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Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment,

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

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through

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Speaker 1: to see if we're coming to a city near you.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you.

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Speaker 1: I want to see you there. I want to see

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Speaker 1: Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon.

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Speaker 1: Here's the message. Most of all, Lord, we ask you

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Speaker 1: this moment, and we believe that it's already ours in

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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Put it in the chat, say

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Speaker 1: it with your mouth. It's already mine right now. It's

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Speaker 1: you know your father. Let do some goodness Taiah. Lord.

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Speaker 1: You know what I feel, dude, I feel that free

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Speaker 1: tour anointing. It's that free tour anointing. We're getting ready. Man.

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Speaker 1: By the time you see this, we'll probably already be

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. We're taking Elevation Church on the road this week.

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Speaker 1: How many of you will pray for us at least once?

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Speaker 1: Come on, now, you can pray once. You pray over

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Speaker 1: your French fries. Once. We'll bless these potatoes to the

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Speaker 1: nourishment of my body. That's a miracle. But just pray

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Speaker 1: for us this week. We want to have a good time.

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Speaker 1: I don't want any of them fighting on the buses.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I mean. I don't want Jenna

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Speaker 1: What happened to your marriage? We went out to lead worship, y'all?

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Speaker 1: Sharing a bunk? You should talk to somebody. Yeah, that'd

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Speaker 1: be pretty good strategy. Share a bunk, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Right, I get the cuddle. But it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be amazing. It's gonna be amazing and will be for

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Speaker 1: gonna say go Astros because I'm an inmphocrit rry. I

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Speaker 1: will pander, I will. I won't even know I did it.

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Speaker 1: I guess they will now, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Houston,

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Speaker 1: Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville. So if you

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be Game seven every night. The World Series,

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Speaker 1: the World Series of Worship. That's what we should call

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Speaker 1: And today, guess what, there is a word from the

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the room saying I'm on every location, there

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Speaker 1: Why I praise God is he got in anyway fully

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Speaker 1: knowing what Peter thinks. He's telling Jesus. No, Jesus, you

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm a sinful man. You should get in

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Speaker 1: John's boat. John will lean on your chest. At the

425
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Speaker 1: last supper, I'll cut off an ear. I'm a sinful man,

426
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Speaker 1: I'm a crazy God. Get away, Jesus. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to know, as I promise you. My boat's good, but

428
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Speaker 1: my heart isn't. Because I want, I want. Can I

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Speaker 1: prove to you that Jesus didn't need Peter's boat because

430
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Speaker 1: I know you don't believe me. You're like he totally

431
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Speaker 1: needed the boat the crowd was pressing. It says that

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00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: in verse one he needed the amplification to be out

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Speaker 1: on the water because there was no microphone or battery pack.

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00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: He totally needed Peter's boat. But I saw in Matthew

435
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Speaker 1: fourteen something, just that one little verse in Matthew fourteen,

436
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Speaker 1: give it to me real quick, Give it to me,

437
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Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick. This is

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Speaker 1: later in the Ministry of Jesus, shortly before dawn. Jesus

439
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: went out to them walking on the lake. So I

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00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: know this might not feel good to say it, but say,

441
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Speaker 1: God doesn't need me. That sent me free man, because

442
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Speaker 1: when I thought he needed me, it felt like a

443
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Speaker 1: burden to serve him. When I thought he needed me,

444
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: I thought I'm letting him down. God needs me so much.

445
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Speaker 1: Not really, not really, he wants me, haha, won't you

446
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: hear that devil? He wants me. Stephen first, Larry Stephens

447
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: Verdick Junior, he wants me. He wants me. That is

448
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: a revelation. Yo yo yo, yo yo yo. Y'all, self

449
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: awareness can only get you so far. You need divine guidance.

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00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: You need a god who spoke the sea into existence

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Speaker 1: to show you where the fish are. You need a

452
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: god who need you together. In your mother's womb before

453
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Speaker 1: you were born, I formed you and set you apart. Simon.

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Speaker 1: I got in your boat knowing. I got in your

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Speaker 1: boat knowing I wasn't feeling my way around. I didn't

456
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Speaker 1: need him any miney Moore. I knew what was in

457
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Speaker 1: your boat. I knew what was in your heart. I

458
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: knew what was in your bloodline. I knew what was

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Speaker 1: in your background. I knew what was in your temperament.

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00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: I knew what was in you. And I got in

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Speaker 1: because I wanted to. When you can walk on the water,

462
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Speaker 1: you don't really need a boat. Be a much more

463
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: effective way to preach if you were standing on top

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Speaker 1: of the water versus sitting in the boat of the

465
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: dude didn't even catch anything five minutes earlier. And he

466
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Speaker 1: got in and he sat down and he said something.

467
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Speaker 1: And when Peter did what he said, Simon saw something

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Speaker 1: that scared him to death. Now, I don't know if

469
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Speaker 1: I've been explicit about this, So let me make sure

470
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Speaker 1: I get my point across. He's still Simon, and he's

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Speaker 1: already Peter. You already got it, You already got it.

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Speaker 1: Go away from me. I'm a sinful man. I'm a

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Speaker 1: petty person. And then we brag about it. Oh, that's

474
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Speaker 1: just how I am. That's just how I am. And

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Speaker 1: so Simon says, throw a fit. You throw a fit

476
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Speaker 1: because that's just how I am. Simon says, for you

477
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Speaker 1: to isolate yourself and you know, hide and just kind

478
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Speaker 1: of like set yourself over here because you're defective. That's

479
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: just how I am. That's just my lot. That's just

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00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: the way it's always been. If it wasn't for bad luck,

481
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have no look at all. But he's permanently Peter,

482
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Speaker 1: temporarily Simon and so and so. God brings the partners,

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Speaker 1: God mends the nets. All the things I talked to

484
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Speaker 1: you about last week, did you hear last week, God

485
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Speaker 1: gives you the nod to say, yes you, I'm gonna

486
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Speaker 1: mend your nets. I'm gonna bring you partners. I'm gonna

487
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: show you where to fish. And by the way, I'm

488
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: not gonna just show you how to catch more fish.

489
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach you to fish for something different. I'm

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00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna teach you how to fish for what really matters.

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00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: That's what you're going through right now. God is drawing out,

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: bringing forth. God is parenting you. They say that Jesus

493
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: was teaching Peter, but really he was parenting Peter. He

494
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: was bringing forth Peter. Peter means petross, Peter means rock,

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00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: Peter means solid, and that's you, yes, you not John

496
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: this time. I don't think Peter ever really understood this though,

497
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Speaker 1: because after Jesus rose from the dead, said Jesus looked

498
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: back at John, who was kind of like stalking them.

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00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: John's kind of creepy, you know, and saying something a

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Speaker 1: lot of times, calls himself the one Jesus loved and

501
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: stuff like that in the scripture, and the Lord is

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00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: telling Simon Peter, he's still both You know, you ain't

503
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: can come this point in your life. I don't know,

504
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you never thought this. I'm gonna come to

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00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: a place where I'm gonna be completely Peter, completely solid,

506
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: completely on Christ, the solid rock I stand. And that's

507
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: be wonderful. And if you have the book that tells

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00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: me how to always be Peter, would you please autograph

509
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: it Jesus and hand it to me and I will

510
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: buy it. I'm so sick of fake pe Mike thing

511
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Speaker 1: like they are never Simon. I wish I had five

512
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Speaker 1: minutes to find your Simon and then I could expose

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00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 1: you in front of the Holy fam. But but Jesus

514
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 1: is so good to Peter. He said, don't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: Give me verse ten from now on, Luke, five to

516
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Speaker 1: ten from now on. There you go from now on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's already Peter. But if he stays stuck in Simon,

518
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: he will never see Peter. Jesus sees Peter in every assignment. Yes, you,

519
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: Jesus sees the Peter. You think he can see the

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00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: fish at the bottom of the lake of Gannessaret and

521
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: he can't see the Peter at the bottom of you.

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00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: But he's going to have to draw it out. Peter

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00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: looked back at John and said what about him? And

524
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: Jesus said to Peter, what about him? You leave that

525
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Speaker 1: to me? You must follow me? You yes, yeah, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a little thing in you? Says not me.

527
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: I do. Sometimes I'll hear somebody, even another preacher, will

528
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: be saying you're more than a conqueror, And my innersignment

529
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 1: is like now you. I think that's a good place

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Speaker 1: to start, because it puts you on your knees, like

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Speaker 1: Peter at Jesus' feet, which is something God can use.

532
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: But I think it's a bad place to stop. And

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Speaker 1: the Lord gave me a message today to preach to

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Speaker 1: somebody who feels stuck where you started, stuck where you

535
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: started stuck in Simon stuck. I'm a sinful man, you are,

536
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: But he died for you, so that's what you were.

537
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: Now you're a saint, a holy saint. Still got some patterns.

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00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: That's called the flesh. Simon never leaves. You just have

539
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: to tell him where to sit. I'm glad I learned this.

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00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: I thought if I had doubt in the car, I

541
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 1: couldn't go anywhere. I found out you can have doubt

542
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: in the car. Just don't let it drive. Just don't

543
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: let it drive. Look at somebody and say, just don't

544
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: let it drive. I'm confiscating your driver's license. All the

545
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: lies you've been telling yourself, all the limitations you've been

546
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: telling yourself, all the labels that have been given you,

547
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: all the sinfulness that is keeping you from See. You

548
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: can ride, Simon, but you can't drive. You can stay around,

549
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: but you can't tell me how far to go. You

550
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 1: can have anywhere, but not the last word. And see,

551
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: this is the season that some of us have been in.

552
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 1: We've been stuck where we started. But God said something

553
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: very powerful to me. He said, remind them you're not

554
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: stuck where you started. You're stuck where you stopped. Play

555
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: my own Oregon. You are not stuck. I'm a sinful man.

556
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: But Jesus said, don't be afraid of what you were.

557
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: That's what you were before I stepped in your boat.

558
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: Knowing exactly what you are, knowing exactly what you did,

559
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: knowing exactly where you've been, knowing exactly what you're enough,

560
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: I want the boat belonging to Simon. Yes you see, Simon.

561
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: Yes you you're not stuck where you started. I'm a

562
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Speaker 1: sinful man. Yeah, but you are also the righteousness of

563
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: God in Christ Jesus, because what happened on that cross

564
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: was more than a physical act. It was a new name. Wow, Wow,

565
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: you are only stuck where you stop. I just gotta

566
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Speaker 1: be me. Well, there's a new me I need to meet.

567
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: Oh man, Peter has so much potential. Simon has so

568
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: much baggage. Peter has so much purpose. Simon has so

569
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 1: many problems. And they're both in the same boat. So

570
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:46,879
Speaker 1: all we gotta been telling Simon sit down. Peter needs

571
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: to pilot this boat. That's what Jesus called him. It's Peter. Okay.

572
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Speaker 1: So Simon says, you are the Christ, the son of

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Speaker 1: the Living God. And Jesus said, flesh and blood did

574
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Speaker 1: not reveal this to you, Simon, son of On, But

575
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this

576
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: rock I'll build my church. Let's clap that he gave

577
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: him the no name the noon. All right, but y'all

578
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: look in Matthew sixteen later today. A minute later, Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go to Jerusalem. I'm gonna need about three

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Speaker 1: days for y'all to think everything went wrong, and then

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get up out of the ground. Peter said never, Lord,

582
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: this isin't gonna happen to you. Jesus said something real weird.

583
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Speaker 1: Now He's already called him Peter just a minute earlier.

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Speaker 1: But then he looked at him and said, get behind me, Satan.

585
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: Oh god, we're going backwards. This is the wrong direction,

586
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: all right. I started as Simon, then I was Peter.

587
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: Now I'm Satan. Lord, this is going the wrong way.

588
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: You've been feeling like you've been going backwards lately, right right,

589
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: I was like it it's somebody, maybe not everybody, but somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody.

590
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm going backwards. Oh god, I'm

591
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: feeling like more now. Oh God, I'm feeling like it's harder. Now,

592
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm feeling less sure. I'm feeling less certain. I don't

593
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: know what to do. I used to know. I don't

594
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: know anymore. You're not going backwards. That's called the sifting.

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00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: The sifting. When Jesus got in Peter's spoke, he not

596
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: only knew there were fish in that spot where there

597
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: weren't a little while ago, he knew about the sin

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00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: that was in Simon. And Simon's only speaking about the

599
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: sin he knows about Jesus knows the future ones you

600
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: didn't even think to include on your resume, and he

601
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: still got in. So I want to take you for

602
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: a moment to pass overnight before Jesus goes to the

603
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: cross to die for Simon and James and John and

604
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: Judas and you too, yes you well, no, we'll see

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00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: their preacher. I've been going to church since six years old.

606
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: Mamma used to tick me over there to the vacation

607
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: Bible school. I'm not really one of these sinners. You

608
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: ever heard of self righteousness? That's a pretty good sin too.

609
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: Now you can't see it on the surface, but if

610
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: you let down the nets far enough, there's a signon

611
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: inside all of us. Don't let him make you feel inferior,

612
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: like you can't praise God, like you can't worship God,

613
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: like God can't use you. Don't you ever let them

614
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: do that to you? And at the moment you think

615
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: Peter is so self aware, he's seen miracles, he's seen blessings,

616
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: he's seen healings. Jesus healed Peter's own mother in law.

617
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: Did you know that that's why many scholars think Peter

618
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: denied him. Okay, okay, okay, Joe just JOm just checking

619
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Speaker 1: you up. So, but he really did. He healed his

620
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: mother in law. He saw him heal blind people by

621
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Speaker 1: spitting in the ground, putting mud on their eyes. Other

622
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: times he see Jesus just speak a word anyway you

623
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: put it. Peter had seen a lot because God was

624
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: drawing out what was there all along, drawing out Ah,

625
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: yeahs a baby, stay with me, Stay with just a baby.

626
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: Grind's all right. God was pulling out what was there

627
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: all along. Now this is a blessing of what God

628
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: brings up out of you. Here's something I never quite

629
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: saw it like this before till I was studying for

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Speaker 1: this message called yes You in Luke twenty two. Give

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Speaker 1: me that real quick, Luke twenty two. And I didn't

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Speaker 1: mean to do a whole series on Peter in one week,

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Speaker 1: but that's what we're apparently what we're doing today. Jesus

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Speaker 1: looks at Simon, who has been named Peter but he's

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Speaker 1: still Simon, and says, do you remember last week Simon

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Speaker 1: Simon twice as covenant Simon Simon, who you were, your

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Speaker 1: given name, who you were before I got in your boat?

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Speaker 1: Simon Simon. Satan has asked to sift you. That means

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Speaker 1: to tear apart, to separate the useful from the useless,

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Speaker 1: to separate who was truly the followers of Jesus from

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Speaker 1: those who were just the fans. So now let's be

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Speaker 1: Peter for a moment. Peter, Jesus just says to you, Simon, Simon.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you're like, you're talking to I'm Peter.

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Speaker 1: Remember you told me ceaphist Peter Dwayne Johnson the Rock.

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Speaker 1: He's still calling him Simon because he's still Simon. You're

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Speaker 1: still flesh strong. Faith still has weak moments. He said,

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Speaker 1: Satan asked to sift all of you. He's talking about

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Speaker 1: the Cross, he's talking about the testing, he's talking about

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Speaker 1: those crises of faith that we all have. Do I

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Speaker 1: really still believe that God with me? Well? I really

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Speaker 1: still follow even through the via dolorosa, the way of suffering.

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Speaker 1: He asked to sift all of you as wheat. And

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Speaker 1: then I'm thinking, Peter, you're Peter, you'd like and you

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Speaker 1: told him no, right, No, I didn't tell him no.

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Speaker 1: But look at first starting two, all this beautiful. But

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Speaker 1: I prayed for you, Simon. I'm gonna let you go

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Speaker 1: through this season of sifting. But not alone, not alone.

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Speaker 1: Just like I didn't leave your boat, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: leave you. Now you're gonna be sifted, all of you.

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Speaker 1: But I prayed for your weak place, Simon. It's one

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Speaker 1: thing to pray for Peter, but how many thank God

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Speaker 1: that you have a savior who will pray for Simon. Now,

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Speaker 1: God said you needed to hear this. I have prayed

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Speaker 1: for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. But

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Speaker 1: didn't it didn't Peter deny knowing Jesus three times? Didn't

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Speaker 1: Peter look at the servant girl and say, I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what you're talking about. I'm not one of them,

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Speaker 1: Yes you, not me? Weren't you one of his followers? No?

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Speaker 1: Not me, not me? He has gone from saying to Jesus,

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Speaker 1: even if everybody denies you, I won't do They say,

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Speaker 1: weren't you following this God? No, not me, one of

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Speaker 1: your boat, knowing mine. And yet Jesus says, I prayed

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Speaker 1: that your faith survive the sifting. Receive this word. You

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Speaker 1: will survive the sifting. God help me. I'm not playing

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Speaker 1: with you. I'm not playing with you. I'm prophesying to you.

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Speaker 1: You will survive the sifting. God said, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: stop it from happening. I'm going to allow it, but

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Speaker 1: you will survive it. Oh God, I feel like we

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Speaker 1: should just praise God right now for what we're going

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Speaker 1: to survive. And watch this, watch this, watch this who

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be on the other side. Because Viesus said,

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Speaker 1: after you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. So God said,

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Speaker 1: not only are you gonna survive it, you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: strength to show for it. I'm gonna use Yes, Lord,

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Speaker 1: I received that. That's my word. That's my word. That's

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Speaker 1: just for you, Simon, Simon. I'm gonna get testimonies for

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Speaker 1: this for months after I preach it. I'm the Simon

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Speaker 1: you were talking to. I'm the shaking one. I was

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Speaker 1: being sifted. The devil was coming after my kids. The

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Speaker 1: devil was coming after my mind. The devil was coming

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Speaker 1: after everything I ever knew myself as. The devil came

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Speaker 1: after my career. The devil came after my sleep. The

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Speaker 1: devil came after my sanity. The devil came after mine,

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Speaker 1: my memories. The devil came after everything I was carrying.

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Speaker 1: And I survived the shifted. I survived the sifting. This

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Speaker 1: is the sifting. And if you survive the sifting, Simon,

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Speaker 1: you can be Peter. You can stand blackfooted and No,

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Speaker 1: the rain fell, and the winds came, and the streams rose,

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Speaker 1: but the rocks stayed solid, and God is faithful. I

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Speaker 1: gotta make it through this to find out who I

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Speaker 1: really am. I gotta make it through this to find

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Speaker 1: out who my kids can be. I gotta make it

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Speaker 1: through this to set an example that you can survive

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Speaker 1: the sifting and come out solid. You can survive the

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Speaker 1: sifting and come out praising. You can survive the sifting.

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Speaker 1: How else would God reveal Peter if he didn't sift, Simon,

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Speaker 1: And even if he had to use the enemy to

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Speaker 1: do it, he who began a good work in you,

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Speaker 1: whoa will be faithful. All I'm trying to say. If

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Speaker 1: he got in the boat, he's not getting out, That's

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Speaker 1: all I'm trying to say. And after you have survived

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Speaker 1: the sifty, Simon, you know what's amazing. From the moment

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Speaker 1: Jesus saw Peter's boat, he knew about everything that Peter

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Speaker 1: would go through, and even at the worst moment. All right,

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Speaker 1: maybe this word didn't for you Right now, put it

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Speaker 1: on standby. Put it on stand by. I had a

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Speaker 1: pretty good week. I ate clean this week. I had

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Speaker 1: a You know, I don't care about this week because

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you fate fluctuates. And one more thing. Do

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Speaker 1: you want this little teaching thing or you want me

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Speaker 1: to go on to Atlanta and give it to them,

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Speaker 1: because I got one more thing I want to show you,

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Speaker 1: all right, but I swear man, I want to be

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Speaker 1: obedient to the Lord. And there was one thing he

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Speaker 1: showed me that totally surprised me from second Peter one Now,

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Speaker 1: so passing, why are you going to second Peter? Because

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Speaker 1: I want to show you what was in Simon even

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Speaker 1: as he sat by the fire and denied Jesus. Now

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Speaker 1: listen to Peter, not sixteen year old Peter, not shakey Simon,

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Speaker 1: senior citizens. Swag Peter, come on, praise God like you're

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Speaker 1: eighty three and you already made it through all your trial.

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Speaker 1: Come on, praise him like you got a bad hip,

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Speaker 1: but you lived like jacob On into the promise. Ah.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people that walk with confidence. It looks

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Speaker 1: like swag, but it's really a limb. All right. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you've been through enough, you can say stuff like this,

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Speaker 1: this is what God is doing in me and you

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Speaker 1: to make it really clear, because we're not just talking

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Speaker 1: about boats and fish and nets and metaphors. Ah, I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about character. I'm talking about you. Yes, you, not

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Speaker 1: the stuff. They didn't even eat the fish they caught.

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Speaker 1: They left it on the shore and followed Jesus. When

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Speaker 1: the bowel was in the water, it was a bowel

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Speaker 1: was in them. And here's Peter encouraging a struggling church

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Speaker 1: in Second Peter. This this letter that he wrote after

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Speaker 1: he'd insisted assignment, and after he had stood solid as Peter.

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Speaker 1: He goes, for this very reason, make every effort to

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Speaker 1: add to your faith. How many have faith? I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about even a little droppy, drippy, droppy faith, a little

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Speaker 1: like boop, you got blood faith? Okay, if you got

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Speaker 1: that much, fait j said, faith of a mustard seed

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Speaker 1: size on that scale can move a mountain and watch

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Speaker 1: how it happens. This is the word. This is the word.

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Speaker 1: You're not stuck where you started, Simon, You're stuck where

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Speaker 1: you stop. Judas hung himself. Peter preached on the day

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Speaker 1: of Pentecost. It is still not decided yet what your

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Speaker 1: life will accomplish. You have no idea. You don't know

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Speaker 1: any more than Peter knew when he said go away.

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Speaker 1: I'm a sinful man. You don't know what's under your boat,

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Speaker 1: right You'll know. You don't know what God's going to

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Speaker 1: bring forth out of you in a future season. That's

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Speaker 1: why the enemy wants to kill you right now. But

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Speaker 1: Jesus prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon.

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Speaker 1: He prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon,

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Speaker 1: he prayed for He prayed for Simon to bring forth Peter.

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Speaker 1: And Peter's looking back on it, and he said, I

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Speaker 1: want to encourage you every effort to add. Everybody say add.

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Speaker 1: You're not stuck where you start it. You're stuck where

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Speaker 1: you stopped. Add to your faith. Now raise your hand

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Speaker 1: if you need a little help with one of these.

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Speaker 1: I'm a listed goodness. How many need a little more goodness?

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Speaker 1: All the negative people like me who see the glass

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Speaker 1: not half full but want to slap in the face

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Speaker 1: whoever spilled it. All right, I don't see the glass

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Speaker 1: half empty. I see it as spilled, and I want

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Speaker 1: to know who did it. I can be very negative sometimes,

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Speaker 1: but I need some goodness. I am preaching deeper than

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Speaker 1: y'all are shouting today. I need a shouting simon on

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Speaker 1: am good. I need some goodness? All right, all right,

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Speaker 1: you need that. It's in the water, but it's got

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Speaker 1: to be drawn out. Because he said, you got the faith.

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Speaker 1: If you've got the faith, you can get the goodness.

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Speaker 1: Give me next one. This is just the Bible. I

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Speaker 1: didn't make this list up. Add to your goodness. Go

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Speaker 1: back to the other verse, y'all. There's somewhere in the

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Speaker 1: other verse. Yeah, yeah, and to goodness knowledge. How many

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Speaker 1: of y'all did something stupid in the last six days

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Speaker 1: since I last saw you in church, Something so stupid,

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Speaker 1: I mean so stupid you don't even want to think

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Speaker 1: about it again. It's like a Ah, I did some stupid.

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Speaker 1: You can get smarter. You can read the book you

792
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Speaker 1: bought that's still on your phone unopened. Lead the verse up.

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Speaker 1: I want to show you this from the Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: not just making it up. I'm not a motivational speaker.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you what is in you, by the word

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Speaker 1: of God, the implanted word that's in you. But you

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Speaker 1: gotta draw it out. You gotta let down the next

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Speaker 1: for a catch. It's down in you. You can get

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Speaker 1: more knowledge. You need more knowledge? How many need more knowledge?

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Speaker 1: Any more knowledge? Because I know God, I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what to believe anymore on the news or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. I don't know what's true. I don't know

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Speaker 1: who did it. I don't know who didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're about to do it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if Elon Musk is gonna fly a car

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Speaker 1: over my house and drop a kim trip. I don't

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Speaker 1: know anything anymore. I don't know about any of it.

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Speaker 1: But I need the knowledge. God said, I'll put my

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Speaker 1: spirit in you and I'll give you the knowledge. But

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Speaker 1: it's beneath the surface. Silence, Oh God, what else, Peter?

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Speaker 1: What else? Peter? Peter's talking so so mature now and

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Speaker 1: to knowledge self control? Is this, Peter? What you mean?

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Speaker 1: You could be so reckless that Peter just said everything

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Speaker 1: he ever wanted to say when he was walking with Jesus.

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Speaker 1: But watch this, You're not stuck where you started. Peter said,

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Speaker 1: I used to have no self control. Jesus was praying

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Speaker 1: on the amount of olives and I was sleeping. I

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Speaker 1: ate the whole bag. Peter said, I was just gonna

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Speaker 1: have one. I ate the whole bag, and stop saying

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Speaker 1: stuff like this. By the way, Oh, I'm just not

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Speaker 1: a morning person, or I'm just not a night person

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Speaker 1: or whatever they make caffeine for that. Y'all, you didn't

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Speaker 1: get up. Stop saying I'm a sinful man. That's where

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Speaker 1: you started. That's not where it stops. That's not where

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Speaker 1: it stops. I feel a LRD speaking to me about

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Speaker 1: that thing I've been saying lately. I'm not an author.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying it again. It gets back in you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not an author. I can't write. I hear the

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Speaker 1: Lord speaking to me. It's not yours yet, Yes, oh god,

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Speaker 1: it's not yours yet. You don't know it yet. You

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Speaker 1: haven't done it yet, you haven't broken it yet, you

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Speaker 1: haven't been consistent with it yet. But if you want

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Speaker 1: to put your faith in the water, there's a Peter

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Speaker 1: on the inside assignment. I'm telling you that there's a

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Speaker 1: Peter on the inside of side. I'm not a good

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Speaker 1: dad yet, I can't keep a relationship together. Y'all are

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Speaker 1: real slow to say what I'm telling you to say. Today,

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Speaker 1: he said, I got some self control, and it would

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Speaker 1: John had said it, I would have said, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: are one of those enneagram nines or whatever it's called

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Speaker 1: the peacemaker or whatever. But when Peter is for my

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Speaker 1: self control, I'm like, okay, I could get some too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you could get some too. Just don't let the sifting

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Speaker 1: kill you. Just don't stop here. Just don't say I'm

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Speaker 1: a sinful man. Get out of the boat. Just let

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Speaker 1: the grace of God keep working in your life. Can

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Speaker 1: I say something to everybody in the room, keep coming.

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Speaker 1: You did good to come. You didn't come to church,

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Speaker 1: you came to fish. God is pulling as I speak

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Speaker 1: right now. He is pulling promises that you bury down

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Speaker 1: jeep to the surface and to self control, perseverance. Every

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Speaker 1: quitter in here who's hanging up your nets for the

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Speaker 1: night thus said, drop him one more time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. It didn't work five years ago. It's

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Speaker 1: not five years ago now. And you're not twenty five,

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Speaker 1: you're thirty, and you're thirty. You can do it everything right.

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Speaker 1: Just because the fish weren't there a minute ago doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean they aren't now. And to perseverance, godliness. Peter, stay

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Speaker 1: with it, Simon, because there is a Peter on the

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Speaker 1: inside of you that Jesus died to bring forth. That

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Speaker 1: he died to bring forth. So when Peter was sitting

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Speaker 1: look twenty two sixty something, fifty something sixty something, I

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Speaker 1: don't remember. Can you put it up please, They took

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Speaker 1: Jesus away to the house of the High Priest, and

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Speaker 1: Peter followed at a distance. And when Peter had and

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Speaker 1: when some there had kindled a fire in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat

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Speaker 1: down with them. This is the moment I want you

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Speaker 1: to see. While Peter was sitting by the fire denying Christ,

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Speaker 1: and that may have been you lately. I don't mean

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Speaker 1: you deny believing in God. I mean you are denying

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Speaker 1: his purpose in your life. You are denying what he

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Speaker 1: spoke over you. You are you're not playing your part.

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Speaker 1: You're not showing up. You're sitting by comfort fire, waiting

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Speaker 1: to see what's going to happen next. This was crazy

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Speaker 1: to me. This was crazy to me. I thought the

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Speaker 1: message was prepared, y'all. I came out to preach it.

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Speaker 1: The Lord said, look, one more time Peter sat by

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Speaker 1: the fire next verse, please, And the servant girl saw

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Speaker 1: him and said, this man was with him next verse,

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Speaker 1: and he denied it. Woman, I don't know him, not me.

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Speaker 1: Yes you. A little later someone said you are one

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Speaker 1: of them? He said, not me. Has that been the

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Speaker 1: posture of your heart? I can't do it. God, I

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Speaker 1: don't have that knowledge. I don't have that perseverance. I

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Speaker 1: don't have that self control. I'm stuck. Nobody showed me how.

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Speaker 1: A third time a little later, next verse, please another

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Speaker 1: certain certain fellows with him, for he is a Galilean.

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Speaker 1: Peter replied, man, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Just as he was speaking, the rooster crow, this is

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Speaker 1: what I saw verse sixty one, the Lord turned and

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Speaker 1: looked straight at Peter. What did he see, Peter, even

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Speaker 1: as Simon sat by the fire, even in your addiction,

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Speaker 1: even in your mistake, even in your denial. Oh, he

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Speaker 1: can't deny himself if we are faithless, he is faithful.

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Speaker 1: What did Jesus see when he looked at Simon sitting

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Speaker 1: by the fire? He saw Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you exactly what Jesus sees in that

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Speaker 1: moment he looks at Peter, he doesn't look at him.

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Speaker 1: What a failure, what a waste. I never should have

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Speaker 1: saved him. I never should have gave him a chance.

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Speaker 1: I never should have put him there. I never saw

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Speaker 1: that come in. Jesus looks at Peter by the fire

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Speaker 1: in the courtyard outside the office of the High Priest,

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Speaker 1: and he sees the Peter in Simon, because at two

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Speaker 1: verse fourteen says something amazing. Then Peter stood up. Then

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Speaker 1: Peter stood up. Only Jesus can look at Peter and

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Speaker 1: see through the Simon that's sitting by the fire, and

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Speaker 1: see the Peter who will preach the first sermon on

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Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost that will build the church. So

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Speaker 1: I wonder, will you stand up, Peter? Now? I mean

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Speaker 1: stand up like right now I'm closing. But see, when

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Speaker 1: I finished speaking, sometimes that's when God starts talking. That's

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Speaker 1: why I don't understand y'all who slip out when I'm

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Speaker 1: doing this part of the message makes no sense to me,

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Speaker 1: because when I finished talking, that's when God starts and

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Speaker 1: he says, that was your word, Yes you, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: use you to preach on the day of Pentecost. And

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Speaker 1: I see it even while you're sitting by the fire.

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Speaker 1: So God, this is a moment for you to bring

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Speaker 1: forth out of broken nets. Amazing glory, amazing purpose, amazing grace.

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Speaker 1: I have spoken today to the Simon, but you see

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Speaker 1: the Peter. I thank you Lord that everybody under the

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Speaker 1: sound of my voice right now is going to survive

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Speaker 1: the sifting because you're praying for it, because you live

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Speaker 1: to make intercession, because you are a great high Priest Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And just lift your hands right now and say, I

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Speaker 1: will survive the sifting. Not only that, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get knowledge and self control and perseverance. I went in Simon,

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Speaker 1: and I'm coming out Peter, because God knows what's in me.

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Speaker 1: Yes me, yes you. I want you to claim it

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Speaker 1: by faith right now. Say that word was for me.

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Speaker 1: Now receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it,

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Speaker 1: receive it, receive it. I'm already chosen. I know who

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Speaker 1: I am, I know what you've spoken. Can I'm already

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Speaker 1: love more than I could a man. Well, if you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd

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