Peter | Pr Matthew Chang

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I want to start off with a simple story, very

very simple story. I remember I can't remember the source

or the statement, but basically, there was a church that

held a very big event, evangelistic rarey event, and there

were hundreds and thousands of people, great worship, great preaching,

and along among the people there was a group of

what they call it missionaries from China. Okay, they came

down and then they were hosted there. And then after that,

as the service was going on and almost ending, the

person in charge, the pastor in charge, were you know,

we're attending to them, and they asked the missionaries, you know, oh,

thank you for coming to join us. And then, you know,

how did you find their service? Did you enjoy yourself?

They said, yes, Wow, it was so good, amazing worship.

And they said, wow, it's amazing what it's amazing how

much you can do and we all can do without

the Holy Spirit. When I heard that, I was like, whoa,

it's like sharp, man, this was so sharp. And I

was like whoa. And then because they have seen, you know,

and I heard the story, the Pascel that just kept

quiet them or it's like don't know what to say,

you know. But of course I was not on the

stage when he said that. But then when I heard

that as more and more, I just feel like it's

so true, isn't it. You know. One of the fastest

ways and that we get ourselves beaten and you know,

leave the favor more than anything else, is to learn

to do things out of our own strength. Really doing

things out of our own strength. How many of you

loved You're just a self made man and woman, you know,

talk it out, do it and every single thing. Some

of you probably don't know that you are doing that.

He's in it. You don't realize, you know. I want

to tell you guys, a story today is as a

story of a man, and I think this story, I

hope that the story will kind of like speak to

you about his failures and also the way that he

is revived. And I will use the other word called recovered. Okay,

So the title is Peter, you know, revive and recovered.

You know, so especially the word recovered is a very

very important thing. Okay, So let's stop. I'm not going

to cover everything about Peter, but a few key expects

about Peter. How many of you know apostle Peter when

when you think about Peter was the first thing that

comes into your mind? Brash? Okay, what else fishermen? Oh,

brash fisherman? Okay? What else? What else you think about Peter? Yes?

Any one? Nothing else? Denial the nit three times? You know,

of all the things that Peter's like, heaven they're looking,

you know, looking at us. You know, all of all

the things you remember about me. You know, I read,

I've written books, I've led the church before and not

really you know, the guy that Jesus appointed and the

thing you remember about me, the nine Jesus Street time.

Out of all things, you know, that's the top of

the resume. You know, it's like, you know, the main

the thing that people like the most, you know, ten

billion views, the number one thing. You know. But he is,

uh is a very popular guy, known for most of

the time his weakness more than his strength, true or not,

a lot of people say that, you know, he's going

to be a very brash person. And you know, the

funny thing is he actually he was his story unfolded

in you know, the greatest height and fall happening in

the span of twenty four hours. She less than twenty

four hours, in the span of six hours. Okay, we

all know that. You know he famously denying Jesus three times. Okay,

famously denyed Jesus trying. But did you know that at

the same time when he fell, there was also another

person who fail as wells Judas fail as well. Okay,

some of you will say that, hey, all of them

probably are in the same category. Turnout both of them

are pretty much in the singer Both of them betrayed Jesus.

But yeah, Boho then ended up quite differently. I didn't

prepare in his slides, but I just don't want to

highlight a few things here because I was I saw

doing the slides, I didn't felt like quite quite easy.

I just thought that maybe God wants me to speak

it through without the slides. What was the problem with Judas?

How did he end up betraying Jesus? Followed Jesus for

three years? Are and can ended up betraying Jesus? What

went wrong? Mhm unbelieved? Yeah, what went wrong? Three years?

Are seeing a guya perform miracles? Of the miracles? Are

It's not easy to follow away. You can follow away

political movements and stuff like their CEOs or whatever. But

to see a guide do a miracle after miracle and

to not believe in him after three years is it's

quite quite quite a dramatic forward. No you see, sorry greed. Yeah,

he's agreed as well, because he loved money as well.

The Bible says that in all that he helped himself to

the to the group's money as well. Yeah, but the

main problem with Judas was that he had a wrong

picture of Jesus. He had the wrong picture with Jesus.

Do you get what me saying? You can? And that's

the sad thing. And I tell you that there are

people right now that whether are in church or not

in church, there a lot of times therefore, either in

the camp of Judas or the fault in the chemp

of Peter as well, there are people who follow Jesus

for a long time, but yet they can have the

wrong picture of Jesus. The day that Judas decided that

Peter that he will decide to betray Jesus was when

he realized that Jesus's path after following three years, was

not going to lead to a crown, which is a king,

but it's going to lead to a cross. Sometimes you

don't see it clearly, but only after three years, you

know what I'm saying. I'm saying no. Sometime you follow

U pusson enough like oh it looks promising, but after

I follow you, I realize where you are really heading.

At every moment when Jesus was performing miracles, was winning

the crowd and everything, it was just that one more

step away from just taking it and then be the

king ready. And Judus has witnessed it. You know, He's like,

you can score the goal, but Jesus said no, You

saying we could score the goal. But he said no,

and Jesus said retreated. But yet he let his enemy

do whatever they want. And he realized that until that

last very moment that Jesus say that I'm going to

be arrested, I'm going to be crucified, and that broke

the straw. I follow you three years so that you

can get arrested, you're thinking of just about your own

career or about us as well, you know what I'm

saying now. So the day he realized it was leading

to a cross and not a crown, Judas decided to

cut loss Us. You know, you know what I'm saying. No,

he said the cut Losses. I'm not going to follow

a loser. And that's why he literally you know he don't.

I'm not gonna I'm just knowing now that is Judas.

What about Peter? What about Peter? What was his problem?

His problem was not that he had a false picture

of Jesus. Peter's problem is with a lot of us

as well. One girl of people who had a false

picture of Jesus. But Peter falls into the group they

had a false picture of themselves. You know what I'm saying. No,

one group had a false picture of Jesus and one

group has a false picture of themselves. And this is

the picture where you think you can do everything on

your own. And the same method as well, he also fail.

M M. You know what I'm saying now, So people

who had a false impression of Jesus will fall. Another

group of people who also will fall, but has a

very high chance of recovery. It's a people who have

a false picture of themselves. So in life when you walk,

when especially with our journey with Christ, right God comes

to solve this too. The picture and the vision of Jesus,

in the vision of ourselves. You get what I'm saying now,

correct what we see about Jesus and correct what we

see about ourselves as well. So you see, Peter is

a guy who who is a self made man. It's

a fisher man. Every morning wakes up. What's the first

thing you do? You look at the weather and everything.

It's like wake up. You depend on your timeliness. You

know your knowledge everything, your skill and your net and

the waters. You against the water and you catch. And

then when you know, when you can catch a lot,

the world world will know that you are a successful

fisher man. You know what I'm saying now, it's you

braving the world. He has always been like that. But

yet Jesus had to teach him one very very important lesson.

I'm gonna show you guys in verse thirteen. And this

is one very important teaching. Tell me me to joint

chapter thirteen, first and verse seven. And this is the

part where Jesus, you know that famously wants to wash

his disciples feet, okay, John Chapter thirteen, verse seven, and

he says, yeah. Jesus answered and said to him, what

I am doing, you do not understand now, but you

will know after this. And Peter said to him, you

shall never wash my feet. Wow, how many of you?

How many of us will come today? One day? He said, Oh,

Jesus will never wash my feet. I serve you, not

you serve me. I created this ministry, I do all

this my business, and I serve you. No, you serve me.

It's not the right thing. And then Jesus said, if

I do not wash you, you have no part with me.

What does that actually mean? Okay, and let's go on.

And he says that since Simon Peter said to him, Lord,

not my not my feet only, but also my hands

and my head, then the most mysterious part is this.

Jesus said to him, he who is bathed needs only washed,

needs only to wash his feet. But it's completely clean.

And you are clean, but not all of you, for

he knew who will betray him. Therefore he said, you

are not all clean. No, that's posted for a while.

What is Jesus trying to do here? Why did Jesus

wash his disciples? Fit? Most of you will know what? What? What? What? What? What?

What was the purpose of Jesus doing this act, this

so called very humble and servant act to his disciple.

What was the purpose? It's not a true question. I'm

not doing a fake move Okay, scared you, it's not move. Okay?

What am I doing here? What? What? What? What was

the purpose? He was trying to work examply? Why what?

To teach them humility? But there is also a secondly

very important message, because if it's because Jesus says here

very importantly and he says that he who is bathe

needs only to wash his feet, but it's completely clean

and you are clean. What does that actually mean? He

who is bathe is already clean, need only washed, only

needs to wash his feet. What did Jesus add there?

Why did he Why do he say that? Is it

a hygiene? How many of you, like most of you?

How many times do you wash? Do you shower today?

Most of the time too? I'm not judging, Okay, I'm

not judging. Ah, maybe like you know, maybe you're not

daily and weekly? Okay, fine, And you're like Europeans. You

know you know that some Europeans are there their showermuch

lesser agents, you know, at least in South China. Okay,

I don't know our where, but we shower a lot more.

Every time you come home, we shower a readily. Maybe

before you go out morning you shower once. You can't

beat your shower. But every time you step out the

house you shower and you come back every time. So

if you go and get your parcel and go greturn,

you shower. No, right, not every time you go and

take your dog, you shower everything that So if you

step out your house ten times, you shower ten times. No,

it doesn't make sense to then why because you're already

plead you're already clean. But most of the time when

we come back, what do we do? You wash your feet.

Some people don't wash your feet out here, but back

in the eighties we wash our feet one because we

always sleepers battas sleepers and all the blue color there dirty.

And then we it's like where the stuff like that?

We wash our feet one now and no, I know

fann families are you don't come into the house and

there you wash your feet one. You know, old school style,

especially our parents, our grand parents, you cannot come in

until you wash your feet. And most of the time

before we do anything, we eat anything, wash your hands,

wash your hands? Is it? But you don't do that

every time and on. But you don't do that as

often as you shower. You can understand. Sorry, you don't

shower as often as you do that. Okay, what does

that actually mean? You see, when you shower, you already clean.

That's a Christian. When we responded to salvation call receive

Jesus or heart, we've been made clean, washed by the

blood of Jesus. We abide him. But every day we

go out to the world. Our feet and our hands

touch the world, we interact. We're in this world, but

not of this world. You know what I'm saying. No,

but we are clean already. We shower ready, we wear

a southe we smell good. But we touch, we shake hands.

Some of you wear masks or scale covid. Okay, anything

could be anything, but we touched the world and we

come back. No matter how much we show, we still

wash our hands. It's right. But what is Jesus saying that?

He says, if you do not let me wash you,

you have no part of me. You know, it's not

that you showered en all, It's that as you interact

with the world with your hands, with your faith, with

your mind, with your words, you are dirty, and if

you want to come to this home and interact, you

cannot unless you are clean. And the only way you

are made clean is by me serving you, not by

your own strength. This is what Jesus is saying. You know,

it's a very very powerful thing, and not to us believers.

You know, every day when we interact with the world,

we touch the world, we watch the things we watch,

we hear the things we hear, and everything we think

that we can go out come back, think that we

can just go on and eat whatever we want. But

Jesus says, if you do not let me wash you,

you have no part of me. He's not saying that

you're not safe. Just say is that your hands and

your feet are dirty. Wash it, and the only way

you can be made clean is by me serving you.

So how does Jesus washing our hands and feet looks

like every day? Is that when we come back, when

we have served, when we have worked, when we have

labeled everything under the sun, out of your own strength.

When you interact the world, the ultimate thing that you

need to do is to sanctify yourself by spending time

with him and let him wash you. And most of

the time we need collected. We've been living an unsanitary

Christian life. Don't your neighbor say, let's get hygienie. Okay,

doesn't make sense to you. Now, doesn't make sense to you.

Oh now I understand what he's saying because it highlights

the fact that Peter, in all the things that he does,

he's also been doing together with not just him, many

of us. We do things out of our own strength,

our own strength. I thought, while we get see, we

get hired, and everything, you say no after every single

day when you come back, let me serve you. And

if you don't, you have no part of me. We

have to be very, very humble, you know, those who sir,

you need to go back and receive. You know, you

can say, go my, my, not it's all but me,

So ben give, give, give, gig gift. Then after one

few years and you feelize a this person no longer

in churchman because I never washed their hands in their

feet kind of scarier. It's so Peter didn't understand it.

And Peter didn't really quite understand. So he's a man

who was doing things out of his own strength. You know.

One of the few failures that he did and of

course he fell asleep when he was supposed to watch

and pray. Isn't it not one time? How many times?

Three times? Three times? He was supposed to be watchful again,

looking for danger and Jesus' most what they call it

a dangerous hour, But he couldn't do it three times.

Ask you to stay awake, to watch over your kid

if they are having fever, you will stay awake. But

if you watch your spouse for sleep, your love, he's

going on. You're supposed to watch the temperature. You fall

a steep chair. Sometimes you feel like such a simple thing.

Also you cannot do. Sometimes I don't to do And

then you watch them scrolling your phone. We all like

there isn't it? We all like there is We cannot

keep watching, know we cannot keep one Peter felt in that.

And one of the main one of the main things

that of course no one thinks that he did, is

that he go and cut off the ear of the

all this happening in the span of six hours and

six hours define his life, and that we all remember

for a long time. Six hours and he go and

cut off Jesus already told him that I'm gonna go

to the cross ready, and yet you are of your

own strength. Tell everyone that you will never deny me,

even if everyone falls away. I will never deny well

and brought a sword ready. You know, okay, you failed

to watch over Jesus three times, and yet in this moment,

your temper got the better of you. Your temper got

the battle of you, and you took out and you

acted violence. You acted violently, temperamental and violent. How many

of you like a temperamental and violent person in the family.

It's one of the scariest thing in the family. You

wan don't know. You cannot control the temper, in the ministry,

in the office, anything was the one thing that everybody scared.

Temper and violence cannot be reason, cannot be controlled. This

is the man that Jesus so called like, not as

to leader, and the man who declared has no control

of temper and his violence not the quality that we

all look for. Felt quite miserably. Okay. And then now

there's the partner. Then the last part before he denied

Jesus street time. This is where I want you guys

to take a bit of observation. Here turned with me

to John chapter eighteen, John chapter eighteen, Verse fifteen. And

this is a very important thing. There's a very important

thing I do wonders share with you guys. Here John

chapter eighteen, verse fifteen, before he denied Jesus, when Jesus

was arrested, this is what happened, he says. Then and

Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. You

know who is this disciple? John? Okay, John and Peter

follow Jesus. Now it's say it's now that disciple, which

is John, was known to the High Priest and went

with Jesus into the courtyard of the High Priest. Now Jesus,

Now John was with Jesus. Everyone has left. But John

followed Jesus. But what But John has something unique that

Peter did not have. What was that he had connection?

He knew the High priest or at least related to

the High Priest in some way. That is why he

followed them. He was following there with Jesus there. What

does it mean that John had covering? He had covering? Now, Peter,

he says, when you see, but you know you're but

here number sixteen. But Peter stood at the door outside.

Peter was not with the disciples. The rest of the

disciples at home. This is like twelve minut night Radia,

late night. Really, he doesn't know anyone that John knew.

He was not with Jesus. He was nowhere in no

man's land. What does that tell you? He had no covering,

He had no covering. A lot of us want to

follow Jesus, but we get ourselves out of position without

any single covering, and he did it off his own strength.

And covering is a very important concept. You look at

Genesis Adam and if one of the first things when

they seen what happened, they lost their covering and they

covered themselves. If he can lives during Egypt, when Israel

is Egypt, when the Tenth Plates happened, what did God

asked the people to do during the tenth play? Remain

inside the house under the covering of the No one

is to come outside. No one. If you come out,

anything that happens to you, it is on your head.

Covering a very very important concept. But yet on this night,

when Peter had felt almost every single test, he felt geography,

he felt his sciences held biology, every single thing he failed,

and the last thing, he still found himself with no covering.

He was not with the disciples. He was not nor anyone.

He was on his own on the outside. And you say,

is that that? You know that? Then the other disciples

who was known to the high priests went out and

spoke to her who kept the door, and brought Peter

in to get someone to speak to you there. And

the servant who kept the doors set to bitter. You

are not also one of this men's disciples, are you?

And he said I am not. Now the servants and

officers who had made a fire coat stood there, for

it was cold, and they warmed themselves, and Peter stood

with them and warmed himself. So what happens when you

have no covering? When you try to follow Jesus out

of your own strength, you try to do life out

of your own strength? What happens? You realize that you're

on your own, and you realize that your cold, and

you draw to the one thing that has warmth, the

fire made by the world, the firemen. And you will

see this scene where the fire is later as well

with Jesus. Interestingly, isn't it when you are on your own,

falling on your own strength, the world will make fire

as well? Maybe I don't know it's a job opportunity,

maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's some kind of temptation

that was Ah. Maybe you can find there to find

to warm yourself, to find a bit of relief and covering,

you know, to gather yourself and your strength as well.

But you realize that the fire it also serves to

betray you. But I'm not gonna go there. It sarves

to betray you because later on you will say, in

the same fire where Peter was warming her, it was

not sold just you know, it was just a simple

servant lady, he says. The servant lady looked intently at

his face and ask him, are you not this man disciple?

What does it mean? He says, When you come to

the fire, what happens? It's not just heat. You know,

when you get around the fire, I can start to

see all your faces more clearly, you know, without lighter

most of the time. Remember we don't have led lights

on the timer we go anywhere, I can see their faces. Hey, John, oh,

what's something on? And that time is dark one? And

on the twelve o'clock everybody's hood and stuff like that.

Unless you carry a torch, nobody you can get away.

We don't be noticed one no, no. But when you

come yourself, you have so cold you have no chance

but to warm by the fire. You go to that

one place that offers a b of warm. But that

same place of war shows your face as well, who

you really really are. It's kind of ironic, shows your

face because the sivil lady was reading Peter his face off,

look intently, are you not this man disciple? But what

was revealed was not just his face, you know, But

what's revealed was what is the substance of what he

is made of? Do you? Will you really follow Jesus

if everyone else fails. He found out that he deny

Jesus the real substance, you know, and the world will

chew you up and spit you out, revealing who you are,

and they will not offer to save you. You know.

You see, Judas happened the same thing, you know, and

Judas betrayed. Uh uh Jesus rebag of gold. I think

it's about eighty eighty pieces something pieces already, it's the

it's the same amum money for a slave. Okay. He

when he realized that he made a mistake, he went

back to the same group of people and what did

they say? Did you not even to help him? They

didn't want to help him? Is this this is how

the world will be? You know? You think your success.

I remember one thing I used to remember when I

was in Audit just I think my office just like

he KPMG kind of maybe they can he asking, it's

just opposite that side. I remember my first year when

I worked, I was slaving away that tree for country

for culture of four o'clock. And I remember what my

senior his name is Yo, I remember clearly. But he

looks like a guy who come from Cherat and it's

typical Chinese, you know, who drink like Chinese, you know,

like those But it's such a cool guy. I love

him and I say, it's such a cool dude. I

learned so much from him. He's like, man, how are

you you know? They was like, hey, well he worked

so hard, but you know, but he said, way, it's hard.

It's it's a trick question or so it's good but

you shouldn't weakly know. But you worked so hard. But

you know, but it's good for you. But know why

you're here the same time now it's it's yes and no, okay,

you know, after all this, you suthing all these papers. Ready,

remember this, ah, remember this. The people you should invest

other people who will come and visit your funeral. Okay,

m I tell you you get accident, this company will

not not even come you to visit you, to tell

you he hit me with a reality. You know. It's like, man,

you work so hard, you can do all of your life.

People give you a client, but I tell you, in

the next hour they'll be thinking about something else. Ready, people,

remember you, that's the tub. The world will chew you

up and spit you up. There's the truth or not.

But so don't get too comfortable with the fireplacer. Really

you know of the world. And now when you are

on your own, like Peter, they will try to see

you and identify as you as who you are. Chew you.

I'm speitch you out. They don't care even if you

hang on the tree like Judas did. You're just another story,

you know what I'm saying. No, So Peter getting very

greemer But you notice all these things there. But after

all these things, of course we have we jumped to

the scene where Jesus resurrector yeah, he appeared to all

the disciples. Yeah, but what did what did Jesus to

How did how would you restore a guy who has

fallen so badly? And some of you you probably know

what I'm talking about, Like maybe you feel like you're

kind of like Peter. What do What does a bad

sleaden Christian look like? Or someone who's very far from

from from Christ looks like? I mean, they don't come

to church. I tell you a lot of backsladien Christians

are still in church. You'll be surprised, you'll be so

so many bed sladian Christians are still in the church.

They're just like Peter, falling far away. Ready, Okay, but

you still with Jesus, You hear Jesus. You still to

visit his grave. You still come for Easter service, you

still come for Christmas. You're still a tent of b

a thing. But you are far away. And I tell

you one of the scene here he say it's here

In John chapter twenty one, verse one, he says, after

these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at

the Sea of Tiberius. And in this way he showed

himself Simon, Peter, Thomas, and so and so. Okay, okay,

what did he say? In verse three, Simon Peter say

to them, I am going fishing. Remember this, are you say,

what's wrong with fishing? What's wrong with fishing? Sounds like

fishing is wrong? And then they say, if fishing is wrong,

can we play pickable? You speakable wrong? You know it's

going wrong. You know he's saying, like you know, there's

certain things we cannot do. Meansta before Jesus, we cannot

do none of this, No, no, no. Fishing is significant.

You know why because it is the same vocation where

Jesus called Peter from when Peter was still called Simon,

not Peter. Peter wasn't name that Jesus gave him. He

was still called Simon. And you were noticed in this

story that Jesus, when Jesus called him, he didn't call

him Peter. You know, he called him Simon. He knew.

It's already telling you that Jesus knew where Peter was at. Spiritually,

even though you are aware the disciples, even though you

have not gon and you know hang yourself like Judas did,

You're still around, but you are far away. It's like

you take from step one all the way to step

ten and now you're back at step one, but Jesus,

and this is after Jesus show himself resurrected. So it

means how you can see a miracle, you can experience somethings,

but you are still back at step one now like

back at one and Bryan McKnight, you're back at one

again after so after three years you are still back

at one. That's how far you can fall. And I'm

not judging anyone because I know exactly how the feel.

I'm not genting, but I'm telling you the truth so

that it can speak hope. And more importantly, it will

reveal to you the kind of God that we have,

the kind of shepherd that we have. It doesn't matter

that sheep come back to step one. The shepherd still

chases after you. He calls you by the first name. See,

the Peter that Jesus saved was not the strong and

mighty Peter. The Peter that Jesus saved was the was

the fisherman that was laboring all himself at the fish

that he couldn't catch nothing. That was the Peter. That

was the Simon that Jesus caught. Now Simon went back

all the way to fishing again. Why fishing, Because when

you have fallen so far, when everything that all the

disciples knew about you was your failure, your denial, and

every single thing everything you fail, you needed a comfort

to where you are still in control, where you still

can be a bit more successful, true or not. One

of the things that when you are depressed and what

you're looking forward, you pray for just a bit of

success to let me know that God can still use me,

or I can still have somebody use in this life,

or anyone around me. That's why you see a lot

of people who are depressing. Everything they don't You find

them very hard to get them to do anything. They

just see at home. They just watch TV and doom scrow,

doom scroll because they are scared of failing because they

don't see anything. What's the point, what's there's too much energy,

too much energy. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. When

they are just resting at home, you come saying not

because they cannot see any success. They are so worried

about failure and the world chewing them and spitting them out.

You come saying, you know, but so it went backfishing.

It's one of the things that you see when if

you go and find yourself or anyone, they go back

to do the things maybe they used to. You know,

your vices. It's all bad smoking, go bad, drinking, going

playing game, go back to the relationship, going to your friends,

go into all the toxic things that you got delivered.

And you went back and sometimes it's not just a fool,

but just a hint of it. Ah, and you live.

You're like, no, no, no, these are signs of backslaving people.

I miss a bit of things like that. And then

sometimes you get me saying no. But and you do that,

and there's a big sign of what you do, and

you realize that what all the disciples followed him, you know,

and it affects you and your family. And I speak

this to parents, you know, your mothers, mothers and fathers.

What you do affects everyone. Your children are watching and

you get affected by that, you realizing or no, it does,

it does. I'm saying no, it does. And they can

sense that you are holding on to a fragment of success.

But you're so scared as well. You went back fishing

and hold day they were fishing and they caught nothing.

How depressing can that? Be. You know, you got no

point of Returnalda. But it is at that point that

Jesus shows himself. Even when you try to go back.

Maybe you go back to your ex, go back to

your old boss. But I tried to do it, and

you still fail. I tell you Jesus is still there.

Jesus knows exactly where you are. I tell you some

of us when we Bexlider. I bested him before, and

that's simpler. I tell you. You feel like, oh, I've

gone so far. I tell you Jesus is exactly knows

where you are. It's amazing, you know. I want to

let you know today Jesus is knows exactly where you are.

And the funny thing is, as they were catching, they

couldn't catch. What did they do? They heard a voice

they couldn't recognize it tray on the right side, and

they caught so much, you know, they caught so much.

I think there's a number. I think it was one hundred.

They five fish. You know how much fish? Is that? No?

More?

As all? We don't feel we don't. I tell you,

if these are all big two NASA, you were like, WHOA,

don't dependie too? Now you see that then you're like, oh,

pastor now you're talking about something different. Yes, there is

a difference case you think like, you know it's those

small ikambawaw you know all the bad you know? Ah?

Not the small fish is the big one and all.

It's so much he cought on he could fish. It's

it's a full year salary. Now, how many of you

are okay with a full year salary? You gotta start

a new business ready after you deny Jesus three times

and everything, oh suddenly you get a fresh start. I

don't have to be the Peter who failed, who denied Jesus.

I don't need to be the follow three years following,

but I get a fresh start. I don't. People don't

have to associate me with that. I can wrap my past,

my resume as a new career, already successful, by a

new boat, and do a thing. He could have a

fresh style. Now, this is a very important theology. Why

did Jesus do that? Because clearly he didn't catch their

fish on his owner. It was because of Jesus' intervention.

It's something that Peter wanted, isn't it. You see a

lot of times I will we pray for God to

answer our prayer, you know, and a lot. I get

this most of the time, pastor, or is this a

sign from heaven from God? I got this job opening.

I pray for so long, but then God, I think

this is God answering me. Now, but this is working

for a dodgy company. Maybe the devices might not agree

with me. Actually I got hired. You know, I'm not hired,

but no a headhunter for a company that the product

I cannot agree with that. It's like it's really like,

you know, it's affecting your health. One okay, I cannot

but the pay is doable or not. Many people can

tell you my clary can jump. It's five figure already.

I'm not bad man. In my year only I can

get you know, ten five figures. That time was two

thousand and eight or maybe and then got another one. Hey,

what there was that time? When was the best corporate

finance company? Who's hard to guess. Okay, I shouldn't have

said it. Anyway, working with one of the top whichest

men in the world, I know, if you work there,

it's like you know, you got you know, you got

your badge of honor. Ready, you can work in any

finance company, any private equity ready, only that the work

was today. I felt so happy, how to be shortly stare?

But then I do accept it? I have to decide, man,

I couldn't do it. I'm not saying I'm greater. I'm

not greater. Actually, you want to accept them. I don't

know where that's that say yes and no. I think

it's probably a lot of my wife and God. Love

my wife and God. What I always wanted to say,

eth you see God answering all these things? You see God? What? What? What?

What does that tell you? God will never make you,

force you to choose him, But you still have to

choose not everything that God lays before you. It's where

you ought to go. But why does he give it

to you? Why does he create the tree? I'm going

evil because God will always honor us as free human

beings to choose. And you can be in the boat,

can be depressed, and God can say, let you catch

a fish, and you very clearly now have a path

where you can lead all your life. But you want

to start afresh again and God allows it. But it

is still not the way of God. What I'm saying,

you know, and so this is a very important, but

our pastor now you got Now you're making me my

life very difficult because now such a good thing. Right

now you're saying that I may not be able to

choose it. It seems like it's God's designing all this.

Maybe this is a man or a woman in my

life as well. Maybe it's a job. And think, oh God,

you mean I need to you need I need to

struggle someone. I just got out twenty one fast and prayer.

I thought, this is it? You mean another twenty one day,

so fast and prayer again. You decide, you have to decide,

you have to choose Beco'm saying, no, it's funnier, and

what does it do? God says that if you sincerely

have that fear of God, you need to go through

another round of struggle, of searching your heart again. And

I tell you that struggle is actually what you need,

not the answer. A lot of times we want the answer,

but God said, you need another struggle, and that struggle

is what will make you, and that struggle is what

you need in your life. Is it that fish, that

blessing that you want? You see her? When Peter caught

all this, he was happy, you know, and I'm drawing

to a close ready, And the satin says that John said,

I don't know where this is loudly, but but I

believe it's more like privately to Peter. Hey, you know,

we cat all lot of the fisher. I think it's Jesus.

It is Jesus spoke and when Peter hot did he

got she stroock in his heart and all you know,

what did he do? He says, he put on his

clothes and he jumped in, you know, and then he

felt quite miserably, it says here. Um, anyway, I'm gonna

prefact due to time. It says, as he did that right,

the other boat was already on the shore or near

the shore, because I think there are two boats, and

then one was for the Their boat was for the way.

The other boat was much nearer, and they had all

the fish. Rety, what did Peter had in mind earlier?

He wanted to wear and then jumped in, hoping then

when he arrived on the show, then he will be

ahead of all the evidence. You know what I'm saying,

He will be ahead of all the evidence, and then

Jesus will not see him with all the fish and

in him going back fishing again. It's like my son

sometimes when I come back, Hey, have you been playing

the game and all the evidence? You know, sometimes you

try to get ahead of the evidence. You know what

I'm talking about, all that need before you don't say

what I'm saying. I see you. Oh yeah, yeah, we're

trying to get ahead of the evidence. I'm sorry, God

bless you. It's true, isn't it. We try to get

ahead of the evidence. But yeah, the evidence was already

ahead ready, he says, the boat with the fish was

already and Jesus said, what come and bring some of

the fish as well?

He got.

And then when they will arrive, it says very detailed.

No John details it very well. Says that when they

were there, no one spoke anything. No one said the

same thing, what's quiet? What's quiet? He as a leader,

he wanted to get off the evidence. He wouldn't bother

He wasn't bothering and took care to lead the other people.

You all caught the fish. I wasn't okay. It's like

you know, when you have see things in the family,

and they one tried to set themselves up there he

let the other burn. Really just trying to say their

own skin. He was really doing that. He was acting

out of his own self interest. Ready, and even in

this part, you know when he caught the fish that

he's still fumbling. He's still fumbling. And we got on

the boat ready. And when he got on the land, really,

Jesus Us bring the fish there? My men had the

convenient as I draw to a close here, Jesus didn't

bring it one time, you know? And why are you fishing? Yah?

I tell you to believe in me. Three years I

invested in you. Seeing all this and on top of

the eye resurrected, I showed myself and you still went

back fishing. It's it's quite a shaming, not because I

after all these things, are you still prefer your old job?

You know? You? You you think my management style not

doesn't suit you? Is it? But Jesus didn't say like

rebuke you.

Now?

He still give him a choice, you know. And the

first time, what did Jesus say to him, Peter? Do

you love me more than all of this? I was

always a choice, though, do you love me more than

all of this? What is all of this? I give

you a new life. I'm not gonna direject you I'm

gonna I can bless you, bless you according to what

you want, and you can have it all. You will

known assignment no longer, Peter, your rejection, your name, and

your deeds will not be mentioned in the Bible and

read for the next two thousand plus years by people

in the world. Give me right. Nobody will know of

your failures anymore. Nobody They can live on assignment, not

as Peter. But you love me more than all this,

this new life and smon. And Peter suddenly said, now, Lord,

you know that I love you. And there is where

it's the beginning. You know he never said that, Lord,

I will never he said, Lord, you know you know

my past, my failures, all the things I do. It's

a failure. My presence is a mess. You know my

I said, I'm a mess, isn't it. I messed up

again in front of everybody, gloriously trying to hide and

then trying to you know what a poor example are

you telling? Maybe this is a time where not Peter,

but maybe John. You know, John is the right leader

of the church, not me. John. John didn't deny you

three times, Not me, but lor you know my future?

What future I have because all this world when you

use your own strength to do things, and what future

do you have? Because you get to a point you're

so depressed and you're so weak, you just want to

Like Peter, I just I can't even fish, I can't

even serve God with my strength. I just choose to

see in the in the in the, in the couch

of my arms, and then just doom scroll what future is.

See there's a lot of people in church that are

back sleaden. But I want to let you know, thank

God is there. He calls you again, not to you

that are now. He calls you to the sigmon that

was at the first place where he found you weak,

broken and lost. But he still calls you. You love

me more than all this. And Jesus replied him three times,

is there very purposefully sequential? First one is one feed

my sheep, sorry, feed my not my sheep. Very important detail.

Feed my lambs, feed my lamb. It starts with the

lamb the young, then ten to my sheep, then only

become a sheep ten minutes to lead them from pasture

to pasture to guide their behaviors. Then the third one,

feed my sheep, not my lamb. So Peter is not

this Peter, after going through the interview process hr g

Hi interview process which he felt miserably, is asked to

feed the young, to lead the older, and to feed

the older. Why now, because now Peter is ready. He

is ready because he's no longer leading on his own strength.

He knows his past, his present, and his future doesn't matter.

It is Christ who leads him. Yeah, what I'm saying, no,

Christ who leads him. And it's funny and that at

this moment, not before this, are that Jesus chooses to

reveal Peter's faith and destiny, not earlier. You know, Jesus

reveals to Peter I said that now you go wherever

you want, but when you are older, someone else will

lead you and you to places where you do not

want to go. Means that he's going to be persecuted

and hung upside down, you know what I'm saying. You know,

but the Peter before was the man on his own,

thinking he can lead the ministry and do all this thing,

was not ready to receive that. You know what I'm saying,

God knows is exactly what we can bear now. And

sometimes you said, God, I just need to know no, no, no.

God knows exactly you cannot take it, and sometimes if

he gives it to you right now, he knows that

it will undo you. But he waits until that moment

when you are completely not clinging to anything, you're completely helpless,

You are clinging to God and you are fully abiding

in Him now and the words that says best witness

you are ready. So I want to let you know

that God doesn't those of you you're coming back, doesn't

need you attend. He needs you at one exactly where

you are to come back to God. Amen.

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