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Get Out of The Boat · FROG Discipleship

• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be in Matthew 14, looking at getting out of the boat.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean by that, getting out of the boat, is talking about your faith.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Faith requires action, not just the thought of, I need to do something, right?
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: So here in Matthew chapter 14, verses, starting at verses 22, right?
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: This is where we start seeing a little bit of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are this is this is when Jesus walks on water.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a familiar passage of scripture, or should be a familiar passage of scripture to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I want to read it and then I want to break it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Immediately, this is starting at verse 22 in Matthew 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitude away, and when he had sent the multitude away, he went up on the mountain by himself and prayed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now when evening came, he was alone there, but the boat was now in the middle of the sea by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea, and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a ghost, and they cried out of fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I, do not be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Come, and Peter and when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on water to go to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me, and immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him, and said to him, O ye of little faith, why do you doubt?
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then those who were in the boat came and worshipped, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what I want to talk about today is, you know, typically when this passage is looked at, it's about sinking and you know, not keeping your eyes on Jesus, and all those things are really good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't misunderstand me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I want to look at it right now is Peter did something that the other disciples didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: He got out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it is better to step out on faith, step out in faith, excuse me, and fail than to stay comfortable in the boat and never try.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is better to step out in faith and fail than to stay comfortable in the boat and never try.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, they all saw Jesus walking on the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: But cheat, but Peter, when he saw Jesus walking on the water, he said, Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did Jesus say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, Come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's where the relationship with Christ and Peter mattered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, he told, Peter spoke to Jesus, if this is you, if this is truly you, tell me to come to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he knew that Jesus would never require him to do something that was going to be unsafe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean by that, it wasn't going to set him up for failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is why Peter comfortably got out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nervously, yes, but got out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Peter answered and said, Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Come.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Peter had come down out of the boat and he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Peter literally took steps on the water as he was walking towards Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as Peter stepped out of the boat, did he sink?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he sank.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that doesn't mean Peter should have stayed in the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does mean stepping out on faith doesn't guarantee that it will be executed, that you will execute every step perfectly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Simply put, stepping out of the boat, stepping out on faith doesn't mean you will never sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith requires getting out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is step one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith requires getting out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not getting out of the boat, you're not walking out in faith, you're just staying comfortable, comfortable in where you are, and not necessarily where God needs you to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter was the only one that stepped out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was Peter's step, was Peter's steps perfect?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it courageous?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Courageous because he didn't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, all around him was a storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were caught in the middle of the of the sea in a storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're frightened, not just because they see Jesus where they thought was a ghost, but also the storm is boisterous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he says, if this is you, tell me to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he came, and Peter decides, okay, well, I'm going to get out of the boat because faith requires getting out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this particular case, for Peter, literally, for us metaphorically, life requires us to do the uncomfortable, to do the uncertain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter stepped out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it perfect?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he tried.
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  SPEAKER_00: He tried and he failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I tell my kids all the time, I would rather you try and fail than never try at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter, there's a lot of lessons we can learn from Peter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we look at a lot of Peter's life and we look at where he failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is one of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is typically taught as a failure, but there is a success here that is overlooked, and that is he stepped out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: He failed forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: He failed forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: He stepped out on faith when no one else would.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith doesn't always come with a guarantee.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean by that, faith doesn't always come with a guarantee, meaning faith isn't always going to guarantee things to work out the way you want them to.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might be different.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not always going to, you're not going to never sink in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes Jesus just simply says, come.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is where you step out on faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you get out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, you're removing the comfort and safety of your life right now, and you're willing to step out of the boat, even if it means you might fail, you might sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are walking into the unknown and trusting in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scripture tells us that if he provides for the birds of the air, well, are we not greater than they?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why won't he provide for us?
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's great to have that knowledge and information, but to truly believe it, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now understand, I want to be clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stepping out in faith doesn't mean you do it ignorantly or foolishly.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's more pleasant word, foolishly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And someone's going to say, well, Peter acted foolish here.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, he didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, he followed a command of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, Come, and he came.
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  SPEAKER_00: He stepped out of the boat because Jesus was calling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where faith comes into play.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being obedient in Christ means we have to listen to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did Jesus do before this ever occurred?
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  SPEAKER_00: He went up to the mountain by himself and prayed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is one thing that most Christians don't do enough of, and that spend one-on-one intimate time with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: So understand, failure doesn't mean you were wrong stepping out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter walked on the water, but then he became afraid and took his eyes off Jesus and began to sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is where he failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you're spending that time in that intimate relationship with Jesus, and you're spending time with him in prayer, and you're developing that relationship and that trust, well, you're less likely to take your eyes off of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's notice something important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter was sinking outside of the boat while the other disciples were still setting inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter's failure doesn't erase the fact that he stepped out on faith, stepped out in faith, excuse me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what he did.
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  SPEAKER_00: He stepped out in faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we try something that God has planned or placed on our hearts, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has placed something on our hearts, and it doesn't work out the way we expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that doesn't automatically mean that we were wrong for trying.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we heard God tell us to come and we acted out on faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did we start to sink?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did Peter sink?
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  SPEAKER_00: He took his eyes off Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of times, if not every time, when we step out on faith and we fail, it's because we look at the storm that surrounds us and we are taking our eyes off Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the one thing that is so beautiful about Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Peter started to sink, he cried out, and what did Jesus do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, save me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him and said to him, Oh, you of little faith, why do you doubt?
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  SPEAKER_00: Those same words are spoken to us now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh ye of little faith, why do you doubt?
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  SPEAKER_00: Life requires us to, scripture literally says, walk by faith, not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, walk by faith, not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, walk by faith, not by sight, says mean we are stepping out into the unknown.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't know what awaits us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But our focus, our sight, our heart must be on Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because Peter, as he walked on the water, Peter came down out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: He walked on the water to go to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: His focus was where it needed to be at this point in time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was walking on the water as though it was concrete.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was doing and achieving great things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when he saw that the winds were boisterous, he was afraid and beginning to sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: He cried out.
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  SPEAKER_00: See what took place here essentially is he lost confidence in his Savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: He lost confidence in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: His focus became more on how mighty this storm is versus how mighty his God is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of times we do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We step out on faith, and it's like, man, look what God, we're we're walking on this water, metaphorically, of course, and we're we're doing some great things, but then automatically a big wave crashes against us, and then our focus is shifted, and we're no longer focused on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter about the storm because the storm has always been there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was here already.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm walking on the water, I'm doing the difficult thing, I'm achieving greatness for the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this right here, these distractions in life is brought to us by the evil one.
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  SPEAKER_00: The evil one, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: To remove our focus off of Jesus so we will see.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Peter did the difficult thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He got out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, did he fail?
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this failure is a success.
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  SPEAKER_00: This failure has lessened.
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  SPEAKER_00: If Peter didn't get out of the boat and fail, we wouldn't have one of the greatest passages in Scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: We wouldn't have this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Peter stepped out on faith and he failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever allowed a failure to convince you that you should have never tried in the first place?
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  SPEAKER_00: See, this is where a lot of times where failure comes in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh, I failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't have done that.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's better to try and fail than never try at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure brings lessons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure brings refinement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure brings clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: How many times did things, you know how, just just think about the automobile of, you know, so for the longest time we didn't even drink out of cups.
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  SPEAKER_00: We drank out of bowls, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But it became, they tried and failed and tried and failed, and then next thing you know, eventually the cup was born, and now we're drinking out of cups, not just smaller bowls, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They tried and failed and tried and failed, but as they failed, they learned to then create the automobile.
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  SPEAKER_00: It went from horse to a carriage to, okay, well, then, well, what are we going to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: The combustion engine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, actually, it was the train, the locomotive, that then turned that into an automobile, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: There is failure in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure is required for greatness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You look at every person, failure happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure brings refinement, failure brings clarity, but only if you're willing to look at the failure and learn from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure is a lesson you can learn from, not a reason for you to quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people, when failure comes, they're like, oh, I quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was the point?
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  SPEAKER_00: The point was for you to learn that lesson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marriages fail because spouses quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gets difficult, they start to sink a little bit, and it's easier to quit than continue to pursue and fix what is damaged in that marriage or your job or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here we're talking about your relationship with Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might have failed yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about the past, it's history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about the future, it's a mystery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is a gift, that's why we call it the present.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is a gift, that's why we call it the present.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not to worry about the past, we're not to worry about the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are to worry about today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scripture tells us today, today is enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has enough struggles.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just focus on today.
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  SPEAKER_00: You messed up yesterday, leave it in the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no point in doing a U-turn and going and revisiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is a makeup test.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is a redo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is the opportunity to look at how you failed yesterday and learn from it and do better now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do better today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is there when we sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Peter began to seek, to sink, excuse me, he cried out, Lord, save me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter learned something very, very valuable that night, something that we learn from his failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can fail while following Jesus, but you don't have to face failure alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can fail while following Jesus, but you don't have to face failure alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we sink, or sometimes we think, sometimes we think the goal of faith is to never fail, but sometimes the goal in faith is to sink.
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  SPEAKER_00: So therefore we cry out to Jesus, Lord save me, Lord help me, and He is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is still there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the goal is learning that when we do fail, that Jesus is there by us.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, we we're always focusing on the harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean by that is the end goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we forget about the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't have a harvest if you first don't till the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then tilling the ground is great, but it's just broken up ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll never have the harvest if you don't plant seed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you plant the seed and you never water it, you'll still never have the harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we want the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the reward.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the harvest, but we're not willing to put in the work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because sometimes when we're putting in the work, we fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: But failure is a lesson.
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  SPEAKER_00: And failure is an opportunity to bring closeness between you and your heavenly Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we need to get out of the boat and just keep our eyes on Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you sink, reach out for his hand, and he will be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We like to overthink things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let fear of failure keep you in the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let the fear of failure keep you in the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are to walk by faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter got out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did he fail?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we are still talking about his failure today because there were so many lessons that were taught.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your life is an opportunity to learn and grow and mature, but also take everything that you have learned in life and share it to the next generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your testimony.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how we make an impact and add value to people is through testimony.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, failure happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure is going to happen when you walk by faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Period.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: But don't allow the feel the fear of failure to keep you in the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't allow the fear of failure to keep you in the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk by faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get out of the boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's better to fail and learn and try than to never try at all.
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