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We've all been hurt.

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We all carry scars.

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We can all overcome these things and be healed through Jesus Christ.

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Let's build that relationship together right here.

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Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Welcome back everyone and welcome to the second part of the Reluctant Leader series.

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In the introduction to this series, I mentioned a few reluctant leaders that we'll be looking

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at.

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And the first was Peter.

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We're going to take a little more of a look at him now.

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And just to be clear up front, we're looking at his beginnings and why he was such a reluctant

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leader and as much, I mean I could spend a whole lot of time so we're not going to hit

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every little thing, but we're going to go over quite a bit and some of the biggest points

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in his life that really stood out and that also we can take and see how it applies in

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our daily living as well.

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And we're going to come all the way around to see Jesus of course because when you look

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at the Bible, it all needs to go towards Jesus.

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All right, so to start, let's go to John 1 verses 35 through 42 and look at where we

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are introduced to him and some of Jesus' first disciples.

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All right, so again that's John 1 verses 35 through 42.

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Now the Bible says, starting in verse 35, the next day John was there again with two

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of his disciples.

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When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, look, the Lamb of God.

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When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

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Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, what do you want?

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They said, Rabbi, which means teacher, where are you staying?

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Come he replied and you will see.

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So they went and saw where he was staying and they spent the day with him.

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It was about four in the afternoon.

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Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who

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had followed Jesus.

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The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, we found the Messiah,

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that is the Christ, and he brought him to Jesus.

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Jesus looked at him and said, you are Simon, son of John.

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You will be called Cephas, which when translated is Peter.

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So let's break this down a bit.

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So in this passage, we see John the Baptist teaching about Jesus and pointing the way

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to him right away.

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That is John the Baptist's calling.

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That is what he did.

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When you read through and look over the life of John, prior to his birth and after he was

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born, that was his whole thing.

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He was the one to come before and point the way.

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Now the students here are Andrew, Peter's brother, and most likely John, the author

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of this book.

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Right away, they are drawn to Jesus and begin to follow him.

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So needless to say, that is some intense magnetism.

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There are not many people that can pull people into him like that.

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Now there is something important to see here.

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In verse 38, this is what the Bible says, Jesus said, what do you want?

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Now this isn't the same as asking your sister, your mom, your daughter, your girlfriend,

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or your wife what they want to eat and getting that dreaded answer, I don't know, whatever,

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I don't really want anything.

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No, Jesus was making a point here.

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It's not enough to follow Jesus.

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It's not.

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We need to make sure that we are following him for the right reasons.

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You can't just follow him for your own personal reasons.

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That's basically putting him in the back seat and just bringing him along for the ride.

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So we all need to ask ourselves, are we looking for his glory or are we looking for our own?

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Because if we're only looking to build ourselves up, if we're only looking out for our own

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good, we need to do some evaluation and we need to make some changes.

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Because the Bible tells us that those who are looking to save their own life will lose

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it, but those who give their life up for Jesus will be saved.

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So continuing on, so in verses 40 through 41, we see that after spending a good part

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of the day with Jesus, Andrew, he absolutely believes what John the Baptist had to say

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about Jesus.

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So much so that he had to go and get his brother Simon right away.

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Now these guys all believed and they verbally said as much, we see it in the Bible, but

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it would be much later and through their own personal experiences that they would truly

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understand Jesus.

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This can be seen in Acts chapter 2.

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You see, it's real easy to talk the talk, real easy.

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Now you can say you believe and anybody can say I believe, but it takes time and living

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by faith to grow in a relationship and truly appreciate who Jesus is.

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It is a relationship and just like any relationship, this develops over time.

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Any relationship that you've ever had, that anybody has ever had, has a beginning where

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things start off and you think okay this is good, but then you think about it and that

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relationship grows, it evolves, it changes.

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The passion that you have for someone, the love for someone, it grows and it grows deeper

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and it takes time to get there.

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Now I also just want to make a side note here.

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Andrew wasn't just a believer here, alright?

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The Bible tells us, he was really eager to introduce others to Jesus and that's passion.

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Think about it this way, how many people do you know that have spoken to you about Jesus?

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Or flip that around.

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How many people do you know that you've gone and talked to about Jesus?

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But when we look at Andrew here, like he was running out the doors, oh I got to tell people,

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people need to know about this.

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I hate to make the comparison as a little kid with a new toy, wanting to show off his

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new toy, but it's that same kind of passion, the same kind of fire.

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He's like hey, I've met the Messiah.

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You've got to come and meet him.

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This is wonderful and that's the passion we should all carry with us.

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Now the Bible continues on in verse 42, this is where we finally see Peter coming into

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the picture, but you'll notice he goes by a different name.

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He goes by Simon.

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Jesus knows this and gives him a new name, Cephas, which translates to Peter in Greek

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and means rock.

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So long before Dwayne Johnson took on that name, that moniker of being the rock, Peter,

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aka Simon Peter, was the original.

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That's the OG right there, okay?

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Jesus not only saw him for who he was at this time, which certainly was not a rock, he was

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about as far from it as he could possibly get.

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However, he saw the man he would become.

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By giving him this new name, he was already starting to introduce a change into who Peter

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was and this is a change that would need to be had for later on, okay?

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Just like a relationship, like I said, we're constantly growing and we're changing as individuals.

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Now from here, take your Bible and turn to Matthew chapter 4 and we're going to be looking

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at verses 18 through 22 and this could tell us a little bit more about who Peter is.

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So again, that's Matthew chapter 4 and we're going to pick this up at verse 18.

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The Bible says, as Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon,

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called Peter, and his brother Andrew.

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They were casting the net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

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Come, follow me, Jesus said, and I will send you out to fish for people, depending on your

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translation it might say send you out to fish for men, all right?

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At once they left their nets and followed him.

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Going on from there, he saw two brothers, James, son of Zebedee, and his brother John.

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They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets.

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Jesus called them and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

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So Peter and his brother Andrew, they were fishermen.

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That was their trade, that was their career.

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This was a common one and it was a good one to have at that time too, all right?

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Now to give you an idea, in those days, looking at the Sea of Galilee, it was so large that

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there were around 30 fishing towns around it.

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That's pretty big, that's pretty impressive.

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It was so big that there were around 30 fishing towns around it.

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Now of course this being a trade and that many fishing towns, there's probably some

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good competition too, but that just tells you how good it was, all right?

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Now in verse 19, underline this or highlight it.

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If you're taking notes, this is a good note to take, all right?

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So the first thing Jesus says at this point, the Bible says, come, follow me.

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He's officially telling Peter he's now one of his, all right?

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This is the beginning for Peter as a disciple.

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And what does he and his brother Andrew do?

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They dropped everything.

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They dropped everything to follow Jesus.

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Think about it.

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Here's a couple of guys with a good job, not just a career, and they just up and leave

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because of one man, one man.

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I don't know many, if any, who would do that.

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Even say, you're staying in your career and you're looking at going to another employer

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that, it's still the career, but it's a different employer.

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Even something like that is a conversation.

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If you're staying with your own employer, but looking at another position even, that

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still warrants a nice conversation at home with your loved ones.

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So to just drop everything and to walk off like that, that is incredible.

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You don't see that very much today.

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And this is not the same as just like, oh, I'm quitting my job.

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I'm tired of it.

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I want to find something else to do and leave it without a plan.

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But that's exactly what happened here.

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Why?

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Well, the Bible tells us Jesus was calling them away from a productive career to be a

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part of something bigger, to be productive spiritually.

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And just like Peter and Andrew, we need to realize we're part of a much bigger picture.

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And just like them, we need to share the gospel.

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We need to share Jesus, our testimony, what he's done in our lives.

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We need to draw people in around us, bring them in close, just like fishermen who are

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pulling fish into their boats with their nets.

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It warrants a sermon for another time because it's something I could spend a lot of time

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on.

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But going out and pulling people in like this and sharing that gospel, that's what we call

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answering the great commission, which is something we're all called to.

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So now that we know Peter's beginnings, let's turn to Matthew chapter 14.

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And we're going to look at verses 25 through 42.

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So Matthew chapter 14, and we're picking it up in verse 25.

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And the Bible says, shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.

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When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified.

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It's a ghost, they said, and they cried out fear.

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Jesus immediately said to them, take courage.

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It is I.

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Don't be afraid.

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Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell me to come to you on the water.

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Come, he said.

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Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

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But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink, cried out, Lord, save me.

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Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.

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You of little faith, he said.

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Why did you doubt?

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When they climbed into the boat, the wind died down.

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Now, there's a lot going in here.

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There's a lot to digest.

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We're seeing a miracle at play here and we're seeing a whole lot of things.

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This passage tells us about Jesus walking on the water, which defines all logic.

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That in itself is a miracle.

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Nobody else could do this.

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Peter had doubts.

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The Bible tells us this in verse 28.

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He had enough faith to get out of the boat and start walking towards him, but for whatever

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reason he decided to take his eyes off of Jesus and suddenly found his focus shifting

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from the miracle that's in play in front of him.

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Not only is Jesus walking on the water here, but he's walking on the water.

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I don't know about you, but if I'm walking on water, holy cow, this is amazing.

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But no, he took his eyes off of what was going on and he focused on the world.

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When he lost sight of what God was doing before his very eyes, his focus shifted so that the

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only thing he saw is what was going on in the world around him.

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So he sank.

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For us, it's the same.

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That's how it is.

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We have faith.

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When things are going well, things are going great, we throw up that praise and it is so

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easy.

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Hallelujah.

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But when things get rough and things get tough, our focus shifts and we lose the focus that

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we should have.

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We start to drown in that very sea that we're standing in.

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We sink like the rock when he lost sight.

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So we know he had doubts in his mind just like we do today.

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There is not a person out there that does not have doubt in their life.

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And doubt is treacherous.

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It is treacherous.

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Think of it this way.

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You have that boat and you might have heard, most likely you've heard this analogy before,

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but you have that boat and it's sitting out there and it's in the water.

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And does it sink?

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No, it floats.

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It floats until something happens, until that water starts building up inside.

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And as that water builds up more and more, that boat starts to sink a little more and

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a little more until it finally comes down where it's completely enveloped by the water

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and then it sinks and it drops like a rock.

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And that's what happens to all of us.

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That's what doubt does to all of us.

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Alright, now from here we're going to flip over to Matthew chapter 16, so just a little

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further back.

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And we're going to take a look at verses 21 through 28.

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This is where things really, really start to get heated and passionate for Peter.

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So Matthew 16, and we're going to pick it up in verse 21 and the Bible says,

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From that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem

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and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers

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of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

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Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

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Never, Lord, he said, this shall never happen to you.

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Jesus turned to Peter and said, Get behind me, Satan, you are a stumbling block to me.

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You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.

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Then Jesus said to his disciples, Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves

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and take up their cross and follow me.

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For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for

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me will find it.

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What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world yet forfeit their soul?

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And what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

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For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then

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he will reward each person according to what they have done.

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Truly, I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son

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of Man coming in his kingdom.

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Wow, that's intense.

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When Jesus predicted his own death, Peter, he wanted to protect him.

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That's really what it is.

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Peter wanted to protect him.

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And we see that in verse 22.

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Peter wanted to protect Jesus, rebukes what he was saying.

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Now, Peter, while recognizing the Messiah, missed God's point of view.

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He was looking at the situation as a human looking at another human, as if Jesus was

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just another man.

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He didn't have his eyes on the picture properly.

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And since he wasn't looking at everything with God there, he wasn't looking at it as

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if God was in the picture, that's where he made his big mistake.

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So in verse 23, this is where the Bible says, Jesus said, get behind me, Satan.

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Those are pretty harsh words.

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Now, you think of some of the nasty things you could say to somebody?

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And this is coming from the Messiah and he says, get behind me, Satan.

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That's intense.

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That's an emotion.

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Could you say that Jesus was a little angry?

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Absolutely.

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So why would Jesus say this?

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Well, if you look at the Bible, the Bible tells us when he was tempted in the wilderness,

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one of the things that Satan told Jesus was that he could achieve great things without

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dying.

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And since Peter was looking at everything here from a purely human perspective, he essentially

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reiterated this same thing.

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This same thing.

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You see, Satan wants us to leave God out of our lives.

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So we have to be careful to make sure that we incorporate God into every aspect of our

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life to ensure that we don't fall into that same trap.

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All right?

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Because as I said, Peter reiterated the same thing that Satan had said.

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That's the way of the world, not the way of the kingdom.

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All right?

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Peter was impulsive.

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He was quick to act.

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He was quick to talk, but not so much to think.

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In Matthew chapter 26 verse 51 and in John 18 verse 10, it tells us that when Jesus was

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being arrested after his betrayal, Peter drew his sword and cut the ear off of one of the

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men.

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The rock laid the smack down.

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And in Luke 22 verse 51, the Bible records that Jesus healed that man.

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He healed the victim of this attack while telling Peter that he needed to stand down.

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Hey, chill, dude.

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I got this.

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It seems to happen.

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Back off.

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How often do we act in haste?

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Think about the last time you had an argument.

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That's a really easy way to look at this.

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When things get heated, especially when we get angry, we don't think about the right

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thing.

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We don't think about doing the right thing.

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As much as we think we are, our focus shifts and we're all of a sudden more concerned about

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being right at all costs.

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That's when it gets real ugly.

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All right?

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So moving along, now we're going to see Peter's swan song.

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So I'm going to have you turn to Matthew chapter 26 verses 69 through 75.

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All right?

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Matthew chapter 26 and we're going to pick it up in verse 69.

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The Bible says, now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard and a servant girl came to

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him.

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You also were with Jesus of Galilee, she said, but he denied it before the mall.

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I don't know what you're talking about, he said.

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Then he went out to the gateway where there was another servant girl who saw him and said

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to the people there, this fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.

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He denied it again with an oath.

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I don't know the man.

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After a while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, surely you're one of them,

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your accent gives you a way.

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Then he began to call down curses and he swore to them, I don't know the man.

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Immediately a rooster crowed.

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Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, before the rooster crows, you will disown

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me three times.

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Then he went outside and wept bitterly.

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He wept bitterly.

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Jesus had been taken, he's in his last hours and the disciples are kind of scattered here

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and there.

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Peter is being confronted about knowing Jesus.

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What we see here, what the Bible tells us is he denied it three times and in three different

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ways.

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First, he acted like he didn't know what they were talking about.

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The second time he used an oath and the third time he cursed and swore he didn't know Jesus.

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He pretended he didn't know him at all.

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As soon as a rooster crowed, things came full circle.

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He remembered what Jesus had predicted he would do and he cried.

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He knew he messed up and he cried.

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We're not talking like a few tears, we're talking sobbing, we're talking full on ugly

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crying.

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Think about the conversations you've had in your life.

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Have you ever found yourself veering away from talking about Jesus?

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Maybe even joking about him.

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I've known a guy for years, he's a non-believer, and for years he used it as a joke.

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Jesus loves you.

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I'm telling you, stop.

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You may very well be on a path to disowning Jesus.

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It's a very slippery slope.

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It's a dangerous place to be.

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This right here, this is where the illusory truth effect falls in.

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If you're not familiar with what the illusory truth effect is, simply put, it's you say

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something enough, eventually you start to believe it.

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Don't risk that.

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Don't risk that.

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From a rocky start, we can see why Peter was such a reluctant leader.

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He was stuck and trying to figure things out.

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He was leaning on his own understanding though, and not leaning on the Lord.

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He wasn't leaning on God.

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It wasn't until after all this had happened, the crucifixion, the resurrection, that things

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became full circle for him, so he could become the rock that Jesus saw him to be.

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You see, we compare ourselves to others, and what the world says about us, what the world

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says we should be, instead of who God says we are, and what God says we can do.

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John chapter 21 verses 15 through 22, the Bible tells us the last interaction that Peter

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had with Jesus.

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Really, this is a wonderful, wonderful chapter altogether, but for time's sake, I'm not

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going to read the whole thing.

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Actually, Peter at this point, he realized he messed up.

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He saw himself as a failure.

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He's like, that's it.

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I'm done.

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I don't know what to do anymore.

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I guess I'm just going to go back to being a fisherman, because that's all I'm worth.

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If that, I'm not even necessarily worth that.

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When Jesus came out, and the resurrection and everything had happened, and pulls him

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in and makes him a meal, and he challenges him, and he challenges him in a way that finishes

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removing his denial and sets him on the course to serve.

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If you recall, at the beginning of all this, when he changed his name, when Jesus changed

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Peter's name, it was to start introducing that change into him, to help him start coming

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full circle, because he knew that there wasn't a lot of time and things needed to change.

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Then here, I said, that final conversation, Jesus asked him, not once, not twice, three

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times, do you love me?

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He's like, yes.

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Jesus told him, feed my lambs.

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Do you love me?

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Yes, Lord, you know I love you.

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Take care of my sheep.

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Then the third time, do you love me?

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At this point, Peter was getting pretty hurt.

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Jesus asked him, do you love me?

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He's like, Lord, of all things, you know all things.

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You know that I love you.

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He said, feed my sheep.

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Feed my sheep.

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This is what needed to happen.

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Now, you think about that.

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How many times did Jesus ask him, do you love me?

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How many times did Peter deny Jesus?

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Part of me wants to say, and this is just me personally, but that there's a reason that

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three times, there's a little bit of a parallel for me.

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Three times.

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This is what needed to happen so that that change could finally take effect and he could

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go and serve.

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I know he went on and served.

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I want you to take notice though of the very last thing that Jesus tells Peter.

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If you recall, I told you to highlight or underline or make a note of something at the

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beginning of all this.

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Back in Matthew chapter four verse 19, the first thing Jesus said to Peter as a disciple

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and the last thing was the same as what we see in John 21 verse 22.

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In both instances, the Bible says, follow me.

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Follow me.

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This is not just a charge to Peter.

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It is to all of us.

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All of us.

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Don't let doubt, don't let haste, don't let emotions or anything else take your focus

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off of Jesus.

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To keep with the old idiom, you got to keep your eye on the ball.

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Jesus is the ball.

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Don't take your eye off of it because you're going to miss out on so much when you start

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focusing on the world.

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I recently saw a meme and it struck home because I think it applies here.

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That which gets between me and the Bible is my enemy and it absolutely is.

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Thank you for tuning in to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Sanctuary or you can visit our website at BeTheLightSanctuary.org.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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We'll catch you next time.

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God bless.