5? It is a living.

692
00:42:32,219 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 2: Picture of a spiritual reality. See, it's one thing for

693
00:42:37,660 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 2: Jesus to stand by the sea. It's one thing for

694
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,739
Speaker 2: him to see the boat. But what freaked Peter out …

695
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,009
Speaker 2: Because Peter was cool with all of that. Oh, you

696
00:42:47,030 --> 00:42:49,069
Speaker 2: see my boat? You got in my boat? You want

697
00:42:49,110 --> 00:42:51,210
Speaker 2: to use my boat? You want to preach three hours?

698
00:42:51,250 --> 00:42:53,090
Speaker 2: I was trying to go home and have breakfast and

699
00:42:53,130 --> 00:42:55,169
Speaker 2: just nurse myself because we didn't catch anything today.

700
00:42:55,489 --> 00:42:57,950
Speaker 1: Okay, fine. We'll try it. We'll give it a try.

701
00:42:58,380 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: It wasn't when.

702
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:05,330
Speaker 2: Jesus saw the boat that freaked Peter out. It was

703
00:43:05,370 --> 00:43:10,330
Speaker 2: the fact that he knew what was under the boat.

704
00:43:13,350 --> 00:43:18,340
Speaker 2: When Peter saw this … Give me the verse, verse 8.

705
00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 2: When Peter saw this … Oh, Simon Peter. They were

706
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: both in the boat.

707
00:43:31,380 --> 00:43:32,260
Speaker 1: This is what I need you to know.

708
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 2: They're both in your boat. and they're both going to

709
00:43:36,940 --> 00:43:41,210
Speaker 2: stay in your boat. Oh, no, Pastor Stephen. I am

710
00:43:41,330 --> 00:43:49,469
Speaker 2: crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. I'm still Simon. I'm

711
00:43:49,530 --> 00:43:53,810
Speaker 2: still Simon. I can be Simon one minute, Peter five

712
00:43:53,850 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 2: minutes later, Simon again five minutes.

713
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: Every five minutes, Simon shows up. Can we do it now?

714
00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:00,339
Speaker 1: Can we do it now? Can we be crazy now?

715
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: Can we act out now? Can we be mad now?

716
00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:03,819
Speaker 1: Can we be bitter now? Can we think stupid stuff now?

717
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: Can we be weird now? Quiet, Peter. Shut up, Simon.

718
00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:15,540
Speaker 1: He got in the one belonging to Simon Peter. I

719
00:44:15,580 --> 00:44:18,660
Speaker 1: told you both boats. Did I tell you about both boats?

720
00:44:20,180 --> 00:44:21,859
Speaker 2: I didn't tell you they were both in one boat,

721
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,739
Speaker 2: Simon and Peter. And that's what's going on in you

722
00:44:25,820 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 2: as I speak.

723
00:44:27,739 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 1: There's your flesh, Simon. There's your spirit, Peter. There's your preference, Simon.

724
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:49,170
Speaker 1: There's your purpose, Peter. There's your past. Not if you

725
00:44:49,210 --> 00:44:50,089
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about.

726
00:44:52,110 --> 00:44:54,230
Speaker 2: Not if Simon is sitting in the same seat with

727
00:44:54,270 --> 00:44:56,670
Speaker 2: you right now while you're trying to pretend to be Peter.

728
00:44:59,620 --> 00:45:07,469
Speaker 1: Three honest people in South Charlotte today. I wanted to

729
00:45:07,489 --> 00:45:09,910
Speaker 1: tell you that Simon and Peter were in the same

730
00:45:09,969 --> 00:45:15,190
Speaker 1: boat so that you could know that Jesus got into

731
00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:26,189
Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon. In fact, he stood by the lake.

732
00:45:26,570 --> 00:45:28,589
Speaker 1: He sat in the boat. I didn't even talk about

733
00:45:28,650 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: Jesus sitting. We'll do that next week.

734
00:45:34,780 --> 00:45:37,900
Speaker 2: He spoke to Simon, but But look at verse 7

735
00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 2: real quick. When their boats began to sink because of

736
00:45:40,940 --> 00:45:48,509
Speaker 2: the great catch, they signaled to the other boat. You

737
00:45:48,530 --> 00:45:51,650
Speaker 2: will not believe what signaled means in the original language.

738
00:45:54,150 --> 00:45:59,270
Speaker 1: It means they nodded. Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

739
00:46:00,450 --> 00:46:08,010
Speaker 1: It literally means they nodded. with their heads. Yes, it does. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

740
00:46:09,090 --> 00:46:13,020
Speaker 1: They couldn't use their hands. They were pulling that net up.

741
00:46:14,180 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: They couldn't use their voice. It wouldn't carry that far. So,

742
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: when James and John, the other boat, got the nod,

743
00:46:26,860 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: they came over, and.

744
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 2: Both boats were so full they began to sink.

745
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: What Peter didn't know in that moment was that the

746
00:46:36,860 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 1: fish were only there to teach him a lesson about faith.

747
00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: As he was drawing the nets out of the water,

748
00:46:46,460 --> 00:46:52,859
Speaker 1: God was drawing the Peter out of the Simon. This

749
00:46:52,930 --> 00:46:54,950
Speaker 1: is why he did it by the sea, so he

750
00:46:54,989 --> 00:46:58,489
Speaker 1: could show you that the real stuff, the real you,

751
00:46:58,870 --> 00:46:59,989
Speaker 1: is deep down inside of you.

752
00:47:00,310 --> 00:47:03,330
Speaker 2: Not the surface stuff, not the surface story, not the behavior,

753
00:47:03,530 --> 00:47:05,370
Speaker 2: not the mistake, not the things you think.

754
00:47:05,410 --> 00:47:07,330
Speaker 1: That's just a thought level. That's just the waves.

755
00:47:08,070 --> 00:47:10,210
Speaker 2: But if you let down the nets, there's a great

756
00:47:10,310 --> 00:47:13,489
Speaker 2: catch down there. There's a rock down there. There's a

757
00:47:13,590 --> 00:47:19,609
Speaker 2: strength down there. There's a hope down there. So God

758
00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:20,779
Speaker 2: sent me with a command.

759
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:21,779
Speaker 1: Pull it out.

760
00:47:23,969 --> 00:47:27,030
Speaker 2: The nets are symbolic of you. The nets are symbolic

761
00:47:27,050 --> 00:47:28,750
Speaker 2: of you. He said, I'm going to make you fishers

762
00:47:28,810 --> 00:47:32,690
Speaker 2: of men. I see something different in you than you

763
00:47:32,750 --> 00:47:36,830
Speaker 2: see in you. You see yourself as a fisherman, and

764
00:47:36,870 --> 00:47:39,790
Speaker 2: you're right, but you're not just a businessman.

765
00:47:40,650 --> 00:47:44,710
Speaker 1: You're a businessman. That's from 2 Jay-Z.

766
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 2: Y'all stay with me, because I hear God saying something

767
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:50,580
Speaker 2: to you.

768
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: He sees something in you Look like you're like, it's

769
00:47:56,940 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: not there.

770
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 2: Just because it wasn't there when you fished all night

771
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's not there now.

772
00:48:04,820 --> 00:48:08,110
Speaker 1: You hear me? You hear me? Let me release this word.

773
00:48:09,469 --> 00:48:10,390
Speaker 2: You're ready now.

774
00:48:11,290 --> 00:48:12,370
Speaker 5: You're rocked now.

775
00:48:13,110 --> 00:48:14,170
Speaker 1: It's right now.

776
00:48:14,190 --> 00:48:19,570
Speaker 3: From now on, you will fish for purpose.

777
00:48:22,969 --> 00:48:25,350
Speaker 1: I feel God drawing something out of your.

778
00:48:25,250 --> 00:48:29,969
Speaker 2: Desires, drawing something out of your dreams, drawing something out

779
00:48:30,010 --> 00:48:40,750
Speaker 2: of your hurt, drawing it out. Y'all, remember he's still Simon,

780
00:48:41,650 --> 00:48:45,630
Speaker 2: so when he sees all the fish in his boat,

781
00:48:47,330 --> 00:48:48,410
Speaker 2: he doesn't celebrate.

782
00:48:49,690 --> 00:48:54,410
Speaker 1: He's scared. He's scared.

783
00:48:56,489 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 2: Everybody who's been scared, stand up. But I've got to

784
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:11,980
Speaker 2: qualify this. He wasn't scared of a battle. He was

785
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 2: scared of a blessing.

786
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: When Simon Peter saw this, he didn't see himself as

787
00:49:28,540 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: Peter yet.

788
00:49:28,980 --> 00:49:36,180
Speaker 2: He still saw himself as Simon. You know you can

789
00:49:36,219 --> 00:49:38,170
Speaker 2: get the nod from God that he wants to choose you.

790
00:49:42,140 --> 00:49:43,660
Speaker 2: but rejected inside of yourself.

791
00:49:46,150 --> 00:49:50,290
Speaker 1: God is nodding. It's you. I'm going to use you.

792
00:49:51,730 --> 00:49:54,469
Speaker 2: I'm going to get you through this. My promises are

793
00:49:54,510 --> 00:49:58,190
Speaker 2: yes and amen. Before you were born, I set you apart.

794
00:49:58,230 --> 00:50:00,910
Speaker 2: Do not say, I am only a youth. Don't say,

795
00:50:00,930 --> 00:50:04,700
Speaker 2: I'm just a fisherman. God is nodding like this, and

796
00:50:04,820 --> 00:50:09,540
Speaker 2: everything in Simon is saying, no, not me, Lord.

797
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,060
Speaker 1: Show them the Scripture. Is it 8?

798
00:50:14,060 --> 00:50:16,500
Speaker 2: Is that the verse when Simon and Peter are both

799
00:50:16,540 --> 00:50:19,529
Speaker 2: in the same boat, just like two voices in your

800
00:50:19,570 --> 00:50:27,209
Speaker 2: head right now? In the same sentence, Simon and Peter

801
00:50:27,230 --> 00:50:31,710
Speaker 2: are in the same boat, in the same body, in

802
00:50:31,750 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 2: the same moment, in the same experience. This season, this

803
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 2: testing can either sift all the Simon out and leave

804
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,009
Speaker 2: you strong like Peter … or it can cause you

805
00:50:42,050 --> 00:50:53,740
Speaker 2: to give up on yourself. So Peter, Simon speaks. Lord,

806
00:50:55,660 --> 00:51:00,290
Speaker 2: I see the success. Isn't that amazing?

807
00:51:00,989 --> 00:51:05,870
Speaker 1: He is scared of his success because he is aware

808
00:51:05,930 --> 00:51:14,180
Speaker 1: of his brokenness. Am I talking about you? Am I

809
00:51:14,219 --> 00:51:17,739
Speaker 1: talking about me? Am I talking about all of the.

810
00:51:18,060 --> 00:51:21,259
Speaker 2: Things we try to push away that God wants to

811
00:51:21,300 --> 00:51:24,420
Speaker 2: bring into our lives? Because go away from me, Lord.

812
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 2: I'm a sinful man. Jesus is like, you don't think

813
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 2: I knew when I got in your boat? You don't

814
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:43,190
Speaker 2: think I knew both were in the boat? Peter, weakness

815
00:51:43,270 --> 00:51:53,129
Speaker 2: and strength, faith and fear. I got in, and you're

816
00:51:53,150 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 2: not going to tell me when to get out. I

817
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:58,300
Speaker 2: heard God saying.

818
00:52:02,820 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 3: That.

819
00:52:03,100 --> 00:52:05,420
Speaker 2: This is a prophetic word for somebody, so stay with me.

820
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,140
Speaker 2: The way you do with people you're not going to

821
00:52:08,180 --> 00:52:11,660
Speaker 2: get to do with Jesus. When people get too close

822
00:52:11,700 --> 00:52:13,259
Speaker 2: and they're good to you and they love you, you

823
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,029
Speaker 2: push them away. You disqualify it. You don't hear it.

824
00:52:16,030 --> 00:52:19,710
Speaker 2: It rolls off of you like water. You're not going

825
00:52:19,730 --> 00:52:21,469
Speaker 2: to get to do that with Jesus. I remember a

826
00:52:21,510 --> 00:52:23,670
Speaker 2: difficult season me and Holly went with. I already told

827
00:52:23,690 --> 00:52:24,589
Speaker 2: you how wonderful we are.

828
00:52:24,610 --> 00:52:25,290
Speaker 1: Well, listen to this.

829
00:52:26,950 --> 00:52:29,190
Speaker 2: There was a time … It's been several years ago.

830
00:52:29,670 --> 00:52:32,089
Speaker 2: I was just going through … I guess I was

831
00:52:32,770 --> 00:52:37,089
Speaker 2: being sifted. You know what I'm saying? like you don't

832
00:52:37,110 --> 00:52:40,750
Speaker 2: have what it takes. All the Simon stuff. Simon says,

833
00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:43,730
Speaker 2: you're an idiot. Simon says, touch your ear, your other ear.

834
00:52:43,790 --> 00:52:49,110
Speaker 2: Simon didn't say. Simon doesn't get to say. Who is

835
00:52:49,250 --> 00:52:52,750
Speaker 2: Simon that he gets to say? What a dumb game.

836
00:52:54,750 --> 00:52:55,609
Speaker 2: Simon said, go away.

837
00:52:55,650 --> 00:52:59,489
Speaker 1: Jesus said, you don't get to say. I say so.

838
00:53:03,850 --> 00:53:07,819
Speaker 1: Simon Simon, Satan has asked to sift you through, but

839
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,930
Speaker 1: I prayed for you that your faith would not fail. Yeah,

840
00:53:10,950 --> 00:53:12,770
Speaker 1: they're with it. They're with it. Go back to that scripture.

841
00:53:13,969 --> 00:53:16,590
Speaker 1: And when you have turned back, strengthen your brethren. Next verse.

842
00:53:17,030 --> 00:53:20,770
Speaker 1: Next verse. Next verse. And he replied, Lord, I'm ready

843
00:53:20,810 --> 00:53:22,550
Speaker 1: to go with you to prison and to death. Next verse.

844
00:53:23,650 --> 00:53:29,529
Speaker 1: And Jesus answered, I tell you, Peter, when Satan is

845
00:53:29,610 --> 00:53:35,410
Speaker 1: through sifting you, all that's going to be left is

846
00:53:35,450 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: the Peter you really are. But that's not what I

847
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:47,380
Speaker 1: wanted to show you.

848
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,959
Speaker 2: I wanted to show you that, just like Jesus got

849
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 2: in Simon's boat without asking … How many of you

850
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:56,700
Speaker 2: requested to be born?

851
00:53:58,660 --> 00:54:03,210
Speaker 1: How many of you requested to be 5'8 1⁄2? I'm

852
00:54:03,270 --> 00:54:04,629
Speaker 1: rounding up. I'm five foot nine.

853
00:54:05,010 --> 00:54:08,490
Speaker 2: How many of you requested to go through the rejection

854
00:54:08,530 --> 00:54:11,959
Speaker 2: they experienced? No, no, no. Jesus got in the boat,

855
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:18,460
Speaker 2: and you don't get to tell him when to get out. So,

856
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 2: imagine if Jesus had listened to Simon Says.

857
00:54:21,940 --> 00:54:24,299
Speaker 1: Get away, Lord. He's like, all right. James, John, y'all

858
00:54:24,340 --> 00:54:25,130
Speaker 1: got room over there for me?

859
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,989
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. When Peter got done with

860
00:54:28,130 --> 00:54:29,930
Speaker 2: all of that, go away from me, Lord, because the

861
00:54:29,989 --> 00:54:30,830
Speaker 2: fish in his boat.

862
00:54:30,950 --> 00:54:33,210
Speaker 1: It reminded him. He sees a boat full of fish,

863
00:54:33,250 --> 00:54:36,750
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, God, he doesn't know what's in me.

864
00:54:38,350 --> 00:54:38,750
Speaker 1: He sees.

865
00:54:40,430 --> 00:54:42,210
Speaker 2: You think he could see the fish at the bottom

866
00:54:42,250 --> 00:54:44,380
Speaker 2: of the Sea of Galilee, and he can't see the

867
00:54:44,410 --> 00:54:50,700
Speaker 2: sin at the bottom of you? He's Jesus. If he

868
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:52,859
Speaker 2: saw the fish that were under the boat, he saw

869
00:54:52,900 --> 00:54:56,339
Speaker 2: the Simon that was in the boat, and he still.

870
00:54:56,739 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: Got in, and he still chose you.

871
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Speaker 2: I have prayed for you, Simon. Jesus said to Simon,

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Speaker 2: Don't be afraid. I'm going to show you how to

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Speaker 2: do this. Don't be afraid. Just like you were mending

874
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Speaker 2: your nets, I'm going to mend you. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: do with you … I'm doing it right now. This

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Speaker 2: is This is the Spirit of the Lord. Simon has

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Speaker 2: been talking to you all week. Let the Spirit talk

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Speaker 2: for a moment. Jesus is not Siri. We don't give

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Speaker 2: him little commands. Let him talk for a minute. You

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00:55:39,250 --> 00:55:40,989
Speaker 2: keep telling God what you're not, what you can't. You

881
00:55:41,010 --> 00:55:44,210
Speaker 2: keep telling yourself all that. Simon was only in trouble

882
00:55:44,250 --> 00:55:47,589
Speaker 2: when he was speaking. Let Peter talk for a moment.

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00:55:49,010 --> 00:55:50,729
Speaker 2: Let the God part of you talk. Let the Holy

884
00:55:50,790 --> 00:55:53,230
Speaker 2: Spirit talk to you. Let Jesus tell you what to do.

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00:55:53,489 --> 00:55:55,370
Speaker 2: Because you say so, I will let down the nets.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, how many opportunities have you pushed away? Because

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Speaker 2: I don't want to let you down. How much love

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00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:04,660
Speaker 2: have you pushed away? Because I don't want you to

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00:56:04,739 --> 00:56:08,580
Speaker 2: see me like I really am. You know, a lot

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00:56:08,620 --> 00:56:11,779
Speaker 2: of us go through life with an operating belief. If

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00:56:11,820 --> 00:56:16,380
Speaker 2: you really saw me, you wouldn't like me. If I

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00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:21,750
Speaker 2: let you close, I'll let you down. If I let

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Speaker 2: you close, you'll let me down. After Peter got up

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Speaker 2: off of his knees. Jesus was still nodding. I'm still

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00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:37,770
Speaker 2: going to use you. You can deny me, but when

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Speaker 2: you're faithless, I'm faithful. Remember, I got in the boat.

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00:56:44,350 --> 00:56:46,590
Speaker 2: I made the first move. You're not getting rid of

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00:56:46,650 --> 00:56:49,670
Speaker 2: God that easily. You tried to run from him. How

899
00:56:49,690 --> 00:56:55,299
Speaker 2: did that work out? You're in church. It popped up

900
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Speaker 2: in the algorithm. you were searching for online gambling tips,

901
00:57:00,090 --> 00:57:00,870
Speaker 2: and I came on.

902
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Speaker 1: It's God. You're not getting away that easily. He's right here.

903
00:57:10,969 --> 00:57:14,030
Speaker 1: The sea is a lesson. The nets are a lesson.

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Speaker 1: Let him wash the nets. Let him mend the nets. Father,

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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful I can't hardly stand it right now.

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Speaker 2: I was so scared that I would try to communicate this,

907
00:57:27,430 --> 00:57:30,450
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't know how to say it, but I

908
00:57:30,490 --> 00:57:34,970
Speaker 2: have felt your grace for the last hour. Now I

909
00:57:34,990 --> 00:57:36,460
Speaker 2: want to ask you to do something.

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Speaker 1: Amazing, God.

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00:57:37,060 --> 00:57:43,100
Speaker 2: Draw it out. Draw it out of them. The change

912
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 2: starts after the sermon ends. When Jesus had finished speaking,

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Speaker 2: he turned to Simon and said,' It' s one thing for

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00:57:52,430 --> 00:57:55,890
Speaker 2: you to speak to a crowd, Lord, It's another thing

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Speaker 2: for you to speak to your.

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Speaker 1: Child by name.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking God that you would speak to every Simon.

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Speaker 2: Draw out every Peter. There's great purpose in this room.

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Speaker 2: There is great purpose at the bottom of all of

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00:58:11,060 --> 00:58:15,340
Speaker 2: that shifting sand. We believe you know what's under the boat,

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Speaker 2: what's in the boat, what's on the boat, most of

922
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Speaker 2: all who's in the boat.

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Speaker 1: Lift your hands. the Lord out loud. It's your boat.

924
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Speaker 1: You knew, God.

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Speaker 2: You knew when you got in this boat that Simon

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00:58:33,340 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 2: was stupid. You knew when you got in this.

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Speaker 1: Boat, but I'm not going to try to send you

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Speaker 1: away going forward.

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Speaker 2: Right now, in this moment, there is an invitation for

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Speaker 2: someone who needs to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord

931
00:58:53,870 --> 00:58:57,229
Speaker 2: and Savior. So put your hands down for a moment,

932
00:58:57,530 --> 00:58:58,890
Speaker 2: and I'm going to ask you to raise your hand

933
00:58:58,930 --> 00:59:01,590
Speaker 2: again in just a moment. All over the world online,

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Speaker 2: right here in this room, Simon, Simon, is God calling

935
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Speaker 2: your name? Is this your day to give God your life?

936
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Speaker 2: You did it before. You fished all night. You caught nothing,

937
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 2: and here you are with empty nets.

938
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Speaker 1: That's good. That's room for Jesus in the boat.

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Speaker 2: Now, I believe that everybody can get something from this message,

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Speaker 2: but for somebody, this message is everything. This is the

941
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Speaker 2: moment that the grace of God is coming into your life.

942
00:59:39,310 --> 00:59:41,610
Speaker 2: Don't worry about fixing your nets yet. That's God's job.

943
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 2: You just let him in your heart. It is by

944
00:59:45,260 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 2: grace through faith we are saved. You may not get

945
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,180
Speaker 2: this moment back, not just like this. This is a

946
00:59:52,220 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 2: holy moment. With our heads bowed and our eyes closed,

947
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Speaker 2: I'm going to pray a prayer. The prayer is not magical.

948
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Speaker 2: It's just an invitation. The Bible says that if you

949
01:00:06,070 --> 01:00:08,610
Speaker 2: confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe

950
01:00:08,650 --> 01:00:10,490
Speaker 2: in your heart that God raised him from the dead.

951
01:00:10,970 --> 01:00:15,170
Speaker 1: You will be saved. Right now, I'm going to lead

952
01:00:15,190 --> 01:00:15,750
Speaker 1: you in a prayer.

953
01:00:16,790 --> 01:00:18,810
Speaker 2: I want you to repeat this prayer out loud after

954
01:00:18,850 --> 01:00:21,370
Speaker 2: me if you are ready to repent of your sin,

955
01:00:22,030 --> 01:00:24,770
Speaker 2: place your faith in Christ, and make Jesus the Lord

956
01:00:24,790 --> 01:00:26,990
Speaker 2: of your life. I want you to repeat this prayer

957
01:00:27,230 --> 01:00:27,970
Speaker 2: out loud after me.

958
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Speaker 1: This is your moment.

959
01:00:29,110 --> 01:00:33,310
Speaker 2: God is stepping into your boat. God is stepping into

960
01:00:33,350 --> 01:00:36,630
Speaker 2: your spirit. God is stepping into your life. Repeat after me.

961
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Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, I.

962
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Speaker 1: Am a sinner. You are a Savior. Come into my life.

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01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:50,460
Speaker 1: I believe you died for me and rose again to

964
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:55,490
Speaker 1: give me life. I receive this new life. This is

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Speaker 1: my new beginning. I am a child of God.

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Speaker 2: On three, raise your hand in the air if you

967
01:01:01,910 --> 01:01:03,090
Speaker 2: prayed that prayer.

968
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Speaker 1: One, two, three. Shoot it up right now.

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01:01:07,180 --> 01:01:07,660
Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 2: We celebrate you.

971
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Speaker 1: We celebrate the grace of God on your life.

972
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,620
Speaker 3: We celebrate the grace of God in.

973
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: Your boat, in your home, in your marriage.

974
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Speaker 3: We celebrate your new beginning.

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01:01:24,290 --> 01:01:25,290
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.

976
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Speaker 2: Come on, give God a great praise all over the church.

977
01:01:32,130 --> 01:01:33,450
Speaker 1: Give God a great praise.

978
01:01:35,370 --> 01:01:39,470
Speaker 2: Praise him if you received this word today. Praise him

979
01:01:39,510 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 2: if you received this word today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord.

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Speaker 2: Hold on. Not if you got it. You're the one

982
01:02:03,550 --> 01:02:07,510
Speaker 2: I wanted. You're the one I chose, and you're not

983
01:02:07,970 --> 01:02:21,620
Speaker 2: getting rid of me that easily. That dark moment I

984
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Speaker 2: told you about with Holly, she looked at me and

985
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,990
Speaker 2: she said, I'm not going anywhere. I said, I'm just

986
01:02:27,030 --> 01:02:28,570
Speaker 2: not that good as you think I am. I'm not

987
01:02:28,590 --> 01:02:31,270
Speaker 2: that good. I'm not as good a pastor as y'all

988
01:02:31,290 --> 01:02:34,030
Speaker 2: think I am. She said, well, you're the one we've got,

989
01:02:36,490 --> 01:02:37,350
Speaker 2: so show up.

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01:02:40,070 --> 01:02:40,970
Speaker 1: I'm telling that to you.

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Speaker 2: He got in the boat belonging to Simon. I think

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01:02:44,930 --> 01:02:46,500
Speaker 2: we're going to have to pick this up next week.

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Speaker 2: I think we're going to have to pick this up

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 2: this ministry. It's because of you that this ministry is possible.

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01:02:59,150 --> 01:03:01,340
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01:03:01,380 --> 01:03:05,760
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Speaker 1: can subscribe. You can share it with your friends.

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