Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment,
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
Speaker 1: cities Atlanta and Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise,
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville. So get your tickets now. Some are already
Speaker 1: sold out, but maybe you can. Maybe you can pray
Speaker 1: and the Lord go answer. I have so much to
Speaker 1: share with you. I want you to sit down and
Speaker 1: get ready for the Word of God. Turning your Bible
Speaker 1: to Luke chapter five, verse one through eleven, you're like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: this is not how we do it. You give us
Speaker 1: the scripture. Then we sit down, all right, but were's
Speaker 1: changing around with it? So sit down. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give you my title yet either. So if you
Speaker 1: need something to write down, because some of you are
Speaker 1: so ocd that you you can't hear anything I say
Speaker 1: until you have a title to write down. So write
Speaker 1: down Luke five one through eleven. Then use that for
Speaker 1: a title for now and Luke five one through eleven. Ah,
Speaker 1: I went on a whole journey this week to get
Speaker 1: to this passage because I started toward the end of
Speaker 1: Peter's ministry and in discovering the great faith that he
Speaker 1: finished with in his life, it led me all the
Speaker 1: way back to the moment when God called him. And
Speaker 1: this is what we're going to study today. This may
Speaker 1: be a two week sermon. This may be a two
Speaker 1: weeks sermon, so you don't need to be nervous. If
Speaker 1: I'm not done, I we'll leave and we'll see you
Speaker 1: in seven days and I'll finish it up. One day,
Speaker 1: as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Ganessaret, sea
Speaker 1: of Galilee said another name for it in the Old Testament,
Speaker 1: it was Kinneret. That was the town that was around.
Speaker 1: So the Lake of Ganessaret or the Sea of Galilee,
Speaker 1: the region where Jesus based his ministry. The people were
Speaker 1: crowding around him, ignoring the social distancing mandates of the
Speaker 1: County of Galilee, and listening to the word of God.
Speaker 1: He saw at the water's edge two boats left there
Speaker 1: by the fishermen who were washing their nets or mending
Speaker 1: their nets. He got into one of the boats, the
Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon, asked him to put out a
Speaker 1: little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the
Speaker 1: people from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he
Speaker 1: said to Simon, put out into deep water and let
Speaker 1: down the nets for catch. Simon answered, Master, We've worked
Speaker 1: hard all night and I haven't caught anything. But because
Speaker 1: you say so, this kind of makes me think the
Speaker 1: disciples were teenagers. Peter is rolling his eyes, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it. I will let down the nets. And
Speaker 1: when they had done so, they caught such a large
Speaker 1: number of fish that their nets began to break. So
Speaker 1: they signaled their partners in the other boat to come
Speaker 1: and help them, and they came and filled both boats
Speaker 1: so full that they begin to sink. So God said,
Speaker 1: I want to upgrade your problems. I don't want to
Speaker 1: take away your problems. Stop praying. God is going to
Speaker 1: take away your problems. He said, I want to give
Speaker 1: you HQP high quality problems. What kind of problems you
Speaker 1: want this year? Empty nets or sinking boats? So stop complaining.
Speaker 1: You're so busy. That's the proof of life is the problems.
Speaker 1: All right, God can clear your schedule real quick. I'm
Speaker 1: saying you could die. Your schedule will be clear real quick.
Speaker 1: And they done to the cast such a large number
Speaker 1: of fish that their nets begin to break. So they
Speaker 1: signaled their partners in the other boat to come and
Speaker 1: help them, and they came and filled both boats so
Speaker 1: full that they begin to sing. So when Simon Peter
Speaker 1: saw this, he fell at Jesus's knees and said, go
Speaker 1: away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man. For
Speaker 1: he and all his companions were astonished at the catch
Speaker 1: of fish they had taken, and so were James and John,
Speaker 1: the sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus, this is
Speaker 1: where I feel the oil for today's message. Then Jesus
Speaker 1: said to Simon, don't be afraid. From now on you
Speaker 1: will fish for people. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: that's not very comforting to me. It's actually scarier you're
Speaker 1: gonna fish for We're gonna what How does that work?
Speaker 1: And fish for people? That's actually it's kind of creepy. Jesus,
Speaker 1: where you can fish for people conjures up a lot
Speaker 1: of images, you know. But it says they pulled their
Speaker 1: boats up on shore, left everything and followed him. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make light of the passage, but
Speaker 1: it is. It is a humorous exchange, and it's one
Speaker 1: of the most familiar pasts just for people who come
Speaker 1: to this church, because I end up here about once
Speaker 1: or twice a year. But I'll tell you why I
Speaker 1: end up here because it helps me with a question
Speaker 1: that I'm always wrestling with. Just all the time. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm always wrestling with this question, and it's God,
Speaker 1: what do you see in me? I want you to
Speaker 1: put that question in the chat or in your phone
Speaker 1: or right there on your scroll, your your notebook. God,
Speaker 1: what do you see in me? Now? Before I came
Speaker 1: out to preach, my oldest son said, I like your jacket.
Speaker 1: He liked what he saw on me. But that's a jacket. God,
Speaker 1: what do you see in me? That's the first thing
Speaker 1: people notice. What's on you? Oh, you got a haircut.
Speaker 1: Oh you lost seven pounds. They don't know. Oh, you
Speaker 1: gained bitterness. So God, say it out loud, God, what
Speaker 1: do you see in me? That's a great prayer. God,
Speaker 1: What do you see in me? I know what my
Speaker 1: family says about me. I know what I see in me,
Speaker 1: But what do you see in me? God? What do
Speaker 1: you see in me? I think in a good marriage,
Speaker 1: both people feel a little lucky that the other one
Speaker 1: shows them. And I can't give you a Bible verse
Speaker 1: for this, but I think in a good marriage, a
Speaker 1: healthy marriage, as the years go on, you feel a
Speaker 1: little bit like, Wow, I can't believe I get to
Speaker 1: be married to you. I certainly feel that way about Holly.
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying it for points. And we don't
Speaker 1: do this whole dysfunctional marriage thing where we'd like run
Speaker 1: a sitcom in our house and just put each other
Speaker 1: down all the time. Y'all can do that if you want. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's you know, culturally, that's normal. I don't care us
Speaker 1: culturally normal. I want to be spiritually whole. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: we fight, and yeah we we we kind of you
Speaker 1: know what, We don't fight as much as they did
Speaker 1: on all the shows. I watch King of Queens and
Speaker 1: all these shows where they just fighting all the time.
Speaker 1: That's not how we view marriage. And one thing that
Speaker 1: I've said to Holly before is what did you see
Speaker 1: in me? She won't tell you all this, but she
Speaker 1: They were lined up to date her when she came
Speaker 1: to North Greenville College. It was a Christian school. She
Speaker 1: had the whole book of Philippians memorized, and she had
Speaker 1: and she's beautiful, and so everybody wanted to talk to Holly.
Speaker 1: And she had this little exclusivity claus because she was
Speaker 1: dating Jesus for a year, which a little side note,
Speaker 1: only made her more attractive because men love a chase.
Speaker 1: So now I gotta wait till this year with Jesus,
Speaker 1: and it just made it that much more appealing and alluring. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I have wonder. I promise you this all goes together.
Speaker 1: I promise some of you us your first time here,
Speaker 1: and you're like, he needs medication. No, I promise you.
Speaker 1: This is all part of my message. There's a little
Speaker 1: part of me that says, how do you? But you
Speaker 1: know what, She's said the same thing to me before.
Speaker 1: She's like, why'd you just meet a marriage? And I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: cann relate to this. I just knew she's like I
Speaker 1: wasn't a great girlfriend. She was still learning how to
Speaker 1: relate in that way and dating Jesus and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But she goes, it must have been something that you
Speaker 1: saw in me. I mean, no, it's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: easy to see, if you want to know the truth
Speaker 1: how I feel about your appearance. But it was really
Speaker 1: deeper than that. Of course, I couldn't see all the
Speaker 1: support that she would bring in the love that she
Speaker 1: would bring at this moment. And I don't share this
Speaker 1: for UI guy thing. But we're coming up on twenty
Speaker 1: years of marriage this June, and I don't know where
Speaker 1: we're going to celebrate, but it's going to be expensive,
Speaker 1: and we're going there a long time, and we are
Speaker 1: leaving our kids and turning off our phones and praying
Speaker 1: for the best when you're going. And so I'm drawn
Speaker 1: to this passage because I realized that at this moment
Speaker 1: in time, Peter has no idea what he's getting into
Speaker 1: by saying yes to a simple instruction. And Jesus, much
Speaker 1: like you didn't know when you said yes to go
Speaker 1: to lunch with me at Golden Corral, that I would
Speaker 1: pop the question and say, will you start at church
Speaker 1: with me? And even when I said will you start
Speaker 1: a church with me? You did not know that we
Speaker 1: would be attacked like we were attacked in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: But you also didn't know that we would be in
Speaker 1: Singapore and Sydney and all over the world preaching the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ and Valentine and roanov and Melbourne, Florida. God,
Speaker 1: what do you see in me? If you haven't studied
Speaker 1: the Bible a whole lot, you may be confused because
Speaker 1: I've been talking about Peter. But when I read the
Speaker 1: scripture we're reading about Simon. It says in verse three,
Speaker 1: he got into one of the boats, the one belonging
Speaker 1: to Simon. Jesus does this cool thing, he changes the
Speaker 1: name of his chief apostle. But that hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1: At this point in the story, he's still Simon, and
Speaker 1: so he's called Simon. The name from Simeon means he heard.
Speaker 1: And yet in all of the passage, it's very interesting
Speaker 1: because Jesus and Simon, who would later be known as
Speaker 1: Peter are communicating without saying a whole lot of words.
Speaker 1: They each only say a sentence, but their life is
Speaker 1: completely altered. And this lets me know that we're we're
Speaker 1: studying the interaction between two men because men typically, I
Speaker 1: don't mean to be stereotypical, but typically men can communicate
Speaker 1: without saying anything. Prefer to communicate without saying anything. Buck
Speaker 1: used to come over and look waits for me. It'd
Speaker 1: be an hour and a half. We would have lifted
Speaker 1: a cumulative two thousand pounds and not said a word
Speaker 1: to one another. What an awesome gift we have as men?
Speaker 1: Would you agree? Women have other gifts? But when women
Speaker 1: greet each other like women, I've noticed the other day
Speaker 1: women use vowel sounds, but we're like, hey, how are you,
Speaker 1: it's friendly as warm, it's say oh yes, like men,
Speaker 1: I love this about us. We can nod at you
Speaker 1: and know all we need to know about you from
Speaker 1: how you nod back or if you don't. And if
Speaker 1: you don't nod back, you might want to fight. But
Speaker 1: man and my rider is yeah, because and and all
Speaker 1: nods are not created equal. There are different There are
Speaker 1: different kinds of nods, much like in Spanish, there's formal
Speaker 1: and informal. There's a formal nod that's this. There's an
Speaker 1: informal nod when you nod up. And when I started
Speaker 1: noticing this was in covid when when they made it
Speaker 1: illegal for us to touch each other for a year,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to walk through life not communicating
Speaker 1: with people, and you know, waving is kind of goofy hey,
Speaker 1: and so it's the thing like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: touch you because that's uncomfortable. And then they put a
Speaker 1: mask on us, and then people are saying, well, you know,
Speaker 1: you can still smile with your eyes. I still haven't
Speaker 1: learned how to smile with my eyes. My eyes do
Speaker 1: not naturally smile. I can murder you with my eyes.
Speaker 1: How to do that? So when I started noticing during
Speaker 1: covid Is, I had to regain the power of the nod,
Speaker 1: just to let people know, because a man can walk
Speaker 1: by you and go, and so much can be loaded
Speaker 1: in that nod. This is kind of what's up. Or
Speaker 1: it can mean you want some or it can mean
Speaker 1: a lot of things if you're not up, but just this,
Speaker 1: just this, It can mean I see you, my brother,
Speaker 1: I see you. It is not easy to be a
Speaker 1: man in this day and age. But you carry it well,
Speaker 1: my brother, carry on, soldier, carry on, my wayward son.
Speaker 1: All that from a nod And what got me about
Speaker 1: the text, and Marie and I went back to it
Speaker 1: is because we focus so much on the speaking part
Speaker 1: in this passage. Every time I've ever appreached it, you know,
Speaker 1: because you say so, I will let down the net.
Speaker 1: Or Peter said to Jesus. Or Jesus said to Peter,
Speaker 1: all that is great. And if anybody knows how to talk,
Speaker 1: it's Simon Peter. He's always talking in the Bible. Never, Lord,
Speaker 1: this will never happen to you. If all deny you,
Speaker 1: I won't deny you. I'll stand with you to the death. Lord.
Speaker 1: Peter is always talking. But in this passage, let me
Speaker 1: point out a few things things that God is communicating
Speaker 1: in the nonverbals. In verse one. Put it on the screen.
Speaker 1: It says Jesus was standing. He was standing by the
Speaker 1: sea of Galilee, the lake of Gannessere Kinnareth. The literal
Speaker 1: name means harp, like the instrument, the harp, because it
Speaker 1: was shaped kind of like that. That's what the literal
Speaker 1: name kinnereth means which is appropriate because Jesus is standing
Speaker 1: by the sea, which will be the scene of the
Speaker 1: greatest demonstrations of his power. In scripture, it wasn't just
Speaker 1: a body of water. It was for him a classroom,
Speaker 1: a faith. He had an advantage over me in preaching one,
Speaker 1: He's Jesus. Two, he had nature as a backdrop to
Speaker 1: illustrate and to validate his words. So when I teach
Speaker 1: you about a storm, you've got a padded chair in
Speaker 1: an air conditioned room, climate controlled to we keep it
Speaker 1: cold here fifty nine degrees. We do that to keep
Speaker 1: you awake. But Jesus, I think that the fact that
Speaker 1: he was standing by the sea of Galilee, the shape
Speaker 1: like a harp, is an indication that this body of
Speaker 1: water would be an instrument in the hands of the
Speaker 1: master teacher to give the lessons that his disciples would
Speaker 1: need after he had left them in the body, to
Speaker 1: carry on with the task of spreading the gospel. It's
Speaker 1: much more effective to teach about how to change a
Speaker 1: flat tire if you have one right now. It's much
Speaker 1: more effective to teach about how to survive a storm
Speaker 1: if you're going through one right now. So when Jesus
Speaker 1: taught his disciples about faith, it was not a doctrinal seminar.
Speaker 1: It was not a the false uh what fear is
Speaker 1: false evidence appearing real or whatever the acronym is. That
Speaker 1: you heard these things before. It wasn't cute. It was
Speaker 1: a matter of life and death. So when they learned
Speaker 1: the lesson of faith, it was against the backdrop of
Speaker 1: their greatest fear. He was standing by the lake. Peter
Speaker 1: didn't know what would happen on that lake. Peter didn't
Speaker 1: know one day he'd be walking on that water coming
Speaker 1: to Jesus. He certainly didn't know when he stepped out
Speaker 1: of the boat to walk on the water that five
Speaker 1: seconds later he'd be gasping for breath. Save me, Lord.
Speaker 1: But Jesus knew that at that moment. It is called
Speaker 1: the foreknowledge of God, or, if you like, predestination. It
Speaker 1: means that Jesus saw Peter walking on the water before
Speaker 1: he ever even got in Peter's boat. It means Jesus
Speaker 1: knew he would help Peter up before Peter ever started
Speaker 1: to sink. It means that Jesus knew what would happen
Speaker 1: to you in your childhood before he called you into
Speaker 1: this season of your own parenting. It means that Jesus
Speaker 1: knew that you would be at church today because somebody
Speaker 1: dragged you so he could get you this word that
Speaker 1: he needs you to hear. He knew. God knows. We
Speaker 1: say that almost like a cuss word. God knows. Oh,
Speaker 1: God knows when the kids are going to be back
Speaker 1: in school full time. God knows. And the alphabeta, gamma,
Speaker 1: delta variants are all gonna pass through and we can
Speaker 1: all go back. God knows who's gonna be in White House,
Speaker 1: and God knows. God knows what's gonna happen on the sea.
Speaker 1: One time. I'm sorry, y'all. I know I'm like over
Speaker 1: excited and it's a little off pudding. But by one time,
Speaker 1: one time he sent the disciples ahead of him into
Speaker 1: a storm and stayed back and prayed. I said he
Speaker 1: sent them into a storm. I said, he sent them
Speaker 1: into a storm. Oh well, well, maybe maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: know it was gonna Maybe he didn't check the weather
Speaker 1: before he sent him out. His word is the weather forecast,
Speaker 1: ask Elijah. Elijah said, it's not gonna rain until I
Speaker 1: say so again. From the word of God that comes
Speaker 1: from my mouth. If Elijah had that kind of power
Speaker 1: the prophet of or nature, what kind of power does
Speaker 1: Jesus have over the situations of your life. He's God,
Speaker 1: he's sovereign, he's the bread of life. He's the solid rock,
Speaker 1: and he's the living water. Oh yeah, the solid rock
Speaker 1: we sing about on Christ, the solid rock I stand absolutely,
Speaker 1: He's a firm foundation. He's the same yesterday, today, in forever.
Speaker 1: God doesn't change like the shadows change. God doesn't change
Speaker 1: like your best friend changes. God doesn't change like your
Speaker 1: hair color changes. God doesn't change like cultural climates change.
Speaker 1: But seeing the same, God, who could be called the
Speaker 1: solid rock, is also the living water. He was standing
Speaker 1: by the sea because he wanted to teach you that
Speaker 1: real faith not only has to be solid, it has
Speaker 1: to be fluid. Why do you teach on the body
Speaker 1: of water. Well, one, because the storm will help you
Speaker 1: learn the lesson. But number two, the same way that
Speaker 1: that sea operates, it's the same way that faith operates,
Speaker 1: which is why I think he liked a fisherman to
Speaker 1: be his disciples. See, a fisherman has to know that
Speaker 1: the fish that were here an hour ago might not
Speaker 1: be here an hour from now. The fish that weren't
Speaker 1: here an hour ago might be here now. To follow
Speaker 1: Jesus is to flow with Jesus. What better place for
Speaker 1: him to call a disciple than standing by the lake. See,
Speaker 1: Jesus hasn't even said anything yet, and he's already preaching.
Speaker 1: He's already preaching just by where he's standing. He's standing
Speaker 1: by the lake, and he's like, hey, everybody, look before
Speaker 1: up in my mouth. You see this, See how it's
Speaker 1: calm right now. It might not be calm tomorrow. Life
Speaker 1: is like that, but you could trust me. You need
Speaker 1: an anchor for your soul. So remember, men can communicate
Speaker 1: with nonverbals. So Jesus is standing by the lake of
Speaker 1: Gennesaret Kenerett the harp. He's gonna play this lake like
Speaker 1: an instrument. He's gonna conduct the wind in the waves
Speaker 1: like a symphony to bring these disciples to greater faith.
Speaker 1: Y'all got a clap on that right there, to know
Speaker 1: that Jesus is conducting even the conflict of my life.
Speaker 1: That Jesus says, waves, that's enough. They got this lesson.
Speaker 1: In fact, he might speak it to you right now
Speaker 1: if you listen, Peace be still, Waves die down, at
Speaker 1: his command, because he has all authority. Even the wind
Speaker 1: in the waves, obeying, even the wind in the waves,
Speaker 1: obey the one who was standing by the way. Is
Speaker 1: it good? It was to me. I had the best
Speaker 1: time with God preparing this message. I was licking the
Speaker 1: bowl all week. Ah. I know there have been any
Speaker 1: left for you. Ah. They were crying around listening word
Speaker 1: to God. And then verse two says, so he stood
Speaker 1: in verse one, but watch this verse two. He saw
Speaker 1: he saw at the water's edge two boats left there
Speaker 1: by the fishermen. Now in this way, Jesus is like Holly.
Speaker 1: He had options. I don't think. I don't think. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we take that into account that God could have given
Speaker 1: somebody else, those kids to raise two boats. Everybody say,
Speaker 1: two boats, that'd be a good rapper name. We got
Speaker 1: li YACHTI and we got two boats. When he saw
Speaker 1: two boats left there by the fishermen who were washing
Speaker 1: their nets, I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: use that yet, but I want to point it out
Speaker 1: to you. They were washing their nets. It was over
Speaker 1: for the night. It was over. The reason I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move past that is because I need to
Speaker 1: show you verse three, he got in. He got into
Speaker 1: one of the boats, the one belonging to who. Now
Speaker 1: Peter is going to preach on the day of Pentecost,
Speaker 1: but he's still Simon at this moment. Peter is gonna
Speaker 1: give his life for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. History
Speaker 1: tells us he died as a martyr. He's going to
Speaker 1: write two epistles, first and Second Peter, appropriately titled don't
Speaker 1: you think now? First and second Simon. Yeah, first and
Speaker 1: second Peter. That's the potential of who he can be
Speaker 1: sef in the Hebrew Petrus, in the Greek rock little rock,
Speaker 1: not big rock. That's Jesus on this rock. I will
Speaker 1: build my church big rock, little rock, Peter. Peter's the
Speaker 1: pebble skipping across the Sea of Galilee to create a
Speaker 1: ripple effect of the gospel that would carry to us today.
Speaker 1: But he's not even Peter the pebble yet, he's still Simon.
Speaker 1: I gotta make a confession to y'all. I'm still Stephen.
Speaker 1: I know I need to be pastor for at least
Speaker 1: about twenty five more minutes. And I'm not a hypocrite.
Speaker 1: I don't go home and kick the dog I've already
Speaker 1: told you I don't have a dog. I'm not getting one,
Speaker 1: she said, yet false prophet on the front bro security.
Speaker 1: But y'all, he got in and then asked him to
Speaker 1: put out a little from shore. Isn't that the opposite order?
Speaker 1: Look at verse three. You need to see this. He
Speaker 1: got into Peter's boat and then asked him could use it.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking protocol is the other way around. Right,
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, Go get in a car
Speaker 1: after church and then ask the person if it's all
Speaker 1: right if you drive it and see how it works out.
Speaker 1: My mind says it must already be his. It must
Speaker 1: already be his. When Graham came in to see me
Speaker 1: today and said, you know, oh, I like your jacket,
Speaker 1: I said, I like your slides. I said, but those
Speaker 1: look like mine. He said, no, I got him from Elijah.
Speaker 1: I said, turn it over, it was mine. He said,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. When I asked Elijah, could I borrow it?
Speaker 1: He said, get your own drip. But he actually got
Speaker 1: it out of your closet. So here's the point. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. Your boat is borrowed. Your boat is borrowed.
Speaker 1: Any drip you have any intelligence you have, in fact,
Speaker 1: every breath you have. That's why we praise him. Because
Speaker 1: the breath is borrowed. The breath is borrowed. The breath
Speaker 1: is borrowed. If you ever been in the hospital, you
Speaker 1: get a new appreciation. The breath is borrow So now
Speaker 1: let everything that happen bread give it back, give it back,
Speaker 1: give it back, give it back it start. God, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you twenty one seconds to give it back
Speaker 1: the people, tall ship money twenty one Look at you,
Speaker 1: you'll turn buy there, you'll start in some start and storm.
Speaker 1: So bobo y, it was Sacy when I've made it,
Speaker 1: it was you waiting. But I'm sad it was Windy
Speaker 1: Sonny picked me up. Come on, if you can't sell
Speaker 1: at least not just knocking like this, not not up,
Speaker 1: not down, not all around, take it back and forth. No, deevil,
Speaker 1: you can't have it with no long s. No, don't
Speaker 1: take your hand like this. Come on, you can't have
Speaker 1: my kids, you can't out my house. You can't after me.
Speaker 1: You'll get out my brave Samo and n boat. Not
Speaker 1: if I'm talking to you. You don't even have to
Speaker 1: let any body know what you're nodding about just nod
Speaker 1: at your neighbor. So yeah he did it, Yeah he
Speaker 1: did it. He got in my boat, And I'm still Simon.
Speaker 1: I ain't challenges. How can you believe that you have
Speaker 1: the potential to be Peter when you act so much
Speaker 1: like Simon, the inner Simon. I gotta put some cardio
Speaker 1: in the regiment. If we're gonna preach like this in church.
Speaker 1: Let me show you another scripture, turning the pages, give
Speaker 1: me a minute to start. Ah, just say I'm still Simon.
Speaker 1: Say I'm still Simon. You either Simon or you're lying.
Speaker 1: When connotation of Simon is is like a read, it
Speaker 1: means he hears. And it's so funny because Simon's name
Speaker 1: means he listens. But he's in trouble only when he's talking.
Speaker 1: Only when he's talking. We fished all night and caught nothing.
Speaker 1: Shut up Simon. Maybe that's what I'll call the message,
Speaker 1: shut up Simon, because sometimes I need my Simon on
Speaker 1: the inside, the one who's always saying, Oh, you're so stupid,
Speaker 1: and you're so weak, and look at you, you're so dumb,
Speaker 1: and everything's so horrible, and everybody they too dumb, and
Speaker 1: two and that's it. I needn't. Let's just play the
Speaker 1: quiet game, all right, all right, Simon, let's find a
Speaker 1: game on your iPad. You shut up, because Peter, Peter
Speaker 1: has a purpose to accomplish. And I need to flow
Speaker 1: right now with God and follow Jesus in the season
Speaker 1: of my life. And I can't be this little child
Speaker 1: anymore that's always listening to my screaming, emotional five year
Speaker 1: old in the back seat telling me to pull over.
Speaker 1: We can't do it because it's too hard and nobody
Speaker 1: appreciates me. Be quiet, Simon, Is that better? Be quiet? Simon?
Speaker 1: Shut up, Simon, Shut up, Simon. I don't want to
Speaker 1: feel bad, y'all say it. Shut up, Simon, put it
Speaker 1: in the chat. Shut up, Simon. Let Peter preach. There's
Speaker 1: a Peter in me too, Pabal rock firm, small but
Speaker 1: a solid. And then there's Simon. The scripture I want
Speaker 1: to show you is Luke twenty two. I was looking
Speaker 1: at it because I wanted to break it down where
Speaker 1: you could really get it and not just go, oh,
Speaker 1: that's nice, but really get it. When Jesus was eating
Speaker 1: Passover with his disciples before he went to Jerusalem. Remember
Speaker 1: Jerusalem is where he died. See of Galilee, kinnerethe harp
Speaker 1: That's where he lived, That's where he ministered, that's where
Speaker 1: he based. But Jerusalem is where he was always headed.
Speaker 1: So whereas ministry started is not where it finished. And
Speaker 1: where your life starts is not where it finishes either, Simon.
Speaker 1: But in order to get to his purpose, he had
Speaker 1: to go through a kind of death, so that for
Speaker 1: Peter to rise, Simon kind of had to die. Yet
Speaker 1: here's what's interesting. Jesus is speaking to this disciple, one
Speaker 1: of the three church fathers. The reason the church is
Speaker 1: here today really because of what he did for the
Speaker 1: gentiles of us, who are not Jews by ethnicity, but
Speaker 1: we're in Christ spiritually, we're grafted in. That's what started
Speaker 1: me studying. I was studying when Peter took the Gospel
Speaker 1: to the gentiles. He didn't want to do it because
Speaker 1: Simon was telling him, this is not who you should
Speaker 1: preach to. This is not in the realm of your experience,
Speaker 1: this is not in your family background, this is not
Speaker 1: for you. But God knew how to pull the Peter
Speaker 1: out of Simon. God knows how to pull the grown
Speaker 1: man out of you, the grown woman out of you,
Speaker 1: the patience out of you, the fortitude out of you,
Speaker 1: the discipline out of you. He knows how to pull
Speaker 1: the Peter out assignment. But even after Jesus changed his
Speaker 1: name to Peter. And I don't have time to show
Speaker 1: you that. But he said, he said, Jesus said, who
Speaker 1: do you say I am? He said, you're the Christist
Speaker 1: in a living God. She said, you are Peter. I am.
Speaker 1: You are tubble, And upon this rock I'll build my church.
Speaker 1: You're a pebble. You're made of the same stuff as me.
Speaker 1: You're made in the image of God. You're Peter. You
Speaker 1: don't even know what you're made of yet. You don't
Speaker 1: even know what you're made up yet. And when people
Speaker 1: tell you, oh, just do you, that'd be fine if
Speaker 1: you knew you. And one day I'm going to preach
Speaker 1: a message called do the new you in e W
Speaker 1: do the new you. If anyone is in Christ, he
Speaker 1: is a new creation. So when people say do you,
Speaker 1: we use that as an excuse. Oh, throw a ten partantrum.
Speaker 1: Do you just be however you are? Do you? Are?
Speaker 1: You still taking advice from your fifth grade yearbook, Raise
Speaker 1: hell over the summer and never change No, I'm changing
Speaker 1: like the sea is changing. I'm changing like the seasons
Speaker 1: are changing. And God is pulling the the Peter, the
Speaker 1: solid out of the Stephen. He doesn't hate Simon, he said,
Speaker 1: you are Peter. Deeper in you, there is purpose on
Speaker 1: the surface, there is stuff that keeps you from seeing it.
Speaker 1: But God, what do you see in me? Beneath the
Speaker 1: sand of Stephen, beneath the sand of Simon, feelings and
Speaker 1: paths and pain and trauma? What do you see in me?
Speaker 1: Jesus said, you're Peter. That confession you made you were
Speaker 1: the Christ, the son I live in God. You know
Speaker 1: who I am, and I'm gonna show you who you
Speaker 1: are because you don't even know yet. And this is
Speaker 1: a grown man and he's just discovering who he is.
Speaker 1: Who told you that's all you could be. I don't
Speaker 1: let anybody tell me what I can do because I'm white,
Speaker 1: or because I'm short, or because i'm forty one, or
Speaker 1: because I'm a man, or because I'm from Monk's corner.
Speaker 1: You don't get to tell me that what you see
Speaker 1: on me might have nothing to do with what God
Speaker 1: sees in me. No, I got the nod from God
Speaker 1: that's the third nod. I didn't tell you about that one.
Speaker 1: There's the up nod, the down nod, and the god nod.
Speaker 1: When God gives you the nod, he doesn't look around
Speaker 1: to see who agrees. Yeh, aren't you glad? He doesn't
Speaker 1: ask your ex he doesn't ask your why, he doesn't
Speaker 1: ask your z. He doesn't ask any of that. He
Speaker 1: doesn't look around. Y'all good with that, y'all good. If
Speaker 1: I bless her, y'all good. If I send her a
Speaker 1: new person, y'all good. If I forgive him, y'all good.
Speaker 1: If I use him anyway, y'all good. If I'm raising
Speaker 1: them off, y'all good. If I use this boat. He
Speaker 1: didn't ask any of that. He got in. He got
Speaker 1: into the boat before eat it even asked Peter if
Speaker 1: Peter wanted to be Peter. He just said, that's what
Speaker 1: you are. He even asks, he just got it, you
Speaker 1: are Peter. But watch this in Luke chapter twenty two,
Speaker 1: he's about to go to the cross. He said it
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem. Peter doesn't want him to go. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: let's keep going on to sea. I keep I keep
Speaker 1: picking her. You around in this boat, we can preach
Speaker 1: and heal and do this stuff. But he had to die.
Speaker 1: He had to die to pay for your sin. He
Speaker 1: had to die to pay the ultimate price for you
Speaker 1: so you could put your faith in him. He had
Speaker 1: to die so Simon could be come Peter, so as
Speaker 1: the spirit could come. Peter wanted to keep Jesus from
Speaker 1: doing the very thing that would make him who he
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. And Jesus is telling the disciples,
Speaker 1: this is not going to go good. I'm going to
Speaker 1: rise in three days, but you're all going to fall away.
Speaker 1: And he turns to one disciple and says, Simon Simon.
Speaker 1: In scripture, too is covenant. Two means covenant Moses. Moses
Speaker 1: take off their shoes when he says the name twice
Speaker 1: is covenant his partnership. I got you two boats, Simon, Simon.
Speaker 1: Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
Speaker 1: But I pray for you, Simon. Aren't you glad that
Speaker 1: Jesus prays for Simon, not just Peter, that he sticks
Speaker 1: with Simon, not just Peter. I bet Jesus is proud
Speaker 1: of me when I preach good. I bet he's still
Speaker 1: in love with me when I hurt when I struggle,
Speaker 1: and I need that because I am a pastor. I'm
Speaker 1: still Stephen. Put your name in the chat right now.
Speaker 1: I'm still say your name and say it out loud.
Speaker 1: I'm still don't let the hard surface spool you. I
Speaker 1: know I was lifting my hands in worship, but I
Speaker 1: don't always act like that. I don't always walk around
Speaker 1: the ball field give God a praise, come on, give
Speaker 1: him praise in the dugout. And even sometimes I hate
Speaker 1: to tell you this, but sometimes Stephen comes out in
Speaker 1: places where pastor is supposed to be. Y'all are acting real, real,
Speaker 1: real judicy in here. Today. I was out to eat
Speaker 1: with this other preacher and he's like the nicest person
Speaker 1: in the world, not the nicest preacher, the nicest person
Speaker 1: in the world. Right We're far away from home, having
Speaker 1: a meal together, and I can tell you who the
Speaker 1: preacher was. You could probably figure out the nicest person
Speaker 1: in the world. I leave the table having great conversation.
Speaker 1: Families are there, and I'm going to the bathroom. This
Speaker 1: is a few months ago. And as I go around
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, it's a small space, so you know,
Speaker 1: there's a whole other thing. Men nodding is something I
Speaker 1: can teach you. Men in the bathroom is a whole
Speaker 1: other breakout session for We'll do a men's night about this.
Speaker 1: There's rules there too. But before I go in, it's
Speaker 1: in one seater. So before I go in, there's a
Speaker 1: dude there talking loud on his phone, sitting right outside
Speaker 1: the bathroom door, and it's cramp. So I say, he's
Speaker 1: got no mask on. He's talking on the phone, just
Speaker 1: over there, talking on the phone. And it's a one seater,
Speaker 1: and I say, this is this is protocol, right, I say,
Speaker 1: I say, hey, are you waiting for the bathroom? The
Speaker 1: man looks at me cold blood. It says I need
Speaker 1: six feet get back while he's talking on the phone,
Speaker 1: spitting on me. Because what I'm hearing is you, oh,
Speaker 1: you need you want to be six feet under? You
Speaker 1: want me to kill you, That's what you're saying. Because
Speaker 1: I'm still Steven. But I looked around real quick. I'm like,
Speaker 1: anybody know me in here? I'm far away from home.
Speaker 1: And then and then, my have you ever had your
Speaker 1: inner Peter? Just in time? Kick in? I mean just
Speaker 1: in the nick of time, right I Stephen is coming
Speaker 1: out like right as Hebrew and Greek words are coming
Speaker 1: out right as I'm about to speak in tongues and
Speaker 1: tell him about six feet, I'm about to put sixteen.
Speaker 1: I'm right at the moment because I'm still Stephen, and
Speaker 1: I'm doing better than I did because I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: I looked over. I was like, you cannot get in
Speaker 1: a fight while you are out to dinner with Jolo Stein.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. Joel's at the table, smiling, playing
Speaker 1: with Abby. Oh yeah, Steven, keep it down, move through it, Steven, Steven,
Speaker 1: And I'm so glad I didn't do anything but just
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. Now. I did hover her at
Speaker 1: this table a little when I walked back by just
Speaker 1: a minute, because he wasn't even big, y'all, and he
Speaker 1: was old. So as soon as I get to the table,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that Peter, that Peter won that day.
Speaker 1: Because the person that was standing to the table talk
Speaker 1: talking to Pastor Joel said Pastor Steven, and I became
Speaker 1: pastor real quick, God bless you. I did my best.
Speaker 1: Joe Joel ostein interpretation, my impersonation. Nobody knew that Stephen
Speaker 1: was still standing in that bathroom. I wanted to come
Speaker 1: out with an S on his chest. I'm not even
Speaker 1: that gonna fighter, but I'm crazy. I'm crazy. Jesus knew
Speaker 1: Peter was gonna cut off Barabbas's ear, and he called
Speaker 1: him Peter anyway. Jesus knew Peter was gonna cuss him
Speaker 1: out by the fire. Come about. I don't know him.
Speaker 1: Swear word. I don't know him, swear He knew Simon
Speaker 1: was still inside. But you know what I love about
Speaker 1: Luke five. It is a living picture of a spiritual reality. See,
Speaker 1: it's one thing for Jesus to stand by the sea,
Speaker 1: It's one thing for him to see the boat. But
Speaker 1: what freaked Peter out? Because Peter was cool with all
Speaker 1: of that. Oh you see my boat, You got in
Speaker 1: my boat. You want to use my boat, you want
Speaker 1: to preach three hours. I was trying to go home
Speaker 1: and have breakfast and just nurse myself because we didn't
Speaker 1: catch anything today. Okay, fine, we'll try it. We'll give
Speaker 1: it a try. It wasn't when Jesus saw the boat
Speaker 1: that freaked Peter out. It was the fact that he
Speaker 1: knew what was under the boat. And when Peter saw this.
Speaker 1: Give me the verse vers sake when Peter saw this. Oh, Simon, Peter,
Speaker 1: they were both in the boat. That's one I needs
Speaker 1: you to know. They're both in your boat, right, and
Speaker 1: they're both gonna stay in your boat. Oh no, Pastor Steven,
Speaker 1: I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. I'm still Simon,
Speaker 1: I'm still Simon. I can be Simon one minute, Peter
Speaker 1: five minutes later, Simon again, five minutes. Every five minutes,
Speaker 1: Simon shows up. Can we do not gonna be crazy? Now?
Speaker 1: Can we act? I don't know. Can we be mad now?
Speaker 1: Can we dinner? Now? Can we think stupid stuff? Now?
Speaker 1: Can we be weird? Now? Quiet? Peter? Shut up? Simon.
Speaker 1: He got in the one belonging to Simon. Peter. I
Speaker 1: told you both boats. Did I tell you about both boats?
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you they were both in one boat,
Speaker 1: Simon and Peter. And that's what's going on in you
Speaker 1: as I speak. There's your flesh, Simon, there's your spirit, Peter.
Speaker 1: There's your preference, Simon. There's your purpose, Peter, there's your past.
Speaker 1: Not if you know what I'm talking about. Not if
Speaker 1: Simon is sitting in the same seat with you right
Speaker 1: now while you're trying to pretend to be Peter and
Speaker 1: three honest people in South Charlotte today. I wanted to
Speaker 1: tell you that Simon and Peter were in the same
Speaker 1: boat so that you could know that Jesus got in
Speaker 1: the one belonging to Simon. In fact, he stood by
Speaker 1: the lake. He sat in the boat. I didn't even
Speaker 1: talk about Jesus sitting with the next week. We'll do
Speaker 1: that next week he spoke to Simon. But look at
Speaker 1: verse seven real quick. When their boats began to sink
Speaker 1: because of the great catch, they signaled to the other boat.
Speaker 1: You will not believe what signaled means. In the original language.
Speaker 1: It means they nodded, yes it does, Yes it does.
Speaker 1: It literally means they nodded with their heads, yes it does, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: yes yes. They couldn't use their hands they were pulling
Speaker 1: that net up. They couldn't use their voice. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: carry that far. So when James and John the other
Speaker 1: boat got the nod, they came over and both boats
Speaker 1: were so far that they began to sing. And what
Speaker 1: Peter didn't know in that moment was that the fish
Speaker 1: were only there to teach him a lesson about faith.
Speaker 1: Is that as he was drawing the nets out of
Speaker 1: the water. God was drawing the peter out of the simon.
Speaker 1: This is why he did it by the sea, so
Speaker 1: he could show you that the real stuff, the real you,
Speaker 1: is deep down inside of you, not the surface stuff,
Speaker 1: not the surface story, not the behavior, not the mistake,
Speaker 1: not the things you think. That's just a thought level.
Speaker 1: That's just the wave. But if you let down the nets,
Speaker 1: there's a great catch down there. There's a rock down there,
Speaker 1: there's a strength down there, there's a hope down there.
Speaker 1: So so God send me with a command pull it out.
Speaker 1: The nets are symbolic of you. The nets are symbolic
Speaker 1: of you. He said, I'm gonna make you fishers of men.
Speaker 1: I see something different in you than you see in you.
Speaker 1: You'll see yourself as a fisherman. And you're right, but
Speaker 1: you're not just a business man. You're a business man.
Speaker 1: That's from second jay Z. Y'all stay with me, because
Speaker 1: I hear God saying something to you. He sees something
Speaker 1: in you. And look, look, look, look like you're like
Speaker 1: it's not there. Just because it wasn't there when you
Speaker 1: fished all night doesn't mean it's not there now you
Speaker 1: hear me, you, hear me, Let me release this word.
Speaker 1: You're ready now, you're right now, it's right now. From
Speaker 1: now on, you will fish for purpose. I feel God
Speaker 1: drawing something out of your desires, drawing something out of
Speaker 1: your dreams, drawing something out of your herd, drawing out,
Speaker 1: drawing it out, and yeah, yeah, yeah, yah, y'all. Remember
Speaker 1: he's still Simon. So when he sees all the fish
Speaker 1: in his boat, he doesn't celebrate. He's scared. He's scared.
Speaker 1: Everybody who's been scared stand out. M hm m hmm.
Speaker 1: But I gotta qualify this. He wasn't scared of a battle.
Speaker 1: He was scared of a blessing who When Simon Peter
Speaker 1: saw this, he didn't see himself as Peter. Yet he's
Speaker 1: still saw himself as Simon. So you know, you can
Speaker 1: get the nod from God that he wants to choose you,
Speaker 1: but rejected inside of yourself. God's nodding it's you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use you. I'm gonna get you through this. My
Speaker 1: promises are yes and amen. Before you were born, I
Speaker 1: set you apart. Do not say I am only a youth.
Speaker 1: Don't say I'm just a fisherman. God is not in
Speaker 1: like this, and everything in Simon is saying no, not me,
Speaker 1: Lord show him the scripture? Is it? Eight? Is that
Speaker 1: the verse when Simon Peter both in the same boat,
Speaker 1: just like two voices in your head right now, in
Speaker 1: the same sentence, Simon and Peter in the same boat,
Speaker 1: in the same body, in the same moment, in the
Speaker 1: same experience. Because this can either this season is testing.
Speaker 1: It can either sift all the signing out and leave
Speaker 1: you strong like Peter, or it can cause you to
Speaker 1: give up on yourself. So Peter Simon speaks, Lord, I
Speaker 1: see this success amazing. He is scared of his success
Speaker 1: because he is aware of his brokenness. Am I talking
Speaker 1: about you? Am I talking about me? Am I talking
Speaker 1: about all the things that we try to push away
Speaker 1: that God wants to bring in our life, Because go
Speaker 1: away from me, Lord, I'm a sinful man. And Jesus
Speaker 1: is like, you don't think I knew when I got
Speaker 1: in your boat. You don't think I knew both were
Speaker 1: in the boat, Simon and Peter, weakness and strength, faith
Speaker 1: and fear. I got in and you're not going to
Speaker 1: tell me when to get out. I heard God saying that,
Speaker 1: look the way this is a prophetic word for somebody.
Speaker 1: So stay with me. The way you do with people,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get to do with Jesus. When
Speaker 1: people get too close and they're good to you and
Speaker 1: they love you, you push them away, You disqualify it,
Speaker 1: you don't hear. It rolls off of you like water.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get to do that with Jesus.
Speaker 1: I remember a difficult season me and Hollywood with I
Speaker 1: already told you how wonderful we are. We'll listen to this.
Speaker 1: There was a time, it's been several years ago, I
Speaker 1: was just going through. I guess I was being sifted.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like you don't have what
Speaker 1: it takes, all the Simon stuff. Simon says, Simon says,
Speaker 1: you're an idiot. Simon says, touch your ear, your other ear.
Speaker 1: Simon didn't say. Simon doesn't get to say who is Simon?
Speaker 1: And he gets to say what a dumb game? Simon said,
Speaker 1: go away. Jesus said, you don't get to say. I
Speaker 1: say so, Yeah, Simon, Simon satan Is asked to sit
Speaker 1: your feet, but I prayed for you that your faith
Speaker 1: would not fail. Yeah, they're with it. They're with it.
Speaker 1: Go back to that scripture, and when you have turned back,
Speaker 1: strengthened your brethren. Next verse, next verse, next verse, next verse.
Speaker 1: And he replied, Lord, I'm ready to go with you
Speaker 1: to prison and to death. Next verse. And Jesus answered,
Speaker 1: I tell you, Peter, when Satan is through sifting you,
Speaker 1: all that's gonna be left is the Peter that you
Speaker 1: really are. But that's not what I wanted to show you.
Speaker 1: I wanted to show you that, just like Jesus got
Speaker 1: in Simon's bote without asking how many of you requested
Speaker 1: to be born, how many of you requested to be
Speaker 1: five foot eight and a half. I'm rounding up on
Speaker 1: five foot nine. How many of you requested to go
Speaker 1: through the rejection, the experience? No, no, no, Jesus got
Speaker 1: in the boat and you don't get to tell him
Speaker 1: when to get out. So imagine if Jesus had listened
Speaker 1: to Simon says get away, Lord, He's like, all right, James, John,
Speaker 1: y'all got room over there for me. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. When Peter got done with all of that,
Speaker 1: go away from me, Lord, Because the fishing is boat,
Speaker 1: it reminded him. He sees a boat full of fish,
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh God, he doesn't know what's in me.
Speaker 1: He sees you. Think he could see the fish at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the Sea of Galilee, and he can't
Speaker 1: see the sin at the bottom of you. He's Jesus.
Speaker 1: If he saw the fish that were under the boat,
Speaker 1: he saw the Simon that was in the boat, and
Speaker 1: he still got in, and he still shows you. And
Speaker 1: I have prayed for you, Simon. I have prayed for you, Simon.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to Simon, don't be afraid. I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you how to do this. Don't be afraid. Just like
Speaker 1: you were mending your nets, I'm gonna mend you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do with you, and I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 1: This is the spirit of the Lord. Simon's been talking
Speaker 1: to you all week. Let the Spirit talk for a moment.
Speaker 1: Jesus is not Siri. We don't give him little commands.
Speaker 1: Let him talk for a minute. You keep telling God
Speaker 1: what you're not, what you can't. You keep telling yourself
Speaker 1: all that Simon was only in trouble when he was speaking.
Speaker 1: Let Peter talk for a moment. Let the God party
Speaker 1: you talk for Let the Holy Spirit talk to you.
Speaker 1: Let Jesus tell you what to do. Because you say so,
Speaker 1: I will let down the nutes. Oh God, how many
Speaker 1: opportunities have you pushed away because I don't want to
Speaker 1: let you down? How much love have you pushed away
Speaker 1: because I don't want you to see me like I
Speaker 1: really am? You know a lot of us go through
Speaker 1: life with an operating belief. If you really saw me,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't like me. If I let you close, I'll
Speaker 1: let you down. If I let you close, you'll let
Speaker 1: me down. And after Peter got up off of his knees,
Speaker 1: Jesus was still nodding. I'm still gonna use you. You
Speaker 1: can deny me, but when you're faithless, I'm faithful. Remember
Speaker 1: I got in the boat, I made the first man.
Speaker 1: And you're not getting rid of God that easily. You
Speaker 1: tried to run from him. How'd that work out? You're
Speaker 1: in church, some of you. It popped up in the algorithm.
Speaker 1: You were searching for online gambling tips, and I came on,
Speaker 1: it's God. You're not getting away that easily. You'm a puh.
Speaker 1: He's right here. The sea is a lesson, The nets
Speaker 1: are a lesson. Let him wash the nets, let him
Speaker 1: in the nets. Father, I'm I'm so thankful. I can't
Speaker 1: hardly stand it right now. I was so scared that
Speaker 1: I would try to communicate this, but I wouldn't I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know how to say it. But I felt your
Speaker 1: grace for the last hour, and now I want to
Speaker 1: ask you to do something amazing. God, Draw it out,
Speaker 1: Draw it out of them. The change starts after the
Speaker 1: sermon ends. When Jesus had finished speaking, he turned to
Speaker 1: Simon and said, it's one thing for you to speak
Speaker 1: to a crowd, Lord, it's another thing for you to
Speaker 1: speak to your child by name. I'm asking God that
Speaker 1: you would speak to every Simon, draw out every Peter.
Speaker 1: There's great purpose in this room. There is great purpose
Speaker 1: at the bottom of all of that shifting sand. And
Speaker 1: we believe you know what's under the boat, what's in
Speaker 1: the boat, what's on the boat? Most of all, who's
Speaker 1: in the boat. Lift your hands. Tell the Lord out loud.
Speaker 1: It is your boat. And you knew, God, you knew
Speaker 1: when you got in this boat. This Simon was stupid.
Speaker 1: You knew when you got in this boat. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to send you away going forward.
Speaker 1: Right now, in this moment, there is an invitation for
Speaker 1: someone who needs to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord
Speaker 1: and savior. So put your hands down for a moment,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask you to raise your hand
Speaker 1: again in just a moment. All over the world online,
Speaker 1: right here in this room, Simon, Simon, is God calling
Speaker 1: your name? Is this your day to give God your life?
Speaker 1: You did it before. You fished all night, you caught nothing,
Speaker 1: and here you are with empty nets. That's good. That's
Speaker 1: room for Jesus in the boat. Now. I believe that
Speaker 1: everybody can get something from this message. But for somebody,
Speaker 1: this message is everything, the moment that the grace of
Speaker 1: God is coming into your life. Don't worry about fixing
Speaker 1: your nets yet. That's God's job. You just let him
Speaker 1: in your heart. It is by grace through faith we
Speaker 1: are saved. And you may not get this moment back,
Speaker 1: not just like this. This is a holy moment with
Speaker 1: our heads bout and our eyes closed. I'm going to
Speaker 1: pray a prayer. The prayer is not magical, it's just
Speaker 1: an invitation. The Bible says that if you confess with
Speaker 1: your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your
Speaker 1: heart that God raised him from the dead. You will
Speaker 1: be saved. So right now I'm going to lead you
Speaker 1: in a prayer. I want you to repeat this prayer
Speaker 1: out loud after me. If you are ready to repent
Speaker 1: of your sin, place your faith in Christ, and make
Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord of your life. I want you to
Speaker 1: repeat this prayer out loud after me. This is your moment.
Speaker 1: God is stepping into your boat. God is stepping into
Speaker 1: your spirit. God is stepping into your life. Repeat after me,
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, I am a sinner, You are a savior.
Speaker 1: Come into my life. I believe you died for me
Speaker 1: and rose again to give me life. I receive this
Speaker 1: new life. This is my new beginning. I am a
Speaker 1: child of God. On three, raise your hand in the air.
Speaker 1: If you pray that pray that prayer, one two three,
Speaker 1: shoot it up right now, right now, right now. We
Speaker 1: celebrate you, Ah. We celebrate the grace of God on
Speaker 1: your life. We celebrate the grace of God in your boat,
Speaker 1: in your home, in your marriage. We celebrate your new beginning.
Speaker 1: If he's a name, come on, give God a great
Speaker 1: braid all over the her. You've got a pretty praise praising.
Speaker 1: If you receive this work today raising if you receive
Speaker 1: this work today. Hello, nod if you got it, you
Speaker 1: got the nod, you got God. No, you're the one
Speaker 1: I want to You're the one I chose, and you're
Speaker 1: not getting rid of me that easily. M hmm. That
Speaker 1: dark moment I told you about with Holly. She looked
Speaker 1: at me and she said, I'm not going anywhere. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just not that good as you think
Speaker 1: I am. I'm not that good. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: as good pastor as y'all think. She said, well, you're
Speaker 1: the one we've got, so show up. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: that to you. He got in the boat belonging to Simon.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to pick this up next week. Well,
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