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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR 00:37 COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:42 VIEWERS AND ALSO OUR ONLINE MEMBERS THAT TUNE IN EACH WEEK 00:45 TO STUDY THE LESSON WITH US. I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THE 00:48 MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS RIGHT HERE IN OUR CONGREGATION - 00:51 IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE THIS MORNING. WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:53 STARTING A BRAND-NEW LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE FIRST 00:56 AND THE SECOND BOOKS OF PETER - IT'S ENTITLED FEED MY SHEEP . 01:00 LESSON #1, WHICH IS THE LESSON WE'RE LOOKING AT TODAY, IS 01:03 ENTITLED THE PERSON OF PETER . SO WE'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 01:06 APOSTLE PETER AND THEN GET INTO A STUDY OF HIS WRITINGS IN 01:10 1 AND 2 PETER. NOW WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT 01:13 GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, IT'S A BOOK WRITTEN BY PASTOR 01:16 DOUG ENTITLED, COMPROMISE, CONFORMITY, AND COURAGE, AND 01:19 THIS IS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO ARE VIEWING. 01:22 JUST GIVE US A CALL ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER - THE 01:24 NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #774. 01:31 THAT NUMBER, ONCE AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER 01:36 #774 AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THE BOOK COMPROMISE, 01:41 CONFORMITY, AND COURAGE. FOR THOSE WHO ARE OUTSIDE OF 01:43 NORTH AMERICA, YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO TO THE WEBSITE, JUST 01:46 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PDF COPY OF THE BOOK 01:50 AND YOU CAN READ IT FOR FREE RIGHT THERE ONLINE. 01:53 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN 01:56 BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG 01:59 LEADERS TO COME JOIN ME. (PIANO MUSIC) 02:06 >>HELLO, AND WELCOME. WE ARE GOING TO DO WHAT WE DO 02:10 EVERY WEEK AND THAT IS SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS FROM 02:14 WHEREVER YOU ARE. WE KNOW YOU HAVE FAVORITES, 02:16 BECAUSE WE HEAR FROM YOU, AND WE DO TOO, SO IT'S PERFECT. 02:20 WE SING TOGETHER AND WE PRAISE THE LORD EVERY WEEK. 02:23 SO, THE FIRST ONE WE'RE GOING TO START WITH IS A GOOD ONE - #334 02:28 - COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING . 02:31 WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE STANZAS - #334. 02:34 (PIANO MUSIC) (FLUTE) 04:45 >>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. 04:47 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) 04:49 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 04:50 DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD, FOR THE 04:53 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO STUDY - IT IS A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH THAT 04:56 REVEALS THE WAY THAT YOU WOULD HAVE US TO GO. 04:58 AND THIS MORNING, LORD, AS WE OPEN THE SCRIPTURES AND LAUNCH 05:01 INTO THE NEW STUDY - THIS NEW LESSON QUARTERLY - WE ASK FOR 05:04 THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONCE AGAIN, TO COME AND GUARD OUR HEARTS AND 05:07 OUR MINDS AND WE ASK THIS ALL IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 05:11 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 05:16 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. >>GOOD MORNING. 05:19 >>HOW IS EVERYBODY? >>GOOD. 05:21 >>GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE 05:24 ALSO PART OF OUR ONLINE CLASS - SOME ARE STUDYING ONLINE, SOME 05:30 ARE WATCHING ON SATELLITE. WE HAVE SOME OF OUR ONLINE 05:32 MEMBERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND WHATEVER CATEGORY YOU FIT 05:35 IN, WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE STUDYING WITH US TODAY. 05:37 I'M EXCITED BECAUSE I GET TO BE HERE. 05:40 SOMETIMES I'M TRAVELING AND AM NOT ALWAYS ABLE TO BE HERE FOR 05:43 VARIOUS LESSONS, BUT I'M REALLY GLAD I'M ABLE TO BE HERE FOR THE 05:46 FIRST LESSON IN THIS NEW STUDY DEALING WITH THE APOSTLE PETER'S 05:51 BOOKS - IT'S CALLED FEED MY SHEEP 1 AND 2 PETER - AND SO 05:57 TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE DELVING INTO LESSON #1 IN THIS STUDY AND 06:01 I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 06:03 NOW, WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS IN THE NEW 06:07 KING JAMES VERSION HERE, IT'S MATTHEW 14, VERSES 30 AND 31 - 06:12 MATTHEW 14:30 AND 31 - IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES OR EVEN YOUR 06:16 QUARTERLY, YOU CAN SAY THIS WITH ME. 06:18 I'D LIKE YOU TO SAY IT OUT LOUD. ARE YOU READY? 06:21 "BUT WHEN HE SAW THAT THE WIND WAS BOISTEROUS, HE WAS AFRAID; 06:26 AND BEGINNING TO SINK HE CRIED OUT, SAYING, 'LORD, SAVE ME!' 06:31 AND IMMEDIATELY JESUS STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND AND CAUGHT HIM, AND 06:36 SAID TO HIM, 'O YOU OF LITTLE FAITH, WHY DID YOU DOUBT?'" 06:41 NOW WE'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY GET TO THAT STORY A LITTLE LATER 06:43 IN THE LESSON. BEFORE WE DELVE INTO THE ACTUAL 06:46 BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 PETER, WHO WROTE MOST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT? 06:51 >>PAUL. >>PAUL. AND WHO WROTE THE NEXT 06:56 LARGEST SEGMENT? >>JOHN. 07:02 >>LUKE, BECAUSE HE WROTE ACTS - SO YOU'VE GOT LUKE'S GOT THE 07:06 GOSPEL OF LUKE - HAS THE LONGEST CHAPTERS - AND THE BOOK OF ACTS. 07:10 THEN JOHN - THE LETTERS OF JOHN ARE VERY SMALL - WELL, IF YOU 07:13 COUNT REVELATION, THAT'S TRUE, THAT'S GOING TO BE PROBABLY 07:17 JOHN, THEN LUKE, AND THEN, GETTING DOWN THE LINE A LITTLE 07:21 BIT YOU HAVE PETER. BUT, PETER PROBABLY DICTATED THE 07:26 GOSPEL OF MARK TO MARK SO HE SHOULD GET SOME EXTRA 07:29 CREDIT FOR THAT. MANY OF THE COMMENTARIES ON MARK 07:34 THEY'LL SAY THIS IS PROBABLY THROUGH INTERVIEWS WITH PETER. 07:37 PETER HAD A VERY BIG IMPACT ON THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH. 07:45 WHOSE NAME IS MENTIONED MORE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, PAUL OR 07:48 PETER? YOU DON'T WANT TO GUESS BECAUSE 07:52 YOU DON'T KNOW AND YOU DON'T WANT TO BE WRONG. 07:54 BUT THEY'RE PRETTY CLOSE. NOW IT'S A TRICK QUESTION: PETER 07:58 - WHEN YOU SAY 'WHO'S MENTIONED MORE?' PETER HAS THE NAME PETER 08:01 - YOU CAN DO A COMPUTER SEARCH - IT'S LIKE 163 TIMES, BUT HE ALSO 08:06 HAS THE NAME SIMON, AND HE ALSO HAS THE NAME CEPHAS. 08:11 SO, YOU ADD THOSE UP AND IT'S, OH, I DON'T KNOW, 185 TIMES. 08:15 PAUL HAS THE NAME PAUL, BUT HE'S ALSO GOT THE NAME SAUL. 08:19 YOU ADD THOSE UP AND PAUL, I THINK, WINS BY A HAIR - SO ABOUT 08:22 190 TIMES, BUT THESE ARE TWO OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING CHARACTERS. 08:27 BUT, IF YOU GO BY THE GOSPELS, PAUL DOESN'T APPEAR IN THE 08:30 GOSPELS AT ALL. IF YOU GO BY THE GOSPELS, YOU'RE 08:33 GOING TO FIND PETER REFERENCED WAY MORE THAN ANDREW OR THOMAS 08:39 OR JAMES OR JOHN OR ANY OF THE OTHER APOSTLES. 08:42 MATTER OF FACT, IF SOMETHING INTERESTING IS HAPPENING AND THE 08:44 TWELVE APOSTLES ARE THERE, PETER IS MENTIONED. 08:48 HE WAS A VERY OUTSPOKEN, GREGARIOUS, UP FRONT LEADER. 08:53 HE ALWAYS HAD AN OPINION, EVEN IF HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS 08:55 TALKING ABOUT. (LAUGHTER) 08:58 HE HAD AN OPINION - HE ALWAYS WAS SPEAKING. 08:59 AND I JUST ACTUALLY DOWNLOADED - I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THIS AND I 09:03 DOWNLOADED HOW OFTEN PETER APPEARS AND I FOUND SOMEONE WAS 09:07 KIND ENOUGH TO PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE HISTORY, ON THE INTERNET, 09:10 OF PETER - AND I DID A LITTLE EDITING ON THIS BUT, JUST TO 09:14 GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW, SO YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND WHO IS THE 09:18 AUTHOR OF THESE BOOKS AND WHAT IS HIS HISTORY, AND WE'LL DELVE 09:21 MORE INTO THAT IN OUR LESSONS AS WELL - BORN, PROBABLY, 09:25 ABOUT 5 A.D. - MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE YOUNGER 09:29 THAN JESUS, PROBABLY THE OLDEST OF THE APOSTLES. WE DON'T KNOW 09:33 THAT, BUT TRADITION SAYS HE WAS. HE WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE 09:36 APOSTLES THAT IT MENTIONS WAS MARRIED. 09:39 I'M SURE OTHERS WERE, BUT IT SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS PETER'S 09:42 MOTHER-IN-LAW AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A 09:45 MOTHER-IN-LAW UNTIL YOU GET MARRIED, SO HE WAS PROBABLY 09:47 MARRIED, PROBABLY HAD CHILDREN. ABOUT 27 A.D. 09:52 HE LEARNS ABOUT JESUS AT HIS BAPTISM - OF JESUS - AND 09:57 PROBABLY WASN'T MARRIED LONG AFTER THAT. 10:00 HE'S BORN AROUND BETHSAIDA, WHICH IS A GALILEAN TOWN. 10:03 HE IS THE SON OF SIMON AND HE'S CALLED THE SON OF JONAH. 10:07 AND, SOMETIMES, FATHERS, THEY HAD TWO NAMES. 10:10 PETER'S CALLED SIMON BAR JONAH - BAR MEANS 'SON OF'. 10:16 HE MEETS JESUS THROUGH THE HELP OF HIS BROTHER ANDREW, AT THE 10:19 JORDAN RIVER. AFTER JESUS COMES BACK FROM HIS 10:22 FORTY DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS, JESUS MIGRATES UP TO GALILEE AND 10:26 THERE HE SEES SIMON AND ANDREW WASHING THEIR NETS AND HE CALLS 10:30 THEM, THEY LEAVE EVERYTHING, AND THEY FOLLOW HIM. 10:32 FOR AWHILE HE WENT ON AN ITINERANT PREACHING TOUR AND 10:36 THEN TOOK A BREAK AND THEY WENT BACK TO THEIR FISHING AGAIN. 10:40 AND THEN, HE MEETS THEM AGAIN AND ASKS THEM TO FORSAKE 10:44 EVERYTHING. THEY DO, AND THAT'S WHERE YOU 10:46 FIND - IN LUKE CHAPTER 5. JESUS VISITS PETER'S HOUSE 10:51 AND HE CURES PETER'S SICK MOTHER-IN-LAW. 10:53 YOU FIND THAT IN MATTHEW 8:14. PETER BECOMES ONE OF THE 10:57 WITNESSES OF JESUS' RAISING A LITTLE GIRL, TABITHA, 11:02 BACK FROM THE DEAD. THEN YOU SEE SIMON PETER MAKES 11:07 THE PRONOUNCEMENT, THERE IN MATTHEW, ABOUT JESUS' DIVINITY. 11:11 JESUS TELLS PETER THAT HE IS GOING TO BUILD HIS CHURCH ON THE 11:14 DECLARATION THAT PETER HAS MADE. THEN PETER TRIES TO TALK JESUS 11:19 OUT OF DYING AND BEING RAISED THE THIRD DAY, 11:22 AND HE IS REBUKED. PETER, ALONG WITH JAMES AND 11:25 JOHN, WITNESSED THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 11:28 PETER MAKES A PREDICTION THAT - I'M SORRY - JESUS MAKES A 11:31 PREDICTION PETER WILL DENY HIM. PETER TELLS JESUS 11:35 HE'LL NEVER DENY HIM. PETER DENIES HIM. 11:39 WHEN JESUS IS ARRESTED, PETER FOLLOWS...INITIALLY. 11:43 AND PETER IS THE ONE WHO GOES OUT AND WEEPS BITTERLY. 11:45 PETER IS THE FIRST APOSTLE TO THE TOMB. 11:48 JOHN, ACTUALLY OUTRUNS HIM, PETER GOES IN FIRST. 11:51 PETER IS THE FIRST APOSTLE THAT JESUS APPEARS TO AFTER THE 11:54 RESURRECTION. PETER, OF COURSE, IS FILLED WITH 11:59 THE SPIRIT THERE AT PENTECOST AND HE PREACHES - HE BECOMES, 12:03 SORT OF, A LEADER OF THE REMAINING DISCIPLES. 12:06 HE IS WITH THE GROUP ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WHEN JESUS 12:08 FORETELLS THE END OF THE WORLD, WHICH WAS PETER, ANDREW, JAMES, 12:12 AND JOHN. THEY GOT A SPECIAL PRESENTATION 12:17 FROM JESUS ON THAT. HE IS AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE. 12:21 PETER IS THE ONE WHO HELPS HEAL THE LAME MAN THAT WALKS. 12:24 HE'S IMPRISONED FOR THAT. PETER SAYS WE OUGHT TO 12:26 OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN. HE CONFRONTS A HUSBAND AND WIFE 12:30 - ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA - AND THEY BOTH DROP DEAD FOR 12:35 LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE GOES AND HE VISITS LYDIA. 12:40 HE RESURRECTS DORCAS BACK TO LIFE. 12:43 HE'S THE FIRST TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES - 12:46 CORNELIUS AND HIS HOUSEHOLD. HE HAS A DREAM WITH 12:48 THE VISION ON THE ROOF. AND HE IS IMPRISONED IN CHAPTER 12:55 12 OF ACTS - HE'S RELEASED FROM PRISON MIRACULOUSLY, 12:58 BY AN ANGEL. AND THEN PAUL, LATER, CONFRONTS 13:02 PETER FOR WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS HYPOCRITICAL BEHAVIOR 13:04 WHEN THE JEWS SHOWED UP. TRADITION TELLS US ABOUT 64 A.D. 13:09 PETER IS CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FEEL WORTHY TO 13:13 DIE THE SAME WAY. THAT MAY HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE 13:16 BURNING OF ROME THAT NERO WAS PARTICIPATING IN, SO 13:21 PETER IS EXECUTED BY NERO. PAUL WAS A ROMAN 13:24 CITIZEN, HE WAS BEHEADED. PETER, BEING A JEW AND NOT A 13:26 ROMAN CITIZEN, HE WAS CRUCIFIED. QUICK OVERVIEW BUT, YOU'LL 13:30 NOTICE, THAT'S JUST SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS OF THE MANY, MANY 13:33 TIMES PETER STANDS OUT AS AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE GOSPELS. 13:37 SO, WITH THAT LENGTHY INTRODUCTION, LET'S GO AHEAD AND 13:40 GET INTO OUR STUDY. FIRST SECTION THAT SAYS 'DEPART 13:44 FROM ME' - PETER DOES NOT FEEL WORTHY. 13:47 AND YOU'LL READ IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 4, VERSES 18 THROUGH 20, 13:53 "AND JESUS, WALKING BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, SAW TWO BROTHERS, 13:57 SIMON CALLED PETER, AND ANDREW HIS BROTHER, CASTING A NET INTO 14:00 THE SEA; FOR THEY WERE FISHERMEN. 14:03 THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'FOLLOW ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS 14:06 OF MEN.' THEY IMMEDIATELY LEFT THEIR NETS AND FOLLOWED HIM." 14:09 NOW, PROBABLY THEIR FATHER, JONAH OR - HAD DIED AT THAT 14:15 POINT, WHERE ZEBEDEE WAS STILL ALIVE. 14:17 YOU NOTICE IT SAYS THAT JAMES AND JOHN LEFT THEIR FATHER WITH 14:20 THE NETS, WHEREAS PETER AND ANDREW - PETER'S MARRIED, HE'S A 14:23 LITTLE OLDER - YOU NEVER HEAR MENTION OF THEIR FATHER BEING 14:26 ALIVE - AND SO, THEY WALK AWAY AND THEY FOLLOW JESUS. 14:31 BUT THEN, AGAIN, EVENTUALLY THEY RETURN TO THEIR FISHING 14:34 BUSINESS. MAYBE THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL, 14:35 WE NEED TO SUBSIDIZE IT. WE NEED SOME MORE MONEY.' 14:37 THEY'RE A LITTLE WORRIED - AND SO, THAT'S WHEN YOU 14:39 GET TO THIS EXPERIENCE. WE'RE GOING TO READ VERSES 14:41 1 THROUGH 11 OF LUKE 5. AND, IN A MOMENT, SOMEONE IS 14:45 GOING TO READ FOR ME 2 SAMUEL 6:9, OKAY? 14:48 LET'S START WITH LUKE CHAPTER 11 - I'M SORRY, LUKE CHAPTER 5, 14:53 VERSES 1 TO 11 AND YOU READ HERE, "SO IT WAS, AS THE 15:01 MULTITUDE PRESSED ABOUT HIM TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, THAT HE 15:04 STOOD BY THE LAKE OF GENNESARET," - NOW, THE SEA OF 15:07 GALILEE GOES BY THREE NAMES: GALILEE, GENNESARET, SEA OF 15:12 TIBERIUS. THE ROMANS WANTED TO NAME 15:14 EVERYTHING AFTER THEMSELVES. THE JEWS, OFTEN, DIDN'T LIKE 15:17 THAT AND THEY FOUGHT TO KEEP THE TRADITIONAL NAME. 15:20 IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO INDIA, THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION 15:24 BECAUSE THE ENGLISH NAMED A NUMBER OF TOWNS. 15:28 THEY HAD BOMBAY - THE INDIANS HAVE CHANGED IT BACK TO MUMBAI. 15:32 THE ENGLISH NAMED MADRAS - THE INDIANS SAID, 'NO, WE'RE 15:36 CHANGING THE NAME BACK FROM THE ENGLISH COLONIAL NAME; WE'RE 15:39 CHANGING IT TO CHENNAI' - SAME CITY, TWO NAMES. 15:42 AND SO THEY HAD THAT BATTLE RAGING IN ISRAEL WHERE THEY HAD 15:45 THE ROMAN NAMES AND THEY SAID, 'WE'RE NOT GOING BY THE ROMAN 15:47 NAMES.' AND SO, THEY HAD THE HEBREW NAMES AND THEY DID THAT 15:50 WITH THE LAKE. SO, THEY'RE THERE FISHING "AND 15:54 SAW TWO BOATS STANDING BY THE LAKE; BUT THE FISHERMEN HAD GONE 15:57 FROM THEM AND WERE WASHING THEIR NETS. 15:59 THEN HE GOT INTO ONE OF THE BOATS, WHICH WAS SIMON'S," - 16:01 THERE'S A PLACE WHERE HE'S CALLED 'SIMON' AND NOT 'PETER' - 16:03 "AND ASKED HIM TO PUT OUT A LITTLE FROM THE LAND." 16:07 - IT CREATES, KIND OF A NATURAL PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN SEE AND 16:09 HEAR HIM - SOUND CARRIES - THERE'S NO OBSTRUCTION - "AND HE 16:12 SAT DOWN AND TAUGHT THE MULTITUDES FROM THE BOAT." - 16:15 SO PETER PUSHED OUT A LITTLE BIT. HE DROPPED AN ANCHOR SO IT 16:17 WOULDN'T DRIFT OFF, AND JESUS PREACHED. 16:21 - "WHEN HE HAD STOPPED SPEAKING, HE SAID TO SIMON, 'LAUNCH OUT 16:25 INTO THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS'" - NOW THIS SOUNDED LIKE A 16:27 BIZARRE REQUEST BECAUSE THEY ALL FISHED AT NIGHT. 16:32 YOU REMEMBER, HE SAID, 'WE FISHED ALL NIGHT AND WE HAVEN'T 16:34 CAUGHT ANYTHING.' THEY WOULD - AND I - I'VE SEEN IT, WHEN I WAS 16:37 IN ISRAEL, THAT AT NIGHT THERE BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, THEY 16:40 WOULD HANG LIGHTS OFF THE BACK OF THE BOAT. 16:41 I'VE BEEN TO SOUTH POINT OF THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII SEVERAL 16:45 TIMES, WHERE I WAS WITH FRIENDS AND WE FISHED ALL NIGHT. 16:48 WHAT WE DID IS WE DROPPED A 12-VOLT BULB - WATERPROOF LIGHT 16:52 - OFF THE STERN, TURNED OFF THE MOTORS, WAITED FOR SUNDOWN WHILE 16:57 WE ATE, AND YOU'D LOOK OFF THE BACK OF THE BOAT IN THE CALM, 17:01 CLEAR WATERS, AND YOU COULD SEE CLOUDS OF FISH WOULD GATHER 17:04 AROUND THE LIGHT. WE WOULD DROP OUR LINES IN - 17:07 THESE LINES HAD TWO OR THREE HOOKS ON EACH LINE - THERE'S BE 17:11 A HOOK HERE, ANOTHER HOOK HERE, ANOTHER HOOK HERE, ANOTHER HOOK 17:13 HERE - WE'D DROP THEM OFF - LITTLE FEATHERS ON THEM 17:16 - AND WE'D REEL 'EM IN. WE'D CATCH TWO OR THREE FISH 17:18 WITH ONE HAUL ON EACH LINE - AND THEY WERE BAIT FISH, BUT THEY 17:23 ALL GATHERED AT NIGHT TO THE LIGHT. 17:27 BY THE WAY, FISH ARE STILL ATTRACTED TO LIGHT, AMEN? 17:31 SO, HE SAID, 'DROP YOUR NETS DOWN.' HERE IT IS, DAYTIME AND 17:37 HE SAID, "MASTER, WE HAVE TOILED ALL NIGHT AND CAUGHT NOTHING;" - 17:39 AND JESUS, MAYBE HE LOOKED AT HIM AND HE COULD TELL BY HIS 17:42 LOOK - HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE TOLD YOU WHAT TO DO; TRUST ME.' - 17:44 "NEVERTHELESS AT YOUR WORD" - 'IF YOU SAY SO, LORD, 17:47 I'LL LET DOWN THE NET.' AND THEY WENT OUT A 17:50 LITTLE FURTHER AND LET DOWN THE NET - "AND WHEN 17:51 THEY HAD DONE THIS, THEY CAUGHT A GREAT NUMBER OF FISH, AND 17:56 THEIR NET WAS BREAKING." - RATHER THAN PULL THE NET IN 17:58 AND LOSE ALL THE FISH, THEY CALLED THEIR NEIGHBORS AND SAID, 18:00 'COME GET YOUR NET AND PUT IT UNDER OUR NET AND LET'S CATCH 18:03 THESE FISH.' - "SO THEY SIGNALED TO THEIR PARTNERS" - PROBABLY 18:06 JAMES AND JOHN - "IN THE OTHER BOAT TO COME AND HELP THEM. 18:09 AND THEY CAME AND FILLED BOTH THE BOATS, SO THAT THEY BEGAN TO 18:13 SINK." - YOU KNOW, I'VE TALKED TO CHURCHES BEFORE, THAT WHEN 18:16 YOU JOIN WITH CHURCHES TO DO EVANGELISM, YOU DO EVANGELISM 18:23 TWO OR THREE CHURCHES IN ONE TOWN, YOU CAN'T ALWAYS HAVE THE 18:26 MEETING IN ALL THREE CHURCHES AT ONCE. 18:29 YOU HAVE THE MEETING IN ONE CHURCH BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT? 18:30 ALL THE BOATS CAN BE FILLED. >>AMEN. 18:33 >>IF YOU WORK TOGETHER. AND SO, EVEN THOUGH JESUS WAS 18:35 IN PETER'S BOAT, BOTH BOATS GOT FISH. 18:38 AND SO - MATTER OF FACT, IT SAYS THE BOATS WERE SINKING UNDER THE 18:42 WEIGHT OF THE FISH. THEY WERE BEGINNING TO SINK - 18:45 "WHEN SIMON PETER SAW IT," - NOW, DO YOU THINK THIS WAS JUST 18:48 A GOOD DAY, OR WAS THIS THE BEST CATCH OF THEIR LIVES? 18:53 DON'T FISHERMEN PRAY THAT AT SOME TIME IN THEIR LIVES THEIR 18:56 GOING TO HAVE A STORY TO TELL ABOUT THE DAY THEY CAUGHT THE 18:59 BIG ONE? OR THE HAUL OF FISH 19:02 UNLIKE ANY OTHER HAUL? IF THE BOAT'S ABOUT TO SINK, 19:04 YOU ADD ONE MORE FISH THEY WERE GOING DOWN. 19:07 THAT WAS THE DAY THEY'D ALL DREAMED ABOUT. 19:11 THAT'S WORTH A LOT OF MONEY TOO. AND ONE REASON THE LORD DID THIS 19:15 WAS THAT HAUL OF FISH WAS GOING TO SUBSIDIZE PETER'S FAMILY AND 19:21 THEIR MISSIONARY VENTURE FOR A LITTLE WHILE. 19:23 HE WAS BASICALLY TELLING THEM, 'TRUST ME. 19:26 I CAN FILL YOUR NETS.' THEY SIGNALED TO THEIR PARTNERS; THEY 19:30 CAME. WHEN PETER SAW IT - NOW, BEFORE 19:33 THEY'VE EVEN CLEANED THE FISH AND GOT THEM ALL TO SHORE, PETER 19:35 SEES THIS, HE REALIZES THIS IS A MIRACLE. 19:38 YOU DON'T CATCH FISH IN THE DAY, YOU DON'T EVER CATCH THIS MANY 19:41 FISH - "HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS' KNEES, SAYING, 'DEPART FROM ME, 19:45 FOR I AM A SINFUL MAN, O LORD!'" - NOW, DID HE REALLY 19:49 WANT JESUS TO DEPART? OR WAS HE JUST MAKING A 19:52 CONFESSION SAYING, 'LORD, I'M IN THE PRESENCE OF DEITY 19:55 AND I'M A WICKED PERSON. I AM A' - SAILORS, TYPICALLY, 19:59 BACK THEN, THEY WERE A ROUGH BUNCH. 20:02 AND WE KNOW FROM WHEN PETER DENIES JESUS, HE KNEW HOW TO 20:08 SWITCH ON THE CURSING MODE AND HE COULD CURSE. 20:11 AND HE'S SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, I'M A SINFUL MAN.' AND HE WAS 20:15 TELLING THE TRUTH BUT, INSTEAD OF REJECTING HIM, BECAUSE HE 20:18 REPENTED AND CONFESSED, HE RECEIVED COMFORT FROM THE LORD - 20:23 "FOR HE AND ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT THE CATCH 20:27 OF FISH WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN; AND SO ALSO WERE JAMES AND JOHN, 20:30 THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE, WHO WERE PARTNERS WITH SIMON. 20:33 AND JESUS SAID TO SIMON, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID. 20:37 FROM NOW ON YOU WILL CATCH MEN.' SO WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEIR 20:40 BOATS TO LAND, THEY FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED HIM." 20:45 AND I'M SURE THAT ZEBEDEE AND PETER'S WIFE AND IF HE HAD SONS, 20:48 THEY CLEANED AND SOLD THOSE FISH - THEY GOT THE RESOURCES THERE - 20:52 IT WASN'T WASTED. BUT HE SAID, 'WE'RE NOT WORTHY.' 20:56 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT QUALIFIES YOU TO WORK FOR THE LORD IS TO 20:59 REALIZE YOU'RE NOT QUALIFIED. AND I GAVE YOU A VERSE, 21:03 I THINK, IN 2 SAMUEL 6:9. WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT? 21:06 >>"DAVID WAS AFRAID OF THE LORD THAT DAY; AND HE SAID, 21:09 'HOW CAN THE ARK OF THE LORD COME TO ME?" 21:12 >>DAVID THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT WORTHY. 21:15 WE CAN'T HAVE THE ARK OF THE LORD COME TO OUR TOWN.' IT'S 21:18 SORT OF LIKE THE RESPONSE WHERE ISAIAH SAYS, 'IN CHAPTER 6, 21:20 VERSE 5, AFTER HE SEES THE LORD, 'WOE IS ME; I AM UNDONE.' HAVE 21:25 YOU EVER BEEN FRIGHTENED BY THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THOUGHT, 21:29 'I'M NOT WORTHY. WHAT CAN I DO? 21:31 DEPART FROM ME, LORD, I AM A SINFUL MAN'? 21:34 YOU'LL FIND THAT THAT WAS THE RESPONSE OF JOHN WHEN HE SAW THE 21:37 LORD - I MEAN, NOT WORD FOR WORD, BUT THEY THOUGHT, 'I'M 21:39 GOING TO DIE.' DANIEL, WHEN HE SAW THE LORD IN VISION, THEY ALL 21:42 THOUGHT, 'WE ARE NOT WORTHY.' PETER STARTED OUT - GOD CAN USE 21:47 HIM BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE A HUMBLE ATTITUDE. 21:49 HE REALIZED HE WAS A SINFUL MAN AND SO JESUS COULD HAVE HIM DO 21:52 GREAT THINGS. AND, YOU KNOW, AFTER HE DENIES 21:55 CHRIST HE GOES OUT AND HE WEEPS BITTERLY AND REPENTS OF HIS SIN. 21:59 ALRIGHT, UNDER THE SECTION, NOW, CONFESSING THE CHRIST - MATTHEW 22:03 16, VERSE 5, "NOW WHEN HIS DISCIPLES HAD COME TO THE OTHER 22:07 SIDE, THEY HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE BREAD." 22:10 MATTER OF FACT, YOU MAY WANT TO JUST TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO 22:12 MATTHEW 16. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT 22:14 SEVERAL PASSAGES HERE. MATTHEW 16 IS WHERE YOU FIND 22:19 THIS PASSAGE, AND PASTOR ROSS AND I, WHEN WE DO THE BIBLE 22:21 PROGRAM, WE OFTEN GET QUESTIONS ON THIS CHAPTER. 22:25 SO IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN HIS DISCIPLES HAD COME TO THE OTHER 22:28 SIDE, THEY HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE BREAD. 22:30 THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'TAKE HEED AND BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN 22:33 OF THE PHARISEES AND THE SADDUCEES.'" AT FIRST THE 22:36 DISCIPLES THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, WE FORGOT TO BRING LUNCH.' 22:38 JESUS SAID, 'NO, I'M SPEAKING IN METAPHORS. 22:41 I'M SAYING, BASICALLY, BE CAREFUL OF THE TEACHING OF THE 22:45 SADDUCEES. THEY'RE REJECTING ME.' AND 22:47 THAT'S WHY, LATER, IN THAT SAME QUESTION IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, 22:51 JESUS THEN ASKS THE BIG QUESTION - "WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE 22:54 REGION OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, 22:58 'WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?' 23:03 SO THEY SAID, 'SOME SAY JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOME ELIJAH, AND OTHERS 23:08 JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE PROPHETS.'" NOW WAS THERE ANY 23:11 PROPHECY THAT SAID ELIJAH WOULD COME? 23:15 THERE WAS A PROPHECY THAT SAID SOMEONE WOULD COME IN THE SPIRIT 23:17 AND POWER OF ELIJAH. WAS THERE A PROPHECY THAT 23:19 SAID JEREMIAH WOULD RETURN? NOT THAT I KNOW OF. 23:24 SO THEY'D COME UP WITH SOME VERY INTERESTING IDEAS ABOUT 23:27 REINCARNATION AT THIS TIME - "...JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE OTHER 23:31 PROPHETS." - THIS PERSON HAD COME, AT LEAST 23:34 IN THEIR SPIRIT, AND THEY SAID, 'OKAY, NOW HERE'S THE BIG 23:38 QUESTION - VERSE 15 - "BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?" 23:44 - IT'S NOT 'WHAT DOES EVERYONE ELSE SAY? 23:46 WHO DO YOU SAY?' - NOW, WHEN YOU MAKE UP YOUR 23:49 MIND WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT JESUS, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO SAY, 23:51 'WHO DOES THE WORLD SAY THAT HE IS? OR WHO DO YOU - 23:56 WHO IS HE TO YOU? - AND THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. 23:59 JESUS WANTS TO KNOW 'WHAT DO YOU THINK?' 24:03 AND SIMON PETER, WITHOUT HESITATING - ALWAYS FIRST TO 24:05 SPEAK, HE "...ANSWERED AND SAID, 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF 24:09 THE LIVING GOD.'" - WHEN HE SAID, 'YOU'RE THE CHRIST', THAT 24:12 WORD THERE IS 'CHRISTOS', IT MEANS 'YOU ARE THE ANOINTED' - 24:15 'I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE ONE THAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. 24:18 YOU ARE THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.' AND "JESUS ANSWERED AND 24:21 SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED ARE YOU, SIMON BAR-JONAH'" - SIMON THE 24:25 SON OF JONAH - "FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO 24:28 YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN." 24:30 - 'THEREFORE YOU WILL BE THE FIRST OF MANY POPES.' 24:35 DOES IT SAY THAT? YOU WITH ME? 24:38 EVERYTHING WAS OKAY UP UNTIL I SAID THAT PART ABOUT THE FIRST 24:41 OF MANY POPES. BUT SOME PEOPLE READ THIS VERSE 24:44 THAT WAY, THAT'S WHY I INJECTED THAT. 24:46 THEY THINK, 'OH, BECAUSE JESUS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PETER WAS 24:52 BLESSED HERE BECAUSE OF THIS, JESUS - AND THEN HE GOES ON AND 24:56 HE SAYS - YOU'VE GOT TO READ HERE - GO TO VERSE 20, FOR 25:00 EXAMPLE, ALTHOUGH YOU CAN READ VERSES 18 AND 19 - WE NEED TO 25:05 READ THAT - "AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND ON 25:11 THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HADES 25:14 SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT. AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS 25:18 OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH WILL 25:20 BE BOUND...AND WHATEVER YOU LOOSE ON EARTH WILL BE LOOSED IN 25:24 HEAVEN.'" - WHATEVER YOU BIND WILL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN; 25:27 WHATEVER YOU LOOSE WILL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN. 25:29 NOW, AN UNINFORMED READING OF THAT VERSE - A PERSON COULD BE 25:35 LED TO THINK THAT JESUS IS TALKING TO PETER AND SAYING, 25:39 'PETER, BECAUSE YOU WERE THE FIRST ONE TO BLURT OUT THAT YOU 25:41 THINK I'M THE CHRIST,' - BY THE WAY, YOU READ DOWN A LITTLE 25:45 FURTHER AND IT SAYS ALL THE DISCIPLES - MATTER OF FACT, YOU 25:51 LOOK IN MATTHEW 16:20, HE COMMANDED HIS DISCIPLES THEY 25:54 SHOULD TELL NO ONE HE WAS THE CHRIST. 25:56 THEY ALL BELIEVED IT, IT SAID. 25:58 IT WASN'T THAT PETER MADE A DECLARATION THE OTHERS DIDN'T 26:00 BELIEVE, HE WAS JUST THE FIRST TO ARTICULATE IT. 26:03 SO THE IDEA THAT NOW JESUS IS SAYING, 'PETER, YOU'RE GOING TO 26:06 NOW BE THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH - "BLESSED ARE YOU...FLESH AND 26:10 BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS" - BUT NOTICE HE SAYS - VERSE 18 - 26:13 "...YOU ARE PETER AND ON THIS ROCK" - IF YOU LOOK IN THE 26:16 GREEK, THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS THAT ARE USED THERE. 26:18 JESUS SAID, 'YOU ARE PETER' - THAT'S 'PETROS' - THE WORD 26:22 'PETER' - 'PETROS' MEANS 'A STONE' THAT YOU MIGHT FIND 26:26 ROLLING AROUND IN A CREEK - A PIECE OF A STONE - BUT THEN HE 26:31 GOES ON AND HE SAYS, 'BUT ON THIS ROCK' - THIS 'PETRA' - THAT 26:35 WAS A WORD THAT WOULD MEAN A ROCK OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS LIKE 26:40 YOU WOULD SEE AT YOSEMITE OR THE PRUDENTIAL ROCK OR THE STRAITS - 26:45 THE GATES OF HERCULES - THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR THEY CALL 26:48 THEM - THIS GREAT BIG GRANITE ROCK. 26:51 JESUS IS SAYING, 'YOU'RE A ROLLING STONE, BUT ON THIS ROCK 26:55 - WHAT YOU'VE SAID - THAT I AM THE CHRIST - I WILL BUILD MY 26:59 CHURCH.' AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS, 'I GIVE TO YOU THE KEYS OF THE 27:03 KINGDOM, HE WASN'T GIVING IT TO PETER BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, ALMOST 27:06 THE SAME THING IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, HE SAYS IT TO ALL THE 27:08 BELIEVERS. HE SAYS IT TO THE APOSTLES. 27:11 HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'IN SHARING THE GOSPEL, YOU WILL 27:15 HAVE THE KEYS THAT WILL UNLOCK SALVATION TO OTHERS. 27:20 SO THE IDEA THAT CHRIST COMMITTED TO ONE MAN AND HIS 27:25 SUCCESSOR THIS GREAT AUTHORITY, IS REALLY A HERESY. 27:31 AND PROTESTANTS USED TO SPEAK ABOUT THAT BUT YOU DON'T HEAR 27:34 THEM SAYING MUCH ANYMORE. ANYWAY, SO PETER WAS THE FIRST 27:38 ONE WHO RECOGNIZED THIS. AND IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 9 NOW - 27:44 YOU'LL SEE IN VERSE 18 IT'S A SIMILAR RENDERING OF THIS STORY. 27:49 "AND IT HAPPENED, AS HE WAS ALONE PRAYING, THAT HIS 27:51 DISCIPLES JOINED HIM," - THEY CAME TO JOIN HIM IN PRAYER. 27:55 AND THEN, WHEN HE WAS DONE, HE SAID, "'WHO DO THE CROWDS SAY 27:57 THAT I AM?' SO THEY...SAID, 'JOHN THE BAPTIST, BUS SOME SAY 28:00 ELIJAH...ONE OF THE OLD PROPHETS HAS RISEN AGAIN.' HE SAID TO 28:04 THEM, 'BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?' 28:05 PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 'THE CHRIST OF GOD.' AND HE STRICTLY 28:11 WARNED AND COMMANDED THEM" - NOTICE HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING 28:13 ABOUT 'YOU'RE THE NEW POPE' HERE? 28:15 HERE HE JUST SAYS, 'DON'T TELL ANYBODY THIS.' HE WARNED THEM 28:19 AND COMMANDED THEM "TO TELL THIS TO NO ONE, SAYING, 'THE SON OF 28:22 MAN" - WHY DID HE WANT THEM NOT TO TELL ANYONE? 28:26 BECAUSE CHRIST STILL HAD SOME TIME OF PREACHING TO GO AND HE 28:28 KNEW THAT IF HE WAS PUBLICLY SAYING, 'I AM THE MESSIAH' IT 28:31 WOULD - IT WOULD AROUSE SO MUCH RESISTANCE FROM THE RELIGIOUS 28:35 LEADERS THAT IT WAS GOING TO INHIBIT HIS TRAVELING AND 28:38 PREACHING. AND SO, HE SAID, 'DON'T 28:40 ADVERTISE THAT RIGHT NOW. NOW'S NOT THE TIME.' AND THEN 28:44 HE SAID, 'THERE'LL COME A TIME. THE SON OF MAN' - "MUST SUFFER 28:47 MANY THINGS, AND BE REJECTED BY THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND 28:51 SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY." 28:53 NOW I'M GOING TO JUMP BACK TO MATTHEW 16, WHERE JESUS MAKES 28:57 THAT STATEMENT. HOW DOES PETER RESPOND? 29:00 GO TO MATTHEW 16 AND LOOK IN VERSE 21, "FROM THAT TIME JESUS 29:06 BEGAN TO SHOW TO HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE JUST GO TO JERUSALEM, 29:09 AND SUFFER MANY THINGS FROM THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE 29:12 SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED, AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY. 29:16 THEN PETER TOOK HIM ASIDE" - THAT WAS NICE FOR PETER TO TAKE 29:19 HIM ASIDE; YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO EMBARRASS JESUS - YOU DON'T WANT 29:21 TO CHASTISE JESUS IN A CROWD, YOU KNOW? HE TOOK HIM ASIDE - 29:25 YOU EVER BEEN TAKEN ASIDE BY YOUR PARENTS BEFORE? (LAUGHTER) 29:28 HE "...TOOK HIM ASIDE AND BEGAN TO REBUKE HIM, SAYING," - SHAKE 29:32 HIS FINGER AT JESUS - LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM WHEN HE KNELT AT 29:35 HIM AND SAID, 'DEPART FROM ME, YOU'RE - I'M A SINFUL MAN - HE 29:38 SAID, "FAR BE IT FROM YOU, LORD;" - DON'T TALK LIKE THIS - 29:41 "THIS SHALL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU!" - 'STOP TALKING THIS WAY!' 29:44 AND JESUS LOOKED AT PETER AND LOOKED BEHIND PETER, AND HE 29:47 REALIZED IT WAS THE DEVIL AND HE SAID, "GET BEHIND ME, SATAN!" 29:52 - HE TURNED TO PETER AND SAID, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN! 29:55 SO, IF YOU HAD NOTIONS ABOUT PETER BEING THE FIRST POPE, 29:58 ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS READ A LITTLE FURTHER. 30:02 TWENTY MINUTES DON'T GO BY, FROM THE TIME THAT HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE A 30:05 PEBBLE, BUT ON THIS ROCK I'M GOING TO BUILD MY CHURCH' AND HE 30:07 LOOKS HIM IN THE EYE AND SAYS, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN!' 30:10 SO, I REALLY DOUBT THAT JESUS WAS SAYING THAT HE WAS GOING TO 30:13 BUILD HIS CHURCH ON A MAN THAT WAS SO WISHY-WASHY THAT ONE 30:16 MINUTE HE WAS MAKING THIS GREAT DECLARATION AND THE NEXT MINUTE 30:19 JESUS IS CALLING HIM SATAN. NOW, HE WASN'T THE DEVIL, BUT 30:23 THE DEVIL WAS SPEAKING THROUGH PETER. 30:27 SO, THAT'S JUST REAL IMPORTANT, I THINK, FOR US TO UNDERSTAND 30:30 WHEN HE SAYS THIS, 'GET BEHIND ME'. 30:33 LET ME READ A QUOTE TO YOU FROM THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES - THEY 30:35 ALL MISUNDERSTOOD, IT WASN'T JUST PETER. THE DISCIPLES STILL 30:39 EXPECTED CHRIST TO REIGN AS A TEMPORAL PRINCE. 30:43 ALTHOUGH HE HAD BEEN LONG CONCEALING HIS DESIGNS, THEY 30:46 BELIEVED HE WOULD NOT ALWAYS REMAIN IN POVERTY AND OBSCURITY. 30:49 THE TIME WAS NEAR WHEN HE WOULD ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM, THAT 30:52 HATRED OF THE PRIESTS AND THE RABBIS WOULD NEVER OVERCOME, 30:56 THAT CHRIST WOULD BE REJECTED BY HIS OWN NATION, CONDEMNED AS A 31:00 DECEIVER AND CRUCIFIED AS A MALEFACTOR. SUCH A THOUGHT THE 31:02 DISCIPLES NEVER ENTERTAINED." SEE, IN THEIR MINDS, THEY 31:06 THOUGHT JESUS WAS THE SON OF DAVID. 31:08 SO, WHILE CHRIST WAS BEING DOGGED AND PERSECUTED BY THE 31:11 PRIESTS, THEY SAID, 'WELL, DAVID WAS CHASED BY SAUL.' WE'VE BEEN 31:14 LEARNING ABOUT THAT IN OUR SERIES, 'BUT SOON HE GOT OVER IT 31:18 AND HE WAS KING.' AND THEY THOUGHT JESUS WAS GIVEN - HE'S 31:21 BEING GIVEN A HARD TIME - HE'S GOING THROUGH HIS TRIALS, BUT 31:23 SOON HE'LL GET OVER THAT - HE'LL BE DECLARED KING. 31:26 THEY SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO STICK WITH HIM LIKE DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN 31:28 AND HE'LL BE KING AND WE'LL REIGN WITH HIM.' THAT WAS IN 31:30 THEIR MINDS. THEY WERE SURE THAT'S WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 31:33 SO, WHEN HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO DIE' THEY SAID, 'WHAT? 31:36 THAT DOESN'T FIT WITH OUR ESCHATOLOGY AT ALL.' AND SO THEY 31:40 REALLY STRUGGLED WITH THAT. ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 31:43 FOR ME 1 PETER 4:12 - OKAY, JOHN? MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN GO 31:47 AHEAD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE READY FOR IT. 31:51 >>"BELOVED, DO NOT THINK IT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY 31:53 TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU, AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING 31:58 HAPPENED TO YOU; BUT REJOICE TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU PARTAKE OF 32:03 CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS, THAT WHEN HIS GLORY IS REVEALED, YOU MAY 32:06 ALSO BE GLAD WITH EXCEEDING JOY." 32:10 >>VERY GOOD. DID PETER, EVIDENTLY, WHEN HE 32:13 WROTE IN HIS BOOK, FINALLY GET THE NOTION THAT THEY WERE 32:17 GOING TO HAVE TO SUFFER? HE SAID, 'DON'T BE AMAZED AT THE 32:20 FIERY TRIALS THAT ARE GOING TO TRY YOUR FAITH, AS THOUGH SOME 32:22 STRANGE THING HAS HAPPENED TO YOU'. DID THEY GO THROUGH AN 32:25 UNEXPECTED FIERY TRIAL WHEN THEY SAW JESUS ON THE CROSS? 32:30 THEY THOUGHT, 'WOW, WE DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.' HAVE YOU EVER 32:35 HAD A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU THOUGHT, 'OH, I'VE HEARD OF 32:36 THIS HAPPENING TO OTHER PEOPLE; I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN 32:38 TO ME. I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING.' DOES THE BIBLE SAY THAT 32:43 GOD BLESSES PEOPLE? BUT EVEN THOSE THAT HE BLESSES, 32:48 DO THEY GO THROUGH TRIALS? WE'VE ALL READ - WE READ A LOT 32:51 OF JOB THIS LAST YEAR - WE KNOW THAT EVEN THOSE THAT HE LOVES 32:55 WILL GO THROUGH EPISODES OF FIERY TRIALS. 32:58 YOU KNOW, I TALKED TO MY FRIENDS - I'VE GOT SOME DEAR CHARISMATIC 33:02 FRIENDS AND THEY'RE SURE ABOUT THE SECRET RAPTURE. 33:05 THEY SAID, 'OH, CHURCH IS NOT GOING TO BE HERE IN 33:07 TRIBULATION.' AND I SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO READ THIS VERSE, 33:12 'DON'T BE AMAZED AT THE FIERY TRIALS THAT WILL TRY YOU AS 33:15 THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING HAPPENED' - 'WE DIDN'T THINK 33:17 THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.' I SAID, 'YOU MAY BE SURPRISED 33:20 THAT WE ARE HERE DURING THE TRIBULATION' - 33:23 THAT GOD SAVES HIS CHURCH THROUGH TRIBULATION - 33:26 'ALL THAT LIVE GODLY WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION.' SO, THIS IDEA THAT 33:30 YOU DON'T GO THROUGH TRIALS - PETER UNDERSTOOD - MATTER OF 33:33 FACT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET INTO IT NOW, BUT WHEN YOU GET 33:35 INTO 1 AND 2 PETER YOU'LL SEE HE SAYS QUITE A BIT ABOUT 33:38 SUFFERING. BELIEVERS DO GO THROUGH - 33:41 WHY DOES HE ALLOW SUFFERING? TO TRY TO PURGE - 33:44 TO PURIFY OUR FAITH. GOD ALLOWS US TO GO THROUGH 33:48 SOME OF THESE HARD THINGS. IT MAKES IT EASIER WHEN YOU KNOW 33:51 THAT GOD HAS DESIGNED IT TO SAVE YOU, AMEN? 33:54 IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A HARD TIME AND YOU JUST THINK, 'HOW 33:57 UNFORTUNATE FOR ME', WELL, YOU'LL START FEELING SORRY FOR 34:00 YOURSELF. BUT IF YOU THINK THAT GOD PULLED 34:02 THIS OFF THE SHELF JUST FOR YOU, TO SAVE YOU, THEN YOU'LL SAY, 34:05 'OKAY, LORD, WHATEVER IT TAKES.' IT MAKES IT EASIER TO DEAL WITH. 34:10 WALKING ON WATER - CLOSEST I CAME WAS I DID SKI BAREFOOT; 34:17 BUT, IF YOU STAND STILL, YOU SINK - OR, IF THE LAKE'S FROZEN, 34:24 YOU CAN WALK ON WATER BUT, NORMALLY, THAT'S A MIRACLE. 34:28 MATTHEW 14, VERSE 22 - WE'RE GOING TO READ THAT TOGETHER - 34:32 ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH PETER. NOW, THERE ARE SEVERAL STORIES 34:36 WHERE JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES ARE OUT AT SEA DURING A STORM. 34:40 THIS IS ONE OCCASION WHERE HE HAD BEEN TEACHING - THERE'S A 34:43 LARGE CROWD - THEY'RE THINKING OF FORCING HIM INTO BEING KING, 34:47 AND SO JESUS TELLS THE DISCIPLES, 'LOOK,' - THE 34:49 DISCIPLES WERE KIND OF - THEY WERE ENCOURAGING THE CROWD, 34:52 'YEAH, YEAH, LET'S MAKE HIM KING.' AND JUDAS WAS THINKING, 34:55 'NOW'S THE TIME.' AND JESUS SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE GOT TO 34:57 SEPARATE THE APOSTLES AND THE CROWD.' HE PUTS THEM IN A BOAT 35:00 BY THEMSELVES AND SAYS, 'YOU CROSS OVER. I'LL MEET YOU'. 35:03 DIDN'T TELL THEM HOW - THEY WERE OTHER FISHING BOATS - HE SAID, 35:05 'I'LL CATCH UP WITH YOU.' 'BUT LORD!' 35:07 'YOU GO. I'LL CATCH UP WITH YOU. CROSS OVER.' 35:10 HE DISMISSES THE CROWD AND THEN GOES OFF IN THE MOUNTAINS BY 35:13 HIMSELF TO PRAY. "...HE SENT THE MULTITUDES AWAY, 35:18 HE WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN BY HIMSELF TO PRAY. 35:21 NOW WHEN EVENING CAME, HE WAS ALONE THERE. 35:24 BUT THE BOAT WAS NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA, TOSSED BY THE 35:27 WAVES, FOR THE WIND WAS CONTRARY." 35:29 THE DISCIPLES WERE ROWING AGAINST THE WIND. 35:32 "NOW IN THE FOURTH WATCH OF THE NIGHT" - WHICH IS 3:00 AM - 35:36 "JESUS WENT TO THEM, WALKING ON THE SEA." 35:40 - BY THE WAY, YOU'LL READ THIS STORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND 35:44 IT TELLS US THAT THEY WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA IN THE 35:48 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, TOSSED BY THE WAVES, ROWING INTO THE WIND, 35:53 NOT GETTING ANYWHERE, EXHAUSTED, COLD, WET - JESUS WENT TO THEM 35:57 WALKING ON THE SEA AND THE DISCIPLES SAW HIM WALKING ON THE 36:01 SEA AND THEY WERE TROUBLED AND THOUGHT IT WAS A GHOST - IT'S A 36:04 SPIRIT - IT'S AN APPARITION - "AND THEY CRIED OUT FOR FEAR." 36:08 YOU WONDER ABOUT THEIR THEOLOGY, RIGHT? 36:10 DID THEY BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? "AND THEY CRIED OUT FOR FEAR. 36:14 BUT IMMEDIATELY JESUS SPOKE TO THEM, SAYING, 'BE OF GOOD CHEER! 36:18 IT IS I; DO NOT BE AFRAID." YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE MAY HAVE 36:22 EPISODES OF FEAR BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW JESUS; THEY WERE 36:26 AFRAID OF HIM AND HE WAS COMING WITH A BLESSING. 36:28 AND THEN PETER - HE SWITCHES GEARS SO QUICKLY - THEY GO FROM 36:31 CRYING OUT IN TERROR - BUT HE'S SO HAPPY TO HEAR IT'S JESUS, 36:35 HE'S NOT EVEN WAITING FOR JESUS TO COME TO HIM ON THE - IN THE 36:39 BOAT - AND HE ANSWERS AND SAYS, "LORD, IF IT IS YOU, COMMAND ME 36:43 TO COME TO YOU ON THE WATER." PETER'S VERY CURIOUS; HE THINKS, 36:46 'WOW, THAT'S SOMETHING, WALKING ON WATER. I'D LIKE TO TRY THAT. 36:49 'LORD, IF IT'S YOU, LET ME TRY THAT. 36:51 COMMAND ME TO COME TO YOU.' DO YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME THE 36:56 LORD SAYS 'YES' TO OUR PRAYERS? WHAT, EXACTLY, WAS THE POINT TO 36:59 PETER COMING TO JESUS ON THE WATER? 37:01 WASN'T JESUS ALREADY HEADING FOR THE BOAT? 37:05 HE WAS SAYING, 'LET ME ESCORT YOU TO THE BOAT.' HE WAS COMING 37:08 TO THE DISCIPLES BECAUSE THEY WERE HAVING A HARD TIME. 37:11 THE LORD, USUALLY, SAYS 'YES' TO OUR PRAYERS, AND SO HE SAYS, 37:16 'COME. WHY NOT?' AND WHEN PETER HAD COME DOWN OUT 37:21 OF THE BOAT, HE STEPPED OVER THE SIDE, HE FELT SOMETHING FIRM 37:24 UNDER HIS FEET, HE WALKED ON THE WATER TO GO TO JESUS. 37:29 NOW, WHY WAS PETER THE ONLY ONE WHO ASKED THAT QUESTION? 37:35 WILL WE ALL ADMIT THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT PETER? 37:40 HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD HAVE SAID, 'HEY, LORD, CAN I TRY IT?' 37:46 I MEAN, THE MOMENT BEFORE, HE WAS TERRIFIED, BUT SUDDENLY HE'S 37:51 VERY CURIOUS ABOUT THE PHYSICS OF WALKING ON WATER AND HE WANTS 37:54 TO TRY IT. AND HE SAYS, 'LORD, IF THAT'S 37:58 YOU, LET ME COME.' HE SAYS, 'COME.' HE STARTS WALKING 38:01 TOWARDS CHRIST, "BUT WHEN HE SAW THE WIND WAS BOISTEROUS HE WAS 38:08 AFRAID;" - HE TURNED AROUND - THE WIND -WAS DRIVING UP THE 38:11 WAVES AND HE TOOK HIS EYES OFF JESUS. 38:15 MAYBE A WAVE CAME BETWEEN THEM AND HE COULDN'T SEE CHRIST - I 38:19 HAVE A - I HAVE A SUSPICION THAT, WHEN HE FIRST STARTED 38:22 WALKING ON THE WATER HE WAS LOOKING AT JESUS - HE WAS DOING 38:24 FINE. AND THEN, PETER WAS ALWAYS 38:27 WORRIED ABOUT WHAT HIS FRIENDS THOUGHT. 38:29 YOU'LL FIND THAT AS WE GO ON. AND HE PROBABLY WAS THINKING, 38:32 'ARE YOU GUYS GETTING THIS ON YOUR IPHONE? 38:35 LOOK AT THIS. I'M WALKING ON WATER. 38:36 LET'S TAKE A - WE'LL POST IT ON THE INTERNET. 38:39 YOU GUYS GETTING THIS?' RIGHT? 38:42 AND HE TOOK HIS EYES OFF JESUS AND THEN HE SAW THE WIND AND THE 38:45 WAVES AND HIS FAITH BEGIN TO SINK. 38:49 AND, WHEN HIS FAITH BEGAN TO SINK, HE BEGAN TO SINK. 38:52 AND THEN PETER UTTERS THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE - 38:55 THERE MAY BE A SHORTER ONE, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS. 38:59 HE SAYS, 'LORD, SAVE ME.' IT'S GOT ALL THE COMPONENTS OF A 39:04 COMPLETE SENTENCE - 'LORD, SAVE ME.' 39:07 HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR A LONG PRAYER. 39:09 I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS KNEELING WHEN HE PRAYED - HE WAS PROBABLY 39:13 KICKING AND SWIMMING - "AND IMMEDIATELY JESUS STRETCHED OUT 39:17 HIS HAND AND CAUGHT HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, 'O YOU OF LITTLE 39:20 FAITH, WHY DID YOU DOUBT?'" NOW, WHENEVER I READ THIS 39:23 STORY - WHY IS THIS STORY IN THE BIBLE? IS IT ENTERTAINMENT? 39:30 I HAVE A THEORY THAT THIS STORY IS IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE THE 39:37 CHRISTIAN LIFE IS REFERRED TO AS A WALK, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 39:40 WE'RE TOLD TO WALK WITH GOD. WE'RE TOLD TO WALK WITH JESUS. 39:43 TO WALK A HOLY LIFE IN A WICKED WORLD IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A 39:49 MIRACLE. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR PETER TO 39:53 WALK ON WATER UNLESS HE KEPT HIS EYES ON JESUS. 39:57 THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN LIVE GODLY LIVES IS BY DAILY DYING TO 40:03 SELF AND KEEPING OUR EYES FIXED ON JESUS. 40:06 EVERY DAY THAT YOU WALK WITH GOD, IT IS A MIRACLE. 40:10 IT WAS THE SAVING GRACE OF CHRIST THAT HELPS US NOT TO BE 40:14 OVERWHELMED AND DROWNED - LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD DROWN - OUT 40:18 THERE IN THE SEA. AND WE ARE SURROUNDED BY 40:22 THE STORMY WAVES OF SIN AND WICKEDNESS AND, IF YOU KEEP YOUR 40:26 EYES ON CHRIST, YOU CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE. 40:30 NOW, WHEN PEOPLE SAY 'NOBODY CAN LIVE A GODLY LIFE. 40:33 NOBODY CAN KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.' I HEAR THAT AND I 40:35 SAY, 'YOU'RE RIGHT. THEY CAN'T - WITHOUT GOD.' 40:38 BUT THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE GOSPEL UNIQUE, THROUGH CHRIST, 40:41 ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. AND WHEN PEOPLE START MAKING ALL 40:45 THE ARGUMENTS ABOUT HOW EASY IT IS TO SIN AND HOW WEAK WE ALL 40:48 ARE, I HAVE TO AGREE - YOU'RE RIGHT. 40:50 BUT, GOD ISN'T ASKING US TO DO THE NORMAL; HE'S ASKING US, IN 40:53 BEING CHRISTIANS, TO DO THE SUPERNATURAL. 40:56 IF YOU'RE WALKING WITH CHRIST, IF YOU'RE KEEPING YOUR EYES ON 40:59 HIM, IF YOU HAVE A SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE, IT IS EXTRAORDINARY, IT IS 41:05 UNUSUAL, IT IS SUPERNATURAL, IT IS DIFFERENT. 41:09 WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THAT NOAH WALKED WITH GOD IN A WICKED 41:12 GENERATION, IT WAS BY THE GRACE OF GOD. 41:15 NOAH FOUND GRACE. AND, IF WE WALK HOLY LIVES IN A 41:18 WICKED WORLD, HOW DO WE DO IT? IT'S BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AMEN? 41:23 I'M SO GLAD PETER ASKED THAT QUESTION BECAUSE, OTHERWISE, WE 41:26 WOULDN'T HAVE THAT LESSON THAT, IF WE'RE FOLLOWING GOD, HE CAN 41:29 PART OCEANS, HE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS, AND HE CAN GIVE 41:34 YOU THE ABILITY TO WALK ON WATER. 41:37 AND WHEN THEY GOT IN THE BOAT, IT SAYS THE WIND CEASED AND 41:42 "THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM IN THE BOAT CAME AND WORSHIPED HIM, 41:45 SAYING, 'TRULY YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD.'" NOW, LET ME TELL YOU 41:47 WHY I MENTION THE GOSPEL OF JOHN: IN JOHN CHAPTER 6, IT ADDS 41:51 ONE MORE THING - IT SAYS WHEN HE GOT IN THE BOAT THE WIND CEASED 41:55 AND THEY WERE AT THEIR DESTINATION. 42:00 WHERE WERE THEY WHEN THEY SAW HIM? 42:02 THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. 42:04 WHEN THEY INVITED JESUS IN THE BOAT, THEY REACHED THEIR 42:08 DESTINATION. ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEY LOOKED 42:11 AND THEY SAW THE LIGHTS OF SOMEBODY'S LAMP BURNING ON THE 42:14 SHORE AND THEY SAID, 'WE'RE HERE. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?' 42:18 DON'T MISS THIS IMPORTANT POINT: WHEN JESUS CAME TO THEM, WHAT 42:24 WERE THEY DOING? THEY WERE ROWING. 42:27 WHEN THEY INVITED HIM IN THE BOAT THEY GOT TO THEIR 42:29 DESTINATION. DOES THE LORD WANT US TO USE 42:31 HUMAN POWER TO DO WHAT HE TELLS US TO DO? 42:34 JESUS TOLD THEM, 'CROSS THE SEA.' HE DIDN'T TELL THEM, 42:37 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY PROBLEMS.' WE DO HAVE PROBLEMS. 42:40 HE SAID, 'CROSS THE SEA.' THEY WENT TO OBEY. 42:43 THEY RAN INTO RESISTANCE. THEY RAN INTO A HEAD WIND. 42:46 THEY RAN INTO WAVES. BUT, WHEN THEY INVITED JESUS 42:48 IN THE BOAT THEY WERE AT THEIR DESTINATION. 42:50 SO, WHO GOT THEM THERE? JESUS GOT THEM THERE, BUT THEY 42:54 WERE DOING EVERYTHING THEY COULD HUMANLY DO IN THEIR STRENGTH TO 42:57 OBEY WHAT HE TOLD THEM TO DO. IS THAT AN IMPORTANT 43:00 LESSON FOR US TO REMEMBER? SOME PEOPLE JUST SIT 43:02 THERE ON THE SHORE. JESUS SAYS, 'CROSS OVER.' THEY 43:04 SAY, 'I WILL WHEN YOU GET IN MY BOAT.' NO, HE SAYS, 'YOU START 43:08 DOING WHAT YOU CAN DO AND WHEN YOU REACH YOUR LIMIT I WILL WORK 43:13 A MIRACLE.' BUT GOD WANTS US TO DO, HUMANLY, WHAT WE CAN DO. 43:16 AMEN? >>AMEN. 43:17 >>ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S ANOTHER GREAT STORY OF PETER. 43:20 WE'RE GETTING TO KNOW THE PETER, WHO WROTE THE LETTERS, DENYING 43:22 HIS LORD. THIS IS SOMETHING WE DON'T LIKE 43:24 TO DWELL ON, BUT WE ALL KNOW - YOU READ IN LUKE 22 - OH, BY THE 43:30 WAY, THERE'S A PROMISE IN THE BIBLE THAT PETER COULD HAVE 43:34 READ, IN ISAIAH 43, "WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH THE WATERS, I WILL 43:39 BE WITH YOU; AND THROUGH THE RIVERS, THEY SHALL 43:42 NOT OVERFLOW YOU. WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE, 43:45 YOU SHALL NOT BE BURNED," - I THINK SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND 43:47 ABEDNEGO READ THAT PROMISE - "NOR SHALL THE 43:50 FLAME SCORCH YOU." ALRIGHT - DENYING HIS LORD - IT 43:55 SAYS, IN LUKE 22:31, "AND THE LORD SAID, 'SIMON'" - I HAVE 43:59 SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU - HE SAID, "SIMON, SIMON! 44:02 INDEED SATAN HAS ASKED FOR YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT. 44:06 BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT FAIL; AND 44:09 WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED TO ME," - WHEN YOU'RE CONVERTED - 44:12 "'STRENGTHEN YOUR BRETHREN.' BUT HE SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, I AM 44:16 READY TO GO WITH YOU, BOTH TO PRISON AND TO DEATH.' THEN HE 44:19 SAID, 'I TELL YOU, PETER, THE ROOSTER SHALL NOT CROW THIS DAY 44:21 BEFORE YOU WILL DENY THREE TIMES...'" IN ANOTHER 44:24 PASSAGE IT SAYS A ROOSTER WILL NOT CROW TWICE BEFORE YOU DENY 44:27 ME THREE TIMES' AND - BUT HE SAID 'SATAN'S DESIRED TO HAVE 44:36 YOU.' WHAT GOD SAID TO PETER, IS THAT ONLY TRUE OF PETER OR IS 44:40 THAT TRUE OF EACH ONE OF US? IF YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO 44:43 FOLLOW JESUS AS PETER DID, YOU ARE A THREAT TO THE DEVIL. 44:47 WHEN IT SAYS, 'I'VE PRAYED FOR YOU THAT YOUR FAITH DOES NOT 44:49 FAIL.' DID HE ONLY PRAY FOR PETER OR DID JESUS PRAY FOR US? 44:54 WHERE DOES IT SHOW JESUS PRAYING FOR US? 44:57 >>IN JOHN 17 - >>JOHN 17. 44:59 >>THAT'S RIGHT, IN JOHN 17 CHRIST SAYS, 'LORD, NOT ONLY DO 45:02 I PRAY FOR THESE (THE TWELVE APOSTLES) I PRAY FOR THOSE WHO 45:04 WILL BELIEVE THROUGH THEIR WORD.' IS THAT YOU? 45:08 CHRIST WAS PRAYING FOR US. ISN'T THAT SOMETHING THAT HE 45:10 SPECIFICALLY PRAYED FOR US JUST LIKE HE PRAYED FOR PETER? 45:14 NOW, WAS PETER'S FAITH TESTED? I THOUGHT WHEN JESUS PRAYED FOR 45:18 HIM, HE WOULDN'T BE TESTED. DID PETER FALL? 45:22 I THOUGHT IF JESUS PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT YOU WOULDN'T FALL. 45:26 HE WAS TESTED, HE FELL - BUT WAS HE REDEEMED? 45:30 DID HE REPENT? AND SO THAT SHOULD BRING COURAGE TO US. 45:35 BECAUSE JESUS PRAYED FOR YOU DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NEVER GOING 45:38 TO BE TEMPTED, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO FALL OR 45:40 NOT FALL, IT MEANS THAT IF YOU BELIEVE AND YOU HAVE FAITH - AS 45:44 PETER PERSISTED - PETER REPENTED - HE WAS RECLAIMED. 45:48 NOW, JUST TO LOOK AT THE STORY - LUKE 22:54 - PETER HAVING - 45:55 JESUS, BEING ARRESTED, THEY LED HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE HIGH 45:59 PRIEST. BUT PETER FOLLOWED AT A DISTANCE. 46:02 NOW, IN MY BIBLE I'VE UNDERLINED THAT. 46:05 DID PETER FOLLOW JESUS? >>YES. 46:07 >>HOW DID HE FOLLOW? >>SPACED. 46:09 >>WHY DID HE FOLLOW HIM AT A DISTANCE? 46:12 WHEN JESUS WAS BEING LED BY THE MULTITUDE THAT SAID, 'HOSANNA 46:17 TO THE SON OF DAVID INTO JERUSALEM - TRIUMPHAL ENTRY - 46:20 WAS PETER FOLLOWING FROM A DISTANCE THEN OR WAS HE RIGHT 46:23 THERE NEXT TO THE DONKEY? >>NEXT TO THE DONKEY. 46:25 >>WHEN JESUS WAS SURROUNDED BY THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND THEY 46:31 CAME TO ARREST JESUS, DID PETER PULL OUT A SWORD AND START TO 46:34 FIGHT WHEN HIS FRIENDS WERE WATCHING? BUT NOW ALL THE 46:38 FRIENDS ARE GONE - HIS AUDIENCE IS GONE - JESUS IS NO LONGER 46:42 POPULAR - PETER IS NOW FOLLOWING FROM A DISTANCE. PETER 46:45 STRUGGLED, I THINK, A LITTLE BIT, ABOUT WHAT THE CROWD 46:47 THOUGHT, BECAUSE HE SEEMS TO MORPH TO WHAT THE CROWD IS DOING 46:51 AND SAYING. AND NOW, WHEN JESUS IS NOT POPULAR, PETER STILL 46:57 LOVES HIM - HE'S FOLLOWING, BUT FROM A DISTANCE. 46:59 DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU FOLLOW JESUS FROM A DISTANCE, IN THIS WORLD, 47:03 YOU ARE GOING TO BE VERY TEMPTED TO DENY HIM. 47:07 IF YOU GET RIGHT UP CLOSE TO JESUS AND YOU LET EVERYBODY KNOW 47:10 WHERE YOU STAND, THEN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE PUT IN A 47:13 COMPROMISING SITUATION. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON. 47:17 IF YOU STAY CLOSE TO JESUS - LET PEOPLE KNOW, 'I'M A CHRISTIAN' - 47:20 LET THEM KNOW RIGHT UP FRONT - THEN, IF THEY START TESTING YOU 47:23 AND TEMPTING YOU - IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME - IT HAPPENED 47:26 YESTERDAY. I PICKED UP TWO HITCHHIKERS 47:28 YESTERDAY, ONE GOING TO COVELO - NOT YESTERDAY - I PICKED UP ONE 47:31 THE DAY BEFORE AND ONE THE DAY COMING BACK - AND THEY GET IN 47:34 THE CAR AND THE FIRST ONE - IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, HE WAS ALL 47:38 DRESSED UP IN A SUIT AND TIE, WALKING DOWN THE ROAD 47:40 HITCHHIKING - I THOUGHT 'THAT'S ODD'. 47:42 TURNS OUT HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO A WEDDING AND THE CAR BROKE DOWN. 47:45 BUT HE GOT IN THE CAR AND I TOLD HIM, I'M A PASTOR, YOU LOOK LIKE 47:53 YOU'RE GOING TO CHURCH. AND SO I TOLD HIM RIGHT AWAY AND 47:55 WE HAD A WONDERFUL CONVERSATION - VERY POLITE. 47:57 THE SECOND GUY I PICKED UP, I DIDN'T SAY THAT TO HIM, AND HE 48:00 STARTED CURSING RIGHT AWAY. I MENTIONED I WAS A PASTOR - HIS 48:06 CONVERSATION CHANGED INSTANTLY. AND, YOU KNOW, JUST I SAID, 'LET 48:10 ME KNOW WHERE I STAND.' AND SO, WHEN I STARTED SHARING MY 48:13 TESTIMONY WITH HIM, I ENDED UP GIVING HIM A BOOK. 48:15 HE SAID, 'HE'S A PASTOR', YOU KNOW, 'THAT'S WHAT I EXPECT'. 48:19 AND SO, YOU JUST LET PEOPLE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND THEY'RE NOT AS 48:24 LIKELY TO OFFER YOU A DRINK FROM THEIR BOTTLE IF YOU TELL THEM 48:27 RIGHT OFF 'I'M A PASTOR' - YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT 48:29 TEMPTATION. (LAUGHTER) I'M NOT TEMPTED WITH THAT, DON'T WORRY. 48:34 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO LOOK UP FOR ME ROMANS 5:20 - OKAY, 48:37 YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A SECOND HERE. 48:39 IT SAYS THEY LED HIM AWAY, HE FOLLOWED FROM A DISTANCE - NOW, 48:42 WHEN THEY KINDLED THE FIRE IN THE MIDST OF THE COURTYARD, HE 48:45 SAT - THEY SAT DOWN TOGETHER - PETER SAT WITH THEM - "AND A 48:48 CERTAIN SERVANT GIRL, SEEING HIM AS HE SAT BY THE FIRE, LOOKED 48:51 INTENTLY AT HIM AND SAID, 'THIS MAN WAS ALSO WITH HIM.' BUT HE 48:56 DENIED HIM, SAYING, 'WOMAN, I DO NOT KNOW HIM.' AND AFTER A 48:59 LITTLE WHILE" - HE'S HANGING AROUND THE WRONG CROWD AND HE'S 49:02 INFLUENCED BY WHO HE'S HANGING AROUND. 49:05 A LITTLE WHILE LATER ANOTHER WOMAN SAW HIM AND SAID, 'ARE YOU 49:08 OF - YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.' "BUT PETER SAID, 'MAN, I AM NOT!' 49:11 THEN AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR HAD PASSED, ANOTHER CONFIDENTLY 49:14 AFFIRMED, SAYING, 'SURELY THIS FELLOW ALSO WAS WITH HIM, FOR 49:16 HE IS A GALILEAN.'" - 'I CAN TELL BY YOUR SPEECH.' I'M 49:20 COMBINING TWO DIFFERENT PASSAGES HERE - PETER'S SAYING, 'I DON'T 49:23 KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.' ANOTHER PASSAGE SAYS HE SWORE 49:25 AND CURSED - 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING'. 49:29 AND "IMMEDIATELY, WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING, THE ROOSTER 49:32 CROWED. AND THE LORD TURNED AND LOOKED AT PETER." 49:36 FROM WHERE PETER WAS SITTING HE COULD SEE THE TRIAL THROUGH THE 49:38 PILLARS AND HE COULD SEE JESUS AND JESUS IS GETTING BEATEN BY 49:44 THE TEMPLE GUARD - THIS IS NOT THE ROMAN SOLDIERS YET - HE'S 49:47 STILL BEING TRIED BY THE HIGH PRIEST. 49:49 AND HE DENIES CHRIST FOR THE THIRD TIME, HE TURNS AND LOOKS 49:55 BACK AT JESUS - JESUS, IN SPITE OF ALL THE SUFFERINGS HE'S GOING 49:58 THROUGH AND THE ABUSE AND THE TRIAL, HE IS ONLY THINKING ABOUT 50:01 PETER ON THE OUTSIDE AND HE TURNS AND THEY MAKE EYE CONTACT 50:04 AND THERE'S A LOOK OF LOVE AND HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'I TOLD 50:07 YOU. YOU SWORE, 'ALTHOUGH ALL FORSAKE 50:10 YOU - I'LL GO TO PRISON AND DEATH. I WON'T DENY YOU.' YOU 50:12 DON'T KNOW YOUR OWN HEART.' AND PETER - IT BROKE HIS HEART. 50:16 HE SAW THAT LOOK OF LOVE AND HE WENT OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY. 50:19 I THINK, RIGHT AFTER JESUS LOOKED AT HIM - YOU READ IN 50:20 DESIRE OF AGES - ANOTHER FIST CAME DOWN AND HIT JESUS. 50:24 OH, IT WAS - HE REALIZED JESUS WAS TAKING WHAT HE DESERVED. 50:29 BUT, FORTUNATELY, THAT WAS NOT THE END, SO GO AHEAD AND READ 50:32 FOR US ROMANS 5. >>ROMANS 5:20, "...BUT WHERE SIN 50:38 ABOUNDED, GRACE ABOUNDED MUCH MORE..." 50:41 >>WAS IT A SIN FOR PETER TO DENY HIS LORD? YEAH, IT WAS. 50:46 AND HE DID IT - WHATEVER PETER DID, HE DID IT WITH GUSTO, 50:48 RIGHT? >>RIGHT. 50:50 >>HE DIDN'T JUST DENY HIM ONCE, HE DENIED HIM THREE TIMES. 50:52 HE DIDN'T JUST DENY HIM THREE TIMES, HE DID IT WITH SWEARING 50:54 AND CURSING, IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS' ENEMIES AT THE TRIAL OF 50:58 CHRIST - AND HE WAS BROKENHEARTED. 51:01 BUT HE REPENTED, AND WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS MUCH 51:05 MORE, AMEN? I ALWAYS AM AMAZED THAT THE MOST WICKED KING OF 51:10 JUDAH, MANASSEH, WHEN HE FINALLY REPENTS - THE LONGEST REIGNING 51:15 KING - DID TERRIBLE THINGS - GOD'S GRACE ABOUNDED MUCH MORE. 51:19 MANASSEH WAS FORGIVEN AND GOD BROUGHT HIM BACK TO THE KINGDOM. 51:22 GOD IS SO GOOD. FINALLY, PETER IS A CHURCH 51:26 LEADER AND, YOU KNOW, PETER IS A PRIME SPOKESMAN THERE AT 51:30 PENTECOST - HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE PREACHING, BUT IT'S HIS 51:32 SERMON THAT'S RECORDED. HE IS THE BOLD ONE. 51:35 HE'S SPEAKING THERE AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE. 51:37 PETER HAS BEEN CONVERTED NOW - YOU HEAR PETER TELL THE 51:40 SANHEDRIN, WHEN THEY SAY, 'WE COMMAND YOU NOT TO PREACH IN 51:42 THIS MAN'S NAME ANY MORE' PETER SAID, 'YOU DECIDE WHETHER WE 51:46 OUGHT TO OBEY GOD OR MAN' - AND THAT'S A RHETORICAL QUESTION FOR 51:50 A JEW BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS KNOW YOU OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MAN. 51:54 HE SAID, 'GOD'S TELLING US TO; YOU'RE TELLING US NOT TO - YOU 51:57 KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.' THEY WENT RIGHT FROM BEING 51:59 WHIPPED BACK TO THE TEMPLE AND KEPT ON PREACHING. 52:02 WAS PETER NOW CONCERNED WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF HIM? 52:06 A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE NOW YOU GET TO THE BOOK OF GALATIANS AND 52:12 PAUL'S VERY NICE TO PETER IN GALATIANS 2:9 AND WHEN JAMES, 52:16 CEPHAS, - THAT'S ANOTHER NAME FOR PETER - AND JOHN, WHO SEEMED 52:19 TO BE PILLARS - LEADERS IN THE CHURCH - 'THEY PERCEIVED THE 52:22 GRACE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME, THEY GAVE ME AND BARNABAS THE 52:25 RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP' - PETER WELCOMED PAUL INTO 52:28 PREACHING AND APOSTLESHIP - 'THAT WE SHOULD GO TO THE 52:31 GENTILES AND THEY TO THE CIRCUMCISION'. 52:33 BUT NOW YOU GET TO GALATIANS 2, VERSE 11, "NOW WHEN PETER HAD 52:36 COME TO ANTIOCH, I WITHSTOOD HIM TO HIS FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS TO 52:41 BE BLAMED; FOR BEFORE CERTAIN MEN CAME FROM JAMES," - 52:44 IN JERUSALEM - "HE WOULD EAT WITH THE GENTILES; 52:48 BUT WHEN THEY CAME, HE WITHDREW AND 52:49 SEPARATED HIMSELF, FEARING THOSE WHO WERE OF THE CIRCUMCISION." 52:52 SEE, THERE YOU'VE GOT PETER AGAIN, FALLING INTO HIS OLD 52:53 WAYS. MOSES IS FAITHFUL FOR FORTY YEARS AND HE LOSES HIS 52:58 TEMPER - THE OLD MOSES CAME OUT - PETER, LED BY THE LORD BUT 53:04 THEN, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED IS, WHEN HE WAS WITH THE 53:06 GENTILES IN ANTIOCH, HE ATE AND HOBNOBBED WITH THEM - NOW, HE 53:09 WASN'T EATING UNCLEAN FOOD, BUT YOU WEREN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO EAT 53:11 AND COME UNDER THE ROOF OF A GENTILE - AND SO HE WAS TREATING 53:15 THEM THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE TREATED, BUT THEN HE SAYS, 53:17 'OH, A JEWISH DELEGATION'S COMING. 53:19 HEY GUYS, THIS ISN'T GOING TO LOOK GOOD. 53:21 THEY DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW, THEY STILL STUCK WITH THESE OLD 53:23 CUSTOMS SO I'M GOING TO - I WON'T BE AROUND ANYMORE.' 53:25 AND PAUL SAID, 'YOU'RE BEING A HYPOCRITE. 53:26 IF IT'S RIGHT, THEN THE PEOPLE COMING FROM JERUSALEM OUGHT TO 53:29 KNOW IT'S RIGHT AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE 53:32 THINKS.' AND SO HE REBUKED PETER. 53:35 PETER EMBRACED THE REBUKE OF PAUL - PAUL WAS RIGHT - AND 53:39 LATER PETER SAYS, 'OUR BELOVED BROTHER PAUL HAS WRITTEN THE 53:43 THINGS THAT GOD INSPIRED. MATTER OF FACT, PETER REFERS TO 53:46 PAUL'S WRITINGS AS 'SCRIPTURE', DID YOU KNOW THAT? 53:49 SO THEY HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP AND HE RECEIVED THE REBUKE OF 53:52 PAUL WITH THE RIGHT SPIRIT AND, HOPEFULLY, CHANGED HIS WAYS. 53:56 NOW THOSE ARE THE RECORD OF PETER THAT YOU FIND, JUST WANTED 53:58 TO GIVE US A LITTLE BETTER PICTURE OF THE MAN WHO WROTE THE 54:01 BOOK. AND I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS 54:03 WHO ARE WATCHING AT HOME, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER. 54:07 THIS TALKS ABOUT STANDING FOR YOUR FAITH. 54:09 I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY IT - COMPROMISE, CONFORMITY, AND 54:11 COURAGE: HOW TO STAND AND BE FAITHFUL IN THE LAST DAYS . 54:14 IT'S FREE WHEN YOU CALL SEVEN - CALL 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 54:21 866-STUDY-MORE AND ASK FOR OFFER #774 - WE'LL ONLY PRAY THAT YOU, 54:27 THEN, READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. 54:29 GOD BLESS YOU 'TIL WE STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 54:34 (MUSIC) 54:44 >>TODAY'S SMART PHONES ARE A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF 54:46 INFORMATION THAT FITS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND. 54:49 IT'S A GOOD THING WE HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS! 54:51 WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR 54:55 EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO, LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF 54:59 THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A 55:03 GOOD THING. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE 55:05 COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART 55:08 PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON. 55:13 AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE 55:16 CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT ANYMORE? TODAY COMMUNICATION IS 55:19 NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE 55:22 SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING. THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT 55:27 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING 55:31 WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS IN SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING. 55:34 THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING USED THAN THOSE WHO ARE SURFING 55:37 THE WEB OR EVEN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. 55:40 AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT HERE IN THE 55:43 PHILIPPINES. EVEN THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS 55:45 ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST 55:49 NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES OF ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 55:52 THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400 55:55 MILLION TEXT MESSAGES EVERY DAY. WOW, THAT'S A LOT 56:00 OF FINGER FATIGUE. EVEN THOUGH THE GREATEST NUMBER 56:03 OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE 56:06 FASTEST TEXTER IN THE WORLD IS FROM BRAZIL. 56:08 A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS 56:12 ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY COMPLICATED WORDS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 18 56:15 SECONDS. WOW, IT TAKES ME LONGER THAN 56:18 THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE YOU' TO MY WIFE AND PRESS SEND. 56:22 ALL THUMBS. ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT TEXTING IS YOU CAN 56:26 TEXT JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE 56:28 AND YOU WANT TO SEND A PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT. 56:31 YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT. 56:34 IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT - 56:38 JUST DON'T TEXT WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING. 56:40 THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL, FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD 56:43 A MESSAGE OF PRAYER FROM YOUR HEART. WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING 56:46 'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO TO?' 'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?' 56:49 'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?' 56:52 YOUR PRAYERS DON'T HAVE TO BE LONG. 56:54 THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER 56:56 PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.' AND JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER. 57:00 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO 57:03 GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER 57:06 BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SAY 'AMEN' AND PRESS THE SEND 57:09 BUTTON. IN FACT, FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING 57:11 JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND HIM REGULAR MESSAGES FROM 57:14 YOUR HEART TO HIS. SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK 57:16 TO HIM RIGHT NOW? (MUSIC) 57:29 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND 57:32 EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. 57:34 WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE 57:38 CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 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