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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church,

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Speaker 1: and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: I hope this inspires you. I hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 1: I hope it gives you perspective to see God is

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Speaker 1: moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Most of all, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we ask you to give us the faith to receive

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Speaker 1: your grace in this moment. We believe it's already ours

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

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

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Speaker 1: It's already mine right now.

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Speaker 2: Come on.

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Speaker 1: Clap your hands like you know your Father left you

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Speaker 1: some good gifts.

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Speaker 2: Hi-yah! Glory.

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Speaker 1: You know what I feel, dude? I feel that pre-tour anointing.

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Speaker 1: It's that pre-tour anointing.

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Speaker 2: We're getting ready, man.

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Come on now.

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Speaker 1: You can pray once. You pray over your french fries once. Lord,

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Speaker 1: bless these fried potatoes to the nourishment of my body.

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Speaker 2: That's a miracle.

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Speaker 1: But just pray for us this week. We want to

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Speaker 1: have a good time. I don't want any of them

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Speaker 1: fighting on the buses. You know what I mean? I

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Speaker 1: don't want Jenna and John Sal having marriage problems when

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Speaker 1: they get back from tour.

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Speaker 2: What happened to your marriage? We went out to lead worship.

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Speaker 1: Y'all sharing a bunk? You should talk to somebody.

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Speaker 2: Not yet.

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Speaker 1: That'd be a pretty good strategy.

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Speaker 2: Share a bump?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: We can try it. We might get to cuddle.

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Speaker 1: But it's going to be amazing. It's going to be amazing.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who still want to come, there

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Speaker 1: are still some tickets left. If you know somebody in

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Speaker 1: the following areas, there's still time to tell them to

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Speaker 1: come out. Atlanta, Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: What month is this?

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Speaker 1: October 26th. Nashville the next night. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: give them the nights, just the towns.

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Speaker 2: Tulsa, Dallas, Houston.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be awesome, because when I'm in Atlanta Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, go Braves. When I'm in Houston,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, go Astros, because I'm a hypocrite, Gary.

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Speaker 2: I will pander.

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

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Speaker 2: I guess they will now, but I'm going to do

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Speaker 2: it anyway.

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

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Speaker 1: can make it, elevationknights.com. It's going to be game seven

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Speaker 1: every night. The World Series … The World Series of Worship.

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Speaker 1: That's what we should call the tour, the World Series

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Speaker 1: of Worship. But no, seriously, we're so excited. Pray for us.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing, absolutely amazing. Today, guess what?

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Speaker 1: There is a word from the Lord for.

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Speaker 2: You in the house.

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Speaker 1: I'd like you to say that by faith and say,

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Speaker 1: There is a word.

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Speaker 2: From the Lord for me.

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Speaker 1: Now look at somebody else and say, there is a word.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the chat. Why are you not putting

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Speaker 1: it in the chat? All right? Everybody in the room,

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Speaker 1: say it. I'm on every location.

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Speaker 2: There is a word. Look at your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: You can't catch coronavirus looking at them. Y'all are so insulated.

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Speaker 1: There is a word from the Lord for you. Yes, you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you.

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Speaker 1: That's my title today. We're going deeper. We're going to

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Speaker 1: pick up on last week.

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Speaker 2: We're going deeper. This message is called, Yes, You. Look

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Speaker 2: at somebody else say, Yes, You.

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Speaker 1: Yes, You. Amen.

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Speaker 2: You may be seated.

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Speaker 1: Yes, You. Did you get to hear the word from

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Speaker 2: He really heard it.

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Speaker 1: That was the message. It was about the God nod,

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Speaker 1: how God chooses you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you. Dirty you.

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Speaker 1: Sorry.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful you. I want to affirm you today.

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Speaker 1: Seriously, it took me back to … I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be in Luke 5, 1-11 to start with again. That

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Speaker 1: best sermon I think was ever preached here was the

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Speaker 1: one Holly preached for the church anniversary. It was still

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Speaker 1: fully and all of those things, so it was weird times.

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Speaker 1: I usually come over with her when she preaches and

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Speaker 1: listen to her do the sermon before she does it.

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Speaker 1: Then I coach her afterwards, but I've learned not to

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Speaker 1: try to coach her to preach it like I would

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Speaker 1: preach it, just to help her find the best. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there have been tears during those coaching sessions. We have

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Speaker 1: gone home in separate cars before or after those coaching sessions. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 2: It's usually pretty good.

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Speaker 1: But when I came for that one, I don't even

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Speaker 1: remember what she called the message, but I remember one

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Speaker 1: part about it. She was standing in the pulpit looking

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Speaker 1: so attractive and anointed. They're not mutually exclusive. And she said,

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Speaker 1: in the middle of her message, she's preaching about Gideon

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Speaker 1: a wimp. And he had to become what God saw

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Speaker 1: that he already was. And she said, during the run-through,

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Speaker 1: she said, yes, you. And I couldn't take any more

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Speaker 1: notes after she said that. Because, you know, have you

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Speaker 1: ever been in church where it felt like God was

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Speaker 1: speaking just to you? When she preached it, she said,

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Speaker 1: put it in the chat, yes, you.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead and do it right now. Put it in

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Speaker 2: the chat, yes, you.

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Speaker 1: When she said that, I thought, they can put it

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Speaker 1: in the chat all they want, but that's my word.

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Speaker 1: She's talking to me right now. I think what made

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Speaker 1: it powerful really was not only what she spoke but

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Speaker 1: who spoke it, because I also know what it cost

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Speaker 1: her to stand in front of our church and preach

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Speaker 1: with such power. I go back to these outtakes in

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Speaker 1: my mind of her telling me, I'll never preach like so-and-so. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I know that I should be able to be a leader,

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Speaker 1: but I'm really not a leader like so-and-so. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to lie, y'all. It was kind of sexy and

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Speaker 1: but I knew that for her to say that to

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Speaker 1: the whole church, she had to first say it to herself.

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Speaker 1: that she had to push through all of these preferences

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Speaker 1: and even push through what she considered to be her

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Speaker 2: Yes, you. But it hit me right in my heart.

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Speaker 1: That I struggle with the same thing, like I tell

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Speaker 1: that God has chosen to do the thing that God

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Speaker 1: assigned for you to do. Yes, you. She just said

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Speaker 1: it as one line. I'm going to make a whole

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Speaker 1: sermon out of it today from Luke chapter 5, verse

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Speaker 1: 1 through 11. I want to read it again. If

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Speaker 1: you come out to Elevation Nights, I might still be

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Speaker 1: in Luke chapter 5, because this is really good to me.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we were noticing some things about the text

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Speaker 1: last week, but let me just read it through briefly.

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Speaker 1: One day, as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

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Speaker 1: the people were crowding around him and listening to the

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Speaker 1: How many boats? Also, he can get in either one

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Speaker 1: a night. We didn't catch anything. Let's just get the

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Speaker 1: Good game. He got into one of the boats, the

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Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon. That's the phrase right there, the

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Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon. The one belonging to Simon …

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Speaker 1: whose name was changed later to Peter. If you're a

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Speaker 1: little confused right now, you're like, wait a minute. I

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Speaker 1: thought that Jesus used Peter's boat. He did, but he's

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Speaker 1: still Simon. We sing a song at church here a

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Speaker 1: lot called Waymaker, Miracle Worker. We didn't write it. I

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Speaker 1: wish we did. That's a good song. But it says,

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Speaker 1: a promise keeper, It lists all these things that God is.

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Speaker 1: He's a waymaker. He's a chain breaker. But I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell you what. We could write another verse on it.

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Speaker 2: He's a name changer.

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Speaker 1: He's a name changer. He's a name changer, something people

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Speaker 1: have called you all your life. God will get down

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Speaker 1: something else, something totally different. Name changer, miracle worker. I

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Speaker 1: like it. Let's work it up. But he gave an instruction,

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Speaker 1: Jesus is teaching all these deep things. Oh, the kingdom

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Speaker 1: be careful who you go to lunch with after I preach,

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Speaker 1: so off-subject. Sometimes you need to be like, I need

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Speaker 2: It doesn't even take God long. He's speaking.

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Speaker 1: The kingdom of God is like he sits down in

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Speaker 1: but he's still Simon. The process of discipleship is not

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Speaker 1: you've been all along. So, he tells Simon, amen, if

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Speaker 1: the nets, there's something down there. You can't see it,

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Speaker 1: but I can. So, this is kind of freaky, because

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Speaker 1: God sees things we don't see. Notice he didn't speak

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Speaker 1: something there that wasn't there. It was about him alerting

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Speaker 1: it is in your life. There are things God is

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Speaker 1: bringing forth. Everybody say, bring forth. That's what God spoke

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Speaker 1: He didn't speak something that wasn't there to the earth.

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Speaker 1: He brought forth what was in the earth all along.

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Speaker 1: He's doing that in your life right now. He is

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Speaker 1: bringing forth. Even the word parent is from the Latin,

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Speaker 1: which means to bring forth. Our job as a parent

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to meet the me God sees. All right.

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Speaker 1: Pull out your phone. You have apps on there that

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Speaker 1: It can be like … Before I came out here today,

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Speaker 1: powerful when Holly was looking, talking to me, and y'all

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00:27:19,330 --> 00:27:19,710
Speaker 1: were listening.

437
00:27:19,730 --> 00:27:21,110
Speaker 2: She said, yes, you.

438
00:27:21,130 --> 00:27:23,930
Speaker 1: Y'all were like, oh, that's my word. And I'm like,

439
00:27:23,990 --> 00:27:24,550
Speaker 1: that's cute.

440
00:27:24,850 --> 00:27:25,470
Speaker 2: It's my word.

441
00:27:25,490 --> 00:27:29,650
Speaker 1: Because what I heard in that word was, he wants you.

442
00:27:31,869 --> 00:27:36,070
Speaker 1: That's hard for me to believe. People don't use you

443
00:27:36,210 --> 00:27:39,149
Speaker 1: because they want you. They use you because they need you.

444
00:27:43,390 --> 00:27:48,290
Speaker 1: I give Peter credit for his self-awareness. I'm a sinful man. Now,

445
00:27:48,970 --> 00:27:53,190
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Jesus knew when he went to the cross.

446
00:27:54,670 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: All that was in you, that's what he died for.

447
00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:02,340
Speaker 1: He's going to take care of that in Jerusalem. But

448
00:28:02,380 --> 00:28:05,580
Speaker 1: for now, and I may say it this way on

449
00:28:05,660 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: Elevation Night's tour this week, he stepped in. Grace got

450
00:28:13,710 --> 00:28:15,619
Speaker 1: in the boat knowing.

451
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 2: Knowing.

452
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: Jesus needed nothing.

453
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: Knew everything.

454
00:28:25,260 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: He knew Peter would sleep in the Garden of Gethsemane

455
00:28:28,780 --> 00:28:30,859
Speaker 1: while he was over there praying like drops of blood.

456
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 2: That's not how it is for us.

457
00:28:33,940 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: We wouldn't let people close if only we had known

458
00:28:37,140 --> 00:28:41,220
Speaker 1: what they were going to do. So Peter, Simon Peter,

459
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,940
Speaker 1: is like, Jesus.

460
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 2: Said,' Let down the nets.

461
00:28:45,320 --> 00:29:11,090
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the only letdown in Peter's future. Jesus

462
00:29:11,150 --> 00:29:14,470
Speaker 1: knew at the moment he got in Peter's boat that

463
00:29:14,490 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: Peter would deny ever knowing him. Why I praise God

464
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: is he got in anyway, fully knowing what Peter thinks

465
00:29:27,340 --> 00:29:31,150
Speaker 1: he's telling Jesus. No, Jesus, you don't know. I'm a

466
00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:34,469
Speaker 1: sinful man. You should get in John's boat. John will

467
00:29:34,530 --> 00:29:37,050
Speaker 1: lean on your chest at the Last Supper. I'll cut

468
00:29:37,110 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: off an ear. I'm a sinful man. I'm a crazy guy.

469
00:29:42,220 --> 00:29:43,700
Speaker 1: Get away, Jesus. You don't want any of this, I

470
00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:44,140
Speaker 1: promise you.

471
00:29:44,340 --> 00:29:45,260
Speaker 2: My boat is good, but.

472
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: My heart isn't. Can I prove to you that Jesus

473
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: didn't need Peter's boat?

474
00:29:54,140 --> 00:29:55,180
Speaker 2: Because I know you don't believe me.

475
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: You're like, he totally.

476
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,460
Speaker 2: Needed the boat. The crowd was pressing.

477
00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:01,570
Speaker 1: It says that in verse one. He needed the amplification

478
00:30:01,590 --> 00:30:03,450
Speaker 1: to be out on the water because there was no

479
00:30:03,530 --> 00:30:05,010
Speaker 1: microphone or battery pack.

480
00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:06,770
Speaker 2: He totally needed Peter's boat.

481
00:30:07,410 --> 00:30:09,990
Speaker 1: But I saw in Matthew 14 something, just that one

482
00:30:10,010 --> 00:30:11,660
Speaker 1: little verse in Matthew 14. Give it to me real quick.

483
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:12,860
Speaker 1: Give it to me real quick, real quick, real quick,

484
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: real quick. This is later in the ministry of Jesus.

485
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:18,740
Speaker 1: Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to them walking on

486
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:27,490
Speaker 1: the lake. So, I know this might not feel good

487
00:30:27,510 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: to say it, but say, God doesn't need me. That

488
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,500
Speaker 1: set me free, man, because when I thought he needed me,

489
00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: it felt like a burden to serve him.

490
00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:39,940
Speaker 2: When I thought he needed me, I thought, I'm letting

491
00:30:39,980 --> 00:30:44,590
Speaker 2: him down. God needs me so much. Not really. Not really.

492
00:30:45,910 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 2: He wants me. You hear that, Devil?

493
00:30:51,380 --> 00:31:02,230
Speaker 1: He wants me. Larry Stevens Furtick, Jr. He wants me.

494
00:31:03,690 --> 00:31:09,530
Speaker 1: That is a revelation. Self-awareness can only get you so far.

495
00:31:10,270 --> 00:31:11,790
Speaker 2: You need divine guidance.

496
00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:17,430
Speaker 3: You need a God who spoke the sea into existence

497
00:31:17,790 --> 00:31:20,430
Speaker 3: to show you where the fish are. You need a

498
00:31:20,530 --> 00:31:23,810
Speaker 3: God who knit you together in your mother's womb.

499
00:31:24,030 --> 00:31:28,630
Speaker 2: Before you were born, I formed you and set you apart, Simon.

500
00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:35,290
Speaker 1: I got in your boat knowing.

501
00:31:36,690 --> 00:31:40,610
Speaker 2: I wasn't feeling my way around. I didn't eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

502
00:31:40,990 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: I knew what was in your boat. I knew what

503
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: was in your heart. I knew what was in your bloodline.

504
00:31:45,580 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: I knew what was in your background. I knew what

505
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,790
Speaker 1: was in your temperament. I knew what was in you,

506
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:59,810
Speaker 1: and I got in because I wanted to. When you

507
00:31:59,850 --> 00:32:03,330
Speaker 1: can walk on the water, you don't really need a boat.

508
00:32:03,350 --> 00:32:08,910
Speaker 1: It would be a much more effective way to preach

509
00:32:10,090 --> 00:32:13,490
Speaker 1: if you were standing on top of the water versus

510
00:32:13,750 --> 00:32:15,490
Speaker 1: sitting in the boat of the dude who didn't even

511
00:32:15,510 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: catch anything five minutes earlier. He got in, and he

512
00:32:21,450 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: sat down, and he said something. When Peter did what

513
00:32:25,780 --> 00:32:30,260
Speaker 1: he said … Simon saw something that scared him to death. Now,

514
00:32:31,430 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've been explicit about this, so

515
00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:37,540
Speaker 1: let me make sure I get my point across. He's

516
00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:47,580
Speaker 1: still Simon, and he's already Peter. You already got it.

517
00:32:51,380 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: Go away from me.

518
00:32:53,350 --> 00:32:58,810
Speaker 1: I'm a sinful man. I'm a petty man. person, and

519
00:32:58,850 --> 00:32:59,230
Speaker 1: then we.

520
00:32:59,130 --> 00:32:59,770
Speaker 2: Brag about it.

521
00:33:00,550 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: Oh, that's just how I am. That's just how I am. So,

522
00:33:06,620 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: Simon says, throw a fit. You throw a fit, because

523
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: that's just how I am. Simon says for you to

524
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: isolate yourself and hide and just kind of set yourself

525
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,420
Speaker 1: over here because you're defective. Oh, that's just how I am.

526
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,500
Speaker 1: That's just my luck. That's just the way it's always been.

527
00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:29,020
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no

528
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:42,510
Speaker 1: luck at all. But he's permanently Peter, temporarily Simon. God

529
00:33:42,550 --> 00:33:45,030
Speaker 1: brings the partners. God mends the nets. All the things

530
00:33:45,090 --> 00:33:46,690
Speaker 1: I talked to you about last week, did you hear

531
00:33:46,730 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: last week? God gives you the nod to say,' Yes, you.'

532
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,620
Speaker 1: I'm going to mend your nets. I'm going to bring

533
00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:57,100
Speaker 1: you partners. I'm going to show you where to fish.

534
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,180
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not just going to show you

535
00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: how to catch more fish. I'm going to teach you

536
00:34:01,620 --> 00:34:05,540
Speaker 1: to fish for something different. I'm going to teach you

537
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: how to fish for what really matters. That's what you're

538
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,180
Speaker 1: going through right now. God is drawing out, bringing forth.

539
00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:17,860
Speaker 1: God is parenting you. They say Jesus was teaching Peter,

540
00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: but really he was parenting Peter. He was bringing forth Peter.

541
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,930
Speaker 1: Peter means petros. Peter means rock. Peter means solid. And

542
00:34:27,969 --> 00:34:36,089
Speaker 1: that's you. Yes, you. Not John this time. I don't

543
00:34:36,110 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: think Peter ever really understood this, though, because after Jesus

544
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:45,339
Speaker 1: rose from the dead, Jesus looked back at John, who

545
00:34:45,380 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: was kind of like stalking him. John's kind of creepy.

546
00:34:47,780 --> 00:34:49,339
Speaker 1: He ain't saying something a lot of times. He calls

547
00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: himself the one Jesus loved and stuff like that in

548
00:34:51,739 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: the Scripture. The Lord is telling Simon Peter he's still both.

549
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,100
Speaker 1: You think you're going to come to this point in

550
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,420
Speaker 1: your life. I don't know. Maybe you never thought this.

551
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,339
Speaker 1: I'm going to come to a place where I'm going

552
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: to be completely Peter, completely solid, completely on Christ the

553
00:35:11,260 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: solid rock I stand. That'd be wonderful. If you have

554
00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: the book that tells me how to always be Peter …

555
00:35:18,860 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: Would you please autograph it, Jesus, and hand it to me,

556
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,299
Speaker 1: and I will buy it? I'm so sick of fake

557
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,180
Speaker 1: people acting.

558
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,219
Speaker 2: Like they are never Simon.

559
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: I wish I had five minutes to find your Simon,

560
00:35:32,590 --> 00:35:34,610
Speaker 1: and then I could expose you in front of the

561
00:35:34,650 --> 00:35:41,109
Speaker 1: whole e-fam. But Jesus is so good to Peter. He said,

562
00:35:41,950 --> 00:35:42,730
Speaker 1: don't be afraid.

563
00:35:42,750 --> 00:35:44,770
Speaker 2: Give me verse 10.

564
00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: From now on, Luke 5.10, From now on, there you go.

565
00:35:53,030 --> 00:36:00,930
Speaker 1: From now on, he's already Peter. But if he stays

566
00:36:01,270 --> 00:36:06,609
Speaker 1: stuck in Simon, he will never see Peter. Jesus sees

567
00:36:06,650 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: Peter in every Simon. Yes, you. Jesus sees the Peter

568
00:36:14,860 --> 00:36:18,310
Speaker 1: in You think he can see the fish at the

569
00:36:18,390 --> 00:36:20,609
Speaker 1: bottom of the lake of Gennesaret and he can't see

570
00:36:20,630 --> 00:36:25,630
Speaker 1: the Peter at the bottom of you? But he's going

571
00:36:25,650 --> 00:36:29,270
Speaker 1: to have to draw it out. Peter looked back at

572
00:36:29,310 --> 00:36:32,830
Speaker 1: John and said, what about him? And Jesus said to Peter,

573
00:36:33,590 --> 00:36:37,260
Speaker 1: what about him? You leave that to me. You must

574
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: follow me. You. Yes, you.

575
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 2: Yes, you.

576
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: Do you have a little thing in you that says,

577
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:56,510
Speaker 1: not me? I do. Sometimes I'll hear somebody, even another

578
00:36:56,550 --> 00:37:00,009
Speaker 1: preacher will be saying, you're more than a conqueror. And

579
00:37:00,469 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: my inner Simon is like, not you. I think that's

580
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: a good place to start because it puts you on

581
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,469
Speaker 1: your knees like Peter at Jesus' feet, which is something

582
00:37:15,489 --> 00:37:18,620
Speaker 1: God can use. but I think it's a bad place

583
00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:22,540
Speaker 1: to stop. And the Lord gave me a message today

584
00:37:22,580 --> 00:37:27,180
Speaker 1: to preach to somebody who feels stuck where you started.

585
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,220
Speaker 1: Stuck where you started. Stuck in Simon.

586
00:37:36,620 --> 00:37:36,969
Speaker 2: Stuck.

587
00:37:37,290 --> 00:37:39,810
Speaker 1: I'm a sinful man. You are, but he died for you.

588
00:37:41,270 --> 00:37:45,330
Speaker 1: So that's what you were. Now you're a saint, a

589
00:37:45,350 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: holy saint. Still have some patterns. That's called the flesh.

590
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,130
Speaker 1: Simon never leaves. You just have to tell him.

591
00:37:52,090 --> 00:37:56,489
Speaker 2: Where to sit. I'm glad I learned this.

592
00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:00,690
Speaker 1: I thought if I had doubt in the car, I

593
00:38:00,730 --> 00:38:03,410
Speaker 1: couldn't go anywhere. I found out you can have doubt

594
00:38:03,450 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: in the car. Just don't let it drive. Just don't

595
00:38:08,020 --> 00:38:10,819
Speaker 1: let it drive. Look at somebody and say,' Just don't

596
00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:16,210
Speaker 1: let it drive.' I'm confiscating your driver's license, all the

597
00:38:16,310 --> 00:38:19,630
Speaker 1: lies you've been telling yourself, all the limitations you've been

598
00:38:19,650 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 1: telling yourself, all the labels that have been given you,

599
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,980
Speaker 1: all the sinfulness.

600
00:38:24,340 --> 00:38:26,580
Speaker 2: That is keeping you from seeing.

601
00:38:29,620 --> 00:38:33,819
Speaker 1: You can ride, Simon, but you can't drive. You can

602
00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,950
Speaker 1: stay around, but you can't tell me how far to go.

603
00:38:38,140 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: You can have a word, but not the last word. See,

604
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,990
Speaker 1: this is the season some of us have been in.

605
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: We've been stuck where we started, but God said something

606
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,140
Speaker 1: very powerful to me. He said, Remind them you're not

607
00:38:49,300 --> 00:39:00,469
Speaker 1: stuck where you started. You're stuck where you stopped.

608
00:39:03,050 --> 00:39:06,730
Speaker 2: You are not stuck. I'm a sinful man.

609
00:39:07,739 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: But Jesus said, don't be afraid of what you were.

610
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: That's what you were before I stepped in your boat,

611
00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:18,989
Speaker 1: knowing exactly what you are, knowing exactly what you did,

612
00:39:19,260 --> 00:39:22,810
Speaker 1: knowing exactly where you've been, knowing exactly what you're not.

613
00:39:22,950 --> 00:39:26,230
Speaker 1: I want the boat belonging to Simon.

614
00:39:26,710 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 2: Yes, you! Sakey Simon! Yes, you! You're not stuck where

615
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 2: you started. I'm a sinful man.

616
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you are also the righteousness of God in

617
00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:46,540
Speaker 1: Christ Jesus, because what happened on that cross.

618
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:57,250
Speaker 2: Was more than a physical act. It was a new day!

619
00:39:59,810 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 2: You are only stuck where you stop. I just have

620
00:40:04,380 --> 00:40:05,060
Speaker 2: to be me.

621
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: Well, there's a new me I need to meet.

622
00:40:13,140 --> 00:40:13,620
Speaker 2: Oh, man.

623
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: Peter has so much potential. Simon has so much baggage.

624
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:27,010
Speaker 1: Peter has so much purpose. Simon has so many problems,

625
00:40:27,690 --> 00:40:30,410
Speaker 1: and they're both in the same boat.

626
00:40:30,469 --> 00:40:31,989
Speaker 2: All week I've been telling Simon, sit down.

627
00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:39,990
Speaker 1: Peter needs to pilot this boat. That's what Jesus called him.

628
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: It's Peter. Simon says, you are the Christ, the Son

629
00:40:44,739 --> 00:40:47,730
Speaker 1: of the living God. Jesus said, Flesh and blood did

630
00:40:47,770 --> 00:40:51,150
Speaker 1: not reveal this to you, Simon son of John, but

631
00:40:51,190 --> 00:40:53,390
Speaker 1: I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this

632
00:40:53,430 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: rock I'll build my church. Let's clap that he gave

633
00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: him a new name. All right. But y'all look in

634
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,100
Speaker 1: Matthew 16 later today. A minute later, Jesus said, I

635
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,940
Speaker 1: have to go to Jerusalem. I'm going to need about

636
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,060
Speaker 1: three days for y'all to think everything went wrong, and

637
00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: then I'm going to get up out of the ground.

638
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,620
Speaker 1: Peter said, Never, Lord. This isn't going to happen to you.

639
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:18,180
Speaker 1: Jesus said something really weird. He had already called him

640
00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: Peter just a minute earlier, but then he looked at

641
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:28,350
Speaker 1: him and said,' Get behind me, Satan.' Oh, God. We're

642
00:41:28,390 --> 00:41:30,970
Speaker 1: going backwards. This is the wrong direction.

643
00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:34,330
Speaker 2: I started as Simon. Then I was Peter.

644
00:41:34,350 --> 00:41:36,090
Speaker 1: Now I'm Satan?

645
00:41:37,930 --> 00:41:39,470
Speaker 2: Lord, this is going the wrong way.

646
00:41:40,690 --> 00:41:43,490
Speaker 1: You've been feeling like you've been going backwards lately, right? Right?

647
00:41:44,390 --> 00:41:45,170
Speaker 2: I'm speaking to somebody.

648
00:41:45,190 --> 00:41:46,870
Speaker 1: Maybe not everybody, but somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody.

649
00:41:46,890 --> 00:41:48,830
Speaker 2: I just feel like I've been going backwards. Oh, God,

650
00:41:49,050 --> 00:41:50,410
Speaker 2: I'm feeling more tempted now.

651
00:41:50,690 --> 00:41:52,350
Speaker 1: Oh, God, I'm feeling like it's harder now.

652
00:41:52,570 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 2: I'm feeling less sure. I'm feeling less certain. I don't

653
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Speaker 2: know what to do. I used to know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anymore. You're not going backwards. That's called

655
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Speaker 1: the sifting. The sifting. When Jesus got in Peter's boat,

656
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Speaker 1: he not only knew there were fish in that spot …

657
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,219
Speaker 1: where there weren't a little while ago. He knew about

658
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Speaker 1: the sin that was in Simon, and Simon's only speaking.

659
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Speaker 2: About the sin he knows about.

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Speaker 1: Jesus knows the future ones you didn't even think to

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Speaker 1: include on your resume, and he still got in. I

662
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Speaker 1: want to take you for a moment to pass overnight

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Speaker 1: before Jesus goes to the cross to die for Simon

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Speaker 1: and James and John and Judas and you too.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, see, they're a preacher.

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Speaker 4: I've been going to church since I was about six

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Speaker 4: years old, and my mama used to take me over

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Speaker 4: there to the vacation Bible school. I'm not really one

670
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Speaker 4: of these sinners. You ever heard of self-righteousness? That's a

671
00:42:59,160 --> 00:42:59,969
Speaker 4: pretty good sin, too.

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Speaker 1: Now, you can't see it on the surface, but if

673
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Speaker 1: you let down the nets far enough, there's a Simon

674
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Speaker 1: inside all of us. Don't let anybody make you feel inferior,

675
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Speaker 1: like you can't praise God, like you can't worship God,

676
00:43:11,630 --> 00:43:13,969
Speaker 1: like God can't use you. Don't you ever let them

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00:43:14,010 --> 00:43:22,379
Speaker 1: do that to you. At the moment you think Peter

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Speaker 1: is so.

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Speaker 2: Self-aware, he's seen miracles. He's seen blessings.

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Speaker 1: He's seen healings. Jesus healed Peter's own mother-in-law. Did you

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Speaker 1: know that? That's why many scholars think Peter denied him. Okay,

682
00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:40,950
Speaker 1: just joking. He's checking you out.

683
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Speaker 2: But he really did.

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Speaker 1: He healed his mother-in-law. He saw him heal blind people

685
00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:49,060
Speaker 1: by spitting in the ground, putting mud on their eyes.

686
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,779
Speaker 1: Other times, he'd see Jesus just speak a word. Any

687
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Speaker 1: way you put it, Peter had seen a lot, because

688
00:43:55,550 --> 00:44:02,410
Speaker 1: God was drawing out what was there all along. Drawing out. Y'all,

689
00:44:02,430 --> 00:44:04,270
Speaker 1: it's a baby. Stay with me. It's just a baby crying.

690
00:44:04,290 --> 00:44:07,690
Speaker 1: It's all right. God was pulling out What was there

691
00:44:07,730 --> 00:44:13,129
Speaker 1: all along? Now, this is a blessing of what God

692
00:44:13,170 --> 00:44:15,230
Speaker 1: brings up out of you, but here's something.

693
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Speaker 2: I never quite saw it.

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Speaker 1: Like this before until I was studying for this message

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Speaker 1: called Yes, You. In Luke 22… Give me that real quick.

696
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Speaker 1: Luke 22. I didn't mean to do a whole series

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Speaker 1: on Peter in one week, but that's apparently what we're

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Speaker 1: doing today. Jesus looks at Simon, who has been named Peter,

699
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Speaker 1: but he's still Simon, and says … Do you remember

700
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Speaker 1: last week? Simon, Simon, twice as covenant. Simon, Simon, who

701
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Speaker 1: you were, your given name, who you were before I

702
00:44:48,290 --> 00:44:53,350
Speaker 1: got in your boat. Simon, Simon. Satan has asked to

703
00:44:53,469 --> 00:44:58,420
Speaker 1: sift you. That means to tear apart, to separate the

704
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Speaker 1: useful from the useless, to separate who was truly the

705
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Speaker 1: followers of Jesus from those who were just the fans.

706
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Speaker 1: Now let's be Peter for a moment. Peter, Jesus just

707
00:45:12,489 --> 00:45:14,450
Speaker 1: says to you, Simon, Simon.

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Speaker 2: First of all, you're like, who are.

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Speaker 1: You talking to? I'm Peter. Remember you told me Cephas, Peter,

710
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Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson, the rock? He's still calling him Simon because

711
00:45:30,260 --> 00:45:35,230
Speaker 1: he's still Simon. You're still flesh. Strong faith still has

712
00:45:35,270 --> 00:45:41,370
Speaker 1: weak moments. He said, Satan asked to sift all of you.

713
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Speaker 1: He's talking about the cross. He's talking about the testing.

714
00:45:43,870 --> 00:45:46,089
Speaker 1: He's talking about those crises of faith that we all have.

715
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Speaker 1: Do I really still believe that God is with me?

716
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Speaker 1: Will I really still follow, even through the Via Dolorosa,

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00:45:56,100 --> 00:46:01,380
Speaker 1: the way of suffering? He asked to sift all of

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00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: you as wheat. Then I'm thinking, Peter, you're Peter. You

719
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Speaker 1: told him no, right? No, I didn't tell him.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: But look at verse 32.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's beautiful. But I prayed for you, Simon.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to let you go through this season of sifting,

724
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Speaker 1: but not alone. Not alone. Just like I didn't leave

725
00:46:37,580 --> 00:46:42,930
Speaker 1: your boat, I'm not going to leave you now. You're

726
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Speaker 1: going to be sifted, all of you. But I prayed

727
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Speaker 1: for your weak place, Simon. It's one thing to pray

728
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Speaker 1: for Peter, but how many thank God that you have

729
00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:07,870
Speaker 1: a Savior who will pray for Simon? Now, God said

730
00:47:07,890 --> 00:47:10,930
Speaker 1: you needed to hear this. I have prayed for you, Simon.

731
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Speaker 1: that your faith may not fail. But didn't it? Didn't

732
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Speaker 1: Peter deny knowing Jesus three times? Didn't Peter look at

733
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Speaker 1: the servant girl and say, I don't even know what

734
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Speaker 1: you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: I'm not one of them. Yes, you. Not me. Weren't

736
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Speaker 2: you one of his followers? No, not me. Not me.

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Speaker 1: He has gone from saying to Jesus, even if everybody

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Speaker 1: denies you, I won't.

739
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,460
Speaker 2: Do they say, weren't you following this guy?

740
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: No, not me.

741
00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:43,620
Speaker 2: Wasn't he your boat? No, wasn't mine.

742
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,950
Speaker 1: And yet Jesus says, I prayed that your faith would

743
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Speaker 1: survive the sifting. Receive this word. You will survive the sifting.

744
00:47:57,090 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: God love me. I'm not playing with you. I'm prophesying

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00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: to you. You will survive this sifting. God said, I'm

746
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Speaker 1: not going to stop it from happening. I'm going to

747
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: allow it, but you will survive it. Oh, God, I

748
00:48:21,820 --> 00:48:24,620
Speaker 1: feel like we should just praise God right now for

749
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Speaker 1: what we're going to survive.

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Speaker 2: Watch this.

751
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,500
Speaker 1: Who are we going to be on the other side?

752
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,899
Speaker 1: Because Jesus said, after you have turned.

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Speaker 2: Back, strengthen your brothers. So God said.

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Speaker 1: Not only are you going to survive it, you're going

755
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Speaker 1: to have strength to show for it, and I'm going

756
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Speaker 1: to use it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Lord, I receive that. That's my word. That's my work.

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Speaker 2: That's just for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get testimonies for this for months after

760
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Speaker 1: I preach it. I'm the Simon you were talking to.

761
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Speaker 1: I'm the shaky one. I was being sifted. The Devil

762
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Speaker 1: was coming after my kids. The Devil was coming after

763
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Speaker 1: my mind. The Devil was coming after everything I ever

764
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Speaker 1: knew myself.

765
00:49:20,350 --> 00:49:22,969
Speaker 2: As. The Devil came after my career. The Devil came

766
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Speaker 2: after my sleep. The Devil came after my sanity. The

767
00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:28,069
Speaker 2: Devil came after my memories.

768
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Speaker 1: The Devil came after everything.

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Speaker 5: I was carrying. I survived the sifting. I survived the sifting.

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Speaker 5: This is the sifting, and if.

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Speaker 1: You survive the sifting, Simon, you can be Peter. You

772
00:49:46,780 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: can stand flat-footed and know that the rain fell and

773
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,700
Speaker 1: the winds came and the streams rose, but the rock

774
00:49:55,739 --> 00:49:58,609
Speaker 1: stayed solid, and God is faithful.

775
00:50:02,570 --> 00:50:03,930
Speaker 2: I've got to make it through this.

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Speaker 1: To find out who I really am, I have to

777
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: make it through this. To find out who my kids

778
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Speaker 1: can be, I have to make it through this to

779
00:50:12,660 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: set an example that you can.

780
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Speaker 2: Survive the sifting and come out solid.

781
00:50:17,620 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: You can survive the sifting and come out praising.

782
00:50:21,180 --> 00:50:23,009
Speaker 2: You can survive the sifting.

783
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Speaker 1: How else would God reveal Peter if he didn't sift Simon?

784
00:50:35,070 --> 00:50:37,410
Speaker 1: Even if he had to use the Enemy to do it,

785
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Speaker 1: he who began a good work in.

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Speaker 2: You will be faithful.

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Speaker 1: All I'm trying to say … If he got in

788
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Speaker 1: the boat, he's not getting out.

789
00:50:58,860 --> 00:51:00,420
Speaker 2: That's all I'm trying to say.

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00:51:02,140 --> 00:51:06,930
Speaker 1: After you have survived the sifting … Simon, you know

791
00:51:06,969 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 1: what's amazing? From the moment Jesus saw Peter's boat, he

792
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:17,420
Speaker 1: knew about everything that Peter would go through. Even at

793
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: the worst moment … Maybe this word isn't for you

794
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:25,779
Speaker 1: right now. Put it on standby. I had a pretty

795
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:31,580
Speaker 1: good week. I ate clean this week. I don't care

796
00:51:31,620 --> 00:51:38,870
Speaker 1: about this week. I'm telling you, faith fluctuates. One more thing.

797
00:51:39,230 --> 00:51:40,810
Speaker 1: Do you want this little teaching thing, or do you

798
00:51:40,830 --> 00:51:42,450
Speaker 1: want me to go on to Atlanta and give it

799
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Speaker 1: to them? I have one more thing I want to

800
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Speaker 1: show you. I swear, man, I want to be obedient

801
00:51:49,780 --> 00:51:51,860
Speaker 1: to the Lord. There was one thing he showed me

802
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: that totally surprised me from 2 Peter 1. Pastor Stephen,

803
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,299
Speaker 1: why are you going to 2 Peter? I want to

804
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: show you what was in Simon even as he sat

805
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,330
Speaker 1: by the fire and denied Jesus. Now, listen to Peter.

806
00:52:10,110 --> 00:52:18,670
Speaker 1: Not 16-year-old Peter. Not shaky Simon. Senior citizen swag Peter.

807
00:52:20,810 --> 00:52:23,070
Speaker 1: Come on. Praise God like you're 83 and you already

808
00:52:23,110 --> 00:52:24,219
Speaker 1: made it through all your trials.

809
00:52:25,570 --> 00:52:25,900
Speaker 3: Come on.

810
00:52:25,940 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 2: Praise him like you have a bad hip, but you

811
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,240
Speaker 2: live like Jacob on into the promise.

812
00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: A lot of people that walk with confidence, it looks

813
00:52:38,260 --> 00:52:44,339
Speaker 1: like swag, but it's really a limp. Now, when you've

814
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,410
Speaker 1: been through enough, you can say stuff like this. This

815
00:52:47,790 --> 00:52:49,870
Speaker 1: is what God is doing in me and you. I

816
00:52:49,910 --> 00:52:51,390
Speaker 1: want to make it really clear, because we're not just

817
00:52:51,410 --> 00:52:54,810
Speaker 1: talking about boats and fish and nets and metaphors. I'm

818
00:52:54,850 --> 00:53:01,950
Speaker 1: talking about character. I'm talking about you. Yes, you. Not

819
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Speaker 1: the stuff.

820
00:53:02,890 --> 00:53:04,029
Speaker 2: They didn't even eat the.

821
00:53:03,989 --> 00:53:06,779
Speaker 1: Fish they caught. They left it on the shore and

822
00:53:06,820 --> 00:53:09,540
Speaker 1: followed Jesus. It wasn't about what was in the water.

823
00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: It was about what was in them. Here's Peter encouraging

824
00:53:18,500 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: a struggling church in 2 Peter, this letter that he

825
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:28,509
Speaker 1: wrote after he'd been sifted as Simon. After he had

826
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Speaker 1: stood solid as Peter, he goes, For this very reason,

827
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Speaker 1: Make every effort to add to your faith. How many

828
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,700
Speaker 1: have faith? I'm talking about even a little droppy, drippy,

829
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Speaker 1: droppy faith.

830
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Speaker 2: A little like, boop.

831
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Speaker 1: You got a boop faith. Okay. If you got that

832
00:53:48,870 --> 00:53:51,450
Speaker 1: much faith … Jesus said, faith of a mustard seed

833
00:53:51,510 --> 00:53:55,250
Speaker 1: size on that scale can move a mountain. Watch how

834
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Speaker 1: it happens. This is the word. You're not stuck where

835
00:54:01,150 --> 00:54:07,350
Speaker 1: you started, Simon. You're stuck where you stop. Judas hung himself.

836
00:54:08,790 --> 00:54:12,129
Speaker 1: Peter preached on the day of Pentecost. It is still

837
00:54:12,150 --> 00:54:15,350
Speaker 1: not decided yet what your life will accomplish.

838
00:54:15,969 --> 00:54:16,780
Speaker 2: You have no idea.

839
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Speaker 1: You don't know any more than Peter knew when he said,

840
00:54:19,580 --> 00:54:22,859
Speaker 1: go away, I'm a sinful man. You don't know what's

841
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: under your boat. You don't know. You don't know what

842
00:54:27,580 --> 00:54:29,029
Speaker 1: God's going to bring forth out of you in a

843
00:54:29,050 --> 00:54:31,410
Speaker 1: future season. That's why the enemy wants to kill you

844
00:54:31,469 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: right now. Jesus prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon.

845
00:54:37,570 --> 00:54:40,110
Speaker 1: He prayed for you, Simon. He prayed for you, Simon.

846
00:54:40,330 --> 00:54:46,370
Speaker 1: He prayed for Simon to bring forth Peter. Peter is

847
00:54:46,430 --> 00:54:48,270
Speaker 1: looking back on it, and he said, I want to

848
00:54:48,290 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: encourage you. Make every effort to add … Everybody say, add.

849
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Speaker 1: You're not stuck where you started. You're stuck where you stopped.

850
00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:04,330
Speaker 1: Add to your faith Raise your hand if you need

851
00:55:04,350 --> 00:55:06,529
Speaker 1: a little help with one of these. I'm going to

852
00:55:06,550 --> 00:55:10,980
Speaker 1: list it. Goodness. How many need a little more goodness?

853
00:55:12,219 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: All the negative people like me who see the glass

854
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: not half full but want to slap in the face

855
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:20,339
Speaker 1: whoever spilled it. I don't see the glass half empty.

856
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:21,739
Speaker 1: I see it as spilled, and I want to know

857
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: who did it. I can be very negative sometimes, but

858
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,109
Speaker 1: I need some goodness. I am preaching deeper than y'all

859
00:55:28,150 --> 00:55:31,690
Speaker 1: are shouting today. I need a shouting Simon on the

860
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 1: I need some goodness. All right. You need that? It's

861
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:44,489
Speaker 1: in the water, but it has to be drawn out.

862
00:55:46,090 --> 00:55:47,630
Speaker 1: He said, you have the faith. If you have the faith,

863
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Speaker 1: you can get the goodness. Give me the next one.

864
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Speaker 1: This is just the Bible. I didn't make this list up.

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Speaker 1: Add to your goodness … Go back to the other verse, y'all.

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Speaker 1: There's some more in the other verse. Yeah, yeah. And

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Speaker 1: to goodness, knowledge. How many of y'all did something stupid

868
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Speaker 1: in the last six days since I last saw you

869
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Speaker 1: in church? Something so stupid. I mean so stupid you

870
00:56:06,739 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 1: don't even want to think about it again.

871
00:56:08,380 --> 00:56:11,609
Speaker 2: It's like, ah, trigger, trigger. Ah, did something stupid. You

872
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:12,570
Speaker 2: can get smarter.

873
00:56:15,350 --> 00:56:17,650
Speaker 1: You can read the book you bought that's still on

874
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Speaker 1: your phone unopened.

875
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Speaker 2: Lead the verse up.

876
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Speaker 1: I want to show you this from the Bible. I'm

877
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Speaker 1: not just making it up. I'm not a motivational speaker.

878
00:56:26,390 --> 00:56:28,890
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what is in you by the Word

879
00:56:28,930 --> 00:56:34,069
Speaker 1: of God, the implanted Word that's in you. But you

880
00:56:34,090 --> 00:56:36,830
Speaker 1: have to draw it out. You have to let down

881
00:56:36,850 --> 00:56:37,610
Speaker 1: the nets.

882
00:56:37,370 --> 00:56:40,009
Speaker 2: For a catch. It's down in you. You can get

883
00:56:40,070 --> 00:56:41,330
Speaker 2: more knowledge. You need more knowledge.

884
00:56:41,510 --> 00:56:43,350
Speaker 1: How many need more knowledge? I need more knowledge, because

885
00:56:43,390 --> 00:56:44,890
Speaker 1: I know God. I don't even know what to believe

886
00:56:44,930 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: anymore on the news or anything like that. I don't

887
00:56:47,340 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: know what's true. I don't know who did it. I

888
00:56:49,700 --> 00:56:50,280
Speaker 1: don't know who.

889
00:56:50,180 --> 00:56:51,980
Speaker 2: Didn't do it. I don't know if they're about to

890
00:56:52,020 --> 00:56:53,900
Speaker 2: do it. I don't know if Elon Musk is going

891
00:56:53,940 --> 00:56:56,500
Speaker 2: to fly a car over my house and drop a chemtrail.

892
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't know anything anymore.

893
00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 2: I don't know about any of it, but I need

894
00:56:59,860 --> 00:57:00,300
Speaker 2: the knowledge.

895
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Speaker 1: God said, I'll put my spirit in you, and I'll

896
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Speaker 1: give you the knowledge, but it's beneath the surface, Simon. Oh, God.

897
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 2: What else, Peter? What else, Peter?

898
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Speaker 1: Peter is talking so mature now and to knowledge self-control.

899
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Speaker 2: Is this Peter?

900
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:19,660
Speaker 1: What?

901
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 2: You mean you could be so.

902
00:57:22,020 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: Reckless that Peter just said everything he ever wanted to

903
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Speaker 1: say when he was walking with Jesus? But watch this.

904
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Speaker 1: You're not stuck where you started. Peter said, I used

905
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Speaker 1: to have no self-control. Jesus was praying on the Mount

906
00:57:38,950 --> 00:57:42,870
Speaker 1: of Olives, and I was sleeping. I ate the whole bag,

907
00:57:42,930 --> 00:57:47,070
Speaker 1: Peter said. I was just going to have one. I

908
00:57:47,130 --> 00:57:50,370
Speaker 1: ate the whole bag. Stop saying stuff like this, by

909
00:57:50,390 --> 00:57:53,050
Speaker 1: the way. Oh, I'm just not a morning person, or

910
00:57:53,090 --> 00:57:54,750
Speaker 1: I'm just not a night person, or whatever.

911
00:57:55,010 --> 00:57:58,290
Speaker 2: They make caffeine for that, y'all. You can get up.

912
00:58:00,230 --> 00:58:03,070
Speaker 1: Stop saying, I'm a sinful man. That's where you started.

913
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Speaker 1: That's not where it stops. That's not where it stops.

914
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Speaker 1: I feel the Lord speaking to me about that thing

915
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Speaker 1: I've been saying lately. I'm not an author. I've been

916
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Speaker 1: saying it again. It gets back in you. I'm not

917
00:58:17,450 --> 00:58:19,290
Speaker 1: an author. I can't write. I hear the Lord speaking

918
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Speaker 1: to me. It's not yours yet. It's not yours yet.

919
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Speaker 2: Yet.

920
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Speaker 1: You don't know it yet. You haven't done it yet.

921
00:58:36,300 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: You haven't broken it yet. You haven't been consistent with

922
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:43,300
Speaker 1: it yet. But if you want to put your faith

923
00:58:43,340 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: in the water, there's a Peter on the inside of Simon.

924
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there's a Peter on the inside of Simon.

925
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Speaker 1: I'm not a good dad yet. I can't keep a

926
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Speaker 1: relationship together. Y'all are real slow to say what I'm

927
00:58:59,330 --> 00:59:04,050
Speaker 1: telling you to say today. He said, I have some self-control.

928
00:59:04,070 --> 00:59:07,110
Speaker 1: This would have meant nothing to me if John had

929
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Speaker 1: said it. I would have said, yeah, you are one

930
00:59:10,010 --> 00:59:13,380
Speaker 1: of those Enneagram Nines or whatever it's called, the peacemaker

931
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: or whatever, but when Peter is talking about self-control, I'm like, okay.

932
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Speaker 1: I could get some too. Yeah, you could get some too.

933
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Speaker 1: Just don't let the sifting kill you. Just don't stop here.

934
00:59:29,690 --> 00:59:31,910
Speaker 1: Just don't say, I'm a sinful man. Get out of

935
00:59:31,930 --> 00:59:35,050
Speaker 1: the boat. Just let the grace of God keep working

936
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Speaker 1: in your life. Can I say something to everybody.

937
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 2: In the room? Keep coming. You did good to come.

938
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Speaker 2: You didn't come to church.

939
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Speaker 1: You came to fish.

940
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Speaker 2: God is pulling, as I.

941
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Speaker 1: Speak right now, he is pulling promises that you buried

942
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Speaker 1: down deep To the surface and to self-control, perseverance. Every

943
01:00:02,970 --> 01:00:06,490
Speaker 1: quitter in here who's hanging up your nets for the night,

944
01:00:06,530 --> 01:00:11,700
Speaker 1: God said, drop them one more time. I don't care

945
01:00:11,740 --> 01:00:13,939
Speaker 1: it didn't work five years ago. It's not five years

946
01:00:13,980 --> 01:00:20,380
Speaker 1: ago now, and you're not 25. You're 30. At 30,

947
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:25,170
Speaker 1: you can do everything. Just because the fish weren't there

948
01:00:25,210 --> 01:00:34,670
Speaker 1: a minute ago doesn't mean they aren't now. and to perseverance, godliness. Peter.

949
01:00:36,490 --> 01:00:41,740
Speaker 1: Stay with it, Simon, because there is a Peter on

950
01:00:41,780 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: the inside of you that Jesus died to bring forth,

951
01:00:47,140 --> 01:00:53,330
Speaker 1: that he died to bring forth. So, when Peter was sitting,

952
01:00:54,670 --> 01:00:58,090
Speaker 1: Luke 22, 60-something, 50-something, 60-something.

953
01:00:58,130 --> 01:00:58,550
Speaker 2: I don't remember.

954
01:01:00,610 --> 01:01:07,610
Speaker 1: Can you put it up, please? They took Jesus away

955
01:01:07,730 --> 01:01:09,550
Speaker 1: to the house of the high priest, and Peter followed

956
01:01:09,590 --> 01:01:13,500
Speaker 1: at a distance. And when Peter had, and when some

957
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: there had kindled a fire in the middle of the

958
01:01:15,620 --> 01:01:22,020
Speaker 1: courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.

959
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:27,130
Speaker 1: This is the moment I want you to see. While

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Speaker 1: Peter was sitting by the fire, denying Christ, and that

961
01:01:32,850 --> 01:01:34,510
Speaker 1: may have been you lately. I don't mean you deny

962
01:01:34,530 --> 01:01:37,530
Speaker 1: believing in God. I mean you are denying his purpose

963
01:01:37,650 --> 01:01:40,330
Speaker 1: in your life. You are denying what he spoke over you.

964
01:01:40,570 --> 01:01:42,510
Speaker 1: You're not playing your part. You're not showing up. You're

965
01:01:42,530 --> 01:01:46,150
Speaker 1: sitting by comfort, fire, waiting to see what's going to

966
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Speaker 1: happen next. This was crazy to me. This was crazy

967
01:01:51,260 --> 01:01:54,340
Speaker 1: to me. I thought the message was prepared, y'all. I

968
01:01:54,380 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: came out to preach it. The Lord said, look, one

969
01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:00,780
Speaker 1: more time. Peter sat by the fire. Next verse, please.

970
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Speaker 1: And a servant girl saw him and said, this man

971
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Speaker 1: was with him. Next verse. And he denied it, woman,

972
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Speaker 1: I don't know him. Not me? Yes, you. A little later,

973
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Speaker 1: someone said, you are one of them. He said, not me.

974
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Speaker 1: Has that been the posture of your heart? I can't

975
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: do it, God. I don't have that knowledge. I don't

976
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:26,090
Speaker 1: have that perseverance. I don't have that self-control. I'm stuck.

977
01:02:26,620 --> 01:02:30,439
Speaker 1: Nobody showed me how. A third time, a little later.

978
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Speaker 1: Next verse, please. Another certain fellow was with him, for.

979
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Speaker 2: He is a Galilean.

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

981
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Speaker 1: Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. This is

982
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Speaker 1: what I saw, verse 61. The Lord turned and looked

983
01:02:42,970 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: straight at Peter. What did he see? Peter. Peter. Even

984
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:02,450
Speaker 1: as Simon sat by the fire, even in your addiction,

985
01:03:04,250 --> 01:03:08,390
Speaker 1: even in your mistake, even in your denial. Oh, he

986
01:03:08,430 --> 01:03:13,410
Speaker 1: can't deny himself. If we are faithless, he is faithful.

987
01:03:14,740 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: What did Jesus see when he looked at Simon sitting

988
01:03:19,580 --> 01:03:26,740
Speaker 1: by the fire? He saw Acts chapter two, verse 14.

989
01:03:26,740 --> 01:03:29,220
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you exactly what Jesus sees in

990
01:03:29,260 --> 01:03:31,270
Speaker 1: that moment he looks at Peter. He doesn't look at him.

991
01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:33,860
Speaker 1: What a failure. What a waste. I never should have

992
01:03:33,910 --> 01:03:35,820
Speaker 1: saved him. I never should have gave him a chance.

993
01:03:36,070 --> 01:03:37,850
Speaker 1: I never should have put him there. I never saw

994
01:03:37,890 --> 01:03:41,610
Speaker 1: that coming. Jesus looks at Peter by the fire in

995
01:03:41,630 --> 01:03:44,930
Speaker 1: the courtyard outside the office of the high priest, and

996
01:03:44,990 --> 01:03:51,150
Speaker 1: he sees the Peter in Simon, because Acts 2, verse

997
01:03:51,150 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: 14 says something amazing. Then Peter stood up. Then Peter

998
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:11,780
Speaker 1: stood up. Only Jesus can look at Peter and see

999
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,380
Speaker 1: through the Simon that's sitting by the fire and see

1000
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,820
Speaker 1: the Peter who will preach the first sermon on the

1001
01:04:19,860 --> 01:04:25,850
Speaker 1: day of Pentecost that will build the church. So, I wonder,

1002
01:04:25,890 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: will you stand up, Peter? No, I mean stand up,

1003
01:04:30,110 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: like right now, I'm closing, but see, when I finish speaking,

1004
01:04:39,620 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: sometimes that's when God starts talking. That's why I don't

1005
01:04:41,940 --> 01:04:43,890
Speaker 1: understand y'all who slip out when I'm doing this part

1006
01:04:43,910 --> 01:04:48,709
Speaker 1: of the message. It makes no sense to me, because

1007
01:04:48,750 --> 01:04:52,110
Speaker 1: when I finish talking, that's when God starts, and he says,

1008
01:04:52,490 --> 01:04:57,170
Speaker 1: that was your word. Yes, you. I'm going to use

1009
01:04:57,230 --> 01:05:00,910
Speaker 1: you to preach on the day of Pentecost. I see

1010
01:05:00,950 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: it even while you're sitting by the fire. God, this

1011
01:05:06,540 --> 01:05:10,620
Speaker 1: is a moment for you to bring forth out of

1012
01:05:10,780 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: broken nets amazing glory, amazing purpose, amazing grace. I have

1013
01:05:19,700 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: spoken today to the Simon, but you see the Peter.

1014
01:05:24,750 --> 01:05:27,190
Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord, that everybody under the sound of

1015
01:05:27,250 --> 01:05:30,730
Speaker 1: my voice right now is going to survive the sifting,

1016
01:05:31,150 --> 01:05:34,730
Speaker 1: because you're praying for them, because you live to make intercession,

1017
01:05:35,210 --> 01:05:38,490
Speaker 1: because you are our great high priest, Jesus. Just lift

1018
01:05:38,510 --> 01:05:41,590
Speaker 1: your hands right now and say, I will survive the sifting.

1019
01:05:42,750 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 1: Not only that, but I'm going to get knowledge and

1020
01:05:45,550 --> 01:05:47,780
Speaker 1: self-control and perseverance.

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01:05:48,100 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 2: I went in Simon, and I'm coming out Peter, because

1022
01:05:51,460 --> 01:05:52,900
Speaker 2: God knows what's in me.

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01:05:54,760 --> 01:06:02,470
Speaker 1: Yes, me. Yes, you. I want you to claim it

1024
01:06:02,510 --> 01:06:06,130
Speaker 1: by faith right now. Say, that word was for me.

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Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>

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Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> I'm already chosen. I know

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01:06:20,220 --> 01:06:44,540
Speaker 1: who I am. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks

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01:06:44,580 --> 01:06:47,140
Speaker 1: to those of you who give generously to this ministry.

1029
01:06:47,530 --> 01:06:50,510
Speaker 1: It's because of you that this ministry is possible. You

1030
01:06:50,530 --> 01:06:52,830
Speaker 1: can click the link in the description to give now

1031
01:06:53,450 --> 01:06:58,110
Speaker 1: or visit elevationchurch.org slash podcast for more information. And if

1032
01:06:58,140 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share

1033
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:03,660
Speaker 1: it with your friends. You can click the share button,

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01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: take a screenshot and share it on your social stories

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Speaker 1: and tag us at Elevation Church.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.