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mark chapter 16 verse 4 through 8 when
you have it’s a man and when they looked
they saw that the stone was rolled away
for it was very great and entering into
the sepulchre they saw a young man
sitting on the right side clothed in a
long white garment and they were
affrighted or scared to death and he
saith unto them be not afraid it ye seek
Jesus of Nazareth which was crucified he
is risen he is not here behold the place
where they laid him but go your way tell
his disciples and Peter
that he goes before you into Galilee
there ye shall see him as he said unto
you and they went out quickly and fled
from the sepulchre for they trembled and
were amazed leaders said they anything
to any man for they were afraid the real
thing I want you to see is in verse 7
but go your way and tell his disciples
and Peter that’s all I really want is
and Peter look at your neighbor and say
you can still get there
you can still get there
you can still get there less Freight
spirit of the Living God fall fresh on
the word as it is being preached today
unknowing it in sanctified in my lips oh
god I do declare I trust you to preach
and flow through me until it is no more
mean with you had my flesh behind the
cross that it will not glory in that
side and speak to this star people Oh
God in the name of Jesus we pray amen
you may be seated
let’s go to work I have always been Bob
vocational I have not always had to be
by vocational but I have always chosen
to be by vocational in the beginning it
was the necessity I passed through the
church they couldn’t feed me I passed
through the church he couldn’t feed
itself
they couldn’t keep its lights on that
couldn’t keep these utilities over the
only way I could pass through the church
was go to work and take most of my
salary and throw it in the church to
keep it going when I ran out of money my
mother started putting her money in it
my mother’s sister told her I they call
a tube they said to don’t put all your
money in that boy’s church you got to be
wise you getting old ain’t gonna be
nothing don’t put all your money in that
you and my mother kept right on sewing
as usual mama was right I come to learn
that from those days to now that there
are things that you learn outside of the
household of faith that strengthen your
understanding of faith that keeps you in
touch with ordinary people that keeps
you tied into the culture I like to
interact with people I don’t like to be
isolated I don’t like to be put in a
cage I don’t live in my house and not
come out I still go to Krogers
pick out my chicken wings see what’s
going on in the world now I’m by
vocational I have I have a ministry but
I also have a business my business
centers around entertainment and real
estate and we’ve been doing some amazing
things in entertainment I learned a lot
about entertainment
I get scripts from all over the world I
look at scripts I look at stories all
the time and I have learned that the
worst stories are stories that do not
depict realistic characters realistic
characters are different from idealistic
characters it’s interesting we spend all
of our lives trying to act like ideal
people but we don’t want to watch our
deal people because ideal people are
boring
and because ideal people are not
realistic because ideal people are
fictitious we want reality realistic
characters demands that the character
has an arc and that they have a conflict
that they have an arc in their life that
we can watch them go through ups and
downs and ends and outs and back and
forth and that they have a conflict that
is just say that if you’ve lived long
enough you’ve learned that there’s a
little bit of bad in the best person and
there’s a little bit of good in the
worst person and you cannot really judge
a person just by one moment of one’s
seen out of their lives I know what we
say in public but down in our hearts we
realize that you can catch a person at a
bad season in their life and did not be
as effective as there are in other
seasons this is why this is why David
would rather be judged by God than to be
judged by man because you can do a
hundred things right and do one thing
wrong and man will always talk about
what you did wrong and never remember
what you did right God uses ordinary
people he does in the Old Testament
in the Old Testament he lets us see all
into the personal lives of the people
that he called thank God for the Old
Testament because it gives us a
realistic view of people who were good
and bad who were strong and weak who
were right and wrong who were victorious
and victimized it helps us to assess our
old life that your life is not going to
be a straight line it’s not going to be
a straight horizontal there’s gonna be
peaks and valleys and uprisings and down
setting such as life somebody was
talking to me the other day about
something they were going through and I
told him life is going what life does
life is just doing what life it’s not a
demonic attack it’s not spiritual
warfare life is just doing what life
does it gives and it takes it makes you
laugh it makes you cry it has moments of
victory and a has moments of defeat such
as the case with the character before us
today he’s an interesting character I
must admit that if I were Jesus I
probably would not knowingly have gotten
involved with this guy there are certain
people if you get involved with them
there gonna be a lot of work all of us
gonna be some work but there are certain
people there’s gonna be a lot of work
this guy this guy was a lot of work I
would have tried to if I only had 12
guys in three years to get it all done I
try to pick 12 of the best to make it
easy so that I didn’t have to waste time
ministering inwardly
while I’m trying to reach outwardly but
such his life such as life you’re always
ministering outwardly and inwardly
simultaneously you’re always trying to
be a message to the world and not lose
your house
you’re always trying to encourage
somebody and wrestling with
discouragement inside of yourself where
my real people had but Jesus had to get
ahold of this guy because this guy did
not know who he was when Jesus first met
him he is one of the first disciples
Jesus picked this guy thought he was
just a businessman he thought he was a
business owner he had a fishing company
and efficiently
he went out every day to fish with Jesus
with Jesus first reading that’s how he
saw himself as a fisherman and Jesus had
a higher vision of him and said I will
make you fishers of men right now your
fishers of fish you’re doing what you’re
going to do on a lower level your
history is always a glimpse of what
you’re going to do in your destiny God’s
gonna take something that you already
did and take it to the next level and
use it to bless you you’re going to the
next dimension you still gonna be
fishing but you’re gonna fish in another
kind of way and any gifts or hope to
Pete Peter and he comes along on Peter
at the time that Peters washing his nets
he’s washing his Nancy thought he was
through for the day and Jesus walks down
to the seashore
and Peter and Andrew are washing their
nets and Jesus says to him can I use
your boat suppose Peter had said no
that’s my boat I don’t know you
I might have said no don’t hit me all
funny can I use your car
that’s the equivalent of somebody
strange you don’t know just walking up
to you saying can I borrow your car
Peter’s boat was his livelihood but he
freely he had a giving spirit
that might be why God chose him he had a
giving generous spirit the very thing
that all your friends tell you to stop
being that might be the very thing that
got him got his whole life chain he had
not become cynical yet he had not become
so suspicious yet Peter let a stranger
borrow his car
I mean his boat I got to bring it down
where you can see the level of sacrifice
somebody just walk up to you and said
they left it said let me use your car
for a No
and all of a sudden something happens
because what people what Jesus is really
teaching Peter is listen to this his
business is his platform Peters business
becomes Christ’s platform
I put you in business so you could have
this moment I didn’t put you in this
business about the fish I started you
out of the fishermen because I knew I
was coming
and I was gonna need some I could trust
to take me across the waters I’m
positioning you for purpose not for
profit
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oh my god i preaching already God didn’t
put you on that job to make money
God can let money rain down in your
backyard if he wanted to God could let
you let somebody just give you some
money win some money walk away with some
money God puts you on that job for
purpose and a relationship ensue when
Jesus got through preaching on Peters
boat there was a connection there was a
tie almost like a Elijah Elijah woman it
was a tie where Jesus says to Peter
follow me and I’ll make you fishers of
men
in order to follow Jesus he had to walk
away from what he had in mind the
hardest thing in the world is to walk
away from what you had in mind he had
never got up that morning thinking I’m
gonna stop fishing and start driving
this guy around that was not what he was
planning to do for the next three years
of his life but for the next three years
of his life he becomes the uber driver
moving Jesus from place to place having
an encounter with Jesus that was life
chain and and it we and his life would
never be the same again he not only does
he become Jesus driver on the water
he has encounters because of his
connection with Jesus that he would have
never had any other way Peter got he
Peter got to walk on the water just
because he was connected to Jesus it
doesn’t matter who you’re connected to
there are certain perks and certain
benefits and certain favors that come
not because of who you are but because
of who you’re connected to you get to
have some experiences just because
you’re connected to the right people
that’s one of the enemies trying to
isolate you because many times your
blessing is in your relationship with
the very person he’s trying to cut you
off from I don’t know who I’m preaching
to you’re you’re next is in your
connections you’re next is in your
connection and peter has earnest and all
of a sudden he becomes a part of Jesus
inner circle inner circle in a circle
with Jesus the Messiah the son of David
the seed of Abraham the root of Jesse I
am the mighty God the Prince of Peace
the everlasting father the kids when
redeemer the Daystar the lily of the
valley
the Son of God Emmanuel Jehovah sick a
new jehova rohi jehova manna he becomes
in the inner circle with hell should die
oh god can you imagine what is life to
be just kickin it with Jesus is one
thing to come worship him is another
thing to be a Starbucks with Jesus
hey Jesus has stopped at McDonald’s and
get a Big Mac and fry just kickin it
with Jesus he was in the inner circle
and he got to do things he would have
never done he would have never got to
walk on the water had he not been
connected with Jesus he never would have
gotten to see the woman with the issue
of blood get me get healed if he wasn’t
connected with Jesus he never would have
seen blind Bartimaeus eyes open up but
he got it because he was connected to
Jesus is anybody connected to Jesus
there’s a blessings you’re gonna get
just because you’re connected with Jesus
there’s some blessings you don’t get
because you’re connected with Jesus he
was part of the inner circle and he
probably had less reason to be in the
inner circle if God would judge like men
Peter would have never made the cut to
be in the inner circle he was the most
unlearned of all the disciples he was
not there because he wasn’t intellectual
he was not there because he was educated
but he had something about him
they said the thing that God puts inside
of people that transcends your
background your intellect your IQ if
you’ve got education and don’t have that
thing you still might not be successful
in life there’s a thing God gives you I
don’t even know what to call it it’s
lived unless it’s in the script
it’s hard to find you can’t manufacture
it and you can’t Willet anybody you
either got it or you know there’s that
glory to God Peter had that thing about
it he was rough around the edges but he
had that thing about him and Jesus took
him everywhere took him up from the
Mount of Transfiguration and showed him
the glory that should be showed him in
the future
allowed him to see amazing things of
which Peter didn’t even know how to
respond to Peter got excited because
Peter was a man action and whenever he’s
in showed Peter something he’s gonna do
something said let’s build three
Tabernacles one for Moses and one for
Elijah had one for you
let’s build three of them he said calm
down Peter was excited when he said
Jesus was gonna wanna high if that she
leave me to come I’m going out there
where you are Peter was excited he was
excited he was rambunctious he was so
real buster
when they came to get Jesus he cut out
his sword and said the devil is alive
I got it sometimes it’s nice to have a
few Peters in the crowd just you know
it’s a good feeling you know I get tired
of people who say they with you but when
you’re in a fight they won’t say nothing
then people make me nervous those people
who come back and telling you what
everybody’s saying about you and you
know that that means that they didn’t
say that then Peter it was clear whose
side he was over there was no ambiguity
about where he stood in a fight Peter
pulled his sword and said I take you out
right now cut the man’s here right off
his head so you know he was aiming too
high
he wasn’t a guy who pulled out his sword
and stabbed the guy in the foot he cut
his ear off said don’t come over here no
more it’s gonna get worse
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Peter had an understanding of who Jesus
was
he had an understanding without
intellect he had an understanding
without intellect he had an instinct he
had a revelation Jesus is walking down
the street and said who do men say that
I am and they were quick to say what the
gossip was some saying you are Elias and
something you are Jeremiah and something
you are a science real loud on the
gossip reacquired on the revelation
everybody’s talked about what some say
out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh their hearts were more
filled with what men said about their
leader then it was filled with what God
said about their leader so they could
quickly tell him what was on the blog
site but they did not have a cause he
turned around and who do you say that I
am and it is not the answer that I want
you to see first it is not the answer of
the one it is the silence of the 11
how could you walk that wrong with me
three years you’ve been walking with me
and you still have no revelation of Who
I am
how could you see me raise the dead and
heal the sick and turn water into wine
and not draw conclusion about Who I am
how could you go to a great church and
still be biblically illiterate how can
you hear great preaching had not become
a great preacher how can you be exposed
to deliverance and never be delivered
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eleven of them couldn’t make up their
mind who Jesus what they were following
him who do you say that I
they got quiet maybe they were
intimidated by what some say I don’t
want to be wrong so I’m not gonna say
nothing but Peter spoke up I’m sorry to
see why Jesus called him Peter spoke up
Peter said thou art the Christ the Son
of the true and living God there was no
there was no variableness there were no
shakiness there was no insecurity he was
clear about who he was following thou
art the Christ the Son of the true and
living God are you clear about who you
follow or did you just come to church
are you clear about who you power are
you clear
thou art the Christ the Son of the true
and living God it was one thing for him
to say that Jesus was the son of God
because there had been some discussions
about that but when he said thou art the
Christ Christ is not Jesus last name
it’s the title as in description he said
here the Messiah you’re the Anointed One
that should come thou art the Christ and
Jesus had not yet taught them that he
was the Christ so Jesus goes
Peter’s answer shop Jesus you know you
bear when you get shot Jesus and Jesus
said something that shocked me
he says flesh and blood have not
revealed this I leave but my father
which is in heaven what shocked me about
that is Jesus has not yet gone to the
cross and yet Peter has tapped into
divine information from the Father did
you hear what I just said Jesus has not
gone to the cross it’s not even time for
you to give direct revelation from the
Father but some kind of way Peter with
his crazy self had tapped in to the
supernatural immutable everlasting power
of God and he was getting messages from
heaven before the blood ever hit the
cross
flesh and blood have not revealed this
under you but my father which is in
heaven and upon this rock upon this rock
not so much upon peter but upon this
rock this rock of revelation this rock
of people who can hear from God this
rock of people who can perceive the in
perceivable this rock of people who have
been touched by the father was divine I
will build my church or the backs of men
who have heard from God and the gates of
Hell shall not prevail against it
it was mountains all the way mountain
after Mountain mountain a
Transfiguration mountain of revelation
mountain of understanding it was
mountains all the way mountains of the
presence of God mountains of experiences
walking on the water mountains all the
way and while he was having mountaintop
experiences Jesus tells him something
Satan has desired to have you that he
might sift you as sweet now you have to
understand the circumstances around the
conversation this is after that they
have had the Passover meal where Jesus
has said around the table said one of
you is a devil and every guy around the
passel of the Board of Directors
of the first Prime baptized Church of
the Living God incorporated was having a
Board of Directors meeting and the CEO
said one of you is the devil and all of
the board responded which means there’s
some friction because these guys were
perfect if they were pure if they were
holy if they were glorified there’d be
no question he couldn’t be talking about
me but every man around that table knew
something about himself that made him
question is Jesus talking about me Lord
imagine if Jesus appeared in here and
said one of you is a devil
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don’t it make you think and Jesus has
identified the devil as the one who dips
with him and Peter got away he talked
about you know talking about me you know
you’d be dancing a little bit I mean I’m
not hating on Judas I’m just rejoicing
in the fact that it ain’t me that
whatever it is that made me say Lord is
that I does not rise to the level of
being a devil
I got conflict but I haven’t crossed
over
and it’s right after this that he turns
to Peter and he says Satan has desired
to have you that he might sift you as
wheat
saving gets his hands on you he’s gonna
tear you apart
he’s gonna ripping me you in the most
savage way he’s gonna break you into
little bitty pieces and throw you in the
wind because that’s how they sit at
wheat by breaking it into pieces and
throwing it in the wind he’s gonna break
you into pieces and throw you in the
wind
that’s not the kind of prophecy you want
you don’t get a prophecy like Adam
raised a good offer
that kind of prophecy you say I rebuke
you Satan has desired to have you that
he might see fear sweet but I prayed for
you I prayed for you I prayed for you
watch this not that you wouldn’t fail
but that your faith fail deem huh yeah
yeah yeah I’m not praying that you won’t
fail I’m praying that your faith fail
Bilan and when thou art converted
when you come out of this
not if you come out of this when you
when you come out of this touching
neighbors say when I come out of this
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you should come forth is to go and Peter
vehemently argued with Jesus and Jesus
prophesied he said before the crows
three times you will have denied me fast
for Peter who had been all up on top of
the mountains Peter who had walked on
water Peter who wanted to build three
Tabernacles Peter who had seen the woman
with the issue of blood heal Peter who
had seen Lazarus raised from the dead
right after he got to cutting off
people’s ears and saying he would die
for Jesus when he saw them beat Jesus
when he saw them stripped Jesus out of
his clothes and beat him like a slave
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Peter got nervous it’s good – it’s good
that’s easy to talk faith in church
the choirs are all the singing their
song and the music is going and
everybody’s clapping and Oh glory to God
hallelujah brother glory to God we who
are whatever God would we call Lord
hallelujah but if your faith doesn’t
make it to your private life if your
faith didn’t affect your business and
your character and how you interact with
people and the choices you make and the
decisions that are made in your life
if your faith don’t make you apologize
sometime if your faith don’t make you
call people back and say I’m sorry if
your faith and conviction of your
private life I’d give you a hill of
beans for how you run all over the
church if it doesn’t affect how you
treat your wife how you raise your
children how you talk to your mama if
your faith don’t make you shut your
mouth and say yes ma’am to your mama
don’t you dance all over this church
like you are all covered with power sit
yourself down and say Lord is it I
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they took Jesus they took him they took
him they took him captive
they took him captive the Jesus who had
disappeared and slipped through crowds
undetected they caught him the Jesus
would walk to water they caught it
the Jesus had either speak of he and the
ground open up they caught him and it
looked like he was fresh out of miracles
and what do you do when the one you
serve is fresh out of vehicles and they
has Peter
they said Peter at the dinner aren’t you
one of them a dabbler son said it aren’t
you one of them Peter said
what had happened was
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and Peter did one of the worst things a
person could ever do
the epitome of relationship is
acknowledgement anybody who’s ever been
in any kind of relationship understands
that the strength of a relationship lies
on your ability to acknowledge me to
acknowledge me is everything it is
everything to acknowledge me
to recognize that I am your move let all
them know let them know when we come in
the world that you taken don’t go be one
waiting at the corner your I must be
clear about
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let let them know who you is that’s why
I put a ring on your finger so all the
sisters would know if you’re shopping
shop elsewhere this is reserved for
customer acknowledgement is everything
if I am your son acknowledge me don’t
acknowledge all other kids that never
acknowledge me
let me know that I’m your son Pat me on
the head say something about me
acknowledge that I am your son because
when you don’t acknowledge me it says
you’re ashamed of me if you’re ashamed
of me you don’t want me and Who am I my
daddy won’t acknowledge mama you can’t
kiss my forehead enough to take the
place of the fact
and my daddy act like I mean here’s
acknowledgement defines relationship
thank acknowledgment defines
relationship I called my sister on the
phone one day I said I give Sarita roses
like everybody else give their wife
roses and I won’t get the reaction that
I’m supposed to get
it’s how I call my sister I said what’s
up with this rose and stuff I could give
roses she’s supposed to like green a cry
faintness I’m she say oh that’s nice and
put them over the corner somewhere and I
spend like $300 worth of roses
I want to see a TIA
and my sister said one thing to me
change mama
she said you’re doing it wrong I said
what do you mean I’m doing it wrong I
got three dudes in the rows we did that
weird rose they went yellow nothing they
wasn’t thrown out in the bag got ground
on the quantity the fresh roses but it
in her face she said give him on her job
she said let the delivery man come to
the office and let all the women stop
typing and want to see who got roses
won’t pass all them other women and put
the roses on her desk and all of a
sudden the roses have all kind of value
because acknowledgement
acknowledgement defines relationship so
I did it I sent him on the jobs because
we yearn to be acknowledged we yearn to
be acknowledged to be recognized to say
that to acknowledge me says that I
matter
bigger than here some of the churches
are always upset about moral failure but
what Peter did is worsen moral failure
because moral failure is weakness to not
acknowledge me is wicked it is wicked
for you to walk in that room and act
like he’s not my wife
it’s wicked I walked with you I love you
I clothed you I paid the rent every
month I bought the stockings on your
legs and you walk in that room and you
act like you do not mind
give me them stockings back didn’t she
give me that brat out but raining on you
tonight and you get something with
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praise God
praise God hallelujah
because acknowledgement determines
relationship jesus said if you deny me
before me I’ll deny you before my father
which is in heaven
you know acknowledge me I know
acknowledge you and let’s see who needs
the other the quickest I bet you I can
get by without you better than you to
get by without me he says okay you want
to water Peter who was ready to build
three Tabernacles upper depression upon
depression
sin Jesus blood spatter watching him
weird around the tree as a pain
lacerated his flesh and his neurological
impulses kept sending messages to his
brain so strong he should have passed
out Peter who saw his Jesus transform
from a lion into a trembling bleeding
lamb who saw his Jesus who commanded
angels rear the jerk and scratched like
a child and they looked at him and asked
him were you with him is that who you
call Messiah
is that your lord up there naked naked
that’s your Lord butt-naked bleeding
squirming flipping is that who you
worship now you must understand that
Peter lived in a world of crosses
Christians like to think that Jesus was
only one to be crucified but history
proves it to be a myth
the Romans controlled the Jews with
crucifixes that means that they grew up
seeing people hung Huynh stretched wide
dying in the Sun bulges picking at the
flesh it was a way that power
intimidates the oppressed I’ll kill you
if you disobey me I’ll kill you it’s a
it’s like lynchings
I knew if I said that you would get it
it’s like lynchings you know you know
the lynchings were always public come
out and watch the lynching because it’s
intimidation is terrorism unless you
rise up you don’t run to come out and
watch me cut his foot off and let me see
how much running you do you bear
I think full-time is a good thing I was
born I was boy hit let me tell you
something I would have shut up shut your
mouth
you ain’t seen nothing it’s a difference
between hip-hop and hip-hop it
somebody cut off your foot you shut your
mouth as you drag them back in the tent
and pray the gangrene don’t take the
whole lid and without any anesthesia you
try to sew up the damages and stop the
bleeding and you watch grandma wrap her
sheets around somebody’s foot Peter grew
up in a world of intimidation there was
no question in his mind that kill you
too were you with him and the Peter who
argued with Jesus said he would never
deny you and the Peter who cut off ears
and the Peter who performed miracles in
the Peter who had insight as to Christ
being the Messiah now says Oh
and I would have thought it was a
one-time thing but again they came up
and another one pointing and I said I
saw him I recognized him he’s one of
them Jake heights I saw him over did yo
that’s him miss me he go he go – Jake
Church and yet again failing him and
failing him and failing him have you
ever done something that you said you
would never do
you taught against said you spoke
against you you laughed at other people
who did it you ran your mouth and then
you got yourself in a situation and even
to this day you don’t tell nobody that
you did what you did but you did it and
you know you did it and you talk about
people who’ll do it and it’s not just
and he did it one time he did it again
and again and the third time he did it
he said I don’t know Jesus I don’t know
Jesus it’s worse than I know Jesus but
I’m having a weak moment
I know Jesus but my flesh is taken over
I know Jesus when I got a weakness I
know Jesus but I got a problem this is
this is on one hand I feel from Peter
cuz I know he must have been scared out
of his mind
I know he’s normally courageous he’s
known to be Cory ain’t scared of nobody
of God Julia right now I know he’s Tom
and I won had my heart beats for him
because I know he’s afraid but if he
knew that Jesus was the Messiah if he
knew that Jesus was a resurrection in
the life if he saw Jesus raised Lazarus
from the dead then why does death still
terrify him to the point that he will
not believer if he if he knew that Jesus
was the I am and the bodyguard and
everlasting father the Prince of Peace
then why did he deny him and I have
learned as a leader that people will
love you and support you as long as
other people do but when it no longer
comes popular to be associated with you
you have to always you you have to
always keep your heart prepared for
rejection never get so comfortable in
the lap of the applauds of men that you
actually believe it because all you’re
doing is setting yourself up for failure
because it is easy to love people when
other people love it
the hardest time to love people is when
everybody turns against stuff and
they’re writing about it and they’re
talking about it and they’re in the news
and they’re in the paper and they’re
everywhere and that’s why I got multi
above everything else because I
appreciate most not the people who are
with me when people are with me I
appreciate people who are with me when
everybody turns against me and you knock
on my door and say I still love you now
you got clout with me and Peter who had
been a nobody and a nothing and a
failure Peter who hadn’t been nothing
who had risen for power only because he
was connected to Jesus now denies the
one who raised him who raised you
who raised when I was is denied you and
through your way they said you’d never
be nothing who was there for you when
mother and father for Sookie who who
brought you to storms and valleys and
ridges and Hallows at low places if
there’s anybody you ought to be loyal to
it ought to be Jesus it ought to be
Jesus said the least you can do is not
deny him your struggles are your
struggles and your problems are your
problems and you grow in grace is God
didn’t steal but you could at least say
I know him Peter denied him and then the
crowed and when the crowed his
heart fell cuz he realize that said
Jesus was right about him Jesus was
right about me and he started crying
he’s done cried he didn’t want Jesus to
be right
it’s the only time he didn’t want to use
this to be right he didn’t want to be he
didn’t want him to be right about it
that he would deny Jesus publicly from
everybody
he started the Bible said he wept solely
and walked away he was ashamed he was
ashamed because not his left is
definitely at least but before he was a
disciple he was a disciple he gave him
identity gave him a people look at you
when you ain’t laughing
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with no community embraces you and
nobody except you you know and it’s not
good for man to be alone with metal
Peter is alone after all and if years
and all of that experience and all of
their love Peter is absolutely alone and
he denied him in front of everybody it’s
one thing to have a secret set
but when your sin goes public
when your same goals public people act
like they have none
[Applause]
it’s not that you can’t still come
around them but you can feel you know
what I mean that feeling that they give
you that
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[Laughter]
god bless you that low set of signals
that we send out to people when they are
excommunicated out of our circles and
it’s one thing to deny a guy who died
that was that was bad that was terrible
that was humiliating
but if he died and he stayed dead didn’t
maybe it was right
the problem with denying Jesus is not
just denying Jesus it’s not just denying
of Jesus that got crucified it’s not
just a line or Jesus that died it’s not
just denying Jesus who had a funeral and
the cemetery service he died off
whispering to three people let’s say he
got up
[Applause]
he got her he got her he got up he got
up he got up he got up he got up he got
a I tell you what is kind of like it’s
like the more he rejected in high school
becomes the President of the United
States and you look and you say I made a
mistake I apologize see it’s one thing
to reject somebody who never goes up but
when you reject somebody and they come
into their power and they’re throwing a
party and you know you all have been
there and you should have been invited
and you should have been included and
you were earmarked to be at the
celebration but now you
I was over in Fort Worth and they’re
doing a lot of construction over in Fort
Worth and they haven’t popped my GPS
that you can’t turn left here because I
got this concrete temporary wall built
up here and so you can’t turn left and
the GPS is spinning and people are
behind me blowing and I’m fussing and
it’s embarrassing and I’m irritated and
I’m not feeling real Bishop II and the
moment you answer it’s just one of the
moments that I have every nightmare that
I just if I don’t take my medication I
tell you there’s somebody else I was
never one of them good moments
it was a detour things weren’t laid out
like they used to be and I couldn’t get
there like I used to and so I had to
drive in confusion and forlorn man and I
didn’t know exactly where I was and I
didn’t know what I needed to do to get
straightened back out but I always told
my sister as long as you got gas you’d
be all right I had guests I kept on
driving and kept on drivers lost but I
kept on Drive and I was confused but I
kept on driving see you can hit here
y’all don’t hear me you can be lost and
still keep going you can be lost still
go through the motions you can be lost
and still laugh at jokes and still go to
the movies and still do stuff and to the
other drivers they can’t see that she
lost cuz he still driving but down on me
inside was this nagging feeling that
some kind of way I got my life all tried
and I should have been there by now I
should have been there by now I should
have been there by now
[Laughter]
but I got away I expected to get there
because it was under construction and it
was shut down and it was messed up then
Jesus had risen from the dead and he was
getting ready to throw this massive
party for all the people been faithful
and it used to be me but I got I got
lost I would have been helping plan the
meeting and Galilee
I can tell by the way the disciples act
when I come around that I’m not really
one of them anymore
and the only thing bad about being the
ex is that when you aren’t that who are
you
first lady Obama is first lady Obama
first lady Trump his first lady Trump
and that comes with all kinds of stuff
that goes along with being that I’m not
saying she’s not gifted in her own right
both I’m not strong at all right but
there’s some perks that come through who
you’re connected to there were parts for
being a disciple but not an egg’s people
love the personal ad to the pastor that
no no no no you don’t like it but that’s
the tie there’s some first ladies in
this room that I tell you he was given
the flowers and the roses and the cakes
and everything your husband bad and they
said we got we we have to take the
person he’s back
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that’s how it works see Peter has not
spent his life building up him he spent
his life building up Jesus he’s putting
his business on hold for three years
he’s lost his client base
he’s lost his contacts a lot can happen
in three years Peter is lost and even
though he got call with Andrew and you
can’t call him back and that’s why this
text is important to me because when
Jesus rose up from the dead and showed
himself alive he told the woman he said
go tell the disciples
[Applause]
and Peter not my back my car it started
spinning this little thing starts
spinning on my on my GPS system and then
after a while it said rerouting I came
to tell you about a god we can reroute
[Applause]
I’m telling to tell you about a God who
can reroute a mess and a messy situation
and you’ve been downed of nothing and
everybody’s looking at you funny and
you’ll embarrass your family and you
embarrass yourself and you’re a bear
your name and everything I came to tell
you that God is spinning and when he
gets to spin it he’s gonna leave ouch
him it was something that she’s never
had before so Jesus says go tell the
disciples and Peter I don’t know whether
he’s even considered a disciple anymore
but I have not given up on him I don’t
know whether he’ll be in the circle or
not but I still got a plan for him I
don’t know whether they like him or not
but I still got a plan for his life I
don’t know whether they accept him or
not but I called him by his name like I
called him the first time like I called
him a rock like I called him to walk
with the water like I called him to the
Mount of Transfiguration all of other
times I called him he looked like a tear
said but I call you in spite of data
reliability I called you when your backs
up against the wall I call you when you
messed up your pants I call you when
you’ve been locked up in jail I call you
when you’ve been in a scandal I call you
what everybody’s talking about you like
a dog
I call you though you had a baby out of
wedlock
call you billion struck out of run I
call you I call you I call you like
homeless for you I call you by your name
that’s your title not your degree not
your pedigree not how much money you got
not how talented you are
and Peter I want you back
[Applause]
and so with my car got to reroute it
worked it out another way and it said
you’re only five minutes away
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and suddenly I realize what I want you
to realize today
[Applause]
I said all of that to you this morning
because there’s somebody in this room
who got lost and got off track and made
a wrong turn and got yourself in a mess
and I don’t know I thought recognized if
you come about although if you
recognizable to me but you’re
recognizable to God because God gave me
this message for you
[Applause]
he told me to tell you
you’ve been driving and going on like
you doing something but you know you
lost
you’ve been busy
with all kind of busyness but you know
that you are not living your life’s
purpose
you just going with the traffic just
driving with the crowd but you’ve been
off course for a minute cut that music
out you get off course for a minute late
at night and nobody is listening your
heart aches because being in the traffic
is not what you were born for you were
supposed to be gone somewhere you were
supposed to be somebody God was gonna
use your life in a spectacular way
something got you off track
and you know it because even in your
failure your instinctive enough to know
when you’re off track if you were
instinctive enough to know that Jesus
was the Messiah you are instinctive
enough to know that you are off track I
don’t care what you make I don’t care
what you drive I don’t care where you
live I don’t care who you’re married to
I have one simple thing to say
you can still get
no no no you gotta hear this you gotta
hear this because the enemy wants you to
think that you are no longer eligible
then it is too late that you have messed
up too bad that your destiny has been
aborted that God doesn’t love you that
God doesn’t care that God is ashamed and
embarrassed by you the enemy wants you
to forget that God knew you were gonna
mess up before you messed up you know
what the Bible says the Bible says gifts
and callings are without the repentance
of God then when he called you the first
half he already knew this was gonna
happen to you and he has not changed his
mind and you can still get