1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,720 Well, good morning. 2 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:38,160 If you have your Bibles, John chapter 21 seems a little less full than last week. 3 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:40,160 That's all right. 4 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:43,200 Well, I was not a Disney kid growing up. 5 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:49,160 It wasn't until my sister was born she grew up a little bit where I actually watched a 6 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:50,160 Disney movie. 7 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:55,640 So when I broke my leg I was stranded on the couch for a couple of weeks. 8 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,640 And so we watched about six in a row. 9 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,680 Now I don't know what your Disney threshold is, but I found out that mine is about four 10 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:04,680 movies. 11 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:12,600 That's when I about top out and get to a place where I feel like it was slowly stealing 12 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,760 my will to live. 13 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:20,280 But it wasn't until college that I ever went actually to a Disney movie in a movie theater 14 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:21,280 and it was The Lion King. 15 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,440 It was a re-release and things like that. 16 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:29,080 And I'll never forget sitting there and there was a time where Mufasa falls and he's not 17 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:30,400 getting up. 18 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,480 And I'll never forget watching the movie in between two seats. 19 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:41,600 I see an adorable little face of a little kid who turned to his father and went, why 20 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,320 is he not getting up, daddy? 21 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:48,160 And I remember going, that's the saddest thing I've ever seen. 22 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,200 I'm like, Disney, why? 23 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:51,200 Why? 24 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,960 You think about the children, right? 25 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,600 But more than that scene, there was another scene that stood out to me. 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:04,080 Do you remember when, do you remember Simba and how it impacted him? 27 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,320 Was his dad's death his fault? 28 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,320 No, no, there were bigger forces at playing that. 29 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:15,760 And yet he knew in the midst of all of that chaos of things going on, he disobeyed his 30 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,600 father's will and had disrespected the king. 31 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,920 And so when tragedy unfolded, what did he do? 32 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,400 He ran. 33 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,000 And there was a land that needed him. 34 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,880 There was a people that were hurting and needed his help, but he was far away. 35 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,880 Where was he? 36 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,440 Hanging out with his buddies. 37 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,200 The need is over here. 38 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,720 All these things needed his attention and he was over here. 39 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,600 Was it a terrible life? 40 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,640 No, it wasn't. 41 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:49,480 He made some friends, he made a little warthog, Hakuna Matata, all those things. 42 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:55,840 But the tragedy was over here and there was need and he was far away and he tried to cover 43 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,640 up his shame with distraction. 44 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,680 Now why do I mention that to you? 45 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,960 Because in ministry, I see a lot of people right there. 46 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,960 There was a passion for Jesus. 47 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,360 Maybe it was in high school. 48 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,080 I mean, all the time people tell me things like they'll ask me, what do you do? 49 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,240 And I'll tell them I'm a pastor. 50 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,440 And they're like, oh dude, I was in young life. 51 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,920 And then they kind of look around and go, yeah. 52 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:29,800 And you can tell that somewhere in their life, they derailed. 53 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,440 And I can see a shame cover them. 54 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,040 That there was a time where they were chasing. 55 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,000 And there was a time where they were pursuing. 56 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,880 And then something happened. 57 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,040 A decision happened. 58 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,160 Series of decisions and some social pressure. 59 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:50,800 And then now they've been living years in a place far from where God meant for them to 60 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:51,800 be. 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:57,600 Now, I don't know about you, but my youth camp experience was all kinds of crazy. 62 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:03,240 I would go to camp as a kid and for the first three or four days, there were all these people 63 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,680 like living crazy. 64 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,600 Smoking cigarettes, drinking 40s. 65 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,360 I mean, I had a weird youth group experience. 66 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,320 But by Thursday night, everybody got saved. 67 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,120 And the band was playing and people would be emotionally drawn in. 68 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,760 The speaker would go. 69 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,240 And then at the end, we'd lock pinkies and be singing Friends Are Friends Forever. 70 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,520 You know the song, right? 71 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,720 And then we always have open mic night. 72 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:35,240 And all of us would take turns getting in front of the mic and saying, I'm never going 73 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:36,600 to do that anymore. 74 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,040 I'm going to share Christ with everybody in my school. 75 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,520 Friends making promises. 76 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,720 And I can't think of a single one of us that didn't go home. 77 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,200 And within two weeks, broke every promise. 78 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,400 And we find ourselves sitting on the floor surrounded by our addictions going, I don't 79 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:54,920 know what happened. 80 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,640 I don't know what went off. 81 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:01,720 But I can guarantee most of us, if not all of us, lived through our high school experience 82 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,280 feeling a dense, a deep sense of shame. 83 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:11,840 And it led us into complete ineffectiveness for the kingdom of God. 84 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:15,880 And some of you have been living there for years. 85 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,200 For some of you, it's just been happening this week. 86 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,680 You took some wrong turns and now you begin to wonder, what does God think of you? 87 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,080 And so this morning, I want to answer that question. 88 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:33,680 What does God do with a group of people who make promises and then they start to make decisions 89 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,900 that lead us far from storming the gates of hell? 90 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:39,080 What does He do with us? 91 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,280 What does He think of you when you fail big time? 92 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:45,840 Well, I want us to look at the life of Peter. 93 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:48,320 Now I know all of you probably know who Peter is. 94 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:49,800 He was a disciple of Jesus. 95 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,640 He walked closely by him. 96 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:57,040 Peter was the guy who was kind of all heart and maybe not so much head. 97 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,400 He just really doesn't think things through very well. 98 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,800 He was kind of a ready aim fire kind of guy, which isn't always a bad thing. 99 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,720 It makes a great full back, right? 100 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,320 You don't need a guy who thinks through all that. 101 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,080 Just put your head down and go. 102 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,040 Like that's kind of who Peter is. 103 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:19,200 And so there are some times that it really helped him to be wired that way. 104 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,560 Like in a major moment in Jesus' life, when he looked at his disciples and went, who do 105 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:24,560 you think I am? 106 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,520 Peter's the first one, right? 107 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,080 He's the first one to fire. 108 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,960 He said, I think you're the Son of God. 109 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:32,480 Good job, Peter, right? 110 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:33,480 Good job. 111 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,840 But a couple seconds later, he starts giving Jesus advice. 112 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:41,080 He's like, hold on Messiah, you got this thing all wrong. 113 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,000 And he starts telling him how to live his own life. 114 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,320 Peter's not always thinking things through, is he? 115 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,160 Like in the Garden of Gethsemane, he's falling asleep. 116 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,080 And Jesus just wants him to pray, but he's not into it. 117 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:57,240 He's not feeling it. 118 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,840 So he wakes up and suddenly sees all these troops around Jesus. 119 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:04,320 All this commotion. 120 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,320 And they have weapons and there's flames and there's all this going on. 121 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,040 And Peter gets up and he pulls out a sword, right, ready to attack him. 122 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:15,760 He's trying to end a guy's life and he gets to lobe. 123 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:16,760 That's all he gets. 124 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,760 He just gets a lobe. 125 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,080 He's trying to end a guy and gets a lobe. 126 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,840 I mean, he's not a real organized human being, is he? 127 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,240 And Jesus tells him to knock it off. 128 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,760 They arrest Jesus and take him to the courtyard and they beat him and mock him and Peter follows 129 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:30,360 him. 130 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:35,080 And there in that moment, when all this adrenaline is sapped out, he sits around a fire and a 131 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,040 little girl goes, hey, don't you know that guy? 132 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,040 Don't you know him? 133 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,600 And he just says, no, I don't. 134 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,280 And he's asked again a little while later, are you sure? 135 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,160 Because you kind of look like that dude that used to walk with him. 136 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:49,280 You kind of look like him. 137 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,040 And he's like, no, I don't. 138 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:56,800 The third time, right, to prove that he's not really one of those holy people. 139 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,200 He starts cussing like a sailor just to show them I'm not like him. 140 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,280 I don't know anything about him. 141 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,360 And in that moment, not only does the rooster crow. 142 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,680 But the book of Luke says that in that moment, Jesus looked him dead in the eye and he could 143 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,680 sense that shame and Peter left and he cried. 144 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:22,160 The sad thing is, I think a lot of us know what that feels like, don't we, to violate 145 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:28,400 not only our own conscience, but what we know is the expressed will of God. 146 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,240 And so what's God going to do with people like us? 147 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:31,560 Well, I'm going to invite Luke up here. 148 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:36,520 Luke's going to read our passage this morning in John chapter 21. 149 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,960 And so I'm going to invite you as he comes to read the first few verses of this chapter 150 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:49,880 to stand as we honor the Lord's word together and then we'll dive into this. 151 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,600 After this, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the sea of Tiberius. 152 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,400 And he revealed himself in this way. 153 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:01,680 Simon Peter, Thomas, called a twin, Nathaniel, of Canaan, Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and 154 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:03,520 two other of his disciples were together. 155 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,840 Simon Peter said to them, I'm going fishing and they said to him, we will go with you. 156 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,280 They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 157 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,520 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore, yet the disciples did not know that 158 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,000 it was Jesus. 159 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,400 Jesus said to them, children, do you have any fish? 160 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:22,400 They answered him, no. 161 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:27,920 And he said to them, cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some. 162 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:28,920 So they cast it. 163 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,760 Now they were not able to haul it in because of the quantity of fish. 164 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,400 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, it is the Lord. 165 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,160 Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord. 166 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:43,280 He put on his outer garment for he was stripped for work and threw himself into the sea. 167 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,560 The other disciples came in the boat dragging the net full of fish and they were not far 168 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,880 from the land, but about a hundred jugs off. 169 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:51,880 Let's pray. 170 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:52,880 Father God, thank you for this day. 171 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:53,880 Thank you for Luke. 172 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,880 Thank you for his willingness to read your word today. 173 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,520 I pray God as we examine this familiar story that you will just open our hearts to hear 174 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:01,520 from you today. 175 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,520 We thank you for what you're doing in this place. 176 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,520 Your name is pray. 177 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:05,520 Amen. 178 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:06,520 Thanks Luke. 179 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:17,040 So this passage, this is after Jesus has been resurrected. 180 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,000 He's appearing to his disciples and it's confusing to them. 181 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,400 They don't understand it. 182 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,880 He's not hanging around, but it's getting some expectation and some hope built up into 183 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:28,960 the people. 184 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,120 And so he shows up to the girls once the book of Mark says that he comes to his ladies' 185 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,280 disciples and he tells them, hey, tell the boys and Peter to meet me in Galilee. 186 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,680 And so the disciples, they go to Galilee and when they arrive there meaning to wait on 187 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,680 Jesus, Peter makes a decision in verse three. 188 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:54,720 Peter who has walked far from God, who he swore he would love forever arrives back to 189 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,840 the sea of Galilee and says, I'm going fishing. 190 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,800 Now, now, now, why would he go fishing? 191 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,400 You've got to look at who is speaking and what they're saying. 192 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,720 This is Peter saying, I'm going fishing. 193 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,840 It would be like for me to later today to walk up to my wife and say, hey, I'm going 194 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,840 to go play some basketball. 195 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:20,800 Her mental image of me going to go play some basketball would be me putting on my shoes, 196 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,400 going to the Y and just trying to dribble and get the ball into the hoop. 197 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,700 That is what her picture would be. 198 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:32,760 But we all remember if you're old enough, back in the 90s, after that tragic situation 199 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:39,120 with baseball, Michael Jordan, he comes to this press conference and he says the exact 200 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,120 same thing. 201 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:44,200 I'm going to go play basketball. 202 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,960 And that meant a whole different thing, doesn't it? 203 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:52,280 I don't think anybody in that crowd or that was watching on TV thought for a second, oh, 204 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:57,920 he's going to go put some shoes on and go shoot around with his kids in the driveway. 205 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,560 We knew, right? 206 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:01,200 This is Jordan. 207 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,560 This is a career move. 208 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:04,400 This is millions of dollars. 209 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,240 This is a new direction. 210 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,240 And so here you've got Peter, who is a fisherman for all of his life. 211 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,360 That is what he grew up doing right up until the moment that Jesus says, hey, you know 212 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:15,360 what? 213 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:16,360 You used to do this. 214 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,720 You used to do this for a living. 215 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,400 Now I want you fishing with me. 216 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:26,040 And so Peter looks in this moment and I think he sees he's denied his Lord. 217 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,640 He's heard rumors of him coming around and he doesn't know if he's still qualified for 218 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:32,640 the game. 219 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,760 And so he takes a regressive step backwards, right? 220 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,360 He goes back to the familiar. 221 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,640 He's not going on mission trips anymore. 222 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:44,360 He kind of fell out of the Bible study deal and he's not going back to the places that 223 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,360 he used to go. 224 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,360 He says, hey, I'm going fishing. 225 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,920 I think shame has pulled him in a different direction. 226 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,200 And it's interesting. 227 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:54,200 It's interesting to me. 228 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,200 He's not alone. 229 00:12:55,200 --> 00:13:00,200 It says in verse three that the other said, we will go with you. 230 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,880 It's funny how people kind of rationalize their sense sometimes and go, well, this is 231 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:05,880 just my life. 232 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:06,880 It's my life. 233 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,120 Well, it's never just your life. 234 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,000 We're all knit together. 235 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,440 You're an influencer. 236 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,600 Peter is a leader and they get out of the boat with him. 237 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,840 And then it says in the universe three, they went out and got into the boat, but that night 238 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,760 they caught nothing. 239 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,400 Why did they catch nothing? 240 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,840 We're going to find out later, but it's God. 241 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,360 He's God messing with his people and that's what he does. 242 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,080 Is he going to let you waste your life? 243 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,080 No. 244 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:35,080 He's got a plan for you. 245 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,000 And so he begins by complicating things. 246 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,320 It says in verse four, early in the morning Jesus stood on the shore in the midst of their 247 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,880 frustration of not catching anything all night. 248 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:49,120 Jesus is going to enter the scene again, but it says, but the disciples did not know that 249 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,040 it was Jesus. 250 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,960 Now why didn't they know? 251 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:54,960 What's going on with that? 252 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,040 Have you ever noticed that? 253 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:03,640 Whenever Jesus shows up after the resurrection, people are not recognizing him. 254 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,040 Does a resurrected body look different? 255 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:07,960 Do they not believe it's Jesus? 256 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,240 Is he disfigured because Revelation tells us that the only person in eternity that will 257 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,360 bear his scars is Jesus? 258 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,360 What is it? 259 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,120 Do you know what it is based on my understanding of the Scripture? 260 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,160 I think it's a sense of humor. 261 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:30,560 I mean, you see it one chapter earlier when Mary Magdalene runs in and she sees two angels 262 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,360 dressed in white. 263 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,640 There's no mistaking who they are. 264 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:35,840 And she says, where's the Lord? 265 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,800 You're like, he's not here. 266 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:45,600 And so she turns around and she looks right at Jesus and he says, why are you crying? 267 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,760 He knows why she's crying. 268 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,360 Who are you looking for? 269 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,040 He knows who she's looking for. 270 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,560 Why is he doing that? 271 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,960 And then you see she keeps the conversation going. 272 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,920 Well, I'm looking for my Lord and I can't find him. 273 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,200 And you're like, why is she not figuring it out? 274 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,200 It's him. 275 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,200 Why can't she not see this? 276 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,560 It's later that in the text it's because she thought he was the gardener. 277 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,880 Why? 278 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,720 I think it's because Jesus was messing with the bushes. 279 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,720 Having this conversation. 280 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,320 Hey, who are you looking for? 281 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,920 You know, I think that's what it was. 282 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:30,520 And it wasn't until Jesus looked at her and said, marry, that she knew it was Jesus. 283 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:31,760 You see it in the book of Luke. 284 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,520 Two disciples are walking along the road to Emmaus and he comes walking along and he hears 285 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,360 them talking about what's been going on in Jerusalem. 286 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,280 And he says, hey, what are you talking about? 287 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,280 What's going on? 288 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:48,120 They say, you've got to be the only person in Jerusalem who doesn't know what's been 289 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,080 happening these last few days. 290 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,520 And he goes, what things? 291 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,400 He knows what things, right? 292 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:00,000 And he goes, they start telling him about his own death. 293 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,560 And then he's like, oh, that's interesting. 294 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,560 Wait a minute. 295 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,880 Wasn't that meant to fulfill prophecies in Scripture? 296 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:10,640 And then he begins to unpack the Old Testament to them, still not letting them know who he 297 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:11,840 is. 298 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:17,080 And then it says they arrive at their destination and he pretends that he's going to walk further 299 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,080 until they invite him to dinner. 300 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,440 And it says right in that moment he breaks bread. 301 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,040 He's like, hey, dudes, it's me. 302 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,480 Now that's a loose translation. 303 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:28,560 And then he's gone. 304 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:29,560 He just disappears. 305 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:34,280 And so he waits until the seven mile trip is over. 306 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,320 And then they're like, that was Jesus. 307 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,760 And they run back another seven miles to go where the other disciples are hiding. 308 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,560 And they're like, we saw Jesus. 309 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,240 The others are saying, I'm not sure if I believe you. 310 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,440 And then right there in the middle of the panic, it says that Jesus just appears to 311 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:56,080 them and says, peace be with you, which I think is funny because it terrifies them and 312 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,120 does the exact opposite of what Jesus says. 313 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,120 Right? 314 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:01,120 Peace be with you. 315 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,240 And they just kind of freak out. 316 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:07,360 And in that moment to prove that he's really resurrected from the dead, he's like, they 317 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:10,200 saw him die and he's back to life. 318 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,560 And he goes, do you have any fish? 319 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,240 They go, yeah. 320 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,640 And he just starts eating. 321 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,440 This is how I know the Bible is true because nobody would make that up. 322 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,280 Nobody would make up that story. 323 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,280 I'm back from the dead. 324 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,840 And for my next trick, does anybody have a piece of salmon or whatever fish they had 325 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:28,840 there? 326 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:29,840 Right? 327 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,600 So what's Jesus doing when he comes up to this guy's? 328 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:33,600 No fish. 329 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,440 And he walks back to them looking, verse five, it says he called out to them. 330 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,840 He says, hey, don't you have any fish? 331 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Do you? 332 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:47,360 And he basically says, hey, the lifestyle that you've been following, it's not really 333 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:49,760 working out for you, is it? 334 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:53,360 What you're doing is not really working out for your best, is it? 335 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:54,920 And I love their answer. 336 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,680 It's just one word. 337 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:58,680 No. 338 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,040 I mean, you can hear and feel the tension in it. 339 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,560 They're like, can't he see the net? 340 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,400 I mean, who is this guy? 341 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,640 Because they don't know it's Jesus yet. 342 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:12,080 And yet in verse six, he said to them, throw your net on the right side of the boat and 343 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,080 you will find some. 344 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:18,320 When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish. 345 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,280 Now this isn't the first time we've seen this, is it? 346 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:27,160 Jesus said the exact same miracle before, but when did he do it? 347 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,280 When he first called Peter. 348 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,880 And it was in that moment, Scripture tells us that Peter hit his knees and said, get 349 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:35,720 away from me, Lord. 350 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:36,720 Get away from me. 351 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:37,760 I'm not a good person. 352 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,440 And Jesus says, that's not what I'm here to do. 353 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,960 He said, I'm here to change your life. 354 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,080 You follow me because I'm going to make you a fisher of men. 355 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,800 Now, why is that significant here in John 21? 356 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,240 Because that's how the relationship began. 357 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,360 That's how the beautiful moment where Jesus looked Peter in the face and says, you're 358 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:01,960 coming with me. 359 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,040 You're coming with me. 360 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:08,040 And now Peter has denied him in front of God and everybody. 361 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,480 How do you feel when you do that? 362 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,320 How do you feel at 2 AM when you just did the thing you promised you would never do 363 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,320 again? 364 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,360 How do you handle that situation? 365 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:28,240 Well, Peter sitting on the boat and Jesus makes the decision to recreate the exact miracle 366 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,720 where he called Peter into a relationship to begin with. 367 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,400 I mean, isn't that a beautiful picture? 368 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,400 It's not Nathaniel's miracle. 369 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:39,400 There's no fig tree here. 370 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,400 It's not Matthew's miracle. 371 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,120 There's no tax booth. 372 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:45,440 This is Peter's miracle, the exact same way. 373 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,800 You see, John knew what was happening. 374 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,520 He knew how Peter felt. 375 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,640 He saw the miracle being recreated. 376 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,080 So he grabs Peter. 377 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,680 Do you see what's happening here? 378 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:57,680 That's the Lord. 379 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,680 And so what does Peter do? 380 00:19:58,680 --> 00:19:59,680 I love verse 7. 381 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,680 He says, as soon as Simon Peter heard that it was a Lord, he ran away. 382 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,680 He grabbed his outer garment around him for he had taken it off and jumped into the water. 383 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,200 So he doesn't run from God. 384 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:10,400 He runs towards him. 385 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,920 And I love it because this is sweet Peter again, right? 386 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,640 This is him not thinking things through and he pulls a forest gump, right? 387 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:18,800 In the middle of this. 388 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:19,800 And I love it. 389 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:25,080 Like, listen, all the movies I've ever seen, people take off their clothes to jump into 390 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,080 the water. 391 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,080 Not Peter. 392 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,960 No, let me get my jacket on and then I'm going for it. 393 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,800 I mean, I don't know how it works back then. 394 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,120 And I love that you can see the relationship here. 395 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:39,120 This passes between the disciples as well because listen to John and verse 8. 396 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,200 You see this all throughout the scriptures as this interplay. 397 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,120 They're in a relationship with one another. 398 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:48,240 Verse 8, the other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they 399 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:53,200 were not far from the shore, about 100 yards. 400 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,080 So John saying, we weren't far from the land. 401 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,200 They were dragging the net of fish. 402 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,960 See John, who was a little bit more of a thinker, is like the rest of us kind of like rode three 403 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,680 times and we were on the shore. 404 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,000 Thanks for nothing, Peter, right? 405 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,600 I mean, that's kind of what's going on here. 406 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,320 And in verse 9, it says, when they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with 407 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:15,920 fish in it and some bread. 408 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:16,920 I love that. 409 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,480 Does Jesus need our help? 410 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,480 No, he does not. 411 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,320 And yet in verse 10, he says, bring some of the fish that you caught. 412 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,720 He doesn't need us, but he lets us be a part of it anyway. 413 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,440 In verse 11, it says, so Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. 414 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,360 It was full of large fish, 153. 415 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,960 But even with so many, the net was not torn. 416 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,080 And Jesus said to them, come, come any breakfast. 417 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,720 Come any breakfast. 418 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:46,760 So how does Jesus respond to the wayward disciple? 419 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:53,120 How does he teach those who loved him and swore allegiance to him and yet have fallen back 420 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,240 into sin? 421 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,320 Does he condemn? 422 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:58,640 Does he scream? 423 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,640 Does he beat you? 424 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,640 No. 425 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,320 He cooks breakfast. 426 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:11,040 You know, it's easy to hear the testimony of the person who was a horrible mess before 427 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,120 they came to Christ and then came to Christ and their lives are wonderful. 428 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,120 That's so convenient. 429 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:21,040 But do you know what's the really tough testimony? 430 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,920 Those who came to know Christ early and are then making a horrible mess of their lives 431 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,360 when we know better. 432 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:31,480 That's a real hard story, isn't it? 433 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,480 That's different. 434 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:33,960 That's Peter's story. 435 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,840 And how does Jesus come to him? 436 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,240 How does Jesus respond to him? 437 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,520 He's not the voice that stands up and beats you down. 438 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,480 He says, come and sit with me. 439 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:50,320 To have someone sit at a meal with you is to invite them into a relationship. 440 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,000 And Jesus says, you haven't lost connection with me. 441 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,080 You haven't lost that. 442 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,040 Let's sit together. 443 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,680 Now that's grace. 444 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:05,240 And when God comes to you in your sin, even today, he does it with grace. 445 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,120 That's the arm that he always extends first. 446 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:16,560 And for some of you, that voice that whips you in your head, that beats you, I think 447 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,680 far too many of us ascribe that to the Lord. 448 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,560 He doesn't do it that way. 449 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,360 There's a beautiful parallel in the Old Testament, in the prophet Elijah. 450 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:29,600 He's this great servant of the Lord. 451 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,640 Brought the whole nation back to the Lord, where they were worshiping other gods. 452 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:40,080 He's the one who stepped forward and proclaimed the name of Yahweh all by himself. 453 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,120 Fire came down from heaven. 454 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,920 He prayed for no rain, and it doesn't rain for three years. 455 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,480 He was a powerful minister of God. 456 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:54,160 And then he found out that the queen wanted to kill him, so he just ran. 457 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,120 He ran into the middle of the desert. 458 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:59,080 Not the best PR for God, right? 459 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,040 After he's done all these other things. 460 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,080 And when he's exhausted, he says, God kill me now. 461 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,320 Wipe me out now. 462 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:11,040 And when God comes to him, does he wake him up? 463 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:15,280 Does he wake him up and just start kicking him and go, what's the matter with you? 464 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,480 Get your life together. 465 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,760 No, it says an angel shakes him awake, and there's some fresh bread and some water. 466 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,640 And he says, eat. 467 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,440 This journey was far too much for you. 468 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,040 And so he eats, and he goes back to sleep. 469 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,320 He wakes him up again, feeds him again, and lets him sleep some more. 470 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:37,760 And it's after that rest where there's this tenderness where he says, what are you doing 471 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,840 here Elijah? 472 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,840 What are you doing here? 473 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:46,720 God will always come to you with grace first. 474 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,520 He extends the hand of kindness. 475 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:50,880 He loves you. 476 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,400 If you're his kid, he cherishes you. 477 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,960 And when you sin, is he pleased with it? 478 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,560 Of course not. 479 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,560 But he doesn't come with a hammer. 480 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,400 He comes with grace. 481 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,960 And his kindness is what leads us to repentance. 482 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:11,040 And so it's interesting, he comes to him with the, Jesus comes to Peter with his display 483 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,480 of this first miracle. 484 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,280 Telling him, the relationship with me, it's intact. 485 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,320 So he recreates that scene. 486 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,120 But it doesn't stop there. 487 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,640 He's going to recreate a second one. 488 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,600 You see it in that word charcoal fire. 489 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,480 Did you notice how odd it is that he calls it a fire of charcoal, or a charcoal fire in 490 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,720 verse 9? 491 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,120 Why does it say that? 492 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:43,880 Well, the truth is it's a really weird word for fire. 493 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:49,880 I mean you get fire all over the Bible, but the word charcoal fire, you only get twice. 494 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,360 It only shows up twice in the whole Bible, both in the book of John. 495 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,720 One is in this moment. 496 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:02,200 The other is the fire Peter was sitting around when he denied even knowing Jesus. 497 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,840 So Jesus is going to recreate two moments. 498 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:09,400 The moment we came to love each other and walk together and the moment that you really 499 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:10,400 screwed up. 500 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,000 He's going to recreate these moments. 501 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,360 Isn't that interesting here? 502 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:17,860 That's what grace does. 503 00:26:17,860 --> 00:26:21,600 He takes him to that moment and says, you're mine. 504 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,280 You're safe. 505 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,960 But we've got to deal with this moment in the past. 506 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,320 We've got to deal with this other thing. 507 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:28,920 And that's what grace will do. 508 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,320 Will grace pass over sin? 509 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,920 No. 510 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,800 Grace will make you deal with it. 511 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,000 He doesn't beat us, but he calls us to repent. 512 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,280 And that's what he'll do with Peter. 513 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,640 Look further in the passage where it says, when they have finished breakfast, Jesus said 514 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,520 to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? 515 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:50,520 That's interesting. 516 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:55,200 I don't know if Peter caught on with what was happening when he saw the charcoal fire. 517 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,360 Part of me thinks that he does. 518 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:01,080 Like he saw that and went, oh, crud. 519 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:05,000 Like I have a feeling that he probably had a hard time eating breakfast that morning 520 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,200 because there was a sing in his stomach. 521 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,200 Maybe he missed it. 522 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,200 I don't know. 523 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,320 But I think verse 15 gives it to him when he calls him Simon, son of John. 524 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:19,880 Because if you look in the Bible, he only calls him that four times. 525 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:25,040 And every time he calls him Simon, son of John, it's these major moments in his life. 526 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,320 It's like when your mom calls you by your full name. 527 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,560 When you get middle named, you know I better be paying attention right here, right? 528 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,920 And so it's kind of like that moment. 529 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,240 So he looks at him and says, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? 530 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,680 Verse 15, he said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. 531 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,800 He said to him, feed my sheep. 532 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,080 He says to him a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? 533 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,920 He said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. 534 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,800 He said to him, tend my sheep. 535 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,040 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? 536 00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:00,960 Peter was greed, it says, because he said to him the third time, do you love me? 537 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,200 And he said to him, Lord, you know everything. 538 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,680 You know that I love you. 539 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,520 Jesus said to him, feed my sheep. 540 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,360 Every time I read that, when I was younger, I always saw Jesus was kind of being mean, 541 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:19,560 kind of picking on him because he's walking him through three denials again, right? 542 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,160 With a do you love me? 543 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,400 Like I feel like Jesus was kind of picking on him. 544 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,400 Jesus is like, do you love me? 545 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,800 Yeah, are you sure? 546 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,880 Yeah, because your track record doesn't show that. 547 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,480 Are you sure that you love me? 548 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,480 Are you sure? 549 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,600 Make sure you're paying attention to what I'm asking you. 550 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,400 Make sure you're paying attention to what I'm saying and how you're answering. 551 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,800 And he says, you know I do, right? 552 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:40,800 Peter says, you know I do. 553 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,000 And he says, feed my sheep. 554 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,440 If you think about that, this isn't Jesus picking on him because what direction is he pointing? 555 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,440 He's pointing to the future. 556 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,640 It's a call back to ministry. 557 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:52,840 Do you love me? 558 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,320 Yes, then let's go. 559 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:56,880 Then let's get back after it. 560 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,000 There's more to do. 561 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,240 There's hurting people. 562 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,360 There's sheep. 563 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,520 Sheep are confused animals and they get lost a lot is what Jesus is telling them. 564 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,080 Come with me and let's go. 565 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,200 Help people. 566 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,560 Stop wallowing. 567 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,160 Stop feeling guilty. 568 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,480 Stop being the victim. 569 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,480 Let's get back to work. 570 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,040 Let's get past it and let's move on. 571 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,280 And so I think Jesus is saving his life here. 572 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,640 I think Jesus is doing a miracle in Peter's life here because if he hadn't done that to 573 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:30,280 him then every time that Peter was sitting around a fire, do you not think that moment 574 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,600 of his denial would come back to him? 575 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:39,840 Do you not think that every time the rooster crowed, he would remember how he looked Jesus 576 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,440 in the eyes and remember that shame? 577 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:48,880 I think Jesus is rescuing him by saying, do you still see that I love you? 578 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,960 Do you still see that we're in this together? 579 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,840 Okay, then let's go back to this place of brokenness and let's revive it. 580 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,760 Let's make this horrible place a place of life, this charcoal fire. 581 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:06,400 For some of you, you walked in here and the weight of guilt is on you. 582 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:13,160 Yeah, you're still coming to church but the fire of pursuing Christ's glory in this world 583 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,200 is gone. 584 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,160 And so when it's time to pray here, you don't really pray, you just kind of look at your 585 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,520 feet. 586 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,600 When it's time to sing, you just kind of just look around and check your watch to see how 587 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,280 much longer we have. 588 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,760 And when it comes to seeking God on your own, in your house, you just can never seem to 589 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,720 find the time to do that. 590 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,200 The passion's gone. 591 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:47,560 And because when you think about Him, all you can think about is that guilt. 592 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,360 All you can think about is the bad decisions that you've made. 593 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,040 Can I tell you something? 594 00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:02,200 He's going to call you and he's going to say, you're still mine. 595 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,440 You haven't lost that but we've got to deal with this. 596 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:07,440 We've got to deal with this issue. 597 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:12,480 He's going to keep taking you back to that sexual addiction saying, let's get that out 598 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:18,920 of here because I want you to be free so that you can help chase the others. 599 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,600 So you can help the others but we've got to deal with this sin. 600 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,200 We've got to deal with this addiction. 601 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,080 He's going to take you to your obsession with your image. 602 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,760 When you look in the mirror, when you look at others in their Instagram filters and he's 603 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,120 going to say, you've got to get past that. 604 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,600 You can never help others if you can't look past yourself. 605 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,680 He's going to keep taking you to that place of pain until you deal with it because he's 606 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:45,680 mean. 607 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,680 No. 608 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:47,680 No. 609 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:53,880 So you can move past it and it won't dominate your experience in this world. 610 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:59,320 And so for some of us, it's going to be very uncomfortable. 611 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:06,240 My hope for you is that the most spiritual, most Christian thing you'll do this week is 612 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:12,760 to find a trusted Christian friend and confess. 613 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:17,160 These are the sins that have got my mind all mixed around. 614 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:23,160 These are the sins that are keeping me from having a passion for Jesus. 615 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,320 Can I just talk to you about them? 616 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,480 Will you pray with me? 617 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,680 Will you hold me accountable? 618 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,400 Because there's work to be done. 619 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,720 There's sheep out there in this world in a lot of pain. 620 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:41,360 And anytime Jesus mentions sheep, he mentions it because they're lost. 621 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,360 They're scattered. 622 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,360 They're confused. 623 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,800 They don't even know what they're doing. 624 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,000 Sheep are the most helpless animals in all of creation. 625 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,280 They have no natural defense systems whatsoever. 626 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,840 None. 627 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,080 Any other animal, some can bite you. 628 00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,400 Some can run fast. 629 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,980 Some can inflate themselves and shoot out needles. 630 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:05,040 Some have distinct sprays. 631 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,720 There's this lizard that can shoot blood out of their eyes. 632 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,280 I mean, that's good enough for me. 633 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,280 That's gross. 634 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,720 I'm not going to touch that one. 635 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,440 Everything has a defense system except for sheep. 636 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:21,960 And Jesus looks at the lost world and he says they're just like sheep. 637 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,820 They have no idea how to find water unless someone helps them. 638 00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:32,000 They have no idea how to keep away from the sins of the dark if someone doesn't come rescue 639 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,000 them. 640 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,560 Do you think that describes junior high? 641 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,840 Do you think that describes high school? 642 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:44,760 Do you think it describes so much of the world who is lost in the darkness and too many of 643 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,560 us? 644 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:55,960 Too many of us who name the name of Jesus are not dominated by his passion to heal the 645 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,160 world. 646 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:04,480 We are dominated by the guilt of a sin we committed who knows how long ago. 647 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,360 And he says the time is over, Peter. 648 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:08,360 The time is over. 649 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:15,040 Don't let your mistakes dominate your existence where you just hide behind comforts and don't 650 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,040 seek my great mission. 651 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,440 He's saying no more fish, Peter, sheep. 652 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,280 And it's the same with us. 653 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,600 No more fish. 654 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,760 No more comfort. 655 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,520 Sheep. 656 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:35,240 My prayer for you today is that you would not let the sins of your past dominate you but 657 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:40,240 that you would let him heal you. 658 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:44,160 It's what he did with Jonah. 659 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,880 He said Jonah, rise, go to Nineveh. 660 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,160 What did Jonah do? 661 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:54,840 He arose and he fled to Tarshish, the complete opposite direction. 662 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,640 Did God ditch him? 663 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,200 And he said, well, there goes Jonah. 664 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,840 Amos, you ready to tap in? 665 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,160 Micah, you out for this? 666 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,160 He didn't do that. 667 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,160 He sends that storm into Jonah's life. 668 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:14,040 And for some of you, he's been rocking your boat. 669 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,480 He's rocking your boat. 670 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,040 And when he starts to drown, he sends a fish to rescue him. 671 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:25,840 Now, is a fish the most comfortable means of transportation? 672 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,240 I don't think so. 673 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:30,240 I'm guessing not. 674 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:35,960 And for some of you, the way he's going to rescue you from your addictions is not going 675 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,680 to be comfortable. 676 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,760 But he praises God when he hits the shore. 677 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:48,040 And God dropped him right back at Nineveh and said, let's move. 678 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,040 Let's go. 679 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,840 Let's go find some sheep. 680 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,160 Let's bring some light into a dark place. 681 00:35:54,160 --> 00:36:00,240 And for some of you, that's the exact motion he wants from you. 682 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:02,240 Don't waste this week. 683 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:07,320 Don't waste your life letting your sins of the past dominate how you see yourself in 684 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,960 a hurting world. 685 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,680 Let's get past them. 686 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,120 Let's go. 687 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,240 Let's feed sheep. 688 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,280 There's a hurting world and they need us. 689 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:25,120 And what I love about Easter is that sometimes it wakes people up, right? 690 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,240 Sometimes it wakes people up and they stay away from church, but then they come back 691 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:33,640 and they hear about his grace and it ignites that passion again. 692 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:39,320 It's like a reset button, right? 693 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:44,400 And so my challenge to you as we get ready to take communion is how are you living life 694 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:54,520 comfortably where you're going back to the familiar? 695 00:36:54,520 --> 00:37:02,040 And maybe Jesus has brought you back to the church because he wants to create that same 696 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:09,640 miracle in you so that you walk out of here not going back to the comfortable, but going 697 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,640 to go get some sheep. 698 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,520 So I'm going to pray for us. 699 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,520 We'll take communion together. 700 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,520 Give you time to think about that. 701 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,520 Amen? 702 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:19,520 Let's pray. 703 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:28,520 Father, I pray that you will put charcoal fires around us this morning. 704 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,400 That you will help us understand that we are welcomed with grace, but we've got to deal 705 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:41,760 with our sin before we can go get the lost world. 706 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:48,640 So Father, I pray that as we get ready to take communion, that you will reignite the 707 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,680 passion that we once had, that we will not be defined by our past anymore. 708 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,680 But our focus will be on you completely. 709 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:04,680 So God, give you this time. 710 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,680 Do what you will. 711 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:14,680 Amen. 712 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:25,680 Amen. 713 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:56,680 Amen. 714 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:42,680 Amen. 715 00:39:44,680 --> 00:40:09,680 Amen. 716 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:35,680 Amen. 717 00:40:39,680 --> 00:41:05,680 Amen. 718 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:31,680 Amen. 719 00:41:35,680 --> 00:42:01,680 Amen. 720 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:26,680 Amen.