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And that's what this series called is all about.

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God making and molding us into disciples. And

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I'm going to conclude today, this series, by

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inviting you to join me in Psalms, excuse me,

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in John 21. John 21 and verse 15. And I pray

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that this series has been a blessing to you.

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And for those that are... Not here with us or

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those that are watching from other places. God

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bless you. I've had people reach out to me, even

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outside of this church, who have been sharing

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how this series has ministered to them and been

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a blessing to them. And so we thank the Lord

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for that. We give God the glory that this message

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can get out, amen, and that others can be blessed.

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The word of the Lord says in John 21, verse 15,

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when they had finished eating, Jesus said to

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Simon, Peter, Simon son of Jonah, do you love

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me more than these? Yes, Lord, he said, you know

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that I love you. Jesus said, feed my lambs. Again,

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Jesus said, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me?

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He answered, yes, Lord, you know that I love

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you. And Jesus said, take care of my sheep. The

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third time he said to him, Simon son, Son of

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Jonah, do you love me? Peter was hurt because

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Jesus asked him a third time, do you love me?

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He said, Lord, you know all things. You know

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that I love you. Jesus said, feed my sheep. Somebody

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say amen today. I'm going to talk and preach

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today on the thought still called. Still called.

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Why don't we pray? Father, we love you today.

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We thank you for the beauty of your presence

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that we have felt, God, throughout this service.

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Without a shadow of a doubt, Lord, you are here.

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You are here. You are in our midst, God. And

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so we thank you. And I pray, Lord, that you would

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anoint our ears to hear what the Spirit is saying

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to us today. And I pray, God, that every word

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that comes out of my mouth would not be my own.

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The word that you have placed in my heart, deposited

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in me, Lord. I ask this right now, anoint my

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lips of clay. In Jesus' name, I pray this. Amen.

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Amen, somebody. You may be seated in God's presence.

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Someone say, still called. There is a Japanese

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art form called kintsugi. Kintsugi is a... piece

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of pottery that is broken. The artist doesn't

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throw it away and he doesn't try to hide the

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cracks either as though the breaking never happened.

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Instead, the broken pieces are carefully put

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back together and the seams are highlighted with

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And the result of Kintsugi is something remarkable.

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The cracks are still there. You can still see

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where the vessel broke, but it has been restored.

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Today I have brought an example of Kintsugi.

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You can take a look here at this mug that I'm

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holding up. I wanted a bigger example, but...

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This is the best I can get on eBay in the short

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amount of time. Amen. So you're more than welcome

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to take a look at this. But as you can tell,

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this is a cup. There are some cracks in the cup

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and even on the inside, you can see. And this

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cup here was put back together through the Kintsugi

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process. And what's interesting is that they

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did not cover up those blemishes, those cracks

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in the vessel, but they highlighted it. And now

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these golden fractures or fault lines become

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a part of the beauty, become a part of its story.

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You look at a cup like this and you automatically

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know that if that cup had a voice, it would have

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something to say. It could probably tell you

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about how it felt when it broke and what that

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must have been like if it had a voice. But the

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beauty is not found. in the hidden blemishes,

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but is found in the fact that it has been reconstructed

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and repaired. And this is something that, as

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we think about Peter, I look at him that way,

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as a Kintsugi. Peter had been fractured. He had

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publicly failed the Lord in the most dramatic

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and public way. When he denied Jesus three times,

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each denial leaving another break, another fracture

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in his life. Peter had this thing as we study

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and learn about him. He was impulsive, of course.

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He stuck his foot in his mouth more than once

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or twice. And he had always promised more than

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he could actually deliver. And he promised the

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Lord that he would never turn his back on him.

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Not me, God. I would never do that to you. I

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would never break my word. I would never deny

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knowing you. But indeed, this is exactly what

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happened. And now in John 21, he is standing

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face to face with the one he failed. I don't

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know about you, but... I can't tell you how many

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promises that I've broken with God. I've broken

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a lot of promises with God. I've broken promises

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with him, too many to count. In fact, I've lost

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count of all the promises. Promises, big and

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small. Promises to do more. I don't know if anybody

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here has ever made a promise to God like that.

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Like, God, I'm going to do more. And you didn't

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do what you said you were going to do. Hello.

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Promises to live bolder, to forgive sooner, to

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love stronger. Promises like, God, I'm never

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going to do that again. I learned my lesson.

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And what ends up happening, you do it again.

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Lord, this is the last time I'm going to do this.

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And as time goes on, you... Find yourself having

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to ask God for forgiveness for the very thing

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you told him I would never do again. Do I have

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a witness out there? Amen. Y 'all are kind of

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quiet, but I know we've all been there. But it

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is hard to admit that, isn't it? It's like, hmm.

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Nobody wants to admit. There's a bit of shame

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involved in that. There's a bit of guilt involved

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with... your soul and with opening up yourself

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or with confessing and admitting that I have

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made promises that I've broken. But it's important

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for us to be real with God today, to be real

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with ourselves and to look within in those areas

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of our own life where we have fallen short. Of

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God's standard. Where we have not measured up.

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Where we have broken a promise. When we have

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said more than we actually did. We have stuck

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our foot in our mouth. Or even if it was a baby

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toe. You still stuck it in your mouth. You said

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something that you were going to do. You let

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somebody down. You let God down. Let a friend

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down. Let a co -worker. Let a spouse. Let a family

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member or you just let yourself down. You made

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yourself a promise. How about that? I'm going

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to go to the gym four times this week. And you're

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lucky you barely made it once. You make little

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promises with yourself, right? You make a pact

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with you. I'm going to do this. And you say,

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I'm not going to post about it. I'm not going

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to say nothing. I'm just going to do it. And

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many times we break promises even with ourselves.

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But this is something that I want us to understand

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about God today. I hope I can weave throughout

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this message. I don't plan to be very long, but

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I, is that we have to have a revelation of the

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faithfulness of God. Amen. How many of you know

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God's faithful? Come on, I need a better amen

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than that. It's not for me, it's for the Lord.

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How many of you know he's faithful? Here's what

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you need to know about the faithfulness of God.

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God's faithfulness does not depend on ours. Let

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me say that again. God's faithfulness does not

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depend on ours. God's faithfulness is not dependent

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on your faithfulness. Because how many of you

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know God has been faithful even when we were

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unfaithful? Oh, hallelujah. So if God's faithfulness

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depends on my faithfulness, I'm in big trouble.

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There's not a lot of hope for me and you. But

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the faithfulness of God transcends the faithfulness

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of man. And this truth comes into focus as Jesus

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begins to deal. with the kintsugi process of

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rebuilding the faith and the ministry and the

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calling of this disciple, Simon Peter. Because

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God proves to him that his faithfulness has not

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depended on his. Some scholars theorize that

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the three questions Jesus asked, do you love

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me, three times, correlates with Peter's three

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denials. In any case, this is not an interrogation.

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Peter is not being interrogated by God, which

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is what sometimes we feel is going to happen

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when we must be confronted about failures and

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mistakes, sins, faults and missteps in our life.

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Like God is going to grill us, point the finger

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and say, aha! I told you so. Many people have

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this idea about God. They have this perception

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of an I told you so kind of God. How many of

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you know people like that, amen? That if I tell

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them what I did, the first thing they're going

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to tell me is, I told you so. Why didn't you

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listen to me? Instead of trying to help you or...

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That's the first thing that comes out, or that's

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the look they give you. Should have listened

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to me. Well, I didn't, so here I am. God's first

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word to you when we fail, to me when we fail,

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is not I told you so. Not why didn't you listen

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to me the first time. His first word to you is

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more of a question, do you love me? Because God's

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intent is not to catch you. God already knew.

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Can I tell you? He already knows you're going

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to fail. Do you know that when you fail God,

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when you make a mistake, you don't surprise him?

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Hello, somebody. When you fail, God's not like,

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oh, my goodness, I can't believe they did that.

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God knows. How many of you know he knows the

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end from the beginning? God knows we're going

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to fail him. Just like you did with Peter. He

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said, Peter, you're going to deny me, son. It's

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going to happen. Oh, no, God, not me. You've

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got the wrong disciple. I would never do that

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to you. And Jesus says, it's going to happen.

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I've got news for everybody today. This is going

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to sound kind of negative and kind of bad, but

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just bear with me. You're going to fail at some

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point. At something, at some point. It happens

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to the best of us. So why don't we just get it

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out in the open and be like, yeah, I'm going

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to make mistakes. I'm going to fall short of

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his glory. I'm going to mess up and I'm going

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to, you know, I'm going to fumble here and there.

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But here's the good thing about God is that God's

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not trying to catch you off guard. He's not trying

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to throw stones at you. He's not trying to cut

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you from the team. He's looking for ways to reinstill

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in all of us the idea that we are still. called

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by his name. Why don't we give him some praise

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today. Hallelujah. So Jesus begins and the first

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thing he does and the first thing that an artist

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will do with Kintsugi is to rejoin the pieces.

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Someone say rejoin the pieces. Got to rejoin

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the pieces. This is the first work of Kintsugi

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is to Bring the separated pieces back together.

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Do you know why? Because every broken piece matters.

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Every shard matters. Every connection counts.

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When you take a look at this here, you'll find

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that there's even some small little pieces that,

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you know, a small little area, like, you know,

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just let that one go. It's not that big of a,

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no, no, no. Every little piece, the big and the

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small. They all count. And when the artist begins

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to rejoin the pieces, he gets all of them gathered

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and collects them together. And this is what

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Jesus is doing relationally with Peter. He's

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bringing all the pieces together. And the Lord

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started this process in a very unexpected way.

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When you back up the story a little bit, you'll

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see that Peter found himself in a familiar predicament.

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One that... preached about, I believe it was

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last week, where he was fishing all night and

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he caught nothing. Here he is again, coming up

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short. No fish after toiling all night. So Jesus

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told them, in verse 6, cast the net on the right

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side of the boat and you will find some. And

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watch what happens next. So they cast. And now

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they were not able to draw it in because of the

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multitude of faith. Remember I told you God's

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faithfulness doesn't depend on yours? Don't you

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think, in human terms, this would have been the

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right moment for Jesus? I'm not going to bless

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him that good right now. This might have been

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the moment. Now, come on. This is how some of

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us are sometimes. You know, I'm going to let

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him work for it. I'm going to let him sweat it

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out a little bit. have earned his way back into

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my good graces. I'm gonna let him sweat it out.

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I'm gonna let him, you know, like flounder around

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and sort of, I'm not gonna like bless his, I'm

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not gonna bless his socks off right now, you

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know. I'm not gonna go overboard. Just, you know,

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I'll throw him a little something, just a little

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reminder that I still love you. Like, you know,

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I'll wink at him, you know, but I'm not gonna

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hug him, you know. I'm not, but he, the Lord

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blesses him in such a way that this had to have

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Confounded Peter. He said, oh my goodness, look

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at all of this fish that the Lord has blessed

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me. See, the Lord doesn't wait until we have

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everything put back together before he reminds

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us of how good and how faithful and how wonderful

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and how awesome he is. Amen somebody. He doesn't

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wait for us to get our whole act together. He

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doesn't wait for us to get ourselves polished

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and all perfected. He doesn't wait for that to

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happen to show us his glory and to show us his

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goodness and his faithfulness. So today I want

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to just thank the Lord even when I didn't fully

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measure up and I was still a broken mess that

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God still loved me in that state and he still

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blessed me. So sometimes God will throw you a

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lifeline. He'll let you get another overflowing

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catch and you say, Lord, why are you blessing

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me like this? I don't deserve this. I haven't

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been. The kind of man or the kind of woman that

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I am supposed to be. I haven't been living up

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to, Lord, the standard that you've called me

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to, Lord. I've been messing up and I don't deserve

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it, but God is telling you and he's telling me

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today, I'm not blessing you because you deserve

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it. I'm blessing you because I'm still called

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you and I still want you to know that I've got

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a plan. I've come to tell somebody today that

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God wants you to know that he's still here and

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he's still faithful and he's not. Done with you

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yet. Hallelujah. Peter had seen this movie before.

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He's seen this one before. He's read this chapter

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before because he had already had an empty net

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scenario and a miraculous cat. So he has seen

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this before and he understands that God is at

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work in his life and Jesus was rejoining the

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pieces. He's rejoining. these pieces by taking

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Peter back to the beginning and saying to him,

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do you remember how I called you the first time?

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Sometimes God will take you back. To your first

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love. He'll take you back to where it all started.

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He'll take you back to that altar. He'll take

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you back to that prayer room. He'll take you

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back to that message. He'll take you back through

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a song. He'll take you back through a word. He'll

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take you back through a hug. God has ways of

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taking us back to those places where we once

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again rediscover what it's all about. Back to

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that place of surrender. Back to that place of

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worship. Back to that place where we first heard

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his voice. How many of you remember that time

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in your life where you heard the voice of the

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Lord the first time so clearly? How many of you

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remember that time where you felt the presence

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of the Lord so powerfully? Amen, somebody? Anybody

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remember that? Or has it been that long? Or have

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you forgotten what it felt like? Or has it been

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so many years that you forgot the touch and the

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warmth that came over you the first time you

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felt the Holy Ghost and His Spirit and filled

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your life and you spoke with other times? How

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many of you remember that time and that moment

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where the Lord touched on you and His Spirit

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moved upon you and you felt something that you

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never felt before? Sometimes God wants to take

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us back to those places so that you remember

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I'm the same God that spoke to you then that

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is speaking to you now. I'm the same God that

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surrounded you there with my love like I'm surrounding

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you now. I still got a plan for you. As real

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as I was there is as real as I am now. Somebody

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give him some praise today. Sometimes God takes

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us back to those places. Takes us back to that

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old well. That old well of worship. He'll take

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us back to those places so that we can once again

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realize that God hasn't changed. Can I tell you

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right now, somebody needs to hear this on the

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Holy Ghost. God has not changed his mind about

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you. Woo! my Lord. Hallelujah. If you don't hear

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anything else I say today, hear that God has

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not changed his mind about you. God is not flippant.

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You understand what I'm saying? He's not flippant.

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He's not fickle. He doesn't fall in and out of

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love with you. He doesn't change his mind about,

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nah, people can be like that. People are flippant

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and people are fickle and people will change

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and they'll fall in and out of love with you.

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You know, they got a good opinion of you today

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and tomorrow they got a bad one. God's opinion

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of you has not changed. He still sees you. Come

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on now, somebody. He still sees you as his son

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and as his daughter. He is consistent. He's the

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same yesterday, today, and forevermore. God changes

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not. And his mind is made up about you. Just

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like it was for Peter. And so he gathers all

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the pieces. And secondly, as we see illustrated

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in the... Kintsugi processes that he seals the

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fractures. Kintsugi isn't merely just placing

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broken pieces all beside each other. No, the

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pieces have to be bonded together and the cracks

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in the vessel have to be sealed. in the deepest

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parts this is not a surface thing when you look

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at this you feel it we're going to have show

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and tell today everybody can touch the vessel

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today man And you put your fingers on the grooves.

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And this is not a surface thing. This is not

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just like a superficial job that was done. You

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can dip your fingers in some of the grooves and

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feel the depth and the places, the deep places

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where the sealing and the bonding happen. And

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there's texture there. There's inconsistencies

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and there's texture. And you realize that the

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sealant that was used to bond this thing together

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went into. the deepest areas that were fractured

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in this vessel. And so that's the only way to

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ensure that this thing doesn't break again. That's

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the only way to assure. Because if you just wanted

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to do a rush job, you can just put some, maybe

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a little bit of Elmer's glue, you know. You put

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some tape on the outside. Okay, that'll do just

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fine. But then is it really going to hold up

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over time, right? It's not going to have the

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structural integrity that it needs to be useful

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again. God's not interested, hear me today, in

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doing a rush, quick, fixed job in your heart

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and in your life. Amen. God wants to go deep

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in places in us. to seal those areas in us. And

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it is a process. It's not an overnight thing

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that God does. But John tells us what Jesus did

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when he waited for Peter. The Bible says that

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he waited for Peter by a fire. He was on the

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shore. Peter was out on the boat. Jesus was there

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cooking some fish. Amen. I wonder how good that

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fish must have tasted. Amen. He was cooking some

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fish right there on the fire. And then Peter

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comes and he... Sits next to Jesus by the fire.

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So there is the Lord. There is Peter sitting

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fireside having this conversation. Now, it doesn't

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seem much to us that they would be sitting there

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by the fire. But it's interesting because if

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you go back and you look at when Peter had denied

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the Lord and failed him three times, you'll see

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that he was also at that time sitting by a fire.

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He was sitting out in front of the temple. The

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Bible says that he was warming himself by the

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fire. So imagine the scene. There is Peter. He's

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sitting out in front of the temple. He's warming

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himself by the fire. And then folks begin to

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come and say, you look like you, are you one

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of those disciples? He said, oh no, that's not

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me. And he denies the Lord three times while

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sitting by, someone say the fire. He failed the

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Lord by the fire. Oh, my gosh. You see, you could

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be close to the fire. You could be so close to,

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whoo, ouch, it's hot, man, I got the Holy Ghost,

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and still fail him. Don't think you got, man,

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you got to, only those that are, you know, they

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got one foot in the world. No, you can have both

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feet in the church and still fail him. He's by

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the fire. He's so close to the fire, man, he's

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sweaty. He could feel the heat on his brow, and

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there he failed the Lord. Now fast forward to

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this moment where Jesus is trying to rebuild

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and restore his life. Where is he sitting again?

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By a fire. He brought him back to another fire.

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Here we begin to see another way God works. Sometimes

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God brings us back to the fire. Back to a place

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where your confidence collapsed. Back to the

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issue that you've tried to avoid. Back to the

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moment where you failed, fell, broke your word.

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I wonder as if, I wonder that while Peter was

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sitting there by the fire and the coals are crackling,

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you know, little fires, you know, and I wonder

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if it dawned on him there as he sat by the fire,

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remembering the last fire that he... That he

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stood at and how he felt. I wonder if he made

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that connection, you know, in his mind. I wonder

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if he made that. I wonder if he connected those

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two dots in his mind. They're like, here I am

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sitting at another fire. But this time the Lord

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is trying to restore me. He's trying to, I wonder

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if he made that connection. Because I see a connection

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here that sometimes God will take us back to

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those same places. Not to shame us. Not to cast

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us off. But to seal those areas of our life that

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are broken. And to keep us from pulling apart

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again. And he begins to heal us by the fire.

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And it hurts a little bit. And it's uncomfortable.

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Maybe Peter is sitting there at the second fire.

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And, you know, he's starting to sweat bullets.

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Like, oh, here we go again. Jesus is bringing

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me back to the fire. Maybe he's going to use

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this moment to, you know, beat me over the head.

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Maybe he's going to use this moment to really

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show me, really, you know, really rub it in.

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How bad I'm... I fell and what I did wrong. Maybe

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Jesus is going to use this fire moment to go,

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you know, make a point out of me. Make an example

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out of me. But that's not what God had in mind

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at all with him. And it's not what he has in

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mind with you. But there are moments that God

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will take us into a fire moment. Into a place

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of pressure. A place where we can feel the heat

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of his word a little bit. Feel conviction a little

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bit. Feel the heat of his presence a little bit.

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Feel the fire of the word a little bit. little

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bit so that we can understand that God is working

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and he's trying to put us in a place where we

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where he can remake us and reshape us but we've

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got to come to terms with the things that we've

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done so that he can heal us and he can restore

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us and seal those places back in our life so

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that we won't fall apart again because here's

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the thing once God seals those fractures in our

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life he doesn't want those things to break down

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again. When God heals you, he doesn't want you

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to get hurt in the same place again. When God

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restores you, he doesn't want you to break in

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the same place again. You might break in other

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places. You might get fractured in other places,

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but when God does a work, he does it to such

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a way that it's more valuable than it was when

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it was whole in the beginning. I've come to tell

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you today that God wants to heal you, but your

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healing is in the ceiling. And you won't get

00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:05.079
healed right until you get sealed right. The

00:29:05.079 --> 00:29:06.980
problem is that some of us, I'm almost done,

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but some of us, we want to get healed without

00:29:09.259 --> 00:29:15.420
being sealed. Some folks missed a good one today.

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.660
You're going to have to send them the YouTube

00:29:16.660 --> 00:29:20.279
link. Hallelujah. You can't say, why am I not

00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:21.980
healed? Because you won't let them seal you.

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We're asking God for healing without going through

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the ceiling, without putting those pieces. Well,

00:29:30.650 --> 00:29:32.430
yeah, but it's messy, and there's a lot of work

00:29:32.430 --> 00:29:34.289
involved, and I've got all these little pieces.

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No one said it was going to be easy. No one said,

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but if you're looking for God to heal the areas

00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:43.299
of your life and your heart, your ministry, your

00:29:43.299 --> 00:29:45.140
marriage, whatever that, whatever it is that's

00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:48.200
broken, you need to let him seal it and bring

00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:53.059
it back together one piece at a time. Meticulously

00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:56.920
and carefully and lovingly and gently, God will

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do it one thing at a time. He'll seal it. And

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once that part gets sealed, oh, then we can move

00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.339
to the next part. And then after that part gets

00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:07.819
sealed, then we can. Move to the next part. It's

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not just, oh, abracadabra, walakazoo, and it's

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all together. Oh, there it is, you know. No,

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God does it peace. Someone say, peace by peace.

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This is how God does it. And so as the musician

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gets ready, I begin to look at how God dealt

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with Peter. And the thing that really stuck out

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to me, and I pray that this word will just. Minister

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to you and help you. I come to be a help today.

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Come to be a help. Is that as Jesus was healing

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him, this was, some of us have the idea of healing

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like I don't want to feel nothing. How many of

00:30:49.730 --> 00:30:52.069
you have ever gone to, you had a wound and you

00:30:52.069 --> 00:30:55.890
go to the clinic, right? Or you're in pain and

00:30:55.890 --> 00:30:58.150
they have to work on you. I don't know how many

00:30:58.150 --> 00:31:01.269
of you are a chicken like me. But I'm like, put

00:31:01.269 --> 00:31:06.269
in the drug so I don't feel anything. Or when

00:31:06.269 --> 00:31:08.950
you go to a tooth, you go to the dentist, right?

00:31:09.009 --> 00:31:10.670
They're working on something. Give me whatever.

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It doesn't feel good. But we don't want to feel

00:31:14.069 --> 00:31:17.650
it, right? We don't want to feel it. Because

00:31:17.650 --> 00:31:19.930
the whole idea is you're supposed to fix me.

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You're not supposed to make me hurt more. But

00:31:24.470 --> 00:31:29.170
when God heals, he doesn't numb us. I'm going

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to help you right now. When God heals, when God

00:31:33.130 --> 00:31:36.730
operates, he doesn't numb us. And at first it

00:31:36.730 --> 00:31:40.589
sounds like, why? That sounds painful. It is.

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It is. That's what Peter felt. Why do you think

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he got hurt with the Lord? Because after the

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first time, okay, maybe he's just checking in

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on me. Do you love me? Yes. By the second time,

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do you love me? Peter's thinking. Where's this

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going? Yes, Lord, I love you. We're good, right?

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We're good? We're all right? Okay. But by the

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third time, Peter's like, okay, wait a minute.

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I'm a little offended now. I'm kind of hurt that

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you keep asking me. Because what does the repeated

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question imply? If you're Peter, you're thinking,

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does he see something that I'm not seeing? Is

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there something about the way that I'm loving

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him that isn't what he desires? Oh, can you imagine

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the questions going through his mind? Like, what

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am I saying wrong? I keep telling him what he

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wants me to say. Lord, I love you. You want me

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to say it deeper? I love you. How do you want

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me to say it, God? What's going to satisfy you?

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And the Lord keeps asking. And Peter gets hurt

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because God doesn't numb us when he's healing

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us. Sometimes we need to feel it. You say, why

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do I need to feel it? So that when you come through

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it, oh, my God, you'll have a testimony. You

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say, it hurt, but I didn't die. It hurt, but

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I didn't die. You know, it was difficult, but

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I made it. I went through moments where I didn't

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think I was going to be able to make it. But

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I made it. There were painful moments because

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God never promised to take away all the pain.

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He said he would never leave us. He said he would

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never forsake us. But he never said that there

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wouldn't be trouble. Would you stand with me

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today? He never said there wouldn't be trouble.

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He never said it wasn't going to hurt. He never

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said it. Restoration hurts sometimes. Healing.

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Or someone say, it hurts. Healing hurts. But

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this is the process. Because if the kintsugi,

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if this cup had a voice, every piece that's being

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Painfully, surgically reapplied. It could not

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have felt good. Ouch. Ouch. That hurt. Ouch.

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Did you have to press so hard right there? Sorry.

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Oops. You know, like I'm being as gentle as I

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can. But there are certain things that are just

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going to hurt. Because relationships are messy.

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Because ministry can be messy sometimes. Because

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the church, the church is messy sometimes. Discipleship

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is messy. It's going to hurt. You know, speaking

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the truth in love hurts. Right? When you do it

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in love, even if you do it in love, it still

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hurts. The Bible says that faithful are the wounds

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of a brother. Sometimes God wounds us even through

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our brothers not to hurt us but. God's trying

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to teach us something. He's trying to build us.

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He's trying to remake us. He's trying to shape

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us. And sometimes it hurts. But if we will submit

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to the process, final slide, can you give it

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to me? Can you give it to us here? Is that he

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redeems the vessel. And he puts gold. Everyone

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say gold. Kintsugi doesn't just fill it with

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dirt. It doesn't just fill it with... With mortar,

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cement. Because when God does something, and

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after the process of being healed and restored,

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he leaves you more valuable than you were. This

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cup I'm holding in my hand is more valuable now

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than it was before it was broken. So much so

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that I had to scour eBay to find it. Because

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they're expensive. Why would a broken thing be

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so expensive? Because it has a story. You have

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a story. You have a story. The gold. Someone

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say the gold. The gold is the grace of God. It's

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the grace. Gold is grace and grace is gold. And

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this is what the grace of God will do. It'll

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turn your tests into testimonies. It'll turn

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your trials into triumphs. It'll turn your mistakes

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into miracles. Your wounds into wisdom and your

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pain into power. This is what God wants to do.

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And when he does it, that's when he'll say, all

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right, now you're ready to feed my sheep. Now

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you're ready. Ready to love my sheep and to tend

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to my sheep. I've got a plan for your life. If

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you'll let me touch you and tell you that you're

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still called by my name. You're still called

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with a high calling. You're still called to love

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and to serve and to be a witness to the world.

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I wonder right there where we're at if we can

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connect with the Holy Ghost. Let God. Let God

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surgically repair every area of your heart, of

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your life, your mind, areas of your mind that

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are broken, areas of your heart that are broken.

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This is the final touch that God wants to do.

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This is the finishing touch on the process of

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making you a disciple. It's not how eloquent

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you are. It's not how gifted you are. It's have

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you allowed God to make you, if you allow God

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to restore you, allow God to heal you, allow

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him to mend your wounds. God, I thank you right

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now. Come on, why don't we just thank the Lord?

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Why don't we worship him right now, God? Oh,

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Lord Jesus, why don't you just let the Holy Ghost

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move in your heart today? Say, God! I need you

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to work on me. Come on, with those eyes closed

00:38:37.949 --> 00:38:41.449
in this place, I need somebody today. I know

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this was, maybe it wasn't for everybody, but

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I know it was for somebody. Somebody today needs

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to know you're still called. You're still called.

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You're still called. You're still called. Somebody

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who might be watching this message during the

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week, you need to know you're still called. Oh,

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you may have missed some church. You may feel

00:39:03.269 --> 00:39:05.750
like it's too late to come back. You may feel

00:39:05.750 --> 00:39:08.530
like too much time has passed, but you need to

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know that you're still called. We're waiting

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on you. Your seat is, we're holding it for you.

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It's reserved for you. You're still called. You

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still got a ministry. You still got a destiny.

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Come on, I'm talking to somebody. today you still

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got a plan you still got an anointing the gifts

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of god are without repentance if god gave you

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a gift he won't take it back come on if god blessed

00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:37.000
you he's not taking it back if god anointed you

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he's not taking it back if god oh hallelujah

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if he wants to use you he still has every intention

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of using your life oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

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jesus lord we place ourselves into your hands

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today god we place ourselves god on the potter's

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wheel we place ourselves lord in the hands god

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of the master's hands in the hands of the artist

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lord so that you can piece by piece oh god repair

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and restore and renew so that we can lord be

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the vessel that you've called us to be so that

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we can god serve each other so that we can god

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witness to one another so that we can god pour

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out you know why you need those areas healed

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so that when god pours out his blessings it won't

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leak out to the cracks so when god pours out

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his goodness it won't leak through the cracks

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you need god to seal it all the way so pours

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in will be able to contain the blessing that

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he has into your life and you can say like david

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my cup running over god i'm ready to i want you

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to lift your hands all over this building right

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now in the mighty name of jesus i want you to

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stretch out your faith unto god and say lord

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God come on tell them right now