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Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Man Who Needed A Second Chance

November 17, 2025 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Man Who Needed A Second Chance
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Man Who Needed A Second Chance | November 17, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: the only thing god expects of you is failure.
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  • "oh no, greg, you're wrong.
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  • He expects us to succeed."
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  • No, god knows the future, right?
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  • He knows you're gonna fall short.
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  • He knows you're gonna mess up.
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  • But often through failure, we learn things we would not
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  • Otherwise learn, right?
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  • It's been said the doorway to success is often entered through
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  • The hallway of failure.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: so i was around 18 years old when i gave my first sermon.
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  • I was at a camp for calvary chapel up at idlewild springs in
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  • The mountains, and i don't know why they let an 18 year old kid
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  • Preach, but they asked me to give a message.
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  • Pastor chuck was in the front row.
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  • A lot of people i knew, i was very nervous.
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  • I wanted to do it right.
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  • I didn't want to mess up.
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  • And so i got up in front of everyone.
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  • I was speaking from ephesians chapter 6, which talks about
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  • Spiritual warfare.
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  • And from the king james it says that you put on the armor of
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  • God so we can withstand the fiery darts of the wicked one.
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  • Fiery darts is king james for flaming arrows.
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  • So instead of saying fiery darts of the wicked one, i got up and
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  • Said, "and we need to guard ourselves against the diary
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  • Farts of the wicked one."
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  • Chuck was laughing so hard i thought he was gonna have
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  • A heart attack.
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  • He turned bright red, no one remembered the rest of
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  • My message.
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  • All they remembered was i said fart in a sermon.
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  • Well, there's more things i've said over the years.
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  • Not that long ago, actually, i was speaking on david and
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  • Bathsheba, speaking of david, and i was talking about when
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  • David first saw her, the bible says, "she was a woman of
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  • Unusual beauty," but instead of saying bathsheba was a woman of
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  • Unusual beauty, i said bathsheba was a woman of unusual booty.
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  • Now, that may have been true, i don't know,
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  • But that's not what i meant to say.
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  • Another time i was wrapping up a message.
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  • It was at the end, right before i was gonna invite people to
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  • Come to christ, and i would usually say something like,
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  • "let's pray," but instead i said "let's pee."
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  • Thankfully no one took me up on that.
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  • And another time this is my last one, these are my bloopers, i
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  • Was speaking on simon peter, and i said, "and jesus turned to
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  • Peter," well that's what i meant to say, but instead i said, "and
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  • Jesus turned to peepers."
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  • I called him peepers.
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  • Okay, so that's my new name for peter.
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  • So i wanna talk to you about simon peter, and because he is
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  • The man who needed a second chance.
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  • You know peter's so easy to relate to.
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  • He was hopelessly human just like us.
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  • There's no more relatable person probably in all of the bible
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  • Than peter.
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  • And you wonder, why would god choose someone like peter,
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  • Because he failed in a spectacular way.
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  • He openly denied that he knew jesus three times, yet jesus
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  • Chose him to be one of his apostles, and not only that, but
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  • To, in effect, be the leader of the apostles.
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  • Why would god choose a loser when he could choose a winner?
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  • Another way to put it, why would god choose you or me?
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  • Well, god looks at the big picture, we look at the small
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  • Picture, we see the immediate, he sees what's going to happen.
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  • Jesus did not choose peter because of his perfection, he
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  • Chose him because of his potential.
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  • And he did mess up, and maybe i'm talking to somebody right
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  • Now who has messed up horribly in life.
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  • You've said something you wish you had not said.
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  • You've done something you wish you had not done, but here's
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  • What you need to know.
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  • Failure doesn't have to be the end of your story.
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  • God give second chances, and third ones and fourth ones, and
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  • On it goes.
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  • I love joel 2:25, where god says, "i will restore to you the
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  • Years that the swarming locust has eaten."
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  • Peter had his ups and downs.
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  • He had his highs and lows.
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  • But the worst of all was when he openly denied the lord, and
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  • That's what i would like to focus on for a few moments,
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  • Starting with luke 22.
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  • When peter began his regression.
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  • When he fell.
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  • And there were a number of steps that led to his fall that we can
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  • Learn from.
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  • So it all started when jesus was with the disciples, and he
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  • Turned to peter and said these words, luke 22:31, "simon,
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  • Simon, satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.
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  • But i have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail,
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  • And when you have returned to me, strengthen your brothers."
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  • Put yourself in peter's sandals for a moment.
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  • Imagine you're just hanging out with jesus, having a great time,
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  • And suddenly jesus turns to you and says your name twice.
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  • And then says satan has been asking for you by name.
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  • And in the original language, it can be translated, the devil has
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  • Been asking excessively that you would be taken out of the care
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  • And protection of god.
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  • How scary would that be?
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  • But then jesus said these--adds these words, "but i have prayed
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  • For you."
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  • This reminds us of the fact that the devil is not omnipresent,
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  • Which means present everywhere.
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  • God is omnipresent. he's everywhere.
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  • The devil can only be in one place at one time.
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  • You know, sometimes we'll say the devil was
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  • Tempting me the other day.
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  • I wonder if many of us have ever been tempted by the big
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  • Guy himself.
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  • Probably by one of his demon forces, one of his minions, not
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  • Those kinds of minions, you know, the demonic minions.
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  • But in effect, you were tempted by the devil.
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  • I'm not denying that,
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  • But satan himself was personally asking for peter.
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  • "i want that fisherman.
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  • I want that dude.
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  • I want him, and i want you to give him to me right now."
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  • He's been asking for you by name, and jesus says, "but i
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  • Prayed for you," and this reminds us of the simple fact
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  • That whenever the devil comes knocking, he has to get
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  • Permission from jesus first.
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  • He can do nothing in the life of the child of god without the
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  • Father's permission.
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  • That's illustrated in the book of job.
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  • You remember the devil came with a series of attacks against job.
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  • And the lord said that he had put a hedge of protection, a
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  • Wall of protection around job, and he has done the same for us.
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  • So here's what jesus is saying, "buddy, you're gonna mess up,
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  • You're gonna fall.
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  • He's been asking that you be taken out of the care and
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  • Protection of god, but i prayed for you.
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  • But when you've returned, you will strengthen your brothers."
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  • Jesus is saying, in effect, "i know you better than you
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  • Know you.
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  • And you are gonna fail, but you are going to return."
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  • This brings us to the first step to peter's fall.
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  • It was self-confidence.
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  • The first step to peter's fall was self-confidence.
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  • Matthew 26:33, "peter answered and said, 'even if all are made
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  • To stumble because of you, i will never be made to stumble.'"
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  • So jesus says, "one of you is gonna betray me."
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  • And they all say, "is it me, lord, is it me?"
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  • Now, if judas was as obvious as we think he was, they would have
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  • All known it was him.
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  • So often when you see a religious painting of jesus and
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  • The disciples or a depiction of it on film, you always know who
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  • Judas is.
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  • Everybody else is in white robes,
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  • He's in a black leather robe with a collar turned up and
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  • Sunglasses, right?
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  • There's judas, always lurking in the shadows.
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  • If he was as obvious as we would think he might have been, they
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  • Would all pointed in unison and said, "it's judas, isn't it?"
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  • But instead they said, "is it me?"
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  • So this is a moment to be concerned.
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  • But peter thought this is a moment to boast, "even if all
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  • Deny you," says peter, "i will never deny you.
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  • James and john, sons of thunder, i don't know about them.
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  • Matthew, don't forget he used to collude
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  • With the roman government.
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  • I don't know if you can trust that guy, but you can
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  • Depend on me."
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  • And then jesus says, "well, since you brought it up, peter.
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  • Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny three times that
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  • You knew me."
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  • Peter says, "no, lord, i will never deny you."
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  • Now, that might sound commendable that peter is
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  • Boasting of his love for god, but actually he was
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  • Contradicting jesus.
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  • So, self-confidence.
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  • You know, sometimes we'll see a person fall into sin
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  • And we'll say, "i would never do anything like that."
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  • Oh, shut up.
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  • You are capable of committing any sin, as am i.
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  • Now, that doesn't mean we can-- or doesn't mean we should, nor
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  • Does it mean we will, but it means we could if we chose to.
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  • So don't ever say, "oh, i would never do such a thing."
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  • You are capable of doing the worst thing imaginable.
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  • We all are.
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  • As that old expression says, "but for the grace of god there
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  • Go i."
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  • So that was his first step down.
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  • "i will never deny you.
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  • I will never let you down."
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  • Oh, actually, you will. self-confidence, be careful.
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  • The bible says, "that him that thinks he stands take
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  • Heed lest he fall."
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  • Peter's second step down was a result of prayerlessness.
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  • Prayerlessness, i don't even know if prayerlessness is a
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  • Word, but i've been using it for so long, it's a word to me.
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  • It just means not praying about things, and peter wasn't praying
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  • When he should have been, because now we find ourselves in
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  • The garden of gethsemane.
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  • Jesus is getting closer to his death on the cross.
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  • He knows what's coming.
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  • And he's under intense pressure, so he asked one thing of peter,
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  • James, and john, he said to them, "can you guys just watch
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  • With me for one hour?"
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  • And then as he's dealing with this horrible thing that's about
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  • To happen, he comes back and he finds 'em asleep, he goes,
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  • "guys, come on, watch and pray."
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  • See, because of the self-confidence, they didn't
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  • Think they needed to pray, but they should have been praying.
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  • Here's the problem, they were slumbering and sleeping when
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  • They should have been present and praying.
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  • But you know, really when you stop and look at this, all jesus
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  • Was saying is: "can you guys just be with me?"
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  • You know, sometimes when a person is hurting, they just
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  • Need you to be there.
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  • You don't even have to have the right
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  • Words, you just have to be there.
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  • Sometimes the best words are no words,
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  • Because if they're the wrong words, they can be hurtful.
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  • I know, i've had the wrong words said to me many times.
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  • And sometimes in our attempts to comfort, we'll torment, and
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  • Sometimes a person just needs you to be there, and you might
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  • Just say, "i don't know what to say."
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  • Maybe they just found out they have cancer, or maybe
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  • They just lost a loved one, and now you think
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  • It's time to give them a sermon.
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  • They don't need a sermon, they need a friend.
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  • It's called the ministry of presence.
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  • And jesus was saying, "can you guys just be with me?
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  • Watch and pray? i'd really appreciate it."
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  • He comes back, they're sleeping.
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  • So the second step down was prayerlessness.
  • 00:12:11.564 --> 00:12:14.567
  • You see, peter had no idea that a storm was brewing.
  • 00:12:14.567 --> 00:12:17.737
  • Never in his wildest dreams did he imagined his world as he knew
  • 00:12:17.737 --> 00:12:21.907
  • It was about to change within minutes, because here comes
  • 00:12:21.907 --> 00:12:26.145
  • Judas iscariot
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  • With the temple guard ready to arrest jesus, and peter should
  • 00:12:27.947 --> 00:12:33.085
  • Have been praying, and that was a sin of omission.
  • 00:12:33.085 --> 00:12:36.388
  • You know there are sins of commission and omission.
  • 00:12:36.388 --> 00:12:39.158
  • A sin of commission is when you do what you should not do.
  • 00:12:39.158 --> 00:12:42.194
  • A sin of omission is when you don't do what you should do.
  • 00:12:42.194 --> 00:12:46.098
  • The bible says, "to him that knows to do good and does not
  • 00:12:46.098 --> 00:12:49.068
  • Do it, to him it is sin."
  • 00:12:49.068 --> 00:12:51.437
  • So to not pray can be a sin.
  • 00:12:51.437 --> 00:12:55.574
  • Number three, peter fell because he trusted in human efforts
  • 00:12:55.574 --> 00:12:59.345
  • Instead of god's power.
  • 00:12:59.345 --> 00:13:01.814
  • So here they are now, [clearing throat]
  • 00:13:01.814 --> 00:13:04.250
  • Excuse me, in the garden of gethsemane.
  • 00:13:04.250 --> 00:13:07.419
  • Here comes judas and the temple guard to arrest jesus, and
  • 00:13:07.419 --> 00:13:11.824
  • Here's what happened next.
  • 00:13:11.824 --> 00:13:13.159
  • Matthew 26 and verse 51, we read these words, as they're
  • 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:17.797
  • Approaching, "suddenly, one of those who was with jesus
  • 00:13:17.797 --> 00:13:22.134
  • Stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the
  • 00:13:22.134 --> 00:13:25.504
  • Servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
  • 00:13:25.504 --> 00:13:28.874
  • And jesus said to peter, 'put your sword in its place, for
  • 00:13:28.874 --> 00:13:32.111
  • All who take the sword will perish by the sword.
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  • Don't you think i cannot now pray to my father, and he'll
  • 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:38.350
  • Provide me with twelve legions of angels?'"
  • 00:13:38.350 --> 00:13:41.020
  • Now, imagine this scene, and in a way, i sort of admire peter
  • 00:13:41.020 --> 00:13:44.990
  • And understand what he did, but it wasn't the right thing.
  • 00:13:44.990 --> 00:13:47.660
  • Here comes judas, one of their own.
  • 00:13:47.660 --> 00:13:50.596
  • He betrays jesus.
  • 00:13:50.596 --> 00:13:52.097
  • Jesus sees judas and says, "friend, why have you come?"
  • 00:13:52.097 --> 00:13:57.136
  • One last chance to repent.
  • 00:13:57.136 --> 00:13:59.905
  • Judas betrays him, of all things, with a kiss.
  • 00:13:59.905 --> 00:14:03.108
  • In fact, it's implied in the original language
  • 00:14:03.108 --> 00:14:05.511
  • It was multiple kisses, kissed them over and over.
  • 00:14:05.511 --> 00:14:08.013
  • He told the temple guards, "the guy i kiss, that's jesus."
  • 00:14:08.013 --> 00:14:11.851
  • And now they come rushing in to arrest jesus.
  • 00:14:11.851 --> 00:14:14.486
  • Peter is so angry, he pulls out his sword and he starts
  • 00:14:14.486 --> 00:14:18.324
  • Swinging, and off comes the ear of the high priest's servant.
  • 00:14:18.324 --> 00:14:22.962
  • Lands on the ground.
  • 00:14:22.962 --> 00:14:24.997
  • Jesus stops, reaches down, picks up the ear and heals it.
  • 00:14:24.997 --> 00:14:31.770
  • If someone came at me like that, and was arresting me and their
  • 00:14:31.770 --> 00:14:34.974
  • Ear happened to come off, i'd just say, "i don't know, it's
  • 00:14:34.974 --> 00:14:37.243
  • Down there somewhere.
  • 00:14:37.243 --> 00:14:39.411
  • Oh, here it is."
  • 00:14:39.411 --> 00:14:43.048
  • I wouldn't have healed him.
  • 00:14:43.048 --> 00:14:45.851
  • I'd have said, "yeah, you get what you deserve, loser."
  • 00:14:45.851 --> 00:14:50.389
  • Not jesus.
  • 00:14:50.389 --> 00:14:52.458
  • The last miracle christ performed was covering the
  • 00:14:52.458 --> 00:14:56.495
  • Blunder of one of his disciples, and healing the ear of a man
  • 00:14:56.495 --> 00:15:00.900
  • That wanted to kill him, but see, this is
  • 00:15:00.900 --> 00:15:03.903
  • The problem with peter, he was doing it through human efforts.
  • 00:15:03.903 --> 00:15:09.241
  • He he was doing it in his own strength.
  • 00:15:09.241 --> 00:15:10.943
  • The problem with peter is he was boasting when he should have
  • 00:15:10.943 --> 00:15:13.178
  • Been listening, sleeping when he should have been praying, and
  • 00:15:13.178 --> 00:15:16.348
  • Now he's fighting when he should have been surrendering.
  • 00:15:16.348 --> 00:15:19.551
  • He was fighting with the wrong kind of weaponry.
  • 00:15:19.551 --> 00:15:22.621
  • This was a spiritual battle, but he missed that opportunity.
  • 00:15:22.621 --> 00:15:26.992
  • But jesus covered for him, bringing us to the next step of
  • 00:15:26.992 --> 00:15:30.696
  • Peter down.
  • 00:15:30.696 --> 00:15:32.831
  • Number four, warming himself by the enemy's fire.
  • 00:15:32.831 --> 00:15:37.803
  • Go over to matthew 26, verse 69.
  • 00:15:37.803 --> 00:15:41.206
  • "so peter sat outside in the courtyard.
  • 00:15:41.206 --> 00:15:43.709
  • And a servant girl came to him, saying,
  • 00:15:43.709 --> 00:15:45.511
  • 'you also were with jesus of galilee.'
  • 00:15:45.511 --> 00:15:48.247
  • He denied it before them all, saying, 'i don't know what
  • 00:15:48.247 --> 00:15:51.216
  • You're saying.'
  • 00:15:51.216 --> 00:15:52.551
  • And when he had gone to the gateway, another girl saw him
  • 00:15:52.551 --> 00:15:55.187
  • And said to those that were there, 'this fellow was with
  • 00:15:55.187 --> 00:15:58.157
  • Jesus of nazareth.'
  • 00:15:58.157 --> 00:15:59.525
  • And again he denied it with an oath, saying,
  • 00:15:59.525 --> 00:16:02.461
  • 'i do not know the man!'
  • 00:16:02.461 --> 00:16:04.763
  • A little later those who stood by came and said to peter,
  • 00:16:04.763 --> 00:16:08.934
  • 'surely you're one of them, for your speech betrays you.'
  • 00:16:08.934 --> 00:16:12.171
  • And peter began to curse and swear, saying,
  • 00:16:12.171 --> 00:16:14.206
  • 'i don't know the man!'
  • 00:16:14.206 --> 00:16:16.308
  • Immediately a rooster crowed.
  • 00:16:16.308 --> 00:16:18.644
  • And peter remembered the word that
  • 00:16:18.644 --> 00:16:20.079
  • Jesus had said to him, 'before the rooster crows, you'll
  • 00:16:20.079 --> 00:16:22.948
  • Deny me three times.'
  • 00:16:22.948 --> 00:16:24.283
  • And he went out and wept bitterly."
  • 00:16:24.283 --> 00:16:26.652
  • Wow.
  • 00:16:26.652 --> 00:16:28.721
  • So here he's now warming up by the enemy's fire.
  • 00:16:28.721 --> 00:16:32.024
  • He was cold, he was disoriented.
  • 00:16:32.024 --> 00:16:34.994
  • He was afraid.
  • 00:16:34.994 --> 00:16:36.695
  • And he sees this fire, and he's standing there with the wrong
  • 00:16:36.695 --> 00:16:39.565
  • People at the wrong place and he's about to do the wrong
  • 00:16:39.565 --> 00:16:43.035
  • Thing, and his first denial happens, then his second, and
  • 00:16:43.035 --> 00:16:47.039
  • Then his third.
  • 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:48.507
  • Now, after his first denial, you'd think you'd say, "hey, are
  • 00:16:48.507 --> 00:16:51.276
  • There any roosters around here?"
  • 00:16:51.276 --> 00:16:53.545
  • Think jesus said something about the rooster, right?
  • 00:16:53.545 --> 00:16:56.615
  • When you go to hawaii, there's roosters everywhere.
  • 00:16:56.615 --> 00:16:58.584
  • I don't know why there's random roosters waking you up
  • 00:16:58.584 --> 00:17:02.154
  • Every morning.
  • 00:17:02.154 --> 00:17:03.722
  • You know, and then he denies them again.
  • 00:17:03.722 --> 00:17:05.190
  • And by the way, a period of time passed between each of these
  • 00:17:05.190 --> 00:17:09.094
  • Denials, but here's what's interesting, one of them says,
  • 00:17:09.094 --> 00:17:12.431
  • "you were with them, your speech betrays you."
  • 00:17:12.431 --> 00:17:15.801
  • What she was saying is you have the galilean accent.
  • 00:17:15.801 --> 00:17:19.538
  • You know when you travel around the country or around the world,
  • 00:17:19.538 --> 00:17:22.474
  • For that matter, you notice people have
  • 00:17:22.474 --> 00:17:24.109
  • Different accents, right?
  • 00:17:24.109 --> 00:17:26.412
  • If you're in the south, it's like, "hey, how y'all doing?"
  • 00:17:26.412 --> 00:17:30.049
  • If you're in the new york, it's like, "whoa, what are you
  • 00:17:30.049 --> 00:17:32.117
  • Looking at me?
  • 00:17:32.117 --> 00:17:34.219
  • You want some of this?"
  • 00:17:34.219 --> 00:17:36.855
  • Where do you get some cawfee?"
  • 00:17:36.855 --> 00:17:38.190
  • You know, i'll talk to someone and they, "hey, where
  • 00:17:38.190 --> 00:17:39.525
  • Can i get some cawfee?"
  • 00:17:39.525 --> 00:17:40.859
  • I go, "you're from new york?" "how'd you know?"
  • 00:17:40.859 --> 00:17:43.395
  • "the way you said coffee."
  • 00:17:43.395 --> 00:17:45.597
  • So we have different accents, different ways we say things
  • 00:17:45.597 --> 00:17:48.534
  • From different places.
  • 00:17:48.534 --> 00:17:49.902
  • People tell me that i have a california accent.
  • 00:17:49.902 --> 00:17:53.672
  • I say, "there is no california accent."
  • 00:17:53.672 --> 00:17:55.574
  • They go, "oh, no, there is,
  • 00:17:55.574 --> 00:17:56.909
  • You've got the california accent."
  • 00:17:56.909 --> 00:17:58.243
  • "whatever."
  • 00:17:58.243 --> 00:18:03.382
  • I don't ever say that, but.
  • 00:18:03.382 --> 00:18:06.285
  • I guess we have an accent too.
  • 00:18:06.285 --> 00:18:09.888
  • But really it was a put down too.
  • 00:18:09.888 --> 00:18:12.825
  • Because in effect, in jerusalem, they thought of themselves as
  • 00:18:12.825 --> 00:18:15.928
  • Sophisticated and educated and very religious and very devout,
  • 00:18:15.928 --> 00:18:20.566
  • And the people in galilee, they're like living in the
  • 00:18:20.566 --> 00:18:23.235
  • Sticks, the backwood people, you know.
  • 00:18:23.235 --> 00:18:26.171
  • And they sort of thought less of them.
  • 00:18:26.171 --> 00:18:28.574
  • "oh, you've got the galilean accent.
  • 00:18:28.574 --> 00:18:31.477
  • Obviously you're not really educated,
  • 00:18:31.477 --> 00:18:34.480
  • You're not sophisticated."
  • 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.415
  • It was a put down, you've got that accent.
  • 00:18:36.415 --> 00:18:39.618
  • And then he comes to his next denial.
  • 00:18:39.618 --> 00:18:43.088
  • And luke's gospel tells us there was time that elapsed between
  • 00:18:43.088 --> 00:18:46.792
  • These denials, which means that he had, means that he had plenty
  • 00:18:46.792 --> 00:18:50.229
  • Of opportunities to get this right.
  • 00:18:50.229 --> 00:18:54.633
  • But he went further and further in dissent.
  • 00:18:54.633 --> 00:18:56.969
  • And in his last denial, it's really sad
  • 00:18:56.969 --> 00:19:00.439
  • Because it says he began to curse and swear.
  • 00:19:00.439 --> 00:19:03.575
  • Now, does this mean that peter swore like a sailor?
  • 00:19:03.575 --> 00:19:06.345
  • He was one.
  • 00:19:06.345 --> 00:19:08.013
  • But it actually doesn't mean that.
  • 00:19:08.013 --> 00:19:09.381
  • It doesn't mean he used profanity.
  • 00:19:09.381 --> 00:19:11.783
  • When it says he cursed and swore, it meant he took an oath.
  • 00:19:11.783 --> 00:19:16.955
  • As if to say, "i swear to god i never knew jesus," and the worst
  • 00:19:16.955 --> 00:19:21.693
  • Imaginable version of taking the lord's name in vain, peter took
  • 00:19:21.693 --> 00:19:26.765
  • An oath, swearing to god he never knew jesus, the
  • 00:19:26.765 --> 00:19:31.904
  • Rooster crows,
  • 00:19:31.904 --> 00:19:33.672
  • And then the bible says, and jesus looked at peter.
  • 00:19:33.672 --> 00:19:36.108
  • Wait, what's going on?
  • 00:19:36.108 --> 00:19:37.476
  • So here he is by the fire.
  • 00:19:37.476 --> 00:19:39.044
  • He utters his third denial, the rooster crows, and they're
  • 00:19:39.044 --> 00:19:42.114
  • Moving christ from one place to another, and he makes momentary
  • 00:19:42.114 --> 00:19:46.852
  • Eye contact with peter.
  • 00:19:46.852 --> 00:19:49.555
  • Can you see it, in the glow of the fire?
  • 00:19:49.555 --> 00:19:52.691
  • What kind of look do you think jesus gave peter?
  • 00:19:52.691 --> 00:19:56.495
  • You think he looked at him and rolled his eyes like...
  • 00:19:56.495 --> 00:20:00.065
  • Really?
  • 00:20:00.065 --> 00:20:01.767
  • I think it was a look of compassion and love.
  • 00:20:01.767 --> 00:20:03.902
  • Don't forget, jesus predicted this.
  • 00:20:03.902 --> 00:20:06.638
  • He knew peter was gonna fail.
  • 00:20:06.638 --> 00:20:08.106
  • He knew he was going to fall short, and peter went out and
  • 00:20:08.106 --> 00:20:12.477
  • Wept bitterly.
  • 00:20:12.477 --> 00:20:13.812
  • Oh man, he says that's it, that's the end for me.
  • 00:20:13.812 --> 00:20:17.216
  • Did he fail? yes.
  • 00:20:17.216 --> 00:20:19.351
  • Did he deny the lord? again, yes.
  • 00:20:19.351 --> 00:20:22.688
  • Was he still a believer?
  • 00:20:22.688 --> 00:20:24.089
  • Absolutely.
  • 00:20:24.089 --> 00:20:26.225
  • But he was a fallen believer.
  • 00:20:26.225 --> 00:20:28.160
  • But don't forget what jesus said, he said,
  • 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:32.397
  • "when you return, you'll strengthen your brothers."
  • 00:20:32.397 --> 00:20:35.067
  • "peter, you're gonna deny me not once, not twice, three times.
  • 00:20:35.067 --> 00:20:38.804
  • But you're gonna return, and when you return, you'll
  • 00:20:38.804 --> 00:20:41.206
  • Strengthen your brothers."
  • 00:20:41.206 --> 00:20:43.709
  • In other words, his setback was temporary.
  • 00:20:43.709 --> 00:20:46.478
  • Peter would be back.
  • 00:20:46.478 --> 00:20:47.846
  • His setback would ultimately become a set up for
  • 00:20:47.846 --> 00:20:50.649
  • Greater things.
  • 00:20:50.649 --> 00:20:51.984
  • His mess would turn into a message.
  • 00:20:51.984 --> 00:20:54.119
  • His test would be a testimony, and his disappointment would
  • 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:58.123
  • Lead to a divine appointment.
  • 00:20:58.123 --> 00:21:00.726
  • His greatest test would lead to his greatest trust in god, and
  • 00:21:00.726 --> 00:21:05.764
  • We have this story here to remind us that god gives
  • 00:21:05.764 --> 00:21:09.001
  • Second chances.
  • 00:21:09.001 --> 00:21:10.569
  • I mean, what a hard lesson to learn, peter, you know what
  • 00:21:10.569 --> 00:21:13.272
  • You're going through, they're gonna be talking about it in
  • 00:21:13.272 --> 00:21:15.540
  • Church 2,000 years from now, okay, so everyone's gonna know
  • 00:21:15.540 --> 00:21:19.144
  • This story, but this isn't the end of the story, 'cause
  • 00:21:19.144 --> 00:21:22.848
  • They're also gonna know what happened after, and they're
  • 00:21:22.848 --> 00:21:25.217
  • Gonna know that i forgave you, because here's what happened.
  • 00:21:25.217 --> 00:21:28.320
  • After christ is crucified, he rises again three days later,
  • 00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:34.259
  • And then the message goes out,
  • 00:21:34.259 --> 00:21:36.461
  • "go tell the disciples and," who?
  • 00:21:36.461 --> 00:21:39.631
  • Does anyone know? "peter."
  • 00:21:39.631 --> 00:21:42.000
  • "go tell the disciples and peter he's risen."
  • 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.170
  • Not go tell the disciples and peter, james, and john, or go
  • 00:21:45.170 --> 00:21:48.473
  • Tell the disciples and mary and martha, or go tell the dis--
  • 00:21:48.473 --> 00:21:51.943
  • No, "tell the disciples and peter."
  • 00:21:51.943 --> 00:21:54.680
  • In other words, i want you to send a special message to peter,
  • 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:58.984
  • And here's what it is, i'm risen and i'll see you in galilee, so
  • 00:21:58.984 --> 00:22:03.622
  • Don't miss the appointment.
  • 00:22:03.622 --> 00:22:05.457
  • Isn't that great that god gives second chances to all of us, and
  • 00:22:05.457 --> 00:22:08.927
  • He did that for peter and he will do it for us as well.
  • 00:22:08.927 --> 00:22:12.597
  • Simon peter, a man of contradictions, he was praised
  • 00:22:12.597 --> 00:22:16.768
  • And honored.
  • 00:22:16.768 --> 00:22:18.203
  • And even rebuked by jesus himself.
  • 00:22:18.203 --> 00:22:21.606
  • One moment he's walking on water, the next moment
  • 00:22:21.606 --> 00:22:24.142
  • He's sinking.
  • 00:22:24.142 --> 00:22:25.610
  • He had moments of incredible bravery and also moments of
  • 00:22:25.610 --> 00:22:29.581
  • Outright fear, and that's what makes him so relatable.
  • 00:22:29.581 --> 00:22:33.552
  • Everything he went through, we say that's like me,
  • 00:22:33.552 --> 00:22:37.222
  • That's what i do.
  • 00:22:37.222 --> 00:22:38.557
  • Exactly, that's why he's here in the bible,
  • 00:22:38.557 --> 00:22:42.027
  • To show you that god uses flawed people.
  • 00:22:42.027 --> 00:22:45.464
  • God picks losers, so to speak, and turns them into to winners
  • 00:22:45.464 --> 00:22:49.601
  • Ultimately, and can restore you no matter what you have done.
  • 00:22:49.601 --> 00:22:53.872
  • God can take your ending and turn it into a beginning.
  • 00:22:53.872 --> 00:22:58.176
  • You see, jesus invaded peter's world.
  • 00:22:58.176 --> 00:23:00.379
  • What was peter's world? fishing, all about fishing.
  • 00:23:00.379 --> 00:23:03.482
  • So what does jesus do? he steps right into his world.
  • 00:23:03.482 --> 00:23:06.017
  • Hello, you wanna catch some fish?
  • 00:23:06.017 --> 00:23:08.153
  • Do what i tell you.
  • 00:23:08.153 --> 00:23:10.689
  • Say, "well, i've tried to make my life better.
  • 00:23:10.689 --> 00:23:12.891
  • I've tried to improve myself," and you've failed, haven't you?
  • 00:23:12.891 --> 00:23:17.062
  • See, you need god
  • 00:23:17.062 --> 00:23:18.630
  • And you need to call out to the lord and you'll be amazed at
  • 00:23:18.630 --> 00:23:21.533
  • What he can do, despite the predicament you find yourself in
  • 00:23:21.533 --> 00:23:25.070
  • Now, despite the fact that you've made a mess
  • 00:23:25.070 --> 00:23:27.773
  • Out of your life.
  • 00:23:27.773 --> 00:23:29.107
  • As i said earlier, he can turn your mess into a message.
  • 00:23:29.107 --> 00:23:33.311
  • He can transform you, but you must come to him and say,
  • 00:23:33.311 --> 00:23:35.981
  • "god, help me."
  • 00:23:35.981 --> 00:23:37.315
  • That's what peter did, and jesus changed him, and maybe there's
  • 00:23:37.315 --> 00:23:40.919
  • Somebody i'm talking to right now that, you're a christian,
  • 00:23:40.919 --> 00:23:45.424
  • But you have denied the lord in some way, shape, or form, you've
  • 00:23:45.424 --> 00:23:48.860
  • Fallen short, you've done something you wish you had
  • 00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:51.563
  • Not done.
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  • You've said something you wished you had not said, well, god can
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  • Forgive you, but you must come to him.
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  • Greg: have you ever heard the term gospel before?
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  • It means good news, but before i can fully appreciate the
  • 00:24:07.212 --> 00:24:10.749
  • Good news, i have to know the bad news.
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  • You and i, we're sinners, which means we've broken
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  • God's commandments,
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  • We've fallen short of his standards.
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  • Good news: jesus christ died in our place.
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  • He came to pay a debt he did not owe
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  • Because we owed a debt we could not pay.
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  • If you will churn from your sin
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  • And put your faith in jesus christ, you can be forgiven and
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  • Know that you'll go to heaven when you die, and find the
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  • Meaning of life right here on planet earth.
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  • You just call out to jesus and say,
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  • "forgive me, i want to have a relationship with you."
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  • I would like to send you a bible at no charge to help you get
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  • Started in your new relationship with christ.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • You know, i've been a pastor for more than 50 years, and i've
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  • Never seen so much division in our country.
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  • We're divided pretty much over everything.
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  • Fifty years ago, we were divided as well.
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  • People were calling for a sexual revolution.
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  • They were calling for a drug revolution, and god sent a
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  • Jesus revolution.
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  • And it changed the course of our country, and i think we need
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  • Another jesus revolution or a spiritual awakening in
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  • America again, don't you?
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  • Through harvest ministries, god's doing some amazing things.
  • 00:25:31.229 --> 00:25:34.599
  • Last year we reached over 1 billion people with the gospel.
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  • We're broadcasting daily on radio, tv, youtube, the harvest
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  • Plus app, and we're literally reaching millions, and millions
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  • Of people with the gospel daily.
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  • We've given away 700,000 free bibles, and this is the big one,
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  • We have seen over 1 million professions of faith in our
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  • Ministry's history.
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  • Frankly, the number is probably much higher than that.
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  • Our harvest crusades have been so crowded, we've had the fire
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  • Marshals actually lock the stadium doors
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  • And turn people away.
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  • These are signs of a spiritual awakening.
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  • Maybe you've seen our film "jesus revolution," which is a
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  • Story of how i and my wife came to faith, and how god worked to
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  • The last spiritual awakening in america.
  • 00:26:21.112 --> 00:26:23.748
  • It was a box office hit, and it's been seen by millions of
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  • People on netflix.
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  • I believe these are signs that we may be on the cusp of another
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  • Spiritual awakening, another jesus revolution, but none of
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  • This would be possible without the financial support of people
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  • Like you.
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  • Everything we do is 100% supported by donations.
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  • So thank you for your support, and thank you for helping us
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  • Fulfill the great commission, and let's keep praying for
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  • Our nation.
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  • I love 2 chronicles 7:14
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  • That was contextually given to the nation israel, but in
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  • Principle it applies to any nation, including in our own,
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  • Where god says, "if my people who are called by my name will
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  • Humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from
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  • Their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven, and i'll
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  • Forgive their sin and heal their land."
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  • Oh, we're praying, lord, heal our land,
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  • But let it start with you.
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  • Let's continue to pray together and work together.
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  • Thanks.
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