WEBVTT - All In (Larry Brey) 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.680 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God as moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.480 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:19.680 Enjoy the message. Man, you picked a great day to 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.079 be in church. You picked a great day to log 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.759 in online. Why because this is the day the Lord 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:31.760 has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it. Hey, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.040 you might not know this, but we're celebrating twenty years 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.479 of ministry this year at Elevation Church. My wife and 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.000 I had the privilege of being one of the original 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.120 core families with Eric and Nicole over here. And when 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.279 we look back over twenty years, people last like, how 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.000 do you explain all that God did? Well? God is 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.199 that good, He's that gracious, He's that kind, he's that loving. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.560 But also I think our pastors are that anointed and 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:00.840 that gifted and that talented. I would be remiss if 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.680 we didn't take a second to celebrate the secret sauce 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.720 of Elevation Church, all the volunteers that make this place happen. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.480 If you're at one of our physical locations. If you're 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.520 one of our volunteers, raise your hand, Valentine. If you're 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.120 one of those volunteers, hey help me celebrate all those heroes, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.679 all of our online volunteers. We're not limited by location. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:24.319 Man. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.479 When we started the ministry twenty years ago, we didn't 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.160 know if anybody would want to jump on board and 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.160 be a park. But they did. And I remember everybody 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.080 early on it's like, I'll do whatever you need. I'm 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.479 all in, And then it'd ask them to do something 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.640 and maybe not they're quite so all in. But I 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.680 had this couple twenty years ago, John and Rondi Mullen 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.720 show up. They were just trying to find a church 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.680 for their daughter. But when they walked in, they looked 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.360 at each other. I think we found a church for us. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.680 And I had a team I started back in the 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.000 early days. It was called the First Impressions Team. They 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.720 would get at Providence High School at six am to 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.880 clean the bathrooms because it smelled like high school. And 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.600 so anytime someone would ask like, I'll do whatever you need, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.160 I'm all in, I'd say, well, would you be a 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.200 part of my First Impressions Team. Now many people would say, well, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.160 like I feel as though my gifts could be used 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.800 somewhere else. But when I presented the opportunity to John 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.640 and Rondee, they said we would be honored. Thank you 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.200 for the privilege. They showed up that next Sunday at 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.360 six am and they cleaned those bathrooms and they've been 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:30.760 serving faithfully for twenty years. Thank you John, Thank you RONDI. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.120 Thank you for all the volunteers faithfully serving. Hey, and 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.720 you might not know this, but also October's Pastor Appreciation Month. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.880 Help me appreciate our pastors. Pastor Steven, Pastor Holly Man. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:49.600 We love you, We honor you. I've got an album 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.240 on my phone that whenever I get a message, a 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.920 text or voice memo from Pastor Steven, I dump it 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.400 in there. And I got messages that are in great 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.760 seasons of celebration. But I also have moments of great 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.080 seasons of sorrow. And I'm so grateful that our pastors 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.440 walk with me through the seasons of celebration and the 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.480 seasons of sorrow. I honor you, Pastor Stephen, Pastor Holly, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.280 thank you for faithfully standing in this pulpit twenty years 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.359 preaching the word of God. All right, let me give 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.000 you our scripture for today. Let me give you the scripture. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.200 I'm so excited, all of you saints open up to Matthew. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.240 Chapter eight, verses fourteen to sixteen is where we'll begin. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.840 If you're not a note taker, maybe today would be 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.920 the day that you begin writing something down. I want 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.480 God to do a new thing, he says, Well, bring 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.280 me a new rhythm. If you start a new rhythm 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.040 rather than standing in with your arms crossed, maybe I 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.640 would bless you. Maybe you'd write down one thing God 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.560 wants to speak to you today. Out of Matthew chapter eight, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.720 starting in verse fourteen, it says when Jesus came into 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.480 Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother in law lying in 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.320 bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.600 fever left her. She got up and began to wait 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.160 on him. When evening came, many who were demon possessed 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.280 were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.600 with a word, and healed all the sick. Here's the 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.440 title for today's messages that I want to give. You 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.760 want to say it to your favorite person in the room. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.240 You only get to pick one and I want you 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:18.560 to say it with the two of them, with some 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.600 gush Docem's foot sinya say this, say all in now 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.800 look at your second favorite choice and tell them all in. Hey, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.960 thank you worship team for leading us today. You can 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.880 give somebody a high five on the way to your seat. Etham, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:38.680 drop in the comments. All in. This story that Matthew's 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.120 going to bring to us comes in in three scenes, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.680 and we're gonna start in this opening scene that Matthew 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.719 wants to weave together three scenes to tell a story 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.520 of Jesus. And in this opening scene, we've got these 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.640 two characters. We've got a woman that we know that 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.080 she's got a fever and she's Peter's mother in law. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.200 Now Jesus is gonna come into the house and says 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:05.359 that Jesus came, Jesus saw and Jesus touched who. I 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.160 think God's going to do that in our hearts today. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.760 I think God came into this room. I think he 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.800 sees you, and I think He's gonna touch you. How 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.720 many of you need a touch from God today? How 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.800 many have you got a space in your life that 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.720 God I needs you to touch it? See healing happens 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.080 with a touch. Now I have no idea if this woman, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.200 let's give her a name. Whenever I read the Bible 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.440 and have an unnamed character, I like to give him 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.760 a name, because once you give him a name, it 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.680 just it hits a little more personal, doesn't it. Let's 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.239 call her Rachel. Everybody say Rachel. So Rachel is laying 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:37.839 in bed with a fever. She might have been a 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.359 woman of faith, or this might have been her last thoughts, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.159 because sometimes Jesus is a first option. Some of you 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.960 faith filled people, something happens, you take it to Jesus first. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.800 But other people, like me, often Jesus is more of 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.960 a last resort. I don't know. Maybe you're in church 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:54.839 today and this is a first option. Let's get to 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.359 the Lord. Let's get to the House of God and 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.640 others of you. We've tried to do all that we can. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.280 All the King's horses and all the King's men can't 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.000 put her marriage back together again. So let's try church. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.719 I don't care if it's your first option or your 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.680 last resort. Thank you for logging in. I'm glad you're 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.520 in the room today. I'm just glad you're here, and 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.559 Peter was Peter's house. It might have been a first option. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.000 He might have been pulling in favor, saying, Yo, Jesus, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.240 since I have access to you, could you heal my 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.719 mother in law? Could have been first option, could have 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.760 been last resort. Listen, we had to move this woman 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.240 in six months ago. Jesus, you better healerr because I 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.800 need her out of the house. Sometimes it's faith and 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:37.279 sometimes it's frustration. I'm just glad you're here today. And 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.120 when I see the story of this woman Rachel, and 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.359 I look at the at the cadence of the text, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.960 it says she was laying in bed with a fever. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.679 And when I look at those words at other places 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.120 in the New Testament, it suggests someone on their deathbed. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.919 It's not a simple little symptom where she's got a 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.200 little bit of a fever. No, it suggests that we 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.839 are at the end of her life issues some of 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.280 a sitting in this room today, watching online today, you've 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.160 got a space in your life that you know it's 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.400 about to die. You got a space in your life. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.479 You might have a new outfit, but it's an old 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.840 problem that's been making you limp for thirty two years, 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.800 and sometimes it so becomes so debilitating. It just doesn't 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.679 make you sit down in it. It makes you lay 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.480 down in it. Picture the woman, she's just laying down 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.480 and I got nothing. And some of you, that perfectly 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.960 describes the posture of your life today. And I want 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.760 you to see the sermon. This woman is gonna preach 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.680 with her posture. Because some of you, like Jesus touched me, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.800 but you're still sitting down. I want you to consider 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.640 the texts and would you adopt the mentality of Rachel 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.240 because Jesus when he comes into the room, he touches 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.520 her and she's healeding what she do. She gets up 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.520 and she illustrates the sermon. She begins to serve him. Whoo. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.200 So if you come up to me and say, Jesus 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.960 touched me, I'm gonna say, and where are you serving 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:59.520 him at? I'm all in Jesus to go back to 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.120 my car, to go back to my dysfunction or that 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.480 trains the direction of my life because my posture change. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.320 Rather than sitting under it, I'm gonna stand up over 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.280 it and I'm gonna bring it to Jesus. I'm gonna 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:14.320 serve Jesus with it. I'm all in. I have no 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.000 idea what the issue was in her life, but I'm 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.559 so glad that Peter decided to open up his home 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.040 to let this woman in. It's really awesome. And when 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.440 you think about your home, when you invite guests to 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.400 your house, do you let them see all the rooms 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.840 in your house? No? You only let them see the 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.360 ones that are presentable, the ones you've cleaned up, the 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.320 ones that are socially acceptable. You don't let them see 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.680 the dysfunction behind the door. You've got the closets where 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.280 you've kicked stuff in it and you're shoving stuff in it. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.319 You're like, no, you can't go upstairs. But the reality 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.160 is the owner determines the access. Who owns your home? 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.520 You are God. I wonder what rooms you've not let 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.840 Jesus into, Because, if I consider our story, if Jesus 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.800 can't the only way that Jesus can touch it is 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.199 if he's invited into it. Jesus cannot touch something he's 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.079 not been invited into. I wonder what rooms in your 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.600 life you have not let Jesus into. I wonder if 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:21.200 it's your finances, I wonder it's the room of your relationships. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.360 I wonder if it's an unforgiveness issue for a father 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.400 in this room. I wonder if it's a friendship. I 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.960 wonder if it's a marriage. I wonder if you've got 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.480 what doors you have closed? And I remember when my 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.839 kids were little, like six, they would put like make 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.160 these signs and put it on the door no one allowed. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.319 And when they get really mad at Dad, especially Dad's 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.880 I wonder what rooms you've got to sign on it 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.440 that said Jesus, you can't come into it. And you 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.520 show up Jesus, and Jesus, I want you to heal it. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.880 He says, I can't heal it because I'm not being 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.640 invited into it. Because then tell them invited into it, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:05.080 I cannot Healing only comes with a touch. And what 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.160 I realized is some of the times I'm telling Jesus, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.040 like Jesus, would you heal this thing? And I think 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.800 I've opened the door, but I'm standing in the way, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.880 like Jesus, when are you gonna do something about this? 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:15.719 And he says, as soon as you get out of 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.120 the way, because I can't get into the room because 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.160 you are in the way. What rooms does Jesus want 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.240 to have access to you in your house right now. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:31.720 Sometimes the reality is disappointment becomes a nail gun, and 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.720 the reality is some of the doors I close in 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.800 my life not because I hate God. I just kind 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.840 of despise myself, and rather than be disappointed, I would 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.400 rather nail the door shut, so I'm no longer disappointed. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.079 It happens with careers, it happens in relationships. And there 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.320 is somebody here today that you've been wanting a child 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.760 for such a long time, and you've opened the door, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.800 and you've opened the door, but you're so tired of 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:58.040 opening the door. And the only thing harder than opening 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:02.920 the door is keeping the door open. And as I 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.320 was praying for our church yesterday, there's a man that 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.640 you had an affair in the past. I don't know 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.440 who you are. God wanted me to tell you it's 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:19.400 time to open that door because you're living in this 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.400 place of a hard heart. And rather than bring that 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.480 into the light, I'll just close the door and I'll 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.800 nail it shut. I wonder what rooms that Jesus wants 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.880 to access to say this with me, Say Holy Spirit, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:37.960 show me the rooms I've not let you in. Say 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.680 it again, say Holy spirit show me the rooms. I've 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:47.200 not let you in because Jesus is a gentleman, and 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.079 I love the fact that he is not gonna kick 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.480 down the door. But Revelation three twenty tells us about 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.320 the kind of savior that we serve. It says this. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.880 It says, here, I am, I stand at the door 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.160 in I knock, and I said, if you let me in, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.920 I will eat with you, and I'll fellowship with you. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.120 God is standing at the door of your life. I 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.480 know that you can't open it because of disappointment. But 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.520 Jesus is not looking at you with disdain. He loves you. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.280 He's longing for you. He's showing up at that door 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.240 again and again and again. He said, I want to 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.960 heal it, but I can't heal it if I can't 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.520 touch it. And I'm so glad that Peter is the 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.720 kind of man that will let people into his house. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.680 Because this is kind of crazy. Some theologians believe that 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.240 the reason that Peter denied Jesus is because Jesus healed 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.800 his mother in law. That's an old preacher joke, you know, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:35.600 that's a preacher joy. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:36.120 That's good. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.320 But the story in the first verse there it says 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.880 that she gets healed, and then in verse sixteen, it 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.200 says when evening came, many who were demon possessed were 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.960 brought to him. So the healing happens sometimes during the day. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.719 Now all the people that are in the house are 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.680 overwhelmed with joy, and they say, Jesus, we are all in. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.760 And Peter says, yep, I'm all in too. So all 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.320 the people that had been in the house, what did 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.480 they do? They go out to the streets. They go 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.880 out to the highways and the byways, and the overlook, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.880 the marginalized, the ones that nobody sees. They go and 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.800 find it, and they drag him back to Peter's house. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.880 And now it's a good old demon party. Look at 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.440 the story and picture Peter out in front of his 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.079 home as he sees and he hears all of these 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.160 demons being brought to his home. Could you ever imagine 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.160 something like happening in your house? Or is your house 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.040 only available for what you want? Jesus, I'm all in. Really, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.000 would you let that person in your car or you 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.520 worried about how it would smell? I'm all in, Jesus, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.960 because the reality is in our fate journey we will 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.480 all come to these places that every step we take 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.280 in following Jesus, it will test are all in. Yes, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.040 it is a one time. When you place your faith 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.560 in Jesus, you get eternity. But to trust him to 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.400 follow him as a day by day must deny myself daily, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.360 pick up my cross and follow him. I'm all in 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.920 for the next twenty minutes, Jesus. But you see Peter. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.240 He's opening up his home and all the demon possessed 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.200 people are flooding, and He's like, no, no, open up 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.760 the living room, open up that second living room, whatever 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.319 we call that thing. Open up the kitchen, the closets, oh, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.559 second floor. Let's fill it all in. Let's get everybody 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.600 all in. Say all in, Jesus. I'm all in as 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.600 much as I know. But what do I do when 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:19.640 I come to the place. I'm like, I don't know 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.920 if I'm all in for that. It's like when you 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:28.560 get married. I do, that's easy, but I will that's harder. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.160 But what would compel Peter to live such an extravagant 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.080 life that he would be all in? Because the demon? 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.800 I mean, can you picture the sound in his home, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.480 all the shrieks and the shrills and the celebration all 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.840 a mixture together, a praise to God as he's healing people. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.480 Most of those people would be the ones we would 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.480 have driven around. But those are the ones that the 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.480 disciples are driven towards. And they brought them into the house. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.400 They who brought them, the people that had been touched 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.880 by Jesus. I'm all in, and they respond by bri 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.200 somebody back in. Are there any single ladies? Raise your hand. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.880 You might have a single guy around you who might 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.040 be looking. I don't know. Let me give a little 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:17.160 bit of dating advice. Don't date boys. That's good advice. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:23.960 Don't date boys. See boys want to get something, men 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:32.920 want to bring something. That's good preaching LB tell him, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.600 tell them for the people in the back. Don't date boys. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.960 And some of you are brand new to the faith. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.800 Just keep showing up. Just keep showing up. Just keep 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.960 showing up. Just keep showing up. Others of you. God 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.640 is blessed way more than what you're bringing to him. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.080 Are you the bride of Christ? Are you coming to 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.120 get something? Are you coming to bring something? When's the 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.080 last time you brought a broken praise? When's the last 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.760 time you brought an offering. When's the last time you 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.960 brought your service? When is the last time you brought 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.040 a guest to experience a miracle standing next to you? 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.080 Because if I'm only showing up to get my word, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.520 what am I saying about the bride of Christ? I 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.280 am glad that you can get a word of God here. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.080 But to mature, to get in the deep end of 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.640 the faith pool requires us to be a follower that 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.400 says I'm all in, which means you have access to everything, 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.640 and I'll bring it all into your per I wonder 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.520 what doors you said, Jesus. You cannot get behind that one. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.960 I'm all in, Jesus. But what would compel Peter to 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.840 live such an extravagant life? And it's I want to 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.840 go back to the origin story of Peter real quickly. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.200 This is out of Luke chapter five, because I think 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.720 today is somebody's origin story. I love the fact that 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.240 today is the day that someone are gonna see Jesus 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.800 in a brand new way, and it's going to be 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.640 the origin story that will ignite something in your life 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.600 to be a person of faith that you desire to be. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.480 It says this one day Jesus was walking by the 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.680 lake of Gannessaret. The people were crowding around him and 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.360 listening to the word of God. He saw by the 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.080 water's edge two boats left there by fishermen who were fishing, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.600 who were washing their nets. Then he got into one 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.280 of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.280 him to put out a little from the shore. This 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.879 is early on in jesus ministry. He's about to begin 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.639 his recruiting trip to recruit his disciples, his initial followers. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.080 And you realize that the word disciple isn't just defining 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.960 the twelve people that followed him. Those were the apostles, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.040 and in fact they were disciples. But there were seventy 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.600 disciples that Jesus sent out on a ministry trip, and 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.560 then when Jesus returns, there were one hundred and twenty 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.840 disciples in the upper room. Disciple is anybody who says 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.439 I want to be a follower of Jesus. And if 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.760 you're a follower of Jesus, guess what, you're a disciple too. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.280 And this origin story is where Jesus is going to 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.000 show up. He's going to preach to thousands, but he's 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.320 got an audience of one it's Peter, because this is 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.840 a story about his selection of Peter. And I love 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.119 the fact that God is preaching to thousands at the 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.639 same time, but he's preaching to you. He sees you, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.399 he calls you, and he is preaching a sermons just 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.240 for you because he wants to get your attention. He 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.440 wants to show you something. And now he says, there's 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.800 two boats by the edge of the water, and he 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.600 gets into the one belonging to Simon. Wait, I thought 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.359 his name was Peter. Wait. Yeah, it's a little complicated 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.480 because Peter, you know, that's his one name. But then Simon, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:16.119 that's his BC, that's before Christ. That's Simon. Is the 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.080 part of you that on Saturday night you're raising the 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:24.080 red Solo Cup, Like, hey, hey, Peter, that's the hand 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:29.439 raised in worship on Sunday morning. Hallelujah, Hey, hallelujah. You 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.240 got a little Simon in you, and you got a 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.960 little Peter in you. You played the game when you 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.040 were a kid. Simon says, act like a fool. That's Simon. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.720 You still got a little Simon in you. And he 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.760 shows up and he's fully Simon in this point, and 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.480 there's two boats sitting there, and Jesus just goes and 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.159 sits in his boat. Try this after church, Just go 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.960 sit in somebody's random car in the parking lot and 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.679 he just sits down. Okay. And I love the fact 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.720 that Jesus is coming to him, but he's only going 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.560 to come so far. And Jesus is coming to you 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.040 and the boat that you don't want to get into. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.120 He's not intimidated by that door, that room of your 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.280 life that you wouldn't want anybody to see. He already 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.800 sees it. And he says, I'm not uncomfortable in that place. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.000 I know you are. And he sits right down in it. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.320 Why because he loves you. He sits down in Peter's 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.359 boat and he says, hey, Peter, well Simon, let's get 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.440 his name right, Simon, push out a little from the shore, 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:36.520 Just say a little, come better, participation, palatine, say a little. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.919 And that's what he's asking you to do today. And 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.399 here's the story. Let me illustrate it for you. What 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.639 would compel Peter to live a life who's all in? 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.879 Say all in? It began with a little step. He 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.240 gets in his boat. It is anchored up on the shore, 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.639 so Peter's got to push this thing out. He's like, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.119 I've been out all night fishing, I haven't slept, I stink, 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.879 and like, are you kidding me? Okay, So he pushes 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.879 his shoulder into the boat and he pushes it out 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.119 of it, and he starts walking the boat out into 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.200 the water, and each step he takes, the water is 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.480 getting a little bit higher on him, and he pushes 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.280 out a little say a little there you go, Thank you, Valentine. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.600 And now he's holding the boat about waist deep. He's 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.200 in proximity to Jesus, but he's not in relationship yet 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:31.080 with Jesus. Don't confuse proximity with intimacy. Just because I'm 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.520 sitting in a seat doesn't mean him in the boat 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.280 with him. And I love the fact that Jesus is 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.200 preaching to the thousands, but he's looking at one the 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.680 whole time. And I wonder if Peter's like, oh my gosh, 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.040