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You Can Still Get There - Bishop T.D. Jakes [February 24, 2019] · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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