WEBVTT - Yes You! 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.639 Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment, 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.880 but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.319 It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.120 November fourth. You gotta go to Elevation Nights dot com 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.400 to see if we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.239 It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:22.680 I want to see you there. I want to see 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.000 you and everybody that you know there. Go to Elevation 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.680 Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:33.400 Here's the message. Most of all, Lord, we ask you 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.720 to give us the faith to receive your grace in 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.120 this moment, and we believe that it's already ours in 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.320 the name of Jesus. Put it in the chat, say 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:49.880 it with your mouth. It's already mine right now. It's 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.960 already mine, right now. Come on, clap your hands like 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:05.559 you know your father. Let do some goodness Taiah. Lord. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.880 You know what I feel, dude, I feel that free 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:16.880 tour anointing. It's that free tour anointing. We're getting ready. Man. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.920 By the time you see this, we'll probably already be 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.960 in Atlanta. We're taking Elevation Church on the road this week. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.680 How many of you will pray for us at least once? 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:36.759 Come on, now, you can pray once. You pray over 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.720 your French fries. Once. We'll bless these potatoes to the 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:46.000 nourishment of my body. That's a miracle. But just pray 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.520 for us this week. We want to have a good time. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.880 I don't want any of them fighting on the buses. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.320 And you know what I mean. I don't want Jenna 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.160 and Johnson having marriage problems when they get back from tour. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.120 What happened to your marriage? We went out to lead worship, y'all? 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:07.480 Sharing a bunk? You should talk to somebody. Yeah, that'd 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.280 be pretty good strategy. Share a bunk, you know what 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.920 I mean? Right, I get the cuddle. But it's gonna 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.400 be amazing. It's gonna be amazing and will be for 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.880 those of you who still want to come. There are 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.040 still some tickets left, and if you know somebody in 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.120 the following areas, there's still time to tell them to 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:31.360 come out. Atlanta Tuesday one month, is this October twenty sixth, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:39.480 Nashville the next night. Then I don't want to give 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:46.799 them the nights, just the towns Tulsa, Dallas, Houston. So 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.400 that's gonna be awesome because when I'm in Atlanta Tuesday, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.280 I'm in the Seco Braves. When I'm in Houston, I'm 0:02:54.280 --> 0:03:00.239 gonna say go Astros because I'm an inmphocrit rry. I 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.040 will pander, I will. I won't even know I did it. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.440 I guess they will now, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Houston, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:17.040 Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville. So if you 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:22.200 can make it Elevation Nights dot Com, we are gonna bring. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.160 It's gonna be Game seven every night. The World Series, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.160 the World Series of Worship. That's what we should call 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.520 the tour, the World Series of Worship. But no, seriously, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.680 we're so excited. Pray for us. Gonna be amazing, absolutely amazing. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.280 And today, guess what, there is a word from the 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:49.440 Lord for you in the house. I'd like you to 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.080 say that by faith and say there is a word 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:59.560 from the Lord for me. Now look at somebody else 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:04.440 and say there is a word. Put it in the chat. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.600 Why are you not putting it in the chat? All right? 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.560 Everybody in the room saying I'm on every location, there 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.920 is a word. Look at your neighbor. You can't catch 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:18.400 coronavirus looking at him. Y'all are so insulated. There is 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:26.840 a word from the Lord for you. Yes you, yes you. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.080 That's my title today. We're going deeper. We're gonna pick 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.479 up on last week. We're going deeper. This message is calm. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:45.160 Yes you, look at somebody else, say yes you. You 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.680 may be seated, Yes you. Did you get to hear 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:55.680 the word from last week? He's noddy, he really heard it. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.479 That was the message. It was about the God nod, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:08.520 how God chooses you. Yes you, dirty you, sorry, beautiful you. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.080 I want to affirm you today. But seriously, it took 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.920 me back to I'm gonna be in Luke five one 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.920 through eleven to start with again. That won't be where 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.240 we end, but we'll start there. The best sermon I 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.799 think was ever preached here was the one Holly preached 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:32.600 for the church anniversary. It was still before everybody was 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.480 able to come back in the room fully and all 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.880 of those things. So you know, it's weird times. But 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.680 I'll usually come over with her when she preaches and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.200 listen to her do the sermon before she does it, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:52.040 and then I culture afterwards. But I've learned not to 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.720 try to coach here, to preach it like I would 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.360 preach it just to help her find, you know the best. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.320 And yes, there have been tears during those coaching sessions, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.560 and we have gone home in separate cars before after 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.640 those coaching sessions. Now I'm just kiddingessed it's usually pretty good. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.760 But when I came for that one, I don't remember 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.920 what she called the message, but I remember one part 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.559 about it where she was standing in the pulpit looking 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:21.880 so attractive and annointed. They're not mutually exclusive, and she said, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.040 in the middle of her message, she's preaching about Gideon 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.760 and God calling him a warrior when he felt like 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.000 a whim and he's and he had to become what 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.479 God saw that he already was. And she said during 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:39.000 the runthrough, she said, yes you, and I couldn't. I 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.440 couldn't take any more notes after she said that, because 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.320 you know, you've ever been in church where it felt 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:51.480 like God was speaking just to you. And so when 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.960 she preached it, she said, put it in the chat, 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.320 yes you going to do it right now? Put in chat, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.440 yes you. And when she said that, I thought they 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.400 can put it in the chat all they want, but 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:07.520 that's my word. She's talking to me right now. I 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.280 think what made it powerful really was not only what 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.600 she spoke, but who spoke it, because I also know 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.080 what it cost her to stand in front of our 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.680 church and preach with such power. I go back to 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.960 like these outtakes in my mind of her telling me, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.600 I'll never preach like so and so. Oh, I know 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.680 that I should be able to be a leader, but 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.440 you know, I'm really not a leader like so and so. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.360 And to see that one I'm not gonna lie, y'all. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.360 It was kind of sexy and spiritual at the same 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.720 time to see her up there going yes you. But 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.000 I knew that for her to say that to the 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.000 whole church, she had to first say it to herself 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.160 that she had to push through all of these preferences 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.440 and even push through what she considered to be her 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.000 own personality, to step out of her comfort zone and 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:07.560 to walk in her calling yes you. But it hit 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.160 me right in my heart. I struggle with the same thing, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.640 like I tell you all the time. And it was 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 like we were just right there and she was saying, 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:22.800 you are the one that God has chosen to do 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:28.480 the thing that God assigned for you to do. Yes, you, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.600 she just said. It is one line. I'm gonna make 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.760 a whole sermon out of it today from Luke chapter five, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.680 verse one through eleven. And I want to read it again. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.880 And if you come out to Elevation nights, I might 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.520 still be in Luke chapter five, because this is really 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.640 good to me. Of course, we were noticing some things 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.800 about the text last week, but let me just read 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.360 it through briefly. One day, as Jesus was standing by 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.200 the lake of Ganes Sarette, the people were crowding around 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.040 him and listening to the word of God. And he 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:11.000 saw at the water's edge two boats. How many boats? Also, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.599 he can get in either one he wants to, but 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.400 he got in the one belonging to Simon. Now, notice 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.800 what it says They were left there verse two, part 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.079 B by the fishermen who were washing their nets, mending 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.640 their nets, kind of like calling it a night. You know, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.320 we didn't catch anything. Ah, let's just get the nets ready. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.920 We'll go again. You know, get them next time, slugger, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.040 good game. He got into one of the boats, the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.280 one belonging to Simon. That's the phrase right there, the 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:47.760 one belonging to Simon. The one belonging to Simon, whose 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.400 name was changed later to Peter. Okay, so if you're 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.240 a little confused right now, you're like, wait a minute, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.520 I thought that Jesus used Peter's boat. He did, but 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.040 he's still Simon. Because you know, we sing a song 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:06.240 at church haar Lot called Waymaker miracle Worker. We didn't 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:07.960 write it. I wish we did. That's a good song, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.199 but it says a promise keeper. It lists all these 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.080 things that God is. He's a waymaker, he's a chain breaker. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.480 But I'm gonna tell you what. We could write another 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:28.760 verse on it. He's a name changer. He's a name changer, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.719 something people have called you all your life. God will 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.400 get down on the inside of you and show you 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:44.040 that your something else, something totally different. Name changer, miracle worker. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:49.160 I like it. Let's work it up. But he gave 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.800 an instruction, and this is cool. Look at verse four. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.560 It's what I was just describing. When God speaks directly 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.000 to you. When he had finished verse four, when he 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.439 had finished speaking, he said to Simon, So that's the 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.480 personal word. You got to listen for that. When the 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.920 sermon ends. Sometimes that's where God will speak the most 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.680 to you. So Jesus is teaching all these deep things. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.599 All The Kingdom of God is like a pearl. The 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.920 Kingdom of God is like. The Kingdom of God is 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.480 like And then he turns to Simon and says, there's 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.760 something that I want you to do based on what 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.199 you've just heard. And a lot of times when I 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.040 stop preaching, you stop listening, and that's where God would 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.120 give you the breakthrough. So you got to listen real good, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.120 and be careful who you go to lunch with after 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.760 I preach, because they'll be talking about something so stupid 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.280 and something so off subject. And sometimes you need to 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:50.080 be like I need fifteen minutes, I need fifteen seconds. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.240 It doesn't even take God long he's speaking. The Kingdom 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.000 of God is like. He sits down in the boat. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.720 He teaches the crowds, and then he turns to Simon. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.719 I'll later be named Peter, but he's already Peter. But 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:08.520 he's still Simon. And the process of discipleship is not 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:17.839 God changing you into something else, it's him revealing who 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:24.120 you've been all along. So he tells Simon, amen, if 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.400 you put out into the deep water and let down 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.439 the nets. There's something down there. You can't see it, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.760 but I can't. And so this is kind of freaky 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.760 because God sees things we don't see. Notice he didn't 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.400 speak the fish into the water at that moment. He 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.280 just knew they were already there. It wasn't about God 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.679 putting something there that wasn't there. It was about him 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.760 alerting Simon to what was there beneath the surface. And 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.640 that's how it is in your life. There are things 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.719 that God is bringing forth. Everybody say bring forth. That's 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.479 what God spoke to the earth. He said, bring forth, vegetation, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:11.280 bring forth. He didn't speak something that wasn't there to 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.520 the earth. He brought forth what was in the earth 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.200 all along. And he's doing that in your life right now. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.719 He is bringing forth. Even the word parent is from 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:26.120 the Latin, which means to bring forth. And our job 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.839 as a parent is not to make our kids a 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:33.000 better version of us. It's the partner with God in 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.800 bringing forth the unique thing that he put inside of them. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.040 If one more person tells me abb he's going to 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.520 be a preacher, I can tell you can't tell nothing. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.880 She might be, she might run, she might be the president. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.959 I'm not going to limit her potential based on what 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:58.360 I did up here shall bring forth. God has been 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.240 bringing forth in your life lately, some stuff that you 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.200 really didn't want to see. God has been bringing forth 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.839 in your life lately, some issues you didn't want to 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.600 deal with. But He brings those things for a greater purpose. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.400 And this is what we see with Simon. Y'are with 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.600 me so far. I'm just reading my scripture reviewing from 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:25.760 last week. There is a word from God for you. Yes, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:33.400 you right now. So he goes, Simon, if you'll do 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.160 what I say, you can have what I see that 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:45.240 you can't see. And so Simon answered, Master, we've worked 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.800 hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.760 say so, I will let down the nets. And when 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.640 they had done so, they caught such a large number 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.200 of fish that their nets began to break. So they 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.920 signal The word is nod because their hands are full. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.880 So Peter nods at John, Hey get over here and 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.440 help me. Man need some backup. And by the way, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.280 some of us can only receive so much of what 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.320 God wants to do because we don't have the right partners, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.280 or we don't have the right network to use a 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.920 little play on words. The nets were breaking, well, you 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:24.800 need more nets, y'all weren't ready for me today. But 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.800 the partners came over to help them, and they came 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.920 and filled both boats so full that they began to sing. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.680 And when this is the surprising part of the text. Okay, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.760 and this one I want to pick up. When Simon 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:42.840 Peter which one boat, the one that he was before 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.040 he met Jesus and the one that he can be 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.800 as he follows Jesus. Simon Peter. You thought that was 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.040 like a first name in a middle name. Ah, He's 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.400 a name changer, a miracle worker. And the miracle of 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:03.320 it was that God saw the Peter in Simon even 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:10.760 before Peter did. And God sees the patient, kind, loving, joyful, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:17.320 free you before you even believe that you exists. And 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.000 the surprising part of the text is that Simon Peter, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.840 they're both in the same boat. Kind of represents the 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.160 flesh and the spirit to me when I think about it. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.680 When he sees all the fish in his boat, you 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.479 would think he'd be happy, Oh, thank you Jesus, PTL 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:47.440 praise emojis. But he he fell at Jesus's knees and said, first, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.280 say go away from me, Lord, I am a sinful man. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.360 For he and his companions were astonished at what God 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.640 saw beneath the surface and brought forth to his boat. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.880 They were astonished at the catch a fish they had taken, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.800 and so were James and John. Nobody expected this, the 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.679 sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.119 don't be afraid. From now on, you will fish for people. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.040 That's not what you want him to say, you know 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.360 you want him to be like, don't be afraid, Peter. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.840 From now on, I'm gonna go fishing with you every time, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.720 and I'm gonna show you every spot. You're not gonna 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.879 have to fish all night and catch nothing anymore. You 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.000 have some five minute fishing trips. I'm gonna just tell 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.480 you where to put down the next and boom. Because 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.200 that's what we want God to do, right, That's what 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:46.520 we want God to do right. No, Pastor Steven, I 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.200 want God to take fifteen years to fix my problem, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.960 No Pastor Stephen. But I give Simon credit. I give 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:01.000 Simon Peter credit for his self awareness. Self awareness is 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.640 a wonderful thing. Self awareness will save you from doing 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.360 stupid things. But self awareness, as you're about to see 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.200 in this text, it can only take you so far. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.600 Because Simon is aware of his sinfulness, but he is 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.480 not yet aware of his peterness. I'm making up a 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.520 word just to make a point. Simon says, go away 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:32.400 from me. Lord, I'm a sinful man, and he's scared 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.359 because you would be too. Like, how did you see 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.280 that at the bottom of the ocean. We've been fishing 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.800 here all night. We've been fishing our whole lives. You're 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.920 a rampi, you're a carpenter. You know more about the 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.359 water than we do, and you've worked with what your 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:51.359 whole life. If you saw that beneath the surface, I 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.199 wonder what you see in me. Most of us are 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.320 still scared of God. We are. That's why we pray. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:05.240 Fake you. You you use some words when you pray. Well, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.159 I just never heard you use those words till I 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.159 ask you to say the blessing that was thou ist 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.960 pray That is mightiest goddest I pray is that Thou 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.240 wast with visitist us usn't in this moment? Just what 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:23.280 is this superlativist neestness that you are. I've never even 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.480 heard your voice drop that loh, Oh, Mighty God. You 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:32.040 are a soprano. You're a basis faith prayer. You pray God. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:37.600 I just want your glory. You're glory, God, You're glory. Now. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:43.000 You don't now yet. You have to start where you 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:50.920 are when you come to God. I praise Peter for 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:56.639 his awareness of how simon he still is. His first 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.360 instinct was not, that's right, Jesus, you pick the right 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.480 boat this time, brother, and I'll tell you what. This 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.520 boat's gonna carry you all around. I'm gonna take you 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.560 places to preach. You pick the right boat. Jesus, you 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:16.360 got the right captain, he said. I'm I'm a sinful man. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:22.080 I'm a sinful man. You spoke about what was beneath 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.320 the surface of the waters, but I don't want to. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:31.119 I don't want to let you too close. You might 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:37.919 see what's beneath the surface of me. I don't get 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.600 to see the real you when I'm preaching. I see 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:51.920 the surface Sunday, Sanctify, you're sitting in that seat. My 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.240 preaching began to change when I realized I'm really preaching 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:05.040 to to us Simon and Peter, help me, precious please. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:14.119 The Peter was praising God in you during worship. You 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:19.440 turned graves into gardens. The Simon, you will try to 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:24.240 turn a garden into a grave and kill something that 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.480 God is growing in your life before it has the 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.880 opportunity to manifest. And this is why we spoke last 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.600 week about the importance of knowing that both are in 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.680 the boat. And what attracted me to the text was 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:37.800 not like, oh, pull up the mets and you'll have 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.920 a catch. Pull up the mets and praise them and 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.200 you'll get a promotion. You might, you might not. That's 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.040 not what attracted me to the text for our study. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:51.680 It was the contrast. It was the contrast between Jesus, 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:58.720 who knew everything and needed nothing, and Peter, who needed 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:04.000 everything and knew nothing. He didn't know, He didn't know 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.639 the fish were down there. He didn't know that the 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.720 power was in him to be a rock that God 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.840 could build on. As he took the Gospel to Cornelius, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.760 which unleashed the Word of God into the gentile world. 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:19.280 He didn't know any of that in that moment. And 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:25.000 yet Peter was already in the boat. Purpose was already 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:30.520 in the boat that that creature that was in Peter. 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.440 He was in the same boat with Simon. But but 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.520 you know, you could spend your whole life playing. Simon says, 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.840 like we said last week. Not Simon says, touch your nose. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.960 Simon says, touch your ear. Simon says, touch your head. 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.560 But Simon, my inner. Simon tells me much worse stuff 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:50.600 than that, you know, Simon says, cuss him out. Simon says, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.320 don't call him back. Simon says, don't try to do it. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.920 You're gonna look stupid. Simon says, give him a piece 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.320 of your mind. And we use excuses. Here's what we do. 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:04.320 We use excuses and say I'm just being me. You 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:09.479 are being the me that you have seen. But that's Simon, 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:14.600 and Simon doesn't get to say who you are. That's 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:20.119 called immaturity, not self awareness. Now I'm a fan of 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.320 self awareness. I think it's great if you brush your teeth. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:25.240 I think it's great to have people who will say, 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.000 you know, your zippers down, or you're talking too loud, 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.119 you're talking too much. That's great. Self awareness is amazing. 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:32.560 It'll make you walk in the room and go you 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:34.399 know what. I'm probably taking this the wrong way right now. 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.879 They probably don't mean anything by it. Self awareness is 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:42.560 a wonderful baseline. A lot of us don't really know ourselves. 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.720 We're filled with prejudices, like Peter was when he was Simon, 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:48.600 when he thought it was only for the Jewish people, 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:50.520 and he didn't know that God wanted to use him 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:58.560 as an instrument to the gentiles. Yeah, you, the you 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:03.359 you knew before Jesus is not the only you that 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.879 you can be God. This is so good, This is 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:12.440 so good. I'm so glad. Self awareness will tell you 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:17.359 about your proclivities. It'll tell you about your past, it'll 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.320 tell you about your background, it'll tell you which way 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:25.000 you lean. Self awareness is an awesome baseline so you 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:28.439 can know where you're starting. But it's a horrible ceiling 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:33.280 to show you how far you can go. Now, this 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:35.720 is what I put on a pink sweater to say today, 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:50.560 like pink, you haven't really met you yet. No, no, no, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:56.520 that's not a golf clap line. You haven't really met 0:24:57.080 --> 0:25:04.159 you yet. You know what I'm clapping. I'm excited to 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:13.600 meet the meek Domseys. All right, all right, let's work 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:15.760 on this turn to somebody say, nice to meet you, 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:19.440 Nice to meet you. But I understand, as I'm meeting you, 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:23.240 I'm really meeting two us. I'm really meeting two us. 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.359 I'm meeting the nice, polite you. They just looked at 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:28.800 me and said what the pastor said to say. But 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:31.159 I understand. If I get stuck behind you on forty 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:36.920 five tomorrow in traffic, I might meet Simon. A lot 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:41.240 of preachers, they're sermons are so plastic, so candy coated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.680 yeah yeah. But we don't need to just preach to Peter. 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.880 I gotta talk to Simon because you gotta walk this out. 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:52.159 And they are both in the same boat, both in 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:58.280 the same body. Pull out your phone. You got apps 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:01.320 on there that can grow you in your faith. You 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:04.840 got apps on there that can lead you off a cliff. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:09.720 Go to your contacts. You got contacts in there that 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:14.919 can strengthen you in faith. You got contacted. You got 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:18.040 Delilah in that phone somewhere who will cut your hair 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:23.320 and leave you shaken and blind. Yes, you do, in 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:28.160 the same phone, in the same boat, in the same Stephen. 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:30.080 Now let me tell you this is how it works 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:33.119 for me. It's not all this face for me either. 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.119 It can be like before I came out here today, 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:38.560 I was walking around the green room, speaking in tongues, 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:41.200 just wanting to get out here so bad. Three minutes later, 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:52.800 I thought, oh god, I don't know. Before I could 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:56.640 even get the microphone on, my batteries wanted to die. 0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:59.800 Not the batteries on the microphone, the batteries in me. 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:06.119 But that doesn't cancel what God spoke, because Peter Simon 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:10.560 had enough sense to say, because you say so, it 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:13.879 doesn't matter how I feel about it. I can go 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:22.000 off your word. Oh yeah, By the way, I want 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:26.400 to tell you something. Jesus didn't need Peter's vote. That's 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:28.840 why it was so powerful. When hollyod was looking talking 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:30.840 to me and y'all were listening, she said, yes you 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:34.680 y'allre like, oh, that's my word, and I'm like, that's cute. 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:37.680 It's my word because what I heard in that word 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:43.040