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Greg Laurie - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 2)

January 28, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 2)
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Straight Talk About Your Eternal Destiny (Part 2) | January 28, 2026
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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 idyllwild springs
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  • In the mountains, and i don't know why they let an 18 year old
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  • Kid 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.
  • 00:12:08.993 --> 00:12:11.563
  • So the second step down was prayerlessness.
  • 00:12:11.563 --> 00:12:14.566
  • You see, peter had no idea that a storm was brewing.
  • 00:12:14.566 --> 00:12:17.736
  • Never in his wildest dreams did he imagined his world as he knew
  • 00:12:17.736 --> 00:12:21.906
  • It was about to change within minutes, because here comes
  • 00:12:21.906 --> 00:12:26.144
  • Judas iscariot
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  • With the temple guard ready to arrest jesus, and peter should
  • 00:12:27.946 --> 00:12:33.084
  • Have been praying, and that was a sin of omission.
  • 00:12:33.084 --> 00:12:36.387
  • You know there are sins of commission and omission.
  • 00:12:36.387 --> 00:12:39.157
  • A sin of commission is when you do what you should not do.
  • 00:12:39.157 --> 00:12:42.193
  • A sin of omission is when you don't do what you should do.
  • 00:12:42.193 --> 00:12:46.097
  • The bible says, "to him that knows to do good and does not
  • 00:12:46.097 --> 00:12:49.067
  • Do it, to him it is sin."
  • 00:12:49.067 --> 00:12:51.436
  • So to not pray can be a sin.
  • 00:12:51.436 --> 00:12:55.573
  • Number three, peter fell because he trusted in human efforts
  • 00:12:55.573 --> 00:12:59.344
  • Instead of god's power.
  • 00:12:59.344 --> 00:13:01.813
  • So here they are now, [clearing throat]
  • 00:13:01.813 --> 00:13:04.249
  • Excuse me, in the garden of gethsemane.
  • 00:13:04.249 --> 00:13:07.418
  • Here comes judas and the temple guard to arrest jesus, and
  • 00:13:07.418 --> 00:13:11.823
  • Here's what happened next.
  • 00:13:11.823 --> 00:13:13.158
  • Matthew 26 and verse 51, we read these words, as they're
  • 00:13:13.158 --> 00:13:17.796
  • Approaching, "suddenly, one of those who was with jesus
  • 00:13:17.796 --> 00:13:22.133
  • Stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the
  • 00:13:22.133 --> 00:13:25.503
  • Servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
  • 00:13:25.503 --> 00:13:28.873
  • And jesus said to peter, 'put your sword in its place, for
  • 00:13:28.873 --> 00:13:32.110
  • 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
  • 00:13:34.979 --> 00:13:38.349
  • Provide me with twelve legions of angels?'"
  • 00:13:38.349 --> 00:13:41.019
  • Now, imagine this scene, and in a way, i sort of admire peter
  • 00:13:41.019 --> 00:13:44.989
  • And understand what he did, but it wasn't the right thing.
  • 00:13:44.989 --> 00:13:47.659
  • Here comes judas, one of their own.
  • 00:13:47.659 --> 00:13:50.595
  • He betrays jesus.
  • 00:13:50.595 --> 00:13:52.096
  • Jesus sees judas and says, "friend, why have you come?"
  • 00:13:52.096 --> 00:13:57.135
  • One last chance to repent.
  • 00:13:57.135 --> 00:13:59.904
  • Judas betrays him, of all things, with a kiss.
  • 00:13:59.904 --> 00:14:03.107
  • In fact, it's implied in the original language
  • 00:14:03.107 --> 00:14:05.510
  • It was multiple kisses, kissed them over and over.
  • 00:14:05.510 --> 00:14:08.012
  • He told the temple guards, "the guy i kiss, that's jesus."
  • 00:14:08.012 --> 00:14:11.850
  • And now they come rushing in to arrest jesus.
  • 00:14:11.850 --> 00:14:14.485
  • Peter is so angry, he pulls out his sword and he starts
  • 00:14:14.485 --> 00:14:18.323
  • Swinging, and off comes the ear of the high priest's servant.
  • 00:14:18.323 --> 00:14:22.961
  • Lands on the ground.
  • 00:14:22.961 --> 00:14:24.996
  • Jesus stops, reaches down, picks up the ear and heals it.
  • 00:14:24.996 --> 00:14:31.769
  • If someone came at me like that, and was arresting me and their
  • 00:14:31.769 --> 00:14:34.973
  • Ear happened to come off, i'd just say, "i don't know, it's
  • 00:14:34.973 --> 00:14:37.242
  • Down there somewhere.
  • 00:14:37.242 --> 00:14:39.410
  • Oh, here it is."
  • 00:14:39.410 --> 00:14:43.047
  • I wouldn't have healed him.
  • 00:14:43.047 --> 00:14:45.850
  • I'd have said, "yeah, you get what you deserve, loser."
  • 00:14:45.850 --> 00:14:50.388
  • Not jesus.
  • 00:14:50.388 --> 00:14:52.457
  • The last miracle christ performed was covering the
  • 00:14:52.457 --> 00:14:56.494
  • Blunder of one of his disciples, and healing the ear of a man
  • 00:14:56.494 --> 00:15:00.899
  • That wanted to kill him, but see, this is
  • 00:15:00.899 --> 00:15:03.902
  • The problem with peter, he was doing it through human efforts.
  • 00:15:03.902 --> 00:15:09.240
  • He he was doing it in his own strength.
  • 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:10.942
  • The problem with peter is he was boasting when he should have
  • 00:15:10.942 --> 00:15:13.177
  • Been listening, sleeping when he should have been praying, and
  • 00:15:13.177 --> 00:15:16.347
  • Now he's fighting when he should have been surrendering.
  • 00:15:16.347 --> 00:15:19.550
  • He was fighting with the wrong kind of weaponry.
  • 00:15:19.550 --> 00:15:22.620
  • This was a spiritual battle, but he missed that opportunity.
  • 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:26.991
  • But jesus covered for him, bringing us to the next step of
  • 00:15:26.991 --> 00:15:30.695
  • Peter down.
  • 00:15:30.695 --> 00:15:32.830
  • Number four, warming himself by the enemy's fire.
  • 00:15:32.830 --> 00:15:37.802
  • Go over to matthew 26, verse 69.
  • 00:15:37.802 --> 00:15:41.205
  • "so peter sat outside in the courtyard.
  • 00:15:41.205 --> 00:15:43.708
  • And a servant girl came to him, saying,
  • 00:15:43.708 --> 00:15:45.510
  • 'you also were with jesus of galilee.'
  • 00:15:45.510 --> 00:15:48.246
  • He denied it before them all, saying, 'i don't know what
  • 00:15:48.246 --> 00:15:51.215
  • You're saying.'
  • 00:15:51.215 --> 00:15:52.550
  • And when he had gone to the gateway, another girl saw him
  • 00:15:52.550 --> 00:15:55.186
  • And said to those that were there, 'this fellow was with
  • 00:15:55.186 --> 00:15:58.156
  • Jesus of nazareth.'
  • 00:15:58.156 --> 00:15:59.524
  • And again he denied it with an oath, saying,
  • 00:15:59.524 --> 00:16:02.460
  • 'i do not know the man!'
  • 00:16:02.460 --> 00:16:04.762
  • A little later those who stood by came and said to peter,
  • 00:16:04.762 --> 00:16:08.933
  • 'surely you're one of them, for your speech betrays you.'
  • 00:16:08.933 --> 00:16:12.170
  • And peter began to curse and swear, saying,
  • 00:16:12.170 --> 00:16:14.205
  • 'i don't know the man!'
  • 00:16:14.205 --> 00:16:16.307
  • Immediately a rooster crowed.
  • 00:16:16.307 --> 00:16:18.643
  • And peter remembered the word that
  • 00:16:18.643 --> 00:16:20.078
  • Jesus had said to him, 'before the rooster crows, you'll
  • 00:16:20.078 --> 00:16:22.947
  • Deny me three times.'
  • 00:16:22.947 --> 00:16:24.282
  • And he went out and wept bitterly."
  • 00:16:24.282 --> 00:16:26.651
  • Wow.
  • 00:16:26.651 --> 00:16:28.720
  • So here he's now warming up by the enemy's fire.
  • 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.023
  • He was cold, he was disoriented.
  • 00:16:32.023 --> 00:16:34.993
  • He was afraid.
  • 00:16:34.993 --> 00:16:36.694
  • And he sees this fire, and he's standing there with the wrong
  • 00:16:36.694 --> 00:16:39.564
  • People at the wrong place and he's about to do the wrong
  • 00:16:39.564 --> 00:16:43.034
  • Thing, and his first denial happens, then his second, and
  • 00:16:43.034 --> 00:16:47.038
  • Then his third.
  • 00:16:47.038 --> 00:16:48.506
  • Now, after his first denial, you'd think you'd say, "hey, are
  • 00:16:48.506 --> 00:16:51.275
  • There any roosters around here?"
  • 00:16:51.275 --> 00:16:53.544
  • Think jesus said something about the rooster, right?
  • 00:16:53.544 --> 00:16:56.614
  • When you go to hawaii, there's roosters everywhere.
  • 00:16:56.614 --> 00:16:58.583
  • I don't know why there's random roosters waking you up
  • 00:16:58.583 --> 00:17:02.153
  • Every morning.
  • 00:17:02.153 --> 00:17:03.721
  • You know, and then he denies them again.
  • 00:17:03.721 --> 00:17:05.189
  • And by the way, a period of time passed between each of these
  • 00:17:05.189 --> 00:17:09.093
  • Denials, but here's what's interesting, one of them says,
  • 00:17:09.093 --> 00:17:12.430
  • "you were with them, your speech betrays you."
  • 00:17:12.430 --> 00:17:15.800
  • What she was saying is you have the galilean accent.
  • 00:17:15.800 --> 00:17:19.537
  • You know when you travel around the country or around the world,
  • 00:17:19.537 --> 00:17:22.473
  • For that matter, you notice people have
  • 00:17:22.473 --> 00:17:24.108
  • Different accents, right?
  • 00:17:24.108 --> 00:17:26.411
  • If you're in the south, it's like, "hey, how y'all doing?"
  • 00:17:26.411 --> 00:17:30.048
  • If you're in the new york, it's like, "whoa, what are you
  • 00:17:30.048 --> 00:17:32.116
  • Looking at me?
  • 00:17:32.116 --> 00:17:34.218
  • You want some of this?"
  • 00:17:34.218 --> 00:17:36.854
  • Where do you get some cawfee?"
  • 00:17:36.854 --> 00:17:38.189
  • You know, i'll talk to someone and they, "hey, where
  • 00:17:38.189 --> 00:17:39.524
  • Can i get some cawfee?"
  • 00:17:39.524 --> 00:17:40.858
  • I go, "you're from new york?" "how'd you know?"
  • 00:17:40.858 --> 00:17:43.394
  • "the way you said coffee."
  • 00:17:43.394 --> 00:17:45.596
  • So we have different accents, different ways we say things
  • 00:17:45.596 --> 00:17:48.533
  • From different places.
  • 00:17:48.533 --> 00:17:49.901
  • People tell me that i have a california accent.
  • 00:17:49.901 --> 00:17:53.671
  • I say, "there is no california accent."
  • 00:17:53.671 --> 00:17:55.573
  • They go, "oh, no, there is,
  • 00:17:55.573 --> 00:17:56.908
  • You've got the california accent."
  • 00:17:56.908 --> 00:17:58.242
  • "whatever."
  • 00:17:58.242 --> 00:18:03.381
  • I don't ever say that, but.
  • 00:18:03.381 --> 00:18:06.284
  • I guess we have an accent too.
  • 00:18:06.284 --> 00:18:09.887
  • But really it was a put down too.
  • 00:18:09.887 --> 00:18:12.824
  • Because in effect, in jerusalem, they thought of themselves as
  • 00:18:12.824 --> 00:18:15.927
  • Sophisticated and educated and very religious and very devout,
  • 00:18:15.927 --> 00:18:20.565
  • And the people in galilee, they're like living in the
  • 00:18:20.565 --> 00:18:23.234
  • Sticks, the backwood people, you know.
  • 00:18:23.234 --> 00:18:26.170
  • And they sort of thought less of them.
  • 00:18:26.170 --> 00:18:28.573
  • "oh, you've got the galilean accent.
  • 00:18:28.573 --> 00:18:31.476
  • Obviously you're not really educated,
  • 00:18:31.476 --> 00:18:34.479
  • You're not sophisticated."
  • 00:18:34.479 --> 00:18:36.414
  • It was a put down, you've got that accent.
  • 00:18:36.414 --> 00:18:39.617
  • And then he comes to his next denial.
  • 00:18:39.617 --> 00:18:43.087
  • And luke's gospel tells us there was time that elapsed between
  • 00:18:43.087 --> 00:18:46.791
  • These denials, which means that he had, means that he had plenty
  • 00:18:46.791 --> 00:18:50.228
  • Of opportunities to get this right.
  • 00:18:50.228 --> 00:18:54.632
  • But he went further and further in dissent.
  • 00:18:54.632 --> 00:18:56.968
  • And in his last denial, it's really sad
  • 00:18:56.968 --> 00:19:00.438
  • Because it says he began to curse and swear.
  • 00:19:00.438 --> 00:19:03.574
  • Now, does this mean that peter swore like a sailor?
  • 00:19:03.574 --> 00:19:06.344
  • He was one.
  • 00:19:06.344 --> 00:19:08.012
  • But it actually doesn't mean that.
  • 00:19:08.012 --> 00:19:09.380
  • It doesn't mean he used profanity.
  • 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:11.782
  • When it says he cursed and swore, it meant he took an oath.
  • 00:19:11.782 --> 00:19:16.954
  • As if to say, "i swear to god i never knew jesus," and the worst
  • 00:19:16.954 --> 00:19:21.692
  • Imaginable version of taking the lord's name in vain, peter took
  • 00:19:21.692 --> 00:19:26.764
  • An oath, swearing to god he never knew jesus, the
  • 00:19:26.764 --> 00:19:31.903
  • Rooster crows,
  • 00:19:31.903 --> 00:19:33.671
  • And then the bible says, and jesus looked at peter.
  • 00:19:33.671 --> 00:19:36.107
  • Wait, what's going on?
  • 00:19:36.107 --> 00:19:37.475
  • So here he is by the fire.
  • 00:19:37.475 --> 00:19:39.043
  • He utters his third denial, the rooster crows, and they're
  • 00:19:39.043 --> 00:19:42.113
  • Moving christ from one place to another, and he makes momentary
  • 00:19:42.113 --> 00:19:46.851
  • Eye contact with peter.
  • 00:19:46.851 --> 00:19:49.554
  • Can you see it, in the glow of the fire?
  • 00:19:49.554 --> 00:19:52.690
  • What kind of look do you think jesus gave peter?
  • 00:19:52.690 --> 00:19:56.494
  • You think he looked at him and rolled his eyes like...
  • 00:19:56.494 --> 00:20:00.064
  • Really?
  • 00:20:00.064 --> 00:20:01.766
  • I think it was a look of compassion and love.
  • 00:20:01.766 --> 00:20:03.901
  • Don't forget, jesus predicted this.
  • 00:20:03.901 --> 00:20:06.637
  • He knew peter was gonna fail.
  • 00:20:06.637 --> 00:20:08.105
  • He knew he was going to fall short, and peter went out and
  • 00:20:08.105 --> 00:20:12.476
  • Wept bitterly.
  • 00:20:12.476 --> 00:20:13.811
  • Oh man, he says that's it, that's the end for me.
  • 00:20:13.811 --> 00:20:17.215
  • Did he fail? yes.
  • 00:20:17.215 --> 00:20:19.350
  • Did he deny the lord? again, yes.
  • 00:20:19.350 --> 00:20:22.687
  • Was he still a believer?
  • 00:20:22.687 --> 00:20:24.088
  • Absolutely.
  • 00:20:24.088 --> 00:20:26.224
  • But he was a fallen believer.
  • 00:20:26.224 --> 00:20:28.159
  • But don't forget what jesus said, he said,
  • 00:20:28.159 --> 00:20:32.396
  • "when you return, you'll strengthen your brothers."
  • 00:20:32.396 --> 00:20:35.066
  • "peter, you're gonna deny me not once, not twice, three times.
  • 00:20:35.066 --> 00:20:38.803
  • But you're gonna return, and when you return, you'll
  • 00:20:38.803 --> 00:20:41.205
  • Strengthen your brothers."
  • 00:20:41.205 --> 00:20:43.708
  • In other words, his setback was temporary.
  • 00:20:43.708 --> 00:20:46.477
  • Peter would be back.
  • 00:20:46.477 --> 00:20:47.845
  • His setback would ultimately become a set up for
  • 00:20:47.845 --> 00:20:50.648
  • Greater things.
  • 00:20:50.648 --> 00:20:51.983
  • His mess would turn into a message.
  • 00:20:51.983 --> 00:20:54.118
  • His test would be a testimony, and his disappointment would
  • 00:20:54.118 --> 00:20:58.122
  • Lead to a divine appointment.
  • 00:20:58.122 --> 00:21:00.725
  • His greatest test would lead to his greatest trust in god, and
  • 00:21:00.725 --> 00:21:05.763
  • We have this story here to remind us that god gives
  • 00:21:05.763 --> 00:21:09.000
  • Second chances.
  • 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:10.568
  • I mean, what a hard lesson to learn, peter, you know what
  • 00:21:10.568 --> 00:21:13.271
  • You're going through, they're gonna be talking about it in
  • 00:21:13.271 --> 00:21:15.539
  • Church 2,000 years from now, okay, so everyone's gonna know
  • 00:21:15.539 --> 00:21:19.143
  • This story, but this isn't the end of the story, 'cause
  • 00:21:19.143 --> 00:21:22.847
  • They're also gonna know what happened after, and they're
  • 00:21:22.847 --> 00:21:25.216
  • Gonna know that i forgave you, because here's what happened.
  • 00:21:25.216 --> 00:21:28.319
  • After christ is crucified, he rises again three days later,
  • 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:34.258
  • And then the message goes out,
  • 00:21:34.258 --> 00:21:36.460
  • "go tell the disciples and," who?
  • 00:21:36.460 --> 00:21:39.630
  • Does anyone know? "peter."
  • 00:21:39.630 --> 00:21:41.999
  • "go tell the disciples and peter he's risen."
  • 00:21:41.999 --> 00:21:45.169
  • Not go tell the disciples and peter, james, and john, or go
  • 00:21:45.169 --> 00:21:48.472
  • Tell the disciples and mary and martha, or go tell the dis--
  • 00:21:48.472 --> 00:21:51.942
  • No, "tell the disciples and peter."
  • 00:21:51.942 --> 00:21:54.679
  • In other words, i want you to send a special message to peter,
  • 00:21:54.679 --> 00:21:58.983
  • And here's what it is, i'm risen and i'll see you in galilee, so
  • 00:21:58.983 --> 00:22:03.621
  • Don't miss the appointment.
  • 00:22:03.621 --> 00:22:05.456
  • Isn't that great that god gives second chances to all of us, and
  • 00:22:05.456 --> 00:22:08.926
  • He did that for peter and he will do it for us as well.
  • 00:22:08.926 --> 00:22:12.596
  • Simon peter, a man of contradictions, he was praised
  • 00:22:12.596 --> 00:22:16.767
  • And honored.
  • 00:22:16.767 --> 00:22:18.202
  • And even rebuked by jesus himself.
  • 00:22:18.202 --> 00:22:21.605
  • One moment he's walking on water, the next moment
  • 00:22:21.605 --> 00:22:24.141
  • He's sinking.
  • 00:22:24.141 --> 00:22:25.609
  • He had moments of incredible bravery and also moments of
  • 00:22:25.609 --> 00:22:29.580
  • Outright fear, and that's what makes him so relatable.
  • 00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:33.551
  • Everything he went through, we say that's like me,
  • 00:22:33.551 --> 00:22:37.221
  • That's what i do.
  • 00:22:37.221 --> 00:22:38.556
  • Exactly, that's why he's here in the bible,
  • 00:22:38.556 --> 00:22:42.026
  • To show you that god uses flawed people.
  • 00:22:42.026 --> 00:22:45.463
  • God picks losers, so to speak, and turns them into to winners
  • 00:22:45.463 --> 00:22:49.600
  • Ultimately, and can restore you no matter what you have done.
  • 00:22:49.600 --> 00:22:53.871
  • God can take your ending and turn it into a beginning.
  • 00:22:53.871 --> 00:22:58.175
  • You see, jesus invaded peter's world.
  • 00:22:58.175 --> 00:23:00.378
  • What was peter's world? fishing, all about fishing.
  • 00:23:00.378 --> 00:23:03.481
  • So what does jesus do? he steps right into his world.
  • 00:23:03.481 --> 00:23:06.016
  • Hello, you wanna catch some fish?
  • 00:23:06.016 --> 00:23:08.152
  • Do what i tell you.
  • 00:23:08.152 --> 00:23:10.688
  • Say, "well, i've tried to make my life better.
  • 00:23:10.688 --> 00:23:12.890
  • I've tried to improve myself," and you've failed, haven't you?
  • 00:23:12.890 --> 00:23:17.061
  • See, you need god
  • 00:23:17.061 --> 00:23:18.629
  • And you need to call out to the lord and you'll be amazed at
  • 00:23:18.629 --> 00:23:21.532
  • What he can do, despite the predicament you find yourself in
  • 00:23:21.532 --> 00:23:25.069
  • Now, despite the fact that you've made a mess
  • 00:23:25.069 --> 00:23:27.772
  • Out of your life.
  • 00:23:27.772 --> 00:23:29.106
  • As i said earlier, he can turn your mess into a message.
  • 00:23:29.106 --> 00:23:33.310
  • He can transform you, but you must come to him and say,
  • 00:23:33.310 --> 00:23:35.980
  • "god, help me."
  • 00:23:35.980 --> 00:23:37.314
  • That's what peter did, and jesus changed him, and maybe there's
  • 00:23:37.314 --> 00:23:40.918
  • Somebody i'm talking to right now that, you're a christian,
  • 00:23:40.918 --> 00:23:45.423
  • But you have denied the lord in some way, shape, or form, you've
  • 00:23:45.423 --> 00:23:48.859
  • Fallen short, you've done something you wish you had
  • 00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:51.562
  • 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
  • 00:24:07.211 --> 00:24:10.748
  • 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 turn 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.
  • 00:25:08.339 --> 00:25:11.575
  • Fifty years ago, we were divided as well.
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  • People were calling for a sexual revolution.
  • 00:25:14.411 --> 00:25:16.814
  • 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
  • 00:25:25.222 --> 00:25:29.393
  • America again, don't you?
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  • Through harvest ministries, god's doing some amazing things.
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  • 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,
  • 00:25:50.047 --> 00:25:55.219
  • 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
  • 00:26:13.804 --> 00:26:17.374
  • 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.
  • 00:26:21.111 --> 00:26:23.747
  • It was a box office hit, and it's been seen by millions of
  • 00:26:23.747 --> 00:26:27.117
  • 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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