WEBVTT - Come To Your Senses (Tim Somers) 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:05.280 As you can tell, I am not Pastor Stephen. I'm 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:12.120 a little taller. If we haven't had the privilege of meeting, 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.640 my name is Tim Summers, and I get the honor 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.320 and privilege of being the youth pastor here at elevation. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.000 I love saying that chunks because you can see like 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.600 thirty percent of the room timid like, Oh, here's this guy, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.760 the youth pastor. Look at that blonde hair. Is he 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:40.159 forcing it? No, I've had it for years. Okay, but 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.640 I would be remiss if I didn't honor this house 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.000 and honor our pastors. How many of you have ever 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:50.200 heard the parable of the sewer? Anyone ever heard this? Right? 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.159 When the farmer throws the seed, he throws it on 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.880 like four different areas. Right, You've got the rocky place, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.080 the thorny place, the shallow place. But then there's that 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.840 good soil where that sea takes root and then it 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.280 multiplies one hundredfold. How many you know that you've got 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:10.520 a good soil church and a good soil pastor. Hey, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.320 you can find a leader anywhere. You can find a 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.119 leader anywhere. There's millions of leaders. But you know what's 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:24.200 incredible about our pastors? Is they are incredible stewards. Incredible stewards, 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.480 and so can we give it up for our pastors, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:31.759 Pastor Steven, Pastor Holly, the entire family, Grandma life Abby, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:37.120 we love you. I believe that this is the greatest 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.080 move of God in our generation. I wholeheartedly believe that. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.280 I say that without a doubt. Okay, so look at 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.560 your neighbor and say I believe that too. Even if 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.520 you don't, you're gonna say it. Even if you don't, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.480 you're gonna say it. You could take a seat. I 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.480 wanted to show you my family real quick because I 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.760 know a lot of you haven't been backed since COVID, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.200 so you don't even know who I am. And so 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.760 that's totally fine. I want you to put my beautiful 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.359 family out there real quick. Okay, let's look at this. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.120 You see the big the big man, No, not me, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:20.160 the other one. That's my fifteen year old son. Yeah. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.560 I know what you're thinking. Wow, he has a fifteen 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:28.680 year old son. He does not look that old, thank you. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.200 That's Brodie. And he is bigger than me. Like he's 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.160 not as tall as me, but he's got more muscle 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.400 mass than me. And so pray for me because my 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.560 ego has been shot for two years. And then you 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.919 see the one with the smoke face. That's Genesis, our 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.240 five year old. And imagine everyone's energy combined in this room. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:58.400 He has more than that and he's not saved. I'm serious, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.680 like Journey, I'm for real. Thank you God for you kids, volunteers. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:10.520 I'm just praying one day to get that text. And 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.720 then my littlest one, Laney Dior Klein. I tell you 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.440 his full name because it means small golden servant and 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:22.440 he's the only one with blonde hair. I didn't even 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.800 know it. I didn't even know that's what it meant, 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.800 but that's exactly what it means, small gold And so 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.600 that's my that's my little guy. And then my beautiful wife, Rebecca, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:39.360 and she really is so beautiful, and she she's our 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.040 online campus pastor. She she works here as well, so 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.720 we carry that mantle together. But you know what's really amazing. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.480 You know, she does a lot of cool stuff. She 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:55.280 really does. She's she's brilliant, she's bright, she's phenomenal. She 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.080 does she goes above and beyond. But just put that 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:03.560 picture up there real quick. Nice, there goes the most 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.840 incredible thing is how she has brought to life those 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:14.160 three boys right there, and she said, let's do it again. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:20.279 And so we're having our first girl in September. Are 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:26.279 you seriousss? I gotta go. I don't know how, but 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.000 it worked. I was like, Oh my goodness, it's just 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.839 gonna be boys. Just a bunch of deodorant and that's it. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.600 That's all we need. We got our first girl, and 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.680 she's due September fifteenth. And so people keep asking me, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.279 are you done? And I keep saying, we'll pray about it. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.200 So praying about it, we'll see what happens. We'll see 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.800 what happens. How many of you ready for the word? 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.480 All right, you're ready for the word. Good, You're ready, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.600 You're ready. I'm ready for the word. Really believe that 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:03.360 God wants to speak to you today, Acts twelve, Acts twelve. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.960 And if you brought your bibles, make sure you open 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.200 it up. If not, we were thinking about you all week. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.560 We were praying for you. We love you. We got 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.839 it prepared ready for you on the screens. Acts twelve, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.640 Verse one. This is what it says. It says it 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.080 was about this time the King Herod arrested some who 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:30.200 belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.200 the brother of John, put to death with the sword, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.960 and when he saw that this met with approval among 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.799 the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter. Also, they reminds 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.280 you something real quick, everyone. Most times the need of 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:50.839 approval for men proceeds bad intentions. We only two verses 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:57.839 in homies and we learning something. Okay. This happened during 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.400 the Festival of unlevin Brannon. After arresting it, he put 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.880 him in prison, handing him over to the garden by 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.960 four squads of four soldiers. If you know how to 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.360 do math four times four, it is And Herod intended 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.240 to bring him out for public trial after the passover. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.640 So Peter was kept in prison. But the church, everyone say, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.719 but the church, remember when Pastor preached on but God. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.120 I'll tell your neighbors, say, you gotta roll to play 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.680 in this too. You gotta roll to play in this too. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.599 But the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.200 And the night before Herod was to bring in the trial, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.960 Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two chains, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.960 and centuries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly, the Angel 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.000 of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.440 He struck Peter on the side and woke him up, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.640 and he said, quick, get up. Look at that. A light, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.960 an alarm clock, and a swift kick to the kidneys. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:07:00.320 That's how you wake up a teenager. The Bible's got everything. Okay, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.240 I saw it in the Bible, sweetheart, this is what 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.520 you're supposed to do. He said, quick, get up, and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.160 the chains fell off of Peter's wrist. Then the angel 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.000 said to him, put on your clothing sandals, and Peter 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.360 did so. Wrap your cloak around you and follow me, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.800 the angel told him, and Peter followed him out of 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.960 the prison. But he had no idea that what the 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.320 angel was doing was really happening. He thought he was 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.640 seeing a vision. Let me stop right there, because sometimes 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:34.200 you are free before you even know it. He was freed. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.800 He went through a prep season. He went through the journey. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.840 And some of you might be looking at the situation 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.000 that you're in right now and you're thinking, ah, God's 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.880 got me in a prep season. I'm here to remind 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.080 you he's also got you in a free season. You're 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.600 in a free season. So they passed the first of 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.600 second guards and came to the iron gate leading to 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.000 the city had opened for them by hisself, and they 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.240 went through it. And when they had walked the length 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.840 of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Then Peter 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.800 came to himself and said, now I know without a 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.280 doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.360 me from Herod's clutches and from everything the Jewish people 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.920 were hoping would happen verse twelve. When this had dawned 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.680 on him, he went to the house of Mary, the 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.160 mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.400 gathered and were praying. Peter knocked at the outer entrance, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.239 and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.280 and when she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.680 she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, Peter is 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:34.240 at the door last two verses. You're out of your mind, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.959 they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:45.120 they said it must be his angel. But Peter kept 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.280 on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:54.480 they were astonished. I've heard so many preachers preach on 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.800 that verse right there. Verse sixteen, and I'm not going 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.760 to do that today. I want to focus on verse eleven. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.280 This is what it says in verse eleven, Then Peter 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.280 came to himself. I love the New Living translation. It says, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:19.000 then Peter came to his senses. He came to his senses. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.600 If I were to title this, I would title it 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:31.560 come to your senses, Come to your senses, Come to 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.600 your senses. I was showing you my family earlier because 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.600 I really wanted to kind of set up this story here, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.079 and I wanted you to be able to see the 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.280 difference between my fifteen year old and my five year old. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.160 It's kind of self explanatory, but he is bigger than 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.600 most fifteen year olds. And here's the deal. I don't 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.200 know if you have boys, how many parents we have 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.080 in the house today. Okay, fantastic, you're going to relate 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.839 to this. If you have always you understand that wrestling 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:07.840 is an event in our in our home. Okay, it 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.680 always happens, but it has to be an event. It 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.200 has to be a big deal. So we move the 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.559 ottomans out of the way, we put pillows on everything, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.920 we lay down four blankets. I mean, it's a whole 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.160 ordeal even in fact, uh, Genesis had learned has learned 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:31.800 about Alexa, and he's like, Alexa play rock music and 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.840 literally it's like the rock music, you know what I mean, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.280 Like it's just like his theme song to come out 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:41.720 to wrestle. Now, here's the deal about Genesis. Genesis thinks 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:47.160 that he can be brody every single time. No, I'm serious, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.800 every time he thinks he can be brody. He's got 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:56.880 more confidence than Lebron. I don't know, I don't know. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.280 I don't think about that beforehand. But he he's got 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.000 a lot of confidence. Okay, he's very arrogant, but it's 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.760 cute right now. You know, like when does that grow? 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.320 When you grow out of that? I don't know, but 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.120 he's cute. And here's they He's got a lot of 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.000 comments and he thinks he could be brody every single time. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.000 And we have a rule in the house that if 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:20.960 you hurt Genesis, you then have to wrestle Dad. That's 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.680 just a rule. It's just a rule. Okay, just a rule. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.360 But they wrestle all the time. Well after every time 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.800 they wrestle, tell me if I'm lying. After every time 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:36.319 and the wrestle Brody never lets him win ever. I mean, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.680 it doesn't matter. He will always take the win. Okay, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.640 it's okay. He's fifteen, right, he's going through his you know, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.120 hormones and egos and all that kind of stuff. He's 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.080 learning about pride. It's fine, but he would never let 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.760 him win. He ain't gonna let him get a win whatsoever. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.080 And and and one day my Genesis came up to me. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.839 He's like, Dad, Prunin never lets you win. He not 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.080 relaxing you. And I can never get a win Dad. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.840 And I'm like, I'm like teaching my son. I'm like, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:17.880 look he's got long hair pull it. I'm like, look 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.760 he's so proud of his leg. Hair pull it. You 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.800 do whatever you gotta do to win. I'm not kidding 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.719 you do I do this, baby, I swear I do. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.800 I'm like, on this guy's side, I just want him 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.280 to win, you know. But I like when they wrestle 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.520 because it toughens him up. Okay, it toughens him up. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.760 It's it's fine, uh to me. And and and in 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:42.120 one day Genesis comes down his dad Brody hurt my elbow, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:45.600 and I went, well, we know we have a rule 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:51.920 for that. Don't we. He goes, yeah, what's the rule 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.360 Dad that I guess it's time for me to wrestle Brody. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:13:03.800 He's like, Browdy, you gotta wrestle Dad. Brody comes down, 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.040 you know, like he's like, all right, let's do this. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:12.720 You know, he's like, I've been waiting for this. I'm like, yo, okay. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.360 Twenty seconds later had him tapping out. Now I'm not 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.600 here to boast about any of that. I'm thirty two, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.000 he's fifteen. You know. It's not like he's bigger than 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.200 me or anything like that. We'll move on past that. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.600 But it was funny because afterwards it kind of hit 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.439 his pride a little bit. You know what I'm saying, 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.120 like hit his pride. He like, I look tall, but 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.079 I'm look scrawny. Okay, I know I'm lanky, all right. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:42.320 I know I'm like KD okay, And I get it. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.760 I get it, and it's and it's fine. But you see, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.600 Brody underestimates this thing. And I like to call it 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.800 the sixth sense. It's that dad's strength, you know what 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.920 I'm saying, Like, when you become a dad, it's like, yeah, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:01.880 nothing can stop me. Like watch boy, Well, I don't care. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.320 Twenty seconds, I have your boom. How do you like that? 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.920 He's like, Dad, I got it. Okay, okay, I'm tapping. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.200 I'm tapping. I said, no, you're not. You're talking. You 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.720 ain't tapping. Tapping down, I tapping. And I looked at 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.920 him and and something that Brody always says to Genesis. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:26.080 It's like, hey, Bud, you can't win them all. So man, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.640 I was ready. You thought that getting him the top 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.240 out was a big deal for me. I was like, no, hey, Brody. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:36.080 He's like what Dad. He wasn't crying, but he's like, yeah, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.240 was up. I said, hey, you can't win them all, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:44.840 big dog. I thought that was a great moment. And 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:51.920 then Genesis comes up. He's like, hey, Brody, I guess 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:57.120 you just gotta roll with the punches. I was like, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:03.040 what row with the Like? I thought to myself, man, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.320 that's so true. You never know what life's gonna hand you, right, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.040 and sometimes you just got to learn how to roll 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.080 with the punches. Have you ever heard this phrase before? 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.480 Your parents? Ever tell you this? But like, yeah, I 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.440 didn't make the team, Like, yeah, man, I know, just 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.840 gotta roll with the punches, right, You just gotta roll 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:26.840 with the punches. Have you ever been in a season, Well, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.920 you feel like all you're doing is rolling with the punches. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.080 I'm like, I'm done getting punched. I'm not floyme Weather, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.000 i ain't illt for this, you know what I'm saying? Right, 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.120 Or maybe you feel like you're in the season that 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.600 you just can never get a win at all. You 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.440 feel like Genesis, I just can't get a win? Can 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:55.560 I just get a win today? I feel for my 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.800 guy Peter in this passage, in fact, in every passage 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.120 when I read about Peter, Peter is I mean he 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.920 is learning something every single time. Like literally the passages 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.680 are littered with teaching moments. Right, You've got him learning 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.680 how to walk on water from the place of drowning. Right, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:24.240 he denies Christ not once, not twice, but three times. Right, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.800 and now in this passage you see him seized, you 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.840 see him arrested, You see his friend James die, you 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.160 see him put it be put into prison, you see 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.160 him guarded by sixteen soldiers, and now you see him 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:39.960 about to be put on trial. This is a big 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.960 This is a this is a big deal. And you're saying, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.560 how does this relate to me, Well, I don't know. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:49.920 Maybe you're going through your second divorce. Maybe for you, 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.320 you're dealing with this addiction for the last ten years 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.240 that you thought you would never still be dealing with. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.320 Maybe you're walking in every Friday and you'll have been 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.520 paycheck to paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, and you thought, man, 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.439 I thought this was gonna be over. When when are 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.080 we When are we gonna get to the other side? 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.280 When is it gonna get better? Have you ever been 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.520 there before? Have you ever asked questions like this, like, God, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.040 what's happening? I feel like I can't win at all? 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.280 And I'm just rolling with the punches and I'm looking 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.479 at Peter and I'm like, man, there's some things that 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.200 we can learn from Peter. Because Peter had a lot 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.960 of teaching moments. He went through a lot of stuff. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.000 But you know what, you know how good this man 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.760 was at rolling with the punches. This is a this 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.280 is a this is a big deal. Because Peter's got doubts, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.160 he's got questions, he's got confusion. Have you ever had doubts? 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.160 Have you ever had questions? Have you ever been confused? 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.840 But Peter's so good at rolling with the punches. So 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.600 how do I begin to roll with the punches? Do 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:04.679 I have what it takes? Can I go through this? Again? 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.080 Is what I need? Actually inside me? Here's what I 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:12.399 believe that Verse five. Everyone'll say five. Verse five is 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:17.480 a great starting point and it would be considered my 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.760 first point. Okay, if you want to be able to 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.200 roll with the punches, you have to remember the church. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.720 Remember the church. Verse five. So Peter was kept in prison, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.280 but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:38.520 This is important because he's he's intensely seeking after God's 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.520 the last time that you intensely sought after God? Was 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.800 it two minutes ago? Or did you miss it? When's 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:51.080 the last time that you intensely sought after God? This 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.119 is why I got into youth ministry, and this is 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.120 why I love youth ministry because we are teaching teenagers 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:02.320 how to earnestly seek after God at a young age, right, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.960 so that when life goes and punches, they can go 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.879 back to the positive influences, the positive experiences that have 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:12.800 happened in their life and go, you know what, I'm 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.639 prepared for this. I'm ready for this. So we're creating 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.320 those moments and shameless plug right here for real, Like, 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.560 if your kid is not going to youth X, what 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.479 are you doing? Right? Like youth X this is our 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.600 summer camp. If you don't know anything about a July 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.000 thirteenth through the fifteenth, it's two hundred dollars. But we 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.480 got financial aid available and literally this entire room we 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:48.239 will have two thousand teenagers earnestly seeking after God. So 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.320 go to youth X twenty two our common register. But 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.840 here's the deal. For real, I will I will have 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.040 parents come up to me and they're like, well, I'm 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.320 gonna let my kid decide if they want to go. 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.640 And I'm like, okay, would you let your kid walk 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:12.000 in the highway with the blindfold on? No? So why 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.800 do we keep our kids till eighteen but we stop 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:22.520 parenting them at fifteen? Why do we do this? Now? Look? Look, look, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.879 I'm fairly new at the parenting thing, so so I 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.960 want you to understand, like I'm learning even right now 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.600 on how to help them make their decisions right. But 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:33.919 here's what I'm gonna let you know. I'm gonna make 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.359 it easy for you. Just say it's my fault, Just 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.480 say it's my fault. Well, youth pastor Tim told me 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.639 to sign you up for camp. He's your youth pastor, 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:47.159 he's my youth pastor, So I gotta do it. Just 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:51.000 do it. We're on the same team. Let's rocket take 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.400 them over, tag team. We know how to do this. 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.399 We make it so hard, right, I think it's I 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.760 think it's a maz A couple thousand teenagers will earnestly 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.480 seek God and we'll be able to watch it right 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.600 there in July, and and and and and you know 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.119 what's wild? Why do we do it because it's important? 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.560 Why Why do we do it because it's vital? Why 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.680 do we do it? Because the church is the bride 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.639 of Christ. And if you say you love Jesus, you 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:28.560 can't hate the church. The church is the community. Everyone 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:33.280 say we are the church. Ultimately, my shameless pup plug 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.200 is reminding you that you have to remember the church. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.080 The truth of the matter is we will forget the 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.119 importance of the church and try to use it like 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:46.040 jewelry and not like oxygen, only just to enhance our life, 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.199 when the reality is that the Church was meant to 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:53.560 be life. It was meant to be life. Man can 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:57.359 I be honest with you. For some of you, church 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.520 used to be a lifestyle and then the punch of 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:06.120 COVID can and you've ventured your way out of serving, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.480 You've walked your way out of groups, and you roll 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.280 yourself out of bed maybe one time a month instead 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:18.359 of four times in a month. Let me tell you something. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:23.399 If we forget the power of the church, woo. You 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.760 think we in trouble now, oh we're gonna be a 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:31.159 big trouble. Then this is this is important because we 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.600 gotta be careful. That's the opposite of earnestly seeking after God. 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:37.040 And you can't get upset with me because this is 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.080 what I believe. You know what I mean, like like 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.080 look like like like if you're not vocal about it 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:49.720 and it ain't visible, then it ain't a value. Then 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.760 it ain't a value. You're saying our kids, Yeah, church 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.600 is a value. Well, mam, why we only go once 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:02.240 every six weeks? I'm just saying, right, And here's the deal. 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:07.159 I get it. I understand. Like if I said, Joe, 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:08.919 you know you are on staff, I'm like, yeah. But 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:14.840 there's sometimes where Epham just feels like, yes, this is 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:18.000 what I want to be today, right, And I lived 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:22.560 ten minutes away, and I'm like, well, maybe right. I'm 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:24.119 not here to shame you. I'm here to let you 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:29.679 know that. Look, I'm very new at this trying to 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.280 make decisions where he's trying to make help your teenagers 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.520 make decisions for them. But what you've got to understand 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:38.640 is you cannot forget the power of the church. That's 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.880 why it says remember the church. Because when you look 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.479 at verse twelve, after Peter gets out of prison, but 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:47.639 where's the first place that he goes? He goes to 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:51.280 Mary's house. It is said that the church was meeting 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:58.560 at Mary's house and it was midnight. That means it 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:02.320 was like eagre time or summer camp. You know, I 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:03.880 don't know if any he grews meet at midnight, I'd 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:09.000 be weird. Right, Like he remembered, he knew the church 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:10.840 was praying for me. And the first thing that he 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:15.520 does goes to the church. He had remembered the church, 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:18.720 which leads me to my second point. If you want 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:20.440 to roll with the punches, you got to remember the church. 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:24.960 And number two, you got to remember your humanity. So 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:27.720 if we all need the first point the church, we 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:33.880 all have the second point, our humanity, right, our humanity, 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.280 It says in verse seven, Suddenly an angel of the 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:39.119 Lord appeared in a light shone in the cell, and 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:41.000 he struck Peter on the side and woke him up, quick, 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:43.280 get up, and the chains fell off of his wrist. 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.600 What would you be thinking in that moment? That's wild? Right? 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:50.280 Then the angel said to him, put on your clothing sandals, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:52.080 and Peter did so, wrap your cloak around you and 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:54.679 follow me. And Peter followed him out of the prison. 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:58.720 That's crazy, right, I'd have some questions. But he had 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.880 no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening. See, 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:05.480 he's confused. Then it goes on to say he thought 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:09.280 he was seeing a vision. Nope, wasn't a vision. He's confused, 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:12.080 he's got some doubt. They passed the first and second 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:13.600 guards and came to the iron gate leading to the 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:22.600 city open for them by itself myself. He's confused, he's wondering, 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.680 how is this all happening? And when they had walked 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:30.040 the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Right, 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.560 do you have some questions at this point if you 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:36.880