Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / It's Not Too Late: You Can Still Make It Bishop T.D. Jakes [February 24, 2019]

Transcript

It's Not Too Late: You Can Still Make It Bishop T.D. Jakes [February 24, 2019] · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Mark chapter 16, verse 4 through 8. When you have it,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: say amen. And when they looked, they saw that the
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: stone was rolled away. For it was very great. And
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: on the right side, clothed in a long white garment,
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: and they were affrighted or scared to death. And he
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: saith unto them, Be not affrighted. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth,
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: which was crucified. He is risen. He is not here.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Behold the place where they laid him, but go your way.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Tell his disciples... and Peter, that he goeth before you
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: into Galilee. There ye shall see him as he said
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: unto you. And they went out quickly and fled from
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: the sepulcher, for they trembled and were amazed. Neither said
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: they anything to any man, for they were afraid. The
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: real thing I want you to see is in verse 7.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: But go your way and tell his disciples, and Peter.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: That's all I really want is and Peter. Look at
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, you can still get there. You
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: can still get there. You can still get there. Get there.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Let's pray. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: the word as it is being preached today. Anointed and
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: sanctified in my lips, O God, I do declare. I
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: trust you to preach and flow through me until it
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: is no more me but you. Hide my flesh behind
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: the cross that it will not glory in thy sight.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: And speak to this thy people, O God, in the
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: name of Jesus we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go to work. I have always been bivocational. I
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: have not always had to be bivocational, but I have
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: always chosen to be bivocational. In the beginning, it was
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: a necessity. I pastored a church that couldn't feed me.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: I pastored a church that couldn't feed itself, that couldn't
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: keep its lights on, that couldn't keep its utilities on.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: The only way I could pastor the church was go
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: to work and take most of my salary and throw
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: it in the church to keep it going. When I
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: ran out of money, my mother started putting her money
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: in it. My mother's sister told her, they call her Tooth.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: They said, Tooth, don't put all your money in that
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: boy's church. You got to be wise. You're getting older.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: It ain't going to be nothing. Don't put all your
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: money in that church. And my mother kept right on sowing.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: As usual, mama was right. I come to learn that
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: from those days to now that there are things that
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: you learn outside of the household of faith that strengthen
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: your understanding of faith, that keeps you in touch with
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: ordinary people, that keeps you tied into the culture. I
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: like to interact with people. I don't like to be isolated.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: I don't like to be put in a cage. I
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: don't live in my house and not come out. I
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: still go to Kroger's. Pick out my chicken wings. See
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. Now I'm bivocational. I
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: have a ministry, but I also have a business. My
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: business centers around entertainment and real estate. And we've been
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: doing some amazing things in entertainment. I learned a lot
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: about entertainment. I get scripts from all over the world.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: I look at scripts. I look at stories all the time.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: And I have learned that the worst stories are stories
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: that do not depict realistic characters. Realistic characters are different
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: from idealistic characters. It's interesting. We spend all of our
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: lives trying to act like ideal people. But we don't
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: want to watch ideal people. Because ideal people are boring.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: And because ideal people are not realistic. Because ideal people
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: are fictitious. We want reality. Realistic characters demand that the
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: character has an arc and that they have a conflict.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: That they have an arc in their life that we
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: can watch them go through ups and downs and ins
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: and outs and back and forth. And that they have
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: a conflict. That is to say that if you've lived
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: long enough, you've learned that there's a little bit of
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: bad in the best person. And there's a little bit
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: of good in the worst person. And you cannot really
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: judge a person just by one moment or one scene
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: out of their lives. I know what we say in public,
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: but down in our hearts we realize that you can
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: catch a person at a bad season in their life
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: and them not be as effective as they are in
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: other seasons. This is why David would rather be judged
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: by God than to be judged by man. Because you
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: can do a hundred things right and do one thing
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: wrong and man will always talk about what you did
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: wrong and never remember anything. What you did right. God
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: uses ordinary people. He does in the Old Testament. In
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, he lets us see all into the
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: personal lives of the people that he called. Thank God
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: for the Old Testament because it gives us a realistic
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: view of people who were good and bad, who were
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: strong and weak, who were right and wrong, who were
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: victorious and victimized. It helps us to assess our own life,
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: that your life is not going to be a straight line.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be a straight horizontal. There's going
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: to be peaks and valleys and uprisings and down setting
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: such as life. Somebody was talking to me the other
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: day about something they were going through and I told
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: them life is doing what life does. Life is just
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: doing what life does. It's not a demonic attack. It's
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: not spiritual warfare. Life is just doing what life does.
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: It gives and it takes. It makes you laugh. It
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: makes you cry. Amen. It has moments of victory and
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: it has moments of defeat. Such is the case with
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: the character before us today. He's an interesting character. I
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: must admit that if I were Jesus, I probably would
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: not knowingly have gotten involved with this guy. There are
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: certain people, if you get involved with them, they're going
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: to be a lot of work. All of us are
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: going to be some work. There are certain people that's
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of work. This guy was
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of work. I would have tried to, if
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: I only had 12 guys and three years to get
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: it all done, I'd try to pick 12 of the
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: best to make it easy so that I didn't have
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: to waste time ministering inwardly while I'm trying to reach outwardly.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: But such is life. Such is life. You're always ministering
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: outwardly and inwardly simultaneously. You're always trying to be a
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: message to the world and not lose your own house.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: You're always trying to encourage somebody and wrestling with discouragement
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: inside of yourself. Where are my real people at?
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: But Jesus had to.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Get a hold to this guy because this guy did
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: not know who he was. When Jesus first met him,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: he is one of the first disciples Jesus picked. This
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: guy thought he was just a businessman. He thought he
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: was a business owner. He had a fishing company. He
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: had a fishing fleet. He went out every day to fish.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: When Jesus first met him, that's how he saw himself,
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: as a fisherman. And Jesus had a higher vision of
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: him and said, I will make you fishers of men.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Right now you're fishers of fish. You're doing what you're
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: going to do on a lower level. Your history is
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: always a glimpse of what you're going to do in
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: your destiny. God's going to take something that you already
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: did and take it to the next level and use
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: it to bless you. You're going to the next dimension.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: You're still going to be fishing, but you're going to
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: fish in another kind of way. And he gets a
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: hold to Peter and he comes along on Peter at
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: a time that Peter is washing his nets. He's washing
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: his nets. He thought he was through for the day.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: And Jesus walks down to the seashore and Peter and
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Andrew are washing their nets. And Jesus says to him,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: can I use your boat? Suppose Peter had said no.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: That's my boat. I don't know you. I might have
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: said no. Don't look at me all funny. Can I
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: use your car? That's the equivalent of somebody strange, you
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: don't know, just walking up to you saying, can I
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: borrow your car? Peter's boat was his livelihood. But he freely,
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: he had a giving spirit. That might be why God
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: chose him. He had a giving, generous spirit. The very
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: thing that all your friends tell you to stop being,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: that might be the very thing that got him, got
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: his whole life changed. He had not become cynical yet.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: He had not become so suspicious yet. Peter let a
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: stranger borrow his car, I mean his boat. I got
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: to bring it down where you can see the level
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: of sacrifice somebody just walk up to you at 7-11
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: say let me use your car for a minute get
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: out of here and all of a sudden something happens
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Because what Jesus is really teaching Peter is, listen to this,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: his business is his platform. Peter's business becomes Christ's platform.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: I put you in business so you could have this moment.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't put you in this business about the fish.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: I started you out as a fisherman because I knew
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: I was coming and I was going to need somebody
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: I could trust to take me across the waters. I'm
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: positioning you for purpose, not for profit. Oh my God,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: I'm preaching already. God didn't put you on that job
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: to make money. God can let money rain down in
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: your backyard if he wanted to. God can let you,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: let somebody just give you some money, win some money,
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: walk away with some money. God puts you on that
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: job for purpose. And a relationship ensued. When Jesus got
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: through preaching on Peter's boat, there was a connection. There
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: was a tie, almost like an Elijah, Elisha moment. It
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: was a tie where Jesus says to Peter, follow me.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: And I'll make you fishers of men. In order to
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: follow Jesus, he had to walk away from what he
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: had in mind. The hardest thing in the world is
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: to walk away from what you had in mind. He
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: had never got up that morning thinking, I'm going to
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: stop fishing and start driving this guy around. That was
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: not what he was planning to do for the next
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: three years of his life. But for the next three
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: years of his life, he becomes an Uber driver. Moving
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Jesus from place to place. Having an encounter with Jesus
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: that was life changing. And his life would never be
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: the same again. Not only does he become Jesus' driver
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: on the water. He has encounters because of his connection
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: with Jesus that he would have never had any other way.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: Peter got to walk on the water just because he
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: was connected to Jesus. It does matter who you're connected to.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: There are certain perks.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: And certain benefits and certain favors that come not because
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: of who you are, but because of who you're connected to.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: You get to have some experiences just because you're connected
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: to the right people. That's why the enemy is trying
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: to isolate you. Because many times your blessing is in
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: your relationship with the very person he's trying to cut
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: you off from. I don't know who I'm preaching to.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: Your next is in your connections. Your next is in
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: your connections. And Peter has a next. And all of
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: a sudden, he becomes a part of Jesus' inner circle.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Inner circle. Inner circle with Jesus. The Messiah. The Son
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: of David. The seed of Abraham. The root of Jesse.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: The I Am. The mighty God. The Prince of Peace.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: The everlasting Father. The kinsman Redeemer. the day star, the
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: lily of the valley, the son of God, Emmanuel, Jehovah Sikandu,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Jehovah Rohi, Jehovah Manah. He becomes in the inner circle
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: with El Shaddai. Oh, God, can you imagine what it's
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: like to be just kicking it with Jesus? It's one
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: thing to come worship him. It's another thing to be
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: at Starbucks with Jesus. Hey, Jesus, let's stop at McDonald's
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: and get a big mic and fry. Just kicking it
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: with Jesus. He was in the inner circle, and he
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: got to do things he would have never done. He
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: would have never got to walk on the water had
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: he not been connected with Jesus. He never would have
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: gotten to see the woman with the issue of blood
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: get healed if he wasn't connected with Jesus. He never
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: would have seen blind Bartimaeus' eyes open up, but he
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: got it because he was connected to Jesus. Is anybody
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: connected to Jesus? Yes. There's some blessings you're going to
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: get just because you're connected with Jesus. There's some blessings
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: you're going to get because you're connected with Jesus. He
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: was part of the inner circle. And he probably had
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: less reason to be in the inner circle. If God
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: would judge like men, Peter would have never made the
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: cut to be in the inner circle. He was the
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: most unlearned of all the disciples. He was not there
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: because he was an intellectual. He was not there because
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: he was educated, but he had something about him. There's
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: a thing that God puts inside of people that transcends
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: your background, your intellect, your IQ. If you got education
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: and don't have that thing, you still might not be
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: successful in life. They're the thing God gives you. I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: don't even know what to call it. It's nebulous. It's indescript.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It's hard to find. You can't manufacture it, and you
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: can't will it to anybody. You either got it or
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: you don't.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: There's a thing.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Peter had that thing about him. He
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: was rough around the edges, but he had that thing
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: about him, and Jesus took him everywhere. Took him up
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: on the Mount of Transfiguration. And showed him the glory
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: that should be. Showed him the future. Allowed him to
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: see amazing things of which Peter didn't even know how
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to respond to. Peter got excited because Peter was a
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: man of action. And whenever you showed Peter something, he
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: was going to do something. Said, let's build three tabernacles.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: One for Moses, one for Elijah, and one for you.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Let's build three of them. He said, calm down. Calm down.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Peter was excited when he saw Jesus walking on the water. Hey,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: if that's you, bid me to come. I'm going out
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: there where you are. Peter was excited. He was excited.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: He was rambunctious. He was so rambunctious when they came
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to get Jesus, he cut out his sword and said,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the devil is alive. I got to admit, sometimes it's
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: nice to have a few Peters in the crowd. You know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: it's a good feeling. You know, I get tired of
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: people who say they're with you, but when you're in
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: a fight, they won't say nothing. Them people make me nervous.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Those people who come back and telling you what everybody
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: said about you, and you know that that means that
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: they didn't say nothing. Peter, it was clear whose side
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he was on. There was no ambiguity about where he stood.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: In a fight, Peter pulled his sword and said, I'll
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: take you out right now. Cut the man's ear right
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: off his head. So you know he was aiming high.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: He wasn't the guy who pulled out his sword and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: stabbed the guy in the foot. He cut his ear off. Said,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: don't come over here no more. It's going to get worse.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Peter had an understanding of who Jesus was. He had
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: an understanding without intellect. He had an understanding without intellect.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: He had an instinct. He had a revelation. Jesus is
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: walking down the street and saying, who do men say
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that I am? And they were quick to say what
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the gossip was. Some say you are Elias. And some
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: say you are Jeremiah. And some say you are Esaias.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Real loud on the gossip. Real quiet on the revelation.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about what some say. Out of the abundance
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of the heart, the mouth's speaking. Their hearts were more
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: filled with what men said about their leader than it
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: was filled with what God said about their leader. So
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: they could quickly tell him what was on the blog site.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But they did not have it because he turned around
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and asked, who do you say that I am? And
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: it is not the answer that I want you to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: see first. It is not the answer of the one.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It is the silence of the 11. How could you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: walk that long with me? Three years you've been walking
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: with me and you still have no revelation of who
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I am. How could you see me raise the dead
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and heal the sick and turn water into wine and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: not draw a conclusion about who I am? How could
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you go to a great church and still be biblically illiterate?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: How can you hear great preaching? and not become a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: great preacher how can you be exposed to deliverance and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: never be delivered 11 of them couldn't make up their
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: mind who Jesus was they were following him Every day
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: for three years. And when he asked them, who do
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you say that I am? They got quiet. Maybe they
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: were intimidated by what some say. I don't want to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: be wrong. So I'm not going to say nothing. But
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Peter spoke up. I'm starting to see why Jesus called him.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Peter spoke up. Peter said, thou art the Christ. the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: son of the true and living God. There was no,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: there was no variableness. There was no shakiness. There was
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: no insecurity. He was clear about who he was following.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Thou art the Christ, the son of the true and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: living God. Are you clear about who you follow? Or
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: did you just come to church? Are you clear about
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: who you follow?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Are you clear? Thou art the Christ. the son of
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the true and living God.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: It was one thing for him to say that Jesus
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: was the son of God because there had been some
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: discussions about that. But when he said, thou art the Christ,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Christ is not Jesus' last name. It's a title, it's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a description. He said, you're the Messiah. You're the anointed
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: one that should come. Thou art the Christ. And Jesus
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: had not yet taught them That he was the Christ.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So Jesus goes, what? Peter's answer shocked Jesus. You know
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you bad when you can shock Jesus. And Jesus said
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: something that shocked me. He says, flesh and blood have
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: not revealed this unto you. But my father did. Which
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: is in heaven. What shocked me about that is Jesus
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: has not yet gone to the cross.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And yet Peter has tapped.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Into divine information from the Father. Did you hear what
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I just said? Jesus has not.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Gone to the cross.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's not even time for you to get direct revelation
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: from the Father. But some kind of way, Peter, with
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: his crazy self, had tapped in to the supernatural, immutable,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: everlasting power of God. And he was getting messages from
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: heaven before the blood ever hit the cross.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Flesh and blood have not.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Revealed this unto you. But my Father which is in heaven.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And upon this rock. Upon this rock. Not so much
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: upon Peter, but upon this rock. This rock of revelation.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: This rock of people who can hear from God. This
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: rock of people who can perceive the imperceivable. This rock
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: of people who have been touched by the Father with divine.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I will build my church on the backs of men
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: who have heard from God. And the gates of hell
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: shall not prevail against it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: It was mountains all the way.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Mountain after mountain, mountain of transfiguration, mountain of revelation, mountain
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of understanding.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It was mountains all the way. Mountains in the presence
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: of God.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Mountains of experiences walking on the water. Mountains all the way.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And while he was having mountaintop experiences, Jesus tells him something.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Satan has desired to have you. That he might sift
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you as sweet. Now, you have to understand the circumstances
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: around the conversation. This is after that they have had
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the Passover meal where Jesus has sat around the table
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and said, one of you is a devil. And every
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: guy around the Passover, of the board of directors... of
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the First Prime Baptized Church of the Living God Incorporated
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: was having a board of directors meeting and the CEO said,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: one of you is a devil and all of the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: board responded. Which means there's some friction. Because if these
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: guys were perfect, if they were pure, if they were holy,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: If they were glorified, there'd be no question he couldn't
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: be talking about me. But every man around that table
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: knew something about himself that made him question, is Jesus
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: talking about me?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Lord!
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Imagine if Jesus appeared in here and said, one of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you is a devil.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Don't it make you think?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And Jesus has identified the devil as the one who
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: dips with him. And Peter got away. Oh, he's not
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: talking about me. He's not talking about me. Praise the Lord.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He not talk about me. He not talk about me.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: He not talk about me. Praise the Lord. He not
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: talk about me. You know you'd be dancing a little bit.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not hating on Judas. I'm just rejoicing
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: in the fact that it ain't me. That whatever it
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is that made me say, Lord, is it I, does
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: not rise to the level of being a devil. I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: got conflict, but I haven't crossed over. And it's right
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: after this that he turns to Peter and he says,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Satan has desired to have you. That he might sift
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: you as wheat. If Satan gets his hands on you,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: he's going to tear you apart. He's going to rip
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: into you in the most savage way. He's going to
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: break you into little bitty pieces and throw you in
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the wind because that's how they sifted wheat, by breaking
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it into pieces and throwing it in the wind. He's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: going to break you into pieces and throw you in
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the wind. That's not the kind of prophecy you want.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: You don't get a prophecy like that and raise a
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: good offering. That kind of prophecy, you say, I rebuke you.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Satan has desired to have you that he might sip
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you as sweet, but I prayed for you. I prayed
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: for you. I prayed for you. Watch this. Not that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't fail, but that your faith failed thee not. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not praying that you won't fail. I'm praying that
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: your faith fail thee not. And when thou art converted,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: when you come out of this, not if you come
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: out of this, when you When you come out of this,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: touch your neighbor and say, when I come out of this,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you shall come forth as pure gold. And Peter vehemently
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: argued with Jesus. And Jesus prophesied, he said, before the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: cock crows three times, you will have denied me. Fast forward.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Peter who had been all up on top of the mountains.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Peter who had walked on water. Peter who wanted to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: build three tabernacles. Peter who had seen the woman with
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the issue of blood healed. Peter who had seen Lazarus
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: raised from the dead. Right after he got through cutting
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: off people's ears and saying he would die for Jesus.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: When he saw them beat Jesus. When he saw them
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: strip Jesus out of his clothes and beat him like
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a slave, Peter got nervous. It's good to, it's good,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: it's easy to talk faith in church. The choirs all
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: are singing their song and the music is going and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: everybody's clapping and oh glory to God. Hallelujah, brother. Glory
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to God. What other God would we call Lord? Hallelujah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: But if your faith doesn't make it to your private life.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: If your faith doesn't affect your business and your character
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and how you interact with people and the choices you
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: make and the decisions that are made in your life,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: if your faith don't make you apologize sometimes, if your
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: faith don't make you call people back and say, I'm sorry,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: if your faith doesn't convict you in your private life,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I give you a hill of beans for how you
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: run all over the church. If it doesn't affect how
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you treat your wife, How you raise your children. How
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you talk to your mama. If your faith don't make
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you shut your mouth and say yes ma'am to your mama.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Don't you dance all over this church like you are
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: all covered with power. Set yourself down and say Lord
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: is it I? They took Jesus. They took him. They
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: took him. They took him captive. They took him captive.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The Jesus who had disappeared and slipped through crowds undetected,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they caught him. The Jesus who had walked on water,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they caught him. The Jesus that said, I that speak
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: of him, and the ground opened up, they caught him.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And it looked like he was fresh out of miracles.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: And what do you do when the one you serve
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: is fresh out of miracles? And they asked Peter, they said, Peter, Peter,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: aren't you one of them? Adam said, aren't you one
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of them? Peter said, uh, What had happened was, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Peter did one of the worst things a person could
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: ever do. The epitome of relationship is acknowledgement. Anybody who's
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: ever been in any kind of relationship understands that the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: strength of a relationship lies on your ability to acknowledge me.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: To acknowledge me is everything. It is everything. To acknowledge me.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: To recognize that I am your boo. Let all of
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: them know. Let them know when we come in the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: room that you've taken. Don't be running around, winking out
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the corner of your eye. Let's be clear about it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Let them know who you is.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: That's why I put a ring on your finger so
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: all the sisters will know.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: If you're shopping, shop elsewhere.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: This is reserved for customer. Acknowledgement is everything. If I
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: am your son, acknowledge me. Don't acknowledge all the other
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: kids that never acknowledged me. Let me know that I'm
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: your son. Pat me on the head. Say something about me.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Acknowledge that I am your son because when you don't
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: acknowledge me, it says you're ashamed of me. And if
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you're ashamed of me, you don't want me. And who
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: am I if my daddy won't acknowledge me? Mama, you
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: can't kiss my forehead enough to take the place of
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the fact. And my daddy, act like I ain't his.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Acknowledgement defines relationship. Acknowledgement defines relationship. I called my sister
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: on the phone one day. I said, I give Sarita
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: roses like everybody else gives their wife roses, and I
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: don't get the reaction that I'm supposed to get. So
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I called my sister, and I said, what's up with
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: this roses stuff? I give roses she's supposed to, like,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: grin or cry or faint or something. She say, oh,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: that's nice, and put them over in the corner somewhere else.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: And I spent like $ 300 worth of roses. I want
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to see a tear or something up in this mug.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: And my sister said one thing to me, changed my life.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: She said, you're doing it wrong. I said, what do
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you mean I'm doing it wrong? I got three dozen roses.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Three dozen red roses. They wasn't yellow or nothing. They
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: wasn't thrown out in the back, got brown on the corner.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: These are fresh roses, budded in her face. She said,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: give them on her job. She said, let the delivery
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: man come to the office and let all the women
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: stop typing and want to see who got the roses.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Walk past all them other women and put the roses
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on her desk. And all of a sudden, them roses
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: have all kind of value because acknowledgment Acknowledgement defines relationship.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: So I did it. I sent him on the job.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: You shit man.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: You so crazy.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Get on out of here. Because we yearn to be acknowledged.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Yes. We yearn to be acknowledged, to be recognized, to
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: say that, to acknowledge me says.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: That I matter.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Peter did some of the churches always upset about moral failure.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But what Peter did is worse than moral failure because
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: moral failure is weakness. To not acknowledge me is wicked.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: It is wicked for you to walk in that room
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and act like you're not my wife. It's wicked. I
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: walked with you. I loved you. I clothed you. I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: paid the rent every month. I bought the stockings on
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: your legs. And you walk in that room and you
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: act like you're not mine? Give me them stockings back.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Give me them shoes. Give me that rent. I hope
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: it rain on you tonight and you get soaking wet.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Because acknowledgement determines relationship. Jesus said,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: if you deny me before men, I'll deny you before
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: my Father which is in heaven. You know acknowledge me,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I know acknowledge you. And let's see who needs the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: other the quickest. Hallelujah. I bet you I can get
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: by without you better than you can get by without me.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: He said, okay, you want to play denial?
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: You deny me, I'll deny you. Peter, who just cut
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: off a man.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Man's ear. Peter, who just had faith enough to walk
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: on water. Peter, who was ready to build three tabernacles.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Up under pressure. Up under pressure. Up under pressure. seeing
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Jesus' blood spatter, watching him rear the rounded tree as
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the pain lacerated his flesh and his neurological impulses kept
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: sending messages to his brain so strong he should have
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: passed out. Peter, who saw his Jesus transformed from a
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: lion into a trembling, bleeding lamb, Who saw his Jesus.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Who commanded angels. Rear the jerk. And squirts like a child.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And they looked at him. And asked him. Were you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: with him? Is that. Who you call Messiah?
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Is that your Lord up there.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Naked. Naked, that's your Lord, butt naked, bleeding, squirming, whimpering,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: is that.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Who you worship? Now you must understand.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: That Peter lived in a world of crosses. Christians like
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: to think that Jesus was the only one to be crucified.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: But history proves that to be a myth. The Romans
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: controlled the Jews with crucifixions. That means that they grew
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: up seeing people hung high and stretched wide, dying in
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the sun, vultures picking at their flesh. It was a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: way that power intimidates the oppressed. I'll kill you if
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: you disobey me. I'll kill you. It's like lynchings. I
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: knew if I said that you would get it. It's
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: like lynchings. You know the lynchings were always public. Come
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: out and watch the lynching. Because it's intimidation. It's terrorism.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Lest you rise up. You gonna run too?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Come out and watch me cut his foot off and
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: let me see how much running you do you bad
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I hear you young folks talking about it's a good
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: thing I was born when I was born and let
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: me tell you something I wouldn't shut up shut your
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: mouth you ain't seen nothing it's a difference between hip
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: hop and hip hopping somebody cut off your foot you'll
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: shut your mouth As you drag them back in the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: tent and pray the gangrene don't take the whole leg.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And without any anesthesia, you try to sew up the
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: damages and stop the bleeding. And you watch grandma wrap
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: her sheets around somebody's foot. Peter grew up in a
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: world of intimidation. There was no question in his mind,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: they'll kill you too. Peter, were you with him? And
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: the Peter who argued with Jesus and said he would
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: never deny him. And the Peter who cut off ears.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: And the Peter who performed miracles. And the Peter who
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: had insight as to Christ being the Messiah now says,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know him. and I would have thought it
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: was a one time thing but again they came up
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and another one pointed at him and I said I
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: saw him I recognize him he's one of them Jakeites
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I saw him on the video that's him he go
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to Jake's church He said, uh-huh, no I don't.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: And yet again, have you ever kept failing him? And
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: failing him and failing him. Have you ever done something
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: that you said you would never do? You taught against it.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: You spoke against it. You laughed at other people who
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: did it. You ran your mouth and then you got
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: yourself in a situation and even to this day you
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: don't tell nobody that you did what you did but
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: you did it and you know you did it. You
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: talk about people who do it. And it's not just
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: that he did it one time. He did it again
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and again. And the third time he did it, he said,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know Jesus. I don't know Jesus is worse
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: than I know Jesus, but I'm having a weak moment.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I know Jesus, but my flesh is taken over. I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: know Jesus, but I got a weakness. I know Jesus,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: but I got a problem. This is, this is have
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: no association with him. On one hand, I feel for
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Peter because I know he must have been scared out
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: of his mind. I know he's normally courageous. He's known
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to be courageous. He ain't scared of nobody. I know
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: he's tough. And I don't want to have my heart
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: bleed for him because I know he's afraid. But if
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: he knew that Jesus was the Messiah, if he knew
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: that Jesus was the resurrection and the life, if he
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: saw Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead, then why does
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: death still terrify him to the point that he will
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: not believe? If he knew that Jesus was the I
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: am and the mighty God and the everlasting father, the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: prince of peace, then why did he deny him? And
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I have learned as a leader that people will love
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: you and support you as long as other people do.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: But when it no longer becomes popular to be associated
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: with you, you have to always keep your heart prepared
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: for rejection. Never get so comfortable in the lap of
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the applause of men that you actually believe it because
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: all you're doing is setting yourself up for failure because
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: it is easy to love people when other people love them.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: The hardest time to love people is when everybody turns
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: against them and they're writing about them and they're talking
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: about them and they're in the news and they're in
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the paper and they're everywhere. And that's why I exalt
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: loyalty above everything else because I appreciate most not the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: people who are with me when people are with me.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I appreciate people who are with me when everybody turns
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: against me and you knock on my door and say,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I still love you. Now you got clout with me.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: And Peter who had been a nobody and a nothing
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and a failure. Peter who had been a nothing. Who
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: had risen from power only because he was connected to
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. now denies the one who raised him. Who
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: raised you? Who raised you when others denied you and
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: threw you away and said you'd never be nothing? Who
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: was there for you? When mother and father forsook you,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: who brought you through storms and valleys and ridges and
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: high lows and low places? If there's anybody you ought
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: to be loyal to, it ought to be Jesus. It
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: ought to be Jesus. The least you can do is
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: not deny him. Your struggles are your struggles and your
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: problems are your problems and you grow in grace as
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: God gets you through. But you could at least say,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I know him. Peter denied him and then the cock crowed.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: And when the cock crowed, his heart fell. Because he
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: realized that Jesus was right about him. Jesus was right
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: about me. Jesus was right about me. And he started crying.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: He started crying because... He didn't want Jesus to be right.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: It's the only time he didn't want Jesus to be right.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: He didn't want him to be right about it that
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: he would deny Jesus publicly in front of everybody. And
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: he started crying so many hands of Eve. The Bible
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: said he wept sorely and walked away.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: He was ashamed.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: He was ashamed. He was ashamed because now he's nothing.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Now he's nothing. At least before he was a disciple.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: He was a disciple. He gave him identity. And you
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: know how people look at you when you ain't nothing?
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: When no community embraces you and nobody accepts you and
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: it's not good for man to be alone and now
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Peter is alone. Peter is alone. After all of them
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: years and all of that experience and all of that love,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Peter is absolutely alone. And he denied him in front
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: of everybody. It's one thing to have a secret sin.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: But when your sin goes public, when your sin goes public,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: people act like they have none. It's not that you
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: can't still come around them, but you can feel You
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? That feeling that they give you that, oh,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: how are you? God bless you. God bless you. The
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: little subtle signals that we send out to people when
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: they are excommunicated out of our circles. And it's one
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: thing to deny a guy who died that was bad,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: that was terrible, that was humiliating. But if he died
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and he stayed dead, then maybe it was right. Come on.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: The problem with denying Jesus is not just denying Jesus.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: It's not just denying a Jesus that got crucified. It's
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: not just denying a Jesus that died. It's not just
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: denying a Jesus who had a funeral and a cemetery service.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: He got up. He got up. Whisper to three people and.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Say he got up. He got up. He got up.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: He got up. He got up.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: He got up.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: He got up. He got up. He got up. I'll
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: tell you what it's kind of like. It's like the
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: boy you rejected in high school becomes the president of
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the United States. And you look at him and you say,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: I made a mistake.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: I apologize.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: See, it's one thing to reject somebody who never goes up.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: But when you reject somebody and they come into their
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: power and they're throwing a party and you know you
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: ought to have been there and you should have been
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: invited and you should have been included and you were
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: earmarked to be at the celebration.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: .
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I was over in Fort Worth. And
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: they're doing a lot of construction over in Fort Worth.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: And they haven't topped my GPS. that you can't turn
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: left here because they got this concrete temporary wall built
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: up here and so you can't turn left and the
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: GPS is spinning and people are behind me blowing and
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I'm fussing and it's embarrassing and I'm irritated and I'm
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: not feeling real bishop-y at the moment you know what
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I'm saying it's just one of the moments that I
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: have every now and then that I just if I
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: don't take my medication I turn into somebody else I
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: was having one of them moments It was a detour.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Things weren't laid out like they used to be. And
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I couldn't get there like I used to. And so
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: I had to drive in confusion and forlornment. And I
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: didn't know exactly where I was. And I didn't know
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: what I needed to do to get straightened back out.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: But I always told my sister, as long as you
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: got gas, you'll be all right. I had gas, so
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I kept on driving. I kept on driving. I was lost,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: but I kept on driving. I was lost. confused, but
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I kept on driving. See, you can, y'all don't hear me.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: You can be lost and still keep going. You can
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: be lost and still go through the motions. You can
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: be lost and still laugh at jokes and still go
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: to the movies and still do stuff. And to the
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: other drivers, they can't see that you lost. Because you're
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: still driving. But down on the inside was this nagging
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: feeling that some kind of way I got my life
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: on track. And I should have been there by now.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I should have been there by now. I should have
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: been there by now. I know I should have been
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: there by now. I thought I'd be there by 30.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: I thought I'd be there by 35. I thought I'd
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: be there by 42. I thought I'd be there by 51.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: But I got lost.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I got lost and I can't even tell nobody.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: That I'm lost.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Because people with GPS's ain't supposed to get lost. I
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: got an Apple phone, I'm not supposed to be lost.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I had everything to work with. I had everything to
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: work with. I didn't come from no bad home. I
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: didn't come from no bad.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I had everything to work with. But I still got lost.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: And I couldn't get there the way I expected to
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: get there because it was under construction and it was
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: shut down and it was messed up. And Jesus had
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: risen from the dead. And he was getting ready to
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: throw this massive party for all the people who've been faithful.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: And it used to be me. But I got lost.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: I would have been helping plan the meeting at Galilee.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I can tell by the way the disciples act when
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I come around. That I'm not really one of them anymore.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And the only thing bad about being the ex-principal Is
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: that when you aren't that, who are you? First Lady
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Obama is First Lady Obama. First Lady Trump is First
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Lady Trump. And that comes with all kinds of stuff
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: that goes along with being that. I'm not saying she's
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: not gifted in her own right. Both of them are
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: strong in their own right. But there's some perks that
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: come through who you're connected to. Yeah. There were perks
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: for being a disciple, but not an ex. People love
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the first lady until the pastor died. No, no, no, no.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: You don't like it, but that's a fact.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: There's some first ladies in this room that'll tell you,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: you was getting the flowers and the roses and the
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: cakes and everything. Your husband died. And they said, we
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: have to take the parsonage back. Oh, God.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: That's how it works.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: See, Peter has not spent his life building up him.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: He spent his life building up Jesus. He's put his
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: business on hold for three years. He's lost his client base.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: He's lost his contacts.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: A lot can happen in three years. Peter is lost.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: And even though he got called with Andrew, Andrew can't
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: call him back. And that's why this text is important
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: to me. Because when Jesus rose up from the dead
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and showed himself alive, he told the woman, he said,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: go tell the disciples. Yes.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: And Peter, my car, it started spinning.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: This little thing started spinning on my GPS system. And
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: then after a while, it said rerouting. I came to
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: tell you about a God. who can reroute you. I
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: came to tell you about a God who can reroute
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: a mess and a messy situation and you've been down
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: to nothing and everybody's looking at you funny and you
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: embarrass your family and you embarrass yourself and you embarrass
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: your name and everything. I came to tell you that
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: God is spinning and when he gets too spinning, he's
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: going to reroute you into something that you never had before. Amen.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: So Jesus says, go tell the disciples and Peter. I
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: don't know whether he's even considered a disciple anymore, but
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I have not given up on him. I don't know
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: whether he'll be in the circle or not, but I
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: still got a plan for him. I don't know whether
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: they like him or not, but I still got a
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: plan for his life. I don't know whether they accept
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: him or not, but I called him by his name
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: like I called him the first time, like I called
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: him a rocker. Like I called him to walk on
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: the water. Like I called him to the Mount of Transfiguration.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: All them other times I called him, he looked like
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: an asset. But I call you in spite of being
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: a liability. I call you when your back's up against
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the wall. I call you when you messed up your pants.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: I call you when you've been locked up in jail.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I call you when you've been in a scandal. I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: call you when everybody's talking about you like a dog.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: I call you though you had a baby out of wedlock.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: I I call you though you've been strung.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Out on drugs.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: I call you, I call you, I call you. I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: call you, I call you, I call you. I call
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: you by your name, not your title, not your degree,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: not your pedigree, not how much money you got, not
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: how talented you are.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: And Peter, I want you back.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: And so when my car got through rerouting, it worked
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: it out another way. And it said, you're only five
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: minutes away. And suddenly I realized what I want you
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: to realize today. I can still get there. I said
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: all of that to you this morning. Because there's somebody
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: in this room who got lost and got off track
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: and made a wrong turn and got yourself in a mess.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know where you are. And I don't know
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: if I'd recognize you if you'd come up. I don't
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: know if you're recognizable to me. But you're recognizable to God.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Because God gave me this message for you. He told
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: me to tell you you've been driving and going on
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: like you doing something but you know you lost you've
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: been busy with all kind of busyness but you know
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: that you are not living your life's purpose you're just
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: going with the traffic just driving with the crowd but
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: you've been off course for a minute Cut that music out.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: You've been off course for a minute. And late at night,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: and nobody's listening. Your heart aches. Because being in the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: traffic is not what you were born for. You were
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: supposed to be going somewhere. You were supposed to be somebody.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: God was going to use your life in a spectacular way.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Something got you off track. And you know it. Because
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: even in your failure, you're instinctive enough to know when
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: you're off track. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. If you were
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: instinctive enough to know that Jesus was the Messiah, you
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: are instinctive enough to know that you are off track.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: I don't care what you make. I don't care what
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: you drive. I don't care where you live. I don't
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: care who you're married to. I have one simple thing
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: to say. You can still get there. No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: You got to hear this. You got to hear this.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Because the enemy wants you to think that you are
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: no longer eligible. That it is too late. That you
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: have messed up too bad. That your destiny has been aborted.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: That God doesn't love you. That God doesn't care. That
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: God is ashamed and embarrassed by you. The enemy wants
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: you to forget that God knew you were going to
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: mess up before you messed up. What I love about
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: God What I love about him is that he don't
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: change his mind. You know what the Bible says? The
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Bible says gifts and callings are without the repentance of God.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: That when he called you the first time, he already
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen to you. And he
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: has not changed his mind. And you can still get there.