WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960 There is a show right now on Apple TV. It's called 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:12.240 Severance. And the premise is simple, even if 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:17.280 it's a little bit disturbing. A company offers 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.399 this procedure called Severance. It surgically 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:26.660 splits your consciousness into two selves. One 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:30.800 that lives at work, and the other that lives 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:35.280 outside of work. Now, neither of these lives 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:39.000 knows what the other one does, right? The work 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.880 you exists only in the office, and the home you 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:48.840 has no idea what happens in the office. So there's 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.359 one body, right? But two lives, depending on 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:58.229 where you are, you're completely severed. At 00:00:58.229 --> 00:01:01.990 first, the characters, I mean, this seems like 00:01:01.990 --> 00:01:06.370 a dream come true, right? No work stress follows 00:01:06.370 --> 00:01:11.170 you home, and none of your home problems haunt 00:01:11.170 --> 00:01:14.849 you when you're at your desk. But then things 00:01:14.849 --> 00:01:21.150 start to unravel. Because, as it turns out, you 00:01:21.150 --> 00:01:26.120 cannot... split someone's soul without consequences. 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:31.680 You can't divide a person without pain. And so 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:37.299 eventually, both persons start asking this question. 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:47.819 Who am I? Really? What have I become? Today on 00:01:47.819 --> 00:01:49.920 Good Friday, I want to talk about severance. 00:01:50.569 --> 00:01:53.090 I don't want to talk about the TV show severance. 00:01:53.109 --> 00:01:57.170 I want to talk about real life severance. Our 00:01:57.170 --> 00:02:02.750 own tendency to live double lives, to sever the 00:02:02.750 --> 00:02:06.189 person we are in one situation from a person 00:02:06.189 --> 00:02:09.830 we are in another situation. And if we're honest, 00:02:10.069 --> 00:02:14.590 come on, we know we do this all the time and 00:02:14.590 --> 00:02:18.870 there's no surgical procedure required. The person 00:02:18.870 --> 00:02:22.069 I am at home, is not the person I am at work. 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:24.969 The person I am with friends is different than 00:02:24.969 --> 00:02:28.229 the one at church. The person I am on Sunday 00:02:28.229 --> 00:02:29.949 is different than the person I am on Monday, 00:02:30.050 --> 00:02:32.689 and the way I am in a group of people is way 00:02:32.689 --> 00:02:35.909 different than how I am when I'm alone. The way 00:02:35.909 --> 00:02:40.150 I am online is way different than the person 00:02:40.150 --> 00:02:45.710 I am in person. I say, for example, I believe 00:02:45.710 --> 00:02:48.870 in forgiveness, but in reality, I'm ruthless. 00:02:49.689 --> 00:02:53.389 I follow Jesus, I say, but in reality, I just 00:02:53.389 --> 00:02:58.169 follow the crowd. I say I trust God, but I still 00:02:58.169 --> 00:03:01.610 try to control absolutely everything. There is 00:03:01.610 --> 00:03:04.969 the me over here who prays, and then there's 00:03:04.969 --> 00:03:08.870 the me that pretends. There is the me that says, 00:03:08.990 --> 00:03:12.509 you know, I'll make a promise, I'll keep my promise, 00:03:12.610 --> 00:03:15.629 and then there's the me who breaks those promises. 00:03:16.939 --> 00:03:21.120 So yes, if we're honest, we are all severed. 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.219 We seamlessly move from one version of ourself 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:28.060 to another, and it just depends on the situation. 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:33.659 We're not proud of it, but why do we do it? And 00:03:33.659 --> 00:03:38.319 at what cost? Today we're going to look briefly 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.240 at a man who tried to live two lives. His name 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.060 was Peter. And just like anyone who tries to 00:03:46.060 --> 00:03:50.900 live a severed existence, it tore his life apart. 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.479 You see, there was one version of Peter who made 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.979 a powerful promise to Jesus on the night he was 00:03:56.979 --> 00:03:59.740 arrested. Peter said, Jesus, even if I have to 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:02.379 die with you, I will never deny you. That was 00:04:02.379 --> 00:04:06.180 one version of Peter. But then just hours later, 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:11.199 another Peter showed up. After Jesus was arrested, 00:04:11.379 --> 00:04:15.120 this Peter, Stood by a fire and told a bunch 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.759 of onlookers that he had no idea who Jesus was. 00:04:17.860 --> 00:04:23.259 I do not know the man. Three times. This is the 00:04:23.259 --> 00:04:28.480 same person. Only severed. Right? There is faithful 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.740 Peter who wants one thing and fearful Peter who 00:04:31.740 --> 00:04:34.720 wants another thing. Faithful Peter wants to 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:39.339 be brave. Fearful Peter wants to be safe. Faithful 00:04:39.339 --> 00:04:43.980 Peter wants to live for Christ. But fearful Peter 00:04:43.980 --> 00:04:50.459 wants to live in comfort. Fractured Peter is 00:04:50.459 --> 00:04:54.800 the result. It is really hard to live a severed 00:04:54.800 --> 00:05:00.379 life. In the TV show, one character actually 00:05:00.379 --> 00:05:04.759 describes her severed existence as torture, and 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:08.009 Peter would agree. When the rooster crowed and 00:05:08.009 --> 00:05:10.750 Peter realized this severed existence that he 00:05:10.750 --> 00:05:13.550 was living, we are told he went out and wept 00:05:13.550 --> 00:05:17.569 bitterly. Not just wept, he wept bitterly. He 00:05:17.569 --> 00:05:22.310 was absolutely broken in the most profound way 00:05:22.310 --> 00:05:28.470 possible. Why? Why does severance hurt so much? 00:05:28.490 --> 00:05:31.790 Why does living a double life tear us apart? 00:05:32.430 --> 00:05:35.889 Well, first of all, It destroys our identity. 00:05:36.889 --> 00:05:39.389 You know, in the TV show, again, I don't know 00:05:39.389 --> 00:05:42.350 if you've seen it, but the characters with severed 00:05:42.350 --> 00:05:45.189 minds, they're having these profound identity 00:05:45.189 --> 00:05:49.370 crises. In fact, there's one scene in which a 00:05:49.370 --> 00:05:52.370 character sends a message to herself saying, 00:05:52.569 --> 00:05:58.509 I am not. a person, you are not a person. No, 00:05:58.569 --> 00:06:01.509 rather, I am a person, you are not a person. 00:06:01.670 --> 00:06:04.629 This is terrifying for her, right? Her existence 00:06:04.629 --> 00:06:08.110 is denied by the one person who knew her the 00:06:08.110 --> 00:06:12.610 best, herself. Peter was in the same boat. He 00:06:12.610 --> 00:06:15.110 thought he was one person, a person who made 00:06:15.110 --> 00:06:17.009 a promise, but when the pressure came, when the 00:06:17.009 --> 00:06:19.129 crowds arrived, when the questions started, he 00:06:19.129 --> 00:06:23.220 was shocked. to see this other Peter emerge, 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.300 a frightened one, a self -protective one, and 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:30.839 that's why he cracked. He fractured, and he wept 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:34.379 bitterly. He didn't know who he was anymore. 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:40.379 Severance destroys your identity. Faithful Peter, 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.319 fearful Peter, courageous Peter, cowardly Peter, 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:49.079 which Peter is the real Peter? I don't know if 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.509 you guys know, the word integrity comes from 00:06:52.509 --> 00:06:56.649 the same English word integer. An integer is 00:06:56.649 --> 00:07:00.110 a whole number, not a fraction of a number, not 00:07:00.110 --> 00:07:01.870 a piece of a number, not a part of a number, 00:07:01.970 --> 00:07:04.990 not a division of a number, a whole number. A 00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:08.550 person of integrity is a whole person, the same 00:07:08.550 --> 00:07:11.850 person, no matter what. But Peter, he's lost 00:07:11.850 --> 00:07:15.350 his integrity. He's severed. He's lost his identity. 00:07:16.589 --> 00:07:21.060 And of course, that hurts. You see, culture tells 00:07:21.060 --> 00:07:24.480 you if you want to know who you really are, if 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:26.319 you want to know your real identity, then what 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:27.860 you've got to do is you've got to follow your 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:31.899 feelings. Follow your heart. But you know that 00:07:31.899 --> 00:07:34.660 doesn't work, right? Which heart do you follow? 00:07:34.819 --> 00:07:37.480 Which feelings are you going to follow? The feelings 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:39.560 that say tell the truth or the feelings that 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.839 say lie to save yourself? The feelings that crave 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.680 commitment or the feelings that crave freedom? 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.899 The feeling that says, I want to follow Jesus. 00:07:49.420 --> 00:07:53.519 Or the feeling that says, just blend in like 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.060 everyone else. You can't find your identity in 00:07:56.060 --> 00:07:59.139 your feelings. Because your feelings are always 00:07:59.139 --> 00:08:01.639 changing. They are always shifting. And you're 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.660 always going to feel severed. In A Man for All 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:07.660 Seasons, Sir Thomas More says this. He says, 00:08:07.699 --> 00:08:12.360 when a man makes an oath, he holds his own self 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:16.139 in his hands like water. And if he opens his 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:20.339 fingers, he needn't hope to find himself again. 00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:23.459 Do you want to know why Peter was devastated 00:08:23.459 --> 00:08:26.639 and bitterly crying? It's because he opened his 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:32.059 fingers and he lost himself. Living a severed 00:08:32.059 --> 00:08:36.159 life, it destroys your identity. But it's not 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:40.100 just that. Living a severed life breaks something 00:08:40.100 --> 00:08:43.450 else too, and that's community. When you don't 00:08:43.450 --> 00:08:45.409 know who you really are, then guess what? Other 00:08:45.409 --> 00:08:47.090 people don't know who you really are either. 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:49.309 People are going to avoid you, and you're going 00:08:49.309 --> 00:08:51.409 to avoid others. You won't be able to get close 00:08:51.409 --> 00:08:54.070 to them. It's interesting, on the TV show, again, 00:08:54.169 --> 00:08:58.070 two characters. They develop this deep relationship 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:02.149 at work. However, when they find each other in 00:09:02.149 --> 00:09:04.210 the outside world, they discover one of them 00:09:04.210 --> 00:09:09.070 is married to someone else. Leading a double 00:09:09.070 --> 00:09:13.049 life. disrupts their relationship, and prevents 00:09:13.049 --> 00:09:19.690 human connection. When Peter realized how severed 00:09:19.690 --> 00:09:23.529 he was, he too could not be with people. Did 00:09:23.529 --> 00:09:25.549 you notice where he goes after the rooster crows? 00:09:25.669 --> 00:09:29.990 He goes out. He went out and wept bitterly. Out, 00:09:30.190 --> 00:09:33.830 away from the courtyard, away from the fire, 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:36.899 away from the people. And it's not an accident 00:09:36.899 --> 00:09:39.879 that the Bible says this. This is not just geography. 00:09:40.179 --> 00:09:45.500 This is theology. When you sever your soul, you 00:09:45.500 --> 00:09:48.039 sever your connection to others. I mean, think 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.580 about it. If you've ever had a moment where you've 00:09:50.580 --> 00:09:52.519 compromised your convictions and you felt really 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.559 bad about it, do you want to go and talk it through 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.740 with a group? No. You isolate yourself. You hide. 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:02.679 You go outside because there's no community. 00:10:03.659 --> 00:10:07.600 Without commitment. No integrity without honesty. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.000 Peter made a promise, but not just to Jesus. 00:10:10.100 --> 00:10:12.279 He made the promise in front of his other friends, 00:10:12.340 --> 00:10:14.820 his disciples. And now he's broken that promise. 00:10:14.899 --> 00:10:17.340 The relationship is broken. The trust is broken. 00:10:17.460 --> 00:10:21.580 So he steps outside, right? Leading a severed 00:10:21.580 --> 00:10:24.820 life always leads you to break away from community 00:10:24.820 --> 00:10:29.379 and leads to isolation. When we keep our promises, 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.169 it creates community. When we're the same person 00:10:32.169 --> 00:10:33.809 again and again and again and again, then people 00:10:33.809 --> 00:10:35.470 get to know us and people get to love us and 00:10:35.470 --> 00:10:37.409 people say, yes, I like being around you. But 00:10:37.409 --> 00:10:40.389 whether it's a marriage or a friendship or church, 00:10:40.870 --> 00:10:43.649 we make promises and keep them. They say, this 00:10:43.649 --> 00:10:46.149 is who I am and you can count on me and I'll 00:10:46.149 --> 00:10:47.870 be here for you. But when we start splitting 00:10:47.870 --> 00:10:52.330 our lives, community begins to break down. Well, 00:10:52.330 --> 00:10:54.730 who's going to show up today? Which version of 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:58.370 Rob are we going to get? So we stop being known. 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.720 And we stop being trusted and we stop being present. 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.100 I mean, it's a painful irony. We long to be connected, 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.960 but we're scared to show ourselves. We crave 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.159 intimacy, but we only let people see these carefully 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.059 edited versions of ourselves. We want to be loved, 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.759 but we refuse to be honest with who we really 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:23.299 are. So we end up like Peter, not just severed, 00:11:23.299 --> 00:11:28.580 but separated from others. But there's one final 00:11:28.580 --> 00:11:33.899 rupture that we haven't named yet. Living a severed 00:11:33.899 --> 00:11:35.799 life doesn't just destroy your identity. It doesn't 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.759 just break community. It also disrupts your spirituality. 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:45.899 Again, in the TV show, Severance, we learn that 00:11:45.899 --> 00:11:49.039 the entire concept of severing a personality 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:53.299 was created by a cult, by this false religion. 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:58.750 And it's so true. That when we live lives that 00:11:58.750 --> 00:12:01.809 are severed, it always leads us away from the 00:12:01.809 --> 00:12:06.610 true God. Because the true God doesn't just want 00:12:06.610 --> 00:12:10.450 part of you. He wants all of you, the integrated, 00:12:10.690 --> 00:12:14.360 honest. Whole, you. And this is nothing new. 00:12:14.460 --> 00:12:16.899 Go back to the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, 00:12:17.019 --> 00:12:20.279 they didn't undergo a surgical severance, but 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:23.379 they did split themselves from God. One version 00:12:23.379 --> 00:12:25.539 of them wanted to obey God. The other version 00:12:25.539 --> 00:12:29.179 wanted to be God. And when they tried to live 00:12:29.179 --> 00:12:32.059 both these lives, they were broken. They were 00:12:32.059 --> 00:12:37.379 fragmented. And they hid from God. God's question 00:12:37.379 --> 00:12:40.409 was, hey, where are you guys? could just as easily 00:12:40.409 --> 00:12:45.110 have been, who are you guys? That question still 00:12:45.110 --> 00:12:49.009 echoes today. Living a double life creates distance 00:12:49.009 --> 00:12:51.990 between us and God. And it's not because God 00:12:51.990 --> 00:12:55.289 stops loving us. It's just because we stop showing 00:12:55.289 --> 00:12:59.990 up as our true selves. We stop praying with honesty. 00:13:00.210 --> 00:13:03.210 We stop worshiping with integrity. We start saying 00:13:03.210 --> 00:13:06.289 things that we no longer believe. And we start 00:13:06.289 --> 00:13:09.269 living in ways we no longer admit. We may still 00:13:09.269 --> 00:13:12.190 pray. We may still sing. We may still go to church. 00:13:12.230 --> 00:13:16.269 But deep down, something's been severed. We've 00:13:16.269 --> 00:13:20.190 kept part of our heart back. We've compartmentalized 00:13:20.190 --> 00:13:23.190 our faith. We want God on Sunday, but we want 00:13:23.190 --> 00:13:29.169 control on Monday. Isaiah says, your iniquities 00:13:29.169 --> 00:13:34.649 have separated you from God. Your sins. have 00:13:34.649 --> 00:13:40.730 hidden you from God. So friends, do you see why 00:13:40.730 --> 00:13:44.070 Peter was weeping so bitterly? When he realized 00:13:44.070 --> 00:13:48.509 how severed his life was, he was destroyed in 00:13:48.509 --> 00:13:51.470 his identity, broken in his community, and shattered 00:13:51.470 --> 00:13:55.169 in his spirituality. And I just want to say that 00:13:55.169 --> 00:13:57.950 maybe some of you here today, that is exactly 00:13:57.950 --> 00:14:01.370 where you are. You're physically here. You are. 00:14:02.289 --> 00:14:04.950 You're singing the songs. You're bowing your 00:14:04.950 --> 00:14:09.169 head when the prayers come. But part of you isn't 00:14:09.169 --> 00:14:12.649 here. Part of you is still out there, hiding, 00:14:12.830 --> 00:14:17.909 hurting. Maybe even wondering if anyone actually 00:14:17.909 --> 00:14:21.970 knows the real you. Or if they'd love you if 00:14:21.970 --> 00:14:26.710 they did know the real you. So you feel like 00:14:26.710 --> 00:14:29.149 you have to live this way. Severed, split, divided, 00:14:29.450 --> 00:14:34.899 lonely. That's how Peter felt. Now, it's interesting. 00:14:34.980 --> 00:14:37.139 On the TV show, again, how many people have seen 00:14:37.139 --> 00:14:43.519 the TV show? I was hoping for more. On the TV 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.179 show, there is a procedure. It's very dangerous, 00:14:46.220 --> 00:14:51.279 even a deadly procedure, by which someone might 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:55.960 become unsevered, be reintegrated back into a 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:59.559 whole person. But is there such hope for us? 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.620 Is there any way we can actually live a whole 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:07.799 life? Well, that brings us to the good news of 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.379 Good Friday. On Good Friday, we remember the 00:15:13.379 --> 00:15:17.480 deadly and dangerous operation that Jesus went 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:22.639 through to heal us. And it all happened on the 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:27.879 cross. On the cross, Jesus was severed so we 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.769 could be whole. Yeah, sure, Peter went outside 00:15:31.769 --> 00:15:35.269 and wept, but Jesus went outside the city and 00:15:35.269 --> 00:15:40.049 he died. Peter was fractured. Yes, Jesus was 00:15:40.049 --> 00:15:43.610 forsaken. On the cross, Jesus experienced the 00:15:43.610 --> 00:15:46.669 ultimate severance, not just physical pain, not 00:15:46.669 --> 00:15:52.970 just humiliation, but cosmic disconnection. He 00:15:52.970 --> 00:15:59.769 says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me, 00:15:59.850 --> 00:16:03.970 cosmically disconnected, right? Jesus and the 00:16:03.970 --> 00:16:06.850 Father were one. They were one person, but they 00:16:06.850 --> 00:16:09.090 were severed from each other. And why? Why was 00:16:09.090 --> 00:16:11.529 he severed from his identity? Why was he severed 00:16:11.529 --> 00:16:13.850 from this community? Why was he severed spiritually? 00:16:14.269 --> 00:16:17.649 It's because someone, someone had to stand in 00:16:17.649 --> 00:16:20.429 for every fractured soul and every split life 00:16:20.429 --> 00:16:24.110 and every broken promise, every Peter, every 00:16:24.110 --> 00:16:28.360 you, and every me. Because you see, though our 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:32.220 feelings might change, Jesus's never do. And 00:16:32.220 --> 00:16:34.360 while we may break our promises, Jesus never 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.980 does. And we are saved, not because of our integrity, 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.200 but because of Jesus's. And we're saved not because 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:45.100 we keep promises, but because Jesus kept his 00:16:45.100 --> 00:16:48.740 promise to us. That's what Good Friday is about. 00:16:48.860 --> 00:16:53.149 He bore the shame of our double lives. so that 00:16:53.149 --> 00:16:56.830 we could be given a whole life. He was severed 00:16:56.830 --> 00:17:01.029 from God so we could be reconciled to God. The 00:17:01.029 --> 00:17:03.950 Bible puts it this way. God made him who knew 00:17:03.950 --> 00:17:09.569 no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might 00:17:09.569 --> 00:17:12.509 become the righteousness of God. That's the gospel, 00:17:12.650 --> 00:17:16.430 everybody. That's the dangerous and deadly surgery 00:17:16.430 --> 00:17:20.990 that can heal our severed lives. Now maybe you, 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.700 Like the characters in the TV show that none 00:17:24.700 --> 00:17:30.680 of you saw thought that living a double life 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.059 was going to make things easier. But it's actually 00:17:34.059 --> 00:17:36.940 taken a toll on you. It's taken a toll on your 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:38.819 mind. It's taken a toll on your relationships 00:17:38.819 --> 00:17:42.220 and on your spirituality. And that's why today 00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:44.619 I want to say to you, no matter how fractured 00:17:44.619 --> 00:17:49.019 you feel, you can be put back together again. 00:17:49.819 --> 00:17:55.190 Jesus was saved. so you could be whole. So are 00:17:55.190 --> 00:17:59.390 you ready to be put back together? Are you ready 00:17:59.390 --> 00:18:01.910 to stop the double life, to be fully healed? 00:18:02.509 --> 00:18:05.589 Peter, interesting, he shows us the way toward 00:18:05.589 --> 00:18:08.509 healing. Because a few days later, after he ran 00:18:08.509 --> 00:18:12.329 away from Jesus and ran away from the courtyard 00:18:12.329 --> 00:18:16.259 to weep bitterly, he finds himself... by another 00:18:16.259 --> 00:18:19.720 crackling fire. Not the fire where he denied 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.079 knowing Jesus, but it's a fire of reunion. It's 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.720 a fire, and Jesus is there. And there, Jesus 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.960 asks him a question. He says, Peter, do you love 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.440 me? Three times he asks it. One for every time 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:36.279 Peter said, I don't know him. And three times, 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:39.680 Peter replies, Lord, you know I love you. Lord, 00:18:39.740 --> 00:18:42.940 you know I love you. Lord, you know I love you. 00:18:43.589 --> 00:18:46.650 Guys, Peter had lost his identity and Jesus gives 00:18:46.650 --> 00:18:49.910 it back to him, right? Peter had lost his community 00:18:49.910 --> 00:18:53.509 and Jesus brings him back. Peter had denied knowing 00:18:53.509 --> 00:18:56.390 Jesus, but Jesus says, don't worry, I still know 00:18:56.390 --> 00:18:59.710 you. And this is the healing moment where Peter's 00:18:59.710 --> 00:19:02.490 severed mind becomes a sound mind, becomes a 00:19:02.490 --> 00:19:05.829 settled mind, becomes a secured mind. You can 00:19:05.829 --> 00:19:09.269 be healed too. You can undergo this procedure 00:19:09.269 --> 00:19:13.259 too. If you've been living a double life, listen, 00:19:13.339 --> 00:19:15.940 what part of your soul have you split off? What 00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:20.519 part have you kept hidden in the dark? What fire 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:23.539 are you standing next to pretending not to know 00:19:23.539 --> 00:19:28.220 him? Whatever's broken in your identity, whatever's 00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:31.980 fractured in your community, and whatever is 00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:35.440 severed in your spirituality, when we come to 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:39.700 Jesus as we truly are, honest about who we've 00:19:39.700 --> 00:19:43.480 become, the same Jesus who stitched Peter back 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:49.039 together will heal you too. Good Friday is the 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:53.680 moment of truth. So let the rooster crow, let 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:58.019 the masks drop, and let the healing begin.