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 Excellent, what a special morning. These are always some of the greatest joys in our life

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 as a church when we see Jesus at work in people's lives. And it's just been so great to see what God

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 is doing in Reuben's. I just want to give a particular welcome, as I get my breath back,

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 used to think I was fit, to Reuben's friends and family. I haven't managed to say hello to you

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 this morning, but you're so, so welcome. It's a joy to have you. We love your boy. We will look after

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 him, but just know how welcome you are here today. And let me welcome you to the strangest group of

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 people on planet Earth. If you didn't know that before, churches are strange places and Christians

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 are strange people. Now here's what I mean by that. According to a recent survey, did you know

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 that there are something like 2.5 billion Christians around the world today? That's a lot of people,

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 2.5 billion. But let me take that overwhelmingly large figure and make it a much more manageable

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 one. So here's the figure. It's 100. So if 100 Christians represented all of global Christianity,

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 here's the stats. Take this in. 26 people would live in Africa. 24 people would live in Latin America.

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 23 people would live in Europe. 15 people would live in Asia. 11 people would live in North America.

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 And one person would live in Oceania. And get this, your average Christian in the world today

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 is a non-white woman living her life in the global South with lower than average levels of both

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 societal safety and access to proper healthcare. How does that strike you this morning?

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 In our world, it seems to be getting increasingly divided and fractured and seems to be shouting

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 across at each other. Let me put it to you that Christianity is the greatest social phenomena

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 the world has ever seen. This really is a strange going on. This really is, if you're a 90s

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 kid like me, this really is one for Mulder and Scully, isn't it? Welcome to the strangest group of people

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 on planet Earth. Strangest and how do you explain that? 2.5 billion people. A group that started in a

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 sense 2,000 odd years ago with a group of a dozen disciples following a 30-year-old carpenter turned

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 preacher who came from Nazareth. Remember Leicester City won the Premier League a few years ago. What

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 were they? 5,000 to 1. Who would have predicted that? Who would have predicted 12 to 2.5 billion in just

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 over 2,000 years? Who would have predicted that? Well, as it turns out, what we're going to see in this

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 passage, and I should have said this at start, we're going to be in Luke chapter 5 if you have a Bible.

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 1 to 11. We'll read it in a few moments time. Luke chapter 5. If you don't have a Bible, you can grab

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 one in the pews around about you, or the words will go on the screen in just a few moments as well.

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 As it turns out,

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 what we see in Luke chapter 5 is that Jesus predicted it. He predicted it. In fact, he did way more than just

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 predict it. He guaranteed it. You see, what Jesus says here in this passage is the explanation of days

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 like today. And it is the explanation of stories like Reuben's and like every single Christian who

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 follows Jesus around the world. This is the explanation of why that happens. So here's what

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 we're going to do. We're going to read from verse 1 of Luke chapter 5, and I want you to hear Jesus

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 predict it and guarantee it. So this is Luke chapter 5.

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 One day, as the crowds were pressing close to him to hear the word of God,

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 Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats moored by the land. The fishermen had

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 gone ashore and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats. It was Simon's,

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 and asked him to put out a little way from the land. Then he sat down in the boat and began to teach

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 the crowd. When he'd finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into the deeper part and let down

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 your nets for a catch. Master, replied Simon, we were working hard all night and caught nothing at all.

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 But if you say so, I'll let down the nets. When they did so, they caught such a huge number of fish

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 that their nets began to break. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help

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 them. So they came and filled both the boats and they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell

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 down at Jesus's knees. Leave me alone, Lord, he said. I'm a sinner. He and all his companions were

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 gripped with amazement at the catch of fish they had taken. This included James and John, the sons of

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 Zebedee who were partners with Simon. Don't be afraid, said Jesus to Simon. From now on, you'll be

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 catching people. They brought the boats into land. Then they abandoned everything and followed him.

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 So here is this first century doctor come historian called Luke, who's taken the time in this gospel of

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 Luke to do his investigatory homework to produce this well-researched account of the life of this man,

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 Jesus. And this is what you'll find in the early chapters of Luke's gospel. In the opening chapters,

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 he writes about Jesus's birth. We're going to be thinking about that over the next few weeks in church

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 and in our country. You read about Jesus's birth. Read it and you'll see that that birth is supernatural

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 and yet brimming with purpose. And Luke then moves on to tell you about Jesus's family tree. Again,

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 read it and you'll see the stock that Jesus is from, questionable and yet full of hope.

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 And the message that Jesus is speaking, read it and you'll see a message that is controversial and yet

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 is full of explosive power. Read it and you'll see that Jesus is wonderfully surprising.

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 Someone who does more than just flip the world upside down.

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 Here is someone showing human beings what it is to live the right way up.

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 You know, we had our boiler service the other day, flashing faults. Guy came to fix it, switch off the

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 heating, new part in, fires it back up again, firing in all cylinders again. We've get heat.

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 And it's easy to think of the human problem a bit like that, that all we need to do is just make a few

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 tweaks, make a few adjustments, get a few new parts and hey presto, everything will be fine again.

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 But when the Bible talks about the human condition, it's actually a lot less boiler.

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 It's a lot more like a bunch of flowers that you'd buy at a florist

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 that look great for three or four days, but after a while they'll die.

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 And actually they started dying the very moment they were cut off from the very thing that was

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 giving them life. You see, that's our problem as human beings.

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 It's the essence of what the Bible calls sin that is in the human heart.

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 There's a lot of images that the Bible uses to talk about sin because it's a

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 multi-dimensional problem that we all have. It's our natural inclination to turn away from our

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 creator, reject his rule and want to go it our way. And that is our greatest problem,

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 that we are not right with the God who made us. And yet here Jesus tell us how he's come to be

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 the greatest solution, the perfect solution to our problem.

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 And it all centers on why he's come, to rescue sinners like you and me from God's judgment.

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 But he does more than rescue people from the reality of hell. What he does is he transforms

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 people. He sets people free. He gives people purpose and dignity in life.

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 And he restores us to the very God who made us in his image.

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 And you read on the Luke's gospel, you see Jesus stand up in all places at a Jewish synagogue.

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 In verse 18 of chapter 4. And he reads from one of the most precious prophecies anywhere in the Old

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 Testament. If you scan your eye there, what you'll see is this prophecy from a prophet named Isaiah.

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 Keep that name in mind. And he's God speaking through him about someone who will come and bring a good

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 news message of liberation for the world. All the world to here, who will put things right,

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 who will make things new, who will set people free, who will deal with our biggest problem as human

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 beings, that sin problem. Jesus reads it and it ain't controversial.

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 It'll be getting whoops and hallelujahs, I'm sure. But what is controversial is that Jesus reads it

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 and he says, that person who's come to do that, it's me. Now that is a mic drop moment if ever I've

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 seen one in the gospels. And that's why from this point on in the gospel, Luke focuses on Jesus' word.

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 Because it's this word that Luke is helping us join the dots to see that it's this word that brings

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 liberation to the poor. And people say that about Jesus. The end of chapter 4 verse 31 is Jesus heals

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 this demon-possessed man. The crowd comment that his word has, and it's the word beginning with A,

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 authority. And Jesus has set, verse 43, on taking this message out. So from this point in the gospel,

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 word is going out. And so here we are then, opening verse of chapter 5, on the shores of Lake Gennesaret.

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 And the great crowd have gathered, not just to see Jesus, a great crowd have gathered, do you see it, to hear Jesus.

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 Because they recognize that he's not primarily a good man or a wise teacher or even a messenger from God.

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 When he speaks, they hear the very words of God himself. When he speaks, things happen. When he speaks,

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 life's change. When he speaks, change, change, break.

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 And who's there by the lake working away, do you see him? Is this man called Peter. Day job?

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 Fisherman. Owns a boat. Has business partners there. And he's washing his nets after a long night.

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 And Jesus says to him, I want to use your boat. And after he's finished teaching, do you see what he says,

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 verse 4, chapter 5? I want you to pull out into the deep again and drop your nets.

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 Now, Peter at this point, fisherman, experienced as he was, thinking to himself, to head out into the

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 busy waters during the heat of the day instead of the quiet waters of night is a massive waste of time.

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 If you know anything about fishing, the place and the chance to catch them is when the waters are still.

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 And this is a carpenter giving a fisherman instructions. This is like a circus performer going to a hospital,

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 donning the scrubs, heading to the operating table and telling the surgeon, I see that you've made the incision there,

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 but how about you just try and make it on the other side?

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 This is nonsense. And yet, Peter says,

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 at your word,

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 master. He perceives something about Jesus' word. He's maybe seen,

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 he's maybe heard. His mother-in-law has just been healed in the verses just before.

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 Peter recognizes there's something about Jesus' word.

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 Maybe it's a Dr. Pepper moment here in Peter's life. I don't know.

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 What's the worst that can happen?

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 And what follows is an unexplainable catch. Notice the eyewitness details if you've got the text there.

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 Their nets were breaking due to such a large catch of fish, so much so that they had to signal for

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 their partners to bring another boat. And even then, the boats were sinking. And eyewitness details

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 that Luke pummels the reader with, an attempt to show us how extraordinary this was.

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 And it's amazing, actually,

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 think about it. Jesus has turned a potentially financial devastating evening

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 into an unprecedented windfall.

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 But then we get an unmissable response.

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 Do you see how Peter's not rubbing his hands with

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 glee, cracking open a bottle of bubbly, singing,

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 I'm in, the money.

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 Yeah?

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 His reaction is that he's utterly undone by this encounter with Jesus.

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 This man has blown his mind

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 wide open.

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 Isn't it interesting

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 that the first thing he's aware of

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 in this encounter with Jesus

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 is not his smallness,

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 it's not his

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 his unimpressiveness,

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 it's his sinfulness.

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 Isn't that interesting?

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 Now, this is more than just

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 I was in the presence of greatness, right?

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 In our celebrity culture,

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 it's often what happens when you find yourself

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 having to be in the same shop as a famous person.

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 We go all, oof, don't we?

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 This is more than just he's in the presence of greatness,

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 way more than that.

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 Peter recognizes that he's in the presence of God himself.

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 Just like Isaiah before him,

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 in Isaiah chapter 6,

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 his reaction

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 to being in the presence of God

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 is,

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 woe is me.

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 And there's huge connections.

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 We can follow up afterwards if you want

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 between Isaiah chapter 6 and Luke chapter 5.

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 Woe is me

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 because I am a man of unclean lips,

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 says Isaiah.

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 And Peter recognizes in this point

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 that he has got nothing to bring

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 to the negotiating table.

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 The only card that he's got to play

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 is not marked

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 me,

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 M-E.

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 The only card he recognizes he can play

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 begins with M-E

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 but ends in R-C-Y.

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 Do you see?

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 He goes

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 mercy.

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 And the ball at this point

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 is well and truly in Jesus' court.

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 The next move is his.

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 And what happens next,

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 dear friends,

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 you need to see this,

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 is Jesus to a T.

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 He doesn't go all

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 Oprah Winfrey on him,

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 does he?

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 And say,

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 Peter,

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 get up.

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 You need better self-esteem.

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 You need bigger goals.

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 You need to think better about yourself.

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 That will always be

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 the top sellers

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 in the Kindle store,

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 those kind of books.

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 But Jesus knows

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 that just doesn't work

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 when it comes to the human condition.

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 But nor has he gone

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 all Roy Keane on him.

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 Yeah,

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 if you know Roy Keane,

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 the notoriously harsh

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 Irish football pundit,

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 Jesus doesn't say,

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 Peter,

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 you're not fit to wear the jersey.

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 Sinful man,

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 you don't know the half of it, son.

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 This is Jesus.

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 Jesus does neither of those things.

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 Here is Jesus,

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 the one who was there

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 before the beginning

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 of anything.

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 This is Jesus,

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 the one who knows

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 all of Peter's mistakes,

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 past, present, and future.

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 And what does he say?

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 What's his opening line?

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 Just like Gabriel said to Mary,

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 verse 10,

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 he says,

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 do not be afraid.

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 Again,

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 interesting,

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 striking.

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 Do not be afraid.

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 What does he recognize

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 is going on in Peter's heart?

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 There's a lot of fear.

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 Do not be afraid.

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 And from there,

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 see Jesus make an unexpected call.

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 He says,

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 from now on,

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 you

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 will be fishing

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 for people.

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 And that's the punchline

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 of the drama here.

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 This is what it was

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 all about.

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 The great haul of fish.

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 I didn't really think about it

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 that much until this week.

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 Why fish?

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 Jesus could have done

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 all sorts of things.

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 Why fish?

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 Well,

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 I guess this is speaking

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 Peter's language in a way.

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 But he's always saying,

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 see this great haul?

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 Those fish,

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 they represent people.

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 That's what's going to happen

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 down the generations,

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 across the nations,

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 through history,

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 as my words,

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 as this gospel goes forth.

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 Here's what I want you to know.

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 If you're a Christian here today,

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 you are a fish.

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 You are a fish

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 who has been drawn

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 into Jesus'

00:18:27.859 --> 00:18:29.279
 gracious net.

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 You have been

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 hooked,

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 lined,

00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:34.220
 and sinkered

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 by the fishermen

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 par excellence.

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 Why do days like today

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 happen?

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 Why do stories like

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 Reuben's happen?

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 Because right here,

00:18:43.700 --> 00:18:44.539
 Jesus guaranteed

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 that it would.

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 And here's real quick

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 things

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 to see.

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 Number one,

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 it means that every moment

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 is a learning moment

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 with Jesus.

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 Do you see verse 11?

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 Peter,

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 James,

00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:00.579
 and John,

00:19:01.439 --> 00:19:02.519
 who would become

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 Jesus'

00:19:03.220 --> 00:19:04.079
 inner circle

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 of three.

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 And they left

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 everything

00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:08.819
 and they

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 followed him.

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 You could argue

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 that much of the rest

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 of Luke's gospel

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 is the record

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 of their three-year-long

00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:15.559
 apprenticeship

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 with Jesus.

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 Jesus invites them

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 to come and learn

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 from him.

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 Jesus invites them

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 to come and learn

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 his heart for people.

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 Come and learn

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 his father-shaped

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 priorities.

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 Come and learn

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 how life in his

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 kingdom works.

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 Come and learn

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 who they are.

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 Can I just say

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 it's only by coming

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 to understand

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 Jesus,

00:19:40.779 --> 00:19:41.500
 this God,

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 that we can truly

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 come to understand

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 ourselves.

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 Come and follow me

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 and most of all

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 learn what it means

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 for me to be

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 your savior.

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 You see,

00:19:52.940 --> 00:19:53.720
 way before this

00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:54.140
 is about

00:19:54.140 --> 00:19:55.600
 us serving

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 Jesus,

00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.940
 this is about

00:19:58.940 --> 00:19:59.559
 Jesus

00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:01.140
 serving us.

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 It's always

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 the way around

00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:03.920
 it goes.

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 when Peter says,

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 I am a sinful

00:20:08.220 --> 00:20:08.620
 man,

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 I just say

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 he's not wrong.

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 The rest of

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 this book

00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:14.500
 is full

00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:15.539
 of his mistakes,

00:20:16.660 --> 00:20:17.720
 but Jesus

00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:18.500
 will go to the

00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:19.500
 cross to die

00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:20.500
 for Peter's

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 sin.

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 He will go to

00:20:22.600 --> 00:20:23.460
 the cross to die

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 for my sin.

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 He goes to the

00:20:25.779 --> 00:20:26.320
 cross to die

00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:27.279
 for your sin,

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 and he rises

00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:29.960
 again

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 to show

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 that that

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 payment,

00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:34.420
 that debt

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 has been paid,

00:20:35.700 --> 00:20:36.399
 it's gone through

00:20:36.399 --> 00:20:37.420
 in the eyes

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 of a holy

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 God.

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 Peter,

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 as he takes

00:20:41.399 --> 00:20:42.379
 Jesus' word

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 in the power

00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:43.539
 of the Spirit

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 to the world,

00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:45.579
 will begin

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 to see

00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:47.399
 the beginnings

00:20:47.399 --> 00:20:48.059
 of this great

00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:48.500
 catch.

00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:50.619
 You see,

00:20:50.700 --> 00:20:51.200
 with Jesus,

00:20:51.339 --> 00:20:52.139
 every moment

00:20:52.139 --> 00:20:53.559
 is a learning

00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:53.899
 moment.

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 They followed

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 him.

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 It's what

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 to be a

00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:57.440
 disciple is,

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 to be a

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 lifelong

00:20:58.580 --> 00:20:59.600
 learner.

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 And with

00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:03.320
 Jesus,

00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:03.860
 every day

00:21:03.860 --> 00:21:04.420
 is a fishing

00:21:04.420 --> 00:21:04.740
 day.

00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:05.380
 Do you know

00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:05.759
 what I love?

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 I love that

00:21:06.600 --> 00:21:07.200
 Jesus could

00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:07.620
 have quite

00:21:07.620 --> 00:21:08.120
 easily

00:21:08.120 --> 00:21:09.220
 have commanded

00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:09.759
 the fish

00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:10.240
 to jump

00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:10.660
 into the

00:21:10.660 --> 00:21:11.040
 net all

00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:11.720
 by themselves.

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 Could have

00:21:13.060 --> 00:21:13.540
 done that,

00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:14.520
 right?

00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:16.740
 But he says,

00:21:16.860 --> 00:21:17.160
 Peter,

00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:18.080
 I want you

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 to be the

00:21:18.660 --> 00:21:20.160
 one to

00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:20.600
 drop down

00:21:20.600 --> 00:21:21.040
 the net.

00:21:21.300 --> 00:21:21.480
 You see,

00:21:21.540 --> 00:21:22.020
 Jesus is

00:21:22.020 --> 00:21:22.680
 guaranteeing the

00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:22.900
 work,

00:21:23.020 --> 00:21:23.520
 this is his

00:21:23.520 --> 00:21:24.080
 catch,

00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:25.420
 but he

00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:25.960
 wants to

00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:26.320
 do it

00:21:26.320 --> 00:21:26.519
 through

00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:27.120
 everyday

00:21:27.120 --> 00:21:28.019
 people like

00:21:28.019 --> 00:21:28.720
 Peter and

00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:29.300
 like you

00:21:29.300 --> 00:21:29.820
 and like

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 me.

00:21:32.600 --> 00:21:32.800
 Do you know

00:21:32.800 --> 00:21:33.200
 what I thought

00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:33.600
 as well this

00:21:33.600 --> 00:21:33.740
 week?

00:21:33.779 --> 00:21:34.039
 That he's

00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:34.480
 also in

00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:34.900
 control of

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 the fact

00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:35.660
 that Peter

00:21:35.660 --> 00:21:36.160
 during the

00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:36.620
 night caught

00:21:36.620 --> 00:21:37.000
 nothing.

00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:38.460
 Think about

00:21:38.460 --> 00:21:38.720
 that.

00:21:40.140 --> 00:21:40.800
 He's also

00:21:40.800 --> 00:21:41.340
 in control of

00:21:41.340 --> 00:21:41.740
 the fact that

00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:42.200
 Peter during

00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:42.500
 the night

00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:42.820
 caught

00:21:42.820 --> 00:21:43.160
 nothing.

00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:43.880
 I wonder

00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:44.340
 whether in

00:21:44.340 --> 00:21:44.759
 this moment

00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:45.180
 he wants

00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:45.620
 Peter to

00:21:45.620 --> 00:21:46.060
 feel his

00:21:46.060 --> 00:21:46.600
 emptiness

00:21:46.600 --> 00:21:48.380
 and to

00:21:48.380 --> 00:21:48.759
 know that

00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:49.100
 without

00:21:49.100 --> 00:21:49.620
 Jesus,

00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:50.420
 he can

00:21:50.420 --> 00:21:50.620
 do

00:21:50.620 --> 00:21:51.000
 nothing.

00:21:52.060 --> 00:21:52.740
 So often

00:21:52.740 --> 00:21:53.000
 where the

00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:53.500
 Lord takes

00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:54.060
 us in life,

00:21:54.140 --> 00:21:54.460
 isn't it?

00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:55.880
 And from

00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:56.340
 this point

00:21:56.340 --> 00:21:56.600
 on,

00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:57.460
 Jesus goes

00:21:57.460 --> 00:21:57.880
 on the

00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:58.180
 biggest

00:21:58.180 --> 00:21:58.720
 recruitment

00:21:58.720 --> 00:21:59.500
 drive the

00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:00.519
 world has

00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:01.080
 ever seen,

00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:02.700
 calling people

00:22:02.700 --> 00:22:04.180
 to come and

00:22:04.180 --> 00:22:05.580
 to join the

00:22:05.580 --> 00:22:06.759
 work with

00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:07.000
 him.

00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:08.060
 While fishermen

00:22:08.060 --> 00:22:09.000
 snatch living

00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:09.960
 fish away to

00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:10.420
 death,

00:22:10.820 --> 00:22:11.080
 do you see

00:22:11.080 --> 00:22:11.440
 how it's

00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:11.759
 flipped?

00:22:12.840 --> 00:22:13.560
 The disciples

00:22:13.560 --> 00:22:14.019
 are going to

00:22:14.019 --> 00:22:15.019
 be involved in

00:22:15.019 --> 00:22:15.960
 snatching dying

00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:17.700
 people away and

00:22:17.700 --> 00:22:18.320
 giving them

00:22:18.320 --> 00:22:18.720
 life.

00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:20.080
 They leave their

00:22:20.080 --> 00:22:20.880
 family fishing

00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:22.340
 business and

00:22:22.340 --> 00:22:23.100
 they become part

00:22:23.099 --> 00:22:24.480
 of his family

00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:25.559
 fishing business.

00:22:25.879 --> 00:22:26.699
 Taking this

00:22:26.699 --> 00:22:27.439
 message about

00:22:27.439 --> 00:22:29.139
 him to

00:22:29.139 --> 00:22:30.339
 their immediate

00:22:30.339 --> 00:22:30.799
 neighbors,

00:22:31.779 --> 00:22:32.339
 the surrounding

00:22:32.339 --> 00:22:33.019
 regions,

00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:34.339
 and to the

00:22:34.339 --> 00:22:34.779
 ends of the

00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:35.159
 earth.

00:22:36.899 --> 00:22:38.199
 2.5 billion

00:22:38.199 --> 00:22:38.619
 people.

00:22:39.899 --> 00:22:40.439
 And that's just

00:22:40.439 --> 00:22:41.099
 across the world

00:22:41.099 --> 00:22:41.480
 today.

00:22:42.399 --> 00:22:43.359
 You multiply that

00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:43.659
 down to

00:22:43.659 --> 00:22:44.219
 generations,

00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:45.299
 that's a lot

00:22:45.299 --> 00:22:45.699
 of people.

00:22:47.779 --> 00:22:48.359
 Jesus says,

00:22:48.439 --> 00:22:48.719
 come and

00:22:48.719 --> 00:22:49.219
 follow me.

00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:49.659
 You know,

00:22:49.699 --> 00:22:50.099
 just as we

00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:50.399
 close,

00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:50.859
 just want to

00:22:50.859 --> 00:22:51.359
 show my

00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:51.859
 kids built

00:22:51.859 --> 00:22:52.519
 yesterday when

00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:54.279
 I was at

00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:54.959
 men's breakfast.

00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:55.319
 We had a

00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:55.939
 men's breakfast

00:22:55.939 --> 00:22:57.219
 up here between

00:22:57.219 --> 00:22:57.879
 9 and 11.

00:22:59.379 --> 00:23:00.159
 This is what our

00:23:00.159 --> 00:23:02.000
 kids did while I

00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:02.419
 was there.

00:23:02.919 --> 00:23:03.659
 As we were all

00:23:03.659 --> 00:23:05.599
 fighting to get

00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:06.159
 here to the

00:23:06.159 --> 00:23:06.559
 room, we were

00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:07.119
 almost clapping

00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:07.819
 every person that

00:23:07.819 --> 00:23:08.179
 came in the

00:23:08.179 --> 00:23:08.639
 door because it

00:23:08.639 --> 00:23:09.259
 was so difficult.

00:23:09.419 --> 00:23:09.819
 Johan even

00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:10.279
 managed to

00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:10.919
 come with his

00:23:10.919 --> 00:23:11.619
 crutches on the

00:23:11.619 --> 00:23:12.199
 bus and we

00:23:12.199 --> 00:23:12.619
 were whooping

00:23:12.619 --> 00:23:12.959
 and everything.

00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:13.399
 It was great.

00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:14.500
 But did you

00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:15.039
 enjoy the snow

00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:15.459
 yesterday?

00:23:16.740 --> 00:23:17.099
 Yeah?

00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:18.059
 This is what my

00:23:18.059 --> 00:23:18.579
 kids built.

00:23:19.579 --> 00:23:20.299
 Needless to say,

00:23:20.399 --> 00:23:21.099
 they are all my

00:23:21.099 --> 00:23:21.799
 hats and

00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:23.000
 scarves.

00:23:24.299 --> 00:23:24.779
 Here's the

00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:25.240
 question that

00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:25.799
 came at night.

00:23:26.899 --> 00:23:27.139
 As he

00:23:27.139 --> 00:23:27.599
 reflected,

00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:28.339
 as he told me

00:23:28.339 --> 00:23:28.779
 on these

00:23:28.779 --> 00:23:29.259
 things about

00:23:29.259 --> 00:23:29.659
 the carrot

00:23:29.659 --> 00:23:30.319
 for the nose

00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:30.579
 and about

00:23:30.579 --> 00:23:31.079
 the hats that

00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:31.559
 he put on,

00:23:31.619 --> 00:23:31.859
 about the

00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:32.319
 scarves,

00:23:32.399 --> 00:23:32.639
 about the

00:23:32.639 --> 00:23:34.539
 works to

00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:35.000
 build these

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:35.319
 snowmen.

00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:35.679
 All the

00:23:35.679 --> 00:23:36.019
 snow that

00:23:36.019 --> 00:23:36.439
 fell, the

00:23:36.439 --> 00:23:37.379
 question came

00:23:37.379 --> 00:23:38.039
 to me last

00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:38.500
 night, do

00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:39.079
 you think the

00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:39.500
 snow will

00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:40.019
 still be there

00:23:40.019 --> 00:23:40.439
 tomorrow?

00:23:41.779 --> 00:23:42.359
 And here's the

00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:42.919
 picture today,

00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:43.779
 less than 16

00:23:43.779 --> 00:23:44.199
 hours.

00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:45.559
 Yeah?

00:23:45.699 --> 00:23:45.980
 And I

00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:46.579
 guarantee you

00:23:46.579 --> 00:23:46.959
 when I go

00:23:46.959 --> 00:23:47.480
 home, those

00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:48.379
 two stumps will

00:23:48.379 --> 00:23:48.819
 not be there

00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:49.179
 anymore.

00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:50.399
 It's crazy,

00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:50.879
 isn't it?

00:23:51.099 --> 00:23:51.459
 How that's

00:23:51.459 --> 00:23:51.939
 happened in

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 such a short

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 space of

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 time.

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 But here's the

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 thing.

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 We live in a

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 world that is

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 saying to us,

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 invest in

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 things, love

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 things, you

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 need things, that

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 friends just will

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 not last.

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 Do you know,

00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.179
 looks will fade,

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 jobs will start

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 and end, our

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 emotions will dip

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 and dive, people

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 will come and go

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 in and out of our

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 lives.

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 question for us to

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 think about,

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 particularly if you

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 don't know this

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 Jesus, is the

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 thing that you're

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 building your

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 life on going to

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 last?

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 Or is it going to

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 be like the

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 snow?

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 It's going to be

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 here looking very

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 impressive one day

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 and in a matter of

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 hours it could be

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 all gone.

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 What I want us to

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 see is that Jesus

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 is calling us here,

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 all those who

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 follow him, no

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 matter how

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 unimpressive you

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 think you are,

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 no matter how

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 short or how long

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 you've been a

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 Christian for,

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 he's inviting all

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 those who follow

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 him to come and

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 be part and

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 participate in the

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 greatest mission

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 this world has

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 ever known.

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 And to invest

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 ourselves in the

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 one thing in this

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 life that's going

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 to last.

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 When he says,

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 come and I will

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 make you fishers

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 of men, it really

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 is an invitation to

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 the greatest mission

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 the world has ever

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 seen.

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 So let's pause

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 just for a minute

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 and I'd love us

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 just to pray.

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 And maybe

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 particularly this

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 morning if you

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 don't know this

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 Jesus for yourself

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 is something that's

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 been said or read

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 or something that

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 Ruben said,

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 anything like that

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 or we've sung is

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 maybe just piqued

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 your interest.

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 Dear friends,

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 don't waste this

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 moment.

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 Grab somebody who

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 you've come with

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 maybe in the

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 quietness now bring

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 your own prayers to

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 this God.

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 Maybe today is the

00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:30.759
 day of salvation

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 for you.

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 So let's just have

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 a moment of silence

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 and then I'll pray

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 and then we're going

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 to stand to sing

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 our final song.

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 Come all you

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 who are thirsty

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 come to the waters

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 and you who have

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 no money come

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 buy and eat.

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 Come buy wine

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 and milk without

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 money and without

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 cost.

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 Why spend money

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 on what is not

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 bread and your

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 labor on what

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 does not satisfy?

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 Listen,

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 listen to me

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 and eat what is

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 good and your

00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:06.259
 soul will delight

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 in the richest

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 of fear.

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 Thank you Lord

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 that that's how

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 grace works.

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 Thank you that we

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 bring nothing to

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 the negotiating

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:16.539
 table before you

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 a holy God.

00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:19.799
 Father, thank you

00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:20.559
 for your mercy.

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 Thank you for your

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 grace in welcoming

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 people like us.

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 I pray Father today

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 that as we think

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 about, as we've

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 seen the newness

00:26:31.740 --> 00:26:32.579
 of life that Jesus

00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:34.299
 brings, his death

00:26:34.299 --> 00:26:36.019
 on the cross, paying

00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:36.779
 the debt of our

00:26:36.779 --> 00:26:39.200
 sin, his resurrection

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 life that the

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 spirit gives.

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:42.819
 Lord, I pray that

00:26:42.819 --> 00:26:45.200
 we would be, some

00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.819
 of us particularly

00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:47.000
 would be moved to

00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:47.740
 give our lives to

00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:48.359
 the Lord Jesus.

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 So Father, we thank

00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:51.159
 you for this time.

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 Thank you for each

00:26:52.659 --> 00:26:52.859
 other.

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 Be with us now as we

00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:54.980
 finish our time

00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:55.299
 together.

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 We just pray for

00:26:55.899 --> 00:26:56.139
 Reuben.

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 I thank you for him

00:26:57.019 --> 00:26:57.279
 Lord.

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 We thank you so much

00:26:58.960 --> 00:26:59.779
 for the way that

00:26:59.779 --> 00:27:00.500
 you've been at work

00:27:00.500 --> 00:27:01.259
 in his life, how

00:27:01.259 --> 00:27:02.480
 he's just come and

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.579
 given himself over

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 the last little

00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:05.059
 season to the

00:27:05.059 --> 00:27:05.699
 life of the church

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 here.

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 And may today be a

00:27:07.179 --> 00:27:08.839
 special one, particularly

00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:09.399
 for him.

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 So Lord, thank you

00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:11.799
 for your love for

00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:12.079
 him.

00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:13.399
 Thank you for your

00:27:13.399 --> 00:27:14.119
 love for us.

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 And we just pray all

00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:15.939
 of these things in

00:27:15.939 --> 00:27:17.240
 Jesus' wonderful name.

00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:18.139
 Amen.