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page number three hundred and forty nine the comforter has come

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page number three hundred and forty nine

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Oh, spread the tidings round, where ev-

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King

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Oh, spread the tidings round

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Thanks for watching everybody.

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The apology please opens up in order for.

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Let's keep in prayer for those who are traveling.

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We just pray for all those that are also still sick.

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Let's just say, amen.

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Amen.

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All right, if you want to take your hymnals,

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we're going to turn to page number 121.

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Page number 121, Like a River Glorious.

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Make a river

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God's

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shade

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done

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Perfect peace and re-

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everybody at this time we will have our announcements.

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Good morning everyone. The verse of the week is Romans 8 verse 18. Romans 8 verse 18.

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For I reckon that the suffering of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the

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glory which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8 verse 18.

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All right, service times at 10 30 this morning, 3 30 this afternoon, 6 30 on Wednesday. So many times for yesterday at 12 30. And Sunday today will be at 1pm. We had two salvations yesterday bringing up our June up to 11, which for a total of the year is 97.

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So today is our last official soul winning time for the month.

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So come on, three.

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We just need three, right?

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But no, we're doing really good.

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So really glad for that.

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Coming up next month is the homeschool day that's here at the building at 11 a.m.

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So RSVP with Miss Kiley if you plan to attend and a few outside events

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next weekend, I believe

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multiple members are going out to Yakima for their anniversary weekend

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Then on I believe it's the 24th. Pastor Anderson is preaching at Yakima. So I think

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I think a few people might be traveling out there for that weekend as well.

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Let's see here.

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I'm trying to think if there was any other...

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I think those are the kind of local.

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I mean, there's here and then, you know, Yakima is the closest other church, sister church.

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So those are coming up.

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Starting Wednesday for July and August, we're having a summer soul awareness challenge,

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soul awareness challenge, which is to invite 25 people outside of soul winning time for

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over two months.

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So it's.

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It's not a high intense, it's not one day, it's not a half an hour walk with my wife.

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She just invites everyone, which is great.

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Every couple days, you meet, you run into, you cross paths with, you work with, family,

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household, whoever, over two months.

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Can you invite 25 people to church?

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And obviously the main goal is to preach the gospel, but the only push is, can you just invite them to church?

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So, it's a challenge that Miss Kylie came up with, so we're going to push it forward, and it's probably a real good thing to remind us.

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And I know me, I'm a very...

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machine-like mind to where I'm like,

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it is soul-winning time, it is eating time,

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why are these crossed, you know,

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but my wife invited multiple people at a restaurant

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and got one person saved.

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And I'm just thinking like, where is the food?

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Like, she's using the time way better than me.

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I'm just saying they're being miserable and hungry, you know,

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so it's just a good thing.

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That's why it's called the Soul Awareness Challenge.

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So...

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That's coming up.

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Obviously, the Thompsons are traveling to Boise this week.

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I know Remy is, maybe both of them are traveling next week

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to for Yakima's anniversary.

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So quite a bit of traveling there,

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keep them in prayer for their travels.

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So, and then prizes are still coming up.

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And I think last Wednesday,

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there weren't many men, fathers.

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If you haven't received the Father's Day gift, they came in a day late. They're on the front table. They're little keychain knives

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kind of convenient kind of small

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Pretty good for opening boxes and stuff. So they are out there

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Tell Pastor Thompson, thank you. But if you haven't got one, they are still out there for you

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So I know every wife will have them by the end of the day. So but

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Those are out there for you kids. You remember verse

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right now is Matthew 19 verse 14, Matthew 19 verse 14,

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but Jesus said, suffered little children,

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forbid them not to come unto me,

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for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

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If you can memorize that verse,

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when Miss Kylie comes here,

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you can receive a piece of candy.

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Rules are all the same, tithing is down below.

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And then let's see here.

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I think it's.

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Just Karina, but not here.

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So we'll have to wait off for Miss Karina.

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I think Elijah we sung last week.

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So with that, if you have any other prayer requests,

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please let the Thompson's know,

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or probably next week as well, let me know.

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We'll get them and put it into the bulletin.

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But with that, let's turn to...

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If you want to take your Psalm books, turn to Psalm number 127.

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Psalm number 127.

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Psalm 127.

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Accept the law.

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except the law.

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way

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lay to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep

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Low children are and heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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So our children of the youth Happy is the man that hath his quiz

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They shall not be ashamed, But they shall speak with the enemy.

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The gay

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and sing everybody a brother.

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Paul, would you please pray for the offering?

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Father, thank you so much for this time.

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It is always a reward.

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Not only do you provide enough for us to make it by, to be true to you, but Lord, even if

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we come up to holidays, this is a reward you gave us.

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He states, let us remember that we have enough to enjoy the time that we have.

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Jesus, may you have a good night.

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everybody welcome to sure foundation Baptist Church if you could take your

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Bibles and turn to John chapter 21 John chapter 21 is our text this morning and

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as always here at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching John

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chapter 21 the Bible reads

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After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberius and on this wise

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He showed himself

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there were together Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus and

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Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and two other of his disciples

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Simon Peter sayeth unto them I go a fishing

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They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth and entered into a ship immediately,

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and that night they caught nothing. But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore,

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but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Children,

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have ye any meat? They answered him, No.

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And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.

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They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore,

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that disciple whom Jesus loved, saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter

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Heard that it was the Lord, He girt His fisher's coat unto Him, for He was naked, and did cast

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Himself into the sea. And the other disciples came in a little ship, for they were not far from Lamb,

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but as it were two hundred cubits, dragging the net with fishes.

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As soon then as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals there and fish laid thereon and bread.

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Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.

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Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of great fishes in 153.

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And for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

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Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.

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And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou?

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knowing that it was the Lord.

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Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

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This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples.

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After that, he was risen from the dead.

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So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter,

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Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?

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He saith unto him, Ye Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.

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He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

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He saith to him again the second time,

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Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?

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He saith unto him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.

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He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

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He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?

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Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time love is thou me and he said unto him Lord

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Thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee Jesus saith unto him feed my sheep

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Verily verily I say unto thee when thou was young thou girdest thyself and walkest with her thou wouldest

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But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee,

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and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he

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should glorify God, and when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

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Then Peter turning about seeeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following which also leaned on his breast at supper and said

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Lord, which is he that betrayed thee Peter seeing him sayeth to Jesus Lord and what shall this man do?

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Jesus saith unto him if I will that he tarried till I come what is that to thee follow thou me

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Then went the saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die.

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Yet Jesus said unto him, he shall not die.

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But if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

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This is the disciple which testified that these things and wrote these things and we know that

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his testimony is true and there are also many other things which Jesus did the which if they

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should be written everyone I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books

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that should be written amen. Brother Daniel could you pray for the preaching?

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Amen.

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Thank you for coming out.

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So this chapter really kind of covers what I found very interesting is essentially the

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set off of Peter becoming kind of the recognized leader of not just local but the early Christians

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kind of looked to Peter for guidance and leadership.

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What I want to really cover today is what an unlikely person Peter was to lead the Christians.

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Because here it is the chapter starts it says in verse 2 and says there were came together Simon Peter and Thomas and didimus and

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Nathaniel and Cain and the Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and two other disciples and Simon Peter said unto them

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I go a fishing now. Here's the thing is a lot of times we think in the modern time

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Going fishing just means like dude. I'm taking a break. I'm gonna take the day off. I'm gonna go enjoy my Saturday

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I'm gonna recharge

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That's not what this is saying.

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And we know that because they went out

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and they started in the day, caught nothing

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throughout the night, and into the morning is where

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Jesus came and approached them. Why were they out

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there all night? To enjoy themselves? No,

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because, believe it or not, at a certain point in this life,

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just because you went and did your 40 hours a week

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didn't mean you got paid.

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If this is your employment, this is what you're doing.

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You didn't catch anything. You know what you earned?

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Nothing.

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So they weren't going to leave until they caught something because this was not a pressure cruise.

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This was their employment. And why does this matter?

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This is right after Christ is buried and Christ died.

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Who he's like, I mean at this time, I mean all the disciples are basically together.

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And Peter who, you know, the son of thunder, the person who said,

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I would go anywhere with you, Lord.

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Well, his leader's gone.

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He's defeated.

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She's like, I guess that was interesting three and a half years or however long you think Jesus' ministry was.

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He says, you know, Christ found me a fisherman, now the ministry's gone, guess I'll go back fishing.

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And a couple of the other disciples were like, we don't know what to do and I guess we'll follow you.

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He led them out of the ministry.

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What's very interesting is he literally went the opposite.

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Instead of going through and preaching and waiting for Christ to come and resurrect,

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he literally was like, I guess that's over.

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I mean he forsook the Lord at the cross.

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He denied him three times.

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He wept and went away and he said, whatever I was supposed to do, I guess I failed.

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I guess I'll go back to work.

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I'll go work my normal life.

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But that's not what Jesus had for him.

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What's very interesting is we can tell through this story,

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because I want to go through kind of the minister, or the discipleship of Peter today.

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Because what's interesting is I think he can be a symbol of what we can see.

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Because sometimes don't we feel that we failed? Don't we feel that we didn't do all we could?

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Don't we feel that sometimes that, man, I guess I'm just done?

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I'm not serving Christ. Like I must have failed. This isn't working out. I go away.

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What we have here in John 21 is basically Jesus saying, no, you've already accepted me.

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I'm still the Lord of your life and you need to serve me.

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And if we go through the story at the very top, it just is literally, they go out of fishing,

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and then verse 5 says, and Jesus said unto them, Children, have ye any meat?

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They answered, No. And he said unto them, Cast your net on the right side of the ship,

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and they shall fill it. And they cast it thereof, and now they were not able to draw it for the

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multitude of fishes. So understand, they already went out fishing, they're out there day and night,

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they're like, man, we got to work until we get paid. We can't just be out here. We can't go back

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empty handed. We've already failed in ministry. We're

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failing on our job, what can we do?

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And this person they didn't know at the time

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told them to do this and therefore the disciples,

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they knew it was, Peter was like, oh, it's Christ.

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Not only did the last time I looked at him,

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I looked him in his eyes as I denied him

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and he ran away weeping as it says in certain of the gospels,

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now he's found him not at work.

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Now he's working, but he's not doing the work

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he wanted him to do.

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He's being shamed again, so much so that he doesn't know what to do, so he throws himself off the boat and just swims into shore to throw himself at the Lord.

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I mean, your boss comes to check on you, you're not doing work, he didn't know what else to do.

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Now everyone else brought the boat in and then he helped bring the fishes in if you read the story through here.

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But the important part is as soon as he got to the land, they saw fire, this is verse 9,

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and they saw the fire on the coals and the fishes there and lit a weight with bread. They didn't need the fishes.

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Crileyler, it's like look, you think you're gonna succeed life here. There, your net's full. Is your life good?

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You went off and you focus on other things and hey, you got all the wealth. Is your life fulfilled?

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But he says here, he's already forfeited to stay in them.

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And Jesus said to them, bring the fishes of which you've now

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caught.

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And the nets were full and broken.

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But after they brought it in, verse 9 says,

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Jesus said unto them, come and dine.

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And none of the disciples dared ask,

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who thou art, knowing that it was the Lord.

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Now, if you were a fisherman, this

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should have been a great day.

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They should have been celebrating.

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Like, oh yeah, dude, the nets didn't even break.

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We have so much, all the worldly wealth.

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But they kind of seem ashamed here, because no one talked.

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Because they knew they weren't doing what they were supposed

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to be doing.

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And Jesus then cameeth, and taketh bread, and giveth thanks, and the fish like ways.

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This is now the third time Jesus showed himself unto disciples, after that he had risen from the dead.

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So when they had died, Jesus said unto Simon Peter, son of Jonah, Lovest thou me more than these?

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Now...

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Is that the fishes that he pulled out of the sea?

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Is that the disciples?

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I've heard people decide.

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But I think it's kind of like, look, do you love these fishes?

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I just gave you a net bigger than you could ever get.

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Do you love them more than me?

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You went back to them.

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You left getting my sheep to go get these fishes.

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Do you love them more than me?

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And he said, this is Peter said unto him,

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Ye Lord, thou knowest I love thee.

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He said unto him, feed my lambs.

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Now isn't it honestly, he's looking at a fisherman

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and he's telling him to feed my lambs.

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So obviously he wants him to stop being a fisher.

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He wants him to become a shepherd.

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Now, we all know a pastor, a shepherd, you know, we use the terms and all the patriarchs,

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they were herdsmen, they were shepherds.

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This is a symbolism.

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He doesn't actually want him to go and now make swine, you know, raise swine and lambs

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and you know, become a rancher.

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That's not what he's telling them.

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He's using the symbol.

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You need to leave, your fish is there, and you need to go feed my people.

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That's what I trained you to do.

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And he said unto him again, the second time,

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Simon, the son of Jonah, lovest thou me.

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He said unto him, Lord thou knowest I love thee.

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He said unto him, feed my sheep.

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And he said unto him the third time,

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the son of Jonah, lovest thou me.

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Peter was grieved because he had said unto him

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a third time, lovest thou me.

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Now understand one thing that's very interesting

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that we will get as we go through the story of Peter.

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He was kind of an emotional, like.

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He was a son of thunder.

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He got, I don't want to say like emotional, but he'd get fired up.

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He'd get fired.

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He made these claims.

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He didn't like to be proud of that.

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He would just say, I'll die for you.

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I'll do this.

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So now he's publicly being saying, third time, basically rebuked,

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do you love me?

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And he was grieved.

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He'd already thrown himself on the shore and swam to him.

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He's like, what more can I do?

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I'm showing you that I love you right now.

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And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things,

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and thou knowest that I love thee.

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And Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

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Verily, verily, I said unto thee, when thou was young,

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thou was goodest thyself up, and walked with her,

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thou wouldest.

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But when thou was old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,

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and another shall gird thee, and carry thee

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wherever thou wouldest not.

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This spake he signifying by what death he should glorify God and when he had spoken this he said unto him follow

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me

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Understand the time of the sermon is Peter follow me that is the time of the sermon and understand. What is Jesus telling him now?

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They does say this and a lot of people say this is why they believe Peter was crucified

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You know, he was girded up picked up his arms are spread

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And that's your primary application.

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That's great.

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Another secondary interpretation is this.

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When you are young, you kind of do whatever you want.

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Hey, you want to go back to fish and you do that.

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Hey, when you become a man, when you get older, guess what?

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You're going to have to follow something.

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And what he is literally, I think what he is telling him is,

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hey, you need to.

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When thou shalt hold, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee."

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They'll guide you.

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Hey, if we want to follow Christ, understand, we have to die daily, and we gotta have to

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let Christ lead.

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Christ wants us to do something, that's what he wants us to do.

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And here's the thing is, it's a story of how we die.

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We should die in Christ.

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Paul goes into more detail about this.

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And I said, if this is a secondary application of that verse to you, fine.

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But I believe he's literally saying, hey, you want to grow up,

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you're going to need to follow me, and I'm going to lead you,

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and it's going to lead you to death.

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And then he said, follow me.

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He just said, hey, you love their wealth, your fishes,

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you love all that, or do you love me?

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And he's literally saying, you're

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going to follow me to your death.

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And then he asks, follow me.

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And this is one of the interesting things

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I think people have.

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The worldly person just thinks following Christ is like,

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oh, that's nice.

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It's all niceness.

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It's all this and that.

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Hey, should be until you die.

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Now here's the thing is, can't be constant.

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Peter fell away.

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And Christ is calling him back.

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So understand this, that Peter then turned, seeing the disciples whom Jesus loved following,

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which was leaning on the rest of the suburb and said, Lord, which is he that betrayed

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thee?

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And Peter seeing him that said to Jesus, Lord, what shall this man do?

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And Jesus said to him, If thou wilt tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

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Follow thou me.

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So understand this, Peter, like, Jesus is like, hey, do you love me?

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He's like, yes, and he says yes three times.

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Then he's like, okay, follow me.

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And he's like, you're gonna follow me to death though.

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Do you love me?

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And he's like, well, what about the guy, what about Judas?

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Because I don't think Judas is dead yet.

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What about that guy?

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I gotta follow you to death? What about that guy?

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And then he's like, hey, the guy who's like, you know, you gave a hug to, like, what about him?

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And Jesus is like...

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What difference does it make?

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I asked you if you loved me.

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If I have him do anything, I have him live forever and I give him all the wealth, why

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does that bother your relationship with me?

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And then it says, follow thou me.

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This is the setting point to Peter becoming a leader.

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And you're like, what?

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He's like almost trying to run away.

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You're like, it's interesting, that's kind of how Moses was.

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Go back and read Exodus.

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And Moses was like, God comes through the fire and bush,

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and he's like, hey, why don't you find something better?

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He's like, no, I have you.

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I don't really talk.

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He's like, I'll get you an interpreter.

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It's interesting.

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Because a lot of times I think when we think of a leader we think or someone's perfect or who God would use

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We think of like man. They are just a step above everyone else. They are just someone they're just like absolutely flawless

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They can work through everything. They're just tougher than anyone

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It's like Jesus is calling a guy who ran away from the ministry is like no you're gonna follow me

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And I'm what hey, I don't want to lie to you

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You're gonna follow me to your death

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Follow me

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No, it doesn't matter.

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Don't look at other people.

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So today I want to really go down through Peter, the calling of Peter.

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Because here's the thing is, this is what set him off to be a leader of people.

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and he's an unlikely character, I think, when we really follow his story, but I think it's

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symbolic to show that, look, no matter where you are in your life, no matter how much you think you

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messed up, no matter if you think you're great or not, God could use you because, my goodness,

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he used Peter. And that is what I really want to focus on. So if you go to Matthew, we're going to

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be in Matthew for the rest of the sermon, but Matthew started in chapter four, starting in chapter four.

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You know, the beginning of Matthew, we go through certain stories, but here in chapter 4,

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it's basically right after John was thrown in prison, John the Baptist was thrown in prison,

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in verse 17 it says, from the time Jesus began to preach and say, repent for the kingdom of heaven

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is at hand. So right after John is thrown in prison and there's no other real, you know,

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ministry outside of Jesus, Jesus basically starts out and letting people know the kingdom has come.

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This is the start of his ministry.

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Sorry, ministry.

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And verse 18, and right after that it says,

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And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers,

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Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother,

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casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.

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Now, right before he became the leader, this is what he went back to,

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but isn't it interesting, right when Jesus basically started his earthly ministry,

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Who was his first comrade, at least in the Italian Matthew?

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It was Peter and his brother. It's interesting, he said,

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um, verse 19, he said unto them,

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follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

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And straightway they left their nets and followed him.

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So what's interesting about Peter is the time, like, I mean, this guy comes up to you, he

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preaches, you know, basically the kingdom has come, and he leaves his life.

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He just drops in and says, man, I am just going to go on fire for the Lord.

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And he followed Christ.

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He followed Christ, you know, all the way to his death.

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So immediately you can tell he just gets on board and he's fired up and he goes for it with all his might

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I mean later in the Matthew and other Gospels. He says Lord we we forsake everything we forsake our lives

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We forfeit your money. What do we get?

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He says you'll be one of the people that judge the kingdom because you just followed me so passionately

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You gave up so much you will gain more

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And here's the thing is, Peter didn't lose or not.

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I mean, obviously, he got to see the miracles of Christ.

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He got to live with Christ.

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Even a miracle he saw within his family

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is you turn to Matthew 8, Matthew 8.

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He actually saw his mother-in-law get healed by Christ.

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Matthew 8 and verse 13 it says and Jesus said unto the centurion go thy way in thy house of beliefs

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So that it would be done and his servants was healed the same hour and when Jesus was come into Peter's house

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He saw his his wife's mother laid and sick of the fever

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And he touched her and her the fever left her and she arose and ministered unto him

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So not only was it always abroad not was it always there?

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But personally he saw the miracles of Christ work in his own life with his own

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wife's mother, which is also key to understand.

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What's interesting is the people that

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claim to follow Peter now say that if you're

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going to be after Peter, you need to be celibate.

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I mean, Peter was married before he was ever called into the ministry, but that's neither

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here or there, but it's right there.

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His wife's mother, so he was married.

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And I don't think when he started following Christ through all the lands, he had time

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to go on dates to get married.

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I think it was prior to, but...

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That's a point of faith for me. But anyway, so he saw miracles with his own life.

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So I mean, he gave up his life and he's working, seeing miracles right in front of himself.

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He had faith in Christ, obviously. Moving down to Matthew 14, Matthew 14.

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We kind of see a really kind of Peter's character start to develop in the story here in Matthew 14,

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because in Matthew 14, if you start at verse 25, we have now there's a great storm,

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and they had to leave before Jesus got on the boat.

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But Jesus is all of a sudden seen walking towards them on the water.

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Matthew 14 verse 25 says,

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and in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them walking on the sea

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and when the disciples saw him walking in the sea they were troubled saying it is a

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spirit

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and they cried out in fear. So obviously a lot of them like

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we don't know what's going on we're in a great storm and we see Jesus walking in the water

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now you would think if you see Jesus coming your in time of trouble you might be comforted but...

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They were scared. They're more scared now. They were feared.

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But straightway Jesus spake of them saying,

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Be of good cheer. It is I, be not afraid.

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And we'll find multiple stories throughout the Gospel, which is really funny.

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Like, Jesus is like, Do you not understand?

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Like, do I have to explain this again?

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Like, I'm coming to you walking. He's not running like, RUN!

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He's just strolling out there.

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There's another story, another gospel story, where Jesus is asleep.

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Like, there's a storm going on, he's like, why are you, like...

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Dude, I'm right here.

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Here. There. The storm's gone.

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You feel better?

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Because you should be close enough to me, you should know you're in no danger, because I have you.

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You know...

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But here it is, straightway he's speaking of them saying,

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be of good cheer.

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It is I, be not afraid.

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And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if thou bid me come

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unto thee on the water.

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Now, so Peter was the first one to go out, because we can see, one reason I think he

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chose him is, hey Peter may not always say the right thing, he might not always do the

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right thing, but he is a person of action, he is a person of thunder.

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He'll just try it out there, he's like, well if you can walk on water, like Lord, let me

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come out there.

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No one else asked this, and he, this Jesus said, come.

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And when Peter came out of the ship, he walked on water to go to Jesus.

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Now, here's the thing is when I say his personality came out, you kind of see that he'll charge

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into stuff.

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He's like, well, if you can do this, the storm is still going on.

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He's like, I'll come out there.

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He's like, he's like, well, hey, he has said other places.

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If you have the faith of mustard seed, you can move mountains.

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Well, Peter, you have the faith to follow me by walking on water.

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Come and he could.

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But what's interesting is, Peter was such a symbol to us.

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Because sometimes we just go out in total power of the Spirit,

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and it's amazing how quickly all of a sudden that flesh comes

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into our back of our minds.

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He is literally seeing Jesus walk on water in the middle

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of a storm and say, be a good cheer.

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And he says, if I have faith, I can walk out to you.

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He's like, do it.

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And in faith, he jumps on the boat,

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and he's walking on water.

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You would think this would be the most spiritual,

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like at this moment, his faith in Christ.

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He should be so powerful, nothing could stop him.

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But you know in your own life, that's not the way it works.

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And he said, come.

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And Peter came down to the sea, walked

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to water to go to Jesus.

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But when he saw the wind bowstring,

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he was afraid and beginning to sink.

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So in this moment where you think all your faith should just be like re like just

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re-strengthen, refresh just like if you have a spiritual batter you think it

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just like max out then like you just recharge but here it is you're in the

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middle of a miracle. You've already jumped out the boat like the rest of the

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samples are like have fun. Like they're like

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That's amazing, but I'm going to hold on to the side of the ship because we're in the middle of a storm.

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So Peter, he's a man of action. He does all that.

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So one thing he made God wants is he doesn't...

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Some people say, I just think too much so I never get anything done.

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Peter's like, I'm just going to do it.

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And then he starts thinking and that's the problem.

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But he jumps out of the boat, he's walking on water and he goes,

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Wait a minute, I'm in the middle of a storm.

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Oh, goodness.

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And here's the interesting thing, at least he had the faith to start.

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But don't all of us, like sometimes aren't you just in the middle of a spiritual thing

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or you've prayed, you're receiving the blessing that you asked for.

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And then you're like, well what about this?

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But this other part of my life's not being blessed so maybe, maybe, maybe I'm not being

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blessed.

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Like, we have these doubts always come in our mind, but Peter shows us that.

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And in beginning of the sync he cried saying, the Lord, save me!

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And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand and caught Him and said,

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O thou of little faith, wherefore did this doubt?

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And isn't this kind of a review to all believers, like sometimes like men?

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Haven't we seen miracles in life? Haven't we seen the glory of God?

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Haven't we seen the power of God in our own lives? This?

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But yet, tomorrow there's going to be some doubt.

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Man the next challenge there's gonna be some worry. You know next thing. It's like the Lord even loved me

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It is amazing as soon as we call it a Lord

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He says that he just pulled him out of then he's having like why did you you were walking on water?

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How did you doubt?

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So that's why I say this is kind of the start of seeing.

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He's a man of action, which is why I believe the Lord chose him, because the Bible speaks

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highly of people of action.

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That's who you want.

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People that go out and do.

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But then we always don't think he was a perfect man.

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No, he had doubts.

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As soon as he started doing the miracle, he's like, what am I doing?

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And I think that's a sign that we can all follow.

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Turn to Matthew 15, Matthew 15.

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Because here the thing is, Peter was not the most...

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Knowledgeable he like he didn't really figure things out and it says here in

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Matthew 15 in verse 10

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It says and he called unto the multitude and said them that's Jesus here and understand

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Not that which goes into the mouth the father man

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But that which cometh out of the mouth the father's man then came his disciples and said unto him know style the Pharisees were offended

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After they heard the saying but he answered said every plant which the heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up

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let them

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alone, they be blind leaders of the blind.

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And if the blind lead the blind, both of them

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shall fall into a ditch."

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Then answered Peter and said unto him,

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declare unto us this parable.

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So here's one of the most interesting things.

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This has to be the weakest parable ever,

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because I'm pretty sure he just verbatim told you.

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Like this wasn't a mystery of symbology.

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It's not like, what were the seeds in the field?

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Or what was, you know, the talents given to those people?

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No, he's literally saying,

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they are blind people leaving blind,

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and they're going to walk in the ditch.

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Can you declare to us on this parable?

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And you kind of like...

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And then verse 16 says, and Jesus said, are ye also yet without understanding?

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Like, I'm not even sure that counts as a parable.

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Like, this wasn't one of those, because I mean, at other times he does.

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He gives metaphors.

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He tells stories that are supposed to give you deeper meanings, because how can you understand

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heavenly things if you can't understand the fleshly things?

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But I'm pretty sure this one, he's just looking at Peter like.

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Are you without our like?

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Here's the thing is like I know in our world you can't be calling people dumb such as your boss

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But Jesus didn't say are these like are you?

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Are you without understanding Peter?

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You know like I think that's kind of rude who did Jesus pick to lead

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At least he asked the question.

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At least he wasn't like so many people that are like,

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hey, question, I don't want to look stupid.

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At least Peter didn't have that.

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He's like, what do you mean?

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And even Jesus is like, are you without understanding?

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Because I want to say, it's kind of funny.

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If he didn't say, explain this parable,

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I don't think anyone would even list this as a parable.

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But he says, and Jesus said, are you without understanding?

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Do you not understand that whatsoever

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enter the mouth goes into the belly and cast out

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into the drought?

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But those things which were seed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile a man.

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From out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, death, false witnesses, blasphemy.

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These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands defile not the man.

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Now some people take this to an extreme, they're like, well we shouldn't wash hands. That's not what he's saying.

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Hey, you know what? If you drop your food down and it's there for six or more...

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seconds yeah it's unclear all right but I'm just saying like

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You can eat unclean things, they could make you sick.

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But he's like, that's not the deeper meaning.

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Understand what people think in their heart and how they feel,

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what drives them to steal, what drives them to envy,

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what drives them to murder, what drives them to want the love

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of money above all other things.

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This is what defiles a person.

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You know what?

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If they had to have a little too much McDonald's that week,

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but yet they're a more gracious person, they're not defiled.

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But if they ate a perfect, you know,

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organic perfectly balanced diet but yet they want to murder their boss they are

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defiled and why I'm saying is Jesus like are you what I'm understanding like I

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don't even think he's like deeply explain this he's like almost like you

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having a bad day like that's pretty clear it wasn't even a parable he didn't

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like say this means this he just re-explained it but so understand this

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another thing about Peter

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He's a go-getter. At least he'll just ask questions, but

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I mean he's like are you without understanding he didn't always get it. He wasn't always perfect

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Sometimes I bet you read your bible and you don't actually feel like you understand what's going on

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but I bet like the second or third time you read that over the years you're like

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that couldn't be clearer. What is wrong? How did I not see that?

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And here's the thing is why I think Peter's story is told this way is that's okay.

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God still loves you. God could still use you. God might still make you the movement of a, you know,

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make you the leader of movement or use you for great works, even though you're not perfect in

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knowledge. Even if you don't understand clear doctrine, because I truly feel like Jesus like

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almost gave that parable. This wasn't a dark saying. The Pharisees are leading blind people into a ditch.

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What is this ditch? Being wrong!

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Like, he didn't even talk about the ditch again.

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Like, that's not the important part here, Peter.

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It's not a magical symbology.

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So don't worry if you don't have a perfect view.

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And here's the thing is, this isn't just one time.

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People are like, oh, that's not what he meant.

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Hey, he didn't understand the Christian view in Jews.

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In Matthew 16, Matthew 16, Matthew 16 in verse 5,

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it says, and when the disciples were come to the other side,

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they had forgotten to take bread.

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And Jesus said to them, take heed

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and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

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And they reason among themselves,

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saying, it is because we have not taken the bread.

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Now, this is the end of the video, and I will see you in the next one.

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This is kind of an interesting thought, because the worst thing you can do is take the bread

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leaven, the yeast, from the Pharisees.

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Obviously, that must be what he means.

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That's not what he says.

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He says in verse 8, which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why

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reason among yourselves, because ye had brought no bread?

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Did you not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand?

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How many baskets took up?

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He's like...

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How long must I suffer you?

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Guys, you remember how I fed people?

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We're not concerned about bread.

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I'm not just here on the other side of the show going,

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Shoot, do we have the sourdough?

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Because I'm going to send someone back.

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I am not having unleavened bread.

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We've had enough tortillas.

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I want some bread.

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Like this is what the disciples are arguing about.

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And he's like, I just fed 5,000 people with nothing.

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Like, what are you?

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Like, you almost feel like he kind of wants to make the cords

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and like kind of whack them a little.

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Like, what are you doing?

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He's like, no.

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He said, how is it that you do not understand that I speak to you concerning the bread that which you should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?

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Then he understood how he bade them not to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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One reason I had to read this is because...

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This isn't the first time he told them this either.

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We just read one where he's like,

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they're blind people eating blind.

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Like, don't listen to them.

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So at least it was a parable they're confused about,

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the yeast, because if you put a little yeast in it spreads.

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He's like, don't use any of their doctrine.

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But then moving down to, because here's the thing is, this is where people get a lot of doctrine from Peter,

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is right in the next verse, verse 13. He says,

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When Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying,

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Whom do men say that I am?

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And he said, some say that I am John the Baptist, some say Elias, and others say Jeremiah, or one of the other prophets.

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And he said unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

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And Simon Peter, once again, moving forward before anyone else, said,

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Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

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So why would he use them? At least he understood this clearly.

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He was not Michael the Archangel.

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He wasn't one of 9,000 gods.

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He wasn't, you know, some other person.

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He wasn't just a prophet.

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He was the Christ.

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So at least with this, Peter was rock solid.

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He was the rock that he could build off of.

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And in verse 17, it says,

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And Jesus answered and said to him,

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Blessed art thou Simon Barjona,

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for flesh and blood had not revealed this unto you,

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but my Father which is in heaven.

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He says, Peter,

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we know it wasn't your flesh that figured that out.

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It's because the spirit moved with you to give you that knowledge.

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You may not understand all the doctrine,

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all the parables and all this,

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but at least you understand the key thing, who Jesus was.

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And it says, I say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,

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and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt

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bind on earth, thou shalt bind in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loosen on earth,

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shalt loosen in heaven.

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So.

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Here's where a lot of doctrine comes around Peter and we don't really believe really him.

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This is why, like, if you've ever seen cartoons,

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St. Peter is standing outside the gates of heaven because he's got the key to the front door and he can lock it for you.

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We don't believe that. Like, I actually believe the keys to the kingdom of heaven is the gospel.

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Now, here's the thing is, if you...

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And there's many doctrines and this may be a secondary and that's fine

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Whatever you bind on earth or whatever you loose on heaven if you don't go out like if you bind people with a

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Saving message of the gospel you've bound them to heaven and if you don't

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You've loosened them from heaven

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They got two options because if we bind our tongues and we don't give out that gift

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They will not go to heaven now there are many other doctrines. We've even

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Preached so go watch the pastor's sermon on this chapter. He has a lot more in-depth knowledge of this

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I'm just coming through this because this is a very important part where people get a lot of things about

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Peter but here's the thing is why did I say that in verse 20?

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in verse

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Sorry

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Verse 19 it says, you know, you are the kingdom of heaven, whatever thou shalt loosen on earth shall be loose in heaven.

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Then he charged his disciples that they should tell no man he was Jesus the Christ.

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From that time forth began Jesus to show unto disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem,

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suffer many things of the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and raise the third gain.

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So one reason why I said, hey, I'm going to give you the keys of kingdom of heaven.

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Is he then explains to them what I believe we go out to do we give the gospel

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But a lot of people have other ideas and that's fine.

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But I'm just saying, he literally then explains to them based on the gospel.

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Now here's the other thing, people get confused here,

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because in verse 22, he just said,

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Peter, I'm gonna build this, I'm gonna give you the kings of heaven,

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and the church shall not be conquered by Satan.

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And verse 22, it says,

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then Peter took them and began to rebuke Jesus.

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Review Kim saying be it far from thee Lord thou shall not be unto thee

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He literally just told

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Peter because you know that I am the Christ I can build my church upon you, and I'll give you the keys of

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King of heaven the kingdom of heaven

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Then he's like here's the keys the gospel and Peter's like no

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Absolutely not Jesus. You're not going to go and die for them. You're not going to do that.

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Well if you understand that he's denying the gospel, it is very clear why Jesus immediately tells him the next line, which people get very confused about.

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And it says,

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Uh, but he, did Jesus turn and said unto them, get thee behind me Satan.

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Thou art an offense to me, for thou saviors not the things of God, but the things of men."

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So understand this.

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How can you be the rock of the church that built upon and yet immediately Jesus says,

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get behind me Satan?

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Because what could be the most Satanic thing anyone could tell Jesus?

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Not the gospel.

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You're not dying, you're not resurrecting three days, you're not going to...

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That's anti-God, that's anti the whole thing.

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That's the whole point.

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That's everything all the prophets were leading up to.

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That's what everything he came to fulfill.

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That's everything. So immediately Jesus is like, absolutely not.

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Get behind me Satan for what you just said is a lie.

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Satan is the father of lies.

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So...

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Here's the interesting point I want to pull from this.

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Peter not only had the right knowledge, but then he's also failing.

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He can be rebuked by Christ, hardly. So here's the thing is,

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is Peter infallible? Very weird thing when people say,

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I sit in Peter's seat so I'm infallible. Jesus is like, get behind me, Satan.

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Get that idea out of you. Why? Because you're chasing. Because he wanted to see the kingdom in his flesh right now.

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And Christ said, you are in love, not of the heavenly things, but of the fleshly things. That is the love of Satan.

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So understand this once again. He's passionate. He's driven, but yet

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He'll put his mouth in his or he'll put his foot in his mouth immediately

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It will fail and what he literally said that what you just said is the most wrong thing

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I could ever hear and you're the person I am going to select to lead

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So have you ever felt you messed up badly?

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Have you ever felt that you have literally done the complete opposite thing of which you should have done?

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Is it something you can look back to and go, I was, I failed, I got rebuked, I don't know

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if I can move forward.

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Well, Peter was able to move forward from this.

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And he was still able to do great works for God.

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He was still to be not just in the body of Christ.

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But at one point he was a sick like after Christ's death he was used as a symbol to move forward for Christ

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And yet here we are being the hardest review. I think he gave to any of his followers

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While christ was in his ministry

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All right. Well, he said some other things. Yeah, but he was not talking to the saved

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He was talking to the pharisees the satyasis this world to the devil himself

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This is

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Like, the top three of those followers, right?

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The sons of thunder.

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He's like, get behind me Satan, because he tried to deny the gospel.

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Which I believe in reference here, and it's fine if you have a different view,

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this is the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

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But it's just interesting to see what he said.

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Now, turn to Matthew 17, Matthew 17.

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Cough cough

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Now, because Peter was one of the lucky people to see the glorified Christ in his flesh.

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Peter got to see the glorified Christ in Matthew 17.

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After six in his verse one and after the sixth day Jesus take Peter James and John his brother

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bringing them up into the high mountains apart and

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Transfigured before them his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was as white

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Light and behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elisha's talking with him

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That's Jesus then answered Peter and said unto Jesus Lord

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It is good for us to be here if that will let us make thee attack three

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tabernacles, one for thee, one for Mosul's, and one for Elias. And once again, Peter's

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quick to just, I gotta do something. And I won't go into this. All these parables, all

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these stories, we can have full servants on them. But understand, he doesn't mean like,

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ah, and what his thing is, whether that was right, wrong, and different, because that's

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not what Jesus wanted. But...

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Hey, he was blessed enough to see this.

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He saw the resurrected two prophets and the glorified body of Jesus.

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I mean that's impressive.

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And here's the thing is, so he's been called out of his life.

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He's made mistakes, he's shown faith, he's even received the blessing of seeing the glorified Christ.

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And Matthew 17 will move forward with that. It's basically like he showed the Lord provided.

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Matthew 17 tells a story, it basically like, Peter was basically asked like, hey, where's our tribute?

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Because, you know, they're traveling on land and basically they're, the local leadership's like,

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hey, you got to pay us, does your master pay tribute?

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He went and asked Christ, like, what do we do?

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I don't have money.

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And there's many things.

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But basically he says, go catch a, you're a fisherman,

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go catch a fish, give him the money out of it.

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And he basically just shows, look, no matter what's going on,

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the Lord can provide.

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You think it's impossible, how can you do this?

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The Lord can provide.

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And Matthew 18, go ahead and turn to Matthew 18.

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In Matthew 18, in verse 21,

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We get a little idea that you know here's thing is Peter's already been forgiven for like messing up the gospel

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He's already been forgiven for speaking out turn. He's been forgiven for asking maybe dumb quite like that's not even a parable Peter

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What do you like do you not have understanding?

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But here's thing is despite if we've been forgiven sometimes we forget that we have to forgive others

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Matthew 18 verse 21 and it says,

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then came Peter unto them and said, Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me

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and I forgive him till the seventh time

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and Jesus said unto them, not unto thee until the seventh time but unto the seventy times

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seven.

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So here's Jesus literally telling Peter, are you serious man?

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There's not a limit. You can't have a punch card be like...

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7 times 7?

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7 times?

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Anti-redeemed, right?

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Like, I don't think I would forgive you anymore. I did it!

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He's like, no!

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7 times 7. And what he's literally saying is

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you just have to keep doing it.

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And like, this is the guy

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he's going to choose to be a leader.

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And he's like, he's having to teach him

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for his simple things. Like,

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hey, don't do bad hair, see?

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Don't speak against the gospel.

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Yeah, you actually have to forgive people.

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A lot.

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Like, a lot.

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And like, if you're close friends in a group,

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in a church, in a business, and all that,

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let me tell you, this might be the most useful

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Christian teaching there is,

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because my goodness, it doesn't exist.

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So many people are all about them,

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and then once they're offended, they're like,

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oh, I was offended by them.

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Yeah, Christ don't care.

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He'll be offended at you for being offended.

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He wants you to just move on.

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And what's interesting is this might be the greatest fleshly benefit of the Christian mentality.

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Because if you can just let go of things, it's a superpower to most of this world.

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Because despite if people do wrong with you, purposefully, they worked hard to go against you.

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And you can just let it go. That is like basically a superpower.

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And understand, we are far into Matthew.

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So you would think like, oh, this is easy.

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It just immediately you get Christian,

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you should just be the most forgiving person.

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This is going to be the leader of the church.

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He's been following Jesus for a while, and now he's like,

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do I really have to forgive people?

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I mean, like, he's like, I'm gonna forgive you for a while.

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Yes.

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Maybe at the seven times 70 is because he's pointing to his sense, like that day.

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Like, I don't know, like, you know how much I've forgiven you, Peter?

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Yeah, do that.

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So and all I'm saying is, is Peter a perfect guy?

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You would think like, I am so holy.

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I am so good. I am one of the greatest of the Apostles of course. He's like dude

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He's having trouble with simple morality

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I'm not putting this on because if you're honest, I bet you do too. I

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Bet you struggle to forgive people. I bet there's certain nights you go to bed angry and you don't follow the commandment of God. I

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Bet you go many nights not getting that salt at times and

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There's times you just need to solve it, forgive it, forget it.

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But here's the thing is, you know Peter had the same issue?

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And yet, despite him having this problem, he can be used by God to do a great work.

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Turn to Matthew 19, Matthew 19.

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Because in Matthew 19, actually for...

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You know, for times I turned to Matthew 26.

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Matthew 26.

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In Matthew 19, it's basically when Peter is like,

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okay, well I've forgiven, I've done all this.

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Basically, Jesus goes through, it's like,

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it would be hard for a rich man to turn to the kingdom of heaven.

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And they're all like, man, who could be saved?

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And it's like, with God, anything is possible.

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But then Peter says, well, I've forsaken my family, lands, wealth.

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What shall we receive?

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And Jesus is like, well, you serve me, you will receive more than that.

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And he tells him that he'll be one of the judges of the 12 tribes.

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Follow me, and you will receive rewards.

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Here's what that is.

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So here's the thing is, you would think I just serve without any want of anything.

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I am just the most giving person.

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And here's the thing, that's a great thing.

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But you know what's interesting is Peter, who I think is a symbol, who is used greatly by God,

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was still concerned like, hey, why am I doing all this? I kind of gave up a lot.

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And like these people that are doing well in life, like rich men, like they're not going to

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get anything like, what am I going to get? And God actually comforts them to be like, hey,

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you will be rewarded.

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By faith you will be rewarded. So here's the thing is, once again, a lot of people would have this idealized version of what a Saint Peter would be like.

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Is it, having that idea like, you know, because are you ever just working a lot, maybe you're doing a lot for church, maybe you're out with a soul winning, no one's answering, you're like, why am I doing this?

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Like, it, like...

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Don't really think it doesn't really seem like I'm building, you know the kingdom of heaven. I'm not really doing all this, but yet

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God literally tells Peter he has to tell Peter. Hey, you will receive that reward

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So Peter wanted to be paid for his labors

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now I think an idealized version people like oh, no, you just serve without any want of anything and

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Well, Peter wasn't that way

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You know, Paul always talks about the conflict of the spirit and flesh, but hey, Peter had these same issues.

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And I think that's something important to think that, look, Peter had doubts. Peter's had concerns. Peter had wants.

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But despite these things, sometimes he made them doubt. Sometimes, you know, he sank in the sea from lack of faith.

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He didn't want, he had to wonder, do I really have to forgive people? He had these concerns and troubles in his Christian walk.

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Don't feel like you're alone in your Christian walk.

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Because guess what?

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Peter was still used mightily by the Lord.

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Now here's the thing is, we've just gone through all these things.

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Now let's get to the kind of final things

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that we see in Peter's life before we get to where we started.

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But Matthew 26 and Matthew 26.

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We'll go down to verse 31 verse 31 it says then said Jesus unto them all ye shall be offended because of me that night

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It is written. I will smite the shepherd this sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad

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But after but after I am risen again. I will go before you into Galilee

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So this is after you know the Lord's Supper

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Judas has already gone off to go portray him and now he's telling him hey

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I'm about to be killed and you're all going to run away like sheep.

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You're all going to basically forsake me.

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And here's the thing is, now, I mean, you're telling some people like, I've dedicated my

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life to this.

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I wouldn't just run away.

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I will never forsake you.

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And you know who's the first person who stands up and says that?

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It's Peter.

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Verse 33, it says, and Peter answered and said to him, though all men.

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shall be offended because of thee.

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I, yet will I never be offended.

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What he is saying is, that is impossible.

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Have you seen how much I've done in my life?

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Have you seen how I've done?

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I have served and done everything for you

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and in this ministry and I have chosen this my life.

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Nothing will move me from my course.

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And let me tell you, every Christian is like,

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yes, that's how I should be in my life.

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And that's how I should be.

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But if you were honest.

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That's not how we all are all the time, is it?

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Now, here's the thing is you're like, oh, you're going to talk about when he

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forsook Jesus. We don't even have to get that far.

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We don't even need to get that far because here he is saying, I will never

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be offended. I will serve you until my dying breath. I will go

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all the way for you, Christ. And he's telling Christ to his face this.

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He's like, man.

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But in verse 34 it says,

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And Jesus said to him,

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Verily, verily, I say unto thee,

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That this night before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.

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And Peter said to him,

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Though thou shalt die with thee,

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yet will I not deny thee.

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Likewise also said all his disciples.

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So once again, he reaffirms,

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Even if you die, I will never forsake you.

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I will never.

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I will go all the way for you.

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And then came Jesus unto a place called Gethsemane, and said unto the disciples,

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Sit ye here while I go and yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zibedi,

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and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then he said unto them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful,

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even unto death. Teary ye here, and watch me. And he went a little further and fell on his face,

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and said, O my father, it may be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, that as I will,

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but thou wilt.

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And he came unto the disciples, finding them asleep, and said unto Peter, What?

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Could you not wash with me an hour?

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So a lot of times we go right to where he denies Jesus.

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Dude, he didn't even last that long.

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He's like, I will go to death for you.

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I will do anything for you.

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I will never forsake you.

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Dude, I gotta wait here?

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Ugh.

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He went to sleep.

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Will die for you. Okay, stay with me about an hour

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He went to sleep

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We didn't even get to him being taken away before he

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He yelled. Hey, the spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak. All right

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And isn't it a time when you hear some good sermons, you get there, you're just dedicating your Bible version,

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you're just Bible reading, and you're just going through and you're just like,

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I will never forsake you, Lord! I will go to death for you!

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Let's go to the conference and let's go soul winning! Let's give giving!

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Let's go help another brother and wife! And we'll go and go and go until I die!

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But by the next week, you're like, dude, soul winning? Dude, I need a nap.

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Right? And here's the thing is, Paul, you're the one with gown and all, like, I've skipped out a lot.

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Trust me, this is against me more than anyone else.

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But here's the thing is, was Peter perfect? Did Peter make every single event?

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Jesus is the headliner of his day and he fell asleep, alright?

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And I know a lot of times we get this and we'll immediately get to where he denied it.

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All I want to show is, Peter didn't even keep his promise the rest of the day.

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He fell asleep on the job, literally within a couple hours of swearing his death to Jesus.

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And you're like, dude, that's, I mean, what character, what this, like, that's kind of a great failing, it's all this.

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And just for the sake of time, we all know the story. What happened later?

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Basically right after he's caught sleeping on a job when Jesus just said stay with me hour cuz guess what Peter didn't know

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That's the last time ever he will be with Christ in the flesh

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He had this last time, and let me tell you this,

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you don't know when your last time's going to be.

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You don't know what's precious.

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And let me tell you, sometimes that nap feels good,

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sometimes missing the kids, sometimes hiding ourselves

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away, sometimes just doing our own things.

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That seems really important at a time.

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But we don't know when our last moments will

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be with people, with a time.

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When will the last time we go sewing,

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when will the last time we go, sir,

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last time we go to the conference.

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We don't know.

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We always think there's tomorrow.

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There's always another day.

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There's always this.

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But guess what?

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Peter, literally, the last time he

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He could have been praying with Jesus, spending time with Jesus.

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He was taking a nap.

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He was taking a nap.

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That is Peter's last service to Christ.

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Basically, part shoulder to shoulder, eye to eye.

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He's just in the corner sleeping when Jesus said,

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will you not be with me?

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So Peter failed long before the great drama

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that's about to happen.

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Like, man, that's horrible.

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Well, do you think you've failed before?

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Sometimes what's hard is to forgive ourselves of our regrets, what we've done wrong.

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All this.

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And let me tell you this, I think one thing that really got Peter emotional of this is

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he was woken up by basically Jesus being taken away from him.

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He should have been on guard, he should have been awake, maybe he could have learned it.

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Now we know it's God's plan, there's nothing he probably could have done to stop this.

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But do you think Peter felt that way?

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He's emotional and then he you know what he went through and the last time he even saw Jesus in this life

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Was at least in my mind is when he did I know third time and he made eye contact with Jesus and he remembered

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Wow

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Not only did I fall asleep on you here. I am not once but three times denying you

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And you you told me I would

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And he ran away

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So here's the thing, some of you will be like, man, if you weren't on fire your entire time,

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you weren't living for Christ, you ever fell away, you ever had a slack, you went away for a couple

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years, you did something and you never came back, people are like, oh well they just couldn't be

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right with God. Peter literally denied Christ with Christ there.

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Peter literally at one point tried to stop the gospel being preached.

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Peter literally just couldn't even understand the deepest teachings coming directly from Christ himself.

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But you know who Jesus came and said he's going to lead the church?

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An imperfect man with imperfect understanding, with imperfect, you know, sustainability or drive.

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Why? Because we're all that way.

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If we were truly honest, we all fail at times.

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And sometimes that failure is not slight.

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It's not, ah, I didn't understand parable.

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It's just like, that wasn't a parable.

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Do you not understand?

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And let me tell you, I bet we've all done some Bible reading or we've all been a little tired during a sermon,

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but I just don't know what happened.

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Especially if I'm preaching, alright?

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Like, what in the world is he dribbling on about, right?

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But here's the thing is, at times we know we've gone way further away from Christ.

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We know at times we've gone more, done worse.

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And here's the thing is why I think Peter's story is this way.

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He went off to do good works and yet he still made mistakes.

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Paul even had to rebuke him to the face there.

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But let me tell you, this is before he was the leader.

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He was just a follower.

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And he was an imperfect follower.

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He didn't succeed in everything.

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And heaven and lord, we have record of him basically denying Christ to his face.

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But yet!

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He knew Christ, you know, Jesus was the Christ.

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Yet, he was saved.

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And yet, the Lord could still use him to do a great work despite his imperfections.

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Because the Lord doesn't need great, minded, perfect men.

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He needs flawed individuals that are willing to serve him.

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And isn't that us?

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Yeah.

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Isn't that who we are?

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Sometimes we can feel like, I've gone too far, I can't work.

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Maybe I should just go back to my old life.

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I mean, that's what Peter thought he should do.

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But yet, as we started, this is where I'll leave you, Jesus just asked,

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do you love the fishes, the love of this world more than me?

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He said three more times, I love thee. He said, well, follow me.

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And despite where you find yourself in your life, no matter where we are in our life,

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no matter where we go in our lives, no matter where we think we stepped, we fell,

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can we get back up? And no matter where we are, can we look at Christ and say,

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I will follow you, Lord. Because that's all the Lord needs to do a great work with us.

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And with that, let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for today.

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Thank you for allowing me to preach this. I hope it was edifying and useful to the members of this church.

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I just pray that...

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It reminds us Lord, sometimes we trip, sometimes we fall, and sometimes Lord, even though you may have already forgiven us,

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it's hard for us to forgive ourselves.

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And let us look to the great man of the Bible, and this includes Peter, who did many things that are just crazy.

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But Lord, you still said, I can still use this imperfect man to do great work.

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May we understand that symbol that we can better serve you Lord.

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In Jesus name, Amen.

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Alright, if you want to go ahead and take your himmels, we're going to turn to page number 169.

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Thank you.

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Page number 169, come thou found.

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Page number 169. We'll sing it out on the first.

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Thank you.

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Alright, we're singing out on the first.

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Come thou fount of every blessing,

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Tune my heart to sing thy grace,

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Streams of mercy never ceasing,

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Call for songs of loudest praise,

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Teach me some melodies on it,

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sung by flaming

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tongues above. If a mount I'm fixed upon it, Mount of thy redeeming love,

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Here I raise my nebenezer, hither by thy help I'm come,

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And I know by thy good pleasure safely I'll be there.

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Wondering from...

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Danger interpose his precious blood. Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily

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Good.

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By my boy

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singing everybody brother. I just please close us in order to prayer. Thank you God for this church

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and everybody here today. Lord, just pray God that even when we kind of make mistakes in our

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Christian life, thank you for your mercy that they are new every coming up us to stay our eyes on

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Jesus in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.