WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.640 Hello, you are listening to Second City Sermons, 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.700 a ministry of Second City Church in Midtown Harrisburg. 00:00:06.339 --> 00:00:08.240 It's our hope that these sermons will draw you 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.660 more into the life of following God, Father, 00:00:10.820 --> 00:00:13.640 Son and Holy Spirit. Please consider coming and 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:15.800 joining with us each Sunday morning at 10 a .m. 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:18.280 in the heart of Midtown Harrisburg. You can find 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:21.839 us online at secondcitychurch .org and on Facebook, 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:24.519 Instagram and YouTube. We hope you enjoy this 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:29.379 sermon. God bless. Lord, thank you for this beautiful 00:00:29.379 --> 00:00:32.920 passage at the end of John and thank you for 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.420 your interaction with your disciples and thank 00:00:35.420 --> 00:00:37.240 you for how you are teaching us even this morning 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:38.979 through that. God, I pray that you would do that. 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:45.780 You'd use me, Lord, stumbling as I so often do. 00:00:45.820 --> 00:00:48.020 Lord, use me for the blessing of our congregation 00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:50.740 that we would be drawn more and more into the 00:00:50.740 --> 00:00:52.579 life of Christ and reflect more and more the 00:00:52.579 --> 00:00:55.380 beauty of the good news of what you've done in 00:00:55.380 --> 00:01:00.969 Jesus. In his name we pray. Amen. Again, I want 00:01:00.969 --> 00:01:02.950 to say good morning and that it's good to be 00:01:02.950 --> 00:01:05.510 with you. We, Elise and I were away last week 00:01:05.510 --> 00:01:07.909 at a good friend's wedding in Kentucky and we 00:01:07.909 --> 00:01:10.269 both remarked to each other how much we love 00:01:10.269 --> 00:01:13.150 being in the house of the Lord. We did actually 00:01:13.150 --> 00:01:17.450 get to watch. with you last week as we were making 00:01:17.450 --> 00:01:19.650 our way home. And I know John mentioned this 00:01:19.650 --> 00:01:21.209 last week, but I'll just reiterate, I'm really 00:01:21.209 --> 00:01:23.069 grateful, particularly to Tim, but to others 00:01:23.069 --> 00:01:24.930 of you who make sound and video and stuff like 00:01:24.930 --> 00:01:27.269 that happen here. I think sometimes those are 00:01:27.269 --> 00:01:29.129 overlooked roles, but they're very important. 00:01:29.530 --> 00:01:31.430 And I know many others are grateful for them. 00:01:33.010 --> 00:01:36.930 I hope you, if you were not here last week, I 00:01:36.930 --> 00:01:40.590 hope you heard Jed's sermon. Jed, thank you for 00:01:40.590 --> 00:01:43.939 your sermon. It was insightful. It was sometimes 00:01:43.939 --> 00:01:46.900 very funny. I particularly liked Juliana's response 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:51.200 to the question. Good job. At the beginning of 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.459 the sermon. And if you actually have not heard 00:01:54.459 --> 00:01:56.319 it, you can find that on our podcast. You can 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.239 watch it on YouTube. I really honestly, you should 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:01.500 check it out. It was a blessing. Anyway, this 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:04.719 Easter tide apart from our Mother's Day sermon. 00:02:06.410 --> 00:02:08.229 little deviation from our series. What we're 00:02:08.229 --> 00:02:09.750 doing is we're looking at some of the narratives 00:02:09.750 --> 00:02:12.689 of Jesus with his disciples after the resurrection. 00:02:13.189 --> 00:02:14.789 And what I'm hoping that we're doing together 00:02:14.789 --> 00:02:16.830 is we're saying, what does it mean to be a people 00:02:16.830 --> 00:02:19.550 who live in light of the resurrected Christ? 00:02:19.629 --> 00:02:22.169 What God has done in conquering Satan's sin and 00:02:22.169 --> 00:02:24.370 death through the resurrection. And so we saw 00:02:24.370 --> 00:02:26.569 in Luke chapter 24, a few weeks ago, that we're 00:02:26.569 --> 00:02:29.289 people of the word. We receive the questioning 00:02:29.289 --> 00:02:32.069 words of God primarily to us. I mentioned how 00:02:32.069 --> 00:02:34.430 often it is that God questions us in the scriptures. 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:36.879 We often approach God like we're the ones. They're 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:38.460 putting him on the dock, but actually he's the 00:02:38.460 --> 00:02:41.620 one that is questioning us so often. We receive 00:02:41.620 --> 00:02:43.460 the given word of scripture and the broken word 00:02:43.460 --> 00:02:47.780 of his body. And what we saw actually in this 00:02:47.780 --> 00:02:49.979 is that in these acts of receiving the word, 00:02:50.219 --> 00:02:54.180 the Lord actually changes our hope, right? And 00:02:54.180 --> 00:02:59.270 he changes our despair and brings us hope. Then 00:02:59.270 --> 00:03:02.669 we saw in John chapter 20 that the resurrected 00:03:02.669 --> 00:03:05.750 Christ meets his disciples in the room that is 00:03:05.750 --> 00:03:09.430 twice said to be locked. They were full of fear. 00:03:10.110 --> 00:03:13.189 And then we have the doubting that's taking place 00:03:13.189 --> 00:03:15.050 and Jesus meets them in their fear and their 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:17.169 doubt and he actually restores them and gives 00:03:17.169 --> 00:03:19.990 them belief. And he transforms this community 00:03:19.990 --> 00:03:22.509 and that's what we're hoping for ourselves. Okay, 00:03:22.509 --> 00:03:25.509 so today we have a really long passage. Thankfully 00:03:25.509 --> 00:03:27.909 Gordon did a... dramatic reading of it in a way, 00:03:27.930 --> 00:03:31.789 and it kept you engaged. But it's a long passage, 00:03:31.909 --> 00:03:34.530 it's all of the chapter, and you have probably 00:03:34.530 --> 00:03:36.310 heard sermons from different snippets of this 00:03:36.310 --> 00:03:38.349 chapter because they warrant their own sermon, 00:03:38.389 --> 00:03:39.930 but we're going to be taking it all together. 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:44.789 And what I am hoping that you see is that in 00:03:44.789 --> 00:03:47.669 light of the cross and the resurrection, we are 00:03:47.669 --> 00:03:51.110 a re -storied people. The stories we tell about 00:03:51.110 --> 00:03:52.530 ourselves and the stories that are rightly told 00:03:52.530 --> 00:03:53.930 about us are actually changed in light of the 00:03:53.930 --> 00:03:56.759 resurrection. because we are restored people 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:58.759 in light of what God has done in Christ, okay? 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.099 Before we get into that, I want to tell you, 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.360 I want to actually read you a little bit of a 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.479 book that Lily and James and I have been reading. 00:04:07.060 --> 00:04:09.159 Some of you are familiar maybe with Andrew Peterson's 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.280 books, The Wingfeather Saga. It would take too 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.539 long for me to give you all of the detail that 00:04:15.539 --> 00:04:18.680 would make this quote better. So I'm just going 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.959 to read it to you. As you might imagine though, 00:04:22.060 --> 00:04:23.800 this story is like lots of epic stories, which 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.379 means that it has love and betrayal and envy. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.019 And all the things that make up real human life 00:04:31.019 --> 00:04:34.939 hurt. Vying for attention from others, putting 00:04:34.939 --> 00:04:38.240 others down, putting yourself first. These kinds 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:44.540 of things. Shame and guilt. Hurt. So here is 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:48.899 part of the book, North or Be Eatin'. So tell 00:04:48.899 --> 00:04:51.279 us the story, lad," said Poto, the grandfather 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.860 figure. What happened? All eyes turned to Janer. 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.600 He knew this was coming. He'd always loved Poto's 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:00.399 stories and dreamed of the day he would have 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.740 his own, but now that he had a story to tell, 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.699 he found the telling was difficult. So much had 00:05:06.699 --> 00:05:11.079 happened. How could he tell it all? He was afraid 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.600 to relive parts of it and was ashamed of others. 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:19.439 Poto nodded to him. I know it's hard lad, but 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.060 it's yours. You'll find healing in it, like it 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:27.180 or not. Start at the beginning, at Raunchy's 00:05:27.180 --> 00:05:29.379 place. What happened after I broke down the door? 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:35.199 Janer took a deep breath and began. He told them 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:38.199 all of it. He told them about his anger at Tink, 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.660 that's his brother. About the horrors of tilling 00:05:41.660 --> 00:05:43.959 court, about the awful darkness of the overseer's 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.079 box, and the peace he found there. He told them 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.120 about Sarah Cobbler and Nurgbog and Marley. They 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.339 listened with wide eyes, they asked him questions 00:05:52.339 --> 00:05:54.899 now and then, and more than once, Nia, that's 00:05:54.899 --> 00:05:57.980 his mother, Nia's eyes were brimming with tears. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.379 But what Poto had said was true. Telling the 00:06:02.379 --> 00:06:09.829 story hurt and helped all at once. Already he 00:06:09.829 --> 00:06:13.610 could see ways the story had changed him and 00:06:13.610 --> 00:06:18.170 would go on changing him. Did you hear that? 00:06:18.269 --> 00:06:22.589 Telling the story hurt and helped all at once. 00:06:24.769 --> 00:06:27.069 My guess is you've had some of those experiences 00:06:27.069 --> 00:06:31.149 in your life. That's what we find in part here 00:06:31.149 --> 00:06:34.709 in John chapter 21. Restoried people, because 00:06:34.709 --> 00:06:37.459 they have actually been restored, in what God 00:06:37.459 --> 00:06:39.339 has done in Christ. And because they've been 00:06:39.339 --> 00:06:42.319 restored in Christ, they're actually willing 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.699 to enter into the hurt and enter into the help. 00:06:46.699 --> 00:06:50.660 And good stories, they have a few traits. Good 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:54.540 stories are honest stories, and they tell a history, 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:58.160 they tell of the past in an honest way. Good 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.399 stories engage with the present, and good stories 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:03.120 actually begin to shape the future, okay? So 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.160 that's sort of gonna be our outline here. First, 00:07:06.220 --> 00:07:10.649 the honest past. past. Again, please keep your 00:07:10.649 --> 00:07:14.990 Bible open, John chapter 21. Throughout this 00:07:14.990 --> 00:07:17.370 chapter, there's a lot of echoes. The Bible does 00:07:17.370 --> 00:07:18.709 this quite a bit. That's actually part of what 00:07:18.709 --> 00:07:20.790 we're looking at in our Sunday school. How does 00:07:20.790 --> 00:07:23.949 the New Testament echo, reuse the Old Testament? 00:07:24.230 --> 00:07:25.709 But there's a lot of echoes, and some of them 00:07:25.709 --> 00:07:28.269 are really loud, and some of them are quieter, 00:07:29.569 --> 00:07:32.310 about the past of the disciples, and particularly 00:07:32.310 --> 00:07:36.079 the past of Peter, the disciple Peter. So I want 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.839 us to look at a few of them. And the first echo 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:45.980 of the past is about fishing, okay? So our chapter, 00:07:46.300 --> 00:07:49.879 it begins with listing some of the disciples 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.720 and that they're there by the sea of Tiberias. 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.040 Jesus is revealing himself to some of his disciples. 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.560 And Peter says, and again, Gordon read this pretty 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:04.740 well, I'm going fishing, okay? which seems actually 00:08:04.740 --> 00:08:07.519 rather consistent with Peter's past. He's bold. 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:12.579 He's a leader. He's sort of brash. He's in the 00:08:12.579 --> 00:08:16.639 moment living. I'm going fishing. And everybody 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.519 else goes, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll go with you. 00:08:19.019 --> 00:08:20.939 And here's what I want you to remember is that 00:08:20.939 --> 00:08:23.019 right there, you're actually supposed to be thinking 00:08:23.019 --> 00:08:25.740 back on the very beginning of these disciples 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:28.079 call and ministry to Jesus, right from the very 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.139 beginning of. of the Gospels. These were fishermen. 00:08:31.379 --> 00:08:33.159 Most of them are fishermen. At least Peter and 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.799 James and John the sons of Zebedee were fishermen. 00:08:36.899 --> 00:08:38.779 You might remember actually this winter we looked 00:08:38.779 --> 00:08:42.100 at the story of when Peter and James and John 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:44.320 the sons of Zebedee were called by our Lord to 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.919 follow him. Specifically, what we learn from 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.080 that is that this isn't just a hobby thing like, 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:52.840 hey, let's go catch some fish because it's fun 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.200 to do. This is their profession. This is what 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.440 they did for their living. And in fact, one of 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.220 the things that we noted earlier on in the year 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:01.340 was that the sons of Zebedee would have meant 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:02.980 like, you know, they left their father, it said, 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.720 in the boat, which likely means that it wasn't 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.159 just kind of, you know, their thing. It was their 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.379 family thing and their dad's thing and their 00:09:11.379 --> 00:09:13.399 grandpa's thing. And this was, this was who they 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.500 were. So it's a lot of their identity. But here 00:09:18.500 --> 00:09:22.399 in this story, they are not fishermen. They're 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.419 failed fishermen. They're failed fishermen. Some 00:09:26.419 --> 00:09:30.700 of you know how depressing it can be when you 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:33.299 go out fishing and somebody says, hey, did you 00:09:33.299 --> 00:09:36.019 catch any fish? Like Jesus does here in verse 00:09:36.019 --> 00:09:43.559 five. And you say, as Gordon said, no. It's a 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:45.860 great way of saying it. You said it, you captured 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:50.340 it perfectly. Well, if you were a professional 00:09:50.340 --> 00:09:53.840 fisherman, and your father was, and your grandfather 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.440 was, and so on, then I will tell you this, your 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:02.480 failure hurts all the more. Shame. No wonder 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.820 they actually just say one word. Let's not talk 00:10:06.820 --> 00:10:08.659 about it, because that is what we do with shame. 00:10:09.700 --> 00:10:14.259 I don't want to talk about it. No. Okay, the 00:10:14.259 --> 00:10:17.820 second echo that we have is not the echo of fishing 00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:19.779 and their fishermen and their names, which evoke 00:10:19.779 --> 00:10:21.899 us back to when Jesus first called them to himself. 00:10:22.740 --> 00:10:25.460 But actually we have this little detail, it's 00:10:25.460 --> 00:10:27.700 maybe a quiet echo, but in the context it's a 00:10:27.700 --> 00:10:31.620 loud echo of the charcoal fire. I love this detail 00:10:31.620 --> 00:10:35.220 because some of you know that I am adamant that 00:10:35.220 --> 00:10:37.659 charcoal is much better than gas and I will go 00:10:37.659 --> 00:10:42.889 to my deathbed with that conviction. And as a 00:10:42.889 --> 00:10:45.250 little plug, you should come to the picnic today. 00:10:45.409 --> 00:10:48.690 Charcoal. But I will tell you this, there are 00:10:48.690 --> 00:10:51.549 few things better than fresh -caught fish over 00:10:51.549 --> 00:10:54.309 a live fire. That's the beautiful little detail 00:10:54.309 --> 00:10:56.850 that we are given. But as wonderful as these 00:10:56.850 --> 00:10:59.309 sort of sensual details are that evoke in us 00:10:59.309 --> 00:11:01.929 memories and delight, it was actually the exact 00:11:01.929 --> 00:11:04.490 opposite that was taking place there. For Peter, 00:11:04.509 --> 00:11:07.190 this was not a fond memory. What had just taken 00:11:07.190 --> 00:11:12.799 place actually, this one word, anthracia, used 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:17.980 two times in the New Testament. Once right here, 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.259 the other time just three chapters earlier. Just 00:11:22.259 --> 00:11:27.500 three chapters earlier. There, though Peter had 00:11:27.500 --> 00:11:30.379 said he would never deny Jesus, there right next 00:11:30.379 --> 00:11:33.039 to the charcoal fire in the courtyard of the 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.419 high priest, Peter denies him three times. Which 00:11:37.419 --> 00:11:41.899 is to say that the shame of not catching any 00:11:41.899 --> 00:11:46.279 fish, is augmented by the sin of the rejection 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.960 of God, which is what sin is, rejecting, denying 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:54.000 who God is, what he's done. Let me give you a 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:59.539 third echo. If you look down at verse 15, if 00:11:59.539 --> 00:12:04.360 you look down in that paragraph, what you'll 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:10.240 notice is that three times, Jesus addresses Simon 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.620 Peter, and he addresses him not as Simon Peter, 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:17.000 but look at this, okay, verse 15, Simon son of 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:21.960 John, verse 16, he addressed, he said to him 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.519 a second time, Simon son of John, and then actually 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:29.360 verse 17, Simon son of John. Okay, small little 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:37.799 detail. But if you remember when Peter was called 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.840 to be a disciple of Jesus. When he was first 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:42.480 called, he was fishing there and Jesus says, 00:12:42.659 --> 00:12:47.159 come and I'll make you fish with men. What Jesus 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:50.000 said was, that's not going to be your name anymore. 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.639 Your name is going to be Cephas. And then actually 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.539 the gospel writer says, which means Peter, which 00:12:57.539 --> 00:13:00.720 means rock. That was at the very beginning of 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.840 the story, the very beginning of the gospel. 00:13:03.259 --> 00:13:05.700 And it's Jesus that says, this is what you're 00:13:05.700 --> 00:13:09.539 supposed to be called. But here, Jesus three 00:13:09.539 --> 00:13:12.960 times says, Simon son of John. By the way, actually 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.740 this is kind of interesting too. This is the 00:13:14.740 --> 00:13:19.480 only other time, sorry, the only other time that 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:22.220 he has said Simon son of John is when he was 00:13:22.220 --> 00:13:25.960 first called by Peter and when his name was changed. 00:13:27.740 --> 00:13:30.440 That was when his dad was mentioned and now his 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.169 dad is mentioned three times in this story. He 00:13:34.169 --> 00:13:36.730 calls him his old name, but he also names his 00:13:36.730 --> 00:13:41.789 dad along with him. If you look at the life of 00:13:41.789 --> 00:13:44.269 Peter and even the echoes that we had already 00:13:44.269 --> 00:13:46.909 seen here in the fishing failure and the sin 00:13:46.909 --> 00:13:49.429 of denying Jesus, one of the things that we actually 00:13:49.429 --> 00:13:53.070 see is that Peter rarely is a rock -like kind 00:13:53.070 --> 00:13:57.230 of figure. He's actually much more sand -like. 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:00.080 You're kind of wishy and washy and kind of being 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.000 pushed here and pushed there. Bold at one time 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.620 and cowardly at another. It's not hard to wonder 00:14:07.620 --> 00:14:09.960 why Jesus might have mentioned his dad three 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.360 times. He's kind of evoking his family story 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.779 and actually inviting him to look back on his 00:14:14.779 --> 00:14:20.600 own, right? I'm sure you know this. Your parents 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:22.720 and your primary caregiver shape you more than 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:27.090 anything, any person on this earth. The way your 00:14:27.090 --> 00:14:30.190 parents care for you or do not, or the ways they 00:14:30.190 --> 00:14:33.950 love you or they don't, or the ways they hold 00:14:33.950 --> 00:14:38.409 you or do not hold you, shapes you more than 00:14:38.409 --> 00:14:43.750 anything humanly speaking. Your father and your 00:14:43.750 --> 00:14:46.909 mother are the beginning of your story. Of course, 00:14:47.590 --> 00:14:49.970 we are not actually told much about Peter's dad, 00:14:50.350 --> 00:14:53.779 but how odd is it? that Jesus doesn't refer to 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:55.759 Peter by the name that he says he's going to 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:59.379 be referred to. And he three times here mentions 00:14:59.379 --> 00:15:05.740 his dad. We don't know much about this, John, 00:15:06.179 --> 00:15:09.720 but we do know that this is true, that Jesus 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.899 and the Lord has made the world in this way that 00:15:12.899 --> 00:15:16.039 our primary caregivers shape us. And he's inviting 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:20.700 him into this kind of thing. Okay, here's what 00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:23.720 I'm saying. As Jesus restories our lives around 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:27.039 his resurrection, you have to be honest with 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.580 your past, which is, there's three things here. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.100 You have to be honest with the shame of your 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:33.519 past, the failures. You have to be honest with 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:35.440 the sin of your past. You just have to be honest 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.620 with your stories, your family stories, your 00:15:37.620 --> 00:15:39.539 life stories, the ways that you actually don't 00:15:39.539 --> 00:15:41.259 live into the names that you're given or the 00:15:41.259 --> 00:15:43.679 ways that other people have treated you. This 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.980 is part of being honest with your past before 00:15:46.980 --> 00:15:53.320 the Lord. Think of this, okay, truly, Jesus invites 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:58.539 them to consider this in the very places where 00:15:58.539 --> 00:16:01.340 actually it might hurt most to consider this, 00:16:01.379 --> 00:16:03.559 right? Think about this, okay, he's inviting 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:05.860 them to consider their shame in the very place 00:16:05.860 --> 00:16:07.519 where they're most proficient, which is where 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.799 we feel the most shame, right? Like I said, these 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.299 people are fishermen. They knew far more than 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:15.679 I did do how to catch a fish, which isn't too 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.190 hard, but. They're the most adept. They're the 00:16:18.190 --> 00:16:20.870 most practiced. This is what they do. If there 00:16:20.870 --> 00:16:22.629 was one place where they didn't want to feel 00:16:22.629 --> 00:16:24.590 failure, it's the thing that they had done 10 00:16:24.590 --> 00:16:29.029 ,000 hours of, right? Become a master of. Think 00:16:29.029 --> 00:16:31.330 of how much our life is bound up in our professions, 00:16:31.370 --> 00:16:34.789 in our career, or how many hours we spend practicing 00:16:34.789 --> 00:16:38.250 those things. Is it any wonder, as sad as it 00:16:38.250 --> 00:16:41.409 sometimes is, that when we are asked, what do 00:16:41.409 --> 00:16:49.080 you do, we don't say things like, I go to senators 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:58.600 games. I paint. I use charcoal to smoke my pork 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:03.340 butts. I play pickleball. No, nobody's saying, 00:17:03.700 --> 00:17:06.799 what do you do? I write poetry. I'm an engineer. 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:11.299 I'm a teacher. I'm a pastor. In some ways, because 00:17:11.299 --> 00:17:13.319 that's what we devote our lives to so much. That's 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:17.769 where we find this kind of I do identity. And 00:17:17.769 --> 00:17:19.869 that's where we feel the most shame when we are 00:17:19.869 --> 00:17:23.769 failures at it. Our life is bound up in the time 00:17:23.769 --> 00:17:25.549 that we spend in these things, our parenting 00:17:25.549 --> 00:17:27.789 and all the rest, and we feel the most shame 00:17:27.789 --> 00:17:31.549 in those places. What is the place of greatest 00:17:31.549 --> 00:17:37.329 sin for Peter? No doubt for him, it was his threefold 00:17:37.329 --> 00:17:41.690 denial on the very night of our Lord's death, 00:17:42.210 --> 00:17:45.720 right? That is the sin that I guarantee loomed 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.740 large in his heart. And Jesus calls him out on 00:17:49.740 --> 00:17:51.440 that with some of the details that would have 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.920 brought up, that would have evoked in him the 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.259 very place, the very moment, the very person 00:17:56.259 --> 00:18:01.400 where he said, I do not know the man. Which is 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:03.779 to say you cannot find resurrection healing without 00:18:03.779 --> 00:18:05.799 looking at the things of your past that you would 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:11.619 most like to hide, to just forget. And of course, 00:18:11.619 --> 00:18:13.119 while we don't know the relationship that Peter 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:16.140 had with his dad, we do know that our own relationships 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:19.779 with our parents shape us into rocks or sand. 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:23.480 Rocks that can withstand much that the world 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.720 throws at us or simply sifting from one thing 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:28.940 to the next. They're some of the most formative 00:18:28.940 --> 00:18:32.920 interactions of our lives, which is also why 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:38.299 we are so reticent to engage with them. What 00:18:38.299 --> 00:18:40.200 I'm saying is that even in this story, I know 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.200 we could have taken apart these different, we 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.500 could have had a much shorter sermons here. But 00:18:45.500 --> 00:18:47.180 if you take them all together, what Jesus is 00:18:47.180 --> 00:18:50.980 inviting us to do is an honest appraisal of our 00:18:50.980 --> 00:18:53.180 past. And he's saying you cannot be a restored, 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.680 you cannot be a restored person without being 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:02.799 an honest person. Okay, an honest past. Next 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:05.359 thing I wanna say is a participatory present. 00:19:05.589 --> 00:19:08.369 Okay, Jesus restores Peter and these other disciples 00:19:08.369 --> 00:19:11.269 by being present with them in the resurrection. 00:19:13.589 --> 00:19:17.289 Now, don't hear what I'm not saying. Jesus only 00:19:17.289 --> 00:19:20.509 heals us by the cross and the resurrection. The 00:19:20.509 --> 00:19:24.490 work of Christ is finished on the cross. But 00:19:24.490 --> 00:19:27.589 he applies it to us in the present reality through 00:19:27.589 --> 00:19:29.650 the work of the Holy Spirit by being present 00:19:29.650 --> 00:19:34.180 to us. as God with us, okay? He applies it to 00:19:34.180 --> 00:19:37.839 us in the reality of the present. Okay, a couple 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:41.059 of details again here, echoes, right? And the 00:19:41.059 --> 00:19:46.460 first echo I want you to see is fish again. So 00:19:46.460 --> 00:19:49.779 they don't catch any fish. He tells them to throw 00:19:49.779 --> 00:19:54.880 their net on the other side, which is an echo. 00:19:55.269 --> 00:19:58.349 which some of you may be remembering, actually, 00:19:58.450 --> 00:20:01.009 this story in Luke chapter five, when Peter is 00:20:01.009 --> 00:20:03.950 called to be a disciple. In Luke chapter five, 00:20:03.970 --> 00:20:06.210 we're actually told that Jesus says, hey, y 'all 00:20:06.210 --> 00:20:07.470 catch any fish? No, we didn't catch any fish. 00:20:07.549 --> 00:20:10.430 He goes, go out to the deep. And there, they 00:20:10.430 --> 00:20:12.089 actually hollowed in so much, and we know it's 00:20:12.089 --> 00:20:13.490 a different story, because in Luke it says that 00:20:13.490 --> 00:20:15.170 the nets broke, and here it says the nets didn't 00:20:15.170 --> 00:20:19.490 break. Different stories, but an echo. So here's 00:20:19.490 --> 00:20:21.930 this echo of Jesus meeting their need in the 00:20:21.930 --> 00:20:23.589 present. And they're like, you know what? When 00:20:23.589 --> 00:20:26.910 Jesus was present to us then, we were failing 00:20:26.910 --> 00:20:28.769 at the thing that we should be competent in. 00:20:28.950 --> 00:20:31.269 And yet Jesus shows up and he heals us of our 00:20:31.269 --> 00:20:34.210 shame then and he does it now. So there's this 00:20:34.210 --> 00:20:38.049 present echo through fish. But interestingly, 00:20:38.569 --> 00:20:40.769 Jesus doesn't just tell them what to do. There's 00:20:40.769 --> 00:20:44.470 another little echo here around fish. Because 00:20:44.470 --> 00:20:46.690 what he's doing in the present is he's inviting 00:20:46.690 --> 00:20:50.849 them to participate in what he's doing verse 00:20:50.849 --> 00:20:55.170 9 When they got out on land they saw charcoal 00:20:55.170 --> 00:20:57.849 fire in place with fish laid out on it and bread 00:20:57.849 --> 00:21:00.890 So he had all the food there ready. He could 00:21:00.890 --> 00:21:02.950 provide he could call the fish into their net 00:21:02.950 --> 00:21:08.170 all the rest Jesus said to them bring some of 00:21:08.170 --> 00:21:14.119 the fish that you've caught He wants them to 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:16.079 bring what they have caught, even though He's 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.200 made them catch it. He says, I want you participating 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:25.779 in what I'm doing. Think of it. The detail, actually, 00:21:26.299 --> 00:21:28.599 of fish and bread, of course, would have been 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.019 evocative of one of the great stories of the 00:21:31.019 --> 00:21:35.200 Gospel of John, where Jesus takes five loaves 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:37.660 of bread and two fish, and the disciples are 00:21:37.660 --> 00:21:39.619 like, there's no way we can feed all these people. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:43.240 And he says, let this little boy's contribution 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:47.539 actually be a participation in my story of caring 00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:52.299 for others. He wants their present participation. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.640 Jesus affirms their fishing, the place of their 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:01.599 shame, even though that had been his own provision. 00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:06.440 Jesus is inviting them in the presence to be 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:11.829 with him. Okay, another detail. So I mentioned 00:22:11.829 --> 00:22:16.289 three times Jesus addresses Peter Simon son of 00:22:16.289 --> 00:22:19.630 John But then it's interesting. What does he 00:22:19.630 --> 00:22:22.450 say to him after that? The first actually changes 00:22:22.450 --> 00:22:24.930 right and some of you know that the word love 00:22:24.930 --> 00:22:27.029 is different and the word sheep can be different 00:22:27.029 --> 00:22:28.950 I think actually that there's not much to read 00:22:28.950 --> 00:22:32.170 into that partly because the text itself tells 00:22:32.170 --> 00:22:39.980 us Where is this verse? Yeah 17, Peter was grieved 00:22:39.980 --> 00:22:41.880 because he said to him a third time, do you love 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:45.160 me? So some of you might know that love is different, 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:47.940 but he summarizes it with the same word. Anyway, 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:50.299 but what's interesting is that the first time 00:22:50.299 --> 00:22:53.799 Jesus says, do you love me more than these? The 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:55.279 other two times he says, do you love me? But 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:57.519 the first time he says, do you love me more than 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:00.160 these? And I want you to think about this. How 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:03.940 often was Peter's sin, and actually the sin that 00:23:03.940 --> 00:23:07.279 led to his denial, connected to him putting himself 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:12.859 over others. This engagement with Jesus in the 00:23:12.859 --> 00:23:15.920 present moment, just the two of them having this 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.200 dialogue, participating with one another in the 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:21.420 present is naming part of what had happened in 00:23:21.420 --> 00:23:25.519 the past. When Jesus tells Peter that he will 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.779 deny him three times, right? A few chapters earlier, 00:23:29.779 --> 00:23:32.559 it was right after that that Peter said, though 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:36.670 they all fall away, Because of you, I will never 00:23:36.670 --> 00:23:41.450 fall away. Do you love me more than these? Being 00:23:41.450 --> 00:23:47.829 present as Jesus is naming his sin. Jesus says 00:23:47.829 --> 00:23:49.589 that before the cock crowed, before the night 00:23:49.589 --> 00:23:52.150 was up, Peter would deny him three times. But 00:23:52.150 --> 00:23:55.009 here, Jesus is also attentive to the threefold 00:23:55.009 --> 00:23:57.170 denial. And he says, just as you deny me three 00:23:57.170 --> 00:23:59.210 times, I need to be present with you and name 00:23:59.210 --> 00:24:02.650 each one of those and restore you each time. 00:24:04.289 --> 00:24:06.549 Which is to say that Jesus invited Peter into 00:24:06.549 --> 00:24:09.029 the dark places of his story the places of his 00:24:09.029 --> 00:24:12.390 denial the places of his sin And he names each 00:24:12.390 --> 00:24:15.089 one and he says right here in the present be 00:24:15.089 --> 00:24:19.130 present to me Participate in my redemption right 00:24:19.130 --> 00:24:27.829 here Restoring Restoring which being restored 00:24:27.829 --> 00:24:31.089 only happens when we can really name and deal 00:24:31.089 --> 00:24:35.960 and confess and receive forgiveness for our pasts. 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:37.480 It has to be named, it has to be addressed, it 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:39.799 has to be seen, it has to be named, it has to 00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:45.700 be forgiven specifically. Verse 17 tells us that 00:24:45.700 --> 00:24:48.000 Peter was grieved that Jesus asked him a third 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:51.599 time, do you love me? But here's what I want 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:53.319 to suggest to you, it's also in that grief that 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:59.259 he found healing. It's not a grief that is actually 00:24:59.259 --> 00:25:05.799 to his detriment, it's a grief to his good. He 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:08.819 says, you know all things you know, I love you 00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:10.920 Which is remarkable because he's not he's not 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:12.460 playing the comparison game anymore. And he's 00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:14.559 actually not compete He's not playing the false 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:16.740 humility game. Well, I don't know I mean, I you 00:25:16.740 --> 00:25:19.180 know, I said that before and I don't you know, 00:25:19.259 --> 00:25:21.259 this is you know I'm gonna be honest. I know 00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:26.960 I love you and you know that One more detail 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:33.279 Mentioned three times that Jesus addresses Peter 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:39.660 as Simon son of John and that he had never done 00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:42.839 that until he actually first called him to follow 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:48.480 him. And I think in part, at least, that was 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.279 inviting him to consider his past story, and 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:54.460 partly even his family past is part of his past 00:25:54.460 --> 00:26:00.119 story. But interestingly, this detail actually 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:02.779 kind of moves us into another detail that's worth 00:26:02.779 --> 00:26:07.539 considering. Here at the end of this gospel, 00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:10.720 Peter and Jesus, it seems like they're walking 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:13.019 along the edge of the Sea of Tiberius, which 00:26:13.019 --> 00:26:17.519 is the Sea of Galilee. And John is following 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:20.500 them, the disciple whom Jesus loved. And Peter 00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:23.960 goes, Lord, what about this guy? What about this 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:30.079 guy? What about John? And what does Jesus say? 00:26:32.059 --> 00:26:34.079 He doesn't say, well, let me tell you all about 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:40.339 that guy. Instead, he says, what's that to you? 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:45.519 Do you have to say it that way? Seems a little 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.380 rude, but actually what he says is, you follow 00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:56.140 me. Which is to say, so often we begin to engage 00:26:56.140 --> 00:26:57.880 our stories and we actually get caught up in 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:03.279 others, right? He says, hey, Simon's son of John, 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:04.660 he says this three times, he says, you've got 00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:06.799 to consider this honest reckoning with your past. 00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:08.920 And so often when we do that, we go, how will 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:13.599 we start comparing with others? And I'll be honest, 00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:16.279 this is the part I think where I felt particularly 00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:19.920 convicted, because I often wonder what Jesus 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:23.440 is doing in others, how I wish he was going to 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:25.920 do that in me, or how my story was more like 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:31.190 theirs, how I grew at the same... rate, height 00:27:31.190 --> 00:27:33.890 -wise to be honest at times, or just spiritually. 00:27:35.750 --> 00:27:40.869 My life took different turns than it did. How 00:27:40.869 --> 00:27:42.529 easy it is just to look at others and go, what 00:27:42.529 --> 00:27:44.630 about this guy? What's his story going to be? 00:27:45.549 --> 00:27:51.210 Can mine maybe be more like his? I mean, we know 00:27:51.210 --> 00:27:55.170 that John lived to an old age. Granted, he was 00:27:55.170 --> 00:27:58.190 imprisoned at points, but you know how this goes. 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:04.119 I wonder how their family is. For me as a pastor, 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:08.900 I wonder what that church is like. This is a 00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:11.200 great theme in the Narnia books. I know some 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.299 of you know them well and love them. It's one 00:28:14.299 --> 00:28:15.960 of the great themes really. One of my favorite 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:18.539 stories of the Narnia books is the horse and 00:28:18.539 --> 00:28:21.299 his boy. Some of you are familiar with that book. 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:23.480 And near the end, one of the main characters, 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.339 a girl named Erevis, is with Aslan, the Christ 00:28:26.339 --> 00:28:29.460 -like character, the lion there. And she asks, 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:34.359 Aslan about this other girl. And she says, you 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:38.660 know, what about her? And he says, child, I am 00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:44.140 telling you your story, not hers. No one is told 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:51.359 any story but their own. No one's told any story 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:58.079 but their own. Jesus, of course, he's God. He 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.400 knows the transformative work happens by being 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:07.000 present with him in the moment. And Jesus is 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.640 present here with Peter. And in the moment, what 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:13.660 happens is that Peter says, wait, Jesus, let's 00:29:13.660 --> 00:29:17.359 move on from this. I'm feeling a little uneasy 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:20.200 with you calling out my shame and my sin and 00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:23.420 inviting me into looking at my past. Can't we 00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:25.420 move on to talking about John for a little while? 00:29:26.829 --> 00:29:29.569 And he says, no, if you would receive my restoration, 00:29:29.990 --> 00:29:33.910 my healing, you must actually engage with you 00:29:33.910 --> 00:29:40.630 and me. No one's told any other story but their 00:29:40.630 --> 00:29:44.309 own. Okay, we've seen an honest past, a participatory 00:29:44.309 --> 00:29:49.029 present. Just quickly, a cruciform future. So 00:29:49.029 --> 00:29:51.390 if you look down with me at verses 18 and 19, 00:29:52.890 --> 00:29:56.230 that's on the bottom of page 1078, 18. truly 00:29:56.230 --> 00:29:59.450 truly which is the word amen by the way amen 00:29:59.450 --> 00:30:03.130 amen i say to you when you were young you used 00:30:03.130 --> 00:30:05.390 to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted 00:30:05.390 --> 00:30:09.089 but when you are old you will stretch out your 00:30:09.089 --> 00:30:11.490 hands and another will dress you and carry you 00:30:11.490 --> 00:30:16.529 where you do not want to go verse 19 because 00:30:16.529 --> 00:30:19.569 by the way this is an enigmatic kind of prophecy 00:30:19.569 --> 00:30:22.809 john tells us what's going on This he said to 00:30:22.809 --> 00:30:25.710 show by what kind of death he was to glorify 00:30:25.710 --> 00:30:30.829 God. And after saying this, he said to him, follow 00:30:30.829 --> 00:30:35.269 me. So John tells us that this is how Peter would 00:30:35.269 --> 00:30:38.109 die. And the consistent story of the church is 00:30:38.109 --> 00:30:40.450 that Peter did die, actually most likely in the 00:30:40.450 --> 00:30:43.369 late 50s, early 60s, in Nero's persecution of 00:30:43.369 --> 00:30:47.589 the Christians in Rome. And he died on a cross, 00:30:48.009 --> 00:30:51.029 upside down. His hands were stretched out, and 00:30:51.029 --> 00:30:53.230 he went to his death, which he did not want to 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:57.430 go to. I want you to hear this this morning. 00:30:58.250 --> 00:31:00.789 At the end of John chapter 13—this is also another 00:31:00.789 --> 00:31:04.250 echo, by the way—which is the story of the first 00:31:04.250 --> 00:31:06.750 Monday Thursday, Jesus with his disciples up 00:31:06.750 --> 00:31:09.250 in the upper room, which is the same night that 00:31:09.250 --> 00:31:12.569 Peter betrays Jesus three times. In that chapter 00:31:12.569 --> 00:31:15.829 at the end, we read this. Simon Peter said to 00:31:15.829 --> 00:31:20.640 him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:24.579 him, where I'm going, you cannot follow me now, 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:32.559 but you will follow afterward. Peter said to 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:35.119 him, Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will 00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.559 lay down my life for you. Jesus answered him, 00:31:37.660 --> 00:31:39.519 will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, 00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:42.900 amen, amen. I say to you, the rooster will not 00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:45.420 crow until you've denied me three times." It's 00:31:45.420 --> 00:31:47.759 interesting. This is just a few nights before 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.259 this event, you know, the resurrected Christ 00:31:50.259 --> 00:31:53.420 event. And he says, I'm going to go with you. 00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:55.859 And he says, you cannot go with me, but you will. 00:31:58.099 --> 00:32:01.039 Which is to say that Jesus told him that he can't 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.559 go with him, but he's going to after an event. 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:07.019 And that event is the cross, the resurrection, 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:09.779 but it's even more this right here, this story. 00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:13.440 Because it's this when he says again, the last 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.200 time he said amen, amen was right there to Peter. 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:18.279 Now he says again, amen, amen. He says, you are 00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:21.039 gonna follow me. You're gonna follow me and you 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:26.160 are going to be like me. And why? Why are you 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:29.559 gonna take on this cruciform, Christ -iform kind 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:34.680 of life? Because your story has been restored 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:40.759 by mine. You've been restored. I've engaged with 00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:44.599 your life in a way, in the past and in the present, 00:32:45.339 --> 00:32:48.480 that your future life is an imitation of mine. 00:32:51.819 --> 00:32:54.380 That, brothers and sisters, is what we are called 00:32:54.380 --> 00:33:01.039 to in Christ. What I've been inviting us into 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:02.880 is just to say, what does it mean to be a resurrection 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:04.839 people? What does it mean to be people of the 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:06.579 cross and the resurrection? What does it mean 00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:10.880 to be the church? And part of what it means is 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:12.920 people that are honest with our past, our sin, 00:33:13.019 --> 00:33:15.400 our shame, and our families, and how we don't 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.099 live up to our names and our professions and 00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:19.900 all this kind of stuff, to be present with Jesus 00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:22.339 and the Holy Spirit in the moment when we want 00:33:22.339 --> 00:33:27.359 to say, what about that guy? And as we do this, 00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:35.500 we will become like our Lord. Amen? Amen. Amen. 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:40.019 Lord, do this in us. for our good, for the glory 00:33:40.019 --> 00:33:44.900 of your name, that the wonder of Jesus would 00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:50.759 be known. In His name we pray. Amen. 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