WEBVTT 00:00:09.740 --> 00:00:13.320 Hello, and welcome to the Kalamazoo church of Christ podcast. 00:00:13.539 --> 00:00:14.839 Thank you so much for listening. 00:00:15.300 --> 00:00:16.199 We're startup church. 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:23.460 We just planted in September, 2020 and at the Kalamazoo church, we believe that Christianity is done best when it is done together. 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:32.299 And so if you live in the Kalamazoo area, we would love to connect, be it coming to a Sunday service, one of our small groups, or even just grabbing coffee with a member to learn more. 00:00:32.539 --> 00:00:36.439 You can visit kalamazoo.church in order to do that. 00:00:36.979 --> 00:00:40.380 We pray that you are inspired by what you hear today. 00:00:43.140 --> 00:00:43.560 Amen. 00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:50.460 Um, well, first, I actually, I just want to, uh, really give a shout out to the worship ministry. 00:00:50.659 --> 00:01:03.098 I think over the last, uh, maybe it's, it's been a while since they've been obviously serving in the worship team, but I just, I really appreciate your guys's energy and effort and all the work that you guys do to, uh, to, to make the service more whole. 00:01:03.098 --> 00:01:07.239 And I, it seems like there's a, you know, from the guitar, how are we amping this? 00:01:07.340 --> 00:01:16.500 You guys have put a lot of work over the last, uh, certainly over the last years, but I think specifically maybe even the last few, few months, like I've seen a really just a massive effort. 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:17.599 I know you guys know it. 00:01:17.859 --> 00:01:21.280 Uh, but Alec decided he's gonna, you know, learn how to play guitar. 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.900 And obviously the Cajon is like a learned, believe it or not, it's a learned skill. 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:28.980 I don't know if you guys, if you guys ever tried to play Cajon, you'll realize it's not as easy as it looks. 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:30.060 Yeah. 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:36.159 Uh, and, um, and maybe, or maybe you already realized that maybe your, your kids have tried to play with it and you're like, put that down, choose a new instrument. 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:36.540 I don't know. 00:01:36.819 --> 00:01:43.780 But any, anyways, I just, I really am grateful for, for you guys and, and, uh, all that you're doing to, uh, to help the Kalamazoo church. 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.180 I do, you guys have a massive impact. 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.280 Um, that's not, that's not in my notes. 00:01:47.299 --> 00:01:58.200 I just, I was thinking about it last Sunday and I, uh, you know, all the work that you guys put in, they, I don't know if you guys know, they went over to each other's house early to practice and showed up to, you know, the, the gold Meadows. 00:01:58.379 --> 00:02:00.060 And so you guys, you guys are working hard. 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.480 I really, I do appreciate that. 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:04.180 Um, it doesn't go unseen for sure. 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.879 You guys, we're going to be flipping a bunch in the Bible, uh, this morning. 00:02:08.258 --> 00:02:14.360 Um, so we're, we're starting a new series and the series is called transformed. 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:26.960 The idea is that basically the hope is that we understand we're able to pull from some, some men and women in the Bible, and we're able to pull some things that we can change in our lives. 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:32.719 Uh, you know, the, the life of a Christian, it can't be, it needs to be transformed. 00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:48.319 There, there's no, there's nobody who's actually living for Jesus whose life is not continually shaped and we can say, uh, what I would say is this, I think many people might point to there being a sudden moment of transformation, uh, when I went from this place to that place and that that's true. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:49.439 I think that that is true. 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:50.840 But work with me here. 00:02:50.939 --> 00:02:54.039 There's a continual process of being a follower of Christ. 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.860 That means I have to change this aspect and I have to grow in this aspect and I have to learn how to do this better and that better. 00:03:00.020 --> 00:03:01.979 And I have to talk better. 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:14.860 And, and you know, people have come up to me and I, you know, I, one of my really good friends, um, his wife came up and said, Hey, my husband is listening to some horrible Christian music or some horrible music. 00:03:14.860 --> 00:03:15.599 That's not Christian. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.560 Uh, he only listens to rap is all day and he listens to the explicit versions. 00:03:19.939 --> 00:03:20.900 Uh, what do I do? 00:03:21.379 --> 00:03:27.740 And my response was, well, uh, as he grows to be more like Jesus, I think he's going to stop listening to the music. 00:03:27.860 --> 00:03:30.639 And, and sure enough, a few months later she said, Hey, you were right. 00:03:30.740 --> 00:03:35.919 And so what I, what I mean to say is the life of a Christian is constantly transforming and changing. 00:03:36.020 --> 00:03:36.180 Amen. 00:03:37.139 --> 00:03:41.419 I, I think this, this is going to be a chance, you know, we're doing something a little bit different than that. 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:48.780 Usually over most of this year, we've spent a lot of time looking at one passage in the Bible and saying, what do we pull from this? 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:52.180 What, what did we've looked at a book in the Bible, multiple books in the Bible. 00:03:52.419 --> 00:04:07.539 Uh, this, this is going to necessitate a little bit more work on your end because there's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of passages that we're going to look at and not all of the, the ones that we look at are as like the extent of the life that today we're looking at the life of Peter. 00:04:07.539 --> 00:04:10.819 We can't look at every, every little bit of Peter's life. 00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:13.740 And so there's going to be things that you said, well, he missed that part. 00:04:13.900 --> 00:04:19.720 I probably did go ahead and you, you cover it and you decide for yourself, uh, how was the life of Peter transformed? 00:04:19.838 --> 00:04:23.759 I want to, I just want to bring up one component of it, uh, this morning. 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:39.519 Uh, you know, I, I think, um, if, if I'll say anything that I think the life of Peter was transformed from somebody who operated exclusively out of duty because he said he was going to be a follower to somebody who operated, uh, from a place of love. 00:04:39.579 --> 00:04:41.759 And I, and, and we'll, we'll, we'll read this. 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:42.019 Okay. 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.160 I, I, I don't want it to just be, I, that's what I think, or that's what he thinks. 00:04:45.420 --> 00:04:48.040 I want to, I want to show you guys, uh, you guys can go to Luke five. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.819 I will say if there, again, if there's times when you feel like, I don't, how am I going to get there? 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:53.879 It's what he's going too fast. 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:54.600 That's okay. 00:04:54.699 --> 00:04:57.939 A lot of it will be up on the screen and if not, you can just write it down. 00:04:58.100 --> 00:05:00.579 There'll, there'll be a, there'll be a lot more. 00:05:00.579 --> 00:05:05.920 We're going to look at, uh, just a little bit of the life of Peter. 00:05:06.019 --> 00:05:08.199 Again, I think you'll leave a question. 00:05:08.339 --> 00:05:12.120 I want to ask you guys to start is why do you do what you do? 00:05:12.459 --> 00:05:14.399 It's clear that you do spiritual things. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:15.899 It's clear you're here on Sunday, right? 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:17.459 I'm preaching to the choir. 00:05:17.579 --> 00:05:22.399 You guys are doing, you guys are doing a lot of Christian things, but why, why do you do that? 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:35.069 Uh, the Bible says, uh, he got into one of the boats, this is Jesus, uh, the one belonging to Simon, um, and asked him to put out a little from shore. 00:05:35.209 --> 00:05:37.110 Then he sat down, taught the people from the boat. 00:05:37.470 --> 00:05:42.189 When he finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into deep water and let down the nets for a catch. 00:05:42.290 --> 00:05:48.689 Simon answered, master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything, but because you say so, I'll let down the nets. 00:05:49.069 --> 00:05:53.250 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 00:05:53.310 --> 00:05:56.889 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. 00:05:56.889 --> 00:06:01.269 And they came and filled both boats that they, that they began to sink. 00:06:01.470 --> 00:06:05.329 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus's knees and said, go away from me. 00:06:05.589 --> 00:06:06.629 I'm a sinful man. 00:06:07.009 --> 00:06:12.990 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch, uh, officially had taken drop down here. 00:06:13.709 --> 00:06:16.649 Uh, Jesus says, uh, follow me. 00:06:16.750 --> 00:06:17.769 Don't be afraid from now on. 00:06:17.790 --> 00:06:18.750 You will fish for people. 00:06:18.889 --> 00:06:24.769 And in verse 11, it says they pulled their boats up for unsure, left everything and followed him. 00:06:25.329 --> 00:06:28.850 You know, this is, uh, there, there's different, there's different accounts. 00:06:28.949 --> 00:06:43.089 You can read, uh, it's a little bit different account actually in, in Mark one of how, uh, how Peter was called, but it's clear a few things that we, I want to put before you that Peter and Jesus or Simon in this, in this spot, they had, uh, there was some kind of connection. 00:06:43.129 --> 00:06:43.410 Why? 00:06:43.569 --> 00:06:46.149 Well, because Simon said, Hey, you can use my boat. 00:06:46.230 --> 00:06:56.730 Maybe he felt like he had to allow him to use the boat, but whatever, however you say, there's some kind of relationship and he allows him to use his boat even prior to becoming, uh, a follower of him. 00:06:56.750 --> 00:07:00.370 At this point, there's a level of under of awareness that Peter has. 00:07:00.829 --> 00:07:06.410 Uh, well he says, uh, master, you know, I'll, I'll do what you ask this word. 00:07:06.529 --> 00:07:10.850 Maybe we'll take it in English to say, Oh, that means he knew he was the one. 00:07:10.910 --> 00:07:11.730 He was the guy. 00:07:11.750 --> 00:07:21.009 And then that's not exactly what it, what it means in that, uh, in that time, master would have just been somebody who's older than you or somebody who's who has some kind of authority or it's a respected overseer. 00:07:21.470 --> 00:07:31.170 And so we can't point to this saying and point to this moment and say, Oh, this is when he really, uh, he was, he was fully in belief, uh, master, I'll do it. 00:07:32.730 --> 00:07:35.310 You know, I would say, uh, work with me here. 00:07:35.370 --> 00:07:36.990 Uh, when Peter's called, it's impressive. 00:07:37.089 --> 00:07:37.769 He leaves everything. 00:07:37.870 --> 00:07:42.769 It's probably not totally different than how many of us were called. 00:07:42.910 --> 00:07:45.949 Uh, many of us probably had a relationship with God. 00:07:45.949 --> 00:07:47.930 Uh, there was some kind of understanding. 00:07:48.509 --> 00:07:51.050 Maybe we'd even given something to God. 00:07:51.170 --> 00:07:55.230 Maybe that can be contribution or it can just be our energy, our effort, our time. 00:07:55.430 --> 00:07:57.189 We'd probably given something to him. 00:07:58.370 --> 00:08:06.389 Uh, but there's a point in everybody's life when, when you have to decide, and if you've not decided yet, uh, then, then you've got to, you've got to make that decision. 00:08:06.610 --> 00:08:11.610 But there's a point in everybody's life when you have to decide, am I willing to follow it, to leave everything in order to follow Jesus? 00:08:12.110 --> 00:08:15.370 Uh, that, that, that point is not, uh, it's not. 00:08:15.370 --> 00:08:19.029 I've done all of these things and then I'll be a follower of Jesus. 00:08:19.850 --> 00:08:22.529 Uh, no, it's, I'm going to leave everything in order to follow him. 00:08:23.029 --> 00:08:28.410 Uh, and so we've got this first moment that Peter, he's called, he leaves everything, he's following. 00:08:28.550 --> 00:08:39.009 And you guys know Peter, if you'd had to describe him, you might say that, well, one, he's mentioned as the, uh, the first apostle whenever you see lists of the apostles. 00:08:39.009 --> 00:08:41.250 So he was really well respected. 00:08:41.389 --> 00:08:44.909 There's a lot of evidence that would say that he was the oldest of the apostles. 00:08:44.909 --> 00:08:46.909 He was the only one that we understand was married. 00:08:48.129 --> 00:08:54.129 Um, on top of that, uh, well, I don't want to get in, but it's, it's pretty, it's pretty widely believed that he was the oldest. 00:08:54.269 --> 00:08:55.570 He was the one that was the most respected. 00:08:56.669 --> 00:08:58.730 Um, and so he does some amazing things. 00:08:58.750 --> 00:09:00.370 He's one of Jesus's closest guys. 00:09:00.389 --> 00:09:04.049 Let's go over to, uh, to Matthew 16. 00:09:04.429 --> 00:09:10.190 He's following Jesus and, and then he confesses Jesus as the Messiah. 00:09:10.210 --> 00:09:12.909 And there's a point again, work with me here. 00:09:12.929 --> 00:09:14.009 You can follow God. 00:09:14.009 --> 00:09:17.210 You can, you can be on his, on his team. 00:09:17.350 --> 00:09:26.529 You can do spiritual things, but until you really decide, no, he's, he's the fulfillment of everything that, that this world ever has, has promised. 00:09:26.950 --> 00:09:30.590 Um, then, then maybe he's not your, your, your actual Lord. 00:09:30.850 --> 00:09:34.730 Uh, it says in verse 15, Jesus is talking first. 00:09:34.830 --> 00:09:36.889 He says, Hey, who's all these people? 00:09:36.889 --> 00:09:39.230 They say a lot of things, but, but who do you say I am? 00:09:39.909 --> 00:09:44.269 And, and Peter says, you're the Messiah, the son of the living God. 00:09:44.809 --> 00:09:54.110 And then Jesus, uh, we understand what he tells, uh, he tells Simon, he says, I'm going to build, I'm going to, when he gives him a new name, he says, I'm going to build my church on this rock. 00:09:54.590 --> 00:10:00.110 And, uh, and, and there's ramifications for that, that we're not going to get into, uh, this morning. 00:10:00.490 --> 00:10:03.529 Um, Peter's walked with Jesus. 00:10:04.129 --> 00:10:09.529 Uh, maybe he didn't understand the extent of what Jesus was going to call him to do, but he was willing to live for him. 00:10:10.490 --> 00:10:13.570 And, and so I think this can relate to some of us. 00:10:13.649 --> 00:10:19.169 There's this continual transformation that, that you, you, you're here, you, you realize I'm going to live for Jesus. 00:10:19.210 --> 00:10:20.190 I'm committed to him. 00:10:20.730 --> 00:10:24.269 Uh, it's the only, he's the only person worth following. 00:10:26.779 --> 00:10:32.940 Um, but, uh, you're probably a little bit like Peter in that, that you'll, you'll make, uh, you'll make mistakes as well. 00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:35.539 Uh, so here, here, here it is in John 18. 00:10:35.539 --> 00:10:41.940 So Peter, the life, uh, he, he, at this point, he's driven out demons. 00:10:43.139 --> 00:10:44.679 He's performed miracles. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.879 He has, uh, he's followed Jesus. 00:10:48.019 --> 00:10:49.620 He's given up a lot for Jesus. 00:10:49.779 --> 00:11:04.039 Jesus is close to his family and that it's, it's pretty understood that he probably, Jesus is one of his bases of operation was probably, uh, a place that Peter, either Peter lived or Peter's mother-in-law lived, that it was, he was, he was in the family basically. 00:11:04.539 --> 00:11:10.299 And, uh, and, and yet he, he doesn't understand fully what's, what's being asked of him. 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:15.960 He didn't, maybe he doesn't understand how, uh, how Jesus is going to fulfill all of these promises as the, the savior. 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:20.220 In John 18, uh, it says, Jesus answered. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:25.039 I told you that I am he, if you're looking for me, let these people go. 00:11:25.580 --> 00:11:31.779 This happened so that this is, sorry, this is right before he's going to be crucified and he's being, uh, taken, uh, taken away. 00:11:31.779 --> 00:11:35.340 Um, this happened so that the word he had spoken would be fulfilled. 00:11:35.460 --> 00:11:37.360 I have not lost one of those you gave me. 00:11:37.820 --> 00:11:43.820 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:45.500 The servant's name was Malchus. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:47.899 Jesus commanded Peter, put your sword away. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.659 Shall I not drink the cup the father has given me? 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:52.340 Stop here. 00:11:55.659 --> 00:12:11.720 This, this, this takes, uh, again, this necessitates a, uh, I, it takes work on your end, but put yourself in, into this situation and understand, you know, we can look down on Peter and I think he's viewed, he was this brash guy. 00:12:11.899 --> 00:12:13.799 He spoke so strongly. 00:12:14.059 --> 00:12:16.139 He didn't understand what Jesus was saying. 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:18.059 I would have understood, I would have understood it. 00:12:19.220 --> 00:12:20.440 I would have gotten it right. 00:12:20.539 --> 00:12:25.179 We, we all would have, if we were there, we would have fully, we would have been in it and we would have said, Peter, don't do that. 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:26.360 Don't, you don't get it, Peter. 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:30.600 And in reality, I think there's, there's so much of Peter in all of us. 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.820 Uh, we're sincere, right? 00:12:33.940 --> 00:12:34.379 Peter's sincere. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:35.059 Trust him, right? 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.779 He, he's sincere when he wants to help Jesus. 00:12:37.980 --> 00:12:39.340 He said, no, I got the solution. 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.139 Jesus, I'm going to, I'm going to show you that I'm going to, I got your back. 00:12:43.779 --> 00:12:45.340 I'm going to organize it perfectly. 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.360 Jesus, you don't got to worry these guys. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:48.220 How dare they? 00:12:48.259 --> 00:12:49.860 And actually it shows my followership. 00:12:50.179 --> 00:12:52.980 Even if I know you don't want me to do it, that's just you saying it. 00:12:53.019 --> 00:12:55.639 I'm going to take a stand and I'm going to stand up for you. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.639 Although you're not standing up for yourself, but you've done that too. 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:13.620 Here we have, here we have this, this interaction, uh, that, that we see here and you and I go through it all of the time, right? 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:19.320 What do we do when God does not act how we think he ought to act? 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.159 What do we do when in your, maybe it's your marriage. 00:13:24.299 --> 00:13:25.919 Maybe it's your, with your children. 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.700 Maybe it's in any other relationship. 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:29.580 Maybe it's at work. 00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:35.720 When you're like, God, God wants to, why, why, why doesn't he act on my behalf? 00:13:35.779 --> 00:13:37.679 But he wants me to have a great marriage. 00:13:37.740 --> 00:13:39.039 He wants me to have a strong marriage. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.039 Well, how come, how come it's not working out that way? 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:49.299 Or he, he, he wants my children to listen and obey and I'm trying so hard. 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.799 And yet I look at random Joe Schmoe's children. 00:13:52.940 --> 00:13:55.320 They actually listened to him and mine don't listen to me. 00:13:55.379 --> 00:13:56.440 And they don't even go to church. 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.500 How, what is going on? 00:13:58.500 --> 00:14:01.340 How come he's not acting the way I want him to act? 00:14:01.539 --> 00:14:03.379 How about at work? 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:13.299 When, when you say I've done this, that, or the other thing, and I'm working hard and I'm doing it for God, and I would spend the money on a promotion way better than anybody else. 00:14:13.779 --> 00:14:16.720 I'm going to give at least a tithe of it to God, if not more. 00:14:16.820 --> 00:14:19.679 And then in my day-to-day life, and I could do so much with it. 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.059 How come God is not acting the way that I want him to act? 00:14:26.629 --> 00:14:28.429 I think this is Peter right now, right? 00:14:28.429 --> 00:14:31.350 He's like, God, this isn't going, this isn't going right. 00:14:31.590 --> 00:14:32.850 This is not what I expected. 00:14:33.129 --> 00:14:35.409 I signed up for something a lot different than this. 00:14:35.470 --> 00:14:40.110 I thought there was going to be some, some military kingdom that was going to come on this earth. 00:14:40.149 --> 00:14:41.470 And it was going to change everything. 00:14:41.690 --> 00:14:46.330 And people were going to understand that you are the exact, you are the right way to live. 00:14:46.429 --> 00:14:47.350 People were going to get it. 00:14:47.490 --> 00:14:50.009 And then they were all going to follow you and every knee would bow. 00:14:50.029 --> 00:14:52.870 And we would be able to reign on this earth again. 00:14:52.990 --> 00:14:56.549 And, and, and yet Jesus says, no, this is why I came here. 00:14:56.549 --> 00:14:57.509 I've got to do this. 00:14:59.620 --> 00:15:04.340 What do you do when, when God doesn't act how you want him to, and how you think he should. 00:15:09.289 --> 00:15:11.649 Let me see that he denies Jesus. 00:15:11.870 --> 00:15:15.330 We're just going to look at the third, the third denial. 00:15:17.929 --> 00:15:22.149 Well, an hour later, another asserted, certainly this fellow was with him for he is a Galilean. 00:15:23.409 --> 00:15:25.470 Peter replied, man, I don't know what you're talking about. 00:15:25.929 --> 00:15:28.029 Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. 00:15:28.289 --> 00:15:28.889 Listen to this. 00:15:28.990 --> 00:15:34.330 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. 00:15:35.049 --> 00:15:36.990 Then Peter remembered the word. 00:15:37.029 --> 00:15:41.149 The Lord had spoken to him before the rooster crows today, you'll disown me three times. 00:15:41.570 --> 00:15:43.450 And he went outside and wept bitterly. 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:58.220 Have you, have you ever walked into a conversation with somebody and, and had it organized, you knew it was going to be a pretty stressful conversation. 00:15:58.220 --> 00:16:03.179 So you had it organized and you know, I'm not going to be disrespectful in this conversation. 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:04.899 I'm not going to be rude. 00:16:05.019 --> 00:16:05.840 I already prayed. 00:16:05.899 --> 00:16:06.940 I prayed through it. 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.519 And I'm not, I'm not, that was the old me. 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:10.899 I'm not doing that again. 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:22.960 And then you got in that conversation and you felt, and it was an actual battle in your head because they said something foolish. 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.500 And you thought, man, I should, I'm going to let them know. 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:26.899 I'm going to let them know how dumb they are. 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:32.480 And maybe, maybe then you spoke up and it was the, the exact thing that you had already committed. 00:16:32.580 --> 00:16:33.700 I'm never going to do this. 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:34.620 I'm done with that life. 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:35.299 I have it. 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:35.899 I see it. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:40.799 And then there was a battle inside in this, in this interaction that you had the opportunity. 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:45.320 Certainly sometimes, sometimes we sin and we don't, it feels like we don't have the opportunity. 00:16:45.539 --> 00:16:45.639 Right. 00:16:45.700 --> 00:16:50.259 And that's not to say that we don't have the opportunity, but our, we just don't have the awareness of it. 00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:52.440 We, we're not, we're not close to God in the moment. 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.399 We just get carried along and do it. 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.539 And, but this is not that though, right? 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.340 This interaction that you guys have had that I bet you, you've made a mistake. 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:03.659 I know I have it from time to time. 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:08.420 That's, that's what's going on in Peter's mind times. 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:15.259 Maybe, maybe a million, because not only did he say, Jesus, I'm not going to deny you, but, but he did it once. 00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:16.680 Then he did a second time. 00:17:16.818 --> 00:17:18.000 Then he did a third time. 00:17:19.500 --> 00:17:28.299 And imagine the third time he does it somehow in some way, shape or form, Jesus's eyes lock with him. 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.259 If you were Peter, how would you be feeling in that moment? 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.839 You, you've given up everything for Jesus. 00:17:37.059 --> 00:17:38.359 He even says that, Hey, what about us? 00:17:38.380 --> 00:17:39.259 We've given up everything. 00:17:39.819 --> 00:17:41.619 You, you, you love Jesus. 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.359 You, you've changed your life for, for Jesus. 00:17:45.619 --> 00:17:47.519 You've given up being a fisherman. 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:48.680 You've given up your identity. 00:17:49.059 --> 00:17:50.779 You've given up your family business. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.700 I'm sold out for him. 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.259 And, and then I see him on his worst day. 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:01.099 Not only was I sleeping, then I woke up and I just, I just denied him. 00:18:05.549 --> 00:18:07.369 He says he went outside and he wept. 00:18:07.529 --> 00:18:08.450 He wept bitterly. 00:18:11.529 --> 00:18:13.769 And we, we see, we see here. 00:18:13.910 --> 00:18:18.210 I, I, I put before you guys that up until this point, Peter, he was reliant on Jesus. 00:18:18.210 --> 00:18:19.410 He walked with Jesus. 00:18:19.730 --> 00:18:21.250 He did what Jesus asked. 00:18:22.769 --> 00:18:30.109 At times, the order of the relationship would be a little bit confused, but he, he really loved Jesus. 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:36.579 But I, I don't know if Peter up until this moment saw how distant he was from Jesus. 00:18:38.180 --> 00:18:42.579 I don't know if he saw, maybe until this moment, how dependent on Jesus he actually was. 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:51.140 I would say this, this, this would be the moment that he realizes, I, I can't stay, all the good things that I do, they can't stand up. 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:51.859 I can't point. 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:56.640 I bet you in that moment, he wouldn't have said, Hey, Jesus, what's going to happen to us? 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:58.220 We've given up everything to follow you. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:00.099 I bet you he wouldn't have said that. 00:19:00.140 --> 00:19:05.259 And when just, just, if not, if not a year before he said, Hey, we gave up everything for you, Jesus. 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:11.819 He realized there's there, everything we give up is not, it's not worthwhile according to what Jesus did for us. 00:19:15.210 --> 00:19:18.630 And then the story ended there. 00:19:18.690 --> 00:19:19.509 It'd be a bad story. 00:19:19.609 --> 00:19:20.630 We wouldn't be here right now. 00:19:20.730 --> 00:19:28.210 We, we understand Jesus rose from the dead and then Jesus goes out of his way to reconcile Peter. 00:19:29.910 --> 00:19:37.890 There's this miraculous catch, which it, it says in verse six of John 21, Jesus rose from the dead. 00:19:38.049 --> 00:19:40.190 He already showed himself to, to the people. 00:19:40.250 --> 00:19:43.849 And then he kind of, he comes back and he interacts with them again. 00:19:43.910 --> 00:19:47.190 He said, throw your nets on the right side of the boat and you'll find some. 00:19:47.849 --> 00:19:51.269 When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish. 00:19:51.410 --> 00:19:54.529 Then the disciple whom Jesus loves said to Peter, it is the Lord. 00:19:55.170 --> 00:19:57.309 As soon as Simon, Peter heard him say, it is the Lord. 00:19:57.430 --> 00:20:01.430 He wrapped his outer garment around him for he'd taken it off and jumped into the water. 00:20:03.609 --> 00:20:06.470 You know, this is, uh, this is amazing. 00:20:06.630 --> 00:20:08.809 How did Jesus, how did Jesus call Peter? 00:20:09.529 --> 00:20:11.750 Well, he, he called him the same way, right? 00:20:11.829 --> 00:20:15.589 That he said, Hey, let your net out and, and go ahead and collect the fish. 00:20:16.230 --> 00:20:22.130 When, when the man, I, you understand that, that Peter didn't understand this was Jesus in that moment. 00:20:22.130 --> 00:20:23.650 And he says, Hey, throw out your net. 00:20:23.710 --> 00:20:27.950 I wonder, uh, I wonder if Peter was too frustrated to think, to think twice about it. 00:20:27.990 --> 00:20:28.509 And I don't know. 00:20:28.549 --> 00:20:29.589 I, I don't know. 00:20:29.670 --> 00:20:29.930 Whatever. 00:20:30.049 --> 00:20:30.269 Fine. 00:20:30.369 --> 00:20:34.289 Uh, if he was, I wonder if he gave the guy an excuse or I wonder if he just did it. 00:20:34.490 --> 00:20:42.710 However, you figure though, when he does it and then he sees the fish jump, jump in the net and he see any, I wonder if like, man, this is the click. 00:20:43.329 --> 00:20:44.250 This is Jesus. 00:20:44.410 --> 00:20:46.349 Everything that he said, it was actually going to happen. 00:20:46.410 --> 00:20:48.609 It came true that it really is him. 00:20:48.690 --> 00:20:49.890 Mary wasn't the crazy one. 00:20:49.930 --> 00:20:51.750 No, he's, he's really, really here. 00:20:54.519 --> 00:21:11.240 And then, and then we understand from this point, uh, they, they go into, uh, they, they go and they, they sit down and if you, it's not, it's not on here, but a little bit later, it says that Jesus was, he actually, he made a fire and he started, uh, he started making, uh, some food for them. 00:21:11.900 --> 00:21:16.440 You know, where, where did, uh, where did Peter deny Jesus the last time? 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:17.680 Right by a fire. 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:25.920 I'd have to imagine that, that Jesus is, is doing everything he can to, to let him know, hey, Peter, I love you, man. 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:27.180 I, I called you. 00:21:27.220 --> 00:21:29.180 I knew, I knew you were going to deny me. 00:21:29.339 --> 00:21:30.720 And I, and I still love you. 00:21:32.769 --> 00:21:37.230 When I, from the, from the moment that I said, hey, come follow me and you left everything. 00:21:37.970 --> 00:21:39.130 I knew it was all going to lead up to this. 00:21:39.269 --> 00:21:40.390 I knew you were going to do amazing things. 00:21:40.450 --> 00:21:42.910 I knew you were going to fail over and over and over again. 00:21:44.309 --> 00:21:59.190 Uh, this, this must be, and then we'll, we'll read in verse 15 in a minute, but I do think this is the time when Peter realized that all of the duty, all of the good things that I've done, it's, it's just not worth anything. 00:21:59.289 --> 00:22:01.450 I, I can't stand up to Jesus. 00:22:02.089 --> 00:22:06.589 I can't point to my good deeds as being something that I did this out of duty. 00:22:06.589 --> 00:22:08.430 And now I'm good with God. 00:22:08.509 --> 00:22:09.710 No, I'm so distant from him. 00:22:09.769 --> 00:22:18.130 I can't, I can't stand up if I have to, if I have to talk to him, this is the, this, this restoration here. 00:22:18.130 --> 00:22:24.809 He says, uh, when he finished eating, Jesus said to Simon, Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? 00:22:25.769 --> 00:22:26.130 Yes. 00:22:26.150 --> 00:22:26.369 Lord. 00:22:26.410 --> 00:22:27.789 He said, you know that I love you. 00:22:28.009 --> 00:22:29.670 Jesus said, feed my lambs again. 00:22:30.130 --> 00:22:32.789 Jesus said, Simon, son of John, do you love me? 00:22:33.170 --> 00:22:33.869 He answered. 00:22:34.029 --> 00:22:34.369 Yes. 00:22:34.450 --> 00:22:36.190 Lord, you know that I love you. 00:22:36.529 --> 00:22:38.109 Jesus said, take care of my sheep. 00:22:39.069 --> 00:22:39.369 Third time. 00:22:39.470 --> 00:22:42.130 He said to him, Simon, son of John, do you love me? 00:22:43.109 --> 00:22:45.910 Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time. 00:22:45.950 --> 00:22:46.509 Do you love me? 00:22:47.069 --> 00:22:50.009 He said, you know, all things, you know, that I love you. 00:22:50.829 --> 00:22:52.029 Jesus said, feed my sheep. 00:22:53.009 --> 00:22:55.410 Then he, he goes into detail and even communicates. 00:22:55.430 --> 00:22:56.329 You're going to follow me. 00:22:56.549 --> 00:23:00.190 And there's one time you're going, you're actually going to die a death that you don't, you don't want to die. 00:23:00.349 --> 00:23:01.630 It's going to be against your will. 00:23:03.650 --> 00:23:11.970 You know, Jesus, Jesus does amazing things in, in this, in this reconciliation that he has with, with Peter. 00:23:12.089 --> 00:23:13.230 He asks him, do you love me? 00:23:13.230 --> 00:23:14.269 And he says it three times. 00:23:15.250 --> 00:23:18.190 Certainly this was pointing to you denied me three times. 00:23:18.289 --> 00:23:21.869 I'm going to leave no doubt in your mind that, that, that you love me. 00:23:21.950 --> 00:23:24.990 And so you're going to, I'm going to make you say it three times. 00:23:25.089 --> 00:23:25.809 You denied me. 00:23:25.869 --> 00:23:26.289 That's done. 00:23:26.349 --> 00:23:26.930 That's over. 00:23:27.289 --> 00:23:28.329 Just, just communicate. 00:23:28.410 --> 00:23:29.390 You love me three times. 00:23:29.390 --> 00:23:31.349 And you know, what's so powerful. 00:23:31.349 --> 00:23:37.849 And I, I think, I think it's powerful because I don't know that I, I want to say I wouldn't act this way, but I betcha I would. 00:23:38.670 --> 00:23:41.869 I just denied Jesus three times, just a little bit before. 00:23:43.509 --> 00:23:45.009 Jesus does everything good. 00:23:45.029 --> 00:23:47.529 And he's asking me a question and it says Peter was hurt. 00:23:49.009 --> 00:23:51.650 I hope that I wouldn't be hurt in that moment, but I betcha I would. 00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:55.539 How could, how could Peter be hurt? 00:23:55.660 --> 00:23:57.420 Why, why would he possibly be hurt? 00:23:57.460 --> 00:24:04.380 If he was the one who denied Jesus, if he was the one who turned his back on him, how could he be hurt when he asks him, Hey, do you love me? 00:24:06.740 --> 00:24:07.940 I think Peter understood something. 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:16.440 I, Peter, Peter understood by this time and what I put before you, Peter understood one, you know, everything to you, you know, that I love you. 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:24.039 Three, that the idea of feeding my sheep doesn't have any bearing on, on the, the love that, that I have for you. 00:24:24.099 --> 00:24:28.839 I can feed your sheep without love, but if I love you, you know, that I'm going to feed your sheep. 00:24:28.859 --> 00:24:38.119 And I, and I bet you there was some, some restoration by the end of this conversation that Peter felt with, with Jesus that I, I have this deep love for you, Jesus. 00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:39.700 And so of course I'm going to feed your sheep. 00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:40.680 You don't even got to say it. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:50.079 I, I would say that, that over the course of Peter's time, perhaps he, he, he felt the same duty that I'm going to follow Jesus. 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:51.740 I'm a committed follower of God. 00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:56.140 But Jesus then says, keep that same duty. 00:24:56.579 --> 00:25:00.240 Do, do all of the things you're doing, but, but make it be, be because you love me. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.519 Feed my sheep because you love me. 00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:05.740 Don't feed my sheep because it's your duty to feed my sheep. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:07.779 Feed my sheep out of your love for me. 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:13.859 This is, this is some of the culmination of the transformation. 00:25:14.140 --> 00:25:16.460 And I'm, and, and there's a couple more scriptures that we're going to look at. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:19.579 I, again, I, I don't want it to just be something that I say. 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.740 I think you will see it in a couple of letters that actually Peter writes. 00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:25.660 We see that he, I think he understands it by the end of this. 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.539 Why do you do what you do? 00:25:29.619 --> 00:25:31.420 Well, what does taking care of sheep look like? 00:25:31.420 --> 00:25:34.119 If Jesus were to talk to you and he says, do you love me? 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.099 You'd say, yeah, I love you. 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:38.079 What would he say? 00:25:38.140 --> 00:25:42.380 Set up my chairs, be with my people, be fully engaged in service. 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:48.039 Give, give financially, give sacrificially, give, give your time. 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.279 All of these things are good things. 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.079 They're great without a love for Jesus. 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:56.619 They're useless. 00:25:59.920 --> 00:26:14.720 If you find yourself, uh, frequently exhausted, tired, critical, frustrated with, uh, with the things that you are doing that are, that are for God, then perhaps, perhaps they're not for God. 00:26:17.289 --> 00:26:21.309 I say it cause I've been there and I'm trying to work my way out of not working with this. 00:26:21.430 --> 00:26:21.769 I'm wrong. 00:26:22.130 --> 00:26:24.650 I'm trying to lock back in is what I would say. 00:26:24.690 --> 00:26:29.789 I realized there's, there's so much on, on the day to day that's expected of all of us. 00:26:29.789 --> 00:26:36.470 Um, and there's so much spiritually that's expected of all of us that if, if I'm not careful, it's just becomes this dutiful thing. 00:26:36.470 --> 00:26:39.269 And I'm, I'm feeding his sheep because of his sheep. 00:26:39.450 --> 00:26:40.369 And that's not the point. 00:26:40.710 --> 00:26:41.009 Wow. 00:26:42.089 --> 00:26:43.569 You're not setting up chairs for people can sit in them. 00:26:43.609 --> 00:26:44.890 You're setting up chairs because you love God. 00:26:45.250 --> 00:26:49.390 You're not meeting with people for the people you're meeting with people because it glorifies God, right? 00:26:49.789 --> 00:26:51.069 You're not fully engaged. 00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:57.269 You're not giving what you have because it helps to pay a salary or it helps to allow us to meet here. 00:26:57.349 --> 00:26:58.970 No, you're doing it because you love Jesus. 00:27:00.930 --> 00:27:04.309 Anything less it's, it's, it's motivation that's not going to last forever. 00:27:06.250 --> 00:27:10.450 So Peter goes through this time and then, and then he just, and then he preaches powerfully. 00:27:10.549 --> 00:27:31.329 We understand what happens in Acts two, uh, but, but I think it even, even, uh, maybe as powerful, maybe not, I don't know that is, is that he, he has this interaction in, in Acts four and they're preaching, uh, they heal somebody, they get in trouble and they're having to answer to these people who have great authority over them or, or, or worldly authority over them. 00:27:31.650 --> 00:27:38.690 It says they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach, uh, it at all in the name of Jesus. 00:27:38.970 --> 00:27:42.710 But Peter and John replied, which is right in God's eyes to listen to you or to him. 00:27:42.910 --> 00:27:43.970 You be the judges. 00:27:43.990 --> 00:27:52.230 As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard there's understand there's still a duty. 00:27:52.369 --> 00:27:53.750 We can't help, but do this. 00:27:53.990 --> 00:27:56.190 And so we can't help, but serve God. 00:27:56.250 --> 00:27:57.630 We can't help, but love God. 00:27:57.710 --> 00:28:01.089 We, but it's not because of the commitment that we made whenever, whatever age we were. 00:28:01.130 --> 00:28:06.150 It's not because of the, Oh, it's just the easiest thing to do, or it's, I've just set up my life in this such way. 00:28:06.230 --> 00:28:08.869 No, it's, it's because of Jesus's love. 00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:17.329 We can't help, but do it because of the love of Jesus, because of what we've seen and what we've heard because of the lives that have been changed because of how God has loved us individually. 00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:29.880 I want to ask, what, what do you, what, what command or what action do you take or what do you primarily do out of duty for God? 00:28:33.049 --> 00:28:47.220 Reading your Bible, going to church, being kind to others, having difficult conversations, overlooking offenses, ordering your entire life around the faith. 00:28:47.779 --> 00:28:49.740 It can even be giving contribution. 00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:00.539 I think if you were to talk to Peter, when he was first called, he might say, yeah, me too. 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:13.480 But if you, if you talk to, if you talk to the Peter, when he, when he finishes up and he's near the end of his life in second Peter, he pointed to something very different. 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:23.779 It says his divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.220 Notice Peter doesn't say he called us because of the good things we've done. 00:29:26.299 --> 00:29:30.220 He said he called us according to how good he is through these things. 00:29:30.259 --> 00:29:39.500 He has given us as very great and precious promises so that through them, you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:43.339 And then it says for this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness. 00:29:43.339 --> 00:29:47.660 And it goes down this list of things to make sure it keep doing this, keep doing this. 00:29:48.059 --> 00:29:51.579 Uh, verse 10, they reminds them again. 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:56.240 Therefore, my brothers and sisters make every effort to confirm your calling and election. 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:04.119 For if you do these things, you will never stumble and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. 00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:11.799 You know, this, this lesson, if you look at the transformation of Peter, you would see that he's still extremely dutiful. 00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:15.339 He does what is asked of him, but he does it out of love. 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:22.339 And that is, that's the call for anybody who's going to live as a Christian for the rest of their life and not end up critical. 00:30:26.220 --> 00:30:27.440 This, this call, right? 00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:29.319 He says, you're going to receive this inheritance. 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:31.579 Look forward to the amazing time. 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.440 This is why you're doing it. 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:36.660 It says, go ahead and confirm your calling, not earn your calling. 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:37.940 Go ahead and show this. 00:30:38.259 --> 00:30:38.619 Absolutely. 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:39.000 I am. 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:40.359 I am a part of God's kingdom. 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:41.079 I'm loving him. 00:30:41.140 --> 00:30:41.799 I'm serving him. 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:44.519 I'm doing it because he, because he loves me first though. 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:53.539 And so in your life, the challenge is to identify where do you primarily, what do you do primarily out of duty for God? 00:30:56.250 --> 00:30:58.630 It's not, it might not be a right now conversation. 00:30:58.789 --> 00:31:07.220 It's probably something you got to sit down with and actually assess and then to make a decision that I'm going to, this is the goal. 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:08.059 We're never going to get there. 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.059 The goal is that we do everything out of the love for Jesus though, right? 00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:15.460 We feed a sheep out of the love that he has for us. 00:31:18.589 --> 00:31:24.150 You know, Peter, it's so powerful to look at, to look at his life that he's, he was transformed by it. 00:31:24.890 --> 00:31:26.950 That's, that is the only way to be transformed. 00:31:27.130 --> 00:31:31.529 We can change, you can change actions and you know, you've changed your action and you haven't changed your mind about things. 00:31:31.730 --> 00:31:36.309 You know, I, I, you've seen people who have changed an action and not changed their mind, right? 00:31:37.650 --> 00:31:39.990 You can go, you can talk about weight loss. 00:31:40.269 --> 00:31:42.269 You can talk about character change. 00:31:42.309 --> 00:31:45.390 You can talk about waking up on time, right? 00:31:45.410 --> 00:31:46.369 Or getting someplace on time. 00:31:46.390 --> 00:31:52.630 And if you're, if your heart's not different and if your mind has not changed, the action changes for a little bit, but it never lasts, right? 00:31:53.170 --> 00:31:55.549 Same is true spiritually to a, to a greater extent. 00:31:56.349 --> 00:32:02.230 But if our mind has changed, if we decide I'm going to be different, I'm going, I'm going to lock into God's love, then we can be different forever. 00:32:02.450 --> 00:32:03.589 And that is the hope. 00:32:04.369 --> 00:32:09.950 Right now we're going to pray and, and we're going to pray and take communion together. 00:32:10.890 --> 00:32:16.490 And the, the, the connection between it, but behind all of this is that there's, there's no hope if Jesus didn't do it first. 00:32:16.829 --> 00:32:25.789 If Jesus was, it was connected to us only because of the, the duty from his father, I don't, I don't think we'd be here right now. 00:32:25.789 --> 00:32:29.890 If it was just out of this dutiful, I've got to do it because my father wants me to. 00:32:30.130 --> 00:32:30.930 He said, yes. 00:32:30.990 --> 00:32:33.529 So I've got to, it was, it was because he looked at us. 00:32:33.569 --> 00:32:36.710 He, he, he loved us and he loved his father loves us. 00:32:36.730 --> 00:32:37.509 And he loves his father. 00:32:37.950 --> 00:32:49.839 Let's pray right now for dear God, Lord, father, we come before you and we're grateful to be able to, uh, to call out to you. 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.700 We're grateful that we can, um, God, that we can pray to you. 00:32:52.740 --> 00:32:53.900 We're grateful that you hear us. 00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:56.819 We're grateful that you're not far away from us, Jesus. 00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:58.119 We, we need you. 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.000 We realize that we can say it. 00:33:00.460 --> 00:33:04.400 Father, I pray that we will, we'll, we'll lock into it. 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:11.420 I pray that out of our love, we will be able to, uh, we, we will feel motivated Lord. 00:33:11.500 --> 00:33:14.000 I pray that that is the, that is the motivator. 00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:24.380 God, to look at your love, Jesus, for us, um, your love dying on a cross, uh, and resurrecting from the dead and that we can look at that love and that it will compel us. 00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:35.299 It will spur us on Lord to, uh, to serve your people, to honor you, to give glory and praise to your name, uh, to, to lift you up as, as high as you are. 00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:37.400 And we realized that's an impossible endeavor. 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.240 We'd be, we're going to be doing it all day and we're grateful to do it. 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:43.819 Uh, Jesus, thank you so much for your sacrifice on the cross. 00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:46.359 Um, this is in your name that we pray. 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:46.640 Amen. 00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:14.019 Thank you so much for listening to the Kalamazoo church of Christ podcast. 00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:17.699 If you're in the Kalamazoo area, we'd love to get connected. 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:25.300 Please go to kalamazoo.church and fill in your information to come to a Sunday service or any other event that we have going on. 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:27.900 In any case, you'll be hearing from us next week.