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 Well, good morning, church family.

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 This is Pastor Sam checking in with you from vacation.

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 My family and I very much look forward to being back with you next Sunday worshiping

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 together.

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 But until then, let me introduce to you a very special guest.

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 Ed Upton is the Senior Director of the Church Ambassador Network of Texas.

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 He is an elder at Redemption City Church in Fort Worth.

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 He's also served as Vice President at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth.

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 He has served on the staff of the Executive Committee of our Southern Baptist Convention.

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 He has served on the staff of two of our largest SBC churches, Cross Church in Arkansas

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 under Pastor Ronnie Floyd, as well as Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.

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 Ed pastored in a smaller town, Neosho, Missouri.

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 He holds his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Southern Seminary in

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 Louisville, Kentucky.

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 Ed is a man of the church.

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 He's a man of God, and he's one of my closest friends on this earth, one of my favorite people.

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 I believe his family is here with him today.

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 I hope he's a blessing to y'all.

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 I know he will be.

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 Please welcome my friend, Ed Upton.

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 What a sweet boy.

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 How we doing?

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 We good?

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 He's a liar.

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 He was not filming that on vacation.

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 That was in his office.

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 So we're going to talk to him about that when he gets home, okay?

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 My goodness gracious.

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 Are we good?

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 I need to know, before we start, I need to know how responsive y'all are, because I got

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 some questions about the sermon, and I want y'all to, will y'all speak back to me if I

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 ask you questions?

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 This is yes.

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 This is yes.

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 Okay, cool.

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 All right.

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 Just making sure.

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 It's a privilege to be here.

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 I bring you greetings from Fort Worth.

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 I bring you greetings from Redemption City Church, which is a church plant that Sam and

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 Holly helped us plant a few years ago in Fort Worth.

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 And that we still, we consider First Baptist Henry at a great partner with us in the gospel

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 work that's going on all across North Texas.

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 I have known Sam for a few years.

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 Like he said, we worked together.

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 And Sam and Holly, I think Eleanor and I would tell you, are some of our closest friends.

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 And so it is an honor to be here with you.

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 I like to think that everything good that Sam knows about the church, I taught him.

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 All the bad, I'm sure he learned somewhere else.

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 But it wasn't for me.

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 So you're going to find that out today, hopefully.

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 So grab your Bibles.

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 Turn with me to John chapter number 21.

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 So if you brought a copy, it's a paper Bible.

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 I've got a paper Bible.

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 If you got it on your phone, you're not going to bother me if you get your phone out.

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 John, you're going to bother me if you're scrolling on Facebook, but you're not going

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 to bother me if you get your phone out and look at scripture.

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 John chapter number 21 is where we're going to be today.

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 And while you're turning there, I want to tell you a story.

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 You guys like stories?

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 I'll tell you a little bit of a story.

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 The year 1514, so going way back.

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 In the year 1514, a middle class farming family in southern Scotland named Knox welcomed a

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 new baby into their family, a little boy that they named John.

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 John Knox grew up and when it was time to go off to college, although his family wasn't

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 super well off, they scraped up the money and they sent him to the University of St.

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 Andrews.

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 Sometime after his graduation from the University of St. Andrews, Knox was introduced to a preacher

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 by the name of George Weissart.

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 Weissart was, in fact, instrumental in Knox's conversion to Christ.

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 Knox began preaching after Weissart was martyred by the local cardinal in Scotland.

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 In fact, when Mary I, first came to power, she was known as Bloody Mary, you might have heard

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 of her in history.

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 Knox fled to Geneva where he studied under a man named John Calvin.

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 After the death of Mary in 1558, amidst a renewed Protestant insurgency in Scotland,

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 Knox returned to Edinburgh in 1559 and began preaching, despite a price that was thrown at

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 his head.

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 Throughout the years following, God used John Knox to see hundreds, even thousands of Scots

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 professed faith in Christ, Knox was known throughout Scotland as a man who feared God more than

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 he feared anything or anyone else.

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 He was known also as a man of prayer.

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 Another Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, who came to power later in John's life, is reported to

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 have said that she fears the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe.

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 One of John Knox's more famous prayers that he prayed was simply this, God, give me Scotland

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 or I die.

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 He was known for that, God, give me Scotland or I die.

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 And God granted his request.

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 God used John Knox.

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 He used his insatiable desire for his country to rejuvenate the preachers in Scotland and

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 to start God's churches throughout the nations, thus in turn reforming the church in Scotland.

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 Through God's providence, John's legacy includes some 750,000 believers in Scotland, over 3 million

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 in the United States, and countless more worldwide, all starting with someone who simply had the

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 desire to see his country come to Christ.

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 Praying the prayer, God, give me Scotland or I die.

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 I think that John's life and his prayer carries implications for us today as we look at John

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 chapter 21.

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 And so what I want to do is I'm going to read the passage.

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 I'm a big believer.

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 Let's read the whole passage we're going to look at together.

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 Then we're going to come back and let's kind of chop it up and walk through it as we go.

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 Good?

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 Yes?

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 All right.

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 So John 21, starting in verse number one, and I'm going to read.

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 I think it's on the screens, but I don't have the clicker.

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 So if it's not, just follow along in the Bible.

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 We've all got Bibles, right?

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 John 21, verse one.

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 After this, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he

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 revealed himself in this way.

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 Simon Peter, Thomas called the twin, Nathaniel of Canaan and Galilee, the sons of Zebedee,

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 and two others of his disciples were together.

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 Simon Peter said to them, I'm going fishing.

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 They said to him, we will go with you.

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 And they went out and got into the boat.

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 But that night they caught nothing.

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 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore, yet the disciples did not know that

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 it was Jesus.

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 Jesus said to them, children, do you have any fish?

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 And they answered him, no.

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 He said to them, cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.

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 So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in because of the quantity

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 of fish.

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 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, it is the Lord.

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 When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped

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 for work, and threw himself into the sea.

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 The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far

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 from the land, but about a hundred yards off.

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 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place with fish laid out on it and bread.

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 Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish that you have just caught.

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 So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore full of large fish, 153 of them.

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 And although there were many, the net was not torn.

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 Jesus then said to them, come and have breakfast.

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 Now none of the disciples dared ask him, who are you?

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 They knew it was the Lord.

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 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.

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 This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised

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 from the dead.

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 Verse 15.

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 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you

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 love me more than these?

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 And he said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you.

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 He said to him, feed my lambs.

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 He said to him a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love me?

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 He said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you.

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 He said to him, tend my sheep.

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 Verse 17.

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 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me?

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 And Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, do you love me?

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 And he said to him, Lord, you know everything.

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 You know that I love you.

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 Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

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 Would you pray with me this morning as we get started?

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 Father, we declare to you this morning that there is none like you.

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 There is none greater than you in the heavens or on the earth.

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 And so, Father, it is with that attitude that we come before you this morning,

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 and we ask very humbly that you would speak to us, that you would teach us.

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 Father, we pray that you would use this time to deepen our affections for your word,

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 to deepen our affections for you.

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 It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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 All right, so John 21, right?

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 I want to give you some background on kind of what we're looking at in John 21,

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 and we're going to work through it together. You with me?

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 So as we get into John 21, right before we come to these men,

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 they're gathered by the Sea of Tiberias.

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 We kind of see in the chapters leading up to this the death and the resurrection of Jesus,

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 as well as him appearing to the disciples a couple of times.

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 You with me, right?

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 The most recent being in the chapter before this,

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 you see Jesus appear to Thomas, right?

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 Doubting Thomas.

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 You can, you know, put your fingers, see my wounds, put your fingers in my wounds,

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 and you can see that I'm real and that I'm really here.

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 So if you keep in mind that there's only about 40 days between the resurrection of Christ

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 and his ascension into heaven, which is what we see in Acts chapter 1,

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 you've got to believe that these guys who are gathered here by the Sea of Tiberias

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 are probably a little shell-shocked over the events of the last month, right?

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 Just a little bit shell-shocked over what's going on.

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 I mean, they've spent the last three years of their lives living with Jesus every day.

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 They gave up everything they had.

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 They followed him.

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 When he first called these men, you remember,

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 Jesus instructed them to leave everything behind,

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 their families, their livelihoods, everything, and follow him.

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 In fact, you see Matthew and Mark in the Gospels,

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 you see in Matthew and Mark, excuse me, in the Gospels,

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 two of the disciples leave their father, right?

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 They left everything.

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 James and John left their father to go be with Jesus,

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 three years with Jesus, spent watching him heal the sick and raise the dead

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 and comfort and encourage people,

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 preach to the masses about the glory of God,

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 all culminating in his murder at the hands of the Jews and the Romans.

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 Okay, so I've got to believe there's some shell-shockedness going on here.

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 Their heads are no doubt spinning at the events of the last 40 days.

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 But truthfully, if we're looking at kind of the life of these men

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 and what they've been through the last three years,

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 this should not have been a surprise to them, right?

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 We know that Jesus had been talking to them about his death for a while.

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 In Mark chapter 14, you see Jesus tell the disciples,

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 you will all fall away for it is written,

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 I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.

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 But after I am raised up, he says, I will go before you to Galilee.

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 Then in Mark chapter 16, verse 7,

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 the angel at the tomb instructs Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James,

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 to go tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee.

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 There you will see him just as he told you.

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 So he's telling them that he was going to meet them in Galilee.

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 He's giving them instruction about what is coming

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 and what they are to do when it happens.

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 So when we get into John chapter 21,

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 it really should be of no surprise that we see these men gathered by the Sea of Tiberias

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 or more commonly known as the Sea of Galilee.

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 What is surprising here, though,

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 about this entire episode that you see in John 21

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 is the picture that's being painted for us here by John.

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 There is some surprise at what's going on within John 21

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 and within the picture that we are seeing.

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 So if you look back with me to John 21, verses 1 and 2,

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 I want to take a moment and we're going to walk through the passage

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 and we want to make some notes along the way as we go

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 concerning this specific picture.

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 There's an illustration, there's some imagery here

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 that John wants to make sure that we don't miss.

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 This verbiage that John uses to give us a very vivid picture

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 of what is happening with these guys.

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 And as we look at this, I want you to remember something else

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 as we walk through this passage for the next few minutes.

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 And this is the statement.

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 Words mean things.

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 Okay?

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 Words mean things.

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 Words that you say, words that you don't say,

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 words that you see in Scripture.

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 Words mean things.

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 And many times, a singular word can make the difference

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 when you're reading Scripture between us making up our own mind

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 about whatever we're interpreting going on here

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 versus how the Scripture was intended to be understood.

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 And so I want to take note of the very specific language

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 that John is using here to describe this scene

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 because I think it helps us get a clearer picture

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 of this little interchange that we see take place

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 between John and Peter.

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 So John 21, verses 1 and 2.

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 After this, look back with me.

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 After this, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples

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 by the Sea of Tiberias.

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 He revealed himself in this way.

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 Simon Peter, Thomas called the twin,

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 Nathaniel of Canaan, Galilee, the sons of Zebedee,

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 and two others of his disciples were together.

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 So here's what we have.

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 Peter, six other guys are together.

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 Maybe experiencing a little bit of trepidation

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 over what they'd seen the last few weeks.

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 They decide to go fishing.

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 So the first kind of two words of this passage

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 set the stage for what we're going to see.

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 It says, after this, well, after what?

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 After the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

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 After he's appeared to the guys a few times.

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 But here in particular,

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 it's after the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

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 The disciples had returned to Galilee from Jerusalem

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 as instructed by Jesus.

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 And Jesus appears to them by the Sea of Tiberias.

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 And so here's where we begin to see this specific language

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 that will give us kind of this mental illustration

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 of the scene taking place.

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 John names when this is taking place.

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 He gives you specifically when this is taking place.

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 And he gives you names, right?

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 He names names of who is there.

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 Okay?

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 And so we may mention this earlier.

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 Sea of Tiberias is also known as the Sea of Galilee.

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 If you look back at John 6,

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 you would see this is not the first time

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 that John has called the Sea of Galilee

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 the Sea of Tiberias.

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 So we see they're here,

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 where so much of the time that Jesus had spent.

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 Anybody ever been to Israel?

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 The Sea of Galilee is,

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 I mean, if you ever get to go,

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 the Sea of Galilee was my favorite spot

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 because it hasn't changed in thousands of years.

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 It's the same as it was when Jesus walked on it.

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 And this is where so much of Jesus' ministry

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 had taken place,

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 so much time that he spent with them.

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 And it's important to note also,

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 this is their home.

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 Okay?

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 This is where these guys are from.

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 It's their home.

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 And so if you've ever been,

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 it's awesome.

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 You should go.

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 So Jesus reveals himself in this way.

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 And then John tells us specifically who's there.

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 Simon Peter,

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 Thomas called the Twin,

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 who we refer to as Doubting Thomas.

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 Read about it in the previous chapter.

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 Nathaniel of Canaan and Galilee,

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 the sons of Zebedee,

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 who were James and John.

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 You remember the name that they were given,

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 the sons of thunder?

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 If you ever want to call me,

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 I want to be a son of thunder.

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 Okay?

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 I think it's a great name.

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 Call me.

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 I want to be a son of thunder.

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 And then two others of his disciples

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 who are nameless in John 21

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 that John tells us.

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 So you've got this picture in your mind.

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 They're by the sea.

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 There's seven of them together.

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 They're hanging out.

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 They're back home.

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 And I want to,

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 as you move into verse three,

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 you see this phrase,

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 Peter tells them,

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 I am going fishing,

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 right?

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 And they say to him,

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 we will go with you.

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 Now,

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 I want to take a second

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 and I want to ask you to think with me

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 as we kind of move forward.

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 What does this phrase,

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 I am going fishing here mean?

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 Okay?

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 What does the phrase mean

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 when Peter says,

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 I am going fishing

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 and they said,

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 we will go with you?

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 Is this the guys out fishing,

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 blowing off some steam?

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 Or is there something else

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 taking place here

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 that we need to notice

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 and that we need to know about?

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 Well,

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 as we keep reading,

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 John answers this question

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 as we move through the story.

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 Verse three,

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 they went out into the boat that night

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 and they caught nothing.

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 So notice the specificity

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 that John uses.

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 How many fish did they catch?

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 None,

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 right?

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 They caught nothing.

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 There was no fish.

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 There was nothing going on.

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 Verse number four

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 sets the scene

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 for where this particular,

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 the time this particular scene

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 is happening.

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 So when did this happen?

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 Verse number four,

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 what time of day?

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 Right?

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 In the morning time.

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 So just as day was breaking,

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 so verse four,

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 just as day was breaking,

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 early in the morning,

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 notice the specificity

00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:08.860
 that John uses,

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 just as day was breaking,

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 Jesus stood on the shore,

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 yet the disciples

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 did not know

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 that it was Jesus.

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 Jesus said to them,

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 do you have any fish?

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 They said no.

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 And he said,

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 cast the net where?

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 Keep working through.

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 On the right side of the boat.

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 This is oddly specific,

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 right?

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 This is oddly specific

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 for what you would normally

00:15:25.019 --> 00:15:25.580
 see in scripture.

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 Okay,

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 on the right side of the boat,

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 that's great.

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 And you will find some.

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 So they cast it

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 and the scripture says

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 they were not able

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 to haul it in

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 because of the quantity of fish.

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 Then verse number seven,

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 you see John

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 names another disciple.

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 He names himself,

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 right?

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 That disciple whom Jesus loved,

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 that's John,

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 the disciple whom Jesus loved

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 therefore said to Peter,

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 it is the Lord.

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 So when Simon Peter

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 heard that it was Lord,

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 he put on his outer garment

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 for he was stripped for work

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 and threw himself

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 into the sea.

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 And there in verse number seven

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 is where I think we get

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 our first really clear glimpse

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 at what is actually taking place

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 in this picture

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 that John is painting for us.

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 He begins to answer

00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:04.699
 the question that we asked earlier

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 of what does it mean

00:16:06.019 --> 00:16:06.679
 when Peter says,

00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:07.600
 I am going fishing.

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 John isn't really hiding

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 the fact here

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 that Peter is working,

00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:12.779
 right?

00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:14.259
 Peter's gone fishing.

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 He's gone back to work.

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 In fact,

00:16:15.500 --> 00:16:16.179
 if you remember

00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:17.980
 back in Matthew chapter number four,

00:16:18.059 --> 00:16:19.740
 when Jesus first crosses paths

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 with Andrew and Peter,

00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:22.179
 they were fishing,

00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:22.439
 right?

00:16:22.500 --> 00:16:23.059
 Jesus said to them,

00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:23.939
 put down your nets

00:16:23.939 --> 00:16:25.039
 and follow me.

00:16:25.079 --> 00:16:25.740
 And what does he say?

00:16:25.819 --> 00:16:28.319
 I will make you fishers of men.

00:16:28.980 --> 00:16:29.219
 Okay?

00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:30.539
 So Peter then,

00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:31.579
 after all this had gone on,

00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:32.779
 spent three years with Jesus,

00:16:33.139 --> 00:16:35.139
 the last 30 or 40 days

00:16:35.139 --> 00:16:35.699
 trying to figure out

00:16:35.699 --> 00:16:36.219
 what in the world

00:16:36.219 --> 00:16:37.319
 is happening with my life,

00:16:37.779 --> 00:16:38.759
 Peter leads these men

00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:39.299
 back to fishing

00:16:39.299 --> 00:16:40.120
 on the Sea of Galilee.

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 And just to make sure

00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:43.579
 that we know exactly

00:16:43.579 --> 00:16:44.779
 what John was telling us,

00:16:44.819 --> 00:16:46.339
 he continues chapter 21

00:16:46.339 --> 00:16:48.059
 in this specific imagery,

00:16:48.199 --> 00:16:48.860
 verse number eight.

00:16:48.860 --> 00:16:50.759
 The disciples came in the boat,

00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:51.899
 dragging the net full of fish,

00:16:51.940 --> 00:16:52.580
 for they were not far

00:16:52.580 --> 00:16:53.180
 from the land.

00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:54.080
 How far were they

00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:54.620
 from the land?

00:16:55.820 --> 00:16:56.659
 About 100 yards,

00:16:56.700 --> 00:16:56.919
 right?

00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:58.279
 They got out on land,

00:16:58.340 --> 00:16:58.940
 they saw what kind

00:16:58.940 --> 00:16:59.940
 of a fire in place?

00:17:00.940 --> 00:17:02.300
 A charcoal fire in place

00:17:02.300 --> 00:17:03.300
 with fish laid out on it

00:17:03.300 --> 00:17:03.680
 and bread.

00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:04.519
 So Jesus said to them,

00:17:04.579 --> 00:17:05.480
 bring some of the fish

00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:06.880
 that you have just caught.

00:17:06.940 --> 00:17:07.960
 So Simon Peter went aboard,

00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:08.860
 hauled the net ashore,

00:17:09.460 --> 00:17:10.700
 full of large fish.

00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:11.940
 How many fish?

00:17:14.140 --> 00:17:14.500
 Okay,

00:17:14.620 --> 00:17:14.900
 what?

00:17:15.900 --> 00:17:16.259
 Okay,

00:17:16.339 --> 00:17:17.579
 so let's have a conversation.

00:17:17.819 --> 00:17:18.019
 All right?

00:17:18.019 --> 00:17:19.740
 So you gotta think to yourself,

00:17:20.099 --> 00:17:21.000
 153 fish.

00:17:21.059 --> 00:17:22.059
 Are there fishermen in the room?

00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:22.680
 Anybody like to fish?

00:17:23.059 --> 00:17:23.279
 Man,

00:17:23.339 --> 00:17:23.839
 we love to fish.

00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:24.200
 If you'll,

00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:25.200
 I'll be out in the lobby

00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:25.680
 after it's over,

00:17:25.740 --> 00:17:26.660
 I'll show you a picture

00:17:26.660 --> 00:17:27.980
 of a fish my son caught

00:17:27.980 --> 00:17:28.720
 two nights ago

00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.119
 at this little pond.

00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:30.819
 It was great.

00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:31.119
 I mean,

00:17:31.180 --> 00:17:31.359
 it's,

00:17:31.639 --> 00:17:31.819
 you know,

00:17:31.879 --> 00:17:32.859
 we're getting to the point

00:17:32.859 --> 00:17:34.440
 in our fishing careers

00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:35.259
 where they don't want to fish

00:17:35.259 --> 00:17:36.119
 for bluegill anymore.

00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:36.779
 They want to fish

00:17:36.779 --> 00:17:37.480
 for largemouth bass

00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:38.000
 and catfish,

00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:38.599
 right?

00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:39.000
 Because you,

00:17:39.639 --> 00:17:39.799
 like,

00:17:40.019 --> 00:17:40.960
 we were talking about

00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:41.680
 this last year.

00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:43.740
 We were out at this place

00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:44.779
 over in Jacksboro fishing

00:17:44.779 --> 00:17:46.200
 and they were just

00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:47.579
 catching bluegill like crazy,

00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:47.879
 right?

00:17:48.019 --> 00:17:49.160
 And I'm just out there

00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:50.220
 fishing for bass,

00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:51.200
 you know,

00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:52.059
 and my sons are like,

00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:52.980
 don't you want to catch fish?

00:17:53.019 --> 00:17:53.259
 And I was like,

00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:53.400
 well,

00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:53.579
 sure,

00:17:53.660 --> 00:17:54.420
 but I don't want to catch

00:17:54.420 --> 00:17:55.299
 bluegill.

00:17:55.339 --> 00:17:56.200
 I want to catch big fish,

00:17:56.420 --> 00:17:56.639
 right?

00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:57.559
 And so,

00:17:57.799 --> 00:17:59.200
 just get this in your mind

00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:00.480
 if you're a fisherman.

00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:01.599
 Are there lakes to fish around here?

00:18:01.639 --> 00:18:02.160
 I'm sure there are,

00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:02.359
 right?

00:18:02.619 --> 00:18:02.920
 Texas,

00:18:03.059 --> 00:18:03.180
 okay?

00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:04.400
 Is there good fishing around here?

00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:05.059
 I need to know this.

00:18:05.879 --> 00:18:06.639
 This is good to know.

00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:06.980
 Okay,

00:18:07.059 --> 00:18:07.279
 good.

00:18:07.379 --> 00:18:07.619
 All right.

00:18:07.819 --> 00:18:08.720
 Anybody here have a boat?

00:18:08.779 --> 00:18:09.779
 Let's just keep going down this.

00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:10.539
 No?

00:18:10.619 --> 00:18:10.799
 Okay.

00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:12.720
 So,

00:18:13.379 --> 00:18:14.400
 those of you that fish,

00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:14.980
 okay,

00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:16.480
 you need to get this picture

00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.079
 in your mind.

00:18:17.180 --> 00:18:18.420
 They haul this net ashore

00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:19.779
 full of fish

00:18:19.779 --> 00:18:22.180
 and it says 153 of them.

00:18:22.220 --> 00:18:22.319
 Now,

00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:23.299
 when you throw a net

00:18:23.299 --> 00:18:24.240
 out into the water,

00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:26.400
 it kind of goes down.

00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:26.799
 Anybody ever,

00:18:26.940 --> 00:18:27.799
 you guys net fish?

00:18:27.860 --> 00:18:29.019
 Nobody really net fishes anymore,

00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:29.360
 right?

00:18:29.620 --> 00:18:29.900
 So,

00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:31.360
 if you ever watch the video,

00:18:31.460 --> 00:18:32.180
 they throw the net out

00:18:32.180 --> 00:18:33.420
 and they kind of cast this wide net

00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:33.839
 and it goes,

00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:34.360
 sinks down

00:18:34.360 --> 00:18:35.660
 and then they pull it up

00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:37.200
 and it pulls in like everything,

00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:37.700
 right?

00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:39.319
 It's not just large fish,

00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:39.799
 it's everything.

00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:40.380
 You're going to have,

00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:40.819
 you know,

00:18:40.860 --> 00:18:41.620
 if you're fishing on,

00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:42.720
 you know,

00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:44.059
 you're fishing at a lake

00:18:44.059 --> 00:18:44.720
 in Fort Worth,

00:18:44.940 --> 00:18:46.079
 you're going to get bluegill

00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:47.159
 and you're going to get bass

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 and you're going to get

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 probably carp

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 and you're going to get,

00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:49.859
 you know,

00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:51.279
 just different kinds of,

00:18:51.419 --> 00:18:52.159
 who knows,

00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:52.500
 right?

00:18:52.539 --> 00:18:53.240
 All this kind of fish,

00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:54.099
 minnows and whatnot.

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 And so,

00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:55.859
 they're pulling it ashore

00:18:55.859 --> 00:18:57.839
 and in the passage,

00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:59.179
 it says that they couldn't

00:18:59.179 --> 00:18:59.919
 put it on the boat

00:18:59.919 --> 00:19:00.659
 so really what they did

00:19:00.659 --> 00:19:01.359
 was they hauled it ashore.

00:19:01.639 --> 00:19:02.559
 When I was a kid,

00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:04.000
 we used to go carp fishing.

00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:04.980
 You all have carp here?

00:19:05.399 --> 00:19:06.159
 We used to go carp fishing.

00:19:06.159 --> 00:19:07.179
 I grew up in Arkansas.

00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:08.220
 We didn't eat the carp

00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:09.659
 but we caught them

00:19:09.659 --> 00:19:10.519
 because they're fun to catch,

00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:10.700
 right?

00:19:10.740 --> 00:19:11.240
 They're huge

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 and they would fight

00:19:12.399 --> 00:19:12.960
 and I remember

00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:14.039
 when I was a kid,

00:19:14.100 --> 00:19:14.799
 I caught one

00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:15.640
 and I couldn't reel it in

00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:17.440
 and so I turned around

00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:18.360
 and put the pole

00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:18.920
 over my shoulder

00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:19.920
 and just walked up the bank,

00:19:20.259 --> 00:19:20.539
 right?

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 And just pulled the carp

00:19:21.940 --> 00:19:22.519
 up on the bank.

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 That's the idea.

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 So they pull the net up

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 and they're kind of

00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:26.380
 dragging it up on the net

00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:28.200
 and then when you let the net go,

00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:29.240
 if you've got a net full of fish

00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:29.920
 and you just let it go

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 on the bank,

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 what's going to happen

00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:31.299
 to the fish?

00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:32.740
 They're just scattered,

00:19:32.840 --> 00:19:32.960
 right?

00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:33.220
 They're all,

00:19:33.299 --> 00:19:33.960
 they're flopping around,

00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:34.779
 they're all over the place.

00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:36.079
 So there's this imagery

00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:37.840
 that John wants us to see here

00:19:37.840 --> 00:19:39.200
 that is going on

00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:40.840
 of this, right?

00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:41.759
 It's kind of chaotic.

00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:42.779
 There's fish everywhere.

00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:43.759
 Obviously,

00:19:43.879 --> 00:19:44.779
 they counted the fish,

00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:45.799
 right?

00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:46.839
 Oddly specific,

00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:48.720
 153 large fish

00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:49.420
 that you see,

00:19:49.859 --> 00:19:50.059
 okay?

00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:51.879
 So this is

00:19:51.879 --> 00:19:53.500
 kind of this scene

00:19:53.500 --> 00:19:54.079
 with all this

00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:55.299
 kind of fish everywhere.

00:19:55.879 --> 00:19:56.259
 I mean,

00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.240
 that would be the definition

00:19:58.240 --> 00:19:59.000
 of slaying them,

00:19:59.039 --> 00:19:59.420
 right guys?

00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:00.759
 If you go fishing

00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:02.240
 and you catch 153 fish

00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:02.879
 in one setting

00:20:02.879 --> 00:20:04.259
 and you don't invite me

00:20:04.259 --> 00:20:05.059
 the next time you go,

00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:05.740
 I'm going to be angry

00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:06.339
 with all of you,

00:20:06.819 --> 00:20:07.059
 okay?

00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:08.960
 And I'm going to talk about you

00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:09.839
 at Redemption City Church

00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:10.619
 and we're just going to have

00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:11.879
 a bad time in Fort Worth,

00:20:11.939 --> 00:20:12.099
 okay?

00:20:12.139 --> 00:20:13.259
 That is a lot of fish.

00:20:15.539 --> 00:20:16.659
 There's something to be said here,

00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:16.859
 though,

00:20:16.879 --> 00:20:17.939
 about what's going on,

00:20:18.339 --> 00:20:18.619
 right?

00:20:18.679 --> 00:20:19.839
 And John kind of alluded to it

00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:20.379
 a minute ago.

00:20:21.139 --> 00:20:22.359
 They're not just going fishing,

00:20:22.459 --> 00:20:22.720
 are they?

00:20:23.779 --> 00:20:25.899
 They went back to work.

00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:27.279
 That's what these guys did.

00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:28.799
 They fished for a living.

00:20:28.959 --> 00:20:29.699
 They literally,

00:20:29.899 --> 00:20:31.599
 they took their ball

00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:32.839
 and they went home,

00:20:33.399 --> 00:20:33.639
 right?

00:20:35.459 --> 00:20:35.779
 Occasionally,

00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:36.939
 my boys will be playing Xbox

00:20:36.940 --> 00:20:38.240
 and one of them rage quits,

00:20:38.380 --> 00:20:38.519
 right?

00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:38.940
 You know what I mean

00:20:38.940 --> 00:20:39.700
 when I say rage quits?

00:20:39.779 --> 00:20:39.900
 Like,

00:20:39.940 --> 00:20:40.380
 they'll be losing,

00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:40.680
 like,

00:20:41.100 --> 00:20:41.360
 you know,

00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:42.259
 in a baseball game,

00:20:42.340 --> 00:20:42.940
 15 to nothing

00:20:42.940 --> 00:20:43.320
 and they're just like,

00:20:43.360 --> 00:20:43.640
 I'm done,

00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:44.059
 I quit.

00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:44.720
 Or like,

00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:45.500
 when I was growing up,

00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:46.440
 I would do that to Monopoly.

00:20:46.620 --> 00:20:47.539
 I would just rage quit,

00:20:47.660 --> 00:20:47.880
 right?

00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:48.320
 I'm out.

00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.100
 I don't want to,

00:20:49.100 --> 00:20:49.519
 I'm losing,

00:20:49.620 --> 00:20:50.320
 I don't want to do this anymore.

00:20:50.380 --> 00:20:51.080
 That's what these guys did.

00:20:51.100 --> 00:20:51.920
 They took their ball

00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:53.380
 and they just went,

00:20:53.460 --> 00:20:53.640
 I mean,

00:20:53.660 --> 00:20:55.039
 they'd had enough.

00:20:55.779 --> 00:20:56.840
 Jesus had been murdered.

00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:58.580
 Peter cut the ear off of a dude.

00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:00.620
 He denied Christ three times.

00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:02.440
 And what's kind of crazy here

00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:03.039
 is that we know

00:21:06.940 --> 00:21:08.120
 this is now the third time,

00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:08.360
 right?

00:21:08.420 --> 00:21:09.120
 In verse 14

00:21:09.120 --> 00:21:10.039
 that Jesus had appeared

00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:10.620
 to the disciples

00:21:10.620 --> 00:21:11.840
 after he was raised from the dead.

00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:13.960
 We had already talked about the fact

00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:16.019
 that Jesus told them what to do

00:21:16.019 --> 00:21:16.960
 after all this happened.

00:21:17.019 --> 00:21:18.700
 He told them he would meet them in Galilee,

00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.480
 but I just have to wonder

00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:22.000
 if these guys weren't at their wit's end.

00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:25.360
 And they just throw their hands up in the air

00:21:25.360 --> 00:21:25.680
 and they say,

00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:26.080
 I'm out.

00:21:26.860 --> 00:21:27.799
 It's too much.

00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:29.259
 It's too hard.

00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:29.920
 Jesus,

00:21:30.059 --> 00:21:30.940
 I know that you said

00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:31.860
 you would meet us in Galilee.

00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:32.900
 I know that you told us

00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:33.759
 who would be fishers of men.

00:21:34.100 --> 00:21:35.039
 I know that we spent

00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:35.840
 the last three years

00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:36.959
 of our lives watching you

00:21:36.959 --> 00:21:37.799
 and learning from you

00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:39.079
 and being discipled from you,

00:21:39.179 --> 00:21:40.039
 but bro,

00:21:40.159 --> 00:21:40.779
 I'm out.

00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:44.599
 Life is too hard.

00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:46.559
 I have bills to pay.

00:21:46.819 --> 00:21:47.659
 I got to make money

00:21:47.659 --> 00:21:48.559
 so I can live.

00:21:48.879 --> 00:21:49.879
 I'm tired of other people

00:21:49.879 --> 00:21:50.679
 making fun of me.

00:21:50.959 --> 00:21:52.159
 I've got Roman soldiers

00:21:52.159 --> 00:21:53.240
 looking to kill me.

00:21:53.959 --> 00:21:55.240
 I'm just tired.

00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:57.899
 And I think to myself,

00:21:58.059 --> 00:21:58.579
 my goodness,

00:21:58.699 --> 00:21:59.279
 have I not been there

00:21:59.279 --> 00:21:59.879
 in my own life?

00:22:01.459 --> 00:22:01.720
 Right?

00:22:02.439 --> 00:22:03.079
 My goodness,

00:22:03.199 --> 00:22:04.439
 has my life not turned out

00:22:04.439 --> 00:22:05.519
 the way that I had planned it out

00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:06.339
 15 years ago?

00:22:08.099 --> 00:22:09.480
 Am I the only one in the room?

00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:12.019
 I didn't think so.

00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:15.879
 Life is hard.

00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:17.160
 It is.

00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.759
 I think it's hard

00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.639
 to help us remember

00:22:19.639 --> 00:22:20.779
 from time to time

00:22:20.779 --> 00:22:21.400
 that this is not

00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:22.119
 where we belong,

00:22:22.339 --> 00:22:22.619
 right?

00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:23.740
 But it's hard.

00:22:23.859 --> 00:22:24.940
 It's not easy.

00:22:26.779 --> 00:22:27.240
 You know,

00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:28.599
 I had a pretty great life

00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:29.059
 in Arkansas.

00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:32.299
 I really did.

00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:33.819
 It's hard.

00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:35.220
 Following Christ

00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:35.960
 is not supposed

00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:37.179
 to necessarily be easy.

00:22:38.639 --> 00:22:39.419
 Back to our verses

00:22:39.419 --> 00:22:40.019
 for the day.

00:22:40.419 --> 00:22:42.240
 Go to verse 15.

00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:45.500
 It says,

00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:46.639
 When they had finished breakfast,

00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:48.980
 Jesus said to Simon Peter,

00:22:49.099 --> 00:22:50.019
 Simon, son of John,

00:22:50.399 --> 00:22:50.939
 do you love me

00:22:50.939 --> 00:22:51.559
 more than these?

00:22:53.159 --> 00:22:54.240
 Simon, son of John,

00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:54.879
 do you love me

00:22:54.879 --> 00:22:55.500
 more than these?

00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:56.460
 And I want to stop there

00:22:56.460 --> 00:22:57.460
 just a moment.

00:22:58.359 --> 00:22:59.099
 I'm going to go back

00:22:59.099 --> 00:22:59.720
 to something I said

00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:00.240
 at the very beginning

00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:00.920
 of our time

00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:02.220
 because so often

00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:03.140
 when we're looking

00:23:03.140 --> 00:23:04.000
 at a passage of Scripture

00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:05.519
 or studying a passage

00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:05.980
 of Scripture,

00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:07.779
 just one word

00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:08.640
 can make the difference

00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:09.579
 in whether or not

00:23:09.579 --> 00:23:10.420
 we understand a passage

00:23:10.420 --> 00:23:11.140
 correctly or not.

00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:12.799
 And here today,

00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:13.740
 I want to submit to you

00:23:13.740 --> 00:23:14.500
 that that one word

00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:15.140
 I want to look at

00:23:15.140 --> 00:23:15.880
 is the word these.

00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.200
 You see it there?

00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:19.839
 When they had finished breakfast,

00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:20.839
 Jesus said to Simon Peter,

00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:21.819
 Simon, son of John,

00:23:21.900 --> 00:23:22.460
 do you love me

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:23.339
 more than these?

00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:23.640
 And I want to stop there

00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:24.120
 and I want to stop there

00:23:24.120 --> 00:23:24.640
 and I want to stop there

00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:25.120
 and I want to stop there

00:23:25.120 --> 00:23:25.640
 and I want to stop there

00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:25.700
 and I want to stop there

00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:26.640
 and I want to stop there

00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:26.759
 and I want to stop there

00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:28.220
 We've already answered

00:23:28.220 --> 00:23:29.160
 one question today.

00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:31.140
 These guys had quit

00:23:31.140 --> 00:23:31.839
 what they were doing,

00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:33.319
 they packed up

00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.259
 and they went home.

00:23:35.299 --> 00:23:36.299
 But the real question

00:23:36.299 --> 00:23:36.920
 here in the passage

00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:37.680
 that we need to answer

00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:38.539
 is what is Jesus

00:23:38.539 --> 00:23:39.400
 talking about

00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:40.700
 when he asked Peter

00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:41.440
 if he loves him

00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.000
 more than these?

00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:44.519
 Now,

00:23:45.059 --> 00:23:45.379
 there are a couple

00:23:45.379 --> 00:23:45.940
 possibilities

00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:46.559
 that he could be

00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:47.160
 talking about

00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:48.220
 and my whole life

00:23:48.220 --> 00:23:48.819
 I kind of thought

00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:49.379
 as I was reading

00:23:49.379 --> 00:23:49.900
 this passage

00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:50.519
 and studying it

00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:50.980
 that he was talking

00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:51.879
 about the other disciples

00:23:51.879 --> 00:23:52.740
 that were around the fire.

00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:53.319
 Right?

00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:54.559
 They had all gathered up,

00:23:54.619 --> 00:23:55.259
 there's this fire,

00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:56.200
 the charcoal fire

00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:57.360
 with fish and bread on it

00:23:57.360 --> 00:23:58.620
 and they were all together,

00:23:58.720 --> 00:23:59.500
 it was breakfast time,

00:23:59.539 --> 00:24:00.240
 they were probably eating,

00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:01.240
 there's all these fish

00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:02.039
 all over the shore

00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:03.840
 and my whole life

00:24:03.840 --> 00:24:04.160
 I thought,

00:24:04.259 --> 00:24:04.420
 man,

00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:05.180
 is Jesus saying,

00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:05.740
 you know,

00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:06.299
 Peter,

00:24:06.360 --> 00:24:06.740
 do you love me

00:24:06.740 --> 00:24:07.440
 more than your friends?

00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:08.680
 Right?

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:09.080
 Do you love me

00:24:09.080 --> 00:24:09.559
 more than these?

00:24:09.620 --> 00:24:09.980
 Do you love me

00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:10.720
 more than your friends?

00:24:11.580 --> 00:24:12.779
 Until a few years ago

00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:13.799
 I was in a doctoral seminar

00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:14.580
 in Louisville, Kentucky

00:24:14.580 --> 00:24:15.660
 and someone interjected

00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:16.259
 another thought.

00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:19.039
 So think about this

00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:19.680
 with me for a moment.

00:24:19.819 --> 00:24:20.440
 Why would John

00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:21.200
 be so specific

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:21.840
 about the events

00:24:21.840 --> 00:24:22.360
 of the evening

00:24:22.360 --> 00:24:23.640
 and the events

00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:24.440
 of the early morning

00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:26.380
 only to flip the script

00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:27.400
 on what he was talking about

00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:27.840
 all of a sudden

00:24:27.840 --> 00:24:28.559
 in verse 15

00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:30.680
 and all of a sudden

00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:31.580
 not be as specific

00:24:31.580 --> 00:24:32.720
 as he was being earlier.

00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:34.500
 The previous 14 verses

00:24:34.500 --> 00:24:35.420
 that we looked at

00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:36.600
 have all been about

00:24:36.600 --> 00:24:37.600
 how these men went fishing,

00:24:37.600 --> 00:24:38.340
 caught nothing,

00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:39.059
 saw Jesus,

00:24:39.180 --> 00:24:39.980
 caught a ton of fish,

00:24:40.059 --> 00:24:40.759
 laid them out on the beach

00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:41.200
 to count,

00:24:41.500 --> 00:24:42.420
 and now are sitting around,

00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.259
 maybe standing around

00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:44.259
 a fire eating breakfast,

00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:45.039
 the whole story

00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:46.000
 revolving around fishing.

00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.880
 And I just wonder

00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:52.180
 if Peter didn't look,

00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:53.420
 if Jesus didn't look at Peter

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:54.339
 and say something

00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:55.599
 like this, right?

00:24:55.619 --> 00:24:56.240
 Remember that maybe

00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:56.859
 they're sitting around

00:24:56.859 --> 00:24:57.559
 the fire,

00:24:57.880 --> 00:24:59.140
 maybe Peter and Jesus

00:24:59.140 --> 00:25:00.059
 were walking together

00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:00.720
 and maybe Jesus

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.720
 puts his arm around Peter

00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:03.920
 and he says,

00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:04.539
 hey Simon.

00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.240
 And that right there

00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:07.859
 would have caused

00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:08.660
 Peter to pause.

00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:11.099
 By calling him Simon,

00:25:12.019 --> 00:25:12.759
 Jesus goes back

00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:13.960
 to using his old name.

00:25:14.140 --> 00:25:14.640
 You notice that?

00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.980
 He goes back

00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:16.740
 to using his old name.

00:25:17.080 --> 00:25:17.920
 This must have been

00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:19.060
 terribly defeating

00:25:19.060 --> 00:25:19.520
 for Peter.

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:21.620
 Jesus had already

00:25:21.620 --> 00:25:22.240
 changed his name

00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:22.800
 to Cephas,

00:25:23.060 --> 00:25:24.560
 which means stone or rock,

00:25:24.940 --> 00:25:25.220
 right?

00:25:25.340 --> 00:25:26.100
 And now,

00:25:26.540 --> 00:25:27.800
 in the midst of all of this,

00:25:27.900 --> 00:25:28.720
 Jesus is going back

00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:29.520
 to his old name?

00:25:31.660 --> 00:25:32.420
 Hear me church,

00:25:32.560 --> 00:25:32.880
 never,

00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:34.720
 when you are working

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.600
 and trying to heal

00:25:35.600 --> 00:25:36.480
 a guilty conscience,

00:25:36.600 --> 00:25:37.200
 should you minimize

00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:38.020
 the seriousness

00:25:38.020 --> 00:25:38.980
 of the offense

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:40.660
 or conceal the source

00:25:40.660 --> 00:25:41.480
 of the old sin nature

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:42.080
 that we all have.

00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:42.820
 Jesus didn't do that

00:25:42.820 --> 00:25:43.440
 with Peter either.

00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:44.440
 Hey Peter,

00:25:45.560 --> 00:25:47.040
 the Simon is still in you.

00:25:48.080 --> 00:25:49.560
 The Simon is still there.

00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:51.600
 You have to fight

00:25:51.600 --> 00:25:52.220
 against that.

00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:53.560
 Right?

00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:54.380
 Jesus didn't do that.

00:25:54.420 --> 00:25:55.420
 His first word to Peter,

00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:56.759
 Jesus calls him out.

00:25:56.980 --> 00:25:57.380
 Simon,

00:25:57.880 --> 00:25:58.520
 son of John,

00:25:58.580 --> 00:25:59.020
 do you love me

00:25:59.020 --> 00:25:59.700
 more than these?

00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:01.380
 And I just wonder

00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:01.960
 if he said that.

00:26:02.020 --> 00:26:02.200
 He said,

00:26:02.280 --> 00:26:03.280
 hey Simon,

00:26:04.300 --> 00:26:04.920
 do you love me

00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:05.580
 more than these?

00:26:05.780 --> 00:26:06.580
 And maybe gesture

00:26:06.580 --> 00:26:07.320
 down at the fish.

00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:09.720
 All these fish,

00:26:10.139 --> 00:26:12.019
 153 large fish

00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:13.179
 on the shore.

00:26:14.179 --> 00:26:14.899
 And Jesus says,

00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:15.139
 hey man,

00:26:15.159 --> 00:26:15.599
 do you love me

00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:16.500
 more than you love fish?

00:26:17.779 --> 00:26:18.139
 Now,

00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:20.079
 why would Jesus

00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:21.099
 ask Peter this question?

00:26:21.099 --> 00:26:25.419
 I have to believe

00:26:25.419 --> 00:26:27.339
 a look of realization

00:26:27.339 --> 00:26:28.519
 came over Peter's face

00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:32.019
 when Peter concludes

00:26:32.019 --> 00:26:32.959
 that Jesus is asking

00:26:32.959 --> 00:26:33.779
 Peter this question

00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:34.039
 because,

00:26:34.219 --> 00:26:34.339
 bro,

00:26:34.399 --> 00:26:35.659
 you sure did go back home

00:26:35.659 --> 00:26:36.319
 really quick.

00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.720
 It's been 40 days,

00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:39.059
 man.

00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:40.939
 40 days.

00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:41.960
 We spent all this time

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.339
 together

00:26:42.339 --> 00:26:44.139
 and you just went home.

00:26:48.159 --> 00:26:48.919
 Jesus says to Peter,

00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:49.419
 do you love me

00:26:49.419 --> 00:26:50.399
 more than these?

00:26:50.919 --> 00:26:51.679
 I submit to you

00:26:51.679 --> 00:26:52.339
 that the these,

00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:53.079
 they're the fish

00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:54.019
 that he's talking about.

00:26:55.099 --> 00:26:55.480
 Peter says,

00:26:55.539 --> 00:26:55.839
 yes Lord,

00:26:55.879 --> 00:26:56.740
 you know that I love you.

00:26:57.519 --> 00:26:58.240
 Jesus says to him,

00:26:58.299 --> 00:26:59.259
 feed my lambs.

00:27:01.159 --> 00:27:02.179
 Verse 16,

00:27:02.259 --> 00:27:02.619
 he said to him

00:27:02.619 --> 00:27:03.119
 a second time,

00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:03.439
 Simon,

00:27:03.579 --> 00:27:04.099
 son of John,

00:27:04.099 --> 00:27:04.899
 do you love me?

00:27:05.619 --> 00:27:05.960
 He said to him,

00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:06.299
 yes Lord,

00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:07.059
 do you know that I love you?

00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:07.500
 He said to him,

00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:08.319
 tend my sheep.

00:27:10.919 --> 00:27:11.859
 Says it a third time

00:27:11.859 --> 00:27:12.559
 in verse 17,

00:27:12.679 --> 00:27:12.859
 right?

00:27:13.819 --> 00:27:14.159
 Simon,

00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:14.679
 son of John,

00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:15.179
 do you love me?

00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:16.039
 But this time,

00:27:16.099 --> 00:27:16.779
 Peter's reaction

00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:17.299
 is different,

00:27:17.379 --> 00:27:17.740
 isn't it?

00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:18.319
 What does the scripture

00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:19.399
 say Peter is this time?

00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:21.099
 He's grieved.

00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:24.240
 I think if Jesus

00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:25.480
 was talking about his friends,

00:27:25.639 --> 00:27:26.240
 I think that's

00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:27.299
 a harder conversation.

00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:28.319
 I think,

00:27:28.399 --> 00:27:28.599
 man,

00:27:28.639 --> 00:27:29.339
 are you really willing

00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:30.119
 to give up your friends?

00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:30.879
 Are you really willing

00:27:30.879 --> 00:27:32.599
 to die for me?

00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:33.519
 Are you really willing

00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:34.379
 to give up,

00:27:34.659 --> 00:27:34.960
 you know,

00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.660
 your relationships

00:27:36.660 --> 00:27:37.000
 for me?

00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:37.519
 I think that's

00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:38.340
 a harder conversation.

00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:39.640
 If you're asking me

00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:40.279
 if I love you

00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:41.220
 more than I love fish,

00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:41.960
 I'm upset.

00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:43.759
 It's fish,

00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:44.100
 man.

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:44.860
 I'm upset.

00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:46.200
 I'm bothered by that.

00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:46.980
 And obviously,

00:27:47.100 --> 00:27:48.240
 Peter is bothered by that.

00:27:48.840 --> 00:27:49.079
 It says,

00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:50.220
 Peter was heartbroken.

00:27:50.340 --> 00:27:51.180
 Peter was grieved

00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:51.900
 because he said to them

00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:52.400
 this third time,

00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.140
 do you love me?

00:27:53.819 --> 00:27:54.640
 Peter responds to him.

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:54.799
 He says,

00:27:54.840 --> 00:27:54.960
 Lord,

00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:55.600
 you know everything.

00:27:56.940 --> 00:27:57.880
 You know that I love you.

00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:58.640
 Jesus said to him,

00:27:59.020 --> 00:27:59.700
 feed my sheep.

00:28:01.560 --> 00:28:02.540
 And I have to wonder

00:28:02.540 --> 00:28:03.640
 here in this moment

00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:06.180
 if Peter didn't realize

00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:07.200
 that he had allowed

00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:08.020
 what was comfortable

00:28:08.020 --> 00:28:08.540
 to him,

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:10.580
 what he knew,

00:28:11.580 --> 00:28:13.580
 to completely sidetrack him

00:28:13.580 --> 00:28:14.100
 from what God

00:28:14.100 --> 00:28:14.900
 had called him to do,

00:28:15.580 --> 00:28:16.460
 which was to be

00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:17.060
 fishers of men,

00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:17.320
 right?

00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:17.700
 You remember.

00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:18.760
 Come follow me,

00:28:18.780 --> 00:28:19.060
 I'll make you

00:28:19.060 --> 00:28:19.660
 fishers of men.

00:28:22.840 --> 00:28:23.820
 But then I think to myself,

00:28:23.900 --> 00:28:24.880
 it's so easy to do that,

00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:25.220
 isn't it?

00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:27.960
 It's so easy in my life

00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:29.600
 to get so sidetracked

00:28:29.600 --> 00:28:30.900
 with what I know

00:28:30.900 --> 00:28:32.000
 God is telling me to do

00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.079
 or what I know

00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:34.620
 God has called me to do

00:28:34.620 --> 00:28:35.740
 that I just completely

00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:36.400
 lose sight of what

00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:36.960
 I'm supposed to be doing.

00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:38.440
 I'm focused here,

00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:39.140
 I'm focused here.

00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:40.160
 You don't understand.

00:28:40.380 --> 00:28:40.680
 God,

00:28:40.779 --> 00:28:41.319
 I've got a family

00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:41.940
 to take care of.

00:28:42.120 --> 00:28:42.559
 You don't understand

00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.460
 I've got mouths to feed

00:28:43.460 --> 00:28:44.440
 and my kids are getting bigger

00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:45.700
 and they eat more than I do

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:46.319
 and I don't really know

00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:47.339
 what's going on with my life

00:28:47.339 --> 00:28:48.700
 and things are getting

00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:49.259
 more expensive

00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:49.960
 and gas is,

00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:50.319
 I don't know,

00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:51.960
 three or four dollars a gallon

00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:52.860
 and I'm just,

00:28:52.940 --> 00:28:53.819
 I don't know what to do,

00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:54.940
 right?

00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:56.200
 Insurance is going up.

00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:58.380
 It's crazy.

00:28:58.480 --> 00:28:59.200
 I've got all this stuff

00:28:59.200 --> 00:28:59.539
 going on

00:28:59.539 --> 00:29:01.299
 and it's so easy

00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:02.420
 in the hardness

00:29:02.420 --> 00:29:03.279
 of the life

00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:04.059
 that we live

00:29:04.059 --> 00:29:06.180
 to get completely sidetracked

00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:10.240
 from what God's calling us to do.

00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:14.660
 Interestingly here though

00:29:14.660 --> 00:29:15.320
 in this passage,

00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:16.539
 Jesus goes a step further

00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:17.799
 as if he hasn't gone far enough.

00:29:19.420 --> 00:29:20.480
 He tells Peter

00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:21.920
 to feed his sheep,

00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:22.320
 right?

00:29:22.380 --> 00:29:23.180
 You see that three times

00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:23.600
 Jesus said,

00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:24.240
 feed my sheep,

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:25.700
 starting in verse number 15.

00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:26.420
 What's the significance

00:29:26.420 --> 00:29:27.140
 of this question?

00:29:29.339 --> 00:29:29.660
 Well,

00:29:29.779 --> 00:29:30.759
 it may be that Jesus

00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:31.680
 is restoring Peter,

00:29:31.819 --> 00:29:32.019
 right?

00:29:32.099 --> 00:29:33.160
 Peter denied him three times,

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.299
 Jesus asked him three times,

00:29:34.380 --> 00:29:34.819
 feed my sheep,

00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:35.160
 or you know,

00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:35.740
 do you love me?

00:29:36.059 --> 00:29:37.240
 It may be some restoration,

00:29:37.940 --> 00:29:39.099
 but there may be

00:29:39.099 --> 00:29:40.160
 another reason here.

00:29:42.059 --> 00:29:43.160
 When Jesus first called,

00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:43.839
 we talked about this already,

00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:45.039
 when Jesus first called Peter

00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:45.640
 as a disciple,

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:46.359
 he was fishing.

00:29:46.900 --> 00:29:47.660
 Jesus said he would make him

00:29:47.660 --> 00:29:48.359
 a fisher of men.

00:29:49.299 --> 00:29:49.960
 Here though,

00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:51.539
 I want us to notice

00:29:51.539 --> 00:29:52.579
 that Jesus doesn't tell Peter

00:29:52.579 --> 00:29:53.079
 to go fishing,

00:29:53.179 --> 00:29:53.439
 does he?

00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.019
 Jesus changes Peter's profession.

00:29:58.679 --> 00:29:59.339
 It's not,

00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:00.299
 come follow me

00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:01.179
 and I will make you

00:30:01.179 --> 00:30:01.960
 fishers of men.

00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:04.079
 Jesus changes Peter's profession

00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:04.740
 from fisherman

00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:05.799
 to shepherd,

00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:07.240
 right?

00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:09.079
 You are a shepherd now.

00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:10.720
 You are never to go back.

00:30:11.059 --> 00:30:12.539
 You are never to be this way.

00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:14.539
 You are never to be this person again.

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:15.439
 You're done.

00:30:15.899 --> 00:30:17.279
 You will always be a shepherd.

00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:18.799
 He changes his whole profession.

00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:20.480
 Where you were a fisher,

00:30:20.919 --> 00:30:22.559
 now you are a shepherd.

00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:24.279
 And that's what I want you to do.

00:30:25.339 --> 00:30:27.059
 It's this only move forward.

00:30:27.139 --> 00:30:27.700
 That's what Jesus said.

00:30:27.700 --> 00:30:28.379
 Only move forward.

00:30:28.460 --> 00:30:29.559
 Forget what's in the past.

00:30:30.859 --> 00:30:31.039
 Right?

00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:31.579
 In fact,

00:30:31.639 --> 00:30:32.700
 you see the Apostle Paul

00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:34.359
 say the very same thing

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:36.019
 a few years later

00:30:36.019 --> 00:30:36.859
 in his letter

00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:37.960
 to the Philippian Christians.

00:30:38.139 --> 00:30:38.399
 Brothers,

00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:40.079
 I do not consider

00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:40.960
 that I have made it my own,

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:41.819
 but one thing I do,

00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:43.299
 forgetting what lies behind

00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:44.579
 and straining forward

00:30:44.579 --> 00:30:45.559
 to what lies ahead,

00:30:45.659 --> 00:30:46.980
 I press on toward the goal

00:30:46.980 --> 00:30:47.659
 for the prize

00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:48.540
 of the upward call

00:30:48.540 --> 00:30:50.640
 of God in Christ Jesus.

00:30:52.840 --> 00:30:54.640
 Move forward.

00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:57.440
 Pay attention

00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:58.420
 to the calling

00:30:58.420 --> 00:30:59.440
 on your life.

00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:02.000
 Listen to me this morning

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:02.740
 first about his church,

00:31:02.820 --> 00:31:03.560
 Henrietta, Texas.

00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:05.779
 In the same way

00:31:05.779 --> 00:31:06.940
 that Jesus called Peter

00:31:06.940 --> 00:31:08.000
 from a life of fishing

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.660
 to a life of shepherding the sheep,

00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:11.440
 in the same way

00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:13.080
 that Jesus called Paul

00:31:13.080 --> 00:31:13.720
 from a life

00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:15.259
 as an unbelieving Pharisee

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:16.940
 and persecutor of Christians

00:31:16.940 --> 00:31:17.460
 to a life

00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:18.019
 as a missionary,

00:31:18.220 --> 00:31:18.500
 preacher,

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.019
 pastor,

00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:20.180
 and apologist,

00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:21.799
 in the same way

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.279
 that he called

00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:24.259
 those two men,

00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:26.140
 Jesus has called

00:31:26.140 --> 00:31:27.279
 each of us

00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.740
 to live our life

00:31:28.740 --> 00:31:30.000
 not for ourself,

00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:31.680
 but to live our lives

00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:33.039
 for the kingdom of God.

00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:36.039
 He has called us

00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:36.860
 out of darkness

00:31:36.860 --> 00:31:37.799
 into light.

00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:38.440
 He has called us

00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:39.519
 to share the good news

00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:40.680
 of Christ's death,

00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:40.960
 burial,

00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:41.440
 and resurrection

00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:42.440
 with a lost world

00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:43.779
 that desperately needs

00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:45.099
 that information,

00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.319
 that desperately needs

00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:47.480
 the saving power

00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:48.000
 that is found

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:49.259
 in the blood of Jesus Christ,

00:31:49.339 --> 00:31:50.039
 and the question

00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:51.539
 you need to ask yourself today

00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:53.000
 is simply this.

00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:54.460
 What's keeping you

00:31:54.460 --> 00:31:55.720
 from doing just that?

00:31:56.339 --> 00:31:57.559
 I am positive

00:31:57.559 --> 00:31:59.119
 that there are people

00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:00.440
 all over Henrietta, Texas

00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:00.920
 that need to know

00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.559
 who Jesus is.

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:02.420
 I'm positive.

00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:04.099
 I'm positive

00:32:04.099 --> 00:32:04.559
 there are people

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:05.700
 all over Clay County

00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:06.259
 who need to know

00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:07.200
 who Jesus Christ is.

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:08.319
 I'm positive

00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:08.859
 that there are people

00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:09.940
 all over Wichita Falls

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:11.059
 who need to know

00:32:11.059 --> 00:32:11.960
 who Jesus is.

00:32:13.620 --> 00:32:14.640
 What's keeping us

00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:15.519
 from sharing the gospel?

00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:16.900
 What's keeping us

00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:17.740
 from going on mission?

00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:19.559
 What's holding us back?

00:32:20.019 --> 00:32:21.320
 Or maybe a better question

00:32:21.320 --> 00:32:22.320
 is what's your fish?

00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:25.620
 Maybe it's not actual fish.

00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:26.600
 What's your fish?

00:32:28.580 --> 00:32:29.720
 I know what mine is.

00:32:29.779 --> 00:32:30.380
 Mine's comfort.

00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:32.279
 Mine's comfort.

00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:33.279
 I don't...

00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:36.360
 I just want peace

00:32:36.360 --> 00:32:37.519
 and quiet and comfort.

00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:41.900
 But that can turn

00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:42.779
 really, really bad

00:32:42.779 --> 00:32:44.080
 for me really, really quickly.

00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:45.080
 Right?

00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:46.539
 What's your fish?

00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:48.400
 What is it?

00:32:48.660 --> 00:32:50.160
 What is keeping you

00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:50.940
 from doing

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:52.559
 what God has called you?

00:32:52.620 --> 00:32:53.559
 What's keeping you

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:55.100
 from walking next door

00:32:55.100 --> 00:32:56.039
 and sharing the gospel

00:32:56.039 --> 00:32:56.799
 with your neighbor

00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:57.840
 who you know

00:32:57.840 --> 00:32:59.120
 desperately needs

00:32:59.120 --> 00:32:59.740
 the message

00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:01.100
 of Christ on the cross?

00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.259
 What's keeping you

00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:04.400
 from going to the school

00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:06.019
 and loving on teachers

00:33:06.019 --> 00:33:07.000
 and loving on students?

00:33:07.080 --> 00:33:07.820
 What's keeping you

00:33:07.820 --> 00:33:08.900
 from going out

00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:09.860
 into Clay County

00:33:09.859 --> 00:33:11.919
 and sharing the gospel

00:33:11.919 --> 00:33:12.240
 with people

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.139
 all over this county

00:33:13.139 --> 00:33:15.119
 who needs to know

00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:15.799
 the beauty

00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:16.719
 and the grace

00:33:16.719 --> 00:33:17.399
 and the mercy

00:33:17.399 --> 00:33:17.899
 that is found

00:33:17.899 --> 00:33:18.279
 in the blood

00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:19.099
 of Jesus Christ?

00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:22.119
 What's your fish?

00:33:26.379 --> 00:33:27.259
 I was reminded

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:28.019
 the other day,

00:33:28.159 --> 00:33:29.279
 continually reminded really,

00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:30.799
 of how easy it is

00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:31.779
 to fake this life.

00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:33.679
 There's so many

00:33:33.679 --> 00:33:34.479
 other things going on,

00:33:34.539 --> 00:33:34.939
 so many other things

00:33:34.939 --> 00:33:35.419
 that are vying

00:33:35.419 --> 00:33:36.019
 for our attention,

00:33:36.139 --> 00:33:36.799
 for our thoughts.

00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:36.839
 What's your fish?

00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:36.859
 What's your fish?

00:33:36.859 --> 00:33:36.879
 What's your fish?

00:33:36.879 --> 00:33:36.939
 What's your fish?

00:33:39.859 --> 00:33:40.919
 And if the question

00:33:40.919 --> 00:33:41.639
 that I would ask

00:33:41.639 --> 00:33:43.319
 for you to ask yourself

00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:44.359
 is what's your fish,

00:33:44.939 --> 00:33:46.039
 the question that I would

00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:47.019
 posit to you today

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:48.279
 out of John 21

00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:49.939
 is how's your heart?

00:33:51.679 --> 00:33:52.459
 How's your heart?

00:33:55.179 --> 00:33:55.879
 How's your relationship

00:33:55.879 --> 00:33:56.319
 with Christ?

00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:01.359
 What does that look like?

00:34:01.459 --> 00:34:02.359
 Do you have a relationship

00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:02.740
 with Christ?

00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:03.399
 I'm not asking you

00:34:03.399 --> 00:34:04.079
 if you were saved

00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:05.240
 30 years ago.

00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:05.879
 I'm asking you,

00:34:05.919 --> 00:34:06.299
 how's your relationship

00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:06.939
 with Christ today?

00:34:06.940 --> 00:34:09.000
 How are you doing

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:09.860
 walking with Christ?

00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:10.780
 How are you doing

00:34:10.780 --> 00:34:11.220
 in that?

00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:11.980
 How are you doing

00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:13.159
 in living in the calling

00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:14.220
 that God has given to you?

00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:16.539
 I guarantee you

00:34:16.539 --> 00:34:17.360
 that God wants to do

00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:18.320
 a work here in Henrietta.

00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:20.320
 Matter of fact,

00:34:20.380 --> 00:34:20.920
 if you look back

00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:21.420
 over the history

00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:21.860
 of your church,

00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:22.740
 you've done it before.

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.720
 Continuing to do it now.

00:34:28.019 --> 00:34:28.820
 Look at the people

00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:29.360
 in the room.

00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:32.000
 God wants to do

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:33.220
 a work here in Henrietta

00:34:33.220 --> 00:34:35.579
 through this body of believers.

00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:39.780
 Are we really

00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:40.460
 going to allow something

00:34:40.460 --> 00:34:41.700
 with zero eternal significance

00:34:41.700 --> 00:34:42.659
 to get in the way of that?

00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:43.440
 And I'm not asking

00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:44.139
 that question to myself.

00:34:45.059 --> 00:34:45.440
 You're just,

00:34:45.780 --> 00:34:46.760
 you're here for a personal

00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:47.480
 counseling session,

00:34:47.659 --> 00:34:48.500
 so you're hearing

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:49.420
 a personal counseling session

00:34:49.420 --> 00:34:50.220
 that I'm having with myself.

00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:54.039
 Back to our story

00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:54.880
 about John Knox

00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:55.980
 for a moment from earlier.

00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:57.579
 I just wonder

00:34:57.579 --> 00:34:58.200
 what would happen

00:34:58.200 --> 00:34:59.900
 if the rallying cry

00:34:59.900 --> 00:35:00.720
 of this body of believers

00:35:00.720 --> 00:35:01.840
 became give us Henrietta

00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:02.679
 or kill us.

00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:05.059
 One or the other.

00:35:05.059 --> 00:35:05.099
 One or the other.

00:35:06.940 --> 00:35:08.000
 God, give me Henrietta

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:08.559
 or I'd die.

00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:10.079
 God, give me Clay County

00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:10.700
 or I'd die.

00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:12.599
 I wonder what,

00:35:12.659 --> 00:35:13.740
 I wonder what this place

00:35:13.740 --> 00:35:14.320
 would look like,

00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:15.420
 this whole area

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:16.059
 would look like

00:35:16.059 --> 00:35:17.240
 a year from now.

00:35:17.300 --> 00:35:18.220
 God, give us Henrietta

00:35:18.220 --> 00:35:18.800
 or kill us.

00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:21.480
 So here's what I want to do.

00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:22.519
 I want you to bow your heads.

00:35:22.579 --> 00:35:23.280
 I want you to close your eyes

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:24.000
 with me for the next few

00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:24.500
 moments together.

00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:25.579
 And I want to just

00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:26.760
 ask you some questions, okay?

00:35:26.860 --> 00:35:27.820
 I want to,

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:29.980
 I don't really know

00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:30.619
 how y'all normally

00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:31.099
 do an invitation,

00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:32.220
 so I'm going to let you

00:35:32.220 --> 00:35:32.619
 just sit.

00:35:33.019 --> 00:35:33.659
 I think the band's

00:35:33.659 --> 00:35:34.200
 going to come back up

00:35:34.200 --> 00:35:35.000
 and sing and play

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:35.599
 here in just a second,

00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.400
 but I want you to sit,

00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:37.860
 I want you to ask

00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.340
 some questions

00:35:38.340 --> 00:35:39.239
 and I want you

00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:39.780
 to take an inventory.

00:35:40.940 --> 00:35:41.820
 And here's my encouragement

00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:42.679
 to you with your heads

00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:43.679
 bowed and your eyes closed.

00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:45.440
 Here's my encouragement

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.579
 to you this morning.

00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:47.840
 It's easier to lie

00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:48.300
 to yourself

00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:49.380
 than it is to anybody else.

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:51.719
 Okay?

00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:52.760
 It's easier to justify

00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:53.280
 to yourself

00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:54.360
 than it is to anybody else.

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:56.920
 So don't do that.

00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:57.400
 Okay?

00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:57.519
 Okay?

00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:57.719
 So don't do that.

00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:02.860
 Take an inventory.

00:36:02.860 --> 00:36:05.760
 And the first question

00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:06.920
 that I want you to answer

00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:08.000
 is how's your relationship

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.160
 with Christ today?

00:36:26.380 --> 00:36:27.300
 How's your relationship

00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:28.280
 with Christ today?

00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:28.360
 Okay?

00:36:32.860 --> 00:36:38.700
 Do you have a relationship

00:36:38.700 --> 00:36:39.120
 with Christ?

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:50.780
 If you don't,

00:36:51.620 --> 00:36:53.820
 I would love the opportunity

00:36:53.820 --> 00:36:54.380
 to talk with you

00:36:54.380 --> 00:36:54.760
 in the lobby

00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:55.760
 after the service is over.

00:36:56.380 --> 00:36:57.039
 Greg would too.

00:36:57.980 --> 00:36:59.160
 And the other deacons here

00:36:59.160 --> 00:37:00.000
 I'm sure would be out there

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:00.400
 as well.

00:37:00.539 --> 00:37:01.380
 Would love to talk

00:37:01.380 --> 00:37:01.920
 with you about it.

00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:08.180
 Please,

00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:09.000
 I beg of you,

00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:09.760
 do not rest

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:10.579
 on that you walked

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:11.820
 an aisle 30 years ago.

00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:15.280
 How's your relationship

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.180
 with Christ today?

00:37:20.579 --> 00:37:21.340
 Second question.

00:37:25.140 --> 00:37:25.860
 From the passage

00:37:25.860 --> 00:37:26.519
 we read today,

00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:27.420
 what's your fish?

00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:29.059
 What is it

00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:29.700
 that you're allowing

00:37:29.699 --> 00:37:30.739
 to keep you from doing

00:37:30.739 --> 00:37:31.779
 what God has called

00:37:31.779 --> 00:37:32.599
 you to do?

00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:47.000
 Y'all,

00:37:47.099 --> 00:37:47.939
 I am Peter.

00:37:48.439 --> 00:37:49.039
 I am.

00:37:49.379 --> 00:37:50.939
 I let things get in the way.

00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:54.139
 I let things dominate me

00:37:54.139 --> 00:37:55.199
 that shouldn't dominate me.

00:37:55.199 --> 00:38:02.159
 I have to continually

00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:03.119
 ask myself,

00:38:03.259 --> 00:38:04.099
 continually take

00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:04.779
 this inventory

00:38:04.779 --> 00:38:06.460
 of what are the things

00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:07.019
 that I'm allowing

00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:07.739
 in my life

00:38:07.739 --> 00:38:08.439
 to get in the way

00:38:08.439 --> 00:38:08.899
 of what I know

00:38:08.899 --> 00:38:09.779
 God's called me to do.

00:38:11.460 --> 00:38:12.299
 What is that for you?

00:38:12.299 --> 00:38:12.339
 What is that for you?

00:38:12.339 --> 00:38:14.299
 What is that for you?

00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:30.080
 What would it be like

00:38:30.080 --> 00:38:32.260
 if the rallying cry

00:38:32.260 --> 00:38:33.700
 of First Baptist Church

00:38:33.700 --> 00:38:34.480
 Henrietta, Texas

00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:36.260
 was simply,

00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:37.960
 God, give us Henrietta

00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:38.900
 or we die.

00:38:38.900 --> 00:38:51.780
 Father, I pray

00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:52.180
 your blessing

00:38:52.180 --> 00:38:53.059
 over this church.

00:38:58.440 --> 00:38:59.119
 Father, I pray

00:38:59.119 --> 00:38:59.619
 your blessing

00:38:59.619 --> 00:39:00.099
 over them

00:39:00.099 --> 00:39:00.539
 as they

00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:02.599
 go out

00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:03.340
 and they reach

00:39:03.340 --> 00:39:04.320
 their community

00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:05.840
 for you.

00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.860
 Father, I pray

00:39:07.860 --> 00:39:08.260
 that you would

00:39:08.260 --> 00:39:08.860
 give them

00:39:08.860 --> 00:39:11.460
 vigor,

00:39:11.940 --> 00:39:12.180
 that you would

00:39:12.180 --> 00:39:13.160
 give them boldness

00:39:13.160 --> 00:39:15.640
 as they go.

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:16.340
 Father, I pray

00:39:16.340 --> 00:39:16.960
 that you would

00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:19.579
 encourage them

00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:20.440
 along the way.

00:39:23.120 --> 00:39:24.000
 Father, I pray

00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:24.740
 that this area

00:39:24.740 --> 00:39:27.480
 would become known

00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:28.579
 throughout Texas,

00:39:28.780 --> 00:39:29.340
 throughout America,

00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:30.180
 throughout the world

00:39:30.180 --> 00:39:33.360
 as a place of revival,

00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:35.100
 as a place of awakening.

00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.460
 Father, I'm so

00:39:39.460 --> 00:39:40.280
 encouraged by

00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:41.059
 everything that Sam

00:39:41.059 --> 00:39:41.579
 says about

00:39:41.579 --> 00:39:42.160
 this great group

00:39:42.160 --> 00:39:42.579
 of people.

00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:44.240
 I'm so encouraged.

00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:45.980
 I'm so encouraged

00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:47.160
 of how they love

00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:47.800
 Sam and Holly.

00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:49.740
 I'm so encouraged

00:39:49.740 --> 00:39:50.500
 of how they love

00:39:50.500 --> 00:39:51.059
 their city.

00:39:52.640 --> 00:39:53.620
 Father, bless them.

00:39:58.840 --> 00:39:59.620
 Father, give us

00:39:59.620 --> 00:40:00.039
 Henrietta

00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:00.800
 or we die.

00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:00.880
 Amen.

00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:00.920
 Amen.

00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:00.940
 Amen.

00:40:00.940 --> 00:40:00.960
 Amen.

00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:01.019
 Amen.

00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:01.059
 Amen.

00:40:01.059 --> 00:40:01.100
 Amen.