WEBVTT - The God Nod 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.639 Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment, 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.880 but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.280 It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.840 November fourth. You got to go to Elevation Nights dot 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.360 com to see if we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.320 It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:22.680 I want to see you there. I want to see 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.959 you and everybody that you know there. Go to Elevation 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.639 Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.680 Here's the message, but we are coming to the following 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.960 cities Atlanta and Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.720 and Jacksonville. So get your tickets now. Some are already 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.239 sold out, but maybe you can. Maybe you can pray 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.440 and the Lord go answer. I have so much to 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.839 share with you. I want you to sit down and 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.600 get ready for the Word of God. Turning your Bible 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:58.720 to Luke chapter five, verse one through eleven, you're like, WHOA, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:00.680 this is not how we do it. You give us 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.440 the scripture. Then we sit down, all right, but were's 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.480 changing around with it? So sit down. I'm not going 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.319 to give you my title yet either. So if you 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.480 need something to write down, because some of you are 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.240 so ocd that you you can't hear anything I say 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.520 until you have a title to write down. So write 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.800 down Luke five one through eleven. Then use that for 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:30.840 a title for now and Luke five one through eleven. Ah, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.520 I went on a whole journey this week to get 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.320 to this passage because I started toward the end of 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:50.520 Peter's ministry and in discovering the great faith that he 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.200 finished with in his life, it led me all the 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.680 way back to the moment when God called him. And 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.560 this is what we're going to study today. This may 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.120 be a two week sermon. This may be a two 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.919 weeks sermon, so you don't need to be nervous. If 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.880 I'm not done, I we'll leave and we'll see you 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.360 in seven days and I'll finish it up. One day, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.079 as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Ganessaret, sea 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.840 of Galilee said another name for it in the Old Testament, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.760 it was Kinneret. That was the town that was around. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.560 So the Lake of Ganessaret or the Sea of Galilee, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:34.200 the region where Jesus based his ministry. The people were 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:40.640 crowding around him, ignoring the social distancing mandates of the 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.720 County of Galilee, and listening to the word of God. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.920 He saw at the water's edge two boats left there 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.760 by the fishermen who were washing their nets or mending 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.640 their nets. He got into one of the boats, the 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.920 one belonging to Simon, asked him to put out a 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.880 little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:11.160 people from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.720 said to Simon, put out into deep water and let 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.919 down the nets for catch. Simon answered, Master, We've worked 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.520 hard all night and I haven't caught anything. But because 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.520 you say so, this kind of makes me think the 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.560 disciples were teenagers. Peter is rolling his eyes, but I'm 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:38.840 gonna do it. I will let down the nets. And 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.760 when they had done so, they caught such a large 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.960 number of fish that their nets began to break. So 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.000 they signaled their partners in the other boat to come 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.480 and help them, and they came and filled both boats 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.240 so full that they begin to sink. So God said, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:05.920 I want to upgrade your problems. I don't want to 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.000 take away your problems. Stop praying. God is going to 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.000 take away your problems. He said, I want to give 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:16.159 you HQP high quality problems. What kind of problems you 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:22.279 want this year? Empty nets or sinking boats? So stop complaining. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:29.120 You're so busy. That's the proof of life is the problems. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.240 All right, God can clear your schedule real quick. I'm 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.400 saying you could die. Your schedule will be clear real quick. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.160 And they done to the cast such a large number 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.600 of fish that their nets begin to break. So they 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.880 signaled their partners in the other boat to come and 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.159 help them, and they came and filled both boats so 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.119 full that they begin to sing. So when Simon Peter 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:59.279 saw this, he fell at Jesus's knees and said, go 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:05.279 away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man. For 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.279 he and all his companions were astonished at the catch 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.440 of fish they had taken, and so were James and John, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.760 the sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus, this is 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.800 where I feel the oil for today's message. Then Jesus 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.840 said to Simon, don't be afraid. From now on you 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.560 will fish for people. I don't know about you, but 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:35.400 that's not very comforting to me. It's actually scarier you're 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.160 gonna fish for We're gonna what How does that work? 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:44.000 And fish for people? That's actually it's kind of creepy. Jesus, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.640 where you can fish for people conjures up a lot 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.880 of images, you know. But it says they pulled their 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.560 boats up on shore, left everything and followed him. Now, 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.560 I don't want to make light of the passage, but 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.840 it is. It is a humorous exchange, and it's one 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.880 of the most familiar pasts just for people who come 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.719 to this church, because I end up here about once 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.840 or twice a year. But I'll tell you why I 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.880 end up here because it helps me with a question 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.040 that I'm always wrestling with. Just all the time. I 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.280 feel like I'm always wrestling with this question, and it's God, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.200 what do you see in me? I want you to 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.440 put that question in the chat or in your phone 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:26.640 or right there on your scroll, your your notebook. God, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.600 what do you see in me? Now? Before I came 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.240 out to preach, my oldest son said, I like your jacket. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:45.240 He liked what he saw on me. But that's a jacket. God, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.160 what do you see in me? That's the first thing 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.200 people notice. What's on you? Oh, you got a haircut. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.400 Oh you lost seven pounds. They don't know. Oh, you 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:06.719 gained bitterness. So God, say it out loud, God, what 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:12.040 do you see in me? That's a great prayer. God, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.760 What do you see in me? I know what my 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:23.840 family says about me. I know what I see in me, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.520 But what do you see in me? God? What do 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.600 you see in me? I think in a good marriage, 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.240 both people feel a little lucky that the other one 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.560 shows them. And I can't give you a Bible verse 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.000 for this, but I think in a good marriage, a 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.880 healthy marriage, as the years go on, you feel a 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.280 little bit like, Wow, I can't believe I get to 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.200 be married to you. I certainly feel that way about Holly. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:53.800 I'm not just saying it for points. And we don't 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.640 do this whole dysfunctional marriage thing where we'd like run 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.480 a sitcom in our house and just put each other 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.920 down all the time. Y'all can do that if you want. Oh, well, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.360 that's you know, culturally, that's normal. I don't care us 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:11.520 culturally normal. I want to be spiritually whole. And so, yeah, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.360 we fight, and yeah we we we kind of you 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.600 know what, We don't fight as much as they did 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.680 on all the shows. I watch King of Queens and 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.880 all these shows where they just fighting all the time. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.320 That's not how we view marriage. And one thing that 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.640 I've said to Holly before is what did you see 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.440 in me? She won't tell you all this, but she 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.480 They were lined up to date her when she came 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.880 to North Greenville College. It was a Christian school. She 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.480 had the whole book of Philippians memorized, and she had 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.440 and she's beautiful, and so everybody wanted to talk to Holly. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.319 And she had this little exclusivity claus because she was 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.520 dating Jesus for a year, which a little side note, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.959 only made her more attractive because men love a chase. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.800 So now I gotta wait till this year with Jesus, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.160 and it just made it that much more appealing and alluring. Anyway, 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.360 I have wonder. I promise you this all goes together. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:02.880 I promise some of you us your first time here, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.920 and you're like, he needs medication. No, I promise you. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.360 This is all part of my message. There's a little 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.160 part of me that says, how do you? But you 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.120 know what, She's said the same thing to me before. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:17.680 She's like, why'd you just meet a marriage? And I don't. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.800 I don't know if you I don't know if you're 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:24.320 cann relate to this. I just knew she's like I 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.320 wasn't a great girlfriend. She was still learning how to 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.400 relate in that way and dating Jesus and all this stuff. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.720 But she goes, it must have been something that you 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.160 saw in me. I mean, no, it's I mean, it's 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.120 easy to see, if you want to know the truth 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.120 how I feel about your appearance. But it was really 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:50.520 deeper than that. Of course, I couldn't see all the 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.320 support that she would bring in the love that she 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.000 would bring at this moment. And I don't share this 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:56.880 for UI guy thing. But we're coming up on twenty 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:03.440 years of marriage this June, and I don't know where 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.319 we're going to celebrate, but it's going to be expensive, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.920 and we're going there a long time, and we are 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.000 leaving our kids and turning off our phones and praying 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:21.439 for the best when you're going. And so I'm drawn 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:26.040 to this passage because I realized that at this moment 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:31.760 in time, Peter has no idea what he's getting into 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:38.000 by saying yes to a simple instruction. And Jesus, much 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.080 like you didn't know when you said yes to go 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.520 to lunch with me at Golden Corral, that I would 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.120 pop the question and say, will you start at church 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.680 with me? And even when I said will you start 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.040 a church with me? You did not know that we 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.640 would be attacked like we were attacked in twenty thirteen. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.000 But you also didn't know that we would be in 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.800 Singapore and Sydney and all over the world preaching the 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:10.920 Gospel of Jesus Christ and Valentine and roanov and Melbourne, Florida. God, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.920 what do you see in me? If you haven't studied 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.120 the Bible a whole lot, you may be confused because 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.599 I've been talking about Peter. But when I read the 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:27.640 scripture we're reading about Simon. It says in verse three, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.880 he got into one of the boats, the one belonging 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:35.600 to Simon. Jesus does this cool thing, he changes the 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.199 name of his chief apostle. But that hasn't happened yet. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:44.240 At this point in the story, he's still Simon, and 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:49.360 so he's called Simon. The name from Simeon means he heard. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.079 And yet in all of the passage, it's very interesting 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.880 because Jesus and Simon, who would later be known as 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.960 Peter are communicating without saying a whole lot of words. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.120 They each only say a sentence, but their life is 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.120 completely altered. And this lets me know that we're we're 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.640 studying the interaction between two men because men typically, I 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.360 don't mean to be stereotypical, but typically men can communicate 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:23.760 without saying anything. Prefer to communicate without saying anything. Buck 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.400 used to come over and look waits for me. It'd 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.800 be an hour and a half. We would have lifted 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.240 a cumulative two thousand pounds and not said a word 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.640 to one another. What an awesome gift we have as men? 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.720 Would you agree? Women have other gifts? But when women 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.439 greet each other like women, I've noticed the other day 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:50.000 women use vowel sounds, but we're like, hey, how are you, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:58.560 it's friendly as warm, it's say oh yes, like men, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.800 I love this about us. We can nod at you 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.240 and know all we need to know about you from 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.880 how you nod back or if you don't. And if 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.040 you don't nod back, you might want to fight. But 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:19.160 man and my rider is yeah, because and and all 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.280 nods are not created equal. There are different There are 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.280 different kinds of nods, much like in Spanish, there's formal 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.199 and informal. There's a formal nod that's this. There's an 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:35.559 informal nod when you nod up. And when I started 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:40.600 noticing this was in covid when when they made it 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.520 illegal for us to touch each other for a year, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.319 and you don't want to walk through life not communicating 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.319 with people, and you know, waving is kind of goofy hey, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.160 and so it's the thing like, I don't want to 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.000 touch you because that's uncomfortable. And then they put a 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.440 mask on us, and then people are saying, well, you know, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.560 you can still smile with your eyes. I still haven't 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.200 learned how to smile with my eyes. My eyes do 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.200 not naturally smile. I can murder you with my eyes. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:16.520 How to do that? So when I started noticing during 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:22.160 covid Is, I had to regain the power of the nod, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.000 just to let people know, because a man can walk 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.280 by you and go, and so much can be loaded 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.560 in that nod. This is kind of what's up. Or 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.040 it can mean you want some or it can mean 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.760 a lot of things if you're not up, but just this, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:43.920 just this, It can mean I see you, my brother, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.840 I see you. It is not easy to be a 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.200 man in this day and age. But you carry it well, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.120 my brother, carry on, soldier, carry on, my wayward son. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.240 All that from a nod And what got me about 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.240 the text, and Marie and I went back to it 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.680 is because we focus so much on the speaking part 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.320 in this passage. Every time I've ever appreached it, you know, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.000 because you say so, I will let down the net. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.400 Or Peter said to Jesus. Or Jesus said to Peter, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.760 all that is great. And if anybody knows how to talk, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.520 it's Simon Peter. He's always talking in the Bible. Never, Lord, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.800 this will never happen to you. If all deny you, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.680 I won't deny you. I'll stand with you to the death. Lord. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.120 Peter is always talking. But in this passage, let me 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.680 point out a few things things that God is communicating 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.880 in the nonverbals. In verse one. Put it on the screen. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:42.760 It says Jesus was standing. He was standing by the 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:49.240 sea of Galilee, the lake of Gannessere Kinnareth. The literal 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.960 name means harp, like the instrument, the harp, because it 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:54.920 was shaped kind of like that. That's what the literal 0:15:54.960 --> 0:16:00.720 name kinnereth means which is appropriate because Jesus is standing 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.840 by the sea, which will be the scene of the 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:10.000 greatest demonstrations of his power. In scripture, it wasn't just 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:15.240 a body of water. It was for him a classroom, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.760 a faith. He had an advantage over me in preaching one, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:25.600 He's Jesus. Two, he had nature as a backdrop to 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.680 illustrate and to validate his words. So when I teach 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.040 you about a storm, you've got a padded chair in 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.840 an air conditioned room, climate controlled to we keep it 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.400 cold here fifty nine degrees. We do that to keep 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:45.520 you awake. But Jesus, I think that the fact that 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.720 he was standing by the sea of Galilee, the shape 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:55.520 like a harp, is an indication that this body of 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.160 water would be an instrument in the hands of the 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.440 master teacher to give the lessons that his disciples would 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.960 need after he had left them in the body, to 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.000 carry on with the task of spreading the gospel. It's 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.359 much more effective to teach about how to change a 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.920 flat tire if you have one right now. It's much 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.840 more effective to teach about how to survive a storm 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.800 if you're going through one right now. So when Jesus 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:30.040 taught his disciples about faith, it was not a doctrinal seminar. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.119 It was not a the false uh what fear is 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.240 false evidence appearing real or whatever the acronym is. That 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.879 you heard these things before. It wasn't cute. It was 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.040 a matter of life and death. So when they learned 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.040 the lesson of faith, it was against the backdrop of 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.840 their greatest fear. He was standing by the lake. Peter 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.480 didn't know what would happen on that lake. Peter didn't 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.080 know one day he'd be walking on that water coming 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.120 to Jesus. He certainly didn't know when he stepped out 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.359 of the boat to walk on the water that five 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.200 seconds later he'd be gasping for breath. Save me, Lord. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.960 But Jesus knew that at that moment. It is called 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:15.320 the foreknowledge of God, or, if you like, predestination. It 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:19.240 means that Jesus saw Peter walking on the water before 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.440 he ever even got in Peter's boat. It means Jesus 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.880 knew he would help Peter up before Peter ever started 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.880 to sink. It means that Jesus knew what would happen 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.080 to you in your childhood before he called you into 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.760 this season of your own parenting. It means that Jesus 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.520 knew that you would be at church today because somebody 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.520 dragged you so he could get you this word that 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:51.960 he needs you to hear. He knew. God knows. We 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.639 say that almost like a cuss word. God knows. Oh, 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.640 God knows when the kids are going to be back 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.520 in school full time. God knows. And the alphabeta, gamma, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.040 delta variants are all gonna pass through and we can 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.680 all go back. God knows who's gonna be in White House, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:13.840 and God knows. God knows what's gonna happen on the sea. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.680 One time. I'm sorry, y'all. I know I'm like over 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.360 excited and it's a little off pudding. But by one time, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.040 one time he sent the disciples ahead of him into 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:29.040 a storm and stayed back and prayed. I said he 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:34.160 sent them into a storm. I said, he sent them 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.520 into a storm. Oh well, well, maybe maybe he didn't 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.440 know it was gonna Maybe he didn't check the weather 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:48.320 before he sent him out. His word is the weather forecast, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.679 ask Elijah. Elijah said, it's not gonna rain until I 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.560 say so again. From the word of God that comes 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.120 from my mouth. If Elijah had that kind of power 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.040 the prophet of or nature, what kind of power does 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.960 Jesus have over the situations of your life. He's God, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:13.440 he's sovereign, he's the bread of life. He's the solid rock, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.520 and he's the living water. Oh yeah, the solid rock 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.880 we sing about on Christ, the solid rock I stand absolutely, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.879 He's a firm foundation. He's the same yesterday, today, in forever. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.919 God doesn't change like the shadows change. God doesn't change 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.840 like your best friend changes. God doesn't change like your 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:39.160 hair color changes. God doesn't change like cultural climates change. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.919 But seeing the same, God, who could be called the 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.200 solid rock, is also the living water. He was standing 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.719 by the sea because he wanted to teach you that 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.040 real faith not only has to be solid, it has 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:59.720 to be fluid. Why do you teach on the body 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.399 of water. Well, one, because the storm will help you 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:07.560 learn the lesson. But number two, the same way that 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.720 that sea operates, it's the same way that faith operates, 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.439 which is why I think he liked a fisherman to 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.399 be his disciples. See, a fisherman has to know that 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.080 the fish that were here an hour ago might not 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.480 be here an hour from now. The fish that weren't 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.560 here an hour ago might be here now. To follow 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:38.000 Jesus is to flow with Jesus. What better place for 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:42.440 him to call a disciple than standing by the lake. See, 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.360 Jesus hasn't even said anything yet, and he's already preaching. 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.280 He's already preaching just by where he's standing. He's standing 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.560 by the lake, and he's like, hey, everybody, look before 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.320 up in my mouth. You see this, See how it's 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.880 calm right now. It might not be calm tomorrow. Life 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.920 is like that, but you could trust me. You need 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:04.520 an anchor for your soul. So remember, men can communicate 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:09.159 with nonverbals. So Jesus is standing by the lake of 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.800 Gennesaret Kenerett the harp. He's gonna play this lake like 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.119 an instrument. He's gonna conduct the wind in the waves 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.760 like a symphony to bring these disciples to greater faith. 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.879 Y'all got a clap on that right there, to know 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:30.119 that Jesus is conducting even the conflict of my life. 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.760 That Jesus says, waves, that's enough. They got this lesson. 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.320 In fact, he might speak it to you right now 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:42.600 if you listen, Peace be still, Waves die down, at 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:48.080 his command, because he has all authority. Even the wind 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:52.439 in the waves, obeying, even the wind in the waves, 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.600 obey the one who was standing by the way. Is 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:02.200 it good? It was to me. I had the best 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.480 time with God preparing this message. I was licking the 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.320 bowl all week. Ah. I know there have been any 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.800 left for you. Ah. They were crying around listening word 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.320 to God. And then verse two says, so he stood 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:18.200 in verse one, but watch this verse two. He saw 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:24.160 he saw at the water's edge two boats left there 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.240 by the fishermen. Now in this way, Jesus is like Holly. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:35.359 He had options. I don't think. I don't think. Sometimes 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:40.320 we take that into account that God could have given 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:46.040 somebody else, those kids to raise two boats. Everybody say, 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:50.640 two boats, that'd be a good rapper name. We got 0:23:51.440 --> 0:24:02.880 li YACHTI and we got two boats. When he saw 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.240 two boats left there by the fishermen who were washing 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:08.080 their nets, I don't want to I don't want to 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:10.360 use that yet, but I want to point it out 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:13.320 to you. They were washing their nets. It was over 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:18.880 for the night. It was over. The reason I'm gonna 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.040 I'm gonna move past that is because I need to 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:25.960 show you verse three, he got in. He got into 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:32.040 one of the boats, the one belonging to who. Now 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:34.080 Peter is going to preach on the day of Pentecost, 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:39.280 but he's still Simon at this moment. Peter is gonna 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:42.000 give his life for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. History 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:44.560 tells us he died as a martyr. He's going to 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:50.120 write two epistles, first and Second Peter, appropriately titled don't 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:55.520 you think now? First and second Simon. Yeah, first and 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:59.040 second Peter. That's the potential of who he can be 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:06.080 sef in the Hebrew Petrus, in the Greek rock little rock, 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:09.120 not big rock. That's Jesus on this rock. I will 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:12.200 build my church big rock, little rock, Peter. Peter's the 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:16.800 pebble skipping across the Sea of Galilee to create a 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:23.960 ripple effect of the gospel that would carry to us today. 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:28.959 But he's not even Peter the pebble yet, he's still Simon. 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:35.520 I gotta make a confession to y'all. I'm still Stephen. 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:41.920 I know I need to be pastor for at least 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:47.280 about twenty five more minutes. And I'm not a hypocrite. 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:50.160 I don't go home and kick the dog I've already 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:54.160 told you I don't have a dog. I'm not getting one, 0:25:55.440 --> 0:26:05.240 she said, yet false prophet on the front bro security. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:14.320 But y'all, he got in and then asked him to 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:16.920 put out a little from shore. Isn't that the opposite order? 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:19.879 Look at verse three. You need to see this. He 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:23.359 got into Peter's boat and then asked him could use it. 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:32.119 So I'm thinking protocol is the other way around. Right, 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:36.200 You see what I'm saying, Go get in a car 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:39.600 after church and then ask the person if it's all 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:41.920 right if you drive it and see how it works out. 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:51.160 My mind says it must already be his. It must 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:54.080 already be his. When Graham came in to see me 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:56.159