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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR
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COMING TO YOU HERE FROM
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. A
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VIEWERS AND ALSO OUR ONLINE
MEMBERS THAT TUNE IN EACH WEEK
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TO STUDY THE LESSON WITH
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MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS
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IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE
THIS MORNING. WE'RE GOING TO BE
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STARTING A BRAND-NEW LESSON
QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE FIRST
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AND THE SECOND BOOKS OF PETER
- IT'S ENTITLED FEED MY SHEEP .
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LESSON #1, WHICH IS THE LESSON
WE'RE LOOKING AT TODAY, IS
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ENTITLED THE PERSON OF PETER
. SO WE'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT THE
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APOSTLE PETER AND THEN GET
INTO A STUDY OF HIS WRITINGS IN
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1 AND 2 PETER. NOW WE
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN
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BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
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LEADERS TO COME
JOIN ME. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>HELLO, AND WELCOME. WE
ARE GOING TO DO WHAT WE DO
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EVERY WEEK AND THAT IS
SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS FROM
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WHEREVER YOU ARE. WE
KNOW YOU HAVE FAVORITES,
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BECAUSE WE HEAR FROM YOU,
AND WE DO TOO, SO IT'S PERFECT.
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WE SING TOGETHER AND WE
PRAISE THE LORD EVERY WEEK.
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SO, THE FIRST ONE WE'RE GOING TO
START WITH IS A GOOD ONE - #334
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- COME THOU FOUNT
OF EVERY BLESSING .
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WE'RE GOING TO DO
ALL THREE STANZAS - #334.
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(PIANO MUSIC) (FLUTE)
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>>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
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>>LET US BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD, FOR THE
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OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO STUDY -
IT IS A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH THAT
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REVEALS THE WAY THAT
YOU WOULD HAVE US TO GO.
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AND THIS MORNING, LORD, AS WE
OPEN THE SCRIPTURES AND LAUNCH
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INTO THE NEW STUDY - THIS NEW
LESSON QUARTERLY - WE ASK FOR
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THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN,
TO COME AND GUARD OUR HEARTS AND
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OUR MINDS AND WE ASK
THIS ALL IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>HOW IS EVERYBODY? >>GOOD.
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>>GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. I
WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE
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ALSO PART OF OUR ONLINE CLASS
- SOME ARE STUDYING ONLINE, SOME
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ARE WATCHING ON SATELLITE.
WE HAVE SOME OF OUR ONLINE
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MEMBERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
AND WHATEVER CATEGORY YOU FIT
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IN, WE'RE GLAD THAT
YOU'RE STUDYING WITH US TODAY.
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I'M EXCITED
BECAUSE I GET TO BE HERE.
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SOMETIMES I'M TRAVELING AND AM
NOT ALWAYS ABLE TO BE HERE FOR
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VARIOUS LESSONS, BUT I'M REALLY
GLAD I'M ABLE TO BE HERE FOR THE
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FIRST LESSON IN THIS NEW STUDY
DEALING WITH THE APOSTLE PETER'S
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BOOKS - IT'S CALLED FEED MY
SHEEP 1 AND 2 PETER - AND SO
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TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE DELVING
INTO LESSON #1 IN THIS STUDY AND
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I'M JUST REALLY
EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
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NOW, WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND
THE MEMORY VERSE IS IN THE NEW
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KING JAMES VERSION HERE, IT'S
MATTHEW 14, VERSES 30 AND 31 -
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MATTHEW 14:30 AND 31 - IF YOU'VE
GOT YOUR BIBLES OR EVEN YOUR
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QUARTERLY, YOU
CAN SAY THIS WITH ME.
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I'D LIKE YOU TO SAY IT
OUT LOUD. ARE YOU READY?
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"BUT WHEN HE SAW THAT THE WIND
WAS BOISTEROUS, HE WAS AFRAID;
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AND BEGINNING TO SINK HE CRIED
OUT, SAYING, 'LORD, SAVE ME!'
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AND IMMEDIATELY JESUS STRETCHED
OUT HIS HAND AND CAUGHT HIM, AND
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SAID TO HIM, 'O YOU OF LITTLE
FAITH, WHY DID YOU DOUBT?'"
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NOW WE'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY
GET TO THAT STORY A LITTLE LATER
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IN THE LESSON. BEFORE
WE DELVE INTO THE ACTUAL
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BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 PETER, WHO
WROTE MOST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT?
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>>PAUL. >>PAUL.
AND WHO WROTE THE NEXT
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LARGEST SEGMENT? >>JOHN.
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>>LUKE, BECAUSE HE WROTE ACTS
- SO YOU'VE GOT LUKE'S GOT THE
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GOSPEL OF LUKE - HAS THE LONGEST
CHAPTERS - AND THE BOOK OF ACTS.
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THEN JOHN - THE LETTERS OF JOHN
ARE VERY SMALL - WELL, IF YOU
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COUNT REVELATION, THAT'S TRUE,
THAT'S GOING TO BE PROBABLY
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JOHN, THEN LUKE, AND THEN,
GETTING DOWN THE LINE A LITTLE
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BIT YOU HAVE PETER. BUT,
PETER PROBABLY DICTATED THE
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GOSPEL OF MARK TO MARK
SO HE SHOULD GET SOME EXTRA
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CREDIT FOR THAT. MANY
OF THE COMMENTARIES ON MARK
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THEY'LL SAY THIS IS PROBABLY
THROUGH INTERVIEWS WITH PETER.
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PETER HAD A VERY BIG IMPACT
ON THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH.
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WHOSE NAME IS MENTIONED MORE
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, PAUL OR
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PETER? YOU DON'T
WANT TO GUESS BECAUSE
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YOU DON'T KNOW AND YOU
DON'T WANT TO BE WRONG.
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BUT THEY'RE PRETTY CLOSE.
NOW IT'S A TRICK QUESTION: PETER
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- WHEN YOU SAY 'WHO'S MENTIONED
MORE?' PETER HAS THE NAME PETER
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- YOU CAN DO A COMPUTER SEARCH -
IT'S LIKE 163 TIMES, BUT HE ALSO
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HAS THE NAME SIMON, AND
HE ALSO HAS THE NAME CEPHAS.
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SO, YOU ADD THOSE UP AND IT'S,
OH, I DON'T KNOW, 185 TIMES.
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PAUL HAS THE NAME PAUL, BUT
HE'S ALSO GOT THE NAME SAUL.
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YOU ADD THOSE UP AND PAUL, I
THINK, WINS BY A HAIR - SO ABOUT
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190 TIMES, BUT THESE ARE TWO OF
THE MOST OUTSTANDING CHARACTERS.
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BUT, IF YOU GO BY THE GOSPELS,
PAUL DOESN'T APPEAR IN THE
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GOSPELS AT ALL. IF YOU
GO BY THE GOSPELS, YOU'RE
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GOING TO FIND PETER REFERENCED
WAY MORE THAN ANDREW OR THOMAS
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OR JAMES OR JOHN OR
ANY OF THE OTHER APOSTLES.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF SOMETHING
INTERESTING IS HAPPENING AND THE
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TWELVE APOSTLES ARE
THERE, PETER IS MENTIONED.
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HE WAS A VERY OUTSPOKEN,
GREGARIOUS, UP FRONT LEADER.
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HE ALWAYS HAD AN OPINION, EVEN
IF HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS
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TALKING ABOUT. (LAUGHTER)
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HE HAD AN OPINION -
HE ALWAYS WAS SPEAKING.
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AND I JUST ACTUALLY DOWNLOADED
- I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THIS AND I
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DOWNLOADED HOW OFTEN PETER
APPEARS AND I FOUND SOMEONE WAS
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KIND ENOUGH TO PUT TOGETHER A
LITTLE HISTORY, ON THE INTERNET,
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OF PETER - AND I DID A LITTLE
EDITING ON THIS BUT, JUST TO
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GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW, SO
YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND WHO IS THE
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AUTHOR OF THESE BOOKS AND WHAT
IS HIS HISTORY, AND WE'LL DELVE
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MORE INTO THAT IN OUR LESSONS
AS WELL - BORN, PROBABLY,
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ABOUT 5 A.D. - MAY
HAVE BEEN A LITTLE YOUNGER
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THAN JESUS, PROBABLY THE OLDEST
OF THE APOSTLES. WE DON'T KNOW
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THAT, BUT TRADITION SAYS HE
WAS. HE WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE
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APOSTLES THAT IT
MENTIONS WAS MARRIED.
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I'M SURE OTHERS WERE, BUT IT
SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS PETER'S
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MOTHER-IN-LAW AND, YOU KNOW,
YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A
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MOTHER-IN-LAW UNTIL YOU
GET MARRIED, SO HE WAS PROBABLY
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MARRIED, PROBABLY HAD
CHILDREN. ABOUT 27 A.D.
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HE LEARNS ABOUT JESUS AT
HIS BAPTISM - OF JESUS - AND
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PROBABLY WASN'T
MARRIED LONG AFTER THAT.
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HE'S BORN AROUND BETHSAIDA,
WHICH IS A GALILEAN TOWN.
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HE IS THE SON OF SIMON AND
HE'S CALLED THE SON OF JONAH.
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AND, SOMETIMES,
FATHERS, THEY HAD TWO NAMES.
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PETER'S CALLED SIMON BAR
JONAH - BAR MEANS 'SON OF'.
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HE MEETS JESUS THROUGH THE HELP
OF HIS BROTHER ANDREW, AT THE
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JORDAN RIVER. AFTER
JESUS COMES BACK FROM HIS
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FORTY DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS,
JESUS MIGRATES UP TO GALILEE AND
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THERE HE SEES SIMON AND ANDREW
WASHING THEIR NETS AND HE CALLS
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THEM, THEY LEAVE
EVERYTHING, AND THEY FOLLOW HIM.
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FOR AWHILE HE WENT ON AN
ITINERANT PREACHING TOUR AND
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THEN TOOK A BREAK AND THEY WENT
BACK TO THEIR FISHING AGAIN.
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AND THEN, HE MEETS THEM
AGAIN AND ASKS THEM TO FORSAKE
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EVERYTHING. THEY
DO, AND THAT'S WHERE YOU
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FIND - IN LUKE CHAPTER 5.
JESUS VISITS PETER'S HOUSE
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AND HE CURES
PETER'S SICK MOTHER-IN-LAW.
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YOU FIND THAT IN MATTHEW
8:14. PETER BECOMES ONE OF THE
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WITNESSES OF JESUS'
RAISING A LITTLE GIRL, TABITHA,
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BACK FROM THE DEAD. THEN
YOU SEE SIMON PETER MAKES
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THE PRONOUNCEMENT, THERE IN
MATTHEW, ABOUT JESUS' DIVINITY.
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JESUS TELLS PETER THAT HE IS
GOING TO BUILD HIS CHURCH ON THE
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DECLARATION THAT PETER HAS MADE.
THEN PETER TRIES TO TALK JESUS
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OUT OF DYING AND
BEING RAISED THE THIRD DAY,
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AND HE IS REBUKED.
PETER, ALONG WITH JAMES AND
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JOHN, WITNESSED THE
MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION.
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PETER MAKES A PREDICTION
THAT - I'M SORRY - JESUS MAKES A
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PREDICTION PETER WILL
DENY HIM. PETER TELLS JESUS
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HE'LL NEVER DENY
HIM. PETER DENIES HIM.
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WHEN JESUS IS ARRESTED,
PETER FOLLOWS...INITIALLY.
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AND PETER IS THE ONE WHO
GOES OUT AND WEEPS BITTERLY.
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PETER IS THE FIRST
APOSTLE TO THE TOMB.
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JOHN, ACTUALLY OUTRUNS
HIM, PETER GOES IN FIRST.
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PETER IS THE FIRST APOSTLE
THAT JESUS APPEARS TO AFTER THE
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RESURRECTION. PETER,
OF COURSE, IS FILLED WITH
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THE SPIRIT THERE AT PENTECOST
AND HE PREACHES - HE BECOMES,
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SORT OF, A LEADER OF
THE REMAINING DISCIPLES.
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HE IS WITH THE GROUP ON
THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WHEN JESUS
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FORETELLS THE END OF THE WORLD,
WHICH WAS PETER, ANDREW, JAMES,
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AND JOHN. THEY GOT
A SPECIAL PRESENTATION
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FROM JESUS ON THAT. HE
IS AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE.
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PETER IS THE ONE WHO HELPS
HEAL THE LAME MAN THAT WALKS.
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HE'S IMPRISONED FOR
THAT. PETER SAYS WE OUGHT TO
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OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN.
HE CONFRONTS A HUSBAND AND WIFE
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- ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA -
AND THEY BOTH DROP DEAD FOR
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LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT.
HE GOES AND HE VISITS LYDIA.
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HE RESURRECTS
DORCAS BACK TO LIFE.
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HE'S THE FIRST TO TAKE
THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES -
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CORNELIUS AND HIS
HOUSEHOLD. HE HAS A DREAM WITH
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THE VISION ON THE ROOF.
AND HE IS IMPRISONED IN CHAPTER
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12 OF ACTS - HE'S RELEASED
FROM PRISON MIRACULOUSLY,
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BY AN ANGEL. AND THEN
PAUL, LATER, CONFRONTS
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PETER FOR WHAT HE THOUGHT
WAS HYPOCRITICAL BEHAVIOR
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WHEN THE JEWS SHOWED UP.
TRADITION TELLS US ABOUT 64 A.D.
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PETER IS CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN,
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FEEL WORTHY TO
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DIE THE SAME WAY. THAT
MAY HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE
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BURNING OF ROME THAT
NERO WAS PARTICIPATING IN, SO
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PETER IS EXECUTED BY
NERO. PAUL WAS A ROMAN
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CITIZEN, HE WAS BEHEADED.
PETER, BEING A JEW AND NOT A
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ROMAN CITIZEN, HE WAS CRUCIFIED.
QUICK OVERVIEW BUT, YOU'LL
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NOTICE, THAT'S JUST SOME OF THE
HIGH POINTS OF THE MANY, MANY
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TIMES PETER STANDS OUT AS
AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE GOSPELS.
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SO, WITH THAT LENGTHY
INTRODUCTION, LET'S GO AHEAD AND
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GET INTO OUR STUDY.
FIRST SECTION THAT SAYS 'DEPART
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FROM ME' - PETER
DOES NOT FEEL WORTHY.
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AND YOU'LL READ IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 4, VERSES 18 THROUGH 20,
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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, CASTING A NET INTO
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THE SEA; FOR
THEY WERE FISHERMEN.
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THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'FOLLOW
ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS
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OF MEN.' THEY IMMEDIATELY LEFT
THEIR NETS AND FOLLOWED HIM."
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NOW, PROBABLY THEIR FATHER,
JONAH OR - HAD DIED AT THAT
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POINT, WHERE
ZEBEDEE WAS STILL ALIVE.
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YOU NOTICE IT SAYS THAT JAMES
AND JOHN LEFT THEIR FATHER WITH
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THE NETS, WHEREAS PETER AND
ANDREW - PETER'S MARRIED, HE'S A
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LITTLE OLDER - YOU NEVER HEAR
MENTION OF THEIR FATHER BEING
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ALIVE - AND SO, THEY WALK
AWAY AND THEY FOLLOW JESUS.
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BUT THEN, AGAIN, EVENTUALLY
THEY RETURN TO THEIR FISHING
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BUSINESS. MAYBE
THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL,
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WE NEED TO SUBSIDIZE IT.
WE NEED SOME MORE MONEY.'
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THEY'RE A LITTLE WORRIED
- AND SO, THAT'S WHEN YOU
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GET TO THIS EXPERIENCE.
WE'RE GOING TO READ VERSES
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1 THROUGH 11 OF LUKE 5.
AND, IN A MOMENT, SOMEONE IS
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GOING TO READ FOR
ME 2 SAMUEL 6:9, OKAY?
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LET'S START WITH LUKE CHAPTER
11 - I'M SORRY, LUKE CHAPTER 5,
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VERSES 1 TO 11 AND YOU
READ HERE, "SO IT WAS, AS THE
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MULTITUDE PRESSED ABOUT HIM
TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, THAT HE
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STOOD BY THE LAKE OF
GENNESARET," - NOW, THE SEA OF
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GALILEE GOES BY THREE NAMES:
GALILEE, GENNESARET, SEA OF
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TIBERIUS. THE
ROMANS WANTED TO NAME
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EVERYTHING AFTER THEMSELVES.
THE JEWS, OFTEN, DIDN'T LIKE
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THAT AND THEY FOUGHT TO
KEEP THE TRADITIONAL NAME.
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IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO INDIA,
THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION
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BECAUSE THE ENGLISH
NAMED A NUMBER OF TOWNS.
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THEY HAD BOMBAY - THE INDIANS
HAVE CHANGED IT BACK TO MUMBAI.
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THE ENGLISH NAMED MADRAS -
THE INDIANS SAID, 'NO, WE'RE
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CHANGING THE NAME BACK FROM
THE ENGLISH COLONIAL NAME; WE'RE
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CHANGING IT TO
CHENNAI' - SAME CITY, TWO NAMES.
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AND SO THEY HAD THAT BATTLE
RAGING IN ISRAEL WHERE THEY HAD
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THE ROMAN NAMES AND THEY SAID,
'WE'RE NOT GOING BY THE ROMAN
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NAMES.' AND SO, THEY HAD THE
HEBREW NAMES AND THEY DID THAT
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WITH THE LAKE. SO,
THEY'RE THERE FISHING "AND
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SAW TWO BOATS STANDING BY THE
LAKE; BUT THE FISHERMEN HAD GONE
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FROM THEM AND WERE
WASHING THEIR NETS.
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THEN HE GOT INTO ONE OF THE
BOATS, WHICH WAS SIMON'S," -
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THERE'S A PLACE WHERE HE'S
CALLED 'SIMON' AND NOT 'PETER' -
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"AND ASKED HIM TO PUT
OUT A LITTLE FROM THE LAND."
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- IT CREATES, KIND OF A NATURAL
PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN SEE AND
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HEAR HIM - SOUND CARRIES -
THERE'S NO OBSTRUCTION - "AND HE
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SAT DOWN AND TAUGHT THE
MULTITUDES FROM THE BOAT." -
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SO PETER PUSHED OUT A LITTLE
BIT. HE DROPPED AN ANCHOR SO IT
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WOULDN'T DRIFT
OFF, AND JESUS PREACHED.
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- "WHEN HE HAD STOPPED SPEAKING,
HE SAID TO SIMON, 'LAUNCH OUT
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INTO THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR
NETS'" - NOW THIS SOUNDED LIKE A
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BIZARRE REQUEST BECAUSE
THEY ALL FISHED AT NIGHT.
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YOU REMEMBER, HE SAID, 'WE
FISHED ALL NIGHT AND WE HAVEN'T
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CAUGHT ANYTHING.' THEY WOULD -
AND I - I'VE SEEN IT, WHEN I WAS
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IN ISRAEL, THAT AT NIGHT THERE
BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, THEY
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WOULD HANG LIGHTS
OFF THE BACK OF THE BOAT.
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I'VE BEEN TO SOUTH POINT OF
THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII SEVERAL
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TIMES, WHERE I WAS WITH
FRIENDS AND WE FISHED ALL NIGHT.
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WHAT WE DID IS WE DROPPED A
12-VOLT BULB - WATERPROOF LIGHT
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- OFF THE STERN, TURNED OFF THE
MOTORS, WAITED FOR SUNDOWN WHILE
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WE ATE, AND YOU'D LOOK OFF THE
BACK OF THE BOAT IN THE CALM,
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CLEAR WATERS, AND YOU COULD
SEE CLOUDS OF FISH WOULD GATHER
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AROUND THE LIGHT. WE
WOULD DROP OUR LINES IN -
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THESE LINES HAD TWO OR THREE
HOOKS ON EACH LINE - THERE'S BE
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A HOOK HERE, ANOTHER HOOK HERE,
ANOTHER HOOK HERE, ANOTHER HOOK
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HERE - WE'D DROP THEM
OFF - LITTLE FEATHERS ON THEM
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- AND WE'D REEL 'EM IN.
WE'D CATCH TWO OR THREE FISH
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WITH ONE HAUL ON EACH LINE - AND
THEY WERE BAIT FISH, BUT THEY
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ALL GATHERED AT
NIGHT TO THE LIGHT.
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BY THE WAY, FISH ARE
STILL ATTRACTED TO LIGHT, AMEN?
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SO, HE SAID, 'DROP YOUR NETS
DOWN.' HERE IT IS, DAYTIME AND
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HE SAID, "MASTER, WE HAVE TOILED
ALL NIGHT AND CAUGHT NOTHING;" -
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AND JESUS, MAYBE HE LOOKED
AT HIM AND HE COULD TELL BY HIS
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LOOK - HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE TOLD
YOU WHAT TO DO; TRUST ME.' -
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"NEVERTHELESS AT YOUR
WORD" - 'IF YOU SAY SO, LORD,
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I'LL LET DOWN THE
NET.' AND THEY WENT OUT A
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LITTLE FURTHER AND LET
DOWN THE NET - "AND WHEN
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THEY HAD DONE THIS, THEY CAUGHT
A GREAT NUMBER OF FISH, AND
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THEIR NET WAS BREAKING." -
RATHER THAN PULL THE NET IN
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AND LOSE ALL THE FISH, THEY
CALLED THEIR NEIGHBORS AND SAID,
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'COME GET YOUR NET AND PUT
IT UNDER OUR NET AND LET'S CATCH
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THESE FISH.' - "SO THEY SIGNALED
TO THEIR PARTNERS" - PROBABLY
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JAMES AND JOHN - "IN THE OTHER
BOAT TO COME AND HELP THEM.
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AND THEY CAME AND FILLED BOTH
THE BOATS, SO THAT THEY BEGAN TO
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SINK." - YOU KNOW, I'VE TALKED
TO CHURCHES BEFORE, THAT WHEN
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YOU JOIN WITH CHURCHES TO DO
EVANGELISM, YOU DO EVANGELISM
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TWO OR THREE CHURCHES IN ONE
TOWN, YOU CAN'T ALWAYS HAVE THE
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MEETING IN ALL
THREE CHURCHES AT ONCE.
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YOU HAVE THE MEETING IN
ONE CHURCH BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT?
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ALL THE BOATS CAN
BE FILLED. >>AMEN.
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>>IF YOU WORK TOGETHER.
AND SO, EVEN THOUGH JESUS WAS
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IN PETER'S BOAT,
BOTH BOATS GOT FISH.
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AND SO - MATTER OF FACT, IT SAYS
THE BOATS WERE SINKING UNDER THE
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WEIGHT OF THE FISH.
THEY WERE BEGINNING TO SINK -
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"WHEN SIMON PETER SAW IT," -
NOW, DO YOU THINK THIS WAS JUST
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A GOOD DAY, OR WAS THIS
THE BEST CATCH OF THEIR LIVES?
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DON'T FISHERMEN PRAY THAT AT
SOME TIME IN THEIR LIVES THEIR
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GOING TO HAVE A STORY TO TELL
ABOUT THE DAY THEY CAUGHT THE
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BIG ONE? OR THE HAUL OF FISH
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UNLIKE ANY OTHER HAUL?
IF THE BOAT'S ABOUT TO SINK,
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YOU ADD ONE MORE
FISH THEY WERE GOING DOWN.
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THAT WAS THE DAY
THEY'D ALL DREAMED ABOUT.
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THAT'S WORTH A LOT OF MONEY TOO.
AND ONE REASON THE LORD DID THIS
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WAS THAT HAUL OF FISH WAS GOING
TO SUBSIDIZE PETER'S FAMILY AND
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THEIR MISSIONARY
VENTURE FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
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HE WAS BASICALLY
TELLING THEM, 'TRUST ME.
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I CAN FILL YOUR NETS.' THEY
SIGNALED TO THEIR PARTNERS; THEY
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CAME. WHEN PETER
SAW IT - NOW, BEFORE
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THEY'VE EVEN CLEANED THE FISH
AND GOT THEM ALL TO SHORE, PETER
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SEES THIS, HE
REALIZES THIS IS A MIRACLE.
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YOU DON'T CATCH FISH IN THE DAY,
YOU DON'T EVER CATCH THIS MANY
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FISH - "HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS'
KNEES, SAYING, 'DEPART FROM ME,
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FOR I AM A SINFUL MAN, O
LORD!'" - NOW, DID HE REALLY
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WANT JESUS TO DEPART?
OR WAS HE JUST MAKING A
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CONFESSION SAYING, 'LORD,
I'M IN THE PRESENCE OF DEITY
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AND I'M A WICKED PERSON. I
AM A' - SAILORS, TYPICALLY,
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BACK THEN, THEY
WERE A ROUGH BUNCH.
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AND WE KNOW FROM WHEN PETER
DENIES JESUS, HE KNEW HOW TO
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SWITCH ON THE CURSING
MODE AND HE COULD CURSE.
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AND HE'S SAYING, 'YOU KNOW,
I'M A SINFUL MAN.' AND HE WAS
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TELLING THE TRUTH BUT, INSTEAD
OF REJECTING HIM, BECAUSE HE
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REPENTED AND CONFESSED, HE
RECEIVED COMFORT FROM THE LORD -
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"FOR HE AND ALL WHO WERE WITH
HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT THE CATCH
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OF FISH WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN;
AND SO ALSO WERE JAMES AND JOHN,
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THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE, WHO
WERE PARTNERS WITH SIMON.
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AND JESUS SAID TO
SIMON, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
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FROM NOW ON YOU WILL CATCH MEN.'
SO WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEIR
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BOATS TO LAND, THEY
FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED HIM."
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AND I'M SURE THAT ZEBEDEE AND
PETER'S WIFE AND IF HE HAD SONS,
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THEY CLEANED AND SOLD THOSE FISH
- THEY GOT THE RESOURCES THERE -
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IT WASN'T WASTED. BUT HE
SAID, 'WE'RE NOT WORTHY.'
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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT QUALIFIES
YOU TO WORK FOR THE LORD IS TO
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REALIZE YOU'RE NOT QUALIFIED.
AND I GAVE YOU A VERSE,
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I THINK, IN 2 SAMUEL
6:9. WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT?
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>>"DAVID WAS AFRAID OF THE
LORD THAT DAY; AND HE SAID,
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'HOW CAN THE ARK OF
THE LORD COME TO ME?"
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>>DAVID
THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT WORTHY.
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WE CAN'T HAVE THE ARK OF
THE LORD COME TO OUR TOWN.' IT'S
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SORT OF LIKE THE RESPONSE WHERE
ISAIAH SAYS, 'IN CHAPTER 6,
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VERSE 5, AFTER HE SEES THE LORD,
'WOE IS ME; I AM UNDONE.' HAVE
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YOU EVER BEEN FRIGHTENED BY
THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THOUGHT,
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'I'M NOT WORTHY. WHAT CAN I DO?
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DEPART FROM ME,
LORD, I AM A SINFUL MAN'?
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YOU'LL FIND THAT THAT WAS THE
RESPONSE OF JOHN WHEN HE SAW THE
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LORD - I MEAN, NOT WORD FOR
WORD, BUT THEY THOUGHT, 'I'M
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GOING TO DIE.' DANIEL, WHEN HE
SAW THE LORD IN VISION, THEY ALL
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THOUGHT, 'WE ARE NOT WORTHY.'
PETER STARTED OUT - GOD CAN USE
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HIM BECAUSE HE COULD
HAVE A HUMBLE ATTITUDE.
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HE REALIZED HE WAS A SINFUL MAN
AND SO JESUS COULD HAVE HIM DO
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GREAT THINGS. AND,
YOU KNOW, AFTER HE DENIES
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CHRIST HE GOES OUT AND HE WEEPS
BITTERLY AND REPENTS OF HIS SIN.
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ALRIGHT, UNDER THE SECTION, NOW,
CONFESSING THE CHRIST - MATTHEW
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16, VERSE 5, "NOW WHEN HIS
DISCIPLES HAD COME TO THE OTHER
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SIDE, THEY HAD
FORGOTTEN TO TAKE BREAD."
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MATTER OF FACT, YOU MAY WANT
TO JUST TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO
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MATTHEW 16.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT
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SEVERAL PASSAGES HERE.
MATTHEW 16 IS WHERE YOU FIND
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THIS PASSAGE, AND PASTOR
ROSS AND I, WHEN WE DO THE BIBLE
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PROGRAM, WE OFTEN GET
QUESTIONS ON THIS CHAPTER.
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SO IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN HIS
DISCIPLES HAD COME TO THE OTHER
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SIDE, THEY HAD
FORGOTTEN TO TAKE BREAD.
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THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'TAKE
HEED AND BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN
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OF THE PHARISEES AND THE
SADDUCEES.'" AT FIRST THE
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DISCIPLES THOUGHT, 'OH
MAN, WE FORGOT TO BRING LUNCH.'
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JESUS SAID, 'NO, I'M
SPEAKING IN METAPHORS.
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I'M SAYING, BASICALLY, BE
CAREFUL OF THE TEACHING OF THE
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SADDUCEES.
THEY'RE REJECTING ME.' AND
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THAT'S WHY, LATER, IN THAT SAME
QUESTION IN THAT SAME CHAPTER,
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JESUS THEN ASKS THE BIG QUESTION
- "WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE
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REGION OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI,
HE ASKED HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING,
00:22:54.97\00:22:58.94
'WHO DO MEN SAY THAT
I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?'
00:22:58.94\00:23:03.51
SO THEY SAID, 'SOME SAY JOHN THE
BAPTIST, SOME ELIJAH, AND OTHERS
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JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE
PROPHETS.'" NOW WAS THERE ANY
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PROPHECY THAT
SAID ELIJAH WOULD COME?
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THERE WAS A PROPHECY THAT SAID
SOMEONE WOULD COME IN THE SPIRIT
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AND POWER OF ELIJAH.
WAS THERE A PROPHECY THAT
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SAID JEREMIAH WOULD
RETURN? NOT THAT I KNOW OF.
00:23:19.86\00:23:24.27
SO THEY'D COME UP WITH SOME
VERY INTERESTING IDEAS ABOUT
00:23:24.27\00:23:27.60
REINCARNATION AT THIS TIME -
"...JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE OTHER
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PROPHETS." - THIS
PERSON HAD COME, AT LEAST
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IN THEIR SPIRIT, AND THEY
SAID, 'OKAY, NOW HERE'S THE BIG
00:23:34.68\00:23:38.25
QUESTION - VERSE 15 -
"BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?"
00:23:38.25\00:23:44.05
- IT'S NOT 'WHAT
DOES EVERYONE ELSE SAY?
00:23:44.05\00:23:46.12
WHO DO YOU SAY?' -
NOW, WHEN YOU MAKE UP YOUR
00:23:46.12\00:23:49.52
MIND WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT
JESUS, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO SAY,
00:23:49.52\00:23:51.93
'WHO DOES THE WORLD SAY
THAT HE IS? OR WHO DO YOU -
00:23:51.93\00:23:56.13
WHO IS HE TO YOU? -
AND THAT'S SO IMPORTANT.
00:23:56.13\00:23:59.70
JESUS WANTS TO KNOW
'WHAT DO YOU THINK?'
00:23:59.70\00:24:03.07
AND SIMON PETER, WITHOUT
HESITATING - ALWAYS FIRST TO
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SPEAK, HE "...ANSWERED AND SAID,
'YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF
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THE LIVING GOD.'" - WHEN HE
SAID, 'YOU'RE THE CHRIST', THAT
00:24:09.71\00:24:12.91
WORD THERE IS 'CHRISTOS', IT
MEANS 'YOU ARE THE ANOINTED' -
00:24:12.91\00:24:15.62
'I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE ONE
THAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
00:24:15.62\00:24:18.35
YOU ARE THE SON OF THE LIVING
GOD.' AND "JESUS ANSWERED AND
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SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED ARE YOU,
SIMON BAR-JONAH'" - SIMON THE
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SON OF JONAH - "FOR FLESH AND
BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO
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YOU, BUT MY
FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN."
00:24:28.33\00:24:30.93
- 'THEREFORE YOU WILL BE
THE FIRST OF MANY POPES.'
00:24:30.93\00:24:35.97
DOES IT SAY THAT? YOU WITH ME?
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EVERYTHING WAS OKAY UP UNTIL
I SAID THAT PART ABOUT THE FIRST
00:24:38.94\00:24:41.54
OF MANY POPES. BUT
SOME PEOPLE READ THIS VERSE
00:24:41.54\00:24:44.18
THAT WAY, THAT'S
WHY I INJECTED THAT.
00:24:44.18\00:24:46.88
THEY THINK, 'OH, BECAUSE
JESUS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PETER WAS
00:24:46.88\00:24:52.55
BLESSED HERE BECAUSE OF THIS,
JESUS - AND THEN HE GOES ON AND
00:24:52.55\00:24:56.12
HE SAYS - YOU'VE GOT TO
READ HERE - GO TO VERSE 20, FOR
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EXAMPLE, ALTHOUGH YOU CAN READ
VERSES 18 AND 19 - WE NEED TO
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READ THAT - "AND I ALSO SAY TO
YOU THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND ON
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THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY
CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HADES
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SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST
IT. AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS
00:25:14.38\00:25:18.01
OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND
WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH WILL
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BE BOUND...AND WHATEVER YOU
LOOSE ON EARTH WILL BE LOOSED IN
00:25:20.82\00:25:24.05
HEAVEN.'" - WHATEVER YOU
BIND WILL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN;
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WHATEVER YOU LOOSE
WILL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN.
00:25:27.39\00:25:29.42
NOW, AN UNINFORMED READING OF
THAT VERSE - A PERSON COULD BE
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LED TO THINK THAT JESUS IS
TALKING TO PETER AND SAYING,
00:25:35.46\00:25:39.17
'PETER, BECAUSE YOU WERE THE
FIRST ONE TO BLURT OUT THAT YOU
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THINK I'M THE CHRIST,' - BY
THE WAY, YOU READ DOWN A LITTLE
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FURTHER AND IT SAYS ALL THE
DISCIPLES - MATTER OF FACT, YOU
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LOOK IN MATTHEW 16:20, HE
COMMANDED HIS DISCIPLES THEY
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SHOULD TELL NO
ONE HE WAS THE CHRIST.
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THEY ALL BELIEVED IT, IT SAID.
00:25:56.58\00:25:58.39
IT WASN'T THAT PETER MADE A
DECLARATION THE OTHERS DIDN'T
00:25:58.39\00:26:00.99
BELIEVE, HE WAS JUST
THE FIRST TO ARTICULATE IT.
00:26:00.99\00:26:03.76
SO THE IDEA THAT NOW JESUS IS
SAYING, 'PETER, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:26:03.76\00:26:06.13
NOW BE THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH
- "BLESSED ARE YOU...FLESH AND
00:26:06.13\00:26:10.10
BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS" -
BUT NOTICE HE SAYS - VERSE 18 -
00:26:10.10\00:26:13.37
"...YOU ARE PETER AND ON
THIS ROCK" - IF YOU LOOK IN THE
00:26:13.37\00:26:16.34
GREEK, THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT
WORDS THAT ARE USED THERE.
00:26:16.34\00:26:18.97
JESUS SAID, 'YOU ARE PETER'
- THAT'S 'PETROS' - THE WORD
00:26:18.97\00:26:22.71
'PETER' - 'PETROS' MEANS
'A STONE' THAT YOU MIGHT FIND
00:26:22.71\00:26:26.65
ROLLING AROUND IN A CREEK - A
PIECE OF A STONE - BUT THEN HE
00:26:26.65\00:26:31.69
GOES ON AND HE SAYS, 'BUT ON
THIS ROCK' - THIS 'PETRA' - THAT
00:26:31.69\00:26:35.96
WAS A WORD THAT WOULD MEAN A
ROCK OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS LIKE
00:26:35.96\00:26:40.26
YOU WOULD SEE AT YOSEMITE OR THE
PRUDENTIAL ROCK OR THE STRAITS -
00:26:40.26\00:26:45.77
THE GATES OF HERCULES - THE
STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR THEY CALL
00:26:45.77\00:26:48.64
THEM - THIS
GREAT BIG GRANITE ROCK.
00:26:48.64\00:26:51.67
JESUS IS SAYING, 'YOU'RE A
ROLLING STONE, BUT ON THIS ROCK
00:26:51.67\00:26:55.51
- WHAT YOU'VE SAID - THAT I
AM THE CHRIST - I WILL BUILD MY
00:26:55.51\00:26:59.61
CHURCH.' AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS,
'I GIVE TO YOU THE KEYS OF THE
00:26:59.61\00:27:03.32
KINGDOM, HE WASN'T GIVING IT TO
PETER BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, ALMOST
00:27:03.32\00:27:06.19
THE SAME THING IN THE GOSPEL
OF JOHN, HE SAYS IT TO ALL THE
00:27:06.19\00:27:08.76
BELIEVERS. HE SAYS
IT TO THE APOSTLES.
00:27:08.76\00:27:11.26
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'IN
SHARING THE GOSPEL, YOU WILL
00:27:11.26\00:27:15.50
HAVE THE KEYS THAT WILL
UNLOCK SALVATION TO OTHERS.
00:27:15.50\00:27:20.97
SO THE IDEA THAT CHRIST
COMMITTED TO ONE MAN AND HIS
00:27:20.97\00:27:25.01
SUCCESSOR THIS GREAT
AUTHORITY, IS REALLY A HERESY.
00:27:25.01\00:27:31.41
AND PROTESTANTS USED TO SPEAK
ABOUT THAT BUT YOU DON'T HEAR
00:27:31.41\00:27:34.12
THEM SAYING MUCH ANYMORE.
ANYWAY, SO PETER WAS THE FIRST
00:27:34.12\00:27:38.19
ONE WHO RECOGNIZED THIS.
AND IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 9 NOW -
00:27:38.19\00:27:44.39
YOU'LL SEE IN VERSE 18 IT'S A
SIMILAR RENDERING OF THIS STORY.
00:27:44.39\00:27:49.10
"AND IT HAPPENED, AS HE
WAS ALONE PRAYING, THAT HIS
00:27:49.10\00:27:51.57
DISCIPLES JOINED HIM," -
THEY CAME TO JOIN HIM IN PRAYER.
00:27:51.57\00:27:55.27
AND THEN, WHEN HE WAS DONE,
HE SAID, "'WHO DO THE CROWDS SAY
00:27:55.27\00:27:57.87
THAT I AM?' SO THEY...SAID,
'JOHN THE BAPTIST, BUS SOME SAY
00:27:57.87\00:28:00.28
ELIJAH...ONE OF THE OLD PROPHETS
HAS RISEN AGAIN.' HE SAID TO
00:28:00.28\00:28:04.01
THEM, 'BUT WHO DO
YOU SAY THAT I AM?'
00:28:04.01\00:28:05.91
PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 'THE
CHRIST OF GOD.' AND HE STRICTLY
00:28:05.91\00:28:11.39
WARNED AND COMMANDED THEM" -
NOTICE HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING
00:28:11.39\00:28:13.66
ABOUT 'YOU'RE
THE NEW POPE' HERE?
00:28:13.66\00:28:15.89
HERE HE JUST SAYS, 'DON'T TELL
ANYBODY THIS.' HE WARNED THEM
00:28:15.89\00:28:19.96
AND COMMANDED THEM "TO TELL THIS
TO NO ONE, SAYING, 'THE SON OF
00:28:19.96\00:28:22.66
MAN" - WHY DID HE WANT
THEM NOT TO TELL ANYONE?
00:28:22.66\00:28:26.37
BECAUSE CHRIST STILL HAD SOME
TIME OF PREACHING TO GO AND HE
00:28:26.37\00:28:28.90
KNEW THAT IF HE WAS PUBLICLY
SAYING, 'I AM THE MESSIAH' IT
00:28:28.90\00:28:31.91
WOULD - IT WOULD AROUSE SO MUCH
RESISTANCE FROM THE RELIGIOUS
00:28:31.91\00:28:35.91
LEADERS THAT IT WAS GOING
TO INHIBIT HIS TRAVELING AND
00:28:35.91\00:28:38.55
PREACHING. AND
SO, HE SAID, 'DON'T
00:28:38.55\00:28:40.52
ADVERTISE THAT RIGHT NOW.
NOW'S NOT THE TIME.' AND THEN
00:28:40.52\00:28:44.22
HE SAID, 'THERE'LL COME A TIME.
THE SON OF MAN' - "MUST SUFFER
00:28:44.22\00:28:47.99
MANY THINGS, AND BE REJECTED BY
THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND
00:28:47.99\00:28:51.06
SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED
AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY."
00:28:51.06\00:28:53.43
NOW I'M GOING TO JUMP BACK
TO MATTHEW 16, WHERE JESUS MAKES
00:28:53.43\00:28:57.87
THAT STATEMENT.
HOW DOES PETER RESPOND?
00:28:57.87\00:29:00.37
GO TO MATTHEW 16 AND LOOK IN
VERSE 21, "FROM THAT TIME JESUS
00:29:00.37\00:29:06.21
BEGAN TO SHOW TO HIS DISCIPLES
THAT HE JUST GO TO JERUSALEM,
00:29:06.21\00:29:09.74
AND SUFFER MANY THINGS FROM THE
ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE
00:29:09.74\00:29:12.65
SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED,
AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY.
00:29:12.65\00:29:16.92
THEN PETER TOOK HIM ASIDE" -
THAT WAS NICE FOR PETER TO TAKE
00:29:16.92\00:29:19.22
HIM ASIDE; YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO
EMBARRASS JESUS - YOU DON'T WANT
00:29:19.22\00:29:21.66
TO CHASTISE JESUS IN A CROWD,
YOU KNOW? HE TOOK HIM ASIDE -
00:29:21.66\00:29:25.36
YOU EVER BEEN TAKEN ASIDE BY
YOUR PARENTS BEFORE? (LAUGHTER)
00:29:25.36\00:29:28.63
HE "...TOOK HIM ASIDE AND BEGAN
TO REBUKE HIM, SAYING," - SHAKE
00:29:28.63\00:29:32.27
HIS FINGER AT JESUS - LITTLE
DIFFERENT FROM WHEN HE KNELT AT
00:29:32.27\00:29:35.57
HIM AND SAID, 'DEPART FROM ME,
YOU'RE - I'M A SINFUL MAN - HE
00:29:35.57\00:29:38.84
SAID, "FAR BE IT FROM YOU,
LORD;" - DON'T TALK LIKE THIS -
00:29:38.84\00:29:41.41
"THIS SHALL NOT HAPPEN TO
YOU!" - 'STOP TALKING THIS WAY!'
00:29:41.41\00:29:44.21
AND JESUS LOOKED AT PETER
AND LOOKED BEHIND PETER, AND HE
00:29:44.21\00:29:47.58
REALIZED IT WAS THE DEVIL AND
HE SAID, "GET BEHIND ME, SATAN!"
00:29:47.58\00:29:52.75
- HE TURNED TO PETER AND
SAID, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN!
00:29:52.75\00:29:55.76
SO, IF YOU HAD NOTIONS ABOUT
PETER BEING THE FIRST POPE,
00:29:55.76\00:29:58.96
ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO
IS READ A LITTLE FURTHER.
00:29:58.96\00:30:02.20
TWENTY MINUTES DON'T GO BY, FROM
THE TIME THAT HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE A
00:30:02.20\00:30:05.67
PEBBLE, BUT ON THIS ROCK I'M
GOING TO BUILD MY CHURCH' AND HE
00:30:05.67\00:30:07.97
LOOKS HIM IN THE EYE AND
SAYS, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN!'
00:30:07.97\00:30:10.77
SO, I REALLY DOUBT THAT JESUS
WAS SAYING THAT HE WAS GOING TO
00:30:10.77\00:30:13.41
BUILD HIS CHURCH ON A MAN
THAT WAS SO WISHY-WASHY THAT ONE
00:30:13.41\00:30:16.08
MINUTE HE WAS MAKING THIS GREAT
DECLARATION AND THE NEXT MINUTE
00:30:16.08\00:30:19.15
JESUS IS CALLING HIM SATAN.
NOW, HE WASN'T THE DEVIL, BUT
00:30:19.15\00:30:23.22
THE DEVIL WAS
SPEAKING THROUGH PETER.
00:30:23.22\00:30:27.19
SO, THAT'S JUST REAL IMPORTANT,
I THINK, FOR US TO UNDERSTAND
00:30:27.19\00:30:30.73
WHEN HE SAYS
THIS, 'GET BEHIND ME'.
00:30:30.73\00:30:33.09
LET ME READ A QUOTE TO YOU FROM
THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES - THEY
00:30:33.09\00:30:35.83
ALL MISUNDERSTOOD, IT WASN'T
JUST PETER. THE DISCIPLES STILL
00:30:35.83\00:30:39.73
EXPECTED CHRIST TO
REIGN AS A TEMPORAL PRINCE.
00:30:39.73\00:30:43.37
ALTHOUGH HE HAD BEEN LONG
CONCEALING HIS DESIGNS, THEY
00:30:43.37\00:30:46.17
BELIEVED HE WOULD NOT ALWAYS
REMAIN IN POVERTY AND OBSCURITY.
00:30:46.17\00:30:49.24
THE TIME WAS NEAR WHEN HE WOULD
ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM, THAT
00:30:49.24\00:30:52.91
HATRED OF THE PRIESTS AND
THE RABBIS WOULD NEVER OVERCOME,
00:30:52.91\00:30:56.45
THAT CHRIST WOULD BE REJECTED BY
HIS OWN NATION, CONDEMNED AS A
00:30:56.45\00:31:00.22
DECEIVER AND CRUCIFIED AS A
MALEFACTOR. SUCH A THOUGHT THE
00:31:00.22\00:31:02.66
DISCIPLES NEVER ENTERTAINED."
SEE, IN THEIR MINDS, THEY
00:31:02.66\00:31:06.63
THOUGHT JESUS
WAS THE SON OF DAVID.
00:31:06.63\00:31:08.50
SO, WHILE CHRIST WAS BEING
DOGGED AND PERSECUTED BY THE
00:31:08.50\00:31:11.50
PRIESTS, THEY SAID, 'WELL, DAVID
WAS CHASED BY SAUL.' WE'VE BEEN
00:31:11.50\00:31:14.77
LEARNING ABOUT THAT IN OUR
SERIES, 'BUT SOON HE GOT OVER IT
00:31:14.77\00:31:18.27
AND HE WAS KING.' AND THEY
THOUGHT JESUS WAS GIVEN - HE'S
00:31:18.27\00:31:21.24
BEING GIVEN A HARD TIME - HE'S
GOING THROUGH HIS TRIALS, BUT
00:31:21.24\00:31:23.24
SOON HE'LL GET OVER THAT
- HE'LL BE DECLARED KING.
00:31:23.24\00:31:26.15
THEY SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO STICK
WITH HIM LIKE DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN
00:31:26.15\00:31:28.75
AND HE'LL BE KING AND WE'LL
REIGN WITH HIM.' THAT WAS IN
00:31:28.75\00:31:30.99
THEIR MINDS. THEY WERE SURE
THAT'S WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:31:30.99\00:31:33.46
SO, WHEN HE SAID, 'I'M
GOING TO DIE' THEY SAID, 'WHAT?
00:31:33.46\00:31:36.89
THAT DOESN'T FIT WITH OUR
ESCHATOLOGY AT ALL.' AND SO THEY
00:31:36.89\00:31:40.93
REALLY STRUGGLED WITH THAT.
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:31:40.93\00:31:43.23
FOR ME 1 PETER 4:12 - OKAY,
JOHN? MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN GO
00:31:43.23\00:31:47.97
AHEAD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE
I THINK WE'RE READY FOR IT.
00:31:47.97\00:31:51.17
>>"BELOVED, DO NOT THINK IT
STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY
00:31:51.17\00:31:53.84
TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU,
AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING
00:31:53.84\00:31:58.65
HAPPENED TO YOU; BUT REJOICE TO
THE EXTENT THAT YOU PARTAKE OF
00:31:58.65\00:32:03.08
CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS, THAT WHEN
HIS GLORY IS REVEALED, YOU MAY
00:32:03.08\00:32:06.49
ALSO BE GLAD
WITH EXCEEDING JOY."
00:32:06.49\00:32:10.29
>>VERY GOOD. DID
PETER, EVIDENTLY, WHEN HE
00:32:10.29\00:32:13.43
WROTE IN HIS BOOK, FINALLY
GET THE NOTION THAT THEY WERE
00:32:13.43\00:32:17.30
GOING TO HAVE TO SUFFER? HE
SAID, 'DON'T BE AMAZED AT THE
00:32:17.30\00:32:20.20
FIERY TRIALS THAT ARE GOING TO
TRY YOUR FAITH, AS THOUGH SOME
00:32:20.20\00:32:22.74
STRANGE THING HAS HAPPENED
TO YOU'. DID THEY GO THROUGH AN
00:32:22.74\00:32:25.51
UNEXPECTED FIERY TRIAL WHEN
THEY SAW JESUS ON THE CROSS?
00:32:25.51\00:32:30.11
THEY THOUGHT, 'WOW, WE DID NOT
SEE THAT COMING.' HAVE YOU EVER
00:32:30.11\00:32:35.02
HAD A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHERE
YOU THOUGHT, 'OH, I'VE HEARD OF
00:32:35.02\00:32:36.89
THIS HAPPENING TO OTHER PEOPLE;
I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN
00:32:36.89\00:32:38.65
TO ME. I DIDN'T SEE THAT
COMING.' DOES THE BIBLE SAY THAT
00:32:38.65\00:32:43.86
GOD BLESSES PEOPLE? BUT
EVEN THOSE THAT HE BLESSES,
00:32:43.86\00:32:48.00
DO THEY GO THROUGH TRIALS?
WE'VE ALL READ - WE READ A LOT
00:32:48.00\00:32:51.03
OF JOB THIS LAST YEAR - WE KNOW
THAT EVEN THOSE THAT HE LOVES
00:32:51.03\00:32:55.47
WILL GO THROUGH
EPISODES OF FIERY TRIALS.
00:32:55.47\00:32:58.17
YOU KNOW, I TALKED TO MY FRIENDS
- I'VE GOT SOME DEAR CHARISMATIC
00:32:58.17\00:33:02.41
FRIENDS AND THEY'RE SURE
ABOUT THE SECRET RAPTURE.
00:33:02.41\00:33:05.68
THEY SAID, 'OH, CHURCH
IS NOT GOING TO BE HERE IN
00:33:05.68\00:33:07.12
TRIBULATION.' AND I SAID,
'I WANT YOU TO READ THIS VERSE,
00:33:07.12\00:33:12.02
'DON'T BE AMAZED AT THE FIERY
TRIALS THAT WILL TRY YOU AS
00:33:12.02\00:33:15.19
THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING
HAPPENED' - 'WE DIDN'T THINK
00:33:15.19\00:33:17.29
THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.'
I SAID, 'YOU MAY BE SURPRISED
00:33:17.29\00:33:20.70
THAT WE ARE HERE
DURING THE TRIBULATION' -
00:33:20.70\00:33:23.70
THAT GOD SAVES HIS
CHURCH THROUGH TRIBULATION -
00:33:23.70\00:33:26.87
'ALL THAT LIVE GODLY WILL SUFFER
PERSECUTION.' SO, THIS IDEA THAT
00:33:26.87\00:33:30.04
YOU DON'T GO THROUGH TRIALS
- PETER UNDERSTOOD - MATTER OF
00:33:30.04\00:33:33.34
FACT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET
INTO IT NOW, BUT WHEN YOU GET
00:33:33.34\00:33:35.21
INTO 1 AND 2 PETER YOU'LL
SEE HE SAYS QUITE A BIT ABOUT
00:33:35.21\00:33:38.55
SUFFERING.
BELIEVERS DO GO THROUGH -
00:33:38.55\00:33:41.15
WHY DOES HE ALLOW
SUFFERING? TO TRY TO PURGE -
00:33:41.15\00:33:44.32
TO PURIFY OUR FAITH.
GOD ALLOWS US TO GO THROUGH
00:33:44.32\00:33:48.82
SOME OF THESE HARD THINGS.
IT MAKES IT EASIER WHEN YOU KNOW
00:33:48.82\00:33:51.49
THAT GOD HAS
DESIGNED IT TO SAVE YOU, AMEN?
00:33:51.49\00:33:54.63
IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A HARD
TIME AND YOU JUST THINK, 'HOW
00:33:54.63\00:33:57.30
UNFORTUNATE FOR ME', WELL,
YOU'LL START FEELING SORRY FOR
00:33:57.30\00:34:00.47
YOURSELF. BUT IF YOU
THINK THAT GOD PULLED
00:34:00.47\00:34:02.80
THIS OFF THE SHELF JUST FOR YOU,
TO SAVE YOU, THEN YOU'LL SAY,
00:34:02.80\00:34:05.81
'OKAY, LORD, WHATEVER IT TAKES.'
IT MAKES IT EASIER TO DEAL WITH.
00:34:05.81\00:34:10.05
WALKING ON WATER - CLOSEST
I CAME WAS I DID SKI BAREFOOT;
00:34:10.05\00:34:17.32
BUT, IF YOU STAND STILL, YOU
SINK - OR, IF THE LAKE'S FROZEN,
00:34:17.32\00:34:24.03
YOU CAN WALK ON WATER BUT,
NORMALLY, THAT'S A MIRACLE.
00:34:24.03\00:34:28.93
MATTHEW 14, VERSE 22 - WE'RE
GOING TO READ THAT TOGETHER -
00:34:28.93\00:34:32.40
ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH PETER.
NOW, THERE ARE SEVERAL STORIES
00:34:32.40\00:34:36.77
WHERE JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES
ARE OUT AT SEA DURING A STORM.
00:34:36.77\00:34:40.68
THIS IS ONE OCCASION WHERE
HE HAD BEEN TEACHING - THERE'S A
00:34:40.68\00:34:43.48
LARGE CROWD - THEY'RE THINKING
OF FORCING HIM INTO BEING KING,
00:34:43.48\00:34:47.62
AND SO JESUS TELLS THE
DISCIPLES, 'LOOK,' - THE
00:34:47.62\00:34:49.85
DISCIPLES WERE KIND OF -
THEY WERE ENCOURAGING THE CROWD,
00:34:49.85\00:34:52.85
'YEAH, YEAH, LET'S MAKE HIM
KING.' AND JUDAS WAS THINKING,
00:34:52.85\00:34:55.22
'NOW'S THE TIME.' AND
JESUS SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE GOT TO
00:34:55.22\00:34:57.43
SEPARATE THE APOSTLES AND THE
CROWD.' HE PUTS THEM IN A BOAT
00:34:57.43\00:35:00.73
BY THEMSELVES AND SAYS,
'YOU CROSS OVER. I'LL MEET YOU'.
00:35:00.73\00:35:03.03
DIDN'T TELL THEM HOW - THEY WERE
OTHER FISHING BOATS - HE SAID,
00:35:03.03\00:35:05.83
'I'LL CATCH UP
WITH YOU.' 'BUT LORD!'
00:35:05.83\00:35:07.60
'YOU GO. I'LL CATCH
UP WITH YOU. CROSS OVER.'
00:35:07.60\00:35:10.07
HE DISMISSES THE CROWD AND THEN
GOES OFF IN THE MOUNTAINS BY
00:35:10.07\00:35:13.91
HIMSELF TO PRAY. "...HE
SENT THE MULTITUDES AWAY,
00:35:13.91\00:35:18.88
HE WENT UP ON THE
MOUNTAIN BY HIMSELF TO PRAY.
00:35:18.88\00:35:21.28
NOW WHEN EVENING
CAME, HE WAS ALONE THERE.
00:35:21.28\00:35:24.59
BUT THE BOAT WAS NOW IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE SEA, TOSSED BY THE
00:35:24.59\00:35:27.12
WAVES, FOR THE
WIND WAS CONTRARY."
00:35:27.12\00:35:29.46
THE DISCIPLES WERE
ROWING AGAINST THE WIND.
00:35:29.46\00:35:32.66
"NOW IN THE FOURTH WATCH OF
THE NIGHT" - WHICH IS 3:00 AM -
00:35:32.66\00:35:36.67
"JESUS WENT TO
THEM, WALKING ON THE SEA."
00:35:36.67\00:35:40.87
- BY THE WAY, YOU'LL READ THIS
STORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND
00:35:40.87\00:35:44.94
IT TELLS US THAT THEY WERE
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA IN THE
00:35:44.94\00:35:48.98
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, TOSSED BY
THE WAVES, ROWING INTO THE WIND,
00:35:48.98\00:35:53.28
NOT GETTING ANYWHERE, EXHAUSTED,
COLD, WET - JESUS WENT TO THEM
00:35:53.28\00:35:57.62
WALKING ON THE SEA AND THE
DISCIPLES SAW HIM WALKING ON THE
00:35:57.62\00:36:01.12
SEA AND THEY WERE TROUBLED AND
THOUGHT IT WAS A GHOST - IT'S A
00:36:01.12\00:36:04.19
SPIRIT - IT'S AN APPARITION -
"AND THEY CRIED OUT FOR FEAR."
00:36:04.19\00:36:08.06
YOU WONDER ABOUT
THEIR THEOLOGY, RIGHT?
00:36:08.06\00:36:10.67
DID THEY BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?
"AND THEY CRIED OUT FOR FEAR.
00:36:10.67\00:36:14.80
BUT IMMEDIATELY JESUS SPOKE TO
THEM, SAYING, 'BE OF GOOD CHEER!
00:36:14.80\00:36:18.27
IT IS I; DO NOT BE AFRAID."
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE MAY HAVE
00:36:18.27\00:36:22.61
EPISODES OF FEAR BECAUSE
WE DON'T KNOW JESUS; THEY WERE
00:36:22.61\00:36:26.28
AFRAID OF HIM AND HE
WAS COMING WITH A BLESSING.
00:36:26.28\00:36:28.62
AND THEN PETER - HE SWITCHES
GEARS SO QUICKLY - THEY GO FROM
00:36:28.62\00:36:31.82
CRYING OUT IN TERROR - BUT HE'S
SO HAPPY TO HEAR IT'S JESUS,
00:36:31.82\00:36:35.19
HE'S NOT EVEN WAITING FOR JESUS
TO COME TO HIM ON THE - IN THE
00:36:35.19\00:36:39.66
BOAT - AND HE ANSWERS AND SAYS,
"LORD, IF IT IS YOU, COMMAND ME
00:36:39.66\00:36:43.83
TO COME TO YOU ON THE WATER."
PETER'S VERY CURIOUS; HE THINKS,
00:36:43.83\00:36:46.77
'WOW, THAT'S SOMETHING, WALKING
ON WATER. I'D LIKE TO TRY THAT.
00:36:46.77\00:36:49.64
'LORD, IF IT'S
YOU, LET ME TRY THAT.
00:36:49.64\00:36:51.74
COMMAND ME TO COME TO YOU.' DO
YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME THE
00:36:51.74\00:36:56.44
LORD SAYS 'YES' TO OUR PRAYERS?
WHAT, EXACTLY, WAS THE POINT TO
00:36:56.44\00:36:59.25
PETER COMING TO
JESUS ON THE WATER?
00:36:59.25\00:37:01.92
WASN'T JESUS ALREADY
HEADING FOR THE BOAT?
00:37:01.92\00:37:05.22
HE WAS SAYING, 'LET ME ESCORT
YOU TO THE BOAT.' HE WAS COMING
00:37:05.22\00:37:08.29
TO THE DISCIPLES BECAUSE
THEY WERE HAVING A HARD TIME.
00:37:08.29\00:37:11.39
THE LORD, USUALLY, SAYS 'YES'
TO OUR PRAYERS, AND SO HE SAYS,
00:37:11.39\00:37:16.53
'COME. WHY NOT?' AND
WHEN PETER HAD COME DOWN OUT
00:37:16.53\00:37:21.00
OF THE BOAT, HE STEPPED OVER
THE SIDE, HE FELT SOMETHING FIRM
00:37:21.00\00:37:24.04
UNDER HIS FEET, HE WALKED
ON THE WATER TO GO TO JESUS.
00:37:24.04\00:37:29.61
NOW, WHY WAS PETER THE ONLY
ONE WHO ASKED THAT QUESTION?
00:37:29.61\00:37:35.98
WILL WE ALL ADMIT THERE'S
SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT PETER?
00:37:35.98\00:37:40.02
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD HAVE
SAID, 'HEY, LORD, CAN I TRY IT?'
00:37:40.02\00:37:46.16
I MEAN, THE MOMENT BEFORE, HE
WAS TERRIFIED, BUT SUDDENLY HE'S
00:37:46.16\00:37:51.17
VERY CURIOUS ABOUT THE PHYSICS
OF WALKING ON WATER AND HE WANTS
00:37:51.17\00:37:54.74
TO TRY IT. AND HE
SAYS, 'LORD, IF THAT'S
00:37:54.74\00:37:58.77
YOU, LET ME COME.' HE
SAYS, 'COME.' HE STARTS WALKING
00:37:58.77\00:38:01.98
TOWARDS CHRIST, "BUT WHEN HE SAW
THE WIND WAS BOISTEROUS HE WAS
00:38:01.98\00:38:08.22
AFRAID;" - HE TURNED AROUND
- THE WIND -WAS DRIVING UP THE
00:38:08.22\00:38:11.29
WAVES AND HE TOOK
HIS EYES OFF JESUS.
00:38:11.29\00:38:15.82
MAYBE A WAVE CAME BETWEEN THEM
AND HE COULDN'T SEE CHRIST - I
00:38:15.82\00:38:19.16
HAVE A - I HAVE A SUSPICION
THAT, WHEN HE FIRST STARTED
00:38:19.16\00:38:22.16
WALKING ON THE WATER HE WAS
LOOKING AT JESUS - HE WAS DOING
00:38:22.16\00:38:24.53
FINE. AND THEN, PETER WAS ALWAYS
00:38:24.53\00:38:27.04
WORRIED ABOUT WHAT
HIS FRIENDS THOUGHT.
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.67
YOU'LL FIND THAT AS WE GO ON.
AND HE PROBABLY WAS THINKING,
00:38:29.67\00:38:32.94
'ARE YOU GUYS
GETTING THIS ON YOUR IPHONE?
00:38:32.94\00:38:35.14
LOOK AT THIS.
I'M WALKING ON WATER.
00:38:35.14\00:38:36.75
LET'S TAKE A - WE'LL
POST IT ON THE INTERNET.
00:38:36.75\00:38:39.18
YOU GUYS GETTING THIS?' RIGHT?
00:38:39.18\00:38:42.68
AND HE TOOK HIS EYES OFF JESUS
AND THEN HE SAW THE WIND AND THE
00:38:42.68\00:38:45.09
WAVES AND HIS
FAITH BEGIN TO SINK.
00:38:45.09\00:38:49.39
AND, WHEN HIS FAITH BEGAN
TO SINK, HE BEGAN TO SINK.
00:38:49.39\00:38:52.43
AND THEN PETER UTTERS THE
SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE -
00:38:52.43\00:38:55.70
THERE MAY BE A SHORTER ONE,
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS.
00:38:55.70\00:38:59.30
HE SAYS, 'LORD, SAVE ME.'
IT'S GOT ALL THE COMPONENTS OF A
00:38:59.30\00:39:04.14
COMPLETE SENTENCE
- 'LORD, SAVE ME.'
00:39:04.14\00:39:07.71
HE DIDN'T HAVE
TIME FOR A LONG PRAYER.
00:39:07.71\00:39:09.48
I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS KNEELING
WHEN HE PRAYED - HE WAS PROBABLY
00:39:09.48\00:39:13.28
KICKING AND SWIMMING - "AND
IMMEDIATELY JESUS STRETCHED OUT
00:39:13.28\00:39:17.52
HIS HAND AND CAUGHT HIM, AND
SAID TO HIM, 'O YOU OF LITTLE
00:39:17.52\00:39:20.12
FAITH, WHY DID YOU DOUBT?'"
NOW, WHENEVER I READ THIS
00:39:20.12\00:39:23.49
STORY - WHY IS THIS STORY IN
THE BIBLE? IS IT ENTERTAINMENT?
00:39:23.49\00:39:30.73
I HAVE A THEORY THAT THIS STORY
IS IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE THE
00:39:30.73\00:39:37.07
CHRISTIAN LIFE IS REFERRED
TO AS A WALK, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:39:37.07\00:39:40.94
WE'RE TOLD TO WALK WITH GOD.
WE'RE TOLD TO WALK WITH JESUS.
00:39:40.94\00:39:43.85
TO WALK A HOLY LIFE IN A WICKED
WORLD IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A
00:39:43.85\00:39:49.55
MIRACLE. IT WAS
IMPOSSIBLE FOR PETER TO
00:39:49.55\00:39:53.49
WALK ON WATER UNLESS
HE KEPT HIS EYES ON JESUS.
00:39:53.49\00:39:57.46
THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN LIVE
GODLY LIVES IS BY DAILY DYING TO
00:39:57.46\00:40:03.20
SELF AND KEEPING
OUR EYES FIXED ON JESUS.
00:40:03.20\00:40:06.17
EVERY DAY THAT YOU WALK
WITH GOD, IT IS A MIRACLE.
00:40:06.17\00:40:10.71
IT WAS THE SAVING GRACE OF
CHRIST THAT HELPS US NOT TO BE
00:40:10.71\00:40:14.74
OVERWHELMED AND DROWNED - LIKE
EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD DROWN - OUT
00:40:14.74\00:40:18.91
THERE IN THE SEA.
AND WE ARE SURROUNDED BY
00:40:18.91\00:40:22.05
THE STORMY WAVES OF SIN AND
WICKEDNESS AND, IF YOU KEEP YOUR
00:40:22.05\00:40:26.15
EYES ON CHRIST, YOU
CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.
00:40:26.15\00:40:30.16
NOW, WHEN PEOPLE SAY
'NOBODY CAN LIVE A GODLY LIFE.
00:40:30.16\00:40:33.66
NOBODY CAN KEEP GOD'S
COMMANDMENTS.' I HEAR THAT AND I
00:40:33.66\00:40:35.53
SAY, 'YOU'RE RIGHT.
THEY CAN'T - WITHOUT GOD.'
00:40:35.53\00:40:38.47
BUT THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE
GOSPEL UNIQUE, THROUGH CHRIST,
00:40:38.47\00:40:41.70
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
AND WHEN PEOPLE START MAKING ALL
00:40:41.70\00:40:45.84
THE ARGUMENTS ABOUT HOW EASY
IT IS TO SIN AND HOW WEAK WE ALL
00:40:45.84\00:40:48.58
ARE, I HAVE TO
AGREE - YOU'RE RIGHT.
00:40:48.58\00:40:50.71
BUT, GOD ISN'T ASKING US TO DO
THE NORMAL; HE'S ASKING US, IN
00:40:50.71\00:40:53.58
BEING CHRISTIANS,
TO DO THE SUPERNATURAL.
00:40:53.58\00:40:56.85
IF YOU'RE WALKING WITH CHRIST,
IF YOU'RE KEEPING YOUR EYES ON
00:40:56.85\00:40:59.82
HIM, IF YOU HAVE A SPIRIT-FILLED
LIFE, IT IS EXTRAORDINARY, IT IS
00:40:59.82\00:41:05.16
UNUSUAL, IT IS
SUPERNATURAL, IT IS DIFFERENT.
00:41:05.16\00:41:09.00
WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
NOAH WALKED WITH GOD IN A WICKED
00:41:09.00\00:41:12.23
GENERATION, IT WAS
BY THE GRACE OF GOD.
00:41:12.23\00:41:15.54
NOAH FOUND GRACE. AND,
IF WE WALK HOLY LIVES IN A
00:41:15.54\00:41:18.67
WICKED WORLD, HOW DO WE DO IT?
IT'S BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AMEN?
00:41:18.67\00:41:23.11
I'M SO GLAD PETER ASKED THAT
QUESTION BECAUSE, OTHERWISE, WE
00:41:23.11\00:41:26.11
WOULDN'T HAVE THAT LESSON THAT,
IF WE'RE FOLLOWING GOD, HE CAN
00:41:26.11\00:41:29.25
PART OCEANS, HE CAN MOVE
MOUNTAINS, AND HE CAN GIVE
00:41:29.25\00:41:34.09
YOU THE ABILITY
TO WALK ON WATER.
00:41:34.09\00:41:37.43
AND WHEN THEY GOT IN THE BOAT,
IT SAYS THE WIND CEASED AND
00:41:37.43\00:41:42.43
"THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM IN
THE BOAT CAME AND WORSHIPED HIM,
00:41:42.43\00:41:45.10
SAYING, 'TRULY YOU ARE THE SON
OF GOD.'" NOW, LET ME TELL YOU
00:41:45.10\00:41:47.57
WHY I MENTION THE GOSPEL OF
JOHN: IN JOHN CHAPTER 6, IT ADDS
00:41:47.57\00:41:51.01
ONE MORE THING - IT SAYS WHEN HE
GOT IN THE BOAT THE WIND CEASED
00:41:51.01\00:41:55.41
AND THEY WERE AT
THEIR DESTINATION.
00:41:55.41\00:42:00.08
WHERE WERE THEY
WHEN THEY SAW HIM?
00:42:00.08\00:42:02.15
THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
00:42:02.15\00:42:04.85
WHEN THEY INVITED JESUS IN
THE BOAT, THEY REACHED THEIR
00:42:04.85\00:42:08.62
DESTINATION. ALL OF
A SUDDEN, THEY LOOKED
00:42:08.62\00:42:11.06
AND THEY SAW THE LIGHTS OF
SOMEBODY'S LAMP BURNING ON THE
00:42:11.06\00:42:14.73
SHORE AND THEY SAID, 'WE'RE
HERE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?'
00:42:14.73\00:42:18.23
DON'T MISS THIS IMPORTANT POINT:
WHEN JESUS CAME TO THEM, WHAT
00:42:18.23\00:42:24.07
WERE THEY DOING?
THEY WERE ROWING.
00:42:24.07\00:42:27.71
WHEN THEY INVITED HIM IN
THE BOAT THEY GOT TO THEIR
00:42:27.71\00:42:29.94
DESTINATION. DOES
THE LORD WANT US TO USE
00:42:29.94\00:42:31.81
HUMAN POWER TO DO
WHAT HE TELLS US TO DO?
00:42:31.81\00:42:34.38
JESUS TOLD THEM, 'CROSS
THE SEA.' HE DIDN'T TELL THEM,
00:42:34.38\00:42:37.42
'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY
PROBLEMS.' WE DO HAVE PROBLEMS.
00:42:37.42\00:42:40.32
HE SAID, 'CROSS THE
SEA.' THEY WENT TO OBEY.
00:42:40.32\00:42:43.22
THEY RAN INTO RESISTANCE.
THEY RAN INTO A HEAD WIND.
00:42:43.22\00:42:46.13
THEY RAN INTO WAVES.
BUT, WHEN THEY INVITED JESUS
00:42:46.13\00:42:48.73
IN THE BOAT THEY
WERE AT THEIR DESTINATION.
00:42:48.73\00:42:50.73
SO, WHO GOT THEM THERE?
JESUS GOT THEM THERE, BUT THEY
00:42:50.73\00:42:54.27
WERE DOING EVERYTHING THEY COULD
HUMANLY DO IN THEIR STRENGTH TO
00:42:54.27\00:42:57.04
OBEY WHAT HE TOLD THEM
TO DO. IS THAT AN IMPORTANT
00:42:57.04\00:43:00.21
LESSON FOR US TO
REMEMBER? SOME PEOPLE JUST SIT
00:43:00.21\00:43:02.58
THERE ON THE SHORE.
JESUS SAYS, 'CROSS OVER.' THEY
00:43:02.58\00:43:04.41
SAY, 'I WILL WHEN YOU GET IN MY
BOAT.' NO, HE SAYS, 'YOU START
00:43:04.41\00:43:08.38
DOING WHAT YOU CAN DO AND WHEN
YOU REACH YOUR LIMIT I WILL WORK
00:43:08.38\00:43:13.05
A MIRACLE.' BUT GOD WANTS US
TO DO, HUMANLY, WHAT WE CAN DO.
00:43:13.05\00:43:16.49
AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:43:16.49\00:43:17.86
>>ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S
ANOTHER GREAT STORY OF PETER.
00:43:17.86\00:43:20.23
WE'RE GETTING TO KNOW THE PETER,
WHO WROTE THE LETTERS, DENYING
00:43:20.23\00:43:22.66
HIS LORD. THIS IS
SOMETHING WE DON'T LIKE
00:43:22.66\00:43:24.53
TO DWELL ON, BUT WE ALL KNOW -
YOU READ IN LUKE 22 - OH, BY THE
00:43:24.53\00:43:30.97
WAY, THERE'S A PROMISE IN
THE BIBLE THAT PETER COULD HAVE
00:43:30.97\00:43:34.54
READ, IN ISAIAH 43, "WHEN YOU
PASS THROUGH THE WATERS, I WILL
00:43:34.54\00:43:39.65
BE WITH YOU; AND
THROUGH THE RIVERS, THEY SHALL
00:43:39.65\00:43:42.05
NOT OVERFLOW YOU. WHEN
YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE,
00:43:42.05\00:43:45.12
YOU SHALL NOT BE BURNED," -
I THINK SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND
00:43:45.12\00:43:47.99
ABEDNEGO READ THAT
PROMISE - "NOR SHALL THE
00:43:47.99\00:43:50.33
FLAME SCORCH YOU."
ALRIGHT - DENYING HIS LORD - IT
00:43:50.33\00:43:55.43
SAYS, IN LUKE 22:31, "AND
THE LORD SAID, 'SIMON'" - I HAVE
00:43:55.43\00:43:59.57
SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU
- HE SAID, "SIMON, SIMON!
00:43:59.57\00:44:02.30
INDEED SATAN HAS ASKED FOR YOU,
THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT.
00:44:02.30\00:44:06.07
BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT
YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT FAIL; AND
00:44:06.07\00:44:09.38
WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED TO
ME," - WHEN YOU'RE CONVERTED -
00:44:09.38\00:44:12.65
"'STRENGTHEN YOUR BRETHREN.'
BUT HE SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, I AM
00:44:12.65\00:44:16.35
READY TO GO WITH YOU, BOTH
TO PRISON AND TO DEATH.' THEN HE
00:44:16.35\00:44:19.45
SAID, 'I TELL YOU, PETER, THE
ROOSTER SHALL NOT CROW THIS DAY
00:44:19.45\00:44:21.56
BEFORE YOU WILL DENY
THREE TIMES...'" IN ANOTHER
00:44:21.56\00:44:24.39
PASSAGE IT SAYS A ROOSTER WILL
NOT CROW TWICE BEFORE YOU DENY
00:44:24.39\00:44:27.73
ME THREE TIMES' AND - BUT HE
SAID 'SATAN'S DESIRED TO HAVE
00:44:27.73\00:44:36.64
YOU.' WHAT GOD SAID TO PETER,
IS THAT ONLY TRUE OF PETER OR IS
00:44:36.64\00:44:40.28
THAT TRUE OF EACH ONE OF
US? IF YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO
00:44:40.28\00:44:43.45
FOLLOW JESUS AS PETER DID,
YOU ARE A THREAT TO THE DEVIL.
00:44:43.45\00:44:47.15
WHEN IT SAYS, 'I'VE PRAYED
FOR YOU THAT YOUR FAITH DOES NOT
00:44:47.15\00:44:49.68
FAIL.' DID HE ONLY PRAY FOR
PETER OR DID JESUS PRAY FOR US?
00:44:49.68\00:44:54.42
WHERE DOES IT SHOW
JESUS PRAYING FOR US?
00:44:54.42\00:44:57.09
>>IN JOHN 17 - >>JOHN 17.
00:44:57.09\00:44:59.59
>>THAT'S RIGHT, IN JOHN 17
CHRIST SAYS, 'LORD, NOT ONLY DO
00:44:59.59\00:45:02.60
I PRAY FOR THESE (THE TWELVE
APOSTLES) I PRAY FOR THOSE WHO
00:45:02.60\00:45:04.80
WILL BELIEVE THROUGH
THEIR WORD.' IS THAT YOU?
00:45:04.80\00:45:08.50
CHRIST WAS PRAYING FOR US.
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING THAT HE
00:45:08.50\00:45:10.44
SPECIFICALLY PRAYED FOR US
JUST LIKE HE PRAYED FOR PETER?
00:45:10.44\00:45:14.04
NOW, WAS PETER'S FAITH TESTED?
I THOUGHT WHEN JESUS PRAYED FOR
00:45:14.04\00:45:18.41
HIM, HE WOULDN'T BE
TESTED. DID PETER FALL?
00:45:18.41\00:45:22.88
I THOUGHT IF JESUS PRAYED
FOR YOU, THAT YOU WOULDN'T FALL.
00:45:22.88\00:45:26.55
HE WAS TESTED, HE
FELL - BUT WAS HE REDEEMED?
00:45:26.55\00:45:30.99
DID HE REPENT? AND SO THAT
SHOULD BRING COURAGE TO US.
00:45:30.99\00:45:35.73
BECAUSE JESUS PRAYED FOR YOU
DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NEVER GOING
00:45:35.73\00:45:38.20
TO BE TEMPTED, IT DOESN'T MEAN
YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO FALL OR
00:45:38.20\00:45:40.74
NOT FALL, IT MEANS THAT IF YOU
BELIEVE AND YOU HAVE FAITH - AS
00:45:40.74\00:45:44.61
PETER PERSISTED - PETER
REPENTED - HE WAS RECLAIMED.
00:45:44.61\00:45:48.58
NOW, JUST TO LOOK AT THE STORY
- LUKE 22:54 - PETER HAVING -
00:45:48.58\00:45:55.48
JESUS, BEING ARRESTED, THEY LED
HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE HIGH
00:45:55.48\00:45:59.15
PRIEST. BUT PETER
FOLLOWED AT A DISTANCE.
00:45:59.15\00:46:02.19
NOW, IN MY BIBLE
I'VE UNDERLINED THAT.
00:46:02.19\00:46:05.23
DID PETER FOLLOW JESUS? >>YES.
00:46:05.23\00:46:07.73
>>HOW DID HE FOLLOW? >>SPACED.
00:46:07.73\00:46:09.33
>>WHY DID HE
FOLLOW HIM AT A DISTANCE?
00:46:09.33\00:46:12.80
WHEN JESUS WAS BEING LED BY THE
MULTITUDE THAT SAID, 'HOSANNA
00:46:12.80\00:46:17.91
TO THE SON OF DAVID INTO
JERUSALEM - TRIUMPHAL ENTRY -
00:46:17.91\00:46:20.88
WAS PETER FOLLOWING FROM A
DISTANCE THEN OR WAS HE RIGHT
00:46:20.88\00:46:23.35
THERE NEXT TO THE
DONKEY? >>NEXT TO THE DONKEY.
00:46:23.35\00:46:25.78
>>WHEN JESUS WAS SURROUNDED
BY THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND THEY
00:46:25.78\00:46:31.02
CAME TO ARREST JESUS, DID PETER
PULL OUT A SWORD AND START TO
00:46:31.02\00:46:34.12
FIGHT WHEN HIS FRIENDS
WERE WATCHING? BUT NOW ALL THE
00:46:34.12\00:46:38.86
FRIENDS ARE GONE - HIS AUDIENCE
IS GONE - JESUS IS NO LONGER
00:46:38.86\00:46:42.06
POPULAR - PETER IS NOW
FOLLOWING FROM A DISTANCE. PETER
00:46:42.06\00:46:45.47
STRUGGLED, I THINK, A
LITTLE BIT, ABOUT WHAT THE CROWD
00:46:45.47\00:46:47.54
THOUGHT, BECAUSE HE SEEMS TO
MORPH TO WHAT THE CROWD IS DOING
00:46:47.54\00:46:51.97
AND SAYING. AND NOW, WHEN JESUS
IS NOT POPULAR, PETER STILL
00:46:51.97\00:46:57.38
LOVES HIM - HE'S
FOLLOWING, BUT FROM A DISTANCE.
00:46:57.38\00:46:59.51
DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU FOLLOW JESUS
FROM A DISTANCE, IN THIS WORLD,
00:46:59.51\00:47:03.89
YOU ARE GOING TO BE
VERY TEMPTED TO DENY HIM.
00:47:03.89\00:47:07.36
IF YOU GET RIGHT UP CLOSE TO
JESUS AND YOU LET EVERYBODY KNOW
00:47:07.36\00:47:10.56
WHERE YOU STAND, THEN
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE PUT IN A
00:47:10.56\00:47:13.29
COMPROMISING SITUATION.
THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON.
00:47:13.29\00:47:17.37
IF YOU STAY CLOSE TO JESUS - LET
PEOPLE KNOW, 'I'M A CHRISTIAN' -
00:47:17.37\00:47:20.44
LET THEM KNOW RIGHT UP FRONT -
THEN, IF THEY START TESTING YOU
00:47:20.44\00:47:23.14
AND TEMPTING YOU - IT HAPPENS
ALL THE TIME - IT HAPPENED
00:47:23.14\00:47:26.64
YESTERDAY. I
PICKED UP TWO HITCHHIKERS
00:47:26.64\00:47:28.04
YESTERDAY, ONE GOING TO COVELO -
NOT YESTERDAY - I PICKED UP ONE
00:47:28.04\00:47:31.51
THE DAY BEFORE AND ONE THE DAY
COMING BACK - AND THEY GET IN
00:47:31.51\00:47:34.35
THE CAR AND THE FIRST ONE - IT'S
KIND OF INTERESTING, HE WAS ALL
00:47:34.35\00:47:38.35
DRESSED UP IN A SUIT AND
TIE, WALKING DOWN THE ROAD
00:47:38.35\00:47:40.56
HITCHHIKING - I
THOUGHT 'THAT'S ODD'.
00:47:40.56\00:47:42.49
TURNS OUT HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO A
WEDDING AND THE CAR BROKE DOWN.
00:47:42.49\00:47:45.36
BUT HE GOT IN THE CAR AND I TOLD
HIM, I'M A PASTOR, YOU LOOK LIKE
00:47:45.36\00:47:53.77
YOU'RE GOING TO CHURCH. AND
SO I TOLD HIM RIGHT AWAY AND
00:47:53.77\00:47:55.47
WE HAD A WONDERFUL
CONVERSATION - VERY POLITE.
00:47:55.47\00:47:57.31
THE SECOND GUY I PICKED UP, I
DIDN'T SAY THAT TO HIM, AND HE
00:47:57.31\00:48:00.74
STARTED CURSING RIGHT AWAY. I
MENTIONED I WAS A PASTOR - HIS
00:48:00.74\00:48:06.15
CONVERSATION CHANGED INSTANTLY.
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST I SAID, 'LET
00:48:06.15\00:48:10.45
ME KNOW WHERE I STAND.' AND
SO, WHEN I STARTED SHARING MY
00:48:10.45\00:48:13.29
TESTIMONY WITH HIM, I
ENDED UP GIVING HIM A BOOK.
00:48:13.29\00:48:15.99
HE SAID, 'HE'S A PASTOR', YOU
KNOW, 'THAT'S WHAT I EXPECT'.
00:48:15.99\00:48:19.03
AND SO, YOU JUST LET PEOPLE KNOW
WHERE YOU ARE AND THEY'RE NOT AS
00:48:19.03\00:48:24.40
LIKELY TO OFFER YOU A DRINK FROM
THEIR BOTTLE IF YOU TELL THEM
00:48:24.40\00:48:27.54
RIGHT OFF 'I'M A PASTOR' - YOU
DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT
00:48:27.54\00:48:29.50
TEMPTATION. (LAUGHTER) I'M NOT
TEMPTED WITH THAT, DON'T WORRY.
00:48:29.50\00:48:34.38
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO LOOK
UP FOR ME ROMANS 5:20 - OKAY,
00:48:34.38\00:48:37.95
YOU'LL HAVE THAT
IN JUST A SECOND HERE.
00:48:37.95\00:48:39.78
IT SAYS THEY LED HIM AWAY, HE
FOLLOWED FROM A DISTANCE - NOW,
00:48:39.78\00:48:42.88
WHEN THEY KINDLED THE FIRE IN
THE MIDST OF THE COURTYARD, HE
00:48:42.88\00:48:45.49
SAT - THEY SAT DOWN TOGETHER
- PETER SAT WITH THEM - "AND A
00:48:45.49\00:48:48.66
CERTAIN SERVANT GIRL, SEEING HIM
AS HE SAT BY THE FIRE, LOOKED
00:48:48.66\00:48:51.96
INTENTLY AT HIM AND SAID, 'THIS
MAN WAS ALSO WITH HIM.' BUT HE
00:48:51.96\00:48:56.20
DENIED HIM, SAYING, 'WOMAN,
I DO NOT KNOW HIM.' AND AFTER A
00:48:56.20\00:48:59.63
LITTLE WHILE" - HE'S HANGING
AROUND THE WRONG CROWD AND HE'S
00:48:59.63\00:49:02.64
INFLUENCED BY WHO
HE'S HANGING AROUND.
00:49:02.64\00:49:05.51
A LITTLE WHILE LATER ANOTHER
WOMAN SAW HIM AND SAID, 'ARE YOU
00:49:05.51\00:49:08.04
OF - YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.' "BUT
PETER SAID, 'MAN, I AM NOT!'
00:49:08.04\00:49:11.38
THEN AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR
HAD PASSED, ANOTHER CONFIDENTLY
00:49:11.38\00:49:14.08
AFFIRMED, SAYING, 'SURELY THIS
FELLOW ALSO WAS WITH HIM, FOR
00:49:14.08\00:49:16.69
HE IS A GALILEAN.'" - 'I
CAN TELL BY YOUR SPEECH.' I'M
00:49:16.69\00:49:20.39
COMBINING TWO DIFFERENT PASSAGES
HERE - PETER'S SAYING, 'I DON'T
00:49:20.39\00:49:23.46
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.'
ANOTHER PASSAGE SAYS HE SWORE
00:49:23.46\00:49:25.99
AND CURSED - 'I DON'T
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING'.
00:49:25.99\00:49:29.26
AND "IMMEDIATELY, WHILE HE
WAS STILL SPEAKING, THE ROOSTER
00:49:29.26\00:49:32.30
CROWED. AND THE LORD
TURNED AND LOOKED AT PETER."
00:49:32.30\00:49:36.10
FROM WHERE PETER WAS SITTING HE
COULD SEE THE TRIAL THROUGH THE
00:49:36.10\00:49:38.97
PILLARS AND HE COULD SEE JESUS
AND JESUS IS GETTING BEATEN BY
00:49:38.97\00:49:44.51
THE TEMPLE GUARD - THIS IS NOT
THE ROMAN SOLDIERS YET - HE'S
00:49:44.51\00:49:47.48
STILL BEING TRIED
BY THE HIGH PRIEST.
00:49:47.48\00:49:49.15
AND HE DENIES CHRIST FOR THE
THIRD TIME, HE TURNS AND LOOKS
00:49:49.15\00:49:55.22
BACK AT JESUS - JESUS, IN SPITE
OF ALL THE SUFFERINGS HE'S GOING
00:49:55.22\00:49:58.16
THROUGH AND THE ABUSE AND THE
TRIAL, HE IS ONLY THINKING ABOUT
00:49:58.16\00:50:01.06
PETER ON THE OUTSIDE AND HE
TURNS AND THEY MAKE EYE CONTACT
00:50:01.06\00:50:04.93
AND THERE'S A LOOK OF LOVE AND
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'I TOLD
00:50:04.93\00:50:07.30
YOU. YOU SWORE,
'ALTHOUGH ALL FORSAKE
00:50:07.30\00:50:10.01
YOU - I'LL GO TO PRISON AND
DEATH. I WON'T DENY YOU.' YOU
00:50:10.01\00:50:12.81
DON'T KNOW YOUR OWN HEART.'
AND PETER - IT BROKE HIS HEART.
00:50:12.81\00:50:16.98
HE SAW THAT LOOK OF LOVE AND HE
WENT OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY.
00:50:16.98\00:50:19.31
I THINK, RIGHT AFTER JESUS
LOOKED AT HIM - YOU READ IN
00:50:19.31\00:50:20.92
DESIRE OF AGES - ANOTHER
FIST CAME DOWN AND HIT JESUS.
00:50:20.92\00:50:24.92
OH, IT WAS - HE REALIZED JESUS
WAS TAKING WHAT HE DESERVED.
00:50:24.92\00:50:29.09
BUT, FORTUNATELY, THAT WAS NOT
THE END, SO GO AHEAD AND READ
00:50:29.09\00:50:32.76
FOR US ROMANS 5.
>>ROMANS 5:20, "...BUT WHERE SIN
00:50:32.76\00:50:38.00
ABOUNDED, GRACE
ABOUNDED MUCH MORE..."
00:50:38.00\00:50:41.50
>>WAS IT A SIN FOR PETER TO
DENY HIS LORD? YEAH, IT WAS.
00:50:41.50\00:50:46.04
AND HE DID IT - WHATEVER
PETER DID, HE DID IT WITH GUSTO,
00:50:46.04\00:50:48.98
RIGHT? >>RIGHT.
00:50:48.98\00:50:50.35
>>HE DIDN'T JUST DENY HIM
ONCE, HE DENIED HIM THREE TIMES.
00:50:50.35\00:50:52.58
HE DIDN'T JUST DENY HIM THREE
TIMES, HE DID IT WITH SWEARING
00:50:52.58\00:50:54.35
AND CURSING, IN THE PRESENCE OF
JESUS' ENEMIES AT THE TRIAL OF
00:50:54.35\00:50:58.39
CHRIST - AND HE
WAS BROKENHEARTED.
00:50:58.39\00:51:01.42
BUT HE REPENTED, AND WHERE
SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS MUCH
00:51:01.42\00:51:05.59
MORE, AMEN? I ALWAYS AM AMAZED
THAT THE MOST WICKED KING OF
00:51:05.59\00:51:10.30
JUDAH, MANASSEH, WHEN HE FINALLY
REPENTS - THE LONGEST REIGNING
00:51:10.30\00:51:15.14
KING - DID TERRIBLE THINGS -
GOD'S GRACE ABOUNDED MUCH MORE.
00:51:15.14\00:51:19.41
MANASSEH WAS FORGIVEN AND GOD
BROUGHT HIM BACK TO THE KINGDOM.
00:51:19.41\00:51:22.44
GOD IS SO GOOD.
FINALLY, PETER IS A CHURCH
00:51:22.44\00:51:26.18
LEADER AND, YOU KNOW, PETER
IS A PRIME SPOKESMAN THERE AT
00:51:26.18\00:51:30.22
PENTECOST - HE'S NOT THE
ONLY ONE PREACHING, BUT IT'S HIS
00:51:30.22\00:51:32.82
SERMON THAT'S
RECORDED. HE IS THE BOLD ONE.
00:51:32.82\00:51:35.66
HE'S SPEAKING THERE
AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE.
00:51:35.66\00:51:37.46
PETER HAS BEEN CONVERTED
NOW - YOU HEAR PETER TELL THE
00:51:37.46\00:51:40.33
SANHEDRIN, WHEN THEY SAY,
'WE COMMAND YOU NOT TO PREACH IN
00:51:40.33\00:51:42.80
THIS MAN'S NAME ANY MORE' PETER
SAID, 'YOU DECIDE WHETHER WE
00:51:42.80\00:51:46.74
OUGHT TO OBEY GOD OR MAN' - AND
THAT'S A RHETORICAL QUESTION FOR
00:51:46.74\00:51:50.31
A JEW BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS KNOW
YOU OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MAN.
00:51:50.31\00:51:54.28
HE SAID, 'GOD'S TELLING US TO;
YOU'RE TELLING US NOT TO - YOU
00:51:54.28\00:51:57.05
KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO
DO.' THEY WENT RIGHT FROM BEING
00:51:57.05\00:51:59.88
WHIPPED BACK TO THE
TEMPLE AND KEPT ON PREACHING.
00:51:59.88\00:52:02.58
WAS PETER NOW CONCERNED
WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF HIM?
00:52:02.58\00:52:06.35
A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE NOW YOU
GET TO THE BOOK OF GALATIANS AND
00:52:06.35\00:52:12.33
PAUL'S VERY NICE TO PETER IN
GALATIANS 2:9 AND WHEN JAMES,
00:52:12.33\00:52:16.50
CEPHAS, - THAT'S ANOTHER NAME
FOR PETER - AND JOHN, WHO SEEMED
00:52:16.50\00:52:19.13
TO BE PILLARS - LEADERS IN
THE CHURCH - 'THEY PERCEIVED THE
00:52:19.13\00:52:22.77
GRACE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME,
THEY GAVE ME AND BARNABAS THE
00:52:22.77\00:52:25.94
RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP'
- PETER WELCOMED PAUL INTO
00:52:25.94\00:52:28.51
PREACHING AND APOSTLESHIP
- 'THAT WE SHOULD GO TO THE
00:52:28.51\00:52:31.71
GENTILES AND THEY
TO THE CIRCUMCISION'.
00:52:31.71\00:52:33.82
BUT NOW YOU GET TO GALATIANS
2, VERSE 11, "NOW WHEN PETER HAD
00:52:33.82\00:52:36.95
COME TO ANTIOCH, I WITHSTOOD HIM
TO HIS FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS TO
00:52:36.95\00:52:41.06
BE BLAMED; FOR BEFORE
CERTAIN MEN CAME FROM JAMES," -
00:52:41.06\00:52:44.66
IN JERUSALEM - "HE
WOULD EAT WITH THE GENTILES;
00:52:44.66\00:52:48.00
BUT WHEN THEY
CAME, HE WITHDREW AND
00:52:48.00\00:52:49.36
SEPARATED HIMSELF, FEARING THOSE
WHO WERE OF THE CIRCUMCISION."
00:52:49.36\00:52:52.20
SEE, THERE YOU'VE GOT PETER
AGAIN, FALLING INTO HIS OLD
00:52:52.20\00:52:53.87
WAYS. MOSES IS FAITHFUL FOR
FORTY YEARS AND HE LOSES HIS
00:52:53.87\00:52:58.27
TEMPER - THE OLD MOSES CAME
OUT - PETER, LED BY THE LORD BUT
00:52:58.27\00:53:04.48
THEN, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED
IS, WHEN HE WAS WITH THE
00:53:04.48\00:53:06.78
GENTILES IN ANTIOCH, HE ATE AND
HOBNOBBED WITH THEM - NOW, HE
00:53:06.78\00:53:09.45
WASN'T EATING UNCLEAN FOOD, BUT
YOU WEREN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO EAT
00:53:09.45\00:53:11.75
AND COME UNDER THE ROOF OF A
GENTILE - AND SO HE WAS TREATING
00:53:11.75\00:53:15.62
THEM THE WAY THEY SHOULD
BE TREATED, BUT THEN HE SAYS,
00:53:15.62\00:53:17.89
'OH, A JEWISH
DELEGATION'S COMING.
00:53:17.89\00:53:19.33
HEY GUYS, THIS
ISN'T GOING TO LOOK GOOD.
00:53:19.33\00:53:21.00
THEY DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW,
THEY STILL STUCK WITH THESE OLD
00:53:21.00\00:53:23.16
CUSTOMS SO I'M GOING TO -
I WON'T BE AROUND ANYMORE.'
00:53:23.16\00:53:25.37
AND PAUL SAID,
'YOU'RE BEING A HYPOCRITE.
00:53:25.37\00:53:26.60
IF IT'S RIGHT, THEN THE PEOPLE
COMING FROM JERUSALEM OUGHT TO
00:53:26.60\00:53:29.74
KNOW IT'S RIGHT AND STOP
WORRYING ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE
00:53:29.74\00:53:32.24
THINKS.' AND SO
HE REBUKED PETER.
00:53:32.24\00:53:35.88
PETER EMBRACED THE REBUKE
OF PAUL - PAUL WAS RIGHT - AND
00:53:35.88\00:53:39.85
LATER PETER SAYS, 'OUR BELOVED
BROTHER PAUL HAS WRITTEN THE
00:53:39.85\00:53:43.15
THINGS THAT GOD INSPIRED.
MATTER OF FACT, PETER REFERS TO
00:53:43.15\00:53:46.15
PAUL'S WRITINGS AS
'SCRIPTURE', DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:53:46.15\00:53:49.29
SO THEY HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
AND HE RECEIVED THE REBUKE OF
00:53:49.29\00:53:52.43
PAUL WITH THE RIGHT SPIRIT AND,
HOPEFULLY, CHANGED HIS WAYS.
00:53:52.43\00:53:56.23
NOW THOSE ARE THE RECORD OF
PETER THAT YOU FIND, JUST WANTED
00:53:56.23\00:53:58.83
TO GIVE US A LITTLE BETTER
PICTURE OF THE MAN WHO WROTE THE
00:53:58.83\00:54:01.87
BOOK. AND I WANT
TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS
00:54:01.87\00:54:03.87
WHO ARE WATCHING AT
HOME, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER.
00:54:03.87\00:54:07.74
THIS TALKS ABOUT
STANDING FOR YOUR FAITH.
00:54:07.74\00:54:09.34
I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY IT -
COMPROMISE, CONFORMITY, AND
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BE FAITHFUL IN THE LAST DAYS .
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THEN, READ IT AND
SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:54:27.46\00:54:29.90
GOD BLESS YOU 'TIL WE STUDY HIS
WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:54:29.90\00:54:34.30
(MUSIC)
00:54:34.30\00:54:44.41
>>TODAY'S SMART PHONES
ARE A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF
00:54:44.41\00:54:46.51
INFORMATION THAT FITS
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
00:54:46.51\00:54:49.42
IT'S A GOOD THING WE
HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS!
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WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR
GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR
00:54:51.52\00:54:55.06
EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO,
LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF
00:54:55.06\00:54:59.39
THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE
WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A
00:54:59.39\00:55:03.03
GOOD THING. AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE
00:55:03.03\00:55:05.27
COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART
00:55:05.27\00:55:08.87
PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY
NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON.
00:55:08.87\00:55:13.14
AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN
ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE
00:55:13.14\00:55:16.01
CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT
ANYMORE? TODAY COMMUNICATION IS
00:55:16.01\00:55:19.11
NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE
00:55:19.11\00:55:22.45
SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING.
THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT
00:55:22.45\00:55:27.92
2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING
00:55:27.92\00:55:31.49
WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS
IN SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING.
00:55:31.49\00:55:34.96
THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING
USED THAN THOSE WHO ARE SURFING
00:55:34.96\00:55:37.97
THE WEB OR EVEN
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
00:55:37.97\00:55:40.57
AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS
MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT HERE IN THE
00:55:40.57\00:55:43.17
PHILIPPINES. EVEN
THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS
00:55:43.17\00:55:45.24
ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST
00:55:45.24\00:55:49.18
NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES
OF ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
00:55:49.18\00:55:52.25
THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST
COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400
00:55:52.25\00:55:55.65
MILLION TEXT MESSAGES
EVERY DAY. WOW, THAT'S A LOT
00:55:55.65\00:56:00.49
OF FINGER FATIGUE. EVEN
THOUGH THE GREATEST NUMBER
00:56:00.49\00:56:03.32
OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE
PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE
00:56:03.32\00:56:06.13
FASTEST TEXTER IN
THE WORLD IS FROM BRAZIL.
00:56:06.13\00:56:08.96
A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF
MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS
00:56:08.96\00:56:12.00
ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY COMPLICATED
WORDS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 18
00:56:12.00\00:56:15.77
SECONDS. WOW, IT
TAKES ME LONGER THAN
00:56:15.77\00:56:18.41
THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE
YOU' TO MY WIFE AND PRESS SEND.
00:56:18.41\00:56:22.48
ALL THUMBS. ONE OF THE NEAT
THINGS ABOUT TEXTING IS YOU CAN
00:56:22.48\00:56:26.08
TEXT JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF
YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE
00:56:26.08\00:56:28.68
AND YOU WANT TO SEND A
PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT.
00:56:28.68\00:56:31.12
YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY
OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT.
00:56:31.12\00:56:34.16
IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE
OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT -
00:56:34.16\00:56:38.43
JUST DON'T TEXT
WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING.
00:56:38.43\00:56:40.46
THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL,
FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD
00:56:40.46\00:56:43.40
A MESSAGE OF PRAYER FROM YOUR
HEART. WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING
00:56:43.40\00:56:46.70
'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO
TO?' 'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?'
00:56:46.70\00:56:49.14
'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT
MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?'
00:56:49.14\00:56:52.44
YOUR PRAYERS
DON'T HAVE TO BE LONG.
00:56:52.44\00:56:54.08
THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE
IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER
00:56:54.08\00:56:56.81
PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.'
AND JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER.
00:56:56.81\00:57:00.55
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU
CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO
00:57:00.55\00:57:03.28
GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER
00:57:03.28\00:57:06.76
BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO
SAY 'AMEN' AND PRESS THE SEND
00:57:06.76\00:57:09.09
BUTTON. IN FACT,
FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING
00:57:09.09\00:57:11.06
JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND
HIM REGULAR MESSAGES FROM
00:57:11.06\00:57:14.20
YOUR HEART TO HIS.
SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK
00:57:14.20\00:57:16.63
TO HIM RIGHT NOW? (MUSIC)
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