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When God Untied the Death Ropes │ Msg 12 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: If you have your Bible with you, please open it
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  Speaker 2: to the middle of a sermon. Acts chapter 2 contains
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  Speaker 2: the words of Peter as he's delivering his very first
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  Speaker 2: sermon in all his life. And we pick up the
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  Speaker 2: declaration at verse 22 of Acts chapter 2. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to have located that. Please stand and remain standing
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  Speaker 2: following the scripture reading. May we stand together. Men of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: listen to these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested
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  Speaker 2: to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs
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  Speaker 2: which God performed through him in your midst, just as
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  Speaker 2: you yourselves know, This man, delivered over by the predetermined
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  Speaker 2: plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross
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  Speaker 2: by the hands of godless men and put him to death.
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  Speaker 2: But God, say those two words with me. But God
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  Speaker 2: raised him up again, putting an end to the agony
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  Speaker 2: of death, since it was impossible for him to be
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  Speaker 2: held in its power. Please bow with me for prayer.
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  Speaker 2: How grateful we are that those words but God changed everything.
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  Speaker 2: When all seemed lost, when the night was never darker,
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  Speaker 2: when hope seemed farther away than ever before, but you, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: stepped in, gave life to a dead body, brought this
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  Speaker 2: one out of a tomb even before the stone was
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  Speaker 2: rolled away, giving triumph over sin, death, and the grave,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the life-changing truth this message brings. Not
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  Speaker 2: just a great doctrine for theologians to proclaim and preachers
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  Speaker 2: to declare, but a practical truth designed to transform us
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  Speaker 2: from the way we have been all our lives to
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  Speaker 2: the way we long to be by your power, resurrection power.
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  Speaker 2: Reveal all of that to us, our Father, in the
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  Speaker 2: life of a man who seemed destined to failure. And
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  Speaker 2: may it speak volumes to all of us who live
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  Speaker 2: with a desire to triumph. Today we stand because he
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  Speaker 2: has risen. Today we have a hope because he has risen.
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  Speaker 2: Today we exult, we rejoice in that hope Even though
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  Speaker 2: death may come on this earth, it has no sting,
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  Speaker 2: nor does the grave, for your son's resurrection has removed
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  Speaker 2: all of that. And your arise has given us the
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  Speaker 2: hope we need to live beyond the grave. Because he lives,
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  Speaker 2: we too will live. Accept our gifts that come from
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  Speaker 2: hearts that love you and use them, we pray, in
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  Speaker 2: magnificent ways, ways we could not even imagine in the
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  Speaker 2: days ahead. In the name of the one who has
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  Speaker 2: been raised from the dead, even Jesus Christ, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: and everyone said, amen. Please be seated.
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  Speaker 3: The clouds had not yet lifted The tomb was sealed
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  Speaker 3: in dark.
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  Speaker 4: The cruel cross had crucified The home of every heart
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  Speaker 4: The Son of God, the Lord of life, by death
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  Speaker 4: had been destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Then in the silence.
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  Speaker 4: Of the tomb, he heard his Father's voice. Arise, arise,
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  Speaker 4: first star of the morning skies. Come forth, my anointed one,
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  Speaker 4: into eternal life. Arise, arise, cast away death's dark disguise.
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  Speaker 4: My glorious son, victorious one, in majesty arise.
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  Speaker 2: The ground began to tremble.
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  Speaker 3: The ground began to quake.
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  Speaker 2: The mighty stone that sealed the tomb.
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  Speaker 4: Of death began to shake. Then suddenly the darkness was.
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  Speaker 5: Shattered by his light as Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Christ, the Son of God, Thus.
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  Speaker 1: Through the door of life. Arise, arise, the star of
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  Speaker 1: the morning skies. Come forth, my anointed one, into eternal life.
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  Speaker 4: Has to wave death's darkest skies. My glorious son, victorious one,
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  Speaker 4: in majesty.
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  Speaker 1: Arise. My glorious son, victorious.
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  Speaker 5: One, The last one in majesty arise.
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  Speaker 2: There were so many things that Simon did not like
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  Speaker 2: about himself. Like all of us, they were there and
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  Speaker 2: they dogged his steps. It seemed as though it would
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  Speaker 2: take a miracle for them to change, and that miracle
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  Speaker 2: seemed never to happen. You could trace it all the
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  Speaker 2: way back to his childhood when he was raised at
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  Speaker 2: his mother's knee and she reserved some of those lectures
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  Speaker 2: for him. When his mouth would run ahead and he
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  Speaker 2: would say those things he had no business saying and
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  Speaker 2: she would sit him down on that bench and she
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  Speaker 2: would say to him Simon Barjona when will you ever
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  Speaker 2: learn that your mouth is your major problem It's going
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  Speaker 2: to get you into trouble as you get older. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: it already does. See that motto hanging on the wall?
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  Speaker 2: I got it from our very wise ancestor Solomon. He
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  Speaker 2: wrote it in his book, and to this day it
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  Speaker 2: has a message for you. In fact, for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: A man is held captive by his sins. They are
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  Speaker 2: ropes that catch him. And hold him. As you, Simon,
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  Speaker 2: when will you ever learn? When will you get control
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  Speaker 2: of your anger? When will you stop saying things that
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  Speaker 2: are so inappropriate? When will you pause and realize that
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  Speaker 2: you're not the only kid in the block? Simon must
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  Speaker 2: have heard that lecture dozens of times growing up. He
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  Speaker 2: knew they were true. He knew each one, each word,
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  Speaker 2: each rebuke was deserved, but he just couldn't change. Part
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  Speaker 2: of the reason he would tell himself is that he
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  Speaker 2: picked it up from his father. After all, his name,
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  Speaker 2: Simon bar Jonah, Simon, son of John, tied him to him.
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  Speaker 2: I guess if he were Scandinavian, he would be Simon Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: But he's Galilean, and he was proud of it. Galileans
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  Speaker 2: are known for short fuses. And when they talk, it
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  Speaker 2: often looks like arguments. I've led enough tours of Israel
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  Speaker 2: to remember how often I've seen out in front of
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  Speaker 2: the bus what looked like almost a fistfight beginning to
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  Speaker 2: start And I remember the time I said to our guide,
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  Speaker 2: look at those men. They're about to come to blows.
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  Speaker 2: He said, they're not coming to blows. They're Galileans talking
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  Speaker 2: to each other. That's how it works when you're Galilean.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it was with Simon. And that's how we
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  Speaker 2: got around it, even though he was addicted to anger.
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  Speaker 2: Saying more than he should have said, and when he
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  Speaker 2: said it, often it was out of place. inappropriate and
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  Speaker 2: frequently absolutely wrong. He had heard the lecture from his
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  Speaker 2: rabbi down at the synagogue school, and I cannot imagine
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  Speaker 2: how many times he must have been sat down late
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  Speaker 2: after school, kept after school because he had misbehaved, and
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  Speaker 2: the rabbi told him, here we go again, same message.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I understand the problem. I had my
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  Speaker 2: own seat in the principal's office as I was growing
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  Speaker 2: up in my high school. So my principal would say,
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  Speaker 2: go to your seat. And I thought that was sort
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  Speaker 2: of a badge of honor until my mother found out
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  Speaker 2: about it. That's another story. Simon had his own bench.
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  Speaker 2: And the rabbi would rebuke him because again and again
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  Speaker 2: there would be fist fights in the playground. There would
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  Speaker 2: be arguments that he would start because he was determined
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  Speaker 2: That he was right. On top of the anger was
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  Speaker 2: a stubborn pride. And he couldn't stop that either. It
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  Speaker 2: kept emerging. Kept emerging. He was opinionated. He was self-centered.
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  Speaker 2: He was impulsive. He was Galilean. He loved the sea.
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  Speaker 2: perhaps because his father loved the sea. In those days,
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  Speaker 2: boys did what their dads did. If dad was a carpenter,
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  Speaker 2: the son became carpenter. If the dad was a farmer,
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  Speaker 2: son was a farmer. No doubt John was a fisherman.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe from John, the business of fishing fell into
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  Speaker 2: Simon's hands, and he loved the sea. He loved the
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  Speaker 2: feel of the nets and the catch. when they would
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  Speaker 2: be full of fish, except when the net broke and
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  Speaker 2: out would come the oaths. And once again, the old
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  Speaker 2: Simon would appear again, but there was no one to hear.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of the reason he liked the sea. The
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  Speaker 2: fish never spoke, never told anybody. And there he was,
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  Speaker 2: all alone, often in the sea, doing what he loved
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  Speaker 2: to do. Little did he know what God had in
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  Speaker 2: mind for him, just as little do you know what
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  Speaker 2: God has in mind for you. As you find yourself
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  Speaker 2: riveted to your own set of addictions and habits and
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  Speaker 2: things you can't seem to conquer even by growing older.
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  Speaker 2: That's why Simon's life speaks such volumes. His mother used
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  Speaker 2: to say, even the rabbi used to say, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take a miracle for you to change. Simon had
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  Speaker 2: an older brother, We'll call him Andy. Andy was not
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  Speaker 2: a fisherman. Maybe he didn't like the sea. Perhaps he
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  Speaker 2: was one of those that was a little more like
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  Speaker 2: a dreamer. He liked to follow those other people liked
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  Speaker 2: to follow, which drew him into the wilderness. And he
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  Speaker 2: listened from a distance to the baptizer as he spoke
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  Speaker 2: of the Lamb of God who would take away the
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  Speaker 2: sin of the world and ultimately pointed him out saying,
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  Speaker 2: that's him. That's him. I am not him. Follow him.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew heard that and his heart skipped a beat. The
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  Speaker 2: first thing he thought of was Simon. Simon needs to
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  Speaker 2: meet this one. And so he comes to Simon as
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  Speaker 2: he's late one afternoon mending his nets in the boat
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  Speaker 2: and he says, Simon, They found him. Simon has heard
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  Speaker 2: words like this for a long time. He looks at
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  Speaker 2: his brother and he says, Andy, please. You've been following
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  Speaker 2: that wilderness weirdo so long. You believe everything he says. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It's not him. It's Messiah. Come. Come. Find out for yourself. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this began... A change in Simon's life he never would
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  Speaker 2: have dreamed. But this day, this day was different. Because
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  Speaker 2: Andrew didn't mess around. He walked up to his brother,
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  Speaker 2: mending nets there in the boat, and he said to Simon, come.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to meet him. You've got to meet the Messiah. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Simon shrugged and said, how many messiahs are you going
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  Speaker 2: to find in your lifetime? You were here with two
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  Speaker 2: others two years ago, and here you are again with
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  Speaker 2: another messiah. No, no, no. Andrew says this one is
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  Speaker 2: the real one. He wants to meet you. And if
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  Speaker 2: you look at John chapter 1, you will see exactly
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  Speaker 2: what happened when they met. Toward the end of the chapter,
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  Speaker 2: John records the event. Look for yourself. John 1, 41.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew found his brother Simon and said to him, we
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  Speaker 2: found the Messiah, which translated means Christ, the anointed one.
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  Speaker 2: And he brought him to Jesus. Now watch closely here.
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  Speaker 2: Here is a man who all of his life has
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  Speaker 2: longed for some way to conquer himself, some restraint on
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  Speaker 2: his tongue, some ability to get beyond his old nature,
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  Speaker 2: which he could never pull off, like some of you.
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  Speaker 2: Truth be told, it may have become even an addiction.
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  Speaker 2: And you want so much to defeat it, to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of it. But it keeps emerging, keeps coming back.
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  Speaker 2: But look at this encounter. Jesus looked at him and said,
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  Speaker 2: you are Simon Bar-Jonah. There's that name again. Like his
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  Speaker 2: mother used to call him. You know, mothers use middle
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  Speaker 2: names when they're angry. Simon Bar-Jonah. And they always emphasize
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  Speaker 2: the consonants. They spit those out. So he remembered that.
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  Speaker 2: He remembered. And Jesus called him that. Sort of put
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  Speaker 2: him under the shadow of his father. But Jesus didn't
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  Speaker 2: finish the sentence until he said, that's not all there
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  Speaker 2: is to the story. You shall be called Rocky.
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  Speaker 3: Rocky.
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  Speaker 2: The word really means rock, petros. We get our word
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  Speaker 2: petrified from it, a hard rock. But I think his buddies,
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  Speaker 2: who may have been standing nearby, snickered when they heard
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  Speaker 2: Slippery Simon called old Gibraltar. Just didn't seem to fit.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of like naming your hamster Goliath. Or that six-foot-eight-inch
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  Speaker 2: kid that plays basketball in middle school, and you call
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  Speaker 2: him Tiny. You know how we are. Or the bald-headed
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  Speaker 2: guy you call Curly. It never stops. We just have
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  Speaker 2: those names. And it sounds like one of those. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: else may call you Simon, but I'm telling you something.
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  Speaker 2: You are Petros. The others may have laughed. Simon didn't.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time in his life, he met someone
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  Speaker 2: who knew his own heart. knew what he wanted most.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to be that solid and sure. I
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  Speaker 2: would love to live to see the day when I'm
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  Speaker 2: not held captive by my own sins and when the
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  Speaker 2: ropes of my own flesh do not catch and hold
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  Speaker 2: me like my mother used to lecture. I would love
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  Speaker 2: to be what he has described. What a great moment.
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  Speaker 2: We pass over it because it's in a list of
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  Speaker 2: events as Jesus is getting his band together, choosing 12.
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  Speaker 2: He could have chosen 200, but he limited it to 12.
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  Speaker 2: And of all things, he chose Simon to be one
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  Speaker 2: of them. You see, we have these names that we
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  Speaker 2: have somehow glorified, magnified into plaster saints that stand in
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  Speaker 2: the corner of cathedrals, but these are just everyday guys.
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  Speaker 2: You've already gotten a little glimpse into Simon you haven't
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  Speaker 2: thought of before. He brings all of that with him,
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  Speaker 2: all of that background trash as he becomes one of
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  Speaker 2: the twelve. Of course, he was Galilean, so he didn't
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  Speaker 2: let that disturb him too much that these things were
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  Speaker 2: true because at least he was around the shadow of
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  Speaker 2: one who could do miracles, signs and wonders. And he
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  Speaker 2: was among the 12. No, he didn't suddenly change. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you're that embedded in your own self, It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: just quickly go away, even if you walk in the
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  Speaker 2: shadow or eat alongside and spend time with Jesus of Nazareth.
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  Speaker 2: Still Simon. However, there were glimpses of greatness that emerged.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very impressed with him in Matthew chapter 16. Turn
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  Speaker 2: to that record, if you will, Matthew 16. The band
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  Speaker 2: of 12 is together. They're moving and ministering among the
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  Speaker 2: people in Galilee, sometime down into Judea, but most often
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  Speaker 2: in Galilee. And so they've gone up to the northern
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  Speaker 2: part of Galilee, Caesarea Philippi, and they're sort of hanging
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  Speaker 2: out together. They're weary. And Jesus is musing over who
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  Speaker 2: people say he is. And since these men have been
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  Speaker 2: in touch with many of the people, Jesus, in verse 13,
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  Speaker 2: asks the disciples, who do people say I am? What's
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  Speaker 2: the word on the street? Well, they don't hesitate. Some
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  Speaker 2: say you're the baptizer. Others have called you Elijah and
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  Speaker 2: still others Jeremiah. or one of the prophets, but who
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  Speaker 2: do you say that I am? Now he's limited it
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  Speaker 2: to the 12. In fact, you can't see it in
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  Speaker 2: our English rendering. Who do you say that I am?
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  Speaker 2: You is plural. So allow me. Who do y'all say
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  Speaker 2: that I am? That's it. That fits. All y'all. Not surprisingly,
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  Speaker 2: Peter speaks for everybody. For if they can get a
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  Speaker 2: word out of their mouth, here's Peter. But for once
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  Speaker 2: he is right. Is he ever? You are the Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the son of the living God. What a moment for
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  Speaker 2: old Simon to come across as Petros. Look at Jesus' response.
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  Speaker 2: He even utters a beatitude. Blessed are you, Simon Barjona. Look,
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  Speaker 2: it's a beatitude. Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh
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  Speaker 2: and blood did not reveal this to you. But my
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  Speaker 2: Father who is in heaven, you got that from heaven.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how often you can say of yourself
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  Speaker 2: that some insight that has come to you is so insightful.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's beyond yourself. And at those moments you
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  Speaker 2: sort of pause and let the wonder in and realize
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  Speaker 2: that that came from God. And Peter spoke outside himself
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  Speaker 2: when he said, you are Messiah. That's who we say
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  Speaker 2: you are. That's who I say you are. And Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: response is, it came from heaven. I also say that
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  Speaker 2: on this rock, but this is a different kind of rock.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a rock like a statement. Not like
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  Speaker 2: the man, Peter, but like the statement you've made on
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  Speaker 2: this rock-like declaration, I will build my church. This is
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  Speaker 2: a heaven-sent revelation. And I commend you, Simon, for listening
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  Speaker 2: and responding as you have. That is the exact truth.
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  Speaker 2: And it's upon that declaration, that rock-like statement, I will
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  Speaker 2: build my church. See the next verse? I say to
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  Speaker 2: you that you are, here it is. You are emerging
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  Speaker 2: as Petros. In this case, it represents not the man, Peter,
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  Speaker 2: but the statement, this declaration of truth, this creed, that
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  Speaker 2: you are Messiah, the Son of the living God. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And on that basis, look at the prediction. Five words.
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  Speaker 2: I will build my church. Great moment in Simon's life.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, must have thought, wow, I hope these guys
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  Speaker 2: realize I was right on with that. But just before
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  Speaker 2: that thought could linger, look at what follows. The old
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  Speaker 2: Simon emerges. Verse 21, from that time, don't miss that.
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  Speaker 2: From here on, the story changes, at least in the
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  Speaker 2: minds of the followers. These men who have left their nets,
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  Speaker 2: left their practices, left their careers to follow Jesus, they've
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  Speaker 2: thrown it all in. They're now hearing. Jesus began to
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  Speaker 2: show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer
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  Speaker 2: many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes,
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  Speaker 2: and be killed and be raised up the third day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure they even heard the last part. All
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  Speaker 2: they heard was, killed. Killed. The one you've been following,
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  Speaker 2: the one you believe in, the one you declare to
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  Speaker 2: be the Son of God, killed. You and I have
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  Speaker 2: had centuries to look back over history and to settle
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  Speaker 2: on the reality that Christ came to die. They are
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  Speaker 2: living it out right now. They've never read Matthew 16.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know what this is all about. All they
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  Speaker 2: hear is killed. So Simon, here we go again, 22,
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  Speaker 2: took him aside. A chill goes down my back when
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  Speaker 2: I read the next verb. He rebuked him. Whoa. It
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  Speaker 2: took a lot of audacity to do that. But of course,
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  Speaker 2: he's riding in the heels of his great statement that
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  Speaker 2: he made earlier. And maybe it's time for Jesus to
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  Speaker 2: listen to him. And he says to Jesus, God forbid, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: This shall never happen to you. I think it may
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  Speaker 2: have been said with that kind of passion. Here we
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  Speaker 2: are again. A flashback of those days sitting on the
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  Speaker 2: bench in the synagogue school. A reminder of Simon receiving
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  Speaker 2: his mother's lecture. The man is held captive by his
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  Speaker 2: own sins. They are ropes that catch and hold him.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is again. You say too much, Simon, and
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  Speaker 2: you don't know enough to make a statement like that.
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  Speaker 2: Please observe the Lord does not mince words. In case
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  Speaker 2: you've had the opinion of Jesus that he was sort
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  Speaker 2: of meek and mild and milquetoast, look at his response.
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  Speaker 2: He turned and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan.
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  Speaker 2: I was reading that this week and finished the sentence,
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  Speaker 2: you are a stumbling block to me for you are
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  Speaker 2: not setting your mind on God's interest but man's. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought, oh the embarrassment that must have brought. With
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  Speaker 2: the other 11 listening in, Jesus says to him, you
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  Speaker 2: speak like Satan. I can't imagine a more stinging reproof
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  Speaker 2: than that one. You know why he said it? Best
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  Speaker 2: I can understand. Because it sounded so much like Satan
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  Speaker 2: himself when he was tempted in the wilderness. And Simon
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  Speaker 2: had picked up the same kind of language as Satan.
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  Speaker 2: And was mouthing it. And it's as if Jesus says
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  Speaker 2: to him. You speak as one from the pit. I
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  Speaker 2: have come for a mission. And the mission is to
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  Speaker 2: die for the sins of the world. It's all part
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  Speaker 2: of the father's predetermined plan. Whether or not you can
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  Speaker 2: grasp it at this moment. It's true. And you stand
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  Speaker 2: in the way of it. You are stumbling block to me,
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  Speaker 2: for you are not setting your mind on God's interests,
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  Speaker 2: but on man's. That's the story of Simon's life. And
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  Speaker 2: here it is emerging again. Can you imagine the embarrassment? Well,
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  Speaker 2: at least he pulled him aside. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: many heard it, but I have a feeling it wasn't whispered.
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  Speaker 2: Because old Gibraltar begins to crack. And the truth shows
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  Speaker 2: up where Simon... lets it out that he's not ready
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  Speaker 2: to accept a dead Messiah. That doesn't fit the logic.
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  Speaker 2: That can't be true. Maybe you struggle with some of
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  Speaker 2: these things about Jesus. If he's so powerful, how could
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  Speaker 2: he die? And if his plan is so great, why
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  Speaker 2: would sinful men take charge? And if he dies for
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  Speaker 2: the sins of the world, how could it be that
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  Speaker 2: godless men nail him to a cross? It's all a
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  Speaker 2: part of that predetermined plan which has within it mystery
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  Speaker 2: and intrigue and some truths that cannot be easily explained.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly not to someone who has his mind made up.
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  Speaker 2: This will never happen to you. But as time passed,
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  Speaker 2: the tide of popular opinion turned against Jesus. And the
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  Speaker 2: disciples could feel it in the air. You could hear
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  Speaker 2: it from the words of Jesus' critics. By and by,
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  Speaker 2: they get very, very close to the place of the arrest.
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  Speaker 2: They have their last meal together. They realize when they
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  Speaker 2: are eating that brittle piece of bread and drinking from
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  Speaker 2: that chalice that this will be the last time they'll
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  Speaker 2: have a meal with him until the kingdom. I've turned
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  Speaker 2: to Matthew 26 in my Bible, and it's following the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's Supper where they've had their last meal together, and
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  Speaker 2: they are now having to come to terms with what
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  Speaker 2: he had said to them earlier, I'm going to die.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to die. They will kill me. I must die.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus says to them without hesitation, verse 31 of
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  Speaker 2: Matthew 26, you will all fall away because of me
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  Speaker 2: this night. For it is written, I will strike down
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  Speaker 2: the shepherd of the sheep. Verse 32, after I have
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  Speaker 2: been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.
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  Speaker 2: But Peter, here it is again. If ever there was
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  Speaker 2: a time for him to have an unexpressed opinion, it
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  Speaker 2: was now. But he doesn't know what that means. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's held by the ropes of his own sins. Like
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  Speaker 2: some of you. You try and try and try. You
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  Speaker 2: make promises, resolutions. You even write out a plan. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: get therapy for these things and you still cannot break
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  Speaker 2: the habit. Here again, if Simon had just kept his
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  Speaker 2: mouth closed, it would have been so much better. But
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  Speaker 2: Simon says in verse 33, Even though all may fall
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  Speaker 2: away because of you, I will never fall away. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, ever use never when you shouldn't have ever
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  Speaker 2: used never? We have learned in our lives now, finally,
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  Speaker 2: to stay away from always and never. I remember when
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  Speaker 2: I graduated from seminary, I made the declaration prophet that
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  Speaker 2: I was, three places I will never minister. I'll never
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  Speaker 2: stay in Texas and minister. I'll never go to New
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  Speaker 2: England and preach, and I'll never be in California. I
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  Speaker 2: have only ministered in three places, Texas, New England, and California.
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  Speaker 2: So I understand. I understand never. I will never, but
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  Speaker 2: think of what the other disciples must have thought. They're
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  Speaker 2: standing back as he speaks for them again. They may
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  Speaker 2: fall away. I'm not going to fall away. Look at
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' response in verse 34. I say to you this
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  Speaker 2: very night before a rooster crows, you'll deny me not once,
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  Speaker 2: not twice, three times. What did Peter think of that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I should have called him Simon because he answered like Simon.
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  Speaker 2: Even if I have to die with you, I will not.
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  Speaker 2: deny you. In other words, Jesus, you're wrong. I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I would look out for a lightning flash if I
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  Speaker 2: said something like that to him. But you know in
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  Speaker 2: my heart I have. Down deep in my heart when
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  Speaker 2: I knew he was leading me in one direction and
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  Speaker 2: I did not want to go, I would rationalize around
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  Speaker 2: it and go another direction. Always regret it later. But
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  Speaker 2: Peter is all out there. Simon is all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus doesn't hold back. You're going to deny me three times.
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  Speaker 2: Let me cut to the chase. The arrest, the torture.
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  Speaker 2: All of the disciples fled at the Garden of Gethsemane
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  Speaker 2: when they came with the clubs and the torches to
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  Speaker 2: shackle Jesus, thinking they had the fight on their hands.
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  Speaker 2: And before you know it, Peter's following at a distance,
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  Speaker 2: standing in the limelight, watching the scourging. And one of
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  Speaker 2: the group looks at him, seeing the fire flash off
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  Speaker 2: his face. And the person said, ah, you are one
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  Speaker 2: of them. You're one of the followers. No, no, not me.
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  Speaker 2: This is the one who said, I will never. Not me.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't long before another one said, no, no, I
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  Speaker 2: remember you were in the group that came near our marketplace.
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  Speaker 2: You are one of the 12. No, no, I am not.
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  Speaker 2: And then a third identified him very clearly. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what we read? He swore. The old sailor language
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  Speaker 2: came out again. Some say it wasn't a swear word,
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  Speaker 2: but it was like I swear before God that I
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  Speaker 2: am not one of these. Two things happened at that moment,
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  Speaker 2: really three. The rooster crowed, and one of the gospel
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  Speaker 2: writers says, Jesus looked away from the torture and looked
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  Speaker 2: right at Peter. And Peter went out and wept bitterly.
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  Speaker 2: Lowest moment of his life. You been there? Have you
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  Speaker 2: found a time in your life when you blew it
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  Speaker 2: so royally that it became scandalous? I mean, you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: hide it, and the secret was found out, and the
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  Speaker 2: word traveled, and you wept because you realized, without a miracle,
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  Speaker 2: I am never, ever going to change.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 2: That's a never worth repeating. Unless, of course, you encounter
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  Speaker 2: a miracle, which brings us to this moment. Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 2: They nailed him to a cross. He died. Brought down
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  Speaker 2: from a cross, wrapped like a mummy, laid in a tomb,
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  Speaker 2: stone rolled in front of it, sealed by Pilate, the governor,
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  Speaker 2: Guards put there so that no one would take the
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  Speaker 2: body so Christians could claim he rose. Nope, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to hold him in there. The amazing thing is they
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  Speaker 2: didn't because they couldn't. In fact, I believe the stone
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  Speaker 2: was not rolled away to let Jesus out. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was rolled away to let us in. And when
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  Speaker 2: word reached the disciples from one of the women who
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  Speaker 2: had been there and seen that his body was not
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  Speaker 2: there and had heard the angel say, he's not here,
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  Speaker 2: he's risen. You know what the disciples' reaction was? This
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  Speaker 2: is ridiculous. All the way to the end, it's denial.
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  Speaker 2: Peter ran to the tomb and along with John stood
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  Speaker 2: there and studied the mummy-like wrappings that are hollow How
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  Speaker 2: could you rob a body and rewrap without a body?
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  Speaker 2: And there's so much more. The stone was displaced, heavy stone.
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  Speaker 2: And the body was never produced. That is a cadaver.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden he shows up alive. And
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  Speaker 2: he meets with him. This is where it gets so good.
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  Speaker 2: the story continues that Jesus appeared to his own who
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  Speaker 2: were full of fear, hiding behind locked doors, and he
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  Speaker 2: said to them, look at my hands and look at
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  Speaker 2: my side. And don't doubt, but believe. I wonder where
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  Speaker 2: Peter was sitting at that moment, having blown it so badly,
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  Speaker 2: maybe in the shadows? We're not told. We're told about Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: who bows and says, my Lord and my God, but Peter,
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  Speaker 2: I think by now a bit disillusioned and filled with
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  Speaker 2: shame and guilt, he takes to the sea again, the
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  Speaker 2: one place that he's familiar with. They cast their nets
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  Speaker 2: and they don't catch anything. They look over on the shoreline,
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  Speaker 2: and they see a figure there, and they see a
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  Speaker 2: fire and broiled fish on the fire. And the figure
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  Speaker 2: says to them, you didn't catch any fish, did you?
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  Speaker 2: Ever been fishing and had somebody give you the obvious statement?
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  Speaker 2: You don't have any fish, do you? And they had, no. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he says, put the net on the other side. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we know what we're doing. They cast it over there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's full of fish. And Peter goes, that's him.
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  Speaker 2: Because you see, ghosts don't eat broiled fish. He's alive.
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  Speaker 2: Peter sheds the outer garment, dives in, gets to the shore,
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  Speaker 2: sloshes up to the shore, sits down at the fire,
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  Speaker 2: has no idea what's going to happen. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite moments, and John 21 records it. They finish
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  Speaker 2: the meal, and Jesus looks directly at his Favorite target. Simon,
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  Speaker 2: you love me. Yes, Lord, I love you. Feed my sheep.
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  Speaker 2: I have a plan for you. Finally, quiz is over. No.
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  Speaker 2: A few moments, he says to Simon again, do you
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  Speaker 2: love me more than these? Think of being in a
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  Speaker 2: room with those you admire and Jesus asks you, do
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  Speaker 2: you love me more than these do? Simon has been
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  Speaker 2: humiliated enough to know the only right answer is the
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  Speaker 2: one he gave. I believe I do. Yes. Jesus says
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  Speaker 2: the same message. I want to use you. Do you
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  Speaker 2: really love me? And I do. Then follow me. Follow me.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus starts to walk away and Simon walks away
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  Speaker 2: and here he is again. Well, what about John? Doesn't
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  Speaker 2: that sound like Simon? Why don't you just keep walking
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: and leave John to Jesus? Which is pretty much what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said. If I will that he stay until I return,
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  Speaker 2: what is that to you? In other words, that's none
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  Speaker 2: of your business. You, me, keep on following. And he did.
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  Speaker 2: He did. The miracle he had needed and wanted all
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: of his life was now a reality. the resurrected Christ
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: had given him a resurrected person where he is now Peter,
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  Speaker 2: the rock. And when the Spirit of God comes at
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  Speaker 2: the day of Pentecost and fills the room and Peter
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  Speaker 2: is there, he's transformed from a sailor into a preacher.
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  Speaker 2: And he preaches this sermon that starts at chapter 2
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  Speaker 2: of the book of Acts and goes from, where is it,
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  Speaker 2: verse 14 all the way to the end of the chapter. Well, almost.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long sermon. God bless him. That's a great
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  Speaker 2: kind of sermon. He had a lot to say. And
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  Speaker 2: when I read the sermon, I know he's been changed.
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  Speaker 2: Because he uses words the fishermen don't use. He sounds
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  Speaker 2: like a PhD from a seminary. Look at this. Verse 22,
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  Speaker 2: Acts 2. Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with
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  Speaker 2: miracles and wonders and signs, which God performed through him
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  Speaker 2: in your midst, just as you yourselves know. This man,
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  Speaker 2: this is Peter, speaking of Jesus. This man delivered over
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  Speaker 2: by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God. Hot dog,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: that is great theology. I love it. But his buddies
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: must have thought, is that Peter? Is that the same
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  Speaker 2: one we grew up with? What's different? A miracle has happened.
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  Speaker 2: The same kind that can happen in your life. You
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  Speaker 2: who are sitting here thinking, That may be good for Simon.
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  Speaker 2: That may be good for a lot of folks in
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  Speaker 2: this room. But there's no way I'm going to ever
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  Speaker 2: get past these things I hate most about myself. I've
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  Speaker 2: been fighting them since I was young. Here's proof positive.
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  Speaker 2: Simon has enough awareness to say it wasn't an afterthought.
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  Speaker 2: It was a predetermined plan. Before there was a world,
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  Speaker 2: the Godhead together planned the mission called salvation. Knowing that
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  Speaker 2: mankind would sin and knowing that our sin would separate
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  Speaker 2: us from a God who loves us and wants the
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  Speaker 2: best for us. And in that predetermined plan, he included
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  Speaker 2: not only the death that would pay the price, but
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  Speaker 2: a resurrection that would be God's amen. Amen. To Christ
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  Speaker 2: it is finished. The predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God
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  Speaker 2: you nailed him to a cross but God. That's a
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  Speaker 2: word for you to claim today. But God raised him
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  Speaker 2: up again putting an end to the agony of death
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  Speaker 2: since it was impossible for him to be held in
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  Speaker 2: its power. It is impossible for you to be held
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  Speaker 2: in the power of sin if Christ is alive in you.
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  Speaker 2: He breaks the dominion. He stops the chain. He cuts
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  Speaker 2: the rope. He sets you free. But it isn't automatic.
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  Speaker 2: You must respond to his offer. And you may not
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  Speaker 2: know it because you got up thinking, well, I I
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  Speaker 2: think I'll show up at that church today. You want
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: to hear something a little bit eerie? Your being here
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: is part of the predetermined plan. You believe that? Way
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  Speaker 2: back then, you, this day, Easter Sunday, planned by God
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  Speaker 2: to be in this very place at this very time
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  Speaker 2: for you to turn your life over to the Savior,
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  Speaker 2: the only one who can change you from what you
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: are to a rock. That's the message. That's your hope.
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  Speaker 2: For you to leave without that hope is to make
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  Speaker 2: this time together time in vain. Bow with me, please.
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  Speaker 2: Right where you're sitting, Whatever may be your background, whatever
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  Speaker 2: may be your struggle, whatever may be that horrible part
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  Speaker 2: of your past, however bad it may seem, no matter
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  Speaker 2: how many times you said never, you would no longer
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  Speaker 2: be held captive by your own sins if you will
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: trust in the Lord Jesus. God untied the death ropes
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  Speaker 2: and when he did that, he released The sin ropes
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  Speaker 2: that have held you all your life. Trust in the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ now.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Give him your life. Hold nothing back. Don't try to
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  Speaker 2: figure out where it's going to go or how he's
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  Speaker 2: going to use you or what he's going to do
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  Speaker 2: about the past. He'll take care of all of that.
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  Speaker 2: He will invade and take charge. you will feel like,
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  Speaker 2: in many ways, a miracle has transpired. And for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in your life, you will be able to say,
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  Speaker 2: because he is risen, I too am raised. And because
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Christ is alive, I too am alive and will be alive,
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  Speaker 2: even though I will die. right where you're sitting, trust
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  Speaker 2: in him. Turn your heart over to him. He will
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  Speaker 2: take charge. You will never regret the decision. There are
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  Speaker 2: people who are part of our ministry available today to
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  Speaker 2: help you. Should you have questions, concerns, struggles, some will
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  Speaker 2: be happy to talk with you. All ready to hear you.
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  Speaker 2: and to encourage you into this new walk with Christ. Father,
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  Speaker 2: use this message and these words to bring about a
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  Speaker 2: transformation in lives that have run from you long enough,
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  Speaker 2: who have thought all of their lives this will never occur,
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  Speaker 2: but now it is happening. May their coming to you
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  Speaker 2: become for them A whole new birth. The beginning of
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  Speaker 2: a whole new direction. In the name of Christ who
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  Speaker 2: has been raised, we pray. Everyone said amen. He is risen.
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  Speaker 2: He is risen.
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  Speaker 1: Stand up.
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  Speaker 2: We need to shout this. He is risen. Risen indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Music. God rejoice this resurrection day Christ has moved us
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  Speaker 1: from the death away.
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  Speaker 3: Though he died to rescue us from sin, as he promised,
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  Speaker 3: Jesus rose again.
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  Speaker 1: Come rejoice this Resurrection Day, sing of death away. Though
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  Speaker 1: death reigns from Eden to the cross, God has turned
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  Speaker 1: this world away.
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  Speaker 6: Alleluia!
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the one! Alleluia! Christians shall arise! All creation
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  Speaker 1: shall its homage bring! Alleluia to our living King! Come
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  Speaker 1: rejoice this resurrection day Christ has chased the fear of
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  Speaker 1: death away.
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  Speaker 3: Though we cowered in the devil's will Jesus holds the keys.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus holds the keys of death Jesus is alive. Alleluia.
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  Speaker 1: Christ shall arise. All creation shall its moments bring. Alleluia
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  Speaker 1: to the risen. Rejoice!
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  Speaker 3: Rejoice!
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  Speaker 4: Rejoice!
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice!
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  Speaker 4: Rejoice!
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  Speaker 5: Rejoice!
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  Speaker 4: Rejoice! Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. All creation shall its garments bring Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia
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  Speaker 1: Alleluia Amen.
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  Speaker 6: Amen The preceding message, When God Untied the Death Ropes,
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  Speaker 6: 2015 by Churchworks Media.