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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - Grace and Truth

April 11, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - Grace and Truth
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Grace and Truth | April 11, 2026
  • ...
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  • Andy stanley: hi, everybody.
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  • Welcome to "your move," where we help you make better decisions
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  • And live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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  • And today's episode is for those of you who have lost your faith,
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  • And you miss it, and you'd like to get it back.
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  • If that's you, i think i can help.
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  • Stick around.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: when you follow jesus through the gospels, he had the
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  • Ability--in fact, he made it a habit to take an individual's
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  • Entire story into account when he interacted with them, and
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  • There are several examples of this in the new testament.
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  • But our tendency is the opposite.
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  • We don't take people's entire story into account.
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  • For one reason, we can't.
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  • We don't know their whole story, but even if we did, we have a
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  • Tendency to just size people up and just write them off based on
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  • A single event in their life, based on a habit in their life,
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  • Based on something we've heard about them from their life, a
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  • Single--we size them up and write them off based on just a
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  • Single chapter in their story, not their whole story.
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  • And if their decision or whatever it was--if their
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  • Decision or that chapter impacted us directly or our
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  • Family directly, it's hard not to see them any other way.
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  • It's hard to see them in any other light, right?
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  • It--that thing that sort of just cast a negative shadow over
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  • Them, it's the first thing and it's the only thing that comes
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  • To mind when they come to mind.
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  • But the problem, of course, is that that goes both ways, right,
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  • That people size you up, and they write you off as well.
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  • Sometimes you know and sometimes you don't know.
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  • And to complicate matters even further--and here's what we're
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  • Gonna talk about for the next few minutes--we have the
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  • Potential--in fact, perhaps you have the tendency to do this to
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  • Yourself, that we have the potential and maybe the tendency
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  • To do this to ourselves, to define ourselves by a failure,
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  • To define ourselves by a failed relationship, an event in our
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  • Life, a season in our life, a decision in our life, an
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  • Addiction in our life.
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  • And then our tendency is to project that onto god.
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  • In other words, if i see myself this way, then certainly that's
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  • How god sees me as well, but he doesn't.
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  • And we know he doesn't--this is so important, because
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  • Jesus didn't.
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  • And the reason you can know with certainty that your heavenly
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  • Father doesn't size you up and write you off based on an event
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  • In your life, a story in your life, a chapter in your life, is
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  • Because jesus never did that, he did the opposite, and if
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  • It's--and if jesus did it, that's how your heavenly father
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  • Does it as well.
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  • Remember he said, "if you've seen me, you've seen the father.
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  • Like son, like father."
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  • The implication is this--this is huge--that god takes your entire
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  • Story into account, your sin, your past, your failure, your
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  • Behavior, that secret habit.
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  • It does not define you in the eyes of god, in the eyes of your
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  • Heavenly father.
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  • He doesn't overlook it.
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  • He doesn't overlook sin because sin hurts you and it kills you
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  • And it kills relationships and it undermines your future.
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  • So god doesn't overlook sin because he loves you, and god
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  • Doesn't overlook the harm you've caused yourself or others
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  • Because he loves you and he loves others, but he does not
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  • Define you by it.
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  • That's not how he sees you.
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  • Your sin is like a tree, and your heavenly father sees the
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  • Whole forest.
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  • And he has the ability to do what most people won't do for
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  • You and what most people can't do for you, and in most cases
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  • They won't even attempt to do for you.
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  • He does for you what in many cases you don't even attempt to
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  • Do for other people, to take into account the entire story of
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  • You, so your past and my past--your past may always
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  • Remind you, but it does not define you in the eyes of god.
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  • And you are invited, whether you're a religious person or a
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  • Different faith tradition or even a christian or not, but you
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  • Are invited to do for yourself what you may never be able to do
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  • For other people, and that is to accept god's estimation of you.
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  • And when you come to grips and when we come to grips, when you
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  • Come to grips with god's view of you, you may--not necessarily,
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  • But you may find it easier to extend that same full-story
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  • Grace to others.
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  • This is what it looks like to be a christian, and this is what it
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  • Looks like to live like a christian, but it doesn't
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  • Come natural.
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  • It doesn't come natural in terms of extending it to others, and
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  • It doesn't even come natural for many of us to extend it
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  • To ourselves.
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  • So i wanna tell you a story.
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  • Peter, as in the apostle peter--peter's most embarrassing
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  • Chapter of his life illustrates this perfectly.
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  • Now, we know that for the most part, mark, matthew--mark, who
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  • Wrote the gospel of mark, got his information about jesus and
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  • The life of jesus from peter.
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  • So there's a sense in which peter not only knew this was
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  • Gonna be included for all time, but he actually wanted it
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  • Included because it was his story.
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  • And the fact that he wanted his story told even though it's the
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  • Worst possible story he could tell says something about what
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  • He understood about the grace of god that he wanted you to
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  • Understand about the grace of god and the grace of his savior.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
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  • Crisis in america.
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  • Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
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  • Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
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  • Most of us know some of these people.
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  • Many of us are related to some of these people.
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  • So for us, they aren't statistics.
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  • They're people we love and would love to see return to faith
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  • In jesus.
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  • So at "your move", we are committed to reaching people
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  • With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
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  • Least expect it.
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  • We use a research-backed digital strategy that's already making
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  • A difference.
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  • So if you'll stick around after today's message, we would love
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  • To tell you more about it, or visit the website or call the
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  • Number on your screen to learn how you can be a part of this
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  • Revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: so the situation is this, jesus, on his way to jerusalem,
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  • It's his date with fate.
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  • He knows he's gonna be arrested and executed.
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  • He gets to the city.
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  • He goes into the city, teaches in the temple, leaves the city
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  • At night, goes back into the city, the next day teaches in
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  • The temple, leaves the city, is back and forth, back and forth
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  • For a week.
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  • At the end of that week or so, he decides to celebrate the
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  • Passover meal with the disciples, his 12.
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  • He does it privately.
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  • He does it secretly in the city.
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  • They celebrate the passover meal.
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  • A lot's going on.
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  • Judas gets up and leaves in the middle, you know?
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  • Everybody thinks he's gonna go on an errand.
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  • Jesus knows what he's up to.
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  • And as they're walking out the door, essentially, he turns to
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  • The 11 that are left, and he says this: "oh, yeah.
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  • By the way, this very night, you will all fall away on account
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  • Of me."
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  • To kinda tease this out with the original language, basically he
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  • Says, "you're gonna trip and fall over me and fall away
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  • From me."
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  • In other words, you're gonna leave me because you trip
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  • Over me.
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  • I'm gonna be the reason you leave me.
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  • You're gonna trip and fall away on account of me.
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  • And peter immediately speaks up, and he says, "even if the rest
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  • Of these losers--" that's the implication.
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  • "even if the rest of these losers fall away from you, even
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  • If all fall away on account of you, i never will.
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  • Jesus, look at me.
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  • There is nothing you could do that would cause me to
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  • Disassociate myself from you.
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  • I am forever yours."
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  • And everybody said, "faithfully."
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  • Exactly.
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  • Then jesus looks at peter with a sad look and puts his hand on
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  • His shoulder.
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  • He says, "peter.
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  • This very night, before the sun rises, you're gonna disown me.
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  • You're gonna trip and roll away from me three times.
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  • You're gonna deny any association with me."
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  • And peter responds, "no, no, no, no."
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  • He says, "even if i have to die with you, i will never
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  • Disown you.
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  • I'm not just sticking by you because it's good times and
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  • We're about to, you know, rip off the rabbi robe and messiah
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  • And take over.
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  • But if in the process of you becoming messiah and us
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  • Roman--running the romans out of town, if i gotta die for you in
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  • That battle, if i've got to die in order to see you become the
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  • King, i'll die for you."
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  • And most of us know what happens.
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  • Twenty verses later, not a whole chapter, twenty verses later,
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  • Jesus is arrested.
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  • This was the most embarrassing moment for the whole crowd.
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  • "and then all the disciples deserted him and fled."
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  • Peter--i mean, in fact, thomas leaves town, we think.
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  • Peter gets just far enough away to see what's happening, follows
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  • From a distance.
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  • He follows back into the city, and he realizes they're taking
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  • Jesus to the home of caiaphas, the high priest.
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  • That's not gonna go well.
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  • He waits as far away as he can.
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  • It's cold.
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  • He steps into the courtyard.
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  • The courtyard is massive, and there are fires every--you know,
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  • Several fires out there to keep the guards and to keep the
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  • Servants warm.
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  • And he's warming his hands by one of those fires, and suddenly
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  • A servant girl, a young girl, walks up and stares at his face
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  • As it's lit up by the fire and says--"'you also were with jesus
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  • Of galilee,' she said.
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  • But he denied it before them."
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  • He said, "no, no, no.
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  • I don't know what you're talking about.
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  • Shh! don't talk so loud."
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  • So peter steps away from the fire, where another servant girl
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  • Walks by and says to the people there, "this fellow--" i'm sure
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  • She's right.
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  • "this fellow was with jesus of nazareth."
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  • And peter immediately denies it again with an oath: "i don't
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  • Know the man!"
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  • Steps back even further, and after a while, the people who've
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  • Heard this, they keep looking at him and looking at him, and they
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  • Wander over.
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  • The text says, "and then a little while, those standing
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  • There went up to peter and said, 'they're right.
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  • Surely you are one of them because when you shouted out
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  • That you weren't, we heard your accent.
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  • You are in fact a galilean.
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  • You are not from here.
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  • You are one of the followers of jesus of nazareth."
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  • And he began, the text tells us, to call down curses.
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  • "and he swore to them, 'i don't know the guy.
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  • I don't even know the man.'"
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  • And a rooster crowed in the distance, and peter remembered
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  • The words of jesus.
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  • "and he went outside and he wept bitterly."
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  • Don't answer this out loud, but have you ever wept with regret?
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  • I have.
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  • I bet we all have, that moment where you would go back--you
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  • Just--if i could go back and just take those words back, if i
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  • Could just go back and relive that weekend, if i could just go
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  • Back and say no instead of yes, if i could just go back to that
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  • Season of my life, if i could have--you--have you ever
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  • Felt--again, this is just between you and you.
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  • Have you ever felt like, "okay, right, god may love me because
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  • God loves everybody, i know, but he can't possibly like me,"
  • 00:11:52.663 --> 00:11:57.935
  • Because you don't like you?
  • 00:11:57.935 --> 00:12:02.206
  • Now, let me get real personal, okay?
  • 00:12:02.206 --> 00:12:05.042
  • If this is your first time, this is kind of heavy, but here's
  • 00:12:05.042 --> 00:12:08.012
  • The thing.
  • 00:12:08.012 --> 00:12:09.346
  • You've done some really bad stuff.
  • 00:12:09.346 --> 00:12:13.984
  • You've done shameful stuff, painful stuff.
  • 00:12:13.984 --> 00:12:16.387
  • You've caused yourself pain.
  • 00:12:16.387 --> 00:12:17.755
  • You've caused people you love pain.
  • 00:12:17.755 --> 00:12:19.089
  • You've done embarrassing stuff.
  • 00:12:19.089 --> 00:12:20.457
  • You've hurt people who you love and who love you.
  • 00:12:20.457 --> 00:12:23.327
  • You've lied.
  • 00:12:23.327 --> 00:12:24.662
  • You've been to some level, to some degree unfaithful in your
  • 00:12:24.662 --> 00:12:27.064
  • Life, but here's kind of the good news.
  • 00:12:27.064 --> 00:12:31.468
  • You've never done what peter did.
  • 00:12:31.468 --> 00:12:34.572
  • You can't.
  • 00:12:34.572 --> 00:12:36.774
  • To have seen what he saw and to have experienced what the
  • 00:12:36.774 --> 00:12:40.878
  • Apostle peter experienced and then deny you even know the man,
  • 00:12:40.878 --> 00:12:45.916
  • The man who healed your mother-in-law, the man who
  • 00:12:45.916 --> 00:12:49.854
  • Basically almost sank your boat with fish, the man who calmed a
  • 00:12:49.854 --> 00:12:54.258
  • Storm with his words, a man who fed a small village out of a
  • 00:12:54.258 --> 00:12:59.096
  • Lunchbox, a man who two weeks earlier raised one of your
  • 00:12:59.096 --> 00:13:04.168
  • Friends, somebody who had hosted you in their home, raised one of
  • 00:13:04.168 --> 00:13:07.238
  • Your friends from the dead after they'd already had the funeral,
  • 00:13:07.238 --> 00:13:11.809
  • The man who selected you to be part of his inner circle, that
  • 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:15.846
  • You camped with and ate with, laughed with and cried with, i
  • 00:13:15.846 --> 00:13:20.317
  • Mean, who's--you'd seen it all.
  • 00:13:20.317 --> 00:13:24.788
  • You will never have the opportunity, i will never have
  • 00:13:24.788 --> 00:13:27.224
  • The opportunity to offend the king like peter did.
  • 00:13:27.224 --> 00:13:33.497
  • And maybe to just twist the knife, peter's final recorded
  • 00:13:33.497 --> 00:13:38.335
  • Words, the last words that are recorded for us before jesus was
  • 00:13:38.335 --> 00:13:42.406
  • Arrested, "even if i have to die with you, i will never
  • 00:13:42.406 --> 00:13:50.247
  • Disown you."
  • 00:13:50.247 --> 00:13:51.615
  • And hours later, just hours later, he's in the back of a
  • 00:13:51.615 --> 00:13:54.585
  • Crowd, hoodie up so he can't be recognized, and he watches jesus
  • 00:13:54.585 --> 00:14:00.257
  • Die, and he does nothing.
  • 00:14:00.257 --> 00:14:08.098
  • And then he and the rest of the apostles, they find out judas
  • 00:14:08.098 --> 00:14:11.168
  • Is dead, they don't know why.
  • 00:14:11.168 --> 00:14:12.703
  • Thomas still hadn't shown up.
  • 00:14:12.703 --> 00:14:14.038
  • Maybe he was in on it with judas.
  • 00:14:14.038 --> 00:14:15.406
  • We don't know. they don't know.
  • 00:14:15.406 --> 00:14:18.242
  • They go into hiding.
  • 00:14:18.242 --> 00:14:19.944
  • What do we do? where do we go?
  • 00:14:19.944 --> 00:14:22.813
  • And a couple, two and a half days later or so, the first day
  • 00:14:22.813 --> 00:14:25.916
  • Of the week, the women bust into the room.
  • 00:14:25.916 --> 00:14:29.253
  • The tomb is open.
  • 00:14:29.253 --> 00:14:30.721
  • There's no body.
  • 00:14:30.721 --> 00:14:32.389
  • Peter runs and looks in the tomb, and it's empty, and he
  • 00:14:32.389 --> 00:14:34.959
  • Walks away bewildered.
  • 00:14:34.959 --> 00:14:36.293
  • He has no idea what's happening or what has happened, and then
  • 00:14:36.293 --> 00:14:39.330
  • That night, as we talked about, best day, worst day ever, jesus
  • 00:14:39.330 --> 00:14:49.139
  • Appears very much alive.
  • 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:54.044
  • He communicates to them, "i want you to meet me in galilee."
  • 00:14:54.044 --> 00:14:58.682
  • So they eventually pack up and head north.
  • 00:14:58.682 --> 00:15:00.985
  • It's safer in galilee, you know, two and a half, three days,
  • 00:15:00.985 --> 00:15:04.288
  • Depending on how they went.
  • 00:15:04.288 --> 00:15:05.756
  • They get to galilee.
  • 00:15:05.756 --> 00:15:07.124
  • They get to an appointed spot.
  • 00:15:07.124 --> 00:15:08.459
  • Actually, they go to the place where they had left their boats,
  • 00:15:08.459 --> 00:15:10.961
  • Back to that fishing environment, and they wait, and
  • 00:15:10.961 --> 00:15:13.731
  • There's no jesus.
  • 00:15:13.731 --> 00:15:15.199
  • And a day goes by, and there's no jesus, and finally, peter's
  • 00:15:15.199 --> 00:15:18.369
  • Like, "hey, let's go fishing, it's what we do."
  • 00:15:18.369 --> 00:15:21.905
  • So late that afternoon, they shoved off and they fished
  • 00:15:21.905 --> 00:15:23.907
  • All night.
  • 00:15:23.907 --> 00:15:25.242
  • And the next morning, they're rowing back to shore, about 100
  • 00:15:25.242 --> 00:15:28.245
  • Yards off, and they see a figure walking down the beach, and john
  • 00:15:28.245 --> 00:15:33.884
  • Says to peter, "it's the lord."
  • 00:15:33.884 --> 00:15:39.289
  • They pull their boat up on the shore, and jesus has started a
  • 00:15:39.289 --> 00:15:41.825
  • Campfire, and he's cooking fish, and he says, "bring some fish."
  • 00:15:41.825 --> 00:15:46.764
  • And they all have breakfast on the beach, and the text tells us
  • 00:15:46.764 --> 00:15:53.237
  • No one doubted it was their resurrected savior.
  • 00:15:53.237 --> 00:15:57.741
  • And then this happens.
  • 00:15:57.741 --> 00:16:00.110
  • Jesus looks at peter and says, "peter, let's me and you take a
  • 00:16:00.110 --> 00:16:05.582
  • Walk down the beach."
  • 00:16:05.582 --> 00:16:07.851
  • They walk in silence for a while.
  • 00:16:07.851 --> 00:16:13.123
  • Finally, jesus breaks the silence.
  • 00:16:13.123 --> 00:16:15.325
  • "simon," he says, it's kind of formal.
  • 00:16:15.325 --> 00:16:16.693
  • "simon son of john, do you love me?"
  • 00:16:16.693 --> 00:16:21.131
  • And then he points back over his shoulder.
  • 00:16:21.131 --> 00:16:23.367
  • "do you love me more than the rest of those guys?"
  • 00:16:23.367 --> 00:16:28.972
  • Probably no eye contact, looking forward.
  • 00:16:28.972 --> 00:16:30.607
  • "yes," he says.
  • 00:16:30.607 --> 00:16:31.942
  • "yes, lord," he said.
  • 00:16:31.942 --> 00:16:34.144
  • "you know that i love you."
  • 00:16:34.144 --> 00:16:37.147
  • And he could have said, "lord, seriously, remember the
  • 00:16:37.147 --> 00:16:40.818
  • Samaritan woman?
  • 00:16:40.818 --> 00:16:42.186
  • You know, we come back from sychar, you know, from sychar,
  • 00:16:42.186 --> 00:16:45.055
  • And you're talking to that samaritan woman by the well.
  • 00:16:45.055 --> 00:16:48.859
  • Okay, lord, you knew she had five husbands.
  • 00:16:48.859 --> 00:16:53.764
  • Of course you know i love you.
  • 00:16:53.764 --> 00:16:55.566
  • You know everything.
  • 00:16:55.566 --> 00:16:57.000
  • You know everything about everybody.
  • 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.969
  • You're the one that seems to be able to take people's entire
  • 00:16:58.969 --> 00:17:01.605
  • Story into account when you interact with them, so i'm not
  • 00:17:01.605 --> 00:17:04.875
  • Gonna make a case, but yes, you know i love you.
  • 00:17:04.875 --> 00:17:09.346
  • You know everything about me, and you know about the caiaphas
  • 00:17:09.346 --> 00:17:14.585
  • House event."
  • 00:17:14.585 --> 00:17:16.353
  • Jesus pauses and looks at peter and says, "okay, then feed
  • 00:17:16.353 --> 00:17:21.125
  • My lambs."
  • 00:17:21.125 --> 00:17:22.960
  • This means nothing to us.
  • 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.528
  • Here's what peter heard, "shepherd my sheep."
  • 00:17:24.528 --> 00:17:29.833
  • He's like, "wait, wait."
  • 00:17:29.833 --> 00:17:32.769
  • He looks over at the rest of the guys.
  • 00:17:32.769 --> 00:17:36.507
  • "wait, you're putting me in charge?
  • 00:17:36.507 --> 00:17:40.477
  • Wait, you're giving me a promotion after what i did?
  • 00:17:40.477 --> 00:17:46.383
  • I thought this was an exit interview."
  • 00:17:46.383 --> 00:17:51.455
  • They walk on.
  • 00:17:51.455 --> 00:17:54.791
  • Again, jesus said, "simon son of john, do you love me?"
  • 00:17:54.791 --> 00:17:59.463
  • And peter says, "yes."
  • 00:17:59.463 --> 00:18:01.565
  • He says, "yes, lord, you know everything.
  • 00:18:01.565 --> 00:18:05.068
  • You know i love you."
  • 00:18:05.068 --> 00:18:06.403
  • Jesus said, "i want you to take care of my sheep."
  • 00:18:06.403 --> 00:18:08.939
  • Points back.
  • 00:18:08.939 --> 00:18:10.274
  • And on the third time he asked peter this same question, "do
  • 00:18:10.274 --> 00:18:13.043
  • You love me?"
  • 00:18:13.043 --> 00:18:14.411
  • The text tells us that peter was hurt because jesus kept
  • 00:18:14.411 --> 00:18:18.916
  • Asking him.
  • 00:18:18.916 --> 00:18:20.250
  • "he asked him a third time, 'do you love me?'"
  • 00:18:20.250 --> 00:18:22.653
  • Maybe he's thinking, "well, doesn't he believe me?"
  • 00:18:22.653 --> 00:18:24.288
  • And i'm like--he's thinking, "well, i know he believes me
  • 00:18:24.288 --> 00:18:26.223
  • 'cause he knows what i'm thinking, and who could blame
  • 00:18:26.223 --> 00:18:28.392
  • Him if he didn't believe me?"
  • 00:18:28.392 --> 00:18:30.127
  • But peter didn't push him back.
  • 00:18:30.127 --> 00:18:32.062
  • So self-righteous peter's gone.
  • 00:18:32.062 --> 00:18:36.033
  • Argumentative, gotta make my point, have my way peter, he's
  • 00:18:36.033 --> 00:18:40.237
  • Gone, so he doesn't make a case for the fact that he
  • 00:18:40.237 --> 00:18:44.074
  • Loves jesus.
  • 00:18:44.074 --> 00:18:45.409
  • This is amazing.
  • 00:18:45.409 --> 00:18:46.743
  • He simply appeals to the knowledge of his king.
  • 00:18:46.743 --> 00:18:53.317
  • "he said, 'lord, you know all things, and you know in spite of
  • 00:18:53.317 --> 00:19:01.124
  • What i did.
  • 00:19:01.124 --> 00:19:03.493
  • You know in spite of the fact that i betrayed you.
  • 00:19:03.493 --> 00:19:07.130
  • You know in spite of the fact that i didn't come through
  • 00:19:07.130 --> 00:19:09.666
  • For you.
  • 00:19:09.666 --> 00:19:11.001
  • You know in spite of the fact that i didn't try to defend you.
  • 00:19:11.001 --> 00:19:13.904
  • You know in spite of the fact that basically i lied to you
  • 00:19:13.904 --> 00:19:20.777
  • That i love you.
  • 00:19:20.777 --> 00:19:22.913
  • I have no defense.
  • 00:19:22.913 --> 00:19:24.248
  • I have no case to make.
  • 00:19:24.248 --> 00:19:25.949
  • You know i'm a broken man."
  • 00:19:25.949 --> 00:19:28.719
  • And jesus smiles and says, "feed my sheep.
  • 00:19:28.719 --> 00:19:34.124
  • Peter, i'm putting you in charge."
  • 00:19:34.124 --> 00:19:40.464
  • Is that amazing?
  • 00:19:40.464 --> 00:19:42.466
  • I want you to try to picture it.
  • 00:19:42.466 --> 00:19:46.036
  • At the end of their walk--they circle back around and they come
  • 00:19:46.036 --> 00:19:49.273
  • Back--they're standing on the shore of the sea of galilee with
  • 00:19:49.273 --> 00:19:56.313
  • Peter and his family's boats.
  • 00:19:56.313 --> 00:19:59.283
  • The nets are being stretched out and dried, the smell of cooked
  • 00:19:59.283 --> 00:20:03.687
  • Fish in the air.
  • 00:20:03.687 --> 00:20:06.023
  • They're at the place where this all began.
  • 00:20:06.023 --> 00:20:11.428
  • And with all that history and all that betrayal and all that
  • 00:20:11.428 --> 00:20:13.797
  • Doubt and all that fear and all the things that
  • 00:20:13.797 --> 00:20:15.565
  • Happened--they're at the place where this all began, and he
  • 00:20:15.565 --> 00:20:18.235
  • Looks peter in the eye and he extends this very same
  • 00:20:18.235 --> 00:20:21.571
  • Invitation that he extended on the first day, they had
  • 00:20:21.571 --> 00:20:27.144
  • An interaction.
  • 00:20:27.144 --> 00:20:28.512
  • "peter," he says.
  • 00:20:28.512 --> 00:20:30.547
  • And he must have just had this huge grin because peter can't
  • 00:20:30.547 --> 00:20:33.417
  • Even believe this is happening.
  • 00:20:33.417 --> 00:20:34.951
  • "peter," he says, "i want you to follow me 'cause we're not done,
  • 00:20:34.951 --> 00:20:41.725
  • And peter, you're not done.
  • 00:20:41.725 --> 00:20:46.129
  • You got a whole lot more people to catch."
  • 00:20:46.129 --> 00:20:52.369
  • Now i want you to listen.
  • 00:20:52.369 --> 00:20:53.704
  • If you've been fiddling with your phone at home, i want you
  • 00:20:53.704 --> 00:20:55.372
  • To listen to this part, okay, 'cause you need--somebody needs
  • 00:20:55.372 --> 00:20:58.442
  • To hear this.
  • 00:20:58.442 --> 00:20:59.776
  • Probably most of us don't need to hear this, but those of you
  • 00:20:59.776 --> 00:21:02.412
  • Who need to hear this, you really need to hear this, and i
  • 00:21:02.412 --> 00:21:04.915
  • Don't want you to hear it from me.
  • 00:21:04.915 --> 00:21:06.516
  • I hope something lights up in your heart because this is
  • 00:21:06.516 --> 00:21:09.186
  • So true.
  • 00:21:09.186 --> 00:21:11.588
  • No matter what you've done, you're not done, and more
  • 00:21:11.588 --> 00:21:18.962
  • Importantly, god is not done with you.
  • 00:21:18.962 --> 00:21:24.468
  • And you think you sunk, you've sunk too low, you know, you've
  • 00:21:24.468 --> 00:21:27.637
  • Followed--fallen too far, you've strayed too far away, you burned
  • 00:21:27.637 --> 00:21:31.475
  • Too many bridges, you've broken too many promises to god and
  • 00:21:31.475 --> 00:21:34.311
  • Other people.
  • 00:21:34.311 --> 00:21:35.779
  • And there's something in you that says, "i--you know, i
  • 00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:37.681
  • Don't know.
  • 00:21:37.681 --> 00:21:39.015
  • God--i feel like god has kind of sized me up and written me off,
  • 00:21:39.015 --> 00:21:41.051
  • And i don't blame him 'cause to some extent i've sort of sized
  • 00:21:41.051 --> 00:21:43.387
  • Myself up and written myself off."
  • 00:21:43.387 --> 00:21:45.856
  • Do you know what peter would do if he heard you?
  • 00:21:45.856 --> 00:21:48.425
  • He would take you by the shoulders, look you in the eye,
  • 00:21:48.425 --> 00:21:52.095
  • And assure you that's a lie.
  • 00:21:52.095 --> 00:21:55.799
  • Then you may say this.
  • 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:57.701
  • "don't pharisee yourself.
  • 00:21:57.701 --> 00:22:02.606
  • This is what the pharisees have been doing the whole time we've
  • 00:22:02.606 --> 00:22:05.308
  • Been traipsing around with jesus.
  • 00:22:05.308 --> 00:22:07.043
  • They walk up to us and they draw a circle around an event.
  • 00:22:07.043 --> 00:22:09.579
  • They draw a circle around a conversation.
  • 00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:11.448
  • They draw a circle around a sin.
  • 00:22:11.448 --> 00:22:12.883
  • They draw a circle around a habit.
  • 00:22:12.883 --> 00:22:14.351
  • They draw a circle around a reputation, say, 'you're out.
  • 00:22:14.351 --> 00:22:18.155
  • It doesn't matter what else you've done, doesn't matter what
  • 00:22:18.155 --> 00:22:19.990
  • Your childhood was like.
  • 00:22:19.990 --> 00:22:21.324
  • It doesn't matter what you've been told, doesn't matter what
  • 00:22:21.324 --> 00:22:22.692
  • Your family of origin is, doesn't matter what your
  • 00:22:22.692 --> 00:22:24.795
  • Illness is.
  • 00:22:24.795 --> 00:22:26.129
  • You're out because we draw circles around little-bitty
  • 00:22:26.129 --> 00:22:28.632
  • Parts of a person's life, and they're out.'"
  • 00:22:28.632 --> 00:22:30.300
  • And peter would say to you, "don't do that to yourself
  • 00:22:30.300 --> 00:22:33.670
  • Because your heavenly father doesn't.
  • 00:22:33.670 --> 00:22:35.639
  • If you've learned anything from following jesus--" i mean peter
  • 00:22:35.639 --> 00:22:38.542
  • Would say, "if you've learned anything from following me as i
  • 00:22:38.542 --> 00:22:41.478
  • Follow jesus, you will learn that jesus never does that to
  • 00:22:41.478 --> 00:22:44.781
  • Anybody, so don't do it to yourself."
  • 00:22:44.781 --> 00:22:50.587
  • The invitation to follow jesus is a standing invitation.
  • 00:22:50.587 --> 00:22:59.429
  • This is amazing.
  • 00:22:59.429 --> 00:23:00.764
  • Peter lives a long life.
  • 00:23:00.764 --> 00:23:02.299
  • He's an old man now.
  • 00:23:02.299 --> 00:23:04.701
  • He was probably illiterate.
  • 00:23:04.701 --> 00:23:06.036
  • The book of acts seems to indicate that the four
  • 00:23:06.036 --> 00:23:07.804
  • Fishermen--peter, andrew, james, and john--they were probably
  • 00:23:07.804 --> 00:23:10.774
  • Illiterate men.
  • 00:23:10.774 --> 00:23:12.142
  • Who had time to learn to read and write?
  • 00:23:12.142 --> 00:23:13.477
  • Only about 5% or 2.5% of the galileans could read or write.
  • 00:23:13.477 --> 00:23:17.013
  • These are day laborers.
  • 00:23:17.013 --> 00:23:18.381
  • They work with their hands.
  • 00:23:18.381 --> 00:23:20.650
  • And he dictates some letters to first-century christians.
  • 00:23:20.650 --> 00:23:23.553
  • I mean, this is peter, you know?
  • 00:23:23.553 --> 00:23:24.921
  • It's like if peter sends you a letter, sends your church a
  • 00:23:24.921 --> 00:23:27.157
  • Letter, it's like, "this is from peter."
  • 00:23:27.157 --> 00:23:30.994
  • And two of those have survived.
  • 00:23:30.994 --> 00:23:32.329
  • They're part of our new testament.
  • 00:23:32.329 --> 00:23:33.663
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:23:33.663 --> 00:23:35.298
  • Listen to these words with his story in mind and with your
  • 00:23:35.298 --> 00:23:39.503
  • Story in mind.
  • 00:23:39.503 --> 00:23:40.837
  • Here's what he writes, talking about jesus.
  • 00:23:40.837 --> 00:23:43.073
  • "he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross."
  • 00:23:43.073 --> 00:23:49.613
  • And peter would say, "i didn't read about it.
  • 00:23:49.613 --> 00:23:52.916
  • I was there for it."
  • 00:23:52.916 --> 00:23:56.920
  • "so that we might also die to sins and live for righteousness,
  • 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:05.195
  • For justice, a different kind of life."
  • 00:24:05.195 --> 00:24:08.231
  • In other words, peter says, "because of what jesus did for
  • 00:24:08.231 --> 00:24:11.535
  • Me and what jesus did for you, you no longer have to be
  • 00:24:11.535 --> 00:24:14.404
  • Controlled by sin, and you no longer have to be defined by it.
  • 00:24:14.404 --> 00:24:19.376
  • "and then he considers its own story perhaps, and he dictates
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  • These words to a scribe.
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  • This is so amazing.
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  • "for you--" he's writing--he's not even met these people.
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  • He's just writing to christians to whom it might concern,
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  • Anybody in the church, anywhere, us, any generation.
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  • He says this.
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  • He says, "for you--" "i haven't heard your story," he would say,
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  • "but i know enough about the human race.
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  • I know about human nature.
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  • I know about--enough about myself."
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  • "for you are like a sheep."
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  • Again, it means nothing to us.
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  • They all knew this, understood this.
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  • "you are like sheep just scattered.
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  • You were like sheep who you weren't even following
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  • A shepherd.
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  • You were like sheep who would abandon the flock and abandon
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  • Everything you've been taught and abandon the shepherd.
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  • You were like a sheep who just went off on its own, just
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  • Gone astray."
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  • And peter's like, "and let me tell you, i know about
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  • Going astray.
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  • I followed for three-and-a-half years the good shepherd, and i
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  • Still went astray."
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  • And then this for all of us.
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  • "you are like sheep who've gone astray, but now--" he says to
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  • Them, "but now you have returned, and he took you back.
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  • But now you have returned with all of your sin that he paid for
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  • And all of the brands that people have given you and that
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  • You've given yourself that he's removed, but you have returned
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  • To the shepherd and the overseer of your souls.
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  • And your shepherd and overseer celebrates your return."
  • 00:25:47.464 --> 00:25:54.437
  • And then peter would say to you, "so get going.
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  • Follow."
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  • Your king would say, "you're not done because i'm not done
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  • With you.
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  • And if you'll allow me to, i'll use your story as bait to
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  • Attract more people to my kingdom."
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  • Isn't it true?
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  • The people who are most attractive to god's kingdom are
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  • Not the wrinkle-free, did it all right people?
  • 00:26:31.741 --> 00:26:35.078
  • They're the people who had massive failures, experience the
  • 00:26:35.078 --> 00:26:38.748
  • Grace of god, and they're not proud of what they did, but
  • 00:26:38.748 --> 00:26:41.985
  • They're not afraid to tell you about it because they are
  • 00:26:41.985 --> 00:26:45.588
  • Trophies of god's grace.
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  • And they would tell you like peter would tell you, "you can't
  • 00:26:48.792 --> 00:26:51.695
  • Fall too far, and you can't wander off too far away from the
  • 00:26:51.695 --> 00:26:56.666
  • Shepherd of your soul that he won't take you back."
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