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SUNDAY_WARNING_DON_T_IGNORE_WHAT_GOD_IS_SHOWING_YOU_ABOUT_YOUR · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: No more me but you.
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  Speaker 2: Hide my flesh behind the cross, that it will not
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  Speaker 2: glory in thy sight. And speak to this thy people,
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  Speaker 2: O God. In the name of Jesus we pray, amen.
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  Speaker 2: You may be seated. Let's go to work. I have
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  Speaker 2: always been bivocational. I have not always had to be bivocational,
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  Speaker 2: but I have always chosen to be bivocational. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: it was a necessity. I pastored a church that couldn't
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  Speaker 2: feed me. I pastored a church that couldn't feed itself,
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  Speaker 2: that couldn't keep its lights on, that couldn't keep its
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  Speaker 2: utilities on. The only way I could pastor the church
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  Speaker 2: was go to work and take most of my salary
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  Speaker 2: and throw it in the church to keep it going.
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  Speaker 2: When I ran out of money, my mother started putting
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  Speaker 2: her money in it. My mother's sister told her, they
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  Speaker 2: call her Tooth. They said, Tooth, don't put all your
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  Speaker 2: money in that boy's church. You got to be wise.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting older. It ain't going to be nothing. Don't
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  Speaker 2: put all your money in that church. And my mother
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  Speaker 2: kept right on sewing. As usual, mama was right. I
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  Speaker 2: come to learn that from those days to now, that
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  Speaker 2: there are things that you learn outside of the household
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  Speaker 2: of faith that strengthen you. your understanding of faith that
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  Speaker 2: keeps you in touch with ordinary people, that keeps you
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  Speaker 2: tied into the culture. I like to interact with people.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to be isolated. I don't like to
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  Speaker 2: be put in a cage. I don't live in my
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  Speaker 2: house and not come out. I still go to Kroger's,
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  Speaker 2: pick out my chicken wings, see what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Now I'm bivocational. I have a ministry, but
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  Speaker 2: I also have a business. My business centers around entertainment
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  Speaker 2: and real estate. And we've been doing some amazing things
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  Speaker 2: in entertainment. I learned a lot about entertainment. I get
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  Speaker 2: scripts from all over the world. I look at scripts.
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  Speaker 2: I look at stories all the time. And I have
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  Speaker 2: learned that the worst stories are stories that do not
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  Speaker 2: depict realistic characters. Realistic characters are different from idealistic characters.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: We spend all of our lives trying to act like
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  Speaker 2: ideal people. But we don't want to watch ideal people.
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  Speaker 2: Because ideal people are boring. And because ideal people are
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  Speaker 2: not realistic. Because ideal people are fictitious. We want reality.
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  Speaker 2: Realistic characters demand that the character has an arc and
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  Speaker 2: that they have a conflict. That they have an arc
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  Speaker 2: in their life that we can watch them go through
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  Speaker 2: ups and downs and ins and outs and back and
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  Speaker 2: forth and that they have a conflict. That is to
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  Speaker 2: say that if you've lived long enough, you've learned that
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  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of bad in the best person.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a little bit of good in the worst person.
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  Speaker 2: And you cannot really judge a person just by one
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  Speaker 2: moment or one scene out of their lives. I know
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  Speaker 2: what we say in public, but down in our hearts
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  Speaker 2: we realize that you can catch a person at a
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  Speaker 2: bad season in their life and them not be as
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  Speaker 2: effective as.
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  Speaker 1: They are in other seasons.
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  Speaker 2: This is why David would rather be judged by God
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  Speaker 2: than to be judged by man. Because you can do
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  Speaker 2: a hundred things right and do one thing wrong and
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  Speaker 2: man will always talk about what you did wrong and
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  Speaker 2: never remember what you did right. God uses ordinary people.
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  Speaker 2: He does in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 2: he lets us see all into the personal lives of
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  Speaker 2: the people that he called. Thank God for the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament because it gives us a realistic view of people
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  Speaker 2: who were good and bad, who were strong and weak,
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  Speaker 2: who were right and wrong, who were victorious and victimized.
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  Speaker 2: It helps us to assess our own life, that your
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  Speaker 2: life is not going to be a straight line. It's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be a straight horizontal. There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be peaks and valleys and uprisings and down settings, such
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  Speaker 2: as life. Somebody was talking to me the other day
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  Speaker 2: about something they were going through, and I told them
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  Speaker 2: life is doing what life does. Life is just doing
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  Speaker 2: what life does. It's not a demonic attack. It's not
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  Speaker 2: spiritual warfare. Life is just doing what life does.
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  Speaker 1: It gives and it takes. It makes you laugh. It
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  Speaker 1: makes you cry.
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  Speaker 2: It has moments of victory and it has moments of defeat.
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  Speaker 2: Such is the case with the character before us today.
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  Speaker 2: He's an interesting character. I must admit that if I
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  Speaker 2: were Jesus, I probably would not knowingly have gotten involved
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  Speaker 2: with this guy. There are certain people if you get
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  Speaker 2: involved with them, they're going to be a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: All of us are going to be some work. But
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  Speaker 2: there are certain people that's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work. This guy was a lot of work. I
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  Speaker 2: would have tried to. If I only had 12 guys
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  Speaker 2: and three years to get it all done, I'd try
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  Speaker 2: to pick 12 of the best to make it easy
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  Speaker 2: so that I didn't have to waste time ministering inwardly
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  Speaker 2: while I'm trying to reach outwardly.
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  Speaker 1: But such is life. Such is life.
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  Speaker 2: You're always ministering outwardly and inwardly simultaneously. You're always trying
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  Speaker 2: to be a message to the world and not lose
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  Speaker 2: your own house. You're always trying to encourage somebody and
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  Speaker 2: wrestling with discouragement inside of yourself. Where are my real
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  Speaker 2: people at? But Jesus had to get a hold to
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  Speaker 2: this guy because this guy did not know who he was.
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus first met him, he is one of the
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  Speaker 2: first disciples Jesus picked. This guy thought he was just
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  Speaker 2: a businessman. He thought he was a business owner. He
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  Speaker 2: had a fishing company. He had a fishing fleet. He
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  Speaker 2: went out every day to fish. When Jesus first met him,
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  Speaker 2: that's how he saw himself, as a fisherman. And Jesus
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  Speaker 2: had a higher vision of him and said, I will
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  Speaker 2: make you fishers of men. Right now, you're fishers of fish.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing what you're going to do on a lower level.
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  Speaker 2: Your history is always a glimpse of what you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do in your destiny. God's going to take something
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  Speaker 2: that you already did and take it to the next
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  Speaker 2: level and use it to bless you.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to the next dimension.
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  Speaker 2: You're still going to be fishing, but you're going to
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  Speaker 2: fish in another kind of way. And he gets a
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  Speaker 2: hold to Peter and he comes along on Peter at
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  Speaker 2: a time that Peter is washing his nets. He's washing
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  Speaker 2: his nets. He thought he was through for the day.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus walks down to the seashore and Peter and
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  Speaker 2: Andrew are washing their nets. And Jesus says to him,
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  Speaker 2: can I use your boat? Suppose Peter had said no.
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  Speaker 2: That's my boat. I don't know you. I might have
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  Speaker 2: said no.
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  Speaker 1: Don't look at me all funny. Can I use your car?
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  Speaker 2: That's the equivalent of somebody strange, you don't know, just
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  Speaker 2: walking up to you saying, can I borrow your car?
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  Speaker 2: Peter's boat was his livelihood. But he freely, he had
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  Speaker 2: a giving spirit. That might be why God chose him.
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  Speaker 2: He had a giving, generous spirit. The very thing that
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  Speaker 2: all your friends tell you to stop being, that might
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  Speaker 2: be the very thing that got him, got his whole
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  Speaker 2: life changed. He had not become cynical yet. He had
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  Speaker 2: not become so suspicious yet. Peter let a stranger borrow
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  Speaker 2: his car, I mean his boat. I got to bring
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  Speaker 2: it down where you can see the level of sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just walk up to you at 7-Eleven and say,
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  Speaker 2: let me use your.
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  Speaker 1: Car for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You say, get out of here. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: something happens. Because what Jesus is really teaching Peter is,
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  Speaker 2: listen to this, his business is his platform. Peter's business
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  Speaker 2: is becomes Christ's platform. I put you in business so
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  Speaker 2: you could have this moment. I didn't put you in
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  Speaker 2: this business about the fish. I started you out as
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  Speaker 2: a fisherman because I knew I was coming and I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna need somebody I could trust to take me
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  Speaker 2: across the waters. I'm positioning you for purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Not for profit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I'm preaching already. God didn't put you
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  Speaker 2: on that job to make money. God can let money
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  Speaker 2: rain down in your backyard if he wanted to. God
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  Speaker 2: can let you, let somebody just give you some money,
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  Speaker 2: win some money, walk away with some money. God put
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  Speaker 2: you on that job for purpose. And a relationship ensued.
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus got through preaching on Peter's boat, there was
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  Speaker 2: a connection, there was a tie. Almost like an Elijah,
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  Speaker 2: Elisha moment, it was a tie. Where Jesus says to Peter,
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  Speaker 2: follow me. and I'll make you fishers of men. In
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  Speaker 2: order to follow Jesus, he had to walk away from
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  Speaker 2: what he had in mind. The hardest thing in the
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  Speaker 2: world is to walk away from what.
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  Speaker 1: You had in mind.
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  Speaker 2: He had never got up that morning thinking, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to stop fishing and start driving this guy around. That
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  Speaker 2: was not what he was planning to do for the
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  Speaker 2: next three years of his life. But for the next
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  Speaker 2: three years of his life, he becomes an Uber driver.
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  Speaker 2: Moving Jesus from place to place. Having an encounter with
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  Speaker 2: Jesus that was life changing. And his life would never
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  Speaker 2: be the same again. Not only does he become Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: driver on the water, he has encounters because of his
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  Speaker 2: connection with Jesus that he would have never had any
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  Speaker 2: other way. Peter got to walk on the water. Just
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  Speaker 2: because He was connected to Jesus. It does matter who
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  Speaker 2: you're connected to. There are certain perks and certain benefits
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  Speaker 2: and certain favors that come not because of who you are,
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  Speaker 2: but because of who you're connected to. You get to
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  Speaker 2: have some experiences just because you're connected to the right people.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the enemy is trying to isolate you. Because
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  Speaker 2: many times your blessing is in your relationship with the
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  Speaker 2: very person he's trying to cut you off from. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know who I'm preaching to. Your next is in
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  Speaker 2: your connections. Your next is in your connection. And Peter
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  Speaker 2: has a next. And all of a sudden, he becomes
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  Speaker 2: a part of Jesus' inner circle.
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  Speaker 1: Inner circle. Inner circle with Jesus. The Messiah. The Son
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  Speaker 1: of David. The seed of Abraham. The root of Jesse.
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  Speaker 2: The I Am. The mighty God. The Prince of Peace.
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  Speaker 2: The Everlasting Father. The kinsman redeemer. The day star. The
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  Speaker 2: lily of the valley. The son of God. Emmanuel. Jehovah Sikadu.
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  Speaker 2: Jehovah Rohi. Jehovah Manah. He becomes in the inner circle
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  Speaker 2: with El Shaddai.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine what it's like to be just kicking
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  Speaker 2: it with Jesus? It's one thing to come worship him.
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  Speaker 2: It's another thing to be at Starbucks with Jesus. Hey, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: let's stop at McDonald's and get a Big Mac and fry.
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  Speaker 2: Just kicking it with Jesus. He was in the inner circle,
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  Speaker 2: and he got to do things he would have never done.
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  Speaker 2: He would have never got to walk on the water
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  Speaker 2: had he not been connected with Jesus. He never would
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  Speaker 2: have gotten to see the woman with the issue of
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  Speaker 2: blood get healed if he wasn't connected with Jesus. He
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  Speaker 2: never would have seen blind Bartimaeus' eyes open up, but
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  Speaker 2: he got it because he was connected to Jesus. Is
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  Speaker 2: anybody connected to Jesus? There's some blessings you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get just because you're connected with Jesus. There's some blessings
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get because you're connected with Jesus. He
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  Speaker 2: was part of the inner circle, and he probably had
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  Speaker 2: less reason to be.
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  Speaker 1: In the inner circle.
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  Speaker 2: If God would judge like men, Peter would have never
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  Speaker 2: made the cut to be in the inner circle. He
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  Speaker 2: was the most unlearned of all the disciples. He was
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  Speaker 2: not there because he was an intellectual. He was not
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  Speaker 2: there because he was educated, but he had something about him.
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  Speaker 2: There's a thing that God puts inside of people that
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  Speaker 2: transcends your background, your intellect, your IQ. If you got
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  Speaker 2: education and don't have that thing, you still might not
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  Speaker 2: be successful in life. They're the thing God gives you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what to call it. It's nebulous.
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  Speaker 1: It's indescript.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to find. You can't manufacture it and you
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  Speaker 2: can't will it to anybody. You either got it or
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  Speaker 2: you don't.
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  Speaker 1: There's a thing. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 2: Peter had that thing about him. He was rough around
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  Speaker 2: the edges, but he had that thing about him and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus took him everywhere. Took him up on the Mount
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  Speaker 2: of Transfiguration and showed him the glory that should be.
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  Speaker 2: Showed him the future. Allowed him to see amazing things
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  Speaker 2: of which Peter didn't even know how to respond to.
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  Speaker 2: Peter got excited because Peter was a man of action.
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  Speaker 2: And whenever you show Peter something, he's going to do something. Said,
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  Speaker 2: let's build three tabernacles. One for Moses, one for Elijah,
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  Speaker 2: and one for you. Let's build three of them. He said,
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  Speaker 2: calm down. Calm down. Peter was excited when he saw
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  Speaker 2: Jesus walking on the water. Hey, if that's you, bid
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  Speaker 2: me to come. I'm going out there where you are.
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  Speaker 2: Peter was excited.
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  Speaker 1: He was excited. He was rambunctious.
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  Speaker 2: He was so rambunctious when they came to get Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: he cut out his sword and said, the devil is alive.
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  Speaker 2: I got to admit, sometimes it's nice to have a
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  Speaker 2: few Peters in the crowd. You know, it's a good feeling.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I get tired of people who say they're
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  Speaker 2: with you, but when you're in a fight, they won't
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  Speaker 2: say nothing. Them people make me nervous. Those people who
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  Speaker 2: come back and telling you what everybody said about you,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that that means that they didn't say nothing. Peter,
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  Speaker 2: it was clear whose side he was on. There was
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  Speaker 2: no ambiguity about where he stood. In a fight, Peter
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  Speaker 2: pulled his sword and said, I'll take you out right now.
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  Speaker 2: Cut the man's ear right off his head. So you
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  Speaker 2: know he was aiming high. He wasn't the guy who
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  Speaker 2: pulled out his sword and stabbed the guy in the foot.
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  Speaker 1: He cut his ear off. He said, don't come over
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  Speaker 1: here no more. It's going to get worse.
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  Speaker 2: Peter had an understanding of who Jesus was. He had
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  Speaker 2: an understanding without intellect. He had an understanding without intellect.
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  Speaker 2: He had an instinct. He had a revelation. Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: walking down the street and saying, who do men say
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  Speaker 2: that I am? And they were quick to say what
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  Speaker 2: the gossip was. Some say you are Elias. And some
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  Speaker 2: say you are Jeremiah. And some say you are Esaias.
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  Speaker 2: Real loud on the gossip. Real quiet on the revelation.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's talking about what some say. Out of the abundance
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  Speaker 2: of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Their hearts were more
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  Speaker 2: filled with what men said about their leader than it
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  Speaker 2: was filled with what God said.
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  Speaker 1: About their leader.
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  Speaker 2: So they could quickly tell him what was on the
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  Speaker 2: blog site. But they did not have, because he turned
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  Speaker 2: around and asked, who do you say that I am?
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  Speaker 2: And it is not the answer that I want you
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  Speaker 2: to see first. It is not the answer of the one.
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  Speaker 2: It is the silence of the 11. How could you
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  Speaker 2: walk that long with me? Three years you've been walking
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  Speaker 2: with me and you still have no revelation of who
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  Speaker 2: I am. How could you see me raise the dead
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  Speaker 2: and heal the sick and turn water into wine and
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  Speaker 2: not draw a conclusion about who I am? How could
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  Speaker 2: you go to a great church and still be biblically illiterate?
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  Speaker 2: How can you hear great preaching and not become a
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  Speaker 2: great preacher? How can you be exposed to deliverance and
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  Speaker 2: never be delivered? 11 of them couldn't make up their
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  Speaker 2: mind who Jesus was.
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  Speaker 1: They were following him. Every day for three years.
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  Speaker 2: And when he asked them, who do you say that
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  Speaker 2: I am? They got quiet. Maybe they were intimidated by
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  Speaker 2: what some say. I don't want to be wrong. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say nothing. But Peter spoke up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm starting to see why Jesus called him. Peter spoke up.
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  Speaker 2: Peter said, thou art the Christ, the son of the
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  Speaker 2: true and living God. There was no, there was no variableness.
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  Speaker 2: There was no shakiness. There was no insecurity. He was
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  Speaker 2: clear about who he was following. Thou art the Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the son of the true and living God. Are you
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  Speaker 2: clear about who you follow? Or did you just come
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  Speaker 2: to church? Are you clear about who you follow?
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  Speaker 1: Are you clear? Thou art the Christ, the son of
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  Speaker 1: the true and living God.
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  Speaker 2: It was one thing for him to say that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was the Son of God because there had been some
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  Speaker 2: discussions about that. But when he said, thou art the Christ,
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  Speaker 2: Christ is not Jesus' last name. It's a title, it's
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  Speaker 2: a description. He said, you're the Messiah. You're the anointed
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  Speaker 2: one that should come. Thou art the Christ. And Jesus
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  Speaker 2: had not yet taught them that he was the Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus goes, what? Peter's answer shocked Jesus. You know
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  Speaker 2: you bad when you can shock Jesus. And Jesus said
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  Speaker 2: something that shocked me. He says, flesh and blood have
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  Speaker 2: not revealed this unto you. But my father, which is
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. What shocked me about that is Jesus has
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  Speaker 2: not yet gone to the cross. And yet Peter has
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  Speaker 2: tapped into divine information from the father. Did you hear
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  Speaker 2: what I just said? Jesus has not gone to the cross.
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  Speaker 2: It's not even time for you to get direct revelation
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  Speaker 2: from the Father. But some kind of way, Peter, with
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  Speaker 2: his crazy self, had tapped in to the supernatural, immutable,
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  Speaker 2: everlasting power of God. And he was getting messages from
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  Speaker 2: heaven before the blood ever hit the cross. Flesh and
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  Speaker 2: blood have not revealed this unto you, but my Father
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. And upon this rock, upon this rock,
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  Speaker 2: not so much upon Peter, but upon this rock, this
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  Speaker 2: rock of revelation, this rock of people who can hear
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  Speaker 2: from God, this rock of people who can perceive the imperceivable,
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  Speaker 2: this rock of people who have been touched by the
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  Speaker 2: Father with divine, I will build my church on the
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  Speaker 2: backs of men who have heard from God and the
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  Speaker 2: gates of hell shall not prevail against it. It was
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  Speaker 2: mountains all the way. Mountain after mountain. Mountain of transfiguration.
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  Speaker 2: Mountain of revelation. Mountain of understanding. It was mountains all
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  Speaker 2: the way. Mountains in the presence of God. Mountains of
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  Speaker 2: experiences walking on the water. Mountains all the way. And
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  Speaker 2: while he was having mountain top experiences, Jesus tells him something.
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  Speaker 2: Satan has desired to have you. That he might sift
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  Speaker 2: you as sweet. Now you have to understand the circumstances
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  Speaker 2: around the conversation. This is after that they have had
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  Speaker 2: the Passover meal where Jesus has sat around the table
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  Speaker 2: and said, one of you is the devil. And every
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  Speaker 2: guy around the Passover of the board of directors of
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  Speaker 2: the First Friday by Pius Church of the Living God
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  Speaker 2: Incorporated was having a board of directors meeting and the
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  Speaker 2: CEO said, one of you is the devil and all
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  Speaker 2: of the board responded, no. which means there's some friction.
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  Speaker 2: Because if these guys were perfect, if they were pure,
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  Speaker 2: if they were holy, if they were glorified, there'd be
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  Speaker 2: no question he couldn't be talking about me. But every
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  Speaker 2: man around that table knew something about himself that made
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  Speaker 2: him question, is Jesus talking about me? Lord! Imagine if
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  Speaker 2: Jesus appeared in here and said, one of you is
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  Speaker 2: a devil. Don't it make you think? And Jesus has
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  Speaker 2: identified the devil as the one who dips with him.
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  Speaker 1: And Peter got away. Oh, he not done done me.
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  Speaker 2: He not talking about me. Praise the Lord. He not
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  Speaker 2: talking about me. He not talking about me. He not
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  Speaker 2: talking about me. Praise the Lord. He not talking about me.
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  Speaker 2: You know you'd be dancing a little bit. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not hating on Judas. I'm just rejoicing in the
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  Speaker 2: fact that.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't me.
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  Speaker 2: That whatever it is that made me say, Lord, is
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  Speaker 2: it I, does not rise to the level of being
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  Speaker 2: a devil.
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  Speaker 1: I got conflict, but I haven't crossed over.
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  Speaker 2: And it's right after this that he turns to Peter
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  Speaker 2: and he says, Satan has desired to have you.
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  Speaker 1: That he might sift you as wheat.
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  Speaker 2: If Satan gets his hands on you, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: tear you apart. he's going to rip into you in
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  Speaker 2: the most savage way. He's going to break you into
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  Speaker 2: little bitty pieces and throw you in the wind because
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  Speaker 2: that's how they sifted wheat, by breaking it into pieces
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  Speaker 2: and throwing it in the wind. He's going to break
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  Speaker 2: you into pieces and throw you in the wind. That's
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  Speaker 2: not the kind of prophecy you want. You don't get
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  Speaker 2: a prophecy like that and raise a good offering. That
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  Speaker 2: kind of prophecy, you say, I rebuke you. Satan has
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  Speaker 2: desired to have you that he might sit for you
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  Speaker 2: as weep, but I prayed for you. I prayed for you.
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  Speaker 2: I prayed for you. Watch this. Not that you wouldn't fail,
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  Speaker 2: but that your faith failed thee not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not praying that you won't fail. I'm praying that
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  Speaker 2: your faith failed thee not. And when thou art converted,
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  Speaker 2: when you come out of this, not if you come
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  Speaker 2: out of this, when you come out of this, touch
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  Speaker 2: your neighbor and say, when I come out of this,
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  Speaker 2: You shall come forth as pure gold.
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  Speaker 1: And Peter vehemently.
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  Speaker 2: Argued with Jesus. And Jesus prophesied, he said, before the
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  Speaker 2: cock crows three times, you will have denied me. Fast forward.
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  Speaker 2: Peter who had been all up on top of the mountains.
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  Speaker 2: Peter who had walked on water. Peter who wanted to
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  Speaker 2: build three tabernacles. Peter who had seen the woman with
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  Speaker 2: the issue of blood healed. Peter who had seen Lazarus
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  Speaker 2: raised from the dead. Right after he got through cutting
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  Speaker 2: off people's ears and saying he would die for Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: When he saw them beat Jesus. When he saw them
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  Speaker 2: strip Jesus out of his clothes and beat him like
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  Speaker 2: a slave. Peter got nervous. It's good to, it's good,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: it's easy to talk faith in church. The choirs all
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  Speaker 2: are singing their song and the music is going and
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  Speaker 2: everybody's clapping and oh, glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah, brother. Glory to God. What other God would we
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  Speaker 1: call Lord? Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: But if your faith doesn't make it to your private life,
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  Speaker 2: If your faith doesn't affect your business and your character
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  Speaker 2: and how you interact with people and the choices you
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  Speaker 2: make and the decisions that are made in your life,
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  Speaker 2: if your faith don't make you apologize sometimes, if your
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  Speaker 2: faith don't make you call people back and say, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: if your faith doesn't convict you in your private life,
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  Speaker 2: I give you a hill of beans for how you
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  Speaker 2: run all over the church. If it doesn't affect how
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  Speaker 2: you treat your wife. how you raise your children, how
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  Speaker 2: you talk to your mama. If your faith don't make
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  Speaker 2: you shut your mouth and say yes ma'am to your mama,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: don't you dance all over this church like you are
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  Speaker 2: all covered with power. Set yourself down and say, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: is it I? They took Jesus. They took him. They
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: took him. They took him captive. They took him captive.
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  Speaker 2: The Jesus who had disappeared and slipped through crowds undetected.
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  Speaker 1: They caught him. The Jesus who had walked on water,
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  Speaker 1: they caught him. The Jesus that said, I that speak
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  Speaker 1: of him.
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  Speaker 2: And the ground opened up, they caught him. And it
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: looked like he was fresh out of miracles. And what
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: do you do when the one you serve is fresh
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  Speaker 2: out of miracles? And they asked Peter, they said, Peter, Peter,
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  Speaker 2: aren't you one of them? Adam said, aren't you one
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of them? Peter said, uh, what had happened was, And
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Peter did one of the worst things a person.
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  Speaker 1: Could ever do. He denied him.
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  Speaker 2: The epitome of relationship is acknowledgment. Anybody who's ever been
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  Speaker 2: in any kind of relationship understands that the strength of
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  Speaker 2: a relationship lies on your ability to acknowledge me. To
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: acknowledge me is everything. It is everything. To acknowledge me,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to recognize that I am your boo. Let all of
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: them know. Let them know when we come in the
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  Speaker 2: room that you take it. Don't be running around, winking
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  Speaker 2: out the corner of your eye. Let's be clear about it.
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  Speaker 2: Let them know who you is. That's why I put
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  Speaker 2: a ring on your finger so all the sisters will
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  Speaker 2: know if you're shopping, shop elsewhere. This is reserved for customer.
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  Speaker 2: Acknowledgement is everything. If I am your son, acknowledge me.
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  Speaker 2: Don't acknowledge all the other kids that never acknowledge me.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know that I'm your son. Pat me on
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  Speaker 2: the head. Say something about me. Acknowledge that I am
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  Speaker 2: your son because when you don't acknowledge me it says
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: you're ashamed of me. If you're ashamed of me you
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  Speaker 2: don't want me. And who am I if my daddy
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  Speaker 2: won't acknowledge me? Mama, you can't kiss my forehead enough
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  Speaker 2: to take the place of the fight.
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  Speaker 1: And my daddy act like I ain't his. Acknowledgement defines relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Acknowledgement defines relationship.
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  Speaker 2: I called my sister on the phone one day I
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: said I give Sarita roses like everybody else give their
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: wife roses and I don't get the reaction that I'm
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: supposed to get So I called my sister I said
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: what's up with this roses stuff I Give roses she's
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: supposed to like grin or cry or faint or something.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: She said oh, that's nice and put him over in
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the corner somewhere and And I spent like $ 300 worth
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: of roses. I wanna see a tear or something up
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  Speaker 2: in this mother, you know. And my sister said one
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: thing to me changed my life. She said, you're doing
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  Speaker 2: it wrong. I said, what do you mean I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: it wrong?
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  Speaker 1: I got three dozen roses.
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  Speaker 2: Three dozen red roses. They wasn't yellow or nothing. They
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  Speaker 2: wasn't thrown out in the back, got brown on the corner.
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  Speaker 2: These are fresh roses, budded in her face. She said,
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  Speaker 2: give them on her job. She said, let the delivery
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: man come to the office and let all the women
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: stop typing and want to see who got the roses.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Walk past all them other women and put the roses
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  Speaker 2: on her desk. And all of a sudden, them roses
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: have all kind of value because acknowledgement Acknowledgement defines relationship.
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  Speaker 2: And so I did it, I sent him on the job.
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  Speaker 2: You shit man. You so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Get on outta here.
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  Speaker 2: Because we yearn to be acknowledged. We yearn to be acknowledged,
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  Speaker 2: to be recognized, to acknowledge me, says that I matter.
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  Speaker 1: Peter did something. The church is.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Always upset about moral failure, but what Peter did is
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: worse than moral failure because moral failure is weakness. To
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  Speaker 2: not acknowledge me is wicked. It is wicked for you
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  Speaker 2: to walk in that room and act like you're not
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  Speaker 2: my wife.
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  Speaker 1: It's wicked. I walked with you. I loved you. I
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  Speaker 1: clothed you. I paid the rent every month. I bought
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  Speaker 1: the stockings on your legs.
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  Speaker 2: And you walk in that room and you act like
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  Speaker 2: you're not mine? Give me them stockings back.
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  Speaker 1: Give me them shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Give me that rent. I hope it rain on you
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  Speaker 2: tonight and you get soaking wet. Praise God. Praise God.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Because acknowledgement determines relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, if you deny me before men, I'll deny
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  Speaker 2: you before my Father which is in heaven. You know
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge me, I know acknowledge you. And let's see who
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  Speaker 2: needs the other the quickest. I bet you I can
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: get by without you better than you can get by
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: without me. He said, okay, you want to play denial?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: You deny me, I'll deny you. Peter, who just cut
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  Speaker 2: off a man's ear. Peter, who just had faith enough
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  Speaker 2: to walk on water. Peter, who was ready to build
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  Speaker 2: three tabernacles.
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  Speaker 1: Up under pressure. Up under pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing Jesus' blood spatter, watching him rear the rounded tree
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  Speaker 2: as the pain lacerated his flesh and his neurological impulses
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: kept sending messages to his brain so strong he should
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  Speaker 2: have passed out. Peter, who saw his Jesus transformed from
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: a lion into a trembling, bleeding lamb, who saw his
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Jesus who commanded angels rear the jerk and scratch like
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: a child. And they looked at him and asked him,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: were you with him? Is that who you call Messiah?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Is that your Lord up there naked?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Naked? That's your Lord, butt naked? Bleeding?
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  Speaker 2: Squirming, whimpering, is that who you worship? Now you must
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: understand that Peter lived in a world of crosses. Christians
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: like to think that Jesus was the only one to
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  Speaker 2: be crucified. But history proves that to be a myth.
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  Speaker 2: The Romans controlled the Jews with crucifixions. That means that
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  Speaker 2: they grew up seeing people hung high and stretched wide,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: dying in the sun, vultures picking at their flesh. It
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: was a way that power intimidates the oppressed. I'll kill
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: you if you disobey me. I'll kill you. It's like lynchings.
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  Speaker 2: I knew if I said that you would get it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: It's like lynchings. You know the lynchings were always public.
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  Speaker 2: Come out and watch the lynching. Because it's intimidation, it's terrorism.
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  Speaker 2: Lest you rise up. You gonna run too? Come out
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  Speaker 2: and watch me cut his foot off and let me
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  Speaker 2: see how much running you do.
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  Speaker 1: You bad.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you young folks talking about, it's a good
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: thing I was born when I was born. And let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you something, I wouldn't have shut up. Shut
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: your mouth. You ain't seen nothing. There's a difference between
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: hip hop and hip hopping.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody cut off.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Your foot, you'll shut your mouth. As you drag them
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: back in the tent and pray the gangrene don't take
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: the whole leg and without any anesthesia, you try to
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: sew up the damages and stop the bleeding and you
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: watch grandma wrap her sheets around somebody's foot. Peter grew
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  Speaker 2: up in a world of intimidation. There was no question
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: in his mind, they'll kill you too. Peter, were you
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  Speaker 2: with him? And the Peter who argued with Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: said he would never deny him, and the Peter who
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: cut off ears, and the Peter who performed miracles, and
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the Peter who had insight as to Christ being the Messiah,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: now says, I don't know him. And I would have
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: thought it was a one-time thing. But again, they came up,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: and another one.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Pointed at him.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I said, I saw him. I recognize him. He's one
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: of them Jakeites. I saw him on the video.
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  Speaker 1: That's him. He go to Jake's church. He said, uh-huh. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: And yet again, have you ever kept failing him and
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: failing him and failing him? Have you ever done something
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  Speaker 2: that you said you would never do? You taught against it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: You spoke against it. You laughed at other people.
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  Speaker 1: Who did it.
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  Speaker 2: You ran your mouth and then you got yourself in
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: a situation And even to this day, you don't tell
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  Speaker 2: nobody that you did what you did, but you did
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  Speaker 2: it and you know you did it.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about people who do it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just that he did it one time.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: He did it again and again.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: And the third time he did it, He said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know Jesus. I don't know Jesus is worse than,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I know Jesus, but I'm having a weak moment. I
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: know Jesus, but my flesh is taking over. I know Jesus,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: but I got a weakness. I know Jesus, but I
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: got a problem. This is, this is, I have no
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: association with him. On one hand, I feel for Peter
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: because I know he must have been scared out of
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: his mind. I know he's normally courageous. He's known to
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: be courageous. He ain't scared of nobody. I'll cut your
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: ear right off. I know he's tough. And I want
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to have my heart bleeds for him because I know
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: he's afraid. But if he knew that Jesus was the Messiah,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: if he knew that Jesus was the resurrection and the life,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: if he saw Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead, then
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: why does death still terrify him to the point that
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: he will not believe? If he knew that Jesus was
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: the I Am and the Mighty God and the Everlasting
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Father and the Prince of Peace, then why did he
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: deny him?
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: And I have learned as a.
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  Speaker 2: Leader that people will love you and support you as
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: long as other people do. But when it no longer
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: becomes popular to be associated with you, you have to
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: always keep your heart prepared for rejection. Never get so
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: comfortable in the lap of the applause of men that
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: you actually believe it because all you're doing is setting
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: yourself up for failure because it is easy to love
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: people when other people love them. The hardest time to
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: love people is when everybody turns against them and they're
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: writing about them and they're talking about them and they're
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: in the news and they're in the paper and they're everywhere.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: And that's why I exalt loyalty above everything else because
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I appreciate most not the people who are with me
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: when people are with me. I appreciate people who are
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: with me when everybody turns against me and you knock
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: on my door and say, I still love you. Now
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: you got clout with me. And Peter who had been
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a nobody and a nothing and a failure, Peter who
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: had been a nothing, who had risen from power only
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: because he was connected to Jesus, now denies the one
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  Speaker 2: who raised him.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Who raised you? Who raised you?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: When others denied you and threw you away and said
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: you'd never be nothing. Who was there for you? When
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: mother and father forsook you, who brought you through storms
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and valleys and ridges and high lows and low places?
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: If there's anybody you ought to be loyal to, it
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: ought to be Jesus. It ought to be Jesus. The
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: least you can do is not deny him. Your struggles
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: are your struggles and your problems are your problems and
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: you grow in grace as God gets you through. But
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: you could at least say, I know him. Peter denied
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: him and then the cock crowed. And when the cock crowed,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: his heart fell. Because he realized and said, Jesus was
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: right about him. Jesus was right about me. Amen. Jesus
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: was right about me. And he started crying. He started
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: crying because he didn't want Jesus to be right. It's
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: the only time he didn't want Jesus to be right.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: He didn't want him to be right about it that
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: he would deny Jesus publicly in front of everybody. And
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: he started crying so bad he had to leave. The
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Bible said he wept sorely and walked away. He was ashamed.
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  Speaker 2: He was ashamed because now he's nothing.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Now he's nothing, at least before he was a disciple.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: He was a disciple. He gave him identity. He gave
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: him authority. And you know how people look at you
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: when you ain't nothing? When no community embraces you and
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: nobody accepts you and it's not good for man to
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: be alone and now Peter is alone.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Peter is alone.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: After all of them years and all of that experience
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: and all of that love, Peter is absolutely alone. And
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: he denied him in front of everybody. It's one thing
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: to have a secret sin. But when your sin goes public,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: when your sin goes public, people act like they have none.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: It's not that you can't still come around them, but
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: you can feel. You know what I mean? That feeling
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: that they give you that, oh, how are you? God
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: bless you. God bless you. The little subtle signals that
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: we send out to people when they are excommunicated out
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: of our circles. And it's one thing to deny a
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: guy who died. That was bad, that was terrible, that
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: was humiliating. But if he died and he stayed dead,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: then maybe it was right. The problem with denying Jesus
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: is not just denying Jesus. It's not just denying a
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Jesus that got crucified. It's not just denying a Jesus
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: that died. It's not just denying a Jesus who had
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: a funeral and a cemetery service. He got up.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: He got up. Whisper to three people and say he
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: got up. He gotta, he gotta, he gotta, he gotta.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: He got up, he got up, he got up, he
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: got up, he got up.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it's kind of like.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: It's like the boy you rejected in high school becomes
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: the president of the United States and you look.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: And you say, I made a mistake. I apologize.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: See, it's one thing to reject somebody who never goes up,
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: but when you reject somebody and they come into their
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: power and they're throwing a party and you know you
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: ought to have been there and you should have been
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: invited and you should have been included and you were
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: earmarked to be at the celebration.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: .
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I was over in Fort Worth. And they're doing
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of construction over in Fort Worth. And they
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: haven't topped my GPS. that you can't turn left here
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: because they got this concrete temporary wall built up here
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: and so you can't turn left and the GPS is
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: spinning and people are behind me blowing and I'm fussing
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: and it's embarrassing and I'm irritated and I'm not feeling
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: real bishop-y at the moment, you know what I'm saying?
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: It's just one of the moments that I have every
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: now and then that I just, if I don't take
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: my medication, I turn into somebody else. I was having
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: one of them moments. It was a detour. Things weren't
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: laid out like they used to be. And I couldn't
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: get there like I used to. And so I had
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: to drive in confusion and forlornment. And I didn't know
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: exactly where I was. And I didn't know what I
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: needed to do to get straightened back out. But I
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: always told my sister, as long as you got gas,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: you'll be all right. I had gas, so I kept
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: on driving. I kept on driving. I was lost, but
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I kept on driving. I was... Confused, but I kept
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: on driving. See, y'all don't hear me. You can be
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: lost and still keep going. You can be lost and
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: still go through the motions.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: You can be.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Lost and still laugh at jokes and still go to
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the movies and still do stuff. And to the other drivers,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: they can't see that you lost. because you're still driving,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: but down on the inside was this nagging feeling that
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: some kind of way I got my life off track.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And I should have been there by now. I should
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: have been there by now. I should have been there
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: by now. I know I should have been there by now.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: I thought I'd be there by 30. I thought I'd
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: be there by 35. I thought I'd be there by 42.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I thought I'd be there by 51. But I got lost.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I got lost. And I can't even tell nobody that
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I'm lost. Because people with GPS's ain't supposed to get lost.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I got an Apple phone, I'm not supposed to be lost.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I had everything to work with. I had everything to
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: work with.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't come from no bad home, I didn't come
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: from no bad, I had everything to work with.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: But I still got lost.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: And I couldn't get there the way I expected to
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: get there because it was under construction and it was
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: shut down and it was messed up.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: And Jesus had risen from the dead. And he was
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: getting ready to throw this massive party for all the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: people who had been faithful. And it used to be me.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: But I got lost. I would have been helping plan
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: the meeting at Galilee.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I can tell by the way the disciples act when
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: I come around, that I'm not really one of them anymore.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: And the only thing bad about being the ex is
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: that when you aren't that, who are you? First Lady
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Obama is First Lady Obama. First Lady Trump is First
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Lady Trump.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: And that comes with all kinds of stuff that goes along.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: With being that. I'm not saying she's not gifted in
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: her own right. Both of them are strong in their
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: own right. But there's some perks that come through who
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: you're connected to. There were perks for being a disciple,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: but not an ex. People love the first lady until
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: the pastor die.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. You don't like it, but that's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: a fact.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: There's some first ladies in this room that'll tell you,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: you was getting the flowers and the roses and the
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: cakes and everything. Your husband died. And they said, we
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: have to take the parsonage back.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: That's how it works.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: See, Peter has not spent his life building up him.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: He spent his life building up Jesus. He's put his.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Business on hold for three years. He's lost his client base.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: He's lost his contacts. A lot can happen in three years.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Peter is lost.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: And even though he got called with Andrew, Andrew can't
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: call him back. And that's why this text is important
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: to me. Because when Jesus rose up from the dead
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: and showed himself alive, he told the woman, he said,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: go tell the disciples.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: And My car, it started spinning.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: This little thing started spinning on my GPS system. And
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: then after a while, it said rerouting. I came to
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: tell you about a God who can reroute you. I
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: came to tell you about a God who can reroute
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: a mess and a messy situation and you've been down
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: to nothing and everybody's looking at you funny and you
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: embarrass your family and you embarrass yourself and you embarrass
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: your name and everything. I came to tell you that
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: God is spinning and when He gets through spinning, He's
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: going to reroute you into something that you never had before.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: So Jesus says, go tell the disciples and Peter.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know whether he's even considered a disciple anymore,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: but I have not given up on him. I don't
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: know whether he'll be in the circle or not, but
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I still got a plan for him. I don't know
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: whether they like him or not, but I still got
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: a plan for his life. I don't know whether they
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: accept him or not, but I call him by his
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: name like I called him the first time, like I
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: called him a rocker. Like I called him to walk
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: on the water. Like I called him to the Mount
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: of Transfiguration. All them other times I called him, he
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: looked like an asset. But I call you in spite
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: of being a liability. I call you when your back's
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: up against the wall. I call you when you messed
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: up your pants. I call you when you've been locked
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: up in jail. I call you when you've been in
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: a scandal. I call you when everybody's talking about you
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: like a dog. I call you though you had a baby.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Out of wedlock.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I call you though you've been strung out on drugs.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I call you, I call you, I call you. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: call you, I call you, I call you. I call
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: you by your name, not your title, not your degree,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: not your pedigree, not how much money you got, not
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: how talented you are. And Peter, I want you back.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: And so when my car got through rerouting, it worked
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: it out another way. And it said, you're only five
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: minutes away. And suddenly I realized what I want you
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: to realize today.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I can still get there. I said.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: All of that to you this morning because there's somebody
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: in this room who got lost and got off track
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: and made a wrong turn and got yourself in a mess.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know where you are. And I don't know
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: if I'd recognize you if you come up. I don't
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: know if you're recognizable to me. But you're recognizable to God.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Because God gave me this message for you. He told
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: me to tell you. You've been driving and going on
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: like you doing something but you know you lost. You've
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: been busy with all kind of busyness but you know
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: that you are not living your life's purpose. You're just
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: going with the traffic. Just driving with the crowd. But
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: you've been off course for a minute. Cut that music out.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: You've been off course for a minute. Late at night
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: and nobody's listening. Your heart aches because being in the
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: traffic is not what you were born for. You were
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: supposed to be going somewhere. You were supposed to be somebody.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: God was going to use your life to in a
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: spectacular way.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Something got you off track. And you know it.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Because even in your failure, you're instinctive enough to know
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: when you're off track.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: If you were.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Instinctive enough to know that Jesus was the Messiah, you
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: are instinctive enough to know that you are off track.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: I don't care what you make. I don't care what
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: you drive. I don't care where you live. I don't
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: care who you're married to. I have one simple thing
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: to say.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: You can still get there. No, no, no, no, no.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: You got to hear this. You got to hear this.