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Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights.

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Speaker 1: Here's the message, but we are coming to the following

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Speaker 1: to Luke chapter five, verse one through eleven, you're like, WHOA,

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Speaker 1: I went on a whole journey this week to get

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Speaker 1: this is what we're going to study today. This may

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Speaker 1: in seven days and I'll finish it up. One day,

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Speaker 1: He saw at the water's edge two boats left there

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Speaker 1: take your hand like this. Come on, you can't have

426
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: my kids, you can't out my house. You can't after me.

427
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: You'll get out my brave Samo and n boat. Not

428
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: if I'm talking to you. You don't even have to

429
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: let any body know what you're nodding about just nod

430
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: at your neighbor. So yeah he did it, Yeah he

431
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: did it. He got in my boat, And I'm still Simon.

432
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: I ain't challenges. How can you believe that you have

433
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: the potential to be Peter when you act so much

434
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: like Simon, the inner Simon. I gotta put some cardio

435
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: in the regiment. If we're gonna preach like this in church.

436
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: Let me show you another scripture, turning the pages, give

437
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: me a minute to start. Ah, just say I'm still Simon.

438
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: Say I'm still Simon. You either Simon or you're lying.

439
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: When connotation of Simon is is like a read, it

440
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,479
Speaker 1: means he hears. And it's so funny because Simon's name

441
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: means he listens. But he's in trouble only when he's talking.

442
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: Only when he's talking. We fished all night and caught nothing.

443
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: Shut up Simon. Maybe that's what I'll call the message,

444
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: shut up Simon, because sometimes I need my Simon on

445
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: the inside, the one who's always saying, Oh, you're so stupid,

446
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: and you're so weak, and look at you, you're so dumb,

447
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: and everything's so horrible, and everybody they too dumb, and

448
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: two and that's it. I needn't. Let's just play the

449
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: quiet game, all right, all right, Simon, let's find a

450
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: game on your iPad. You shut up, because Peter, Peter

451
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: has a purpose to accomplish. And I need to flow

452
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: right now with God and follow Jesus in the season

453
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: of my life. And I can't be this little child

454
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: anymore that's always listening to my screaming, emotional five year

455
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: old in the back seat telling me to pull over.

456
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: We can't do it because it's too hard and nobody

457
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: appreciates me. Be quiet, Simon, Is that better? Be quiet? Simon?

458
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: Shut up, Simon, Shut up, Simon. I don't want to

459
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: feel bad, y'all say it. Shut up, Simon, put it

460
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: in the chat. Shut up, Simon. Let Peter preach. There's

461
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: a Peter in me too, Pabal rock firm, small but

462
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: a solid. And then there's Simon. The scripture I want

463
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: to show you is Luke twenty two. I was looking

464
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: at it because I wanted to break it down where

465
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: you could really get it and not just go, oh,

466
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: that's nice, but really get it. When Jesus was eating

467
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Passover with his disciples before he went to Jerusalem. Remember

468
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: Jerusalem is where he died. See of Galilee, kinnerethe harp

469
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: That's where he lived, That's where he ministered, that's where

470
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: he based. But Jerusalem is where he was always headed.

471
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: So whereas ministry started is not where it finished. And

472
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: where your life starts is not where it finishes either, Simon.

473
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: But in order to get to his purpose, he had

474
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: to go through a kind of death, so that for

475
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: Peter to rise, Simon kind of had to die. Yet

476
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: here's what's interesting. Jesus is speaking to this disciple, one

477
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: of the three church fathers. The reason the church is

478
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: here today really because of what he did for the

479
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: gentiles of us, who are not Jews by ethnicity, but

480
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: we're in Christ spiritually, we're grafted in. That's what started

481
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: me studying. I was studying when Peter took the Gospel

482
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: to the gentiles. He didn't want to do it because

483
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: Simon was telling him, this is not who you should

484
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: preach to. This is not in the realm of your experience,

485
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: this is not in your family background, this is not

486
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: for you. But God knew how to pull the Peter

487
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: out of Simon. God knows how to pull the grown

488
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: man out of you, the grown woman out of you,

489
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: the patience out of you, the fortitude out of you,

490
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: the discipline out of you. He knows how to pull

491
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: the Peter out assignment. But even after Jesus changed his

492
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: name to Peter. And I don't have time to show

493
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: you that. But he said, he said, Jesus said, who

494
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: do you say I am? He said, you're the Christist

495
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: in a living God. She said, you are Peter. I am.

496
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: You are tubble, And upon this rock I'll build my church.

497
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: You're a pebble. You're made of the same stuff as me.

498
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: You're made in the image of God. You're Peter. You

499
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: don't even know what you're made of yet. You don't

500
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: even know what you're made up yet. And when people

501
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: tell you, oh, just do you, that'd be fine if

502
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: you knew you. And one day I'm going to preach

503
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: a message called do the new you in e W

504
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: do the new you. If anyone is in Christ, he

505
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: is a new creation. So when people say do you,

506
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: we use that as an excuse. Oh, throw a ten partantrum.

507
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: Do you just be however you are? Do you? Are?

508
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: You still taking advice from your fifth grade yearbook, Raise

509
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: hell over the summer and never change No, I'm changing

510
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: like the sea is changing. I'm changing like the seasons

511
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: are changing. And God is pulling the the Peter, the

512
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: solid out of the Stephen. He doesn't hate Simon, he said,

513
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: you are Peter. Deeper in you, there is purpose on

514
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: the surface, there is stuff that keeps you from seeing it.

515
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: But God, what do you see in me? Beneath the

516
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: sand of Stephen, beneath the sand of Simon, feelings and

517
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: paths and pain and trauma? What do you see in me?

518
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: Jesus said, you're Peter. That confession you made you were

519
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: the Christ, the son I live in God. You know

520
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: who I am, and I'm gonna show you who you

521
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: are because you don't even know yet. And this is

522
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: a grown man and he's just discovering who he is.

523
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: Who told you that's all you could be. I don't

524
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: let anybody tell me what I can do because I'm white,

525
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: or because I'm short, or because i'm forty one, or

526
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: because I'm a man, or because I'm from Monk's corner.

527
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: You don't get to tell me that what you see

528
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: on me might have nothing to do with what God

529
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: sees in me. No, I got the nod from God

530
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: that's the third nod. I didn't tell you about that one.

531
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: There's the up nod, the down nod, and the god nod.

532
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: When God gives you the nod, he doesn't look around

533
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:11,959
Speaker 1: to see who agrees. Yeh, aren't you glad? He doesn't

534
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: ask your ex he doesn't ask your why, he doesn't

535
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: ask your z. He doesn't ask any of that. He

536
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: doesn't look around. Y'all good with that, y'all good. If

537
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: I bless her, y'all good. If I send her a

538
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: new person, y'all good. If I forgive him, y'all good.

539
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: If I use him anyway, y'all good. If I'm raising

540
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: them off, y'all good. If I use this boat. He

541
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: didn't ask any of that. He got in. He got

542
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: into the boat before eat it even asked Peter if

543
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: Peter wanted to be Peter. He just said, that's what

544
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: you are. He even asks, he just got it, you

545
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: are Peter. But watch this in Luke chapter twenty two,

546
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: he's about to go to the cross. He said it

547
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem. Peter doesn't want him to go. Come on, man,

548
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: let's keep going on to sea. I keep I keep

549
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: picking her. You around in this boat, we can preach

550
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: and heal and do this stuff. But he had to die.

551
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: He had to die to pay for your sin. He

552
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: had to die to pay the ultimate price for you

553
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: so you could put your faith in him. He had

554
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: to die so Simon could be come Peter, so as

555
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: the spirit could come. Peter wanted to keep Jesus from

556
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: doing the very thing that would make him who he

557
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. And Jesus is telling the disciples,

558
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: this is not going to go good. I'm going to

559
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: rise in three days, but you're all going to fall away.

560
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: And he turns to one disciple and says, Simon Simon.

561
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: In scripture, too is covenant. Two means covenant Moses. Moses

562
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: take off their shoes when he says the name twice

563
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: is covenant his partnership. I got you two boats, Simon, Simon.

564
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.

565
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: But I pray for you, Simon. Aren't you glad that

566
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 1: Jesus prays for Simon, not just Peter, that he sticks

567
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: with Simon, not just Peter. I bet Jesus is proud

568
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: of me when I preach good. I bet he's still

569
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 1: in love with me when I hurt when I struggle,

570
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: and I need that because I am a pastor. I'm

571
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: still Stephen. Put your name in the chat right now.

572
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: I'm still say your name and say it out loud.

573
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: I'm still don't let the hard surface spool you. I

574
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: know I was lifting my hands in worship, but I

575
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: don't always act like that. I don't always walk around

576
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: the ball field give God a praise, come on, give

577
00:38:52,680 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: him praise in the dugout. And even sometimes I hate

578
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: to tell you this, but sometimes Stephen comes out in

579
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: places where pastor is supposed to be. Y'all are acting real, real,

580
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: real judicy in here. Today. I was out to eat

581
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 1: with this other preacher and he's like the nicest person

582
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: in the world, not the nicest preacher, the nicest person

583
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: in the world. Right We're far away from home, having

584
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: a meal together, and I can tell you who the

585
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: preacher was. You could probably figure out the nicest person

586
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: in the world. I leave the table having great conversation.

587
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: Families are there, and I'm going to the bathroom. This

588
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,439
Speaker 1: is a few months ago. And as I go around

589
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, it's a small space, so you know,

590
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: there's a whole other thing. Men nodding is something I

591
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: can teach you. Men in the bathroom is a whole

592
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: other breakout session for We'll do a men's night about this.

593
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: There's rules there too. But before I go in, it's

594
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: in one seater. So before I go in, there's a

595
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: dude there talking loud on his phone, sitting right outside

596
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: the bathroom door, and it's cramp. So I say, he's

597
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: got no mask on. He's talking on the phone, just

598
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: over there, talking on the phone. And it's a one seater,

599
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: and I say, this is this is protocol, right, I say,

600
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: I say, hey, are you waiting for the bathroom? The

601
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: man looks at me cold blood. It says I need

602
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: six feet get back while he's talking on the phone,

603
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: spitting on me. Because what I'm hearing is you, oh,

604
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: you need you want to be six feet under? You

605
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: want me to kill you, That's what you're saying. Because

606
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm still Steven. But I looked around real quick. I'm like,

607
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: anybody know me in here? I'm far away from home.

608
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: And then and then, my have you ever had your

609
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: inner Peter? Just in time? Kick in? I mean just

610
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: in the nick of time, right I Stephen is coming

611
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: out like right as Hebrew and Greek words are coming

612
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: out right as I'm about to speak in tongues and

613
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: tell him about six feet, I'm about to put sixteen.

614
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: I'm right at the moment because I'm still Stephen, and

615
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm doing better than I did because I didn't do it.

616
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: I looked over. I was like, you cannot get in

617
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: a fight while you are out to dinner with Jolo Stein.

618
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: You can't do that. Joel's at the table, smiling, playing

619
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: with Abby. Oh yeah, Steven, keep it down, move through it, Steven, Steven,

620
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: And I'm so glad I didn't do anything but just

621
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. Now. I did hover her at

622
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: this table a little when I walked back by just

623
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: a minute, because he wasn't even big, y'all, and he

624
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 1: was old. So as soon as I get to the table,

625
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that Peter, that Peter won that day.

626
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: Because the person that was standing to the table talk

627
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: talking to Pastor Joel said Pastor Steven, and I became

628
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: pastor real quick, God bless you. I did my best.

629
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: Joe Joel ostein interpretation, my impersonation. Nobody knew that Stephen

630
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: was still standing in that bathroom. I wanted to come

631
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: out with an S on his chest. I'm not even

632
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: that gonna fighter, but I'm crazy. I'm crazy. Jesus knew

633
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: Peter was gonna cut off Barabbas's ear, and he called

634
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: him Peter anyway. Jesus knew Peter was gonna cuss him

635
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Speaker 1: out by the fire. Come about. I don't know him.

636
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: Swear word. I don't know him, swear He knew Simon

637
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 1: was still inside. But you know what I love about

638
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: Luke five. It is a living picture of a spiritual reality. See,

639
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: it's one thing for Jesus to stand by the sea,

640
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: It's one thing for him to see the boat. But

641
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: what freaked Peter out? Because Peter was cool with all

642
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: of that. Oh you see my boat, You got in

643
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: my boat. You want to use my boat, you want

644
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: to preach three hours. I was trying to go home

645
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,959
Speaker 1: and have breakfast and just nurse myself because we didn't

646
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: catch anything today. Okay, fine, we'll try it. We'll give

647
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: it a try. It wasn't when Jesus saw the boat

648
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: that freaked Peter out. It was the fact that he

649
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: knew what was under the boat. And when Peter saw this.

650
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: Give me the verse vers sake when Peter saw this. Oh, Simon, Peter,

651
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: they were both in the boat. That's one I needs

652
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: you to know. They're both in your boat, right, and

653
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: they're both gonna stay in your boat. Oh no, Pastor Steven,

654
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. I'm still Simon,

655
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: I'm still Simon. I can be Simon one minute, Peter

656
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: five minutes later, Simon again, five minutes. Every five minutes,

657
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: Simon shows up. Can we do not gonna be crazy? Now?

658
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: Can we act? I don't know. Can we be mad now?

659
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: Can we dinner? Now? Can we think stupid stuff? Now?

660
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: Can we be weird? Now? Quiet? Peter? Shut up? Simon.

661
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: He got in the one belonging to Simon. Peter. I

662
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: told you both boats. Did I tell you about both boats?

663
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you they were both in one boat,

664
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: Simon and Peter. And that's what's going on in you

665
00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: as I speak. There's your flesh, Simon, there's your spirit, Peter.

666
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 1: There's your preference, Simon. There's your purpose, Peter, there's your past.

667
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: Not if you know what I'm talking about. Not if

668
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: Simon is sitting in the same seat with you right

669
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Speaker 1: now while you're trying to pretend to be Peter and

670
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: three honest people in South Charlotte today. I wanted to

671
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 1: tell you that Simon and Peter were in the same

672
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: boat so that you could know that Jesus got in

673
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: the one belonging to Simon. In fact, he stood by

674
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Speaker 1: the lake. He sat in the boat. I didn't even

675
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Speaker 1: talk about Jesus sitting with the next week. We'll do

676
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: that next week he spoke to Simon. But look at

677
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: verse seven real quick. When their boats began to sink

678
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: because of the great catch, they signaled to the other boat.

679
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: You will not believe what signaled means. In the original language.

680
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: It means they nodded, yes it does, Yes it does.

681
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: It literally means they nodded with their heads, yes it does, yes, yes,

682
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: yes yes. They couldn't use their hands they were pulling

683
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: that net up. They couldn't use their voice. It wouldn't

684
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: carry that far. So when James and John the other

685
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: boat got the nod, they came over and both boats

686
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: were so far that they began to sing. And what

687
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: Peter didn't know in that moment was that the fish

688
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: were only there to teach him a lesson about faith.

689
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: Is that as he was drawing the nets out of

690
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: the water. God was drawing the peter out of the simon.

691
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: This is why he did it by the sea, so

692
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 1: he could show you that the real stuff, the real you,

693
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 1: is deep down inside of you, not the surface stuff,

694
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 1: not the surface story, not the behavior, not the mistake,

695
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: not the things you think. That's just a thought level.

696
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: That's just the wave. But if you let down the nets,

697
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 1: there's a great catch down there. There's a rock down there,

698
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: there's a strength down there, there's a hope down there.

699
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: So so God send me with a command pull it out.

700
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: The nets are symbolic of you. The nets are symbolic

701
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: of you. He said, I'm gonna make you fishers of men.

702
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: I see something different in you than you see in you.

703
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: You'll see yourself as a fisherman. And you're right, but

704
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: you're not just a business man. You're a business man.

705
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 1: That's from second jay Z. Y'all stay with me, because

706
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: I hear God saying something to you. He sees something

707
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: in you. And look, look, look, look like you're like

708
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: it's not there. Just because it wasn't there when you

709
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: fished all night doesn't mean it's not there now you

710
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: hear me, you, hear me, Let me release this word.

711
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: You're ready now, you're right now, it's right now. From

712
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: now on, you will fish for purpose. I feel God

713
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: drawing something out of your desires, drawing something out of

714
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: your dreams, drawing something out of your herd, drawing out,

715
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: drawing it out, and yeah, yeah, yeah, yah, y'all. Remember

716
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 1: he's still Simon. So when he sees all the fish

717
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: in his boat, he doesn't celebrate. He's scared. He's scared.

718
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 1: Everybody who's been scared stand out. M hm m hmm.

719
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: But I gotta qualify this. He wasn't scared of a battle.

720
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 1: He was scared of a blessing who When Simon Peter

721
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: saw this, he didn't see himself as Peter. Yet he's

722
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: still saw himself as Simon. So you know, you can

723
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: get the nod from God that he wants to choose you,

724
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: but rejected inside of yourself. God's nodding it's you. I'm

725
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: gonna use you. I'm gonna get you through this. My

726
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: promises are yes and amen. Before you were born, I

727
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: set you apart. Do not say I am only a youth.

728
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: Don't say I'm just a fisherman. God is not in

729
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: like this, and everything in Simon is saying no, not me,

730
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: Lord show him the scripture? Is it? Eight? Is that

731
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: the verse when Simon Peter both in the same boat,

732
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: just like two voices in your head right now, in

733
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: the same sentence, Simon and Peter in the same boat,

734
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: in the same body, in the same moment, in the

735
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: same experience. Because this can either this season is testing.

736
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: It can either sift all the signing out and leave

737
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: you strong like Peter, or it can cause you to

738
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: give up on yourself. So Peter Simon speaks, Lord, I

739
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: see this success amazing. He is scared of his success

740
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: because he is aware of his brokenness. Am I talking

741
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: about you? Am I talking about me? Am I talking

742
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: about all the things that we try to push away

743
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: that God wants to bring in our life, Because go

744
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 1: away from me, Lord, I'm a sinful man. And Jesus

745
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: is like, you don't think I knew when I got

746
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: in your boat. You don't think I knew both were

747
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 1: in the boat, Simon and Peter, weakness and strength, faith

748
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: and fear. I got in and you're not going to

749
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: tell me when to get out. I heard God saying that,

750
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: look the way this is a prophetic word for somebody.

751
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: So stay with me. The way you do with people,

752
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: you're not going to get to do with Jesus. When

753
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: people get too close and they're good to you and

754
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: they love you, you push them away, You disqualify it,

755
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: you don't hear. It rolls off of you like water.

756
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: You're not going to get to do that with Jesus.

757
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: I remember a difficult season me and Hollywood with I

758
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: already told you how wonderful we are. We'll listen to this.

759
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: There was a time, it's been several years ago, I

760
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: was just going through. I guess I was being sifted.

761
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like you don't have what

762
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: it takes, all the Simon stuff. Simon says, Simon says,

763
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: you're an idiot. Simon says, touch your ear, your other ear.

764
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: Simon didn't say. Simon doesn't get to say who is Simon?

765
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: And he gets to say what a dumb game? Simon said,

766
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: go away. Jesus said, you don't get to say. I

767
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: say so, Yeah, Simon, Simon satan Is asked to sit

768
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: your feet, but I prayed for you that your faith

769
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: would not fail. Yeah, they're with it. They're with it.

770
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: Go back to that scripture, and when you have turned back,

771
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: strengthened your brethren. Next verse, next verse, next verse, next verse.

772
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: And he replied, Lord, I'm ready to go with you

773
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: to prison and to death. Next verse. And Jesus answered,

774
00:53:54,840 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: I tell you, Peter, when Satan is through sifting you,

775
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: all that's gonna be left is the Peter that you

776
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 1: really are. But that's not what I wanted to show you.

777
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 1: I wanted to show you that, just like Jesus got

778
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: in Simon's bote without asking how many of you requested

779
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: to be born, how many of you requested to be

780
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: five foot eight and a half. I'm rounding up on

781
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: five foot nine. How many of you requested to go

782
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: through the rejection, the experience? No, no, no, Jesus got

783
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: in the boat and you don't get to tell him

784
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: when to get out. So imagine if Jesus had listened

785
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: to Simon says get away, Lord, He's like, all right, James, John,

786
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: y'all got room over there for me. No, no, no,

787
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: no no. When Peter got done with all of that,

788
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: go away from me, Lord, Because the fishing is boat,

789
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: it reminded him. He sees a boat full of fish,

790
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh God, he doesn't know what's in me.

791
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: He sees you. Think he could see the fish at

792
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: the bottom of the Sea of Galilee, and he can't

793
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: see the sin at the bottom of you. He's Jesus.

794
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: If he saw the fish that were under the boat,

795
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: he saw the Simon that was in the boat, and

796
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: he still got in, and he still shows you. And

797
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: I have prayed for you, Simon. I have prayed for you, Simon.

798
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: Jesus said to Simon, don't be afraid. I'm gonna show

799
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: you how to do this. Don't be afraid. Just like

800
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: you were mending your nets, I'm gonna mend you. I'm

801
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: gonna do with you, and I'm doing it right now.

802
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: This is the spirit of the Lord. Simon's been talking

803
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,919
Speaker 1: to you all week. Let the Spirit talk for a moment.

804
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: Jesus is not Siri. We don't give him little commands.

805
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: Let him talk for a minute. You keep telling God

806
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: what you're not, what you can't. You keep telling yourself

807
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: all that Simon was only in trouble when he was speaking.

808
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: Let Peter talk for a moment. Let the God party

809
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: you talk for Let the Holy Spirit talk to you.

810
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: Let Jesus tell you what to do. Because you say so,

811
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: I will let down the nutes. Oh God, how many

812
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: opportunities have you pushed away because I don't want to

813
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 1: let you down? How much love have you pushed away

814
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: because I don't want you to see me like I

815
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: really am? You know a lot of us go through

816
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: life with an operating belief. If you really saw me,

817
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: you wouldn't like me. If I let you close, I'll

818
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: let you down. If I let you close, you'll let

819
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:57,280
Speaker 1: me down. And after Peter got up off of his knees,

820
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: Jesus was still nodding. I'm still gonna use you. You

821
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:10,240
Speaker 1: can deny me, but when you're faithless, I'm faithful. Remember

822
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: I got in the boat, I made the first man.

823
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: And you're not getting rid of God that easily. You

824
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: tried to run from him. How'd that work out? You're

825
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: in church, some of you. It popped up in the algorithm.

826
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: You were searching for online gambling tips, and I came on,

827
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: it's God. You're not getting away that easily. You'm a puh.

828
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: He's right here. The sea is a lesson, The nets

829
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: are a lesson. Let him wash the nets, let him

830
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: in the nets. Father, I'm I'm so thankful. I can't

831
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: hardly stand it right now. I was so scared that

832
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: I would try to communicate this, but I wouldn't I

833
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't know how to say it. But I felt your

834
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: grace for the last hour, and now I want to

835
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: ask you to do something amazing. God, Draw it out,

836
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: Draw it out of them. The change starts after the

837
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: sermon ends. When Jesus had finished speaking, he turned to

838
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: Simon and said, it's one thing for you to speak

839
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: to a crowd, Lord, it's another thing for you to

840
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: speak to your child by name. I'm asking God that

841
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 1: you would speak to every Simon, draw out every Peter.

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Speaker 1: There's great purpose in this room. There is great purpose

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of all of that shifting sand. And

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Speaker 1: we believe you know what's under the boat, what's in

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Speaker 1: the boat, what's on the boat? Most of all, who's

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Speaker 1: in the boat. Lift your hands. Tell the Lord out loud.

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Speaker 1: It is your boat. And you knew, God, you knew

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Speaker 1: when you got in this boat. This Simon was stupid.

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Speaker 1: You knew when you got in this boat. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to try to send you away going forward.

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Speaker 1: Right now, in this moment, there is an invitation for

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Speaker 1: someone who needs to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord

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Speaker 1: and savior. So put your hands down for a moment,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask you to raise your hand

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Speaker 1: again in just a moment. All over the world online,

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Speaker 1: right here in this room, Simon, Simon, is God calling

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Speaker 1: your name? Is this your day to give God your life?

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Speaker 1: You did it before. You fished all night, you caught nothing,

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Speaker 1: and here you are with empty nets. That's good. That's

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Speaker 1: room for Jesus in the boat. Now. I believe that

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Speaker 1: everybody can get something from this message. But for somebody,

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Speaker 1: this message is everything, the moment that the grace of

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Speaker 1: God is coming into your life. Don't worry about fixing

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Speaker 1: your nets yet. That's God's job. You just let him

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Speaker 1: in your heart. It is by grace through faith we

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Speaker 1: are saved. And you may not get this moment back,

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Speaker 1: not just like this. This is a holy moment with

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Speaker 1: our heads bout and our eyes closed. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: pray a prayer. The prayer is not magical, it's just

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Speaker 1: an invitation. The Bible says that if you confess with

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Speaker 1: your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your

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Speaker 1: heart that God raised him from the dead. You will

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Speaker 1: be saved. So right now I'm going to lead you

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Speaker 1: in a prayer. I want you to repeat this prayer

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Speaker 1: out loud after me. If you are ready to repent

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Speaker 1: of your sin, place your faith in Christ, and make

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Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord of your life. I want you to

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Speaker 1: repeat this prayer out loud after me. This is your moment.

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Speaker 1: God is stepping into your boat. God is stepping into

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Speaker 1: your spirit. God is stepping into your life. Repeat after me,

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Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, I am a sinner, You are a savior.

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Speaker 1: Come into my life. I believe you died for me

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

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Speaker 1: new life. This is my new beginning. I am a

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Speaker 1: child of God. On three, raise your hand in the air.

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Speaker 1: If you pray that pray that prayer, one two three,

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Speaker 1: shoot it up right now, right now, right now. We

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Speaker 1: celebrate you, Ah. We celebrate the grace of God on

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Speaker 1: your life. We celebrate the grace of God in your boat,

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Speaker 1: in your home, in your marriage. We celebrate your new beginning.

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Speaker 1: If he's a name, come on, give God a great

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Speaker 1: braid all over the her. You've got a pretty praise praising.

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Speaker 1: If you receive this work today raising if you receive

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Speaker 1: this work today. Hello, nod if you got it, you

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Speaker 1: got the nod, you got God. No, you're the one

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Speaker 1: I want to You're the one I chose, and you're

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Speaker 1: not getting rid of me that easily. M hmm. That

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Speaker 1: dark moment I told you about with Holly. She looked

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Speaker 1: at me and she said, I'm not going anywhere. I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just not that good as you think

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Speaker 1: I am. I'm not that good. I'm not I'm not

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Speaker 1: as good pastor as y'all think. She said, well, you're

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Speaker 1: the one we've got, so show up. And I'm telling

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Speaker 1: that to you. He got in the boat belonging to Simon.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to pick this up next week. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate,

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