WEBVTT - Time To Rise & Shine | Larry Brey 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.800 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.560 gives your perspective to see God as moving in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:21.040 Hey, welcome to Elevation Church. My name is Larry Brye. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.759 I'm one of the pastors here at Elevation and everybody 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.080 calls me LB. So in the chat if you want 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.840 to call me LB, we'll be friends. I love it 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.760 and my wife and had the privilege of being one 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.440 of the original eight families that sold their homes and 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.680 quit their jobs nineteen years ago to start. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.279 Elevation Church and. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.360 Surely one of the biggest honors of our lives to 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.400 have a front row seat. But every time I get 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.160 up in the pulpit, there's a couple things that I'm. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:48.879 Always encouraged by. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:53.240 One is Pastor Stephen, you do this every week, My goodness, 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.880 thank you for standing in the pulpit every week faith 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.880 inly preaching the word of God. I honor you, we 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.760 love you. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.480 And it makes me grateful for our church. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.399 Nineteen years ago we had eight families, and now we've 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.440 got nineteen physical locations. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:09.319 Come on balancein. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:15.560 Let's welcome all the other locations joining us today. It's amazing, Ronoke, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.120 I love you. And then our very first Sunday, we 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.839 had one hundred and twenty one people joining us for church. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.840 Now today, the team told me, on this a weekend 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.280 like this, an average weekend, there'll be one hundred and 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.280 eighty countries watching elevation chirts. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.000 So let's welcome everybody. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.839 Joining us from countries all around the world, Denmark and Sweden, Kenya, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:45.160 the country of California, the country of Texas City, and well, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.240 gratefully you joined in today because we believe God's got 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.400 a word for you. Let me give you one versus 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.760 scripture to set off where we want to go today. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:57.520 This is an Acts, chapter four, Verse fourteen says, Then 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.320 Peter stood up with the eleven raised his voice. Let 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.480 me say it again, then Peter, he stood up, and 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.840 he raised his voice, and he addressed the crowd. Fellow 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.359 Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem. Let 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.760 me explain this to you. Listen carefully to what I say. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.680 I think Peter's got a sermon he's gonna preach for 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.839 us today, and we need to listen to the words 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.080 of Peter. But not just the words he's gonna preach with, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:27.160 but he's gonna preach with his very posture, because it 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:33.200 says if he stood up, he was sitting down. And 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.839 I think there's some of you that have sat down 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.000 in some things that God's calling you out of. And 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:39.799 so he's not just gonna preach with his words. He's 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.400 gonna preach with his posture. And the title for today, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.440 I got it from my mom, Dorothy. She's four foot 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.680 eleven on a good day, and when I was a kid, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.560 I would not want to get out of bed, like 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:52.640 the curtains were closed. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:53.360 I love it dark. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.760 I'd be curled up in my blankets and my mom 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.240 would walk in with all authority of Heaven and she 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.600 would throw all open the windows and the light would 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.600 flood in, and she says, time to rise and shine. Larry, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.840 that's the title I got for our message today. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.400 Time to rise and shine. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.560 How about your look at your neighbor, tell him to 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.760 rise and shine. Worship Team, thank you for leading us today. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:25.920 You guys can have a seat. This text that were 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.720 jumping into this character Peter in Acts two fourteen. It's 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.360 the day of Pentecost. It's kind of the birth of 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.600 the church. The promise of the Holy Spirit had showed up, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.440 and they started to do profound things that were filled 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.839 with the spirit. And it spills out of a little 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.560 room into the street. And this is like nine in 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.560 the morning, and all the people who didn't quite understand 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.040 what was going on looked at and said, these people 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.080 got to be drunk. And then it says Peter, he 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.560 stood up, he raised his voice because there was a 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.839 murmur in the crowd trying to drown out what God 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.800 was doing. And there's always a in the crowd to 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.480 try to drownd out what God wants to do in you. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.160 And threw you in all around you. And Peter recognized 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.920 the situation because he was he stood up out of 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.160 something and he raised his voice. That was not just 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.920 him going, I think that is. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:14.440 The Holy Spirit. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.880 Saint Peter, you were prepared for this moment. Stand up, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.960 lift your voice, and I'll speak something over these people. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.960 And he got up out of something. But we don't 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.720 appreciate Peter standing up as much if we don't actually 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.120 know where he sat down, because if you only see 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.760 the second half of the movie, you don't appreciate as 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.320 much if you don't understand where it began. So as 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.000 you look at our character Peter, some of us are 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:36.719 going to identify. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.880 I love Peter. I so relate to Peter, and so 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:39.440 do you. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.119 Because Peter's the guy who would always say some dumb 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.520 things at the wrong time. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.080 Just call me Peter. That's that's me. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.640 But if we rewind just a couple months, in fact, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.800 fifty three days, just flip over a couple chapters in 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.080 Luke twenty two, verses thirty one to thirty four, it says, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.680 and Simon, this is the moment at the Last Supper 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.320 that Jesus is going to have with his disciples before 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.080 he goes to do what he was created to do. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.159 And he's got this moment with Peter. Pastor Stephen actually 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.960 preached on this a couple of weeks ago in a 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.400 sermon called the Prayer that Repairs. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.840 Go back and watch that. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.360 That is so good, Jesus says Simon, Simon, Satan has 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.799 asked to sift you as we but I prayed for you, Simon, 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.200 that your faith will may not fail. And when you 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.880 turn back strengthen your brothers. But he replied, Lord, I'm 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.560 ready to go to to go to you. I'm ready 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.679 to go with you to prison and to death. Peter's loud, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.800 He's like, I'll take a stand for you. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:39.800 Will. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.080 I will take a stand in front of everybody. And 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.559 Jesus like, yeah, surely you will, because he's he says, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.080 I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, he 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.640 will deny three times that you know me. And so 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.640 at the last Supper, Jesus gives this parting word to Peter, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.840 and then they go out to the garden, and Jesus 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.520 know about what's gonna happen. After that moment, the disciples 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.720 had heard Jesus talk about three times you'll be crucified. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.400 But now they start to see the story unfold. And 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.200 it's a little bit of disbelief, I think as they 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.280 go around with this. But if you go to Midnight 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.560 just a few hours later Luke twenty two, it says 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:20.960 this verse fifty four says then seizing him him being Jesus, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.400 they led him away and took him into the house 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.520 of the High Priest, and Peter followed at a distance. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.720 Now it's really interesting to see the story and fold 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.320 like this. Remember, Peter, I'll never deny you. I'll go 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.159 to prison with you, but you just got to restle. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.480 Like, well, just a little bit of distance. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.200 I don't know if I want all that. I signed 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.640 up to follow you, Jesus, but maybe just not quite 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.120 that close. And sometimes we don't understand what we sign 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:48.440 up for until we see it in. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:49.719 Front of us. And like, I don't know if I 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:50.800 signed up from eh. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.280 But before we beat Peter up, I think we need 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.080 to celebrate him a little bit. Because Judas he betrayed Jesus. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.279 Where are the other ten apostles? 0:06:59.360 --> 0:06:59.800 They left? 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.440 They deserted Jesus. Peter might be following out a distance, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.600 but praise God for Peter, he's at least following. Can 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:12.040 we celebrate Peter just a little bit. He's at a 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.760 distance because there's somebody watching this sermon right now, and 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.800 you're afraid that your parents might hear it. So you 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.960 got the tone, you got the volume way down. You're 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.880 following Jesus. It might be at a distance. And we 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.480 have brothers and sisters around the world that if this 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.440 sermon were to be played in public, they would be 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.520 persecuted for their faith. They might feel like they're following 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.440 at a distance, but they're doing the best they can. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.800 And for those of you who took every ounce of 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.880 energy to click on the link, Praise. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.080 God, you're following at a distance. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.800 For every one of you that had everything you could 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.280 do just to get in the car to get the 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:47.400 church today, Praise God. You're following at a distance. But 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.239 Jesus said, you'll deny me three times. But Peter doesn't 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.680 realize the denial has already started. Because the destination of 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.240 denial starts with just a little bit of distance. The 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.920 devil doesn't need much space to work in your life. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.200 I wonder where you've got some distance in your life. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.840 You just got a little bit of distance from the 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.320 word of God. You got a little bit of distance 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.040 from your small group you just haven't. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:12.960 Gone in a couple of weeks. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.360 A little bit of distance from your small group, a 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.200 little bit of distance at work. Maybe the path you 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.600 would normally take to get your desk at work, you're 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.760 going just a little bit of a longer way because 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.760 the person, the guy at work, gave you a little 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.880 bit of a tension, and he noticed your haircut, and 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.160 your husband didn't and now you're just adding a little 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.160 bit of distance, trying to fulfill something that God wants 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.960 to feel, just not that way, just a little bit 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:45.440 of distance. And then. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:48.240 And when some there had. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:53.520 Kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.800 had sat down, Peter sat down with them. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:00.320 Two in the morning. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.640 Peter's been following at a distance. I want to be 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.760 right close with you, Jesus, but I don't know. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:09.079 I don't know. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.160 When he's dismayed and he's discouraged, and he sees them 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.000 making a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.120 it says, and he sat down, we love talking about 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.480 Acts two fourteen. He stole up, he stood up, and 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.800 he preached boldly. But he sat down fifty three days 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.360 earlier in this situation. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.079 He doesn't know that he's gonna deny Jesus. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.520 He said, I will never And now he sits down 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.360 in something that in a sane moment, he would have 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.920 never gone close to. Why did he sit down in 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.439 that moment? What's two in the morning. Temperatures would have 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.720 been in the high thirties. It's a fire, he's cold. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.880 He just the guy he's been following for three years, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.600 just got to arrest and he's like, I don't even 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.199 know what's happening around me. And sometimes you get punched 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.680 in the face and you sit down in something that 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.000 you wouldn't have picked, but it's. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.280 Just there, and he sat down in it. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.360 And what I want you to understand, the denial is 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.400 already in motion. It started with a little bit of 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:10.320 distance and then he sat down. We live in North 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.160 Carolina now, and I didn't see the ocean till I 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.719 was twenty five. I was born and raised in Minnesota, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.520 and I had all these images in my head of 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.320 what the ocean's going to be like, in the surf 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.280 and the oh. And then I went there and I 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.880 hate it. I hate the ocean. I hate all of it. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.240 Oh my soul. They paint this picture of it's going 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.000 to be amazing, and you go out there and you 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.040 bak and you just lay there and you have dirt 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.880 all over it and you feel filthy. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:37.800 Gosh. I hated it. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.520 And then when the kids are little, you got to 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:41.080 take all. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.599 This stuff out there. Oh painful. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.360 And then the kids are out playing in the water 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.520 and the waves are coming in, but the waves come 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.040 in a little bit of an angle. They don't come 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.760 straight into the shore. So they'll go out and they'll 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.719 play in it, and then the waves will push them 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.640 up shore just a little bit. And then they go 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.200 back out and play and having their fun in the 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.240 boogie born and the surface pushing in and the waves 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.360 are just pushes them up shore just a little bit 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.600 of distance, and then they go back. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.120 You're just having a grand old time. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:24.480 Twenty thirty forty minutes, and now they're way upshore and 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.560 they look up and they go, how did I get. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:28.040 Here? 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.520 No one of these movements is significant, but when you 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.319 add them all together, it creates a significant distance from 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.320 where you started. And what I want you to understand, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:45.120 denial is a drift, because the drift wants to push 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.000 you away from the purposes of God. It is so subtle, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.680 it's so slippery, and you're just out there having fun. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.800 You don't even recognize how far you're drifting away. So 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.800 when the kids were really little, I would take one 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.160 of the orange tents from elevation and I would put 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.760 it right on the shore one because I didn't want 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.839 to bake in the sun is horrible. But what I 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.160 told the kids is every time you play and you're 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:16.320 gonna get pushed. The world wants to push you away 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:21.520 from the purposes of God. All you do, Oh there's 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.200 my dad. Take one step over, and now I'm in alignment. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.240 But what happens with the drift of denial is some 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.920 of you have drifted so far because you don't realize 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.400 you've drifted often until you go, how did I get here? 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.920 And now that little bit of distance is a massive 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.040 mile of shame. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.199 And the enemy wants to drown you here because you don't. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.400 Feel like there's any way I could ever get back 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:48.360 to there. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.400 That's what denial wants you. But it's a drift. It 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.360 starts as just a little bit of distance. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.719 Holy Spirits, show us where we've allowed a little bit 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.040 of distance, a little bit of distance in our relationships, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.360 a little bit of our distance in our relationship with 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.120 you and others and meaningful relationships. And he says, he 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.760 sat down. I wonder what did you sit down in? 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.720 Holy Spirit, show us where we sat down in situations 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:16.920 we would have normally avoided. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.240 Where did you sit down? 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.640 Why did you sit down in that because you were 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:27.160 cold and it was a warm body. Why did you 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.920 sit down in that? Not because you wanted it. You 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.760 were led to it, or you were lied about it. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.120 Maybe it was fun or it was familiar. As the 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.320 story will unfold with Peter, you'll see him go back 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.880 to the very fishing ship that he said he was 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.280 going to leave to follow Jesus. Why would he go 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.320 back to it because it was familiar? Some of you 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.600 sat back down in it. God called you out of it, 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.800 but you went to it because you were so discouraged. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.120 You went back to what was familiar. What did you 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.559 sit down in and why did you sit down in it? 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.040 And as we look at the story of Peter unfold, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.160 you already see the denials in motion, a little bit 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:05.679 of distance. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.680 And then he sat down. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.240 And then Matthew Chapter twenty six, verse sixty nine, it says, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.560 now Peter sat outside. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:11.880 In the courtyard. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.600 A servant girl came to him, saying, you also were 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.560 with Jesus of Galilee, weren't you? She comes up, and 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:20.960 she asked Peter a question. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:22.760 Don't you know him? 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.600 Don't you you're one of his guys. You're from Galilee, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.560 aren't you? In verse seventy. But he denied it before them, saying, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.000 I don't know what you're saying. Here's what he did. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:39.080 He deflected, girl, you crazy. You'll know what you're talking 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.360 about is somebody in your life who loves God is 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.720 trying to get you back into alignment, but you are 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:50.240 deflecting and blaming them. You see what happens when somebody 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.520 tries to call you out of the slippery slope of denial. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.800 It's this drift that gets in motion and somebody comes 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:56.680 to you with a question. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.880 It says, hey, weren't you don't you go to elevation? 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:00.240 Oh? 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:01.680 You crazy? Arms you're talking about? 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.560 You see how he's gaslighting her because the shame is 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.960 starting to seep up inside of him. That's a projection 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.840 of the shame that he's carrying because he's unaware of 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.120 the distance that has been created between him and Jesus. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.240 And at nine pm, I will never deny you. It's 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.640 about two am. Now look how much distance has been 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.200 driven there. And then the story continues, and when he 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.880 had gone out to the gateway, another girl saw him 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.520 and said to those who were there, this fellow also 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.400 was with Jesus of Nazareth. So what you see now 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.840 is that it's not just a girl asking Peter a question. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.440 It's a girl making a statement to the crowd. Hey, yo, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.000 guys in the crowd, that guy was with Jesus. You 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.560 see how the enemy is increasing the size of the waves, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.320 trying to push you away. You see the attack of 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.440 the enemy, trying to steal your purpose, just one wave 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.960 at a time. This has been in motion. This is happening. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.160 And how does Peter respond to this? But he says 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.720 he denied it with an oath, I promise you on 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:11.920 the name of Jesus. I don't know Jesus. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.680 He's now defending it with an oath. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.880 Wow. Wow, the first time he was just deflecting. Are 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.040 you aware of your drifts? 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:23.840 Are you aware of when you. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.040 Start deflecting things that God's trying to bring into your life? 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.400 And now you start. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.920 Defending your things with an oath on my mama's grave. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.120 So a serving girl turns to the crowd. Isn't it 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.160 funny how we're so easily swayed by the crowd. We 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:51.560 love the applause, but then when the criticism comes, the 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.440 crowd is very fickle. But what you see is the 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.720 start of a servant girl asking him a question. Now 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.520 it's another girl talking to the crowd. And here's the 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.560 third time a little later those who stood by, This 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:03.440 is gonna be at. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.400 Like five thirty in the morning. You see. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.640 He sat down at the fire at two and now 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.800 the third denials at about five thirty or six m 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.639 because that's when the sun comes up, and that's when. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:14.280 The rooster crows. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.560 And a little later of those who stood by came 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.320 up and said to Peter, Now, this is the crowd 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.840 that are all murmuring with each other like that guy, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.679 oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And Peter's trying to escape it. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.359 He's just trying to find a safe place to stay warm. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.600 He should have gotten out of the courtyard a little there. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.160 Those who stood by came up and said to Peter, 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.879 surely you were one of them for your speech, but 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:44.680 trays you see, you're from Galilee, that's up north. We're 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.480 in Jerusalem here in the south. Now. I was raised 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.240 in Minnesota once upon this time, if you would have 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.440 heard me talk, I would have said things like, oh yeah, sure, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.080 don't you know, yeah yeah, go out and about oh 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.320 yeah you bet y'ah yeah yeah sure sure, uh huh. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.879 And when I'm moved to the South, I went to 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:03.639 a grocery store and ask a woman where. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.280 Do I buy the pop. 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:10.840 And this woman looked at me. She's like, boy, you 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.480 ain't from around here, are you. I said, no, ma'am. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:16.879 She says, do you know do you know what we 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:17.960 call you Northerners? 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.120 I said no. She goes, we call you Yankees? 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:23.959 And then she says, do you know what we call 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:29.040 you yankees that move to the south, Those darn Yankees. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:38.120 That's because shame was rising as the pressure was mounting, 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.800 and something's leaking out of Peter. That's betraying who he 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.520 really wants to be, And it says verse seventy four. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.240 Then he began to say, those darn Yankees. He began 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:55.560 to curse and swear. The first denial was a deflection, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.280 The second one was a defense. Now the third one 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:04.960 is a disgust, he said, disgust in himself, he says. 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:06.679 Then he began to curse and swear. I don't know 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:07.160 the man. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:13.320 And immediately the rooster crowed for seventy five, and Peter 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.720 remembered the words that Jesus said said to him, it 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:16.880 was only nine hours earlier. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.399 How quickly we forget? Just nine hours? 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.640 He forgot what Jesus said to him, but he remembered 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.840 the words before the rooster crows, you will deny me 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:26.800 three times. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.280 So he went out and he wept bitterly. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.000 I think he sat down at this point and said, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.840 how did I get. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:38.119 You? 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.400 See what Shane wants to do. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.639 He wants to get you so far away from purpose. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.240 You feel like the only way out is to do 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:50.679 what Judas did. And for some of you, your speech 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.080 betrays you. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.639 You kiss your mama with that mouth. You're acting like 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:56.600 you don't belong. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.440 To Jesus, because here's the reality. You'll drift far enough 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.840