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Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 3)

November 15, 2025 | 30:10

Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 3)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Investigating Jesus (Part 3) | November 15, 2025
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  • Andy stanley: hey everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley and i'll be your guide.
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  • Have you ever been invited to something and said no, but then
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  • Later regretted it?
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  • Or maybe you dreaded attending an event, then you went out of
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  • Obligation and, well, it was life changing?
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  • The truth is we never know what hangs in the balance of
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  • An invitation.
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  • Now, here's some good news.
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  • You are invited to something amazing and a great deal hangs
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  • In the balance of how you respond to that invitation and
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  • That invitation is what we're talking about today right here
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  • On "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: quick question to get started, and i know the answer
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  • Is yes, but just to kind of get our head into the game a
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  • Little bit.
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  • So, have you ever been invited to something and you said no and
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  • Then you regretted it later like, what?
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  • Who showed up? they did what?
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  • They won?
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  • What you had front row, you know, it's like, oh my goodness!
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  • I just missed out because i just should have gone, but you were
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  • Busy or you had something kind of a lame excuse or you
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  • Weren't excited.
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  • Then afterwards it's like, oh, if i could, you know, just turn
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  • Back time, you know, you feel like some ways you missed, not
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  • The opportunity of a lifetime, but maybe a once in a
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  • Lifetime opportunity.
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  • And then the other side is, have you ever been invited to
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  • Something and at the time, it just felt like more of an
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  • Obligation than an opportunity, but because of who invited you
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  • And your husband's like, come on, or your wife or, you know,
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  • Your kids, it's like, i don't wanna go, but you went anyway.
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  • And then something so amazing happened you--every once in a
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  • While when you think back to that moment or that event or
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  • Whatever it was, you think, "oh my goodness, what if i hadn't
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  • Gone," you know, you were just so close to missing out on
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  • Something, you know, kind of epic.
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  • I think we've all, to some degree or another, had
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  • Those experiences.
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  • The big one for me that all that builds up to is when i was in my
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  • Late 20s, a friend of mine who's actually here today, gary,
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  • Invited me to do an event or to show up at an event and
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  • Participate in an event down at georgia tech, down in downtown
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  • Atlanta for those of you not from the area.
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  • And as a monday night and i had something on monday night.
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  • In fact, i had something every monday night.
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  • I met in a home with some high school students to do a thing,
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  • So i told him, no, i can't go.
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  • So sometime later, weeks or a month later, he asked me again
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  • And i'm like, "no, i still can't go.
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  • I have something every single monday night."
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  • And then third time, it's like, "andy, why don't you come
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  • Participate in this thing?"
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  • I'm like, "gary, i have something, i can't ever come to
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  • Your thing.
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  • I have something every monday night."
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  • He said, "well, what if we delay it and start it an hour later?"
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  • I'm like, really?
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  • And so, honestly, i just felt kind of obligated.
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  • It wasn't the event so much it was this friend of mine who just
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  • Insisted that i, you know, participate and experience this
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  • Thing and i'm like, okay, you know?
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  • So i went and i met a girl and we've been married 33 years.
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  • Now, and thanks to his persistence, you know, and the
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  • Fact that, you know, it just, you just, the point of the story
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  • Is you never know what hangs in the balance.
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  • You never know what hangs in the balance of an invitation.
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  • More on that in just a minute.
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  • If you haven't been tracking along with us, today, we are in
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  • Part three of our series "investigating jesus: how we
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  • Know and why we follow," "how we know and why we follow."
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  • And these are really, really big issues, you know, how we know
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  • And why we follow; specifically, how do we know there's anything
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  • To the story in the message of jesus and why in the world would
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  • Someone in the 21st century choose to follow a 1st century
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  • Rabbi day laborer that was crucified by the empire and was,
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  • You know, became an enemy of his own people?
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  • I mean, why in the world would we take anything about
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  • Jesus seriously?
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  • How do we know and why do we follow?
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  • These are super important questions or issues, and the
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  • Reason being because the credibility of christianity, the
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  • Whole thing, the church, everything that has anything to
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  • Do with christianity, the credibility of christianity, the
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  • Veracity of christianity actually rises and falls, it
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  • Rises and falls on the identity of a single individual, jesus
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  • Of nazareth.
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  • I mean, this is the whole thing, which means, and this is why
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  • We're talking about this, which means if you are considering
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  • Faith, if you are considering christianity or if you're
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  • Leaving faith, if you're leaving christianity, you got your, you
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  • Know, you got your hand on the doorknob and you are headed out
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  • The door, whether you're leaning in or leaning out.
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  • The question i would encourage you to wrestle with because it
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  • Is really the only question worth wrestling with, is not,
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  • Does god exist?
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  • Neither is it is the bible true?
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  • The critical question is a question that unfortunately the
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  • Church--it's not your fault.
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  • It's a question that you haven't been challenged to ask in any
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  • Kind of critical way or significant way because the
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  • Church hasn't challenged you to ask it and that's the, you know,
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  • That's the fault of people like me,
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  • It's the fault of the church.
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  • But the issue, when it comes to leaning toward faith or moving
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  • Away from faith, the issue and the question to ask is
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  • This question.
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  • Is matthew, mark, luke, or john a reliable account of
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  • Actual events?
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  • That's it.
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  • It all comes down to this.
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  • Is the gospel, we call them gospels, the good news of--
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  • Matthew, mark, luke, john, these four ancient, 1st century
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  • Documents that depict the life and teaching of jesus--
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  • If any one of these, not even all of them, if any one of these
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  • Is a reliable account of actual events, even if it's mostly
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  • Reliable, then if that's true, then you need to, and i need to
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  • Sit up straight and pay attention.
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  • Because at the end of these four accounts of the life of jesus,
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  • They all culminate with the same end, and in the end, there is an
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  • Event that makes his story worth telling.
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  • In fact, without the event at the end of the story, jesus's
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  • Story would have never been told because it wouldn't be
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  • Worth telling.
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  • But if these are actual accounts, or these are reliable
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  • Accounts of actual events, then game on.
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  • That is the question you should wrestle to the ground, and if
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  • You are a christian, this is the question, and the answer to that
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  • Question is what we anchor our faith to.
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  • So in this series, we're looking at one of those accounts of the
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  • Life of jesus.
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  • It's called--we call it the gospel of luke.
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  • It's named after the person that wrote it, and right up front,
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  • The author luke tells us, and this is so important as well,
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  • That he's not writing religious literature.
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  • This isn't religious literature.
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  • He's not writing religious literature.
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  • He's basically, not basically, he is actually documenting
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  • Someone's life, and, turns out, he wasn't the only one.
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  • Here's how he opens this 1st century document that depicts
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  • The life and teaching of jesus.
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  • Here's how he begins.
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  • It's not "once upon a time' or "during the time of the romans"
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  • Or "long, long ago in a country far, far away."
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  • He begins this way. "many--" this is amazing.
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  • "many--" i'm not the only one because what happened was
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  • So significant.
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  • Everybody's trying to make sure this gets documented correctly.
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  • "many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that
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  • Have happened" or been fulfilled "among us."
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  • So he's not writing 100 years after these events.
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  • He's like, no, no, i'm living in the time when these things
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  • Happened, they happened among us.
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  • "just as they were handed down to us
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  • By those who from the very first were eyewitnesses of
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  • The events or eyewitnesses and servants of the word."
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  • This is code word for jesus.
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  • So luke is saying, "look, many people have tried to document
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  • What has just happened.
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  • I'm one of those and i wanted to make sure that i got it straight
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  • So i got my information from the eyewitnesses, the people who are
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  • The main players, the a players in the events i'm about
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  • To describe."
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  • He said, "so i too decided to write an orderly account for
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  • You, most excellent theophilus," which was theophilus was a 1st
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  • Century believer who's like, "okay, i'm a jesus follower, but
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  • I've heard so many different accounts and so many
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  • Different orders.
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  • I need somebody to, you know, give me a chronological order.
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  • Tell me--i wanna know the whole story from beginning to end."
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  • "and so i put this account together so that you," this is
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  • So powerful.
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  • "so that you may know the certainty of the things you have
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  • Been taught."
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  • In other words, theophilus, so that you will know you've not
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  • Been asked to have faith in faith or belief in
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  • Belief--believe in belief, that these events, these things
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  • You've heard, this event, this person you have placed your
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  • Faith in, it is anchored to something that
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  • Actually happened.
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  • And so i wanna give you an orderly account.
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  • Now again, this is so important.
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  • Luke is not writing the bible.
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  • Luke has no idea there will ever be a compilation of manuscripts
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  • Called the bible.
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  • He's just saying, "here's what happened among us."
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  • He's telling us what happened.
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  • So at the very beginning of his gospel, he depicts--he describes
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  • The birth of jesus, and then after that, he introduces us to
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  • The warm-up act, the pregame show, john the baptizer, we
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  • Talked about john last week and the important question people
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  • Ask him, and then john introduces all the world, or
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  • Specifically john introduces jesus to judea, the region
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  • Of judea.
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  • So we're jumping into luke chapter 4, verse 14.
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  • Here's what luke says happened next.
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  • "news about him," him being jesus, "news about him spread
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  • Through the whole countryside."
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  • Everybody's talking about jesus.
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  • Everywhere he went, crowds gather.
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  • Jesus was teaching in the synagogues, in their synagogues,
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  • And look at this, "and everyone praised him."
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  • This is so important.
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  • When jesus launched his ministry, people liked him, even
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  • Though they were nothing like him, and apparently he liked
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  • Them back so much so that they felt comfortable coming and
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  • Crowding around and listening.
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  • When we're following jesus correctly, the same will be said
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  • About us.
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  • Now, interestingly enough, it's in this context, jesus teaching
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  • In synagogues, that luke then introduces us to jesus's most
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  • Famous follower, peter, peter the fisherman.
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  • So here's what happened, after listening to jesus in the
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  • Synagogue on a sabbath, peter invites jesus over to his house
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  • Apparently for lunch or brunch.
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  • We don't know exactly what and because peter was married, and
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  • So he and his wife hosted jesus in their home.
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  • How cool would that be, right?
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  • And when jesus gets there, he discovers that peter's wife's
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  • Mother, peter's mother-in-law, is living with them, and she
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  • Is ill.
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  • And while he's waiting for lunch, jesus goes--she has this
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  • Really high fever.
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  • Jesus goes in and heals peter's mother-in-law.
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  • Oh my goodness, and word spreads.
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  • And so at the end of the day, which was the end of sabbath,
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  • That would be considered work, at the end of the day, here's
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  • What happened.
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  • "at sunset, the people brought," all the people in this little
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  • Village, "brought to jesus all who had various kinds of
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  • Sicknesses and laying his hands on each one of them, he
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  • Andy: so, jesus stays up all night healing everybody they
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  • Bring to the door, and then the text says this.
  • 00:11:34.445 --> 00:11:36.747
  • At daybreak, he actually at daybreak, he left their home and
  • 00:11:36.747 --> 00:11:40.551
  • He went to the sea of galilee and a very famous event takes
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  • Place and that's what i want to focus the rest of our time
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  • On today.
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  • "one day as jesus was standing by the lake of gennesaret,"
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  • Which is the sea of galilee.
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  • Sea of galilee is about 8 miles wide, about 14 miles long.
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  • It's in the valley, you know, it's sort of the epicenter of a
  • 00:11:55.032 --> 00:11:57.902
  • Lot of what jesus did in galilee.
  • 00:11:57.902 --> 00:12:00.070
  • So he's standing there, and people were crowding all around
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  • Him, the text says, "listening to," this is interesting as
  • 00:12:03.941 --> 00:12:07.211
  • Well, "the word of god."
  • 00:12:07.211 --> 00:12:09.980
  • Now, in our modern christian world, when we hear the phrase
  • 00:12:09.980 --> 00:12:12.917
  • Word of god, we think the bible.
  • 00:12:12.917 --> 00:12:14.718
  • Well, there was no bible.
  • 00:12:14.718 --> 00:12:16.453
  • When luke talks about the word of god, this is so fascinating.
  • 00:12:16.453 --> 00:12:19.757
  • Luke is talking about the words of jesus--
  • 00:12:19.757 --> 00:12:22.393
  • That when luke wrote this after the resurrection, he has already
  • 00:12:22.393 --> 00:12:26.363
  • So equated jesus with god that he is comfortable equating the
  • 00:12:26.363 --> 00:12:30.701
  • Words of jesus with the words of god.
  • 00:12:30.701 --> 00:12:34.471
  • So interesting.
  • 00:12:34.471 --> 00:12:35.806
  • Anyway, so jesus is teaching, and he "saw at the water's edge
  • 00:12:35.806 --> 00:12:39.109
  • Two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing
  • 00:12:39.109 --> 00:12:42.213
  • Their nets."
  • 00:12:42.213 --> 00:12:43.581
  • So jesus sees these two boats and he goes and he sits down in
  • 00:12:43.581 --> 00:12:46.183
  • One of them, the text says.
  • 00:12:46.183 --> 00:12:47.551
  • "he got into one of them, the one belonging to simon peter,"
  • 00:12:47.551 --> 00:12:50.821
  • Who'd been listening to him teach, who had visited with him
  • 00:12:50.821 --> 00:12:54.058
  • In his home, who had healed his mother-in-law.
  • 00:12:54.058 --> 00:12:57.628
  • This is not the first interaction.
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  • This is not the first conversation.
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  • This isn't the first time they met.
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  • Jesus knows what he has in store for peter, and again he's just
  • 00:13:05.169 --> 00:13:08.005
  • Been dropping bread crumbs, bread crumbs, bread crumbs.
  • 00:13:08.005 --> 00:13:11.609
  • And he asked peter, he says, "look, if you could just stop
  • 00:13:11.609 --> 00:13:14.445
  • Working for a minute, get in the boat with me, let's push off a
  • 00:13:14.445 --> 00:13:16.647
  • Little from the shore, and then i'm gonna sit down," and then
  • 00:13:16.647 --> 00:13:19.617
  • Jesus began to teach from the boat.
  • 00:13:19.617 --> 00:13:21.252
  • And when jesus finished his sermon, when jesus had finished
  • 00:13:21.252 --> 00:13:25.256
  • Speaking, he said to simon, and most of us know what
  • 00:13:25.256 --> 00:13:29.293
  • Happens next.
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  • This is so important, though, for you and for me.
  • 00:13:30.928 --> 00:13:33.464
  • He says something unexpected, but something that simon, he
  • 00:13:33.464 --> 00:13:37.601
  • Asked simon to do something that simon is very capable of doing.
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  • He asked simon--we'll call him peter 'cause that's peter--he's
  • 00:13:41.872 --> 00:13:44.108
  • Peter the rest of the story.
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  • He asked peter to do something peter could easily do.
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  • It's kind of a baby step.
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  • It was a baby "trust me" step, and he smiles at peter,
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  • And no one can hear this conversation, i guess, but jesus
  • 00:13:55.152 --> 00:13:57.187
  • And peter.
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  • They're still sitting out, you know, a few yards out from
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  • The shore.
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  • And he says, "peter," with a big smile on his face.
  • 00:14:01.358 --> 00:14:03.227
  • "here's what i want you to do.
  • 00:14:03.227 --> 00:14:04.595
  • I want you to put out into the deep water--
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  • Let's get way on out there.
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  • And i want you to let down those nets, the ones up there on the
  • 00:14:08.766 --> 00:14:10.968
  • Shore that are all cleaned and dried for the evening, and i
  • 00:14:10.968 --> 00:14:13.437
  • Want us, i want us to go fishing."
  • 00:14:13.437 --> 00:14:16.540
  • Now, this is completely doable.
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  • This isn't impossible, it's doable, it's just unreasonable,
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  • And it's costly.
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  • And peter knew it was gonna be a complete waste of time.
  • 00:14:25.416 --> 00:14:27.751
  • Simon answered politely, in fact, he says, "master," sign of
  • 00:14:27.751 --> 00:14:31.422
  • Respect, "master, we've worked hard all night and we haven't
  • 00:14:31.422 --> 00:14:35.592
  • Caught anything."
  • 00:14:35.592 --> 00:14:38.062
  • Translated, we were--we went fishing when you're supposed to
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  • Go fishing and didn't catch anything.
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  • What do you suppose is gonna happen if we go fishing when
  • 00:14:44.368 --> 00:14:47.871
  • You're not supposed to go fishing?
  • 00:14:47.871 --> 00:14:50.040
  • Just wondering.
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  • And also peter's looking at the shoreline, everybody's
  • 00:14:51.375 --> 00:14:53.577
  • Watching them.
  • 00:14:53.577 --> 00:14:55.713
  • But then he thinks to himself, okay, if anybody else asked me
  • 00:14:55.713 --> 00:14:59.817
  • To do this, it's an easy no.
  • 00:14:59.817 --> 00:15:02.820
  • But you healed my mother-in-law, gosh, you healed just about
  • 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:06.523
  • Everybody in my town.
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  • So if you wanna go fishing and not catch any fish, okay, what
  • 00:15:08.792 --> 00:15:14.198
  • Will it hurt?
  • 00:15:14.198 --> 00:15:15.566
  • And then he says this, this is where the story intersects with
  • 00:15:15.566 --> 00:15:17.868
  • My life and hopefully with your life.
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  • Peter says, "but because you say so, because you say so."
  • 00:15:20.571 --> 00:15:28.045
  • This statement has the potential, i'm not exaggerating,
  • 00:15:28.045 --> 00:15:32.016
  • To change the trajectory of your entire life.
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  • It does.
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  • This is--this is where it all changes because jesus wasn't
  • 00:15:40.424 --> 00:15:47.464
  • Asking peter to believe something.
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  • He was asking him to do something.
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  • He was asking him to take a little baby step.
  • 00:15:52.302 --> 00:15:54.505
  • This was, you know, perfectly within his ability, and jesus
  • 00:15:54.505 --> 00:15:58.809
  • Knew that if peter would say yes, that when peter's faith
  • 00:15:58.809 --> 00:16:02.713
  • Intersected with god's faithfulness, it would change
  • 00:16:02.713 --> 00:16:05.883
  • Peter's life forever.
  • 00:16:05.883 --> 00:16:09.853
  • So peter's like, "well, all right, based on what i know,
  • 00:16:09.853 --> 00:16:13.824
  • Based on what i've heard, based on what you've done, i will let
  • 00:16:13.824 --> 00:16:19.096
  • Down the nets."
  • 00:16:19.096 --> 00:16:21.532
  • Peter knew just enough to take the next step, but he did not
  • 00:16:21.532 --> 00:16:27.938
  • Know what hung in the balance of that next step, and neither
  • 00:16:27.938 --> 00:16:32.543
  • Do you.
  • 00:16:32.543 --> 00:16:33.977
  • So luke, continuing the story, summarizes what took a couple of
  • 00:16:33.977 --> 00:16:37.281
  • Hours to happen.
  • 00:16:37.281 --> 00:16:38.615
  • He summarizes it with a single phrase, "when they had done so."
  • 00:16:38.615 --> 00:16:43.987
  • "when they had done so."
  • 00:16:43.987 --> 00:16:45.589
  • Peter's like, okay, so he kind of paddles back over, gets out,
  • 00:16:45.589 --> 00:16:49.159
  • "hey guys, hey guys, if you have--the nets rolled up and
  • 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.628
  • Tight, you know, bring them back over, guys.
  • 00:16:51.628 --> 00:16:54.064
  • We're gonna go fishing."
  • 00:16:54.064 --> 00:16:55.432
  • They're like, "we're gonna do what?"
  • 00:16:55.432 --> 00:16:56.767
  • [whispering] he's like, "i know it's for the rabbi."
  • 00:16:56.767 --> 00:16:58.135
  • "we're gonna go fishing."
  • 00:16:58.135 --> 00:17:00.070
  • "jesus, if you would dismiss the crowd, that would make this
  • 00:17:00.070 --> 00:17:02.206
  • A lot less embarrassing."
  • 00:17:02.206 --> 00:17:04.074
  • They get on the boat and this takes, again, this takes hours,
  • 00:17:04.074 --> 00:17:06.643
  • They get everybody on there, then they row out to the middle,
  • 00:17:06.643 --> 00:17:10.013
  • To the deep water.
  • 00:17:10.013 --> 00:17:11.348
  • I mean, this is several miles they probably rode, and then
  • 00:17:11.348 --> 00:17:14.284
  • They let down the nets.
  • 00:17:14.284 --> 00:17:16.320
  • And then they just wait.
  • 00:17:16.320 --> 00:17:18.355
  • And jesus smiles.
  • 00:17:18.355 --> 00:17:21.058
  • And when they had--this is important.
  • 00:17:21.058 --> 00:17:24.461
  • Not when they believed so; when they acted on what they
  • 00:17:24.461 --> 00:17:29.533
  • Suspected, and this is what luke wants you to understand.
  • 00:17:29.533 --> 00:17:33.470
  • This is why luke wrote the account.
  • 00:17:33.470 --> 00:17:35.205
  • This is what luke wants us to understand--okay?--
  • 00:17:35.205 --> 00:17:38.075
  • That faith, the way that jesus talks about faith, it's an act
  • 00:17:38.075 --> 00:17:41.445
  • Of faith, it's a living faith, to experience god in your life,
  • 00:17:41.445 --> 00:17:44.548
  • To experience god in my life, it's not just an internal,
  • 00:17:44.548 --> 00:17:47.284
  • Emotional thing that, you know, experience sometimes with songs
  • 00:17:47.284 --> 00:17:50.120
  • Or dreams or reading something.
  • 00:17:50.120 --> 00:17:52.022
  • He says, "no, i want you to have an active faith that engages
  • 00:17:52.022 --> 00:17:55.626
  • God's activity in your life and in your world and in
  • 00:17:55.626 --> 00:17:58.695
  • Your relationships."
  • 00:17:58.695 --> 00:18:00.030
  • This is about an active faith.
  • 00:18:00.030 --> 00:18:01.732
  • It's about being faithful, which ignites god's life inside of you
  • 00:18:01.732 --> 00:18:06.970
  • And even, at times, in your circumstances.
  • 00:18:06.970 --> 00:18:09.740
  • So when they had done, not believed, when they had done
  • 00:18:09.740 --> 00:18:12.910
  • What jesus asked them to do, they caught, you remember this
  • 00:18:12.910 --> 00:18:16.113
  • Part, "they caught such a large number of fish that the nets
  • 00:18:16.113 --> 00:18:19.016
  • Began to break."
  • 00:18:19.016 --> 00:18:20.484
  • Now, sidebar, why the nature miracles?
  • 00:18:20.484 --> 00:18:23.053
  • Because the point of jesus's ministry is not what he taught.
  • 00:18:23.053 --> 00:18:26.557
  • It is who he claimed to be.
  • 00:18:26.557 --> 00:18:29.326
  • He was god in a body, so he had authority over nature.
  • 00:18:29.326 --> 00:18:34.965
  • He was the master of nature.
  • 00:18:34.965 --> 00:18:37.668
  • He was not a reformer, he was not simply a teacher.
  • 00:18:37.668 --> 00:18:40.904
  • And suddenly these men who are trapped in the boat with him
  • 00:18:40.904 --> 00:18:44.575
  • Realized, oh my goodness.
  • 00:18:44.575 --> 00:18:47.978
  • Healing disease is one thing.
  • 00:18:47.978 --> 00:18:50.747
  • What in the world?
  • 00:18:50.747 --> 00:18:53.517
  • Who in the world?
  • 00:18:53.517 --> 00:18:56.119
  • "when peter saw this, he fell at jesus's feet," at jesus's knees.
  • 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:04.261
  • And he said, this is so powerful, "go away from
  • 00:19:04.261 --> 00:19:07.864
  • Me, lord."
  • 00:19:07.864 --> 00:19:09.433
  • "go away from me, lord."
  • 00:19:09.433 --> 00:19:10.767
  • Oh my goodness.
  • 00:19:10.767 --> 00:19:12.869
  • Brand-new title, now we're not master, now we're lord.
  • 00:19:12.869 --> 00:19:15.872
  • "go away from me, lord."
  • 00:19:15.872 --> 00:19:17.207
  • Authority, ownership.
  • 00:19:17.207 --> 00:19:18.875
  • But why away?
  • 00:19:18.875 --> 00:19:20.244
  • Well, luke tells us, "go away from me, lord," ready for this?
  • 00:19:20.244 --> 00:19:22.746
  • "because i am a sinful man.
  • 00:19:22.746 --> 00:19:25.749
  • I know we're just inches apart, but we're nowhere close.
  • 00:19:25.749 --> 00:19:30.621
  • Jesus, if you only knew what kind of man i was," jesus smiles
  • 00:19:30.621 --> 00:19:35.626
  • Because he knows, because peter assumed, peter assumed that god
  • 00:19:35.626 --> 00:19:40.130
  • Distanced himself from sinners, that's what he'd been taught.
  • 00:19:40.130 --> 00:19:43.433
  • I mean, he--the religious leaders certainly distanced
  • 00:19:43.433 --> 00:19:46.370
  • Themselves from people like peter.
  • 00:19:46.370 --> 00:19:48.972
  • And this, i think, i'm just making this part up, i think
  • 00:19:48.972 --> 00:19:52.609
  • This is when luke wants to reach off the pages and grab us by the
  • 00:19:52.609 --> 00:19:56.013
  • Collar and grab us by the shoulder and say, "this is why i
  • 00:19:56.013 --> 00:20:00.851
  • Had to tell this story.
  • 00:20:00.851 --> 00:20:03.520
  • Now, look, this is why i had to tell this story.
  • 00:20:03.520 --> 00:20:05.689
  • Not only does god not distance himself from us.
  • 00:20:05.689 --> 00:20:09.426
  • God has come near."
  • 00:20:09.426 --> 00:20:10.994
  • God came so near that he said to peter, "take me fishing."
  • 00:20:10.994 --> 00:20:14.031
  • Luke's like, this is the point.
  • 00:20:14.031 --> 00:20:15.966
  • God has not pulled back.
  • 00:20:15.966 --> 00:20:17.501
  • God has come near, but he came so near and he was so much like
  • 00:20:17.501 --> 00:20:22.105
  • Us and people liked him and he was so likable that he was hard
  • 00:20:22.105 --> 00:20:25.409
  • To recognize.
  • 00:20:25.409 --> 00:20:27.444
  • I don't know how you view god.
  • 00:20:27.444 --> 00:20:28.912
  • I don't know how--what you think about god.
  • 00:20:28.912 --> 00:20:31.081
  • But this is jesus's version of god--
  • 00:20:31.081 --> 00:20:33.684
  • Jesus, who came as god in a body, who came near, and luke's
  • 00:20:33.684 --> 00:20:37.454
  • Like, it was so remarkable, it was unexpected, it was like
  • 00:20:37.454 --> 00:20:41.291
  • Nothing we could have ever imagined, and this is a story
  • 00:20:41.291 --> 00:20:46.330
  • For every generation.
  • 00:20:46.330 --> 00:20:47.698
  • Then jesus said to simon, "don't be afraid; from now on," and
  • 00:20:47.698 --> 00:20:53.370
  • Jesus smiles like, "watch this, see what i did there?"
  • 00:20:53.370 --> 00:20:55.706
  • "you're gonna fish for people."
  • 00:20:55.706 --> 00:20:57.074
  • "see what i did there, peter?
  • 00:20:57.074 --> 00:20:58.408
  • You're gonna fish for people."
  • 00:20:58.408 --> 00:20:59.776
  • And you know, peter's like, "whoa, who is it?
  • 00:20:59.776 --> 00:21:01.111
  • He didn't get it right."
  • 00:21:01.111 --> 00:21:02.479
  • And you know what peter did?
  • 00:21:02.479 --> 00:21:04.181
  • Peter fished for people.
  • 00:21:04.181 --> 00:21:05.882
  • Do you know why you know the name peter?
  • 00:21:05.882 --> 00:21:07.784
  • It's not because he was a fisherman, it's because he
  • 00:21:07.784 --> 00:21:09.553
  • Became a jesus follower who fished for people like jesus
  • 00:21:09.553 --> 00:21:15.625
  • Told him he would.
  • 00:21:15.625 --> 00:21:17.027
  • And peter had no idea that's what was on the other side of
  • 00:21:17.027 --> 00:21:20.831
  • His decision to take jesus fishing and to follow jesus.
  • 00:21:20.831 --> 00:21:23.867
  • "so they pulled up their boats onto the shore, and they left
  • 00:21:23.867 --> 00:21:28.572
  • Everything and they followed him."
  • 00:21:28.572 --> 00:21:31.575
  • And you know what?
  • 00:21:31.575 --> 00:21:32.909
  • You would have too if he had done something like that
  • 00:21:32.909 --> 00:21:35.912
  • For you, but here's the gotcha.
  • 00:21:35.912 --> 00:21:39.750
  • According to luke, according to peter, he did more than that
  • 00:21:39.750 --> 00:21:45.522
  • For you.
  • 00:21:45.522 --> 00:21:46.857
  • Peter would be quick to say, "look, look, folks, in the
  • 00:21:46.857 --> 00:21:50.594
  • Future, he did a fish trick for me and i followed.
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  • Do you know what he did for you?
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  • This was nothing.
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  • I was there.
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  • Do you know what he's done for you?"
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  • And then maybe he'd smile and say, "you should know because i
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  • Described it in my letter.
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  • Have you read my letter?
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  • And 2000 years later you have access to my letter.
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  • Have you read my letter?"
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  • Here's what peter said.
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  • When he looked back on the crucifixion and the resurrection
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  • Of jesus and he's trying to put it in words and peter was
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  • Probably illiterate, he probably dictated this to someone to
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  • Write it for him.
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  • Here's what he said, as he describes, not a fish trick.
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  • But what jesus of nazareth did for you and did for me--
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  • "when they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate."
  • 00:22:40.377 --> 00:22:45.816
  • And peter's like, "that's a big deal because i retaliated all
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  • The time even when people were, you know, marginally nice to me.
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  • And i was there, i was in the crowd in the back.
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  • And they hurled insults at him while he was dying.
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  • And he was just the same in that moment, as he was every single
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  • Day with us, by the sea of galilee and in and out of
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  • Villages and towns, people clawing at him, trying to get
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  • Around him all the time.
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  • And when he suffered, he made no threats."
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  • And then he would say this.
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  • Have you ever seen a crucifixion?
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  • Have you ever smelled a crucifixion?
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  • Have you ever seen the aftermath of a crucifixion?
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  • It's not just suffering, it's horror, it's torture,
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  • It's terror.
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  • And i mean, everybody else is screaming for their mom and
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  • Threatening and all kinds of stuff about the romans, and even
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  • In that moment, no threats.
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  • Instead, "i was there," peter would say.
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  • And luke's like, "that's why i'm writing it"; he did in that
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  • Moment, what he did every other moment of his life and our
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  • Experience with him.
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  • He, this is his word, "he entrusted himself to him," his
  • 00:23:58.121 --> 00:24:02.859
  • Father, "who judges justly."
  • 00:24:02.859 --> 00:24:07.063
  • He said, "father, the outcome of this is up to you."
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  • He said--peter's like, "i watched this.
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  • I couldn't believe it."
  • 00:24:13.670 --> 00:24:15.005
  • He was in that moment the way he was every moment.
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  • He just trusted his heavenly father just as he had invited us
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  • To actively faithfully trust our, his heavenly father, and
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  • Then peter would say, "but that's not the best part.
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  • Here's the part that goes way beyond a fish trick by the sea
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  • Of galilee."
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  • In that moment, "'he bore your sins' in his body
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  • On that cross."
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  • And peter would say, luke would say, "that's why you have
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  • To follow."
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  • That's why he's worth following.
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  • That's why we follow, not because of what he will do
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  • For you.
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  • Because of what he has done for you.
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  • Luke wanted us, you know, to experience what peter
  • 00:25:08.692 --> 00:25:12.896
  • Experienced firsthand through his account.
  • 00:25:12.896 --> 00:25:16.032
  • But luke wants you to know and wants me to know that we too,
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  • Like peter, had been invited to follow.
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  • And as i said earlier, when peter's simple little act of
  • 00:25:22.405 --> 00:25:25.308
  • Faith intersected with god's faithfulness, something happened
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  • On the inside of him, he would never be the same.
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  • And peter would say, i want you to accept that very same
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  • Invitation because when you finally say yes to your heavenly
  • 00:25:33.316 --> 00:25:36.519
  • Father, and that little itty bitty act of faith intersects
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  • With god's faithfulness, something's gonna happen on the
  • 00:25:39.022 --> 00:25:41.057
  • Inside of you as well.
  • 00:25:41.057 --> 00:25:44.361
  • There's some invitations that feel more like an obligation
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  • Than an actual invitation.
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  • And following jesus may feel that way.
  • 00:25:49.232 --> 00:25:53.169
  • But if luke is telling the truth and peter's telling the truth,
  • 00:25:53.169 --> 00:25:55.538
  • Nothing could be further from the truth.
  • 00:25:55.538 --> 00:25:59.709
  • And yeah, it's gonna be inconvenient, and yeah, it's
  • 00:25:59.709 --> 00:26:01.478
  • Gonna cost you.
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  • Following jesus is always gonna cost you.
  • 00:26:02.812 --> 00:26:04.814
  • Refusing to follow jesus is gonna cost you.
  • 00:26:04.814 --> 00:26:08.718
  • But following jesus is better.
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  • It'll be the best decision you ever make.
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  • So here's--we're gonna end with this.
  • 00:26:12.822 --> 00:26:14.157
  • So what's your next step?
  • 00:26:14.157 --> 00:26:16.693
  • What is it?
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  • It's something you can do.
  • 00:26:18.028 --> 00:26:19.396
  • Or it's something you can choose you're not gonna do, but it's
  • 00:26:19.396 --> 00:26:21.831
  • Something you have control over.
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  • And i don't know what that is for you.
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  • But i hope your response will be something like this.
  • 00:26:28.371 --> 00:26:32.275
  • "but because you say so."
  • 00:26:32.275 --> 00:26:35.512
  • Because you said--it's gonna cost, people are gonna look at
  • 00:26:35.512 --> 00:26:37.580
  • Me funny, it's not gonna make any sense.
  • 00:26:37.580 --> 00:26:38.948
  • I'll never be able to explain this to my friends, i--
  • 00:26:38.948 --> 00:26:44.120
  • "but because you say so."
  • 00:26:44.120 --> 00:26:47.757
  • And you never know what hangs in the balance of that decision.
  • 00:26:47.757 --> 00:26:51.895
  • Luke would tell you, peter would tell you, just trust him
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  • And follow.
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  • It is the invitation of a lifetime.
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  • It is an invitation that, if you accept it, you will never regret
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  • That decision.
  • 00:27:04.741 --> 00:27:08.011
  • What's your next step?
  • 00:27:08.011 --> 00:27:13.016
  • Take it.
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  • And we will pick the storyline up next time as we continue our
  • 00:27:15.518 --> 00:27:19.322
  • Way through the gospel of luke in "investigating jesus: how we
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  • Know and why we follow."
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