Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through
Speaker 1: November fourth. You gotta go to Elevation Nights dot com
Speaker 1: to see if we're coming to a city near you.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you.
Speaker 1: I want to see you there. I want to see
Speaker 1: you and everybody that you know there. Go to Elevation
Speaker 1: Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon.
Speaker 1: Here's the message. Most of all, Lord, we ask you
Speaker 1: to give us the faith to receive your grace in
Speaker 1: this moment, and we believe that it's already ours in
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Put it in the chat, say
Speaker 1: it with your mouth. It's already mine right now. It's
Speaker 1: already mine, right now. Come on, clap your hands like
Speaker 1: you know your father. Let do some goodness Taiah. Lord.
Speaker 1: You know what I feel, dude, I feel that free
Speaker 1: tour anointing. It's that free tour anointing. We're getting ready. Man.
Speaker 1: By the time you see this, we'll probably already be
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. We're taking Elevation Church on the road this week.
Speaker 1: How many of you will pray for us at least once?
Speaker 1: Come on, now, you can pray once. You pray over
Speaker 1: your French fries. Once. We'll bless these potatoes to the
Speaker 1: nourishment of my body. That's a miracle. But just pray
Speaker 1: for us this week. We want to have a good time.
Speaker 1: I don't want any of them fighting on the buses.
Speaker 1: And you know what I mean. I don't want Jenna
Speaker 1: and Johnson having marriage problems when they get back from tour.
Speaker 1: What happened to your marriage? We went out to lead worship, y'all?
Speaker 1: Sharing a bunk? You should talk to somebody. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be pretty good strategy. Share a bunk, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Right, I get the cuddle. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing. It's gonna be amazing and will be for
Speaker 1: those of you who still want to come. There are
Speaker 1: still some tickets left, and if you know somebody in
Speaker 1: the following areas, there's still time to tell them to
Speaker 1: come out. Atlanta Tuesday one month, is this October twenty sixth,
Speaker 1: Nashville the next night. Then I don't want to give
Speaker 1: them the nights, just the towns Tulsa, Dallas, Houston. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be awesome because when I'm in Atlanta Tuesday,
Speaker 1: I'm in the Seco Braves. When I'm in Houston, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say go Astros because I'm an inmphocrit rry. I
Speaker 1: will pander, I will. I won't even know I did it.
Speaker 1: I guess they will now, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Houston,
Speaker 1: Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville. So if you
Speaker 1: can make it Elevation Nights dot Com, we are gonna bring.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Game seven every night. The World Series,
Speaker 1: the World Series of Worship. That's what we should call
Speaker 1: the tour, the World Series of Worship. But no, seriously,
Speaker 1: we're so excited. Pray for us. Gonna be amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: And today, guess what, there is a word from the
Speaker 1: Lord for you in the house. I'd like you to
Speaker 1: say that by faith and say there is a word
Speaker 1: from the Lord for me. Now look at somebody else
Speaker 1: and say there is a word. Put it in the chat.
Speaker 1: Why are you not putting it in the chat? All right?
Speaker 1: Everybody in the room saying I'm on every location, there
Speaker 1: is a word. Look at your neighbor. You can't catch
Speaker 1: coronavirus looking at him. Y'all are so insulated. There is
Speaker 1: a word from the Lord for you. Yes you, yes you.
Speaker 1: That's my title today. We're going deeper. We're gonna pick
Speaker 1: up on last week. We're going deeper. This message is calm.
Speaker 1: Yes you, look at somebody else, say yes you. You
Speaker 1: may be seated, Yes you. Did you get to hear
Speaker 1: the word from last week? He's noddy, he really heard it.
Speaker 1: That was the message. It was about the God nod,
Speaker 1: how God chooses you. Yes you, dirty you, sorry, beautiful you.
Speaker 1: I want to affirm you today. But seriously, it took
Speaker 1: me back to I'm gonna be in Luke five one
Speaker 1: through eleven to start with again. That won't be where
Speaker 1: we end, but we'll start there. The best sermon I
Speaker 1: think was ever preached here was the one Holly preached
Speaker 1: for the church anniversary. It was still before everybody was
Speaker 1: able to come back in the room fully and all
Speaker 1: of those things. So you know, it's weird times. But
Speaker 1: I'll usually come over with her when she preaches and
Speaker 1: listen to her do the sermon before she does it,
Speaker 1: and then I culture afterwards. But I've learned not to
Speaker 1: try to coach here, to preach it like I would
Speaker 1: preach it just to help her find, you know the best.
Speaker 1: And yes, there have been tears during those coaching sessions,
Speaker 1: and we have gone home in separate cars before after
Speaker 1: those coaching sessions. Now I'm just kiddingessed it's usually pretty good.
Speaker 1: But when I came for that one, I don't remember
Speaker 1: what she called the message, but I remember one part
Speaker 1: about it where she was standing in the pulpit looking
Speaker 1: so attractive and annointed. They're not mutually exclusive, and she said,
Speaker 1: in the middle of her message, she's preaching about Gideon
Speaker 1: and God calling him a warrior when he felt like
Speaker 1: a whim and he's and he had to become what
Speaker 1: God saw that he already was. And she said during
Speaker 1: the runthrough, she said, yes you, and I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't take any more notes after she said that, because
Speaker 1: you know, you've ever been in church where it felt
Speaker 1: like God was speaking just to you. And so when
Speaker 1: she preached it, she said, put it in the chat,
Speaker 1: yes you going to do it right now? Put in chat,
Speaker 1: yes you. And when she said that, I thought they
Speaker 1: can put it in the chat all they want, but
Speaker 1: that's my word. She's talking to me right now. I
Speaker 1: think what made it powerful really was not only what
Speaker 1: she spoke, but who spoke it, because I also know
Speaker 1: what it cost her to stand in front of our
Speaker 1: church and preach with such power. I go back to
Speaker 1: like these outtakes in my mind of her telling me,
Speaker 1: I'll never preach like so and so. Oh, I know
Speaker 1: that I should be able to be a leader, but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really not a leader like so and so.
Speaker 1: And to see that one I'm not gonna lie, y'all.
Speaker 1: It was kind of sexy and spiritual at the same
Speaker 1: time to see her up there going yes you. But
Speaker 1: I knew that for her to say that to the
Speaker 1: whole church, she had to first say it to herself
Speaker 1: that she had to push through all of these preferences
Speaker 1: and even push through what she considered to be her
Speaker 1: own personality, to step out of her comfort zone and
Speaker 1: to walk in her calling yes you. But it hit
Speaker 1: me right in my heart. I struggle with the same thing,
Speaker 1: like I tell you all the time. And it was
Speaker 1: like we were just right there and she was saying,
Speaker 1: you are the one that God has chosen to do
Speaker 1: the thing that God assigned for you to do. Yes, you,
Speaker 1: she just said. It is one line. I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: a whole sermon out of it today from Luke chapter five,
Speaker 1: verse one through eleven. And I want to read it again.
Speaker 1: And if you come out to Elevation nights, I might
Speaker 1: still be in Luke chapter five, because this is really
Speaker 1: good to me. Of course, we were noticing some things
Speaker 1: about the text last week, but let me just read
Speaker 1: it through briefly. One day, as Jesus was standing by
Speaker 1: the lake of Ganes Sarette, the people were crowding around
Speaker 1: him and listening to the word of God. And he
Speaker 1: saw at the water's edge two boats. How many boats? Also,
Speaker 1: he can get in either one he wants to, but
Speaker 1: he got in the one belonging to Simon. Now, notice
Speaker 1: what it says They were left there verse two, part
Speaker 1: B by the fishermen who were washing their nets, mending
Speaker 1: their nets, kind of like calling it a night. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't catch anything. Ah, let's just get the nets ready.
Speaker 1: We'll go again. You know, get them next time, slugger,
Speaker 1: good game. He got into one of the boats, the
Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon. That's the phrase right there, the
Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon. The one belonging to Simon, whose
Speaker 1: name was changed later to Peter. Okay, so if you're
Speaker 1: a little confused right now, you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I thought that Jesus used Peter's boat. He did, but
Speaker 1: he's still Simon. Because you know, we sing a song
Speaker 1: at church haar Lot called Waymaker miracle Worker. We didn't
Speaker 1: write it. I wish we did. That's a good song,
Speaker 1: but it says a promise keeper. It lists all these
Speaker 1: things that God is. He's a waymaker, he's a chain breaker.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you what. We could write another
Speaker 1: verse on it. He's a name changer. He's a name changer,
Speaker 1: something people have called you all your life. God will
Speaker 1: get down on the inside of you and show you
Speaker 1: that your something else, something totally different. Name changer, miracle worker.
Speaker 1: I like it. Let's work it up. But he gave
Speaker 1: an instruction, and this is cool. Look at verse four.
Speaker 1: It's what I was just describing. When God speaks directly
Speaker 1: to you. When he had finished verse four, when he
Speaker 1: had finished speaking, he said to Simon, So that's the
Speaker 1: personal word. You got to listen for that. When the
Speaker 1: sermon ends. Sometimes that's where God will speak the most
Speaker 1: to you. So Jesus is teaching all these deep things.
Speaker 1: All The Kingdom of God is like a pearl. The
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is like. The Kingdom of God is
Speaker 1: like And then he turns to Simon and says, there's
Speaker 1: something that I want you to do based on what
Speaker 1: you've just heard. And a lot of times when I
Speaker 1: stop preaching, you stop listening, and that's where God would
Speaker 1: give you the breakthrough. So you got to listen real good,
Speaker 1: and be careful who you go to lunch with after
Speaker 1: I preach, because they'll be talking about something so stupid
Speaker 1: and something so off subject. And sometimes you need to
Speaker 1: be like I need fifteen minutes, I need fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even take God long he's speaking. The Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God is like. He sits down in the boat.
Speaker 1: He teaches the crowds, and then he turns to Simon.
Speaker 1: I'll later be named Peter, but he's already Peter. But
Speaker 1: he's still Simon. And the process of discipleship is not
Speaker 1: God changing you into something else, it's him revealing who
Speaker 1: you've been all along. So he tells Simon, amen, if
Speaker 1: you put out into the deep water and let down
Speaker 1: the nets. There's something down there. You can't see it,
Speaker 1: but I can't. And so this is kind of freaky
Speaker 1: because God sees things we don't see. Notice he didn't
Speaker 1: speak the fish into the water at that moment. He
Speaker 1: just knew they were already there. It wasn't about God
Speaker 1: putting something there that wasn't there. It was about him
Speaker 1: alerting Simon to what was there beneath the surface. And
Speaker 1: that's how it is in your life. There are things
Speaker 1: that God is bringing forth. Everybody say bring forth. That's
Speaker 1: what God spoke to the earth. He said, bring forth, vegetation,
Speaker 1: bring forth. He didn't speak something that wasn't there to
Speaker 1: the earth. He brought forth what was in the earth
Speaker 1: all along. And he's doing that in your life right now.
Speaker 1: He is bringing forth. Even the word parent is from
Speaker 1: the Latin, which means to bring forth. And our job
Speaker 1: as a parent is not to make our kids a
Speaker 1: better version of us. It's the partner with God in
Speaker 1: bringing forth the unique thing that he put inside of them.
Speaker 1: If one more person tells me abb he's going to
Speaker 1: be a preacher, I can tell you can't tell nothing.
Speaker 1: She might be, she might run, she might be the president.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to limit her potential based on what
Speaker 1: I did up here shall bring forth. God has been
Speaker 1: bringing forth in your life lately, some stuff that you
Speaker 1: really didn't want to see. God has been bringing forth
Speaker 1: in your life lately, some issues you didn't want to
Speaker 1: deal with. But He brings those things for a greater purpose.
Speaker 1: And this is what we see with Simon. Y'are with
Speaker 1: me so far. I'm just reading my scripture reviewing from
Speaker 1: last week. There is a word from God for you. Yes,
Speaker 1: you right now. So he goes, Simon, if you'll do
Speaker 1: what I say, you can have what I see that
Speaker 1: you can't see. And so Simon answered, Master, we've worked
Speaker 1: hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you
Speaker 1: say so, I will let down the nets. And when
Speaker 1: they had done so, they caught such a large number
Speaker 1: of fish that their nets began to break. So they
Speaker 1: signal The word is nod because their hands are full.
Speaker 1: So Peter nods at John, Hey get over here and
Speaker 1: help me. Man need some backup. And by the way,
Speaker 1: some of us can only receive so much of what
Speaker 1: God wants to do because we don't have the right partners,
Speaker 1: or we don't have the right network to use a
Speaker 1: little play on words. The nets were breaking, well, you
Speaker 1: need more nets, y'all weren't ready for me today. But
Speaker 1: the partners came over to help them, and they came
Speaker 1: and filled both boats so full that they began to sing.
Speaker 1: And when this is the surprising part of the text. Okay,
Speaker 1: and this one I want to pick up. When Simon
Speaker 1: Peter which one boat, the one that he was before
Speaker 1: he met Jesus and the one that he can be
Speaker 1: as he follows Jesus. Simon Peter. You thought that was
Speaker 1: like a first name in a middle name. Ah, He's
Speaker 1: a name changer, a miracle worker. And the miracle of
Speaker 1: it was that God saw the Peter in Simon even
Speaker 1: before Peter did. And God sees the patient, kind, loving, joyful,
Speaker 1: free you before you even believe that you exists. And
Speaker 1: the surprising part of the text is that Simon Peter,
Speaker 1: they're both in the same boat. Kind of represents the
Speaker 1: flesh and the spirit to me when I think about it.
Speaker 1: When he sees all the fish in his boat, you
Speaker 1: would think he'd be happy, Oh, thank you Jesus, PTL
Speaker 1: praise emojis. But he he fell at Jesus's knees and said, first,
Speaker 1: say go away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man.
Speaker 1: For he and his companions were astonished at what God
Speaker 1: saw beneath the surface and brought forth to his boat.
Speaker 1: They were astonished at the catch a fish they had taken,
Speaker 1: and so were James and John. Nobody expected this, the
Speaker 1: sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. From now on, you will fish for people.
Speaker 1: That's not what you want him to say, you know
Speaker 1: you want him to be like, don't be afraid, Peter.
Speaker 1: From now on, I'm gonna go fishing with you every time,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna show you every spot. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: have to fish all night and catch nothing anymore. You
Speaker 1: have some five minute fishing trips. I'm gonna just tell
Speaker 1: you where to put down the next and boom. Because
Speaker 1: that's what we want God to do, right, That's what
Speaker 1: we want God to do right. No, Pastor Steven, I
Speaker 1: want God to take fifteen years to fix my problem,
Speaker 1: No Pastor Stephen. But I give Simon credit. I give
Speaker 1: Simon Peter credit for his self awareness. Self awareness is
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing. Self awareness will save you from doing
Speaker 1: stupid things. But self awareness, as you're about to see
Speaker 1: in this text, it can only take you so far.
Speaker 1: Because Simon is aware of his sinfulness, but he is
Speaker 1: not yet aware of his peterness. I'm making up a
Speaker 1: word just to make a point. Simon says, go away
Speaker 1: from me. Lord, I'm a sinful man, and he's scared
Speaker 1: because you would be too. Like, how did you see
Speaker 1: that at the bottom of the ocean. We've been fishing
Speaker 1: here all night. We've been fishing our whole lives. You're
Speaker 1: a rampi, you're a carpenter. You know more about the
Speaker 1: water than we do, and you've worked with what your
Speaker 1: whole life. If you saw that beneath the surface, I
Speaker 1: wonder what you see in me. Most of us are
Speaker 1: still scared of God. We are. That's why we pray.
Speaker 1: Fake you. You you use some words when you pray. Well,
Speaker 1: I just never heard you use those words till I
Speaker 1: ask you to say the blessing that was thou ist
Speaker 1: pray That is mightiest goddest I pray is that Thou
Speaker 1: wast with visitist us usn't in this moment? Just what
Speaker 1: is this superlativist neestness that you are. I've never even
Speaker 1: heard your voice drop that loh, Oh, Mighty God. You
Speaker 1: are a soprano. You're a basis faith prayer. You pray God.
Speaker 1: I just want your glory. You're glory, God, You're glory. Now.
Speaker 1: You don't now yet. You have to start where you
Speaker 1: are when you come to God. I praise Peter for
Speaker 1: his awareness of how simon he still is. His first
Speaker 1: instinct was not, that's right, Jesus, you pick the right
Speaker 1: boat this time, brother, and I'll tell you what. This
Speaker 1: boat's gonna carry you all around. I'm gonna take you
Speaker 1: places to preach. You pick the right boat. Jesus, you
Speaker 1: got the right captain, he said. I'm I'm a sinful man.
Speaker 1: I'm a sinful man. You spoke about what was beneath
Speaker 1: the surface of the waters, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to let you too close. You might
Speaker 1: see what's beneath the surface of me. I don't get
Speaker 1: to see the real you when I'm preaching. I see
Speaker 1: the surface Sunday, Sanctify, you're sitting in that seat. My
Speaker 1: preaching began to change when I realized I'm really preaching
Speaker 1: to to us Simon and Peter, help me, precious please.
Speaker 1: The Peter was praising God in you during worship. You
Speaker 1: turned graves into gardens. The Simon, you will try to
Speaker 1: turn a garden into a grave and kill something that
Speaker 1: God is growing in your life before it has the
Speaker 1: opportunity to manifest. And this is why we spoke last
Speaker 1: week about the importance of knowing that both are in
Speaker 1: the boat. And what attracted me to the text was
Speaker 1: not like, oh, pull up the mets and you'll have
Speaker 1: a catch. Pull up the mets and praise them and
Speaker 1: you'll get a promotion. You might, you might not. That's
Speaker 1: not what attracted me to the text for our study.
Speaker 1: It was the contrast. It was the contrast between Jesus,
Speaker 1: who knew everything and needed nothing, and Peter, who needed
Speaker 1: everything and knew nothing. He didn't know, He didn't know
Speaker 1: the fish were down there. He didn't know that the
Speaker 1: power was in him to be a rock that God
Speaker 1: could build on. As he took the Gospel to Cornelius,
Speaker 1: which unleashed the Word of God into the gentile world.
Speaker 1: He didn't know any of that in that moment. And
Speaker 1: yet Peter was already in the boat. Purpose was already
Speaker 1: in the boat that that creature that was in Peter.
Speaker 1: He was in the same boat with Simon. But but
Speaker 1: you know, you could spend your whole life playing. Simon says,
Speaker 1: like we said last week. Not Simon says, touch your nose.
Speaker 1: Simon says, touch your ear. Simon says, touch your head.
Speaker 1: But Simon, my inner. Simon tells me much worse stuff
Speaker 1: than that, you know, Simon says, cuss him out. Simon says,
Speaker 1: don't call him back. Simon says, don't try to do it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna look stupid. Simon says, give him a piece
Speaker 1: of your mind. And we use excuses. Here's what we do.
Speaker 1: We use excuses and say I'm just being me. You
Speaker 1: are being the me that you have seen. But that's Simon,
Speaker 1: and Simon doesn't get to say who you are. That's
Speaker 1: called immaturity, not self awareness. Now I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: self awareness. I think it's great if you brush your teeth.
Speaker 1: I think it's great to have people who will say,
Speaker 1: you know, your zippers down, or you're talking too loud,
Speaker 1: you're talking too much. That's great. Self awareness is amazing.
Speaker 1: It'll make you walk in the room and go you
Speaker 1: know what. I'm probably taking this the wrong way right now.
Speaker 1: They probably don't mean anything by it. Self awareness is
Speaker 1: a wonderful baseline. A lot of us don't really know ourselves.
Speaker 1: We're filled with prejudices, like Peter was when he was Simon,
Speaker 1: when he thought it was only for the Jewish people,
Speaker 1: and he didn't know that God wanted to use him
Speaker 1: as an instrument to the gentiles. Yeah, you, the you
Speaker 1: you knew before Jesus is not the only you that
Speaker 1: you can be God. This is so good, This is
Speaker 1: so good. I'm so glad. Self awareness will tell you
Speaker 1: about your proclivities. It'll tell you about your past, it'll
Speaker 1: tell you about your background, it'll tell you which way
Speaker 1: you lean. Self awareness is an awesome baseline so you
Speaker 1: can know where you're starting. But it's a horrible ceiling
Speaker 1: to show you how far you can go. Now, this
Speaker 1: is what I put on a pink sweater to say today,
Speaker 1: like pink, you haven't really met you yet. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not a golf clap line. You haven't really met
Speaker 1: you yet. You know what I'm clapping. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: meet the meek Domseys. All right, all right, let's work
Speaker 1: on this turn to somebody say, nice to meet you,
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. But I understand, as I'm meeting you,
Speaker 1: I'm really meeting two us. I'm really meeting two us.
Speaker 1: I'm meeting the nice, polite you. They just looked at
Speaker 1: me and said what the pastor said to say. But
Speaker 1: I understand. If I get stuck behind you on forty
Speaker 1: five tomorrow in traffic, I might meet Simon. A lot
Speaker 1: of preachers, they're sermons are so plastic, so candy coated. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. But we don't need to just preach to Peter.
Speaker 1: I gotta talk to Simon because you gotta walk this out.
Speaker 1: And they are both in the same boat, both in
Speaker 1: the same body. Pull out your phone. You got apps
Speaker 1: on there that can grow you in your faith. You
Speaker 1: got apps on there that can lead you off a cliff.
Speaker 1: Go to your contacts. You got contacts in there that
Speaker 1: can strengthen you in faith. You got contacted. You got
Speaker 1: Delilah in that phone somewhere who will cut your hair
Speaker 1: and leave you shaken and blind. Yes, you do, in
Speaker 1: the same phone, in the same boat, in the same Stephen.
Speaker 1: Now let me tell you this is how it works
Speaker 1: for me. It's not all this face for me either.
Speaker 1: It can be like before I came out here today,
Speaker 1: I was walking around the green room, speaking in tongues,
Speaker 1: just wanting to get out here so bad. Three minutes later,
Speaker 1: I thought, oh god, I don't know. Before I could
Speaker 1: even get the microphone on, my batteries wanted to die.
Speaker 1: Not the batteries on the microphone, the batteries in me.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't cancel what God spoke, because Peter Simon
Speaker 1: had enough sense to say, because you say so, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how I feel about it. I can go
Speaker 1: off your word. Oh yeah, By the way, I want
Speaker 1: to tell you something. Jesus didn't need Peter's vote. That's
Speaker 1: why it was so powerful. When hollyod was looking talking
Speaker 1: to me and y'all were listening, she said, yes you
Speaker 1: y'allre like, oh, that's my word, and I'm like, that's cute.
Speaker 1: It's my word because what I heard in that word
Speaker 1: was he wants you. That's hard for me to believe.
Speaker 1: People don't use you because they want you. They use
Speaker 1: you because they need you. I give Peter credit for
Speaker 1: a self awareness. I'm a sinful man. Now. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what Jesus knew when he went to the cross. All
Speaker 1: that was in you, that's what he died for. He's
Speaker 1: going to take care of that in Jerusalem. But for now,
Speaker 1: and I may say it this way. On Elevation Nights
Speaker 1: tour this week, he stepped in grace, got in the
Speaker 1: boat knowing, knowing Jesus needed nothing, knew everything. He knew.
Speaker 1: Peter would sleep in the garden of Gemini while he
Speaker 1: was over there preying light drops of blood. No, no,
Speaker 1: not how it is for us. We wouldn't let people
Speaker 1: close if only we had known what they were going
Speaker 1: to do. So Peter signon. Peter is like Jesus, go away.
Speaker 1: If I let you close, I will let you down. Go.
Speaker 1: If I let you close, I will let you down.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, let down the nets. That wasn't the only
Speaker 1: letdown in Peter's future. Jesus knew at the moment he
Speaker 1: got in Peter's boat that Peter would deny ever knowing him.
Speaker 1: Why I praise God is he got in anyway fully
Speaker 1: knowing what Peter thinks. He's telling Jesus. No, Jesus, you
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm a sinful man. You should get in
Speaker 1: John's boat. John will lean on your chest. At the
Speaker 1: last supper, I'll cut off an ear. I'm a sinful man,
Speaker 1: I'm a crazy God. Get away, Jesus. You don't want
Speaker 1: to know, as I promise you. My boat's good, but
Speaker 1: my heart isn't. Because I want, I want. Can I
Speaker 1: prove to you that Jesus didn't need Peter's boat because
Speaker 1: I know you don't believe me. You're like he totally
Speaker 1: needed the boat the crowd was pressing. It says that
Speaker 1: in verse one he needed the amplification to be out
Speaker 1: on the water because there was no microphone or battery pack.
Speaker 1: He totally needed Peter's boat. But I saw in Matthew
Speaker 1: fourteen something, just that one little verse in Matthew fourteen,
Speaker 1: give it to me real quick, Give it to me,
Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick. This is
Speaker 1: later in the Ministry of Jesus, shortly before dawn. Jesus
Speaker 1: went out to them walking on the lake. So I
Speaker 1: know this might not feel good to say it, but say,
Speaker 1: God doesn't need me. That sent me free man, because
Speaker 1: when I thought he needed me, it felt like a
Speaker 1: burden to serve him. When I thought he needed me,
Speaker 1: I thought I'm letting him down. God needs me so much.
Speaker 1: Not really, not really, he wants me, haha, won't you
Speaker 1: hear that devil? He wants me. Stephen first, Larry Stephens
Speaker 1: Verdick Junior, he wants me. He wants me. That is
Speaker 1: a revelation. Yo yo yo, yo yo yo. Y'all, self
Speaker 1: awareness can only get you so far. You need divine guidance.
Speaker 1: You need a god who spoke the sea into existence
Speaker 1: to show you where the fish are. You need a
Speaker 1: god who need you together. In your mother's womb before
Speaker 1: you were born, I formed you and set you apart. Simon.
Speaker 1: I got in your boat knowing. I got in your
Speaker 1: boat knowing I wasn't feeling my way around. I didn't
Speaker 1: need him any miney Moore. I knew what was in
Speaker 1: your boat. I knew what was in your heart. I
Speaker 1: knew what was in your bloodline. I knew what was
Speaker 1: in your background. I knew what was in your temperament.
Speaker 1: I knew what was in you. And I got in
Speaker 1: because I wanted to. When you can walk on the water,
Speaker 1: you don't really need a boat. Be a much more
Speaker 1: effective way to preach if you were standing on top
Speaker 1: of the water versus sitting in the boat of the
Speaker 1: dude didn't even catch anything five minutes earlier. And he
Speaker 1: got in and he sat down and he said something.
Speaker 1: And when Peter did what he said, Simon saw something
Speaker 1: that scared him to death. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've been explicit about this, So let me make sure
Speaker 1: I get my point across. He's still Simon, and he's
Speaker 1: already Peter. You already got it, You already got it.
Speaker 1: Go away from me. I'm a sinful man. I'm a
Speaker 1: petty person. And then we brag about it. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: just how I am. That's just how I am. And
Speaker 1: so Simon says, throw a fit. You throw a fit
Speaker 1: because that's just how I am. Simon says, for you
Speaker 1: to isolate yourself and you know, hide and just kind
Speaker 1: of like set yourself over here because you're defective. That's
Speaker 1: just how I am. That's just my lot. That's just
Speaker 1: the way it's always been. If it wasn't for bad luck,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have no look at all. But he's permanently Peter,
Speaker 1: temporarily Simon and so and so. God brings the partners,
Speaker 1: God mends the nets. All the things I talked to
Speaker 1: you about last week, did you hear last week, God
Speaker 1: gives you the nod to say, yes you, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: mend your nets. I'm gonna bring you partners. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show you where to fish. And by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna just show you how to catch more fish.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach you to fish for something different. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna teach you how to fish for what really matters.
Speaker 1: That's what you're going through right now. God is drawing out,
Speaker 1: bringing forth. God is parenting you. They say that Jesus
Speaker 1: was teaching Peter, but really he was parenting Peter. He
Speaker 1: was bringing forth Peter. Peter means petross, Peter means rock,
Speaker 1: Peter means solid, and that's you, yes, you not John
Speaker 1: this time. I don't think Peter ever really understood this though,
Speaker 1: because after Jesus rose from the dead, said Jesus looked
Speaker 1: back at John, who was kind of like stalking them.
Speaker 1: John's kind of creepy, you know, and saying something a
Speaker 1: lot of times, calls himself the one Jesus loved and
Speaker 1: stuff like that in the scripture, and the Lord is
Speaker 1: telling Simon Peter, he's still both You know, you ain't
Speaker 1: can come this point in your life. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you never thought this. I'm gonna come to
Speaker 1: a place where I'm gonna be completely Peter, completely solid,
Speaker 1: completely on Christ, the solid rock I stand. And that's
Speaker 1: be wonderful. And if you have the book that tells
Speaker 1: me how to always be Peter, would you please autograph
Speaker 1: it Jesus and hand it to me and I will
Speaker 1: buy it. I'm so sick of fake pe Mike thing
Speaker 1: like they are never Simon. I wish I had five
Speaker 1: minutes to find your Simon and then I could expose
Speaker 1: you in front of the Holy fam. But but Jesus
Speaker 1: is so good to Peter. He said, don't be afraid.
Speaker 1: Give me verse ten from now on, Luke, five to
Speaker 1: ten from now on. There you go from now on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's already Peter. But if he stays stuck in Simon,
Speaker 1: he will never see Peter. Jesus sees Peter in every assignment. Yes, you,
Speaker 1: Jesus sees the Peter. You think he can see the
Speaker 1: fish at the bottom of the lake of Gannessaret and
Speaker 1: he can't see the Peter at the bottom of you.
Speaker 1: But he's going to have to draw it out. Peter
Speaker 1: looked back at John and said what about him? And
Speaker 1: Jesus said to Peter, what about him? You leave that
Speaker 1: to me? You must follow me? You yes, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you have a little thing in you? Says not me.
Speaker 1: I do. Sometimes I'll hear somebody, even another preacher, will
Speaker 1: be saying you're more than a conqueror, And my innersignment
Speaker 1: is like now you. I think that's a good place
Speaker 1: to start, because it puts you on your knees, like
Speaker 1: Peter at Jesus' feet, which is something God can use.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a bad place to stop. And
Speaker 1: the Lord gave me a message today to preach to
Speaker 1: somebody who feels stuck where you started, stuck where you
Speaker 1: started stuck in Simon stuck. I'm a sinful man, you are,
Speaker 1: But he died for you, so that's what you were.
Speaker 1: Now you're a saint, a holy saint. Still got some patterns.
Speaker 1: That's called the flesh. Simon never leaves. You just have
Speaker 1: to tell him where to sit. I'm glad I learned this.
Speaker 1: I thought if I had doubt in the car, I
Speaker 1: couldn't go anywhere. I found out you can have doubt
Speaker 1: in the car. Just don't let it drive. Just don't
Speaker 1: let it drive. Look at somebody and say, just don't
Speaker 1: let it drive. I'm confiscating your driver's license. All the
Speaker 1: lies you've been telling yourself, all the limitations you've been
Speaker 1: telling yourself, all the labels that have been given you,
Speaker 1: all the sinfulness that is keeping you from See. You
Speaker 1: can ride, Simon, but you can't drive. You can stay around,
Speaker 1: but you can't tell me how far to go. You
Speaker 1: can have anywhere, but not the last word. And see,
Speaker 1: this is the season that some of us have been in.
Speaker 1: We've been stuck where we started. But God said something
Speaker 1: very powerful to me. He said, remind them you're not
Speaker 1: stuck where you started. You're stuck where you stopped. Play
Speaker 1: my own Oregon. You are not stuck. I'm a sinful man.
Speaker 1: But Jesus said, don't be afraid of what you were.
Speaker 1: That's what you were before I stepped in your boat.
Speaker 1: Knowing exactly what you are, knowing exactly what you did,
Speaker 1: knowing exactly where you've been, knowing exactly what you're enough,
Speaker 1: I want the boat belonging to Simon. Yes you see, Simon.
Speaker 1: Yes you you're not stuck where you started. I'm a
Speaker 1: sinful man. Yeah, but you are also the righteousness of
Speaker 1: God in Christ Jesus, because what happened on that cross
Speaker 1: was more than a physical act. It was a new name. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 1: you are only stuck where you stop. I just gotta
Speaker 1: be me. Well, there's a new me I need to meet.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Peter has so much potential. Simon has so
Speaker 1: much baggage. Peter has so much purpose. Simon has so
Speaker 1: many problems. And they're both in the same boat. So
Speaker 1: all we gotta been telling Simon sit down. Peter needs
Speaker 1: to pilot this boat. That's what Jesus called him. It's Peter. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Simon says, you are the Christ, the son of
Speaker 1: the Living God. And Jesus said, flesh and blood did
Speaker 1: not reveal this to you, Simon, son of On, But
Speaker 1: I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this
Speaker 1: rock I'll build my church. Let's clap that he gave
Speaker 1: him the no name the noon. All right, but y'all
Speaker 1: look in Matthew sixteen later today. A minute later, Jesus said,
Speaker 1: I gotta go to Jerusalem. I'm gonna need about three
Speaker 1: days for y'all to think everything went wrong, and then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get up out of the ground. Peter said never, Lord,
Speaker 1: this isin't gonna happen to you. Jesus said something real weird.
Speaker 1: Now He's already called him Peter just a minute earlier.
Speaker 1: But then he looked at him and said, get behind me, Satan.
Speaker 1: Oh god, we're going backwards. This is the wrong direction,
Speaker 1: all right. I started as Simon, then I was Peter.
Speaker 1: Now I'm Satan. Lord, this is going the wrong way.
Speaker 1: You've been feeling like you've been going backwards lately, right right,
Speaker 1: I was like it it's somebody, maybe not everybody, but somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody.
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm going backwards. Oh god, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling like more now. Oh God, I'm feeling like it's harder. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling less sure. I'm feeling less certain. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. I used to know. I don't
Speaker 1: know anymore. You're not going backwards. That's called the sifting.
Speaker 1: The sifting. When Jesus got in Peter's spoke, he not
Speaker 1: only knew there were fish in that spot where there
Speaker 1: weren't a little while ago, he knew about the sin
Speaker 1: that was in Simon. And Simon's only speaking about the
Speaker 1: sin he knows about Jesus knows the future ones you
Speaker 1: didn't even think to include on your resume, and he
Speaker 1: still got in. So I want to take you for
Speaker 1: a moment to pass overnight before Jesus goes to the
Speaker 1: cross to die for Simon and James and John and
Speaker 1: Judas and you too, yes you well, no, we'll see
Speaker 1: their preacher. I've been going to church since six years old.
Speaker 1: Mamma used to tick me over there to the vacation
Speaker 1: Bible school. I'm not really one of these sinners. You
Speaker 1: ever heard of self righteousness? That's a pretty good sin too.
Speaker 1: Now you can't see it on the surface, but if
Speaker 1: you let down the nets far enough, there's a signon
Speaker 1: inside all of us. Don't let him make you feel inferior,
Speaker 1: like you can't praise God, like you can't worship God,
Speaker 1: like God can't use you. Don't you ever let them
Speaker 1: do that to you? And at the moment you think
Speaker 1: Peter is so self aware, he's seen miracles, he's seen blessings,
Speaker 1: he's seen healings. Jesus healed Peter's own mother in law.
Speaker 1: Did you know that that's why many scholars think Peter
Speaker 1: denied him. Okay, okay, okay, Joe just JOm just checking
Speaker 1: you up. So, but he really did. He healed his
Speaker 1: mother in law. He saw him heal blind people by
Speaker 1: spitting in the ground, putting mud on their eyes. Other
Speaker 1: times he see Jesus just speak a word anyway you
Speaker 1: put it. Peter had seen a lot because God was
Speaker 1: drawing out what was there all along, drawing out Ah,
Speaker 1: yeahs a baby, stay with me, Stay with just a baby.
Speaker 1: Grind's all right. God was pulling out what was there
Speaker 1: all along. Now this is a blessing of what God
Speaker 1: brings up out of you. Here's something I never quite
Speaker 1: saw it like this before till I was studying for
Speaker 1: this message called yes You in Luke twenty two. Give
Speaker 1: me that real quick, Luke twenty two. And I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to do a whole series on Peter in one week,
Speaker 1: but that's what we're apparently what we're doing today. Jesus
Speaker 1: looks at Simon, who has been named Peter but he's
Speaker 1: still Simon, and says, do you remember last week Simon
Speaker 1: Simon twice as covenant Simon Simon, who you were, your
Speaker 1: given name, who you were before I got in your boat?
Speaker 1: Simon Simon. Satan has asked to sift you. That means
Speaker 1: to tear apart, to separate the useful from the useless,
Speaker 1: to separate who was truly the followers of Jesus from
Speaker 1: those who were just the fans. So now let's be
Speaker 1: Peter for a moment. Peter, Jesus just says to you, Simon, Simon.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're like, you're talking to I'm Peter.
Speaker 1: Remember you told me ceaphist Peter Dwayne Johnson the Rock.
Speaker 1: He's still calling him Simon because he's still Simon. You're
Speaker 1: still flesh strong. Faith still has weak moments. He said,
Speaker 1: Satan asked to sift all of you. He's talking about
Speaker 1: the Cross, he's talking about the testing, he's talking about
Speaker 1: those crises of faith that we all have. Do I
Speaker 1: really still believe that God with me? Well? I really
Speaker 1: still follow even through the via dolorosa, the way of suffering.
Speaker 1: He asked to sift all of you as wheat. And
Speaker 1: then I'm thinking, Peter, you're Peter, you'd like and you
Speaker 1: told him no, right, No, I didn't tell him no.
Speaker 1: But look at first starting two, all this beautiful. But
Speaker 1: I prayed for you, Simon. I'm gonna let you go
Speaker 1: through this season of sifting. But not alone, not alone.
Speaker 1: Just like I didn't leave your boat, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: leave you. Now you're gonna be sifted, all of you.
Speaker 1: But I prayed for your weak place, Simon. It's one
Speaker 1: thing to pray for Peter, but how many thank God
Speaker 1: that you have a savior who will pray for Simon. Now,
Speaker 1: God said you needed to hear this. I have prayed
Speaker 1: for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. But
Speaker 1: didn't it didn't Peter deny knowing Jesus three times? Didn't
Speaker 1: Peter look at the servant girl and say, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what you're talking about. I'm not one of them,
Speaker 1: Yes you, not me? Weren't you one of his followers? No?
Speaker 1: Not me, not me? He has gone from saying to Jesus,
Speaker 1: even if everybody denies you, I won't do They say,
Speaker 1: weren't you following this God? No, not me, one of
Speaker 1: your boat, knowing mine. And yet Jesus says, I prayed
Speaker 1: that your faith survive the sifting. Receive this word. You
Speaker 1: will survive the sifting. God help me. I'm not playing
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not playing with you. I'm prophesying to you.
Speaker 1: You will survive the sifting. God said, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: stop it from happening. I'm going to allow it, but
Speaker 1: you will survive it. Oh God, I feel like we
Speaker 1: should just praise God right now for what we're going
Speaker 1: to survive. And watch this, watch this, watch this who
Speaker 1: we're gonna be on the other side. Because Viesus said,
Speaker 1: after you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. So God said,
Speaker 1: not only are you gonna survive it, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: strength to show for it. I'm gonna use Yes, Lord,
Speaker 1: I received that. That's my word. That's my word. That's
Speaker 1: just for you, Simon, Simon. I'm gonna get testimonies for
Speaker 1: this for months after I preach it. I'm the Simon
Speaker 1: you were talking to. I'm the shaking one. I was
Speaker 1: being sifted. The devil was coming after my kids. The
Speaker 1: devil was coming after my mind. The devil was coming
Speaker 1: after everything I ever knew myself as. The devil came
Speaker 1: after my career. The devil came after my sleep. The
Speaker 1: devil came after my sanity. The devil came after mine,
Speaker 1: my memories. The devil came after everything I was carrying.
Speaker 1: And I survived the shifted. I survived the sifting. This
Speaker 1: is the sifting. And if you survive the sifting, Simon,
Speaker 1: you can be Peter. You can stand blackfooted and No,
Speaker 1: the rain fell, and the winds came, and the streams rose,
Speaker 1: but the rocks stayed solid, and God is faithful. I
Speaker 1: gotta make it through this to find out who I
Speaker 1: really am. I gotta make it through this to find
Speaker 1: out who my kids can be. I gotta make it
Speaker 1: through this to set an example that you can survive
Speaker 1: the sifting and come out solid. You can survive the
Speaker 1: sifting and come out praising. You can survive the sifting.
Speaker 1: How else would God reveal Peter if he didn't sift, Simon,
Speaker 1: And even if he had to use the enemy to
Speaker 1: do it, he who began a good work in you,
Speaker 1: whoa will be faithful. All I'm trying to say. If
Speaker 1: he got in the boat, he's not getting out, That's
Speaker 1: all I'm trying to say. And after you have survived
Speaker 1: the sifty, Simon, you know what's amazing. From the moment
Speaker 1: Jesus saw Peter's boat, he knew about everything that Peter
Speaker 1: would go through, and even at the worst moment. All right,
Speaker 1: maybe this word didn't for you Right now, put it
Speaker 1: on standby. Put it on stand by. I had a
Speaker 1: pretty good week. I ate clean this week. I had
Speaker 1: a You know, I don't care about this week because
Speaker 1: I'm telling you fate fluctuates. And one more thing. Do
Speaker 1: you want this little teaching thing or you want me
Speaker 1: to go on to Atlanta and give it to them,
Speaker 1: because I got one more thing I want to show you,
Speaker 1: all right, but I swear man, I want to be
Speaker 1: obedient to the Lord. And there was one thing he
Speaker 1: showed me that totally surprised me from second Peter one Now,
Speaker 1: so passing, why are you going to second Peter? Because
Speaker 1: I want to show you what was in Simon even
Speaker 1: as he sat by the fire and denied Jesus. Now
Speaker 1: listen to Peter, not sixteen year old Peter, not shakey Simon,
Speaker 1: senior citizens. Swag Peter, come on, praise God like you're
Speaker 1: eighty three and you already made it through all your trial.
Speaker 1: Come on, praise him like you got a bad hip,
Speaker 1: but you lived like jacob On into the promise. Ah.
Speaker 1: A lot of people that walk with confidence. It looks
Speaker 1: like swag, but it's really a limb. All right. Now,
Speaker 1: when you've been through enough, you can say stuff like this,
Speaker 1: this is what God is doing in me and you
Speaker 1: to make it really clear, because we're not just talking
Speaker 1: about boats and fish and nets and metaphors. Ah, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about character. I'm talking about you. Yes, you, not
Speaker 1: the stuff. They didn't even eat the fish they caught.
Speaker 1: They left it on the shore and followed Jesus. When
Speaker 1: the bowel was in the water, it was a bowel
Speaker 1: was in them. And here's Peter encouraging a struggling church
Speaker 1: in Second Peter. This this letter that he wrote after
Speaker 1: he'd insisted assignment, and after he had stood solid as Peter.
Speaker 1: He goes, for this very reason, make every effort to
Speaker 1: add to your faith. How many have faith? I'm talking
Speaker 1: about even a little droppy, drippy, droppy faith, a little
Speaker 1: like boop, you got blood faith? Okay, if you got
Speaker 1: that much, fait j said, faith of a mustard seed
Speaker 1: size on that scale can move a mountain and watch
Speaker 1: how it happens. This is the word. This is the word.
Speaker 1: You're not stuck where you started, Simon, You're stuck where
Speaker 1: you stop. Judas hung himself. Peter preached on the day
Speaker 1: of Pentecost. It is still not decided yet what your
Speaker 1: life will accomplish. You have no idea. You don't know
Speaker 1: any more than Peter knew when he said go away.
Speaker 1: I'm a sinful man. You don't know what's under your boat,
Speaker 1: right You'll know. You don't know what God's going to
Speaker 1: bring forth out of you in a future season. That's
Speaker 1: why the enemy wants to kill you right now. But
Speaker 1: Jesus prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon.
Speaker 1: He prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon,
Speaker 1: he prayed for He prayed for Simon to bring forth Peter.
Speaker 1: And Peter's looking back on it, and he said, I
Speaker 1: want to encourage you every effort to add. Everybody say add.
Speaker 1: You're not stuck where you start it. You're stuck where
Speaker 1: you stopped. Add to your faith. Now raise your hand
Speaker 1: if you need a little help with one of these.
Speaker 1: I'm a listed goodness. How many need a little more goodness?
Speaker 1: All the negative people like me who see the glass
Speaker 1: not half full but want to slap in the face
Speaker 1: whoever spilled it. All right, I don't see the glass
Speaker 1: half empty. I see it as spilled, and I want
Speaker 1: to know who did it. I can be very negative sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I need some goodness. I am preaching deeper than
Speaker 1: y'all are shouting today. I need a shouting simon on
Speaker 1: am good. I need some goodness? All right, all right,
Speaker 1: you need that. It's in the water, but it's got
Speaker 1: to be drawn out. Because he said, you got the faith.
Speaker 1: If you've got the faith, you can get the goodness.
Speaker 1: Give me next one. This is just the Bible. I
Speaker 1: didn't make this list up. Add to your goodness. Go
Speaker 1: back to the other verse, y'all. There's somewhere in the
Speaker 1: other verse. Yeah, yeah, and to goodness knowledge. How many
Speaker 1: of y'all did something stupid in the last six days
Speaker 1: since I last saw you in church, Something so stupid,
Speaker 1: I mean so stupid you don't even want to think
Speaker 1: about it again. It's like a Ah, I did some stupid.
Speaker 1: You can get smarter. You can read the book you
Speaker 1: bought that's still on your phone unopened. Lead the verse up.
Speaker 1: I want to show you this from the Bible. I'm
Speaker 1: not just making it up. I'm not a motivational speaker.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what is in you, by the word
Speaker 1: of God, the implanted word that's in you. But you
Speaker 1: gotta draw it out. You gotta let down the next
Speaker 1: for a catch. It's down in you. You can get
Speaker 1: more knowledge. You need more knowledge? How many need more knowledge?
Speaker 1: Any more knowledge? Because I know God, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to believe anymore on the news or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know what's true. I don't know
Speaker 1: who did it. I don't know who didn't do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're about to do it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Elon Musk is gonna fly a car
Speaker 1: over my house and drop a kim trip. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything anymore. I don't know about any of it.
Speaker 1: But I need the knowledge. God said, I'll put my
Speaker 1: spirit in you and I'll give you the knowledge. But
Speaker 1: it's beneath the surface. Silence, Oh God, what else, Peter?
Speaker 1: What else? Peter? Peter's talking so so mature now and
Speaker 1: to knowledge self control? Is this, Peter? What you mean?
Speaker 1: You could be so reckless that Peter just said everything
Speaker 1: he ever wanted to say when he was walking with Jesus.
Speaker 1: But watch this, You're not stuck where you started. Peter said,
Speaker 1: I used to have no self control. Jesus was praying
Speaker 1: on the amount of olives and I was sleeping. I
Speaker 1: ate the whole bag. Peter said, I was just gonna
Speaker 1: have one. I ate the whole bag, and stop saying
Speaker 1: stuff like this. By the way, Oh, I'm just not
Speaker 1: a morning person, or I'm just not a night person
Speaker 1: or whatever they make caffeine for that. Y'all, you didn't
Speaker 1: get up. Stop saying I'm a sinful man. That's where
Speaker 1: you started. That's not where it stops. That's not where
Speaker 1: it stops. I feel a LRD speaking to me about
Speaker 1: that thing I've been saying lately. I'm not an author.
Speaker 1: I've been saying it again. It gets back in you.
Speaker 1: I'm not an author. I can't write. I hear the
Speaker 1: Lord speaking to me. It's not yours yet, Yes, oh god,
Speaker 1: it's not yours yet. You don't know it yet. You
Speaker 1: haven't done it yet, you haven't broken it yet, you
Speaker 1: haven't been consistent with it yet. But if you want
Speaker 1: to put your faith in the water, there's a Peter
Speaker 1: on the inside assignment. I'm telling you that there's a
Speaker 1: Peter on the inside of side. I'm not a good
Speaker 1: dad yet, I can't keep a relationship together. Y'all are
Speaker 1: real slow to say what I'm telling you to say. Today,
Speaker 1: he said, I got some self control, and it would
Speaker 1: have been this would have meant nothing to me. If
Speaker 1: John had said it, I would have said, yeah, you
Speaker 1: are one of those enneagram nines or whatever it's called
Speaker 1: the peacemaker or whatever. But when Peter is for my
Speaker 1: self control, I'm like, okay, I could get some too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could get some too. Just don't let the sifting
Speaker 1: kill you. Just don't stop here. Just don't say I'm
Speaker 1: a sinful man. Get out of the boat. Just let
Speaker 1: the grace of God keep working in your life. Can
Speaker 1: I say something to everybody in the room, keep coming.
Speaker 1: You did good to come. You didn't come to church,
Speaker 1: you came to fish. God is pulling as I speak
Speaker 1: right now. He is pulling promises that you bury down
Speaker 1: jeep to the surface and to self control, perseverance. Every
Speaker 1: quitter in here who's hanging up your nets for the
Speaker 1: night thus said, drop him one more time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care. It didn't work five years ago. It's
Speaker 1: not five years ago now. And you're not twenty five,
Speaker 1: you're thirty, and you're thirty. You can do it everything right.
Speaker 1: Just because the fish weren't there a minute ago doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they aren't now. And to perseverance, godliness. Peter, stay
Speaker 1: with it, Simon, because there is a Peter on the
Speaker 1: inside of you that Jesus died to bring forth. That
Speaker 1: he died to bring forth. So when Peter was sitting
Speaker 1: look twenty two sixty something, fifty something sixty something, I
Speaker 1: don't remember. Can you put it up please, They took
Speaker 1: Jesus away to the house of the High Priest, and
Speaker 1: Peter followed at a distance. And when Peter had and
Speaker 1: when some there had kindled a fire in the middle
Speaker 1: of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat
Speaker 1: down with them. This is the moment I want you
Speaker 1: to see. While Peter was sitting by the fire denying Christ,
Speaker 1: and that may have been you lately. I don't mean
Speaker 1: you deny believing in God. I mean you are denying
Speaker 1: his purpose in your life. You are denying what he
Speaker 1: spoke over you. You are you're not playing your part.
Speaker 1: You're not showing up. You're sitting by comfort fire, waiting
Speaker 1: to see what's going to happen next. This was crazy
Speaker 1: to me. This was crazy to me. I thought the
Speaker 1: message was prepared, y'all. I came out to preach it.
Speaker 1: The Lord said, look, one more time Peter sat by
Speaker 1: the fire next verse, please, And the servant girl saw
Speaker 1: him and said, this man was with him next verse,
Speaker 1: and he denied it. Woman, I don't know him, not me.
Speaker 1: Yes you. A little later someone said you are one
Speaker 1: of them? He said, not me. Has that been the
Speaker 1: posture of your heart? I can't do it. God, I
Speaker 1: don't have that knowledge. I don't have that perseverance. I
Speaker 1: don't have that self control. I'm stuck. Nobody showed me how.
Speaker 1: A third time a little later, next verse, please another
Speaker 1: certain certain fellows with him, for he is a Galilean.
Speaker 1: Peter replied, man, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Just as he was speaking, the rooster crow, this is
Speaker 1: what I saw verse sixty one, the Lord turned and
Speaker 1: looked straight at Peter. What did he see, Peter, even
Speaker 1: as Simon sat by the fire, even in your addiction,
Speaker 1: even in your mistake, even in your denial. Oh, he
Speaker 1: can't deny himself if we are faithless, he is faithful.
Speaker 1: What did Jesus see when he looked at Simon sitting
Speaker 1: by the fire? He saw Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you exactly what Jesus sees in that
Speaker 1: moment he looks at Peter, he doesn't look at him.
Speaker 1: What a failure, what a waste. I never should have
Speaker 1: saved him. I never should have gave him a chance.
Speaker 1: I never should have put him there. I never saw
Speaker 1: that come in. Jesus looks at Peter by the fire
Speaker 1: in the courtyard outside the office of the High Priest,
Speaker 1: and he sees the Peter in Simon, because at two
Speaker 1: verse fourteen says something amazing. Then Peter stood up. Then
Speaker 1: Peter stood up. Only Jesus can look at Peter and
Speaker 1: see through the Simon that's sitting by the fire, and
Speaker 1: see the Peter who will preach the first sermon on
Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost that will build the church. So
Speaker 1: I wonder, will you stand up, Peter? Now? I mean
Speaker 1: stand up like right now I'm closing. But see, when
Speaker 1: I finished speaking, sometimes that's when God starts talking. That's
Speaker 1: why I don't understand y'all who slip out when I'm
Speaker 1: doing this part of the message makes no sense to me,
Speaker 1: because when I finished talking, that's when God starts and
Speaker 1: he says, that was your word, Yes you, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use you to preach on the day of Pentecost. And
Speaker 1: I see it even while you're sitting by the fire.
Speaker 1: So God, this is a moment for you to bring
Speaker 1: forth out of broken nets. Amazing glory, amazing purpose, amazing grace.
Speaker 1: I have spoken today to the Simon, but you see
Speaker 1: the Peter. I thank you Lord that everybody under the
Speaker 1: sound of my voice right now is going to survive
Speaker 1: the sifting because you're praying for it, because you live
Speaker 1: to make intercession, because you are a great high Priest Jesus.
Speaker 1: And just lift your hands right now and say, I
Speaker 1: will survive the sifting. Not only that, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get knowledge and self control and perseverance. I went in Simon,
Speaker 1: and I'm coming out Peter, because God knows what's in me.
Speaker 1: Yes me, yes you. I want you to claim it
Speaker 1: by faith right now. Say that word was for me.
Speaker 1: Now receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it,
Speaker 1: receive it, receive it. I'm already chosen. I know who
Speaker 1: I am, I know what you've spoken. Can I'm already
Speaker 1: love more than I could a man. Well, if you
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