Follow Me // Pastor James Wells

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Hey, we are going to continue talking and just walking through uh the book of John. We uh last week we're in John chapter 20. We're gonna jump over to John chapter 21 uh today, and I want to speak about the roller coaster of a life. Oh, I forgot to uh excuse our youth. If you are middle school, high school youth, uh you can go. They're having some special stuff today if you'd like to join them. Uh I forgot to do that. Clint literally just told me, and I got so excited about the goats that I forgot. Um, but Apostle Peter had a roller coaster of a life. Raise your hand if you've had that. That life that's just like a roller coaster. It's just up and down and up and down, and it's wild. And Apostle Peter uh certainly have had that life. And you know, one of the things that I just still uh find incredible is uh the fact that these guys, these disciples, uh that were sent out, as our youth just left, to do what they're gonna do, that were sent out to change the world, to radically change the world as we know it, they were not very old. These were not very old. We you know, we we see our Easter play, right? And we watched we watch it every year. We didn't have it this year. Uh we will next year. Uh Lord willing, we will we will do the Easter play next year. But we kind of in our minds kind of see the Easter play as the way it was. And you know, I I'm generally James, uh, you know, Seth, who are who are you? Do you know? John, maybe you'd be good. The one that Jesus loved, probably, I'm sure, because that's Seth, the one that Jesus loves. But um, but we we see these, and I can tell you the truth. Like, I've I'm gonna be 55 next month. I can tell you James wasn't 55. He was not. Apostle Peter was not 78. With all due respect, Pastor Rick has played Apostle Peter for years, and he does an absolutely outstanding job. But we can see that, and we can kind of get that in our brains, that that's the way it was. But these were not old, old, old people. These were young, young men. And so uh I look at Apostle Peter as probably the he was probably the oldest of the disciples. You know, and we know uh he was married, we we know that. We know um that when they had to pay the temple tax that we know in the one story that they the only person he paid temple tax for was Jesus and himself. So does that mean, I'm not saying this is for sure, for sure, but does that mean that all the other disciples were under 18? I'm just telling you, they're not very old. These men were not very old, and God, Jesus thought so much of them, he sent these young men to radically change the world forever. You know, early in life, Apostle Peter, you know, he would have been sent to study from the age of about five, uh five-ish or six to about age ten or twelve, uh, that he would have been sent to study the Torah. He would have learned the Torah uh from that time. And then if he was good enough, then he would have continued on in his study uh up to about age 14, where he would have learned the remaining scriptures. And so it's difficult for us to kind of wrap our brain around that and how that worked because we we study the scripture, we want to learn the scripture, we want to get it into us, but do we memorize? I mean, these men memorized the Torah. They knew the Torah. Every one of the disciples would have known the Torah, every word of it. And so at some point in his life, in his early life, Apostle Peter would have been said, Thank you for playing, but I think you're you're you're better off to be a fisherman. Imagine that. Imagine that feeling of what that would feel like if that if you were in the in that situation where at some point, I mean, I think all of us can relate at some point to at some time in our life being felt or being told you're not good enough. This just isn't for you. And I said this in the early service, and and uh I'll say it again. It makes me think of middle school. Like it I remember in middle school, and and I was not always the giant you see before you. I used to be really little. I mean, I was four foot nine going into high school, and so I remember recess and uh lunch, and you'd go outside to play basketball, and you'd want to play basketball, and then because that's what we did, and I would always want to be the captain, I would want to be the picker because I didn't want to be the one that didn't get picked. Right? And so we've all had those times in our lives where we just didn't feel good enough, where we were told in some way, shape, or form, you're not enough. And so here, Apostle Peter would have had that same feeling. At some point, he would have been told, okay, good job, but you're probably better off doing this. And so that's what he did. He went to be a fisherman, he went to continue his family's business. But on one faithful day on the shore in Galilee, Jesus said, You're enough. He said, You're enough. And it's chronicled here in Matthew chapter 4, verses 18 through 20. It says, While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, and casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen, and he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And immediately they left their nets and followed him. What a beautiful story for someone who at some point was told you're not enough, to then be saying, Someone, the rabbi of rabbis, comes walking down the shore, and he just says, You are enough, follow me. And immediately he dropped his nets. It says immediately he dropped his nets and followed him. And again, that always struck me, like in our physical carnal world, like when we're doing something, you know, that would be odd. And I don't know if I'm the only person in here today that's read that for any amount of time and just thought, like, that's weird. Like he just doing his job, and then someone just walks up and just says, Hey, come and do this, and they just drops everything and goes. Like for the longest time, I thought that was very odd. And then when I studied the context of the scripture, you know, we have that hindsight bias where we look back and we know we know who Jesus is, we know what's going on, we know the ending, we know all that stuff. But in that moment, Apostle Peter didn't know. And yet he chose to follow. Why? Because it was the honor of a lifetime for a rabbi to pick you. And so not only did he just say, okay, and did he just go, his father even blessed it. His if his father was standing there, he would have been like, Yes, go, go, go, because it would have been his honor as well for that for that privilege to be bestowed upon his son. And so that's exactly what he did. He did, he went. His rabbi called him and he jumped at the opportunity. Once not good enough, and now chosen. Doesn't it feel good to be chosen? It's so nice to be chosen, to be picked. I'm so thankful. You know, in my life, I've had ups and downs. I've had the times when I haven't been picked, and I've had the times when I've been picked, and I've been chosen. And I'll tell you what, chosen and picked feels a lot better. And we can all relate to those times. His life, Apostle Peter's life, is marked with these ups and these downs. We know we they're all chronicled. We know he was in the boat, there was a storm, and here comes Jesus walking across the water, and Apostle Peter he sees his rabbi and he's like, if my rabbi's doing it, I can do it, right? Seth, we talked about that. If he can do it, I can do it. So I'm gonna get out of this boat and I'm gonna walk. And then what happens as he gets out there into the water? Right? Walking on water and then sinking, right? Ups and downs of life. We discussed on Wednesday evening at Caesarea Philippi when Apostle Peter, when Jesus asked, Who do you say that I am? And it was Peter that proclaimed, You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Amen. Feeling good, right? Jesus loves, he's talking all about him, he's saying, I will name you Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and blah, blah, blah. And we know all that scripture. And just a few short verses later, if you just keep reading, you know there's all kinds of good stuff in the word if you just keep on reading. Just a few short verses later, as Jesus tells the disciples of his imminent death and resurrection, Peter says to him, It will never happen. And Jesus turns to him and says, Get behind me, Satan. You're a hindrance. From being handed the keys to the kingdom of heaven to being scolded as a hindrance, in just a few short lines in the scripture. Sitting at the Last Supper and proclaiming that they will all fall away because of you, and I will never fall away. And Jesus telling him, Truly, I tell you, this very night before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. Cloud nine, knocked down. Have you ever had those situations in your life and you just feel like everything's going great, and then something just comes and just humbles you? I think Apostle Peter was good at getting humbled.

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I always say this either humble yourself or you'll be humbled. It's a lot better on your psyche if you humble yourself. Because the humbling will come one way or another. Jesus told him, Truly, I tell you, this very night before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. Then they go to the garden. And Jesus, he he had his inner circle. And he he grabbed Peter, James, and John and says, Come watch and pray with me. And Jesus comes, and I come over here because this is where we have the rock. Like everything's about the Easter flight, right? And he comes to the rock and then he looks and they're sleeping, and then he goes and he scolds them. He's like, Did I not ask if you could just watch with me for a little bit of time? And here you are. Scold it again. Then the guards, the temple guards, come up to arrest him. And what does Peter do? He pulls out his sword, he cuts off his ear. And then Jesus says, put away your sword.

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He's like, I'm just trying to protect you. But again, he's kind of put in his place. And we know that after the arrest, then he follows Jesus, witnesses, he's questioned, he's he's asked, and then again he does deny him. It does exactly that. He denies him three times. And we know that the scripture says that he went and he wept bitterly. But a what a roller coaster of a life. Even in these short couple years, just ups and downs. And I think all of us can relate to that in some way. Apostle Peter denied him three times. He wept bitterly. And I'm sure in those moments after the crucifixion and even the resurrection, he is still just probably just trying to figure out all of his emotions. I'm sure they were all racing through him, thousands of emotions racing through him from frustration, anger, you name it, lost, confused, uh, hope, what are we gonna do? Like all of those things in those few short days were just probably racing through his mind and his heart. By this point, Peter had run to the tomb. He had seen the holes in his hands and in his side, he had witnessed the resurrected body of Jesus himself. And Jesus, through all of Peter's flaws, all of the mess, all of what I'll just say, his humanity. Jesus still chose him. And Jesus still called him. Jesus had even sent Mary Magdalene specifically calling his name. He says, Go and tell my disciples and Peter. Called him by name. It's something amazing to be called by your name. Let's jump into John 21. That brings us to our text for today. It says, After this, Jesus revealed himself again to this to the disciples by the sea of Tiberias. And he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas, called the twin, Nathaniel of Cana and Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, I am going fishing. And they said to him, We will go with you. I I you're gonna hear me say, I love this scripture about ten times today, but I love that little grouping of scripture. This isn't even what my message is about, but I just can't just race past this. I I love that he's going fishing and they said, We're going with you. Right? We all need that in our lives. We all need people in our lives. I don't care how much you try to isolate yourself or whatever it is that you try to do, uh we need people in our lives. We need to be surrounded by people who love us and care about us. And sometimes it's it's family, sometimes it's it's just other people, but we have to have it. Jesus even had it with Peter, James, and John. He even had that. So we need that. And I love the fact that through all the mess, through the ups and downs, I mean, these disciples knew what Peter had done, and yet there he they were with him. He said, I'm going fishing, they said, I'm going to. I say this to Julie all the time. You can leave me, but I'm going with you. Right? We all need to be surround ourselves with people. I used to think I needed a lot of people. I used to think I needed just a ton of people in my life to prove that I'm worth anything or to prove whatever. And the older I get, the more I realize I don't need a lot of people. I love every single one of you. I do with all of my heart. But I I used to think I needed you. I needed every one of you, or I wasn't fulfilling who I was supposed to be in the Lord. And I'm thankful that I still continue to love you, and I still will do anything that I can humanly possible for you. But I I, you know what I need? I need my my pack. I need my tribe. I need people in my life that are honest with me, that will support me when I do things good and when I do things bad. They're still gonna support me and they're still gonna be around me. I need the ones that will send me a text at just the right moment. Amen. I need those people, and I'm so thankful that the Lord has given me that. That and this they don't even know what's going on in my life, but the Lord will whisper in their ear and I'll just get a text message. Doesn't have to be a long phone call, I don't even have to reply. I just have to, I get it. I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful that the Lord has placed people in my life. I'm thankful for the people who will just they just see something and they just were like, Can I give you a hug? I need that in my life. We need that interaction in our life. I'm thankful that I had a friend who one time I we were going through a lot, it was a lot, and I had a friend who just drove to my house, knew I was hurting, drove to my house and sat in, gosh darn, sat in front of my house. And then when Saul that when he saw that all the lights were off and that it was dark, texted me the next later and said, I see that you must have been able to go to sleep because your house is dark, so I'm gonna go ahead and go home. Man, that ministered to me. And we need that, we need that in our lives. Let's keep going. They went out and they got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. And just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. And Jesus said to them, Children, do you have any fish? And they answered him, No. And he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some. And so they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in because of the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved, uh, therefore said to Peter, It is the Lord. And when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was he was stripped off for work, and he threw himself into the sea. There's a couple things here. One thing, I love that the author, John, points out to everyone that it was the one who Jesus loved. I don't know. That has no significance to me right now. I just think it's funny. I just think it's interesting that as John's writing this, he's like, the one that Jesus loved. Well, it's John. Just say, I'm there, right? All right, let's keep moving. You didn't think it was funny as I did. But I I love this scripture because there's so much going on here. Peter, you know, still reeling from the denials, still trying to figure everything out, still all the emotions that are running through him. And here he finds himself, he's in this boat. We don't know why he went fishing. I mean, there's there's belief that he went to fish because he was just so distraught with what he did. There's thought that he's just like they had been in this room for all this time and they just went to do something they used to do. There's thought that he was trying to just deny his calling and he just went back to what he used to know. I mean, there's all you can study it all, you can do all the study on that. We don't really know for sure why he went fishing, but he nonetheless he went fishing and his friends went with him. And I love that when it says he was a hundred yards, uh roughly a hundred yards, we're gonna read that in a moment, off the shore. And he didn't care. Because when he saw that it was Jesus, he threw back on his cloak. And in that time, your cloak was your identity. What your outer garments were, they they said who you were, and he had taken that off because he was fishing and he saw his rabbi, and he would never disrespect his rabbi. So he put that cloak back on and he went for it a hundred yards through the water, getting after it to get to his Jesus. When's the last time you did that? When's the last time you just you went for it? You just went for him. Man, we all mess up. And I love that we serve a Jesus that's always right there on the shore. And as soon as you can look up and recognize and get out of your own head of what's going on in your life and look up and see him, just go for it. You know why? Because he's sitting right there saying, Hey, come here. I'm still here, I'm still waiting, and I'm ready for you. And we know the end of this story. I'm ready to restore you, I'm ready to redeem you. But I just love the fact that he just doesn't care and he just throws on that outer garment and he just takes off and he gets to the shoreline. Verse 8 says, The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, but uh but about a hundred yards off. And when they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fireplace with fish laid out on it, and bread, and Jesus said to them, Bring some of the fish that you have just caught. And so Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of the large fish, about a hundred and fifty-three of them. And although they were there were so many, the net was not torn. And Jesus said to them, Come and have breakfast. Now none of the disciples dared ask him, Who are you? They knew it was the Lord. And Jesus came and he took the bread and he gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus had revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. I love it, says, Come and have breakfast, another invitation from Jesus. He just wants to restore these guys, he wants to restore Apostle Peter, he wants to redeem him so bad, he wants to have fellowship with him. That's what it was when you ate together. It's fellowship, it's it's uh it's important. You know, get people that you just go have dinner with. I love just having dinner and talking and having time and fellowship uh with people. And it's just again another invitation from Jesus to just come. Verse 15 says, When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? And he said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you. And he said to him, Feed my lambs. And he said to him a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? And he said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you. And he said to him, Tend my sheep. And he said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? And Peter was grieved because he said to him a third time, Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you. And Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. Something I find interesting here is that what name did Jesus call him? He called him Simon. All this time he'd been calling him Peter, and here in these moments he's calling him Simon, maybe just a little, a little nudge to say, like, I said your name will be Peter, which means rock, and upon this rock I will build my church. But I gotta tell you, Simon, you're not acting like the rock. And I think we have that in our lives. Sometimes we need that, and I love it's it's a subtle nudge, it's a little bit of a spanking, it's a little bit of a scolding, but he needed to know. We need to know in our own lives when we're not acting right. And Jesus, being no respecter of man, says to him, Simon, maybe just a little nudge to him. You're not acting like the rock. And he says to him, Do you love me more than these? Maybe another little reminder of a few days earlier when Peter proclaimed that he. Loved him more than anyone else. And he and Jesus reminds him, Do you love me more than these? Yes, Lord, you know I love you. There's something else going on here, too, when you study out the original language of this text. The first two times when Jesus is saying, Do you love me? And he's he's using the word agape for love, which is an unconditional, unselfish love. And he uses that word twice. And in Apostle Peter's reply, he uses the word philo, which is like a brotherly love, like saying, Yes, I'm your friend. And he does that twice. He says, Do you love me? Do you love this with this unconditional love? And he said, I'm your friend. But do you love me unselfishly, unconditionally? Do you love me? And he said, I'm your friend. And then the third time Jesus flips it. The third time, Jesus uses the word for friend, Philo. And Apostle Peter uses the word for love, agape. So what was Jesus saying? He said, you know, you can love something and you can love someone, but what is Jesus saying? He's like, I know you love me, but do you like me? Are you my friend? Because you can tell me you love me, but are you truly my friend? And I love Apostle Peter's reply. He said, Lord, you know all things. You know everything, and you know I love you. And then Jesus' reply, then feed my sheep. Jesus fully restored Apostle Peter in those moments. In the presence of the other disciples, it was important for them to also see this restoration and this redemption that happened. Why? Because Apostle Peter would then be over the entirety of the church. And they witnessed it with their own eyes. And they also witnessed what he had said to him. He said, in the presence of the other disciples, he challenged him to love and he challenged him to get to work. Right? Because that's what all of this is about for us. Like we can we can study the word and we can come to church and we can have great worship and we do, we have amazing worship, and we have a great time. But if all that I do is in these walls, then I'm not doing it right. Because there's a whole lot going on outside these walls, and a whole lot of people that are hurting outside these walls that need to know this gospel message of the love of Jesus. There's a lot of people that are walking around this world beaten down and broken and hurting, and they need the restoration and redemption that can only come from Him. And I said this earlier. I walked around this world for too long with my head down, feeling less than, feeling not enough. I still struggle with it from time to time. Feeling not good enough, not enough. But you know, when the Lord lifts your head, I love that we serve a Jesus who stoops and lifts. He was willing to stoop to my level to lift me up to the place that I needed to be. So that I don't have to walk around this world with my head down. I can walk around in humility with my chest out, shoulders back, and head held high because I know who I am. And I allowed the world to tell me who I was for too long. But until you can recognize who you are and the will of God and what he has for your life, that's when life changes. When you allow him to fill the void that we have in our life. Because we all have one. We all have a void, and he wants to fulfill that and fill it for us. I love the fact that he challenged him to love and he challenged him to get to work. The scripture goes on to say, Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you were used, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go. This was Jesus telling him how of the death that he would have to glorify God. And after saying this, this is uh this, he said to him, Follow me. Jesus, he tells him of his future and what would happen to him, and that he would be rabbi, just or martyr just like his rabbi, and just like he did a few short years before. He looked at Peter and he said those beautiful words, follow me, fully restored, fully redeemed, fully renewed, and fully reinstated. And then it was up to Apostle Peter. And I'm so thankful. I think we should all be so thankful that Apostle Peter did. It just wasn't lip service. He went and did. Filled with the Holy Spirit, he preached the first gathering in the book of Acts. He led the first new Christian church, he performed miracles. So imagine they write about you that people laid in the street so that when your shadow came by that it might cat fall on them. I mean, that's the life I want. Man, I want people to want to be around me most of the time. If I'm honest. But I think about that all the time. Like, what shadow am I casting in my life? What shadow are you casting in your life? Do people want to be around me? Am I the person that when I walk in the room, they say, Yay, he's here, or oh, he's here? Right? I hope it's yay, he's here. I hope I'm a pastor that when you see that I'm preaching, you're happy about it. And you're like, man, I thought Julie was preaching this week. Or Seth, or somebody, anybody. Right? I want to be the person. I want you to be, you want to be around me. I don't want to be some old Christian who's just like bitter and ugly and like, wow, they actually love God. Man, I need some of that. Right? We're called, church, to love his people. I want to cast a shadow that glorifies the Lord. And this says, and then in Rome, under the persecution of Nero, he was crucified upside down in the shape of an ex, feeling unworthy to be killed in the same manner as his Jesus. Why am I saying all this today? Because I believe we all need to know that there is nothing that you've done, nothing that you've done, nothing that's been done to you. That's not redeemable. And why do you say, why do I say nothing been done to you? Because there are those areas in our lives where people have hurt us. And we can struggle with that. I struggled for a long time with feeling that way. Like I deserved this or that happened to me, and I this was the role I played in that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was done to me. And that needed redeemed. Not that I had done anything wrong, but that situation still needed redeemed. I still needed to be brought back up to the position that Jesus wanted me to be in. So it needed redeemed. And I just feel like we have these situations in our lives that we can walk around and feeling like it's not redeemable. I've done too much. I've said too much. This has happened. I'm pressed down too far, but Jesus is there to say, no, follow me. Follow me. I love just what Peter has to say about it. In 1 Peter chapter 1, beginning in verse 13. And Pastor Greg, when you're ready, just start playing. Just start playing over us. Therefore, preparing your minds for action and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conform to the passions of your former ignorance. That's where we change, amen. That's called change. And that's just pretty straightforward. Do not be conform to the passions of your former ignorance. Your best thinking got you where you're at. Then it's time for a change and don't go back. But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you. Though through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Having purified your souls by your by your obedience to the truth, for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart. Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperish but of unperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. For the grass withers and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever. And I love this last verse. And this word is the good news that was preached to you. The same redemption is available to each and every one of us, to all of us, when we call upon him and recognize that all this stuff in this world that we chase, all the gold and silver of the world, the nice cars and boats and houses and vacations and all this stuff that we think is so important. And it can be important to us, and it's fine to have nice things, but when my focus is that and not him, that's when it's wrong. And those things are perishable, they will fall, and they will be eventually mean nothing to us because the only thing that is important to us is the blood of the Lamb, the spotless, blemishless blood of the Lamb. That's what restores us, that's what redeems us. And it brings us all back to what he said to Peter. And I and after saying all of this, he said to him, Follow me. And I say the same thing to you. After saying all of these words today, the bottom line is, will you follow him? Will you receive the redemption and the restoration that only he can offer you? The world can't give it to you, the world can't do anything for you in that way. The world can promise you a lot of stuff, but they cannot redeem you, cannot restore you. Can renew you for a moment, but he can renew you for an eternity. Ruby McDowell preached a year and a half ago, I think. And and she said something, and it just has really kind of changed. I, you know, I used to feel like I had to do something, figure something out at the end of the service, and blah, you know, whatever. And and uh and she said this and it just kind of changed the way I thought about it. I think Clint, when you preached not too long ago, you said this, I think. Uh she just when she was preaching, she got done and she said, you know what? She closed her Bible and she said, This is the word the Lord gave me. And now it's up to you. It's up to you now on how you're gonna receive the word that was given to you. I believe this was the word that God gave me to give to our church today, and so now the responsibility is on you. So I'm gonna ask you to stand to your feet. I don't know. I I know a lot about a lot of people where you come and you've shared with me. I know our hurts, I know the things that are hang ups and stuff that we have in our lives. I want to encourage you today that we we have we are blessed that we have a church with an altar, and we are a church that always has an open altar. Always open, always available. And so I want to encourage you today as they sing over us. I don't know what you're singing, sorry, something about Jesus. As they sing over us, I want to encourage you to just come to the altar and just spend a few moments with him. Allow him to do some work, allow him to do some surgery in those places that you just you need that restoration or redemption. You need to be brought back into the position that he has for you. And he's the only one that can do it.