Nephilim Death Squad - Simon Peter： Why Jesus Called Him a Rock (John 1_42) ｜ G. Campbell Morgan Sermon Breakdown ｜ Straight Bible

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00:01:10.780 For Peter to be able to stay close to me tonight, he's going to have to deny.

00:01:15.920 Of all the apostles of our Lord, none seems to be better known than Simon Peter.

00:01:20.380 When the Lord told him that he should be called rock or stone,

00:01:23.680 it sounded incredible.

00:01:25.140 He went over the side of the boat to walk to him on the water.

00:01:28.360 Peter could have physically tried to stop Jesus. 0.87

00:01:31.560 Get thee behind me, Satan. 0.98

00:01:32.880 You are an offense unto me. 0.99

00:01:34.620 Peter will probably explode into a million pieces 0.53

00:01:36.880 before he's able to do anything.

00:01:38.700 Verily, verily, I say unto thee,

00:01:40.140 the cock shall not crow till you have denied me thrice.

00:01:43.320 The look broke his heart,

00:01:44.620 and he went out into the night, weeping bitterly.

00:01:46.920 I told you that you should be rock,

00:01:48.880 and you're gonna be.

00:01:49.980 But I know someone who does believe in you.

00:01:52.940 And he believes in you because he is able to make you exactly what you are not.

00:01:56.840 Like a process is going to have to happen for you to become this thing that people can depend on.

00:02:01.020 People can count on it.

00:02:01.960 People can build on it.

00:02:07.320 I don't know why he loves the intro, but he's all about like having an intro.

00:02:11.260 He's a showman.

00:02:12.280 You think that's what it is?

00:02:13.240 Yeah.

00:02:13.560 Yeah.

00:02:13.960 It makes it very like theatrical.

00:02:15.680 He's like, yeah, this is a big thing.

00:02:16.920 Big production.

00:02:17.840 Kind of is.

00:02:18.420 whereas when it's me and you it's like yeah let's just go let's just go how you been because i feel

00:02:23.620 like i don't even see you anymore what do you mean no i just feel like you're in this whole other

00:02:27.140 world now oh well you've got rose-colored glasses on you know i'm in the real world we're doing

00:02:31.540 we're moving we're shaking you are moving and shaking dude you got a lot of stuff happening

00:02:36.240 i'm doing good we have a new website we have like new sub stack we have like new uh merch there's

00:02:41.600 like do you have like tons of stuff going i got i got i'm burning it at like uh both ends the

00:02:47.380 candle at both ends but is it okay everything we're doing like i just show up and do the content

00:02:51.360 you're like doing all this stuff like big high level moves i think less of you but it's okay

00:02:56.280 okay i'm excited no i was wondering that i'm no i'm excited to get into this episode today

00:03:02.040 specifically because peter is one of the most fascinating characters in the bible yeah you

00:03:07.780 really are no he really is he's he's kind of like uh he's kind of he has so he has flaws major

00:03:14.820 flaws did you read it did you read this one yet i i read briefly through it i didn't read the whole

00:03:19.220 thing but i mean obviously we've read about peter we know about peter yeah he's got major flaws but

00:03:23.780 he's what he's the disciple that kind of that kind of was at the at the top of the other disciples

00:03:28.980 when jesus was around what does that mean he seemed like he seemed like the guy that was the

00:03:34.080 leader that was stepping forward when jesus asked questions he's he's the guy that was brave enough

00:03:38.320 to answer and yeah he's the guy that's rewarded he's the guy that seems like other the other ones

00:03:43.060 kind of deferred to there is a question didn't even paul defer to him at some point this is

00:03:46.820 afterward like paul rebukes him no no they were at they were asking uh when they were asking about

00:03:52.360 the what we should do with the gentiles being uh that's interesting because james james has the

00:03:58.660 final word on that james does because it's this weird thing where they peter weighs in sure yeah

00:04:03.180 so like he's important but yeah go ahead him him speaking though the most like you're saying it is

00:04:07.100 intriguing because it brings up this question like was he just the spokesman for the group like did

00:04:11.000 the group kind of get together and then he was the spokesman or was it everything that was

00:04:15.160 happening like he was just blurting out like his position when i read it it seems like the guy

00:04:19.980 like david would be this sort of guy where the teacher who knows everything in this case is

00:04:26.600 saying a thing and then he's asking a question and everyone else goes i got an answer but i'm

00:04:30.620 not gonna yeah i'm not picking my hand up because yeah you know if i'm wrong but peter was like yeah

00:04:34.820 i'll say it yeah and sometimes jesus was like that's dope and and you're cool and sometimes

00:04:39.700 jesus was like hey get behind me yeah but yeah i like him because he's he's that character he's out

00:04:46.260 there okay so just jump into any time dude i like it when you're engaged in these i don't like it

00:04:50.560 when you're like over there no my mind's my mind's elsewhere you know my mind is thinking about

00:04:54.340 production this dude okay no no i'm just ready see that was a joke you gotta lock in same let's

00:05:00.760 start okay of all the apostles of our lord none seems to be better known than simon peter he is

00:05:07.080 conspicuous in the New Testament, in the gospel narratives, and in the first part of the Acts of

00:05:11.300 the Apostles. He has been prominent in church history and remains today among the most fascinating

00:05:15.760 of the band of men which surrounded the Lord in the days of his earthly ministry. This familiarity

00:05:20.740 is both a hindrance and a help. It is a help because it obviates anything in the nature of

00:05:26.080 detailed reference. It is a hindrance in that it may lead us to be more occupied with the man

00:05:31.660 than with our Lord's method of dealing with him,

00:05:34.920 which is the context of this whole book, right?

00:05:37.060 It's like, how does Jesus deal with these individuals?

00:05:40.940 It's a complex thing he's saying.

00:05:42.600 He's saying like, all the stories that we have of Peter

00:05:45.340 can be in hindrance to us

00:05:47.360 because we're just like looking at Peter

00:05:49.440 as opposed to looking at how Jesus deals with Peter.

00:05:52.660 Because that's really what we want to see

00:05:54.340 is how does Jesus deal with Peter?

00:05:56.900 Right, right.

00:05:57.540 So it's not, I guess if you're looking at Peter,

00:06:01.280 than that leaves some weird room for like the veneration of peter after or may or many things

00:06:07.180 saying like it's okay that i did this after all peter did it whereas the bible says looking unto

00:06:11.660 jesus the author and finisher of our faith like that's that's what's weird when like uh dudes in

00:06:16.280 high up positions have some kind of uh morality issue uh you know stepping out on their wife or

00:06:21.380 whatever and then they say well you know david did it's like that's not what the scripture says

00:06:25.520 though it says looking unto jesus the author and finisher of our faith so when we get to looking

00:06:30.080 too much at the person as opposed to how jesus dealt with that person it can get a little wonky

00:06:35.700 well yeah i mean you teach your kids that right your kids come back to you and they go oh well

00:06:39.520 so and so in third grade said and did this so therefore it's okay that i did and i'm like you're

00:06:44.820 not don't look to that person right i tell i'll tell them to look to me because looking up look

00:06:49.020 to jesus is a little abstract for their age but i'm like but like i'm not doing that you know what

00:06:53.340 i mean and then eventually obviously yes we have to look to look to jesus look to think about like

00:06:58.000 the godly order of things you wouldn't do that but i'm trying to represent that in their life

00:07:02.140 because it you know i like that yeah yeah i respect that okay i like that idea no no no don't

00:07:08.340 get don't do that don't get lost in the chat i'm not we need first to remind ourselves that his

00:07:15.220 name was not peter originally but simon i never come to the study of this man without being

00:07:21.120 reminded of something which henry drummond said concerning dl moody so he's quoting henry drummond

00:07:27.240 speaking about D.L. Moody. All the OGs, there was a lot of respect flying around between them.

00:07:32.560 Yeah, there's a community, huh? Yeah. Namely, that he was the greatest human that he had ever

00:07:37.160 met. So Drummond says of D.L. Moody that he was the greatest human that he had ever met.

00:07:42.040 This characterization seems to me to apply to Peter. Drummond did not suggest that in intellectual

00:07:47.880 capacity or attainment, Moody was the greatest man he had met, but rather to the fact of his

00:07:53.080 essential greatness of human nature. This is clearly evident of Simon as we study him

00:07:58.360 carefully. I should describe him as an elemental man. All the essential elements that go to the

00:08:05.040 making of human personality were found in him. This is going to get interesting because we talk

00:08:09.880 a lot about what we do as Christians and what we see in Jesus as seeing people at their full

00:08:15.540 potential. So that's kind of what he's hinting at here. All the essential elements that go to

00:08:21.060 the making of human personality were found

00:08:23.060 in him. We may fall back

00:08:25.100 upon an old definition of personality

00:08:27.220 that namely of Kant.

00:08:29.340 K-A-N-T. That's a famous guy

00:08:30.980 from history. Kant. I don't know. 0.99

00:08:33.280 Is it? Well, who is he? What's his first name?

00:08:34.880 I think it's William Kant. Yeah. What was his thing?

00:08:37.520 I don't know.

00:08:39.100 I feel like that's something like if you go to school

00:08:41.060 you'd know who that is. Emmanuel Kant.

00:08:42.840 He's a German philosopher. Okay, yeah.

00:08:44.640 I feel like I thought it was something like that. If you go to school.

00:08:46.680 Yeah, no, I just know that's a person

00:08:48.760 I should know, but I don't. Okay, we may

00:08:50.980 fall back upon an old definition of personality that namely of Kant who said that in it we have

00:08:56.740 the union and the welding of intellect emotion and volition so he wanted to his philosophy is

00:09:03.560 centered around the human subject and motivated by the desire to secure the possibility of both

00:09:09.600 knowledge and morality against the threats of skepticism and determinism that's a that's a

00:09:14.480 sentence that's too much for me man yeah i'll look into this guy a little bit later necessarily as we

00:09:19.100 look at Simon Peter, we see him in his relationships with Christ and in the atmosphere, therefore,

00:09:25.380 of Christianity. Nevertheless, through all these things, we may discover the essential truth

00:09:30.260 concerning him. Dr. McInnes of California wrote a remarkable book on Peter in his teaching,

00:09:36.400 which he called The Fisherman Philosopher. It's a cool title. It was an apt and true description.

00:09:42.720 He was a man of intellectual capacity, as is seen quite simply in the fact that the records speak

00:09:48.400 of him as asking more questions than any of the disciples. The asking of questions is a sure sign

00:09:55.140 of intellectuality. What a statement. Because I think today we look at it opposite. Yeah. If

00:10:01.020 you're asking questions, you're dumb. Yeah. And so that's why people are like afraid to ask 1.00

00:10:05.480 questions. That's like what we were talking about. I don't know if we were talking about that on

00:10:08.680 camera or off camera. Just right now. Yeah. Talking about Peter. Yeah, exactly. He's up there. He said,

00:10:13.360 yeah, yeah, I'll ask the question. David in a way as well. Like David could be looked at. I yell at

00:10:17.560 david because he's like yeah i'm an idiot you know he likes to say that to people i'm like i don't 0.95

00:10:21.060 think so i don't think you are and i don't think you should announce that to people because number 0.98

00:10:24.240 one it's wrong number two you know whatever they do with it but yeah if you're asking questions

00:10:28.780 because you want to know that's the whole point of growing learning doing a podcast

00:10:34.360 like everything is involved in learning more things like what like i don't know that it is

00:10:40.700 so wild that we're like yeah the intellectual one is the one who stops asking questions

00:10:45.000 Right, right.

00:10:45.320 It's like, okay, cool.

00:10:46.340 So how long can you live in that dead state of no more information coming in?

00:10:52.280 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:52.900 You would just die like that, it seems like.

00:10:55.040 Your brain, your intellectuality would just die if you're not taking in your spirit.

00:10:59.200 I feel like that about spirit realm stuff, dude.

00:11:01.120 If you're not digging into the scripture and praying and seeking God and looking for more.

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00:13:25.080 Like you're just dying.

00:13:26.340 I like the idea that Ed Mabry says,

00:13:29.080 This is probably before you hopped on or we met you, but when talking about heaven and eternity, a lot of people are like, yeah, I'll just be at rest.

00:13:36.920 And I'm like, that sounds like torture, like just being on vacation for the rest of eternity.

00:13:43.060 And Ed's like, no, man, we'll be learning and doing better.

00:13:46.820 We won't be sinning, but that also implies maybe we'd be making mistakes and then learning from them and learning from other people still.

00:13:53.040 I'm like, that's fascinating.

00:13:54.760 Yeah, we could spend eternity learning of God.

00:13:57.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:59.080 That's the point.

00:14:00.020 And it would never grow old.

00:14:01.760 Yeah, that's what I'd like to do.

00:14:03.540 Yeah, but that's what I'm saying

00:14:04.760 when I talk about people

00:14:05.600 who already have all their doctrines set,

00:14:07.600 all their theology, all their eschatology.

00:14:09.280 They already have all their stuff set, right?

00:14:12.160 All their thinking is set.

00:14:13.700 And you're what now?

00:14:14.460 Every passage you read with them,

00:14:16.020 they go, I already know it means this, this, this, and this.

00:14:18.520 I don't know.

00:14:19.080 That sounds like something

00:14:20.660 I would not want to be engaged in.

00:14:22.060 I certainly wouldn't be reading the Bible

00:14:23.840 or pursuing God

00:14:24.840 if I felt like I already knew all the stuff.

00:14:26.980 And maybe we can all get in a little phase

00:14:28.820 where we kind of feel like that, where we go like, well, where do I go now? I kind of already have an

00:14:33.140 opinion about all the stuff. I suppose any of us could get stuck in that. Yeah. But what if you

00:14:37.400 got like, yeah, I have already an opinion about all this stuff and I'm just going to make my entire

00:14:41.640 business about this, this stuff only. And I never come out of it. It's like, that's death, right?

00:14:47.060 Yeah. Not death. Well, yeah, stagnant. It's stagnant. That's the dead men's bones. That's

00:14:51.600 like the empty tomb, you know? Yeah. It's like the dead sea is dead because the water goes in,

00:14:55.260 but it doesn't go out you know there's got to be this movement man yeah a stirring up okay so the

00:15:01.980 asking of questions is a sure sign of intellectuality if a man never asks a question it is

00:15:06.600 because the intellectual side of his nature is stultified yeah that's the truth it's not because 0.86

00:15:12.100 he's a genius as we follow peter we hear him saying inter alia i'm guessing that's a greek

00:15:19.660 phrase, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Okay, so he's going to start

00:15:26.300 naming some of the stuff that Peter said. As we follow Peter, we hear him saying, to whom shall

00:15:30.780 we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. How often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive

00:15:36.240 him? Who is it that betrays thee? Where goest thou? Why cannot I follow thee? What shall this

00:15:42.040 man do? A careful consideration of these questions will show that in every case, they were really big

00:15:47.500 questions, even though they may reveal a certain amount of ignorance. That he was a man full of

00:15:53.120 human emotion needs no argument. On the occasion when he cried out in the bitterness of his spirit,

00:15:58.020 depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord, he revealed that emotional nature. So also when at

00:16:03.540 Caesarea Philippi, he said to his Lord in anger, that be far from thee. The same thing is manifest.

00:16:10.100 What does that mean, that be far from thee, in the context?

00:16:13.200 The context of that is where he's talking about going to the cross.

00:16:17.980 Okay, yeah, right, right.

00:16:19.020 And that's when Jesus condemns him.

00:16:20.880 It's got to be that.

00:16:21.860 I mean, off the top of my head, I think it's got to be that that he's talking about.

00:16:24.840 Yeah, because then Jesus, you know, I think it's a whole exchange where he says,

00:16:27.500 get behind me, Satan.

00:16:29.120 You know, but he's making the point that, like, that's showing his emotion.

00:16:32.760 That be far from thee.

00:16:34.340 You know, when he does that, the same things manifest, his emotional nature.

00:16:37.800 When he said, I will lay down my life for thee, it was a great emotional outburst.

00:16:41.900 when later amid the darkness he went out into the night weeping bitterly the same thing as seen

00:16:47.800 you know he goes out weeping after after he makes eye contact with jesus after he denies him

00:16:52.380 and again it is clearly manifest in the conversation which he had with our lord by the

00:16:56.840 sea of tiberias that whole thing with the fish and yeah you know do you love me peter hey what's

00:17:02.660 john gonna do that whole thing moreover he was a man of tremendous willpower there are moments

00:17:08.660 when that seems as though it were not so, and yet the whole outlook proves it. He left all to follow

00:17:13.980 Jesus. He went over the side of the boat to walk to him on the water. He dared to protest against

00:17:19.480 Jesus openly. He drew the sword and smote the servant of the high priest. Of course, we are in

00:17:24.380 danger of speaking carelessly about will, about like, you know, he's saying like he has willpower,

00:17:30.000 tremendous willpower. Of course, we are in danger of speaking carelessly about will.

00:17:33.560 On more than one occasion, a man has told me an excuse for some persistent sin,

00:17:37.820 that he has no willpower. As for instance, when a man said concerning his drinking of whiskey,

00:17:43.280 I cannot help it, I have no willpower. To such a man, I replied, you have great willpower as

00:17:48.840 is proven by the fact that you will drink whiskey. Willpower may be exercised in a wrong direction.

00:17:55.440 Thus, all the elements of great personality were found in Simon, and yet he was a weak man.

00:18:00.400 He lacked an element, welding the elemental things into consistency and strength.

00:18:06.360 Isn't that wild?

00:18:07.380 This is so much about what this book is about, is how Jesus deals with people because he

00:18:11.000 sees them in their full capacity, like in their full potential, and he wants to bring

00:18:15.720 about that full potential, right?

00:18:17.400 Like if he's created us in Christ Jesus with works before the world began, right, he's

00:18:23.800 got this destiny for us.

00:18:25.860 It's like, then that's really what we're talking about is like for all of us, it's

00:18:29.660 welding together all these characteristics and personality traits so that we will be 1.00

00:18:34.060 made according to his will and live according to his will do you think this is a stupid question 0.97

00:18:39.640 but at the at the same time that jesus is on earth he need he needed to get these 12 personality types 0.84

00:18:48.400 in order to do this because the bible whether jesus is in a different location or not the bible

00:18:53.640 will play out the same way just maybe different names written in different areas but you think

00:18:58.040 that there's people especially at the time that could fit that exact mold somewhere else like why

00:19:03.940 why these guys just because they were in the area i mean they were born that they're destined

00:19:08.100 predestined for it by god but like there are people who match these characteristics today

00:19:14.980 and it makes me wonder like you know god sees that and then he uses he would still be doing

00:19:21.380 that today like we've been talking about through the tozer sermons like the same way people who

00:19:25.940 walked with jesus it's the same for us that have the holy ghost today right right right

00:19:29.940 same way the holy ghost looks at our personality looks at all these shortcomings but sees us in

00:19:34.900 our full potential and works with that right and tries to bring about this reality of our destiny

00:19:41.060 we've been saved and called with a holy calling in christ jesus before the world began so like

00:19:46.660 what the human wants to do and needs to do is get with god and to bring that out to bring that to

00:19:51.700 fruition right so the holy ghost like reach into our personality and start you know ripping out

00:19:57.300 things that are not okay, cutting out things that are not okay, burning out things that are not

00:20:01.180 okay, and kind of guiding us into this path that he's provided for us. But it's an interesting

00:20:07.560 thought, man. It's interesting how he's saying this about Peter, because I guess he can see it

00:20:11.400 clearly in Peter, but I would say it applies to all of us, man. So he says, thus all the elements

00:20:17.160 of great personality were found in Simon, and yet he was a weak man. He lacked an element welding

00:20:22.420 the elemental things into consistency and strength. Some years ago, Mr. Gardner wrote a book,

00:20:28.020 Prophets, Priests, and Kings. And in the course of it, in a sketch on William Jennings Bryan,

00:20:33.100 he said of him, he was a great man, but he lacked preciousness. That statement showed Gardner's

00:20:39.760 scriptural background and may I say his familiarity with the writings of Peter. Peter, later speaking

00:20:45.380 of relationship with Christ, declared that he was precious and that to those related to him,

00:20:50.460 the preciousness was communicated. What is preciousness? We speak of jewels as precious

00:20:55.560 stones, and it is an apt word. Every true jewel is a combination of elements welded into strength.

00:21:02.400 This is what Simon lacked. All this would mean that he was a trial to his friends,

00:21:07.400 notwithstanding their love of him. And further, he was certainly a trial to himself.

00:21:12.720 One can imagine a man like this after the failure of the day, torturing his own soul with his

00:21:17.120 weakness and vowing never to repeat the follies over which he mourned and yet on the next day

00:21:22.200 probably repeating them everyone that's his take on peter man and yeah i mean you can see that

00:21:28.400 his life dude you could see like this human nature doesn't change man yeah there's people

00:21:33.640 doing this today there's the rough thing today is that it's recorded on the internet when you do it

00:21:37.760 now man that was one of the most terrifying things when jess first has facebook like

00:21:41.460 i guess 20 years ago now i don't even remember but yeah but like i would rather it be recorded

00:21:46.480 here you know not that many people are going to watch this the bible is uh you know it's been

00:21:53.180 around for i'd safely say the bible will probably uh be more read and looked at than whatever i'm 0.57

00:21:59.260 doing here yeah like damn dude yeah no but i'm saying so you get in a fight on facebook any of 0.94

00:22:03.720 these shortcomings you have in your life that you're embarrassed of that you say i'm not going 0.97

00:22:06.940 to do that tomorrow yeah you get up tomorrow and you do it right but imagine that like on facebook

00:22:11.600 i was watching these arguments that jess was like scrolling through i guess it was like people we

00:22:15.340 knew or whatever and the way they were arguing i was like i would be so embarrassed man yeah and

00:22:20.020 i know like tons of times where i've acted in a way where i'm so embarrassed and have to go

00:22:23.760 apologize to people imagine if there's this written record of it and everybody watched it

00:22:27.500 like that's rough man i know you don't struggle with that because you just like no no you win

00:22:32.140 every time no no i'm thinking of like some other i had a family uh a family member get into a fight

00:22:39.760 with another family member and like they were posting um security footage on facebook and i

00:22:46.540 was like this is bizarre but yeah yeah that's what i'm saying they probably could be embarrassed of

00:22:51.420 it but then also when you go on that road and it's all public now you can't walk it back i hope that

00:22:57.040 they'd be embarrassed of it i don't know i don't know but i've i've at least had the sense not to

00:23:01.680 do that like you know i get we get into like scurries and like talks to say things to people

00:23:06.780 but like that's that's another level of like have you thought this through yeah yeah you just get

00:23:12.660 tied up in emotion and doing crazy stuff and then like i said man once you once it's out there in

00:23:16.980 public then it's almost like people can't walk it back they've dug their heels in and now they

00:23:20.700 have to stand behind it yeah it's a tricky game man yeah it's a tricky game all right uh okay now

00:23:29.100 we turn to observe our lord dealing with him that was just like the intro necessarily the story

00:23:34.460 begins with the action of Andrew. An old Puritan writer once said that he thought the reason why

00:23:39.280 Andrew hurried out to find his brother was that Simon had been such a difficulty in the family

00:23:44.720 life. That's wild, man. G. Campbell Morgan says, I do not know that I agree with this writer,

00:23:52.060 or if I do, I would add something to it. If Andrew recognized what a difficult man he had been,

00:23:57.540 if he knew as he probably did that there were elements of weakness in him, he also knew that

00:24:02.200 there were elements of strength in him. And therefore he found him and brought him face to

00:24:06.080 face with Jesus, which is really all of our jobs. We talk about that. It's like, hey, Bobby, Jesus,

00:24:11.080 Jesus, Bobby, Bobby, holler if you need anything. That's ultimately all we want to do, man, is

00:24:15.020 introduce people to Jesus and get them into that relationship. Just plug stuff in and get out the

00:24:20.460 way. Help them and guide them any way we can, but it's about them and Jesus. Yeah, I like that.

00:24:25.860 The first thing we read then is that our Lord looked upon him.

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00:26:47.680 we halt here because the word employed for that looking is not a usual one it may be at once said

00:26:54.180 that the same word is employed in describing his look at peter in the judgment hall the word

00:26:59.280 indicates a look of penetration the look was not a mere glance courteous and attentive but rather

00:27:05.660 one that brought the consciousness of investigation and knowledge the sense of it might be expressed

00:27:10.900 by reading it not he looked upon him but he looked through him that's that's rough yeah like

00:27:18.940 they meet and it's like jesus just looked through him yeah don't look at me like that no i'm just

00:27:26.840 saying that's like a wild i don't because i don't think a lot i don't think we get it man like

00:27:30.640 there's there's these other stories where uh there's something they need to ask jesus and

00:27:35.120 they're all like i'm not asking him you ask him yeah he must have been intense yeah it was just

00:27:38.540 like this presence about him like he looked at you and he looks through you i don't like there

00:27:42.240 are some people where i'm like i don't really like making extended eye contact with them because i

00:27:46.660 feel like through well through my eyes or through their eyes either i'm gonna pick up something from

00:27:51.380 them that i don't necessarily want to see or it might be going there's like a weird exchange i

00:27:56.420 don't know maybe i'm autistic but there's no maybe it feels like there's a weird exchange when you're

00:28:01.440 looking someone in the eye and like i don't know exactly what is going on or what i'm gonna perceive

00:28:07.460 from you or yeah i don't i don't particularly like it so what do you mean eye contact or just

00:28:11.780 like with certain people eye contact because you don't know what you're about to get into

00:28:15.320 with people i don't know it's not about like what i'm about to get into but what am i going to

00:28:19.080 disclose or what are you going to tell me there's sometimes in people you think there's people that

00:28:22.920 will what are they going to disclose like what are they going to learn about you if i can learn

00:28:26.320 something about you from looking at your eyes i assume it goes both ways huh uh and and there's

00:28:33.180 some people when you look in their eyes you can tell right away like oh this guy is presenting

00:28:37.600 something but your eyes are saying something very different right and the older i get the more like

00:28:42.000 you can kind of i don't think there's a lot of people that perceive like that though you're

00:28:45.700 you're saying like the same way you look in somebody's eye and you're can perceive like

00:28:48.940 what's what's happening i don't know that there's a lot of not all the time but some but there are

00:28:53.200 some people you you probably had this experience with some people you look them in the eye and

00:28:57.020 then you'll go oh like this person i could see like genuine or sometimes like oh yeah this is

00:29:01.780 something else so when i see that it's almost like i feel like i'm invading your privacy a

00:29:06.060 little bit and i'm like i would rather not like just do what you got to do i'm not gonna this

00:29:10.240 doesn't even have to go that far what do you mean i because eye contact is like so intimate of a

00:29:14.160 thing if you talk about it somebody can somebody can tell you a thing and then their eyes could

00:29:18.560 lie while while they're telling you yeah and you can see it and you can and it's just one of those

00:29:22.720 things where i go noted you know right right and i don't like that not even necessarily like

00:29:27.460 their eyes lied but just you can see their character like like in the eyes a glimpse of it

00:29:33.600 and it's never like a full story i don't know your whole story but i i think jesus would if

00:29:38.420 jesus is in front of you he probably knows already but man you look him in the eyes it's it's even

00:29:43.000 more intense right he just reads everything about you and you're like oh it must feel crazy

00:29:48.360 yeah yeah i i don't know jesus is a dude that i mean not to compare owen benjamin to jesus but

00:29:56.400 when you're when i'm talking with owen benjamin that's so wild that you just did that because i

00:30:00.220 was trying to not do that no no it's it's trying to not bring up owen but he does have that he has

00:30:06.600 that where you're like the longer i talk to this guy like he's just accumulating data he's accumulating

00:30:11.640 the longer i'm like talking to him and looking at him especially yeah looking in his eye he's

00:30:15.400 accumulating so much and i don't like that he has this vibe too i'd like it i love it about him but

00:30:21.040 i just felt like very brotherly with him like i don't know why i just felt like yeah this guy's

00:30:24.560 like my brother in a weird way yeah it's like i i have no but i could see where people would not

00:30:29.640 like that if they had something to hide they would be very like they would be like yeah this dude's

00:30:34.040 looking through me well i again it's but this is one of those things where people like well i got

00:30:38.480 nothing to hide so go ahead and read it's like no that's no uh i just i'll tell you i don't

00:30:44.640 particularly like being read like that and i that's one dude that is doing that i know that he does

00:30:50.500 and it's not like a bad thing.

00:30:52.780 It's just I'm perceptive of it.

00:30:54.120 He's looking at me.

00:30:54.960 He'll ask me a question

00:30:55.960 and I'll answer him.

00:30:57.160 But when he's listening to you,

00:30:59.140 he is intently listening

00:31:00.480 and he's looking at your eyes.

00:31:02.780 And I'm like, okay,

00:31:03.420 I am telling him answers,

00:31:05.200 but what else am I telling him?

00:31:06.500 Yeah, yeah, my words are saying something,

00:31:08.240 but he's getting data

00:31:09.300 from a lot more than just my words.

00:31:10.920 The words almost don't even matter

00:31:12.400 at that point.

00:31:13.080 The words, well, they kind of, you know,

00:31:14.240 I think the words are giving you

00:31:15.640 like the boundaries of what the context is,

00:31:18.600 but he's reading something else.

00:31:19.620 there are other people like that too very intense uh i think the guy john lenhart uh ed maybree's

00:31:25.100 guy was doing that to a lesser level and i'm like no not for me but perceiving a lot by more than

00:31:31.240 just the words by oh yeah yeah eye contact there and i i don't think that's magic i just think that

00:31:35.820 that's someone that's paying attention that has like that sort of a gift well communication at

00:31:40.700 the end of the day we're talking about communication and we're like yeah communication happens only by

00:31:44.500 like words and language you know so if you speak spanish and another guy speaks english then you

00:31:49.040 can't have communication which i learned a long time ago like no no that's not true dude i can

00:31:52.680 totally communicate with spanish people on job sites and i don't know any of their words and

00:31:57.400 they don't know any of my words this is why uh you know owen said it i think he's right it's like

00:32:03.120 when when he goes in the room some people just start to like and i think it's because they know

00:32:07.740 that he's reading them they know he's reading them and i i also don't want people to know that

00:32:12.480 i'm reading them so i don't like i i kind of want you to behave wait but who are you reading are

00:32:17.100 you like aren't you usually just vibing with people you're just like talking to them and having

00:32:20.740 a good time or no you're like specifically trying to i'm reading everybody but i'm not doing it like

00:32:25.240 oh and benjamin six foot eight like like he's he's reading and it's obvious but i read i read

00:32:31.460 people all the time i just but i'm not gonna i don't like to do it like outward so that way they

00:32:36.400 know i'm because i think there's a thing too if you know that i'm reading you you're you're gonna

00:32:40.860 behave differently around me so i don't want to do that but like over a certain amount of time i

00:32:45.520 could yeah i'm studying people don't you doesn't everybody probably does yeah but not not like

00:32:51.120 intentionally i wouldn't say studying like that it's something more than just like i don't know

00:32:55.640 that makes it sound like you don't know what i'm up to and i'm doing something like dishonest if

00:32:59.780 you will like no no i'm engaging with you human to human and i'm excited to have communication

00:33:03.780 with you because i like humans and we've already dealt with that right but i like humans and then

00:33:08.260 we're doing some back and forth and okay in that process i'm gonna gauge things from you i'm gonna

00:33:13.600 know things about you but that's i'm not like secretly doing that you are secretly doing that

00:33:19.360 i respect that no it's it's not like a secret i just said it on the show uh what it is though

00:33:24.720 it's like i can't stop doing that yeah so when david goes you could talk to him he goes top well

00:33:30.880 it's online online they say the top lobster litmus test is a hundred percent what does that mean

00:33:36.020 exactly what we're talking about like i i could tell you about somebody or i'm like down the line

00:33:42.000 if you extrapolate from the behaviors here

00:33:44.220 and the things that I've seen, this is going to go

00:33:46.180 badly. As a matter of fact,

00:33:48.200 sometimes I can tell you what they're going to do.

00:33:50.660 And it's like, okay, let's talk

00:33:52.280 six months from now. And six months from now, they're like,

00:33:54.440 damn, dude. Yep. 100%. 1.00

00:33:56.640 And I don't really

00:33:58.320 necessarily want to do it, but it just happens.

00:34:00.560 And I don't like doing it.

00:34:02.600 But anyway, whatever. Jesus is intense, dude,

00:34:04.480 because he's doing that.

00:34:06.680 Just looking through people.

00:34:09.160 If we're talking about

00:34:10.180 Owen Benjamin, let's say Peter would be like the 0.98

00:34:12.040 Owen Benjamin and Jesus is seeing like right

00:34:14.160 through that type. Which is crazy.

00:34:16.080 That's another level of like, you

00:34:18.140 know, apex predator

00:34:19.480 noticing. Yeah. Yeah. Seeing

00:34:22.060 and knowing everything about your character

00:34:24.300 and just everything about what

00:34:26.240 you are. And I don't think those types

00:34:28.100 like to be

00:34:29.320 perceived. They

00:34:32.140 like to do it, probably. But

00:34:34.180 when it's done to them,

00:34:36.020 who would like that? You know, especially like that.

00:34:37.960 This is my thing. I don't know. I like that.

00:34:40.180 If it's going to mean that we're going to have a deeper connection, we're going to have

00:34:43.180 a deeper conversation, you're going to actually know me and we're going to be able to engage

00:34:46.880 in deeper discussion.

00:34:48.120 Sure.

00:34:48.340 With Jesus.

00:34:48.680 I like that.

00:34:49.400 But with John Lenhardt, who I don't know, I don't like that.

00:34:51.820 Yeah.

00:34:52.140 I don't know your intentions.

00:34:53.340 Okay.

00:34:53.600 I see what you're saying.

00:34:54.480 Yeah.

00:34:55.000 But I just don't, I don't know, man.

00:34:56.380 At some point, like the superficial talking and stuff, I only have so much room for that,

00:35:00.120 dude.

00:35:00.260 I do like the deeper things.

00:35:01.580 Like I do want to talk to people about like the deep things of life.

00:35:04.260 You know what I'm saying?

00:35:04.760 I'm not talking about like 10 a.m.

00:35:06.280 on a Tuesday necessarily when I'm in the middle of work, but in general, it is nice to know people

00:35:10.600 for who and what they really are. It's good for them to know you like that. Amen. Amen, brother.

00:35:18.760 Okay, the sense of it might be expressed by reading it not he looked upon him, but he looked

00:35:23.360 through him. Then he told him, in effect, that he knew him and knew his father. You are Simon,

00:35:29.320 the son of John. Then came the amazing word, you shall be called Cephas, thou shall be called Peter.

00:35:35.720 It may be asked, what was there amazing about that?

00:35:39.640 And the reply is that it is only as we recognize the truth about the man that we shall understand.

00:35:45.020 Here, one may observe at once that the remarkable thing in the story is that Simon made no reply.

00:35:51.300 This is interesting.

00:35:52.820 Anyone familiar with Simon will see how remarkable a fact that is.

00:35:56.500 He was not given to silences of that kind.

00:35:58.880 There can be no doubt that the reason of his silence was his utter astonishment.

00:36:04.060 When the Lord told him that he should be called rock or stone, it sounded incredible.

00:36:09.080 It is well that we bear in mind that all geologists agree that rock is really the result of processes

00:36:14.700 and the exhibition of principle.

00:36:17.780 Here was a man who lacked that very thing.

00:36:20.460 The elements were there, but they were not mastered by principle.

00:36:23.680 Our Lord looked at this man with all his intellectual powers, emotional force, volitional strength,

00:36:29.060 still lacking that which made him dependable,

00:36:32.180 that upon which men could build.

00:36:34.000 And he told him he could become exactly what in that way he was not.

00:36:38.120 Did you see our episode with Topher Gardner?

00:36:40.680 I don't know.

00:36:41.020 I don't think you even met him.

00:36:41.920 He was at the shop.

00:36:42.700 I met Topher the first time he came.

00:36:44.220 Yeah, me and Topher Tite.

00:36:45.520 They were like food forest buddies.

00:36:47.000 Oh, okay.

00:36:47.560 We were talking about the idea of geopolymers.

00:36:50.460 And it's interesting because...

00:36:51.720 Things that bind things together?

00:36:53.340 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:53.980 But more specifically,

00:36:54.860 I mean, he was even talking about the pyramids in Egypt

00:36:57.200 and how they would have built them.

00:36:58.640 He's convinced that they had molds, and basically what they did was create stone.

00:37:03.820 And the way they create stone is by mixing different materials and then a small amount of water,

00:37:10.700 and that water would then bind this stuff together.

00:37:12.900 And that's the process of creating the rock.

00:37:14.860 They could have just moved up to the next level, mixed it, put it, mixed it, put it, moved up to the next level.

00:37:20.520 So it wasn't like they were quarrying stone from somewhere far away.

00:37:23.280 Yeah, that's like—

00:37:23.900 I don't know.

00:37:24.420 That gets weird, though, because those foundation stones are huge, dude.

00:37:27.160 The foundation stones on the Pyramid of Giza, they're, like, humongous.

00:37:30.560 But isn't that a type of rock that they find quarried somewhere or no?

00:37:34.080 He's saying—

00:37:34.500 Yeah, I mean, like, all the materials are native to Egypt, but they're from different areas.

00:37:39.460 Right.

00:37:39.780 So, what he's saying is, though, the process, though, of making a rock or making a stone is, like, putting it together and then having that—the geopolymer will be the water that activates it.

00:37:48.720 And then, eventually, over time, it, like, hardens and sticks together.

00:37:51.780 That's, like, the process of the rock.

00:37:53.240 It's a bunch of other, like, small things, characteristics.

00:37:55.760 but when put together and then you have this sprinkling of water and then the sun on it

00:38:00.500 the light then it turns into this stone yeah and the stone is super strong now we use concrete

00:38:06.560 which is like it's just i don't know it's a lesser idea of that it concrete crumbles and it breaks

00:38:13.400 but the stone when it breaks too it's like it'll chip off and it'll still be solid you see what's

00:38:18.160 inside of it it's like that's the process that we're talking about with peter it's like a bunch

00:38:22.560 of different things that's what i'm saying like this whole thing is just a snapshot of what this

00:38:26.640 whole book is about and what really all of our lives are about man yeah is like all these

00:38:31.320 personality traits and characteristics and all these things going on in every one of us and god

00:38:37.920 is the one who brings it all together and it's staggering this this concept that uh you know

00:38:42.780 referring to him as rock was like yeah you're a process like a like a process is going to have

00:38:47.720 to happen for you to become this thing that people can depend on people can count on that people can

00:38:51.980 build on yeah and before the like the the process before like the final polymer of the light and

00:38:57.860 the sprinkling of the water which solidifies it peter is just parts you know it yeah in a container

00:39:05.040 parts in in that cast but we all are right and well until you're solidified right until yeah

00:39:10.820 yeah yeah so that's the that's the process of it that's that's a really good idea to put put

00:39:15.720 together what he's talking about it's like the born again experience and the sanctification process

00:39:20.620 is the bringing together of all these parts of our personality

00:39:24.720 and bringing it under submission to God, ultimately.

00:39:27.580 That's why I, is it Paul who says, like,

00:39:30.000 once somebody has received the Holy Ghost

00:39:33.140 or has been truly reborn, like, you can't really go back.

00:39:36.660 Tasting the good word of God and the power of the age to come,

00:39:38.860 yeah, in Hebrews, yeah.

00:39:39.960 Yeah, because.

00:39:40.640 He says if he goes back on them then, dude.

00:39:42.460 How do you, I mean, you have to be,

00:39:44.200 how do you put those materials back?

00:39:46.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:39:46.920 You can't.

00:39:47.260 How do you unbind, yeah.

00:39:48.480 You'd have to pulp them up, but then they're not necessarily the same thing.

00:39:52.160 Like a lot of the stuff now we're seeing in like by Noah's Ark or in like Roman cathedrals,

00:39:57.040 there's seashells and things like that within the stone.

00:39:59.260 Sure.

00:39:59.480 Because it's just stuff that they put in there.

00:40:01.200 Yeah.

00:40:01.520 But once it solidifies, you can't take that seashell.

00:40:03.660 It's no longer that.

00:40:04.460 Like you can chip it out, but it's going to be broken.

00:40:07.180 Well, some of the rock has seashell in it.

00:40:08.900 Like even in Florida, the limestone has seashell in it.

00:40:11.440 From that process.

00:40:12.480 Yeah.

00:40:13.240 Yeah.

00:40:13.780 But you can't no longer get that.

00:40:15.480 Nobody makes seashell into that rock.

00:40:16.880 it's

00:40:17.500 well I'm just saying

00:40:19.040 for like

00:40:19.360 some of the Roman structures

00:40:20.580 they did

00:40:21.040 they did mix

00:40:21.820 yeah that was a human

00:40:23.040 but this happens

00:40:24.240 naturally as well

00:40:24.980 but you can't get

00:40:26.460 a seashell back

00:40:27.220 I mean maybe you could

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00:40:28.740 really chip around it

00:40:29.780 yeah it's become

00:40:31.000 part of the greater

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00:42:54.480 Okay, the method of Jesus then was that of believing in the possibilities of this man

00:42:59.340 when no one else did, and when probably Simon did not.

00:43:03.200 By this word, our Lord captured him.

00:43:05.420 It is a constant way of the master.

00:43:07.520 My mind goes back to an hour here at Westminster

00:43:09.840 when a man came into my vestry and said,

00:43:13.380 I should like to shake hands with you as I pass,

00:43:15.340 but there is no hope for me now,

00:43:17.140 for I have gone so far that even my mother

00:43:18.900 does not believe in me.

00:43:20.320 I well remember looking at him and saying,

00:43:22.360 that is indeed a terrible story,

00:43:23.700 but I know someone who does believe in you.

00:43:26.460 And he believes in you because he is able to make you

00:43:28.680 exactly what you are not.

00:43:30.640 That is the whole story of the beginning

00:43:32.220 of our Lord's dealing with Simon.

00:43:34.000 From that moment, he never lost him.

00:43:36.380 Even when it seemed as though he had almost committed spiritual suicide,

00:43:39.940 he looked at him and broke his heart.

00:43:41.980 He prayed for him that his faith should not fail, and his faith never did,

00:43:45.540 even though his courage did.

00:43:47.800 Presently, we find he took Simon Peter to travel with him and serve with him.

00:43:51.520 Then in some moment of vacillation, Simon went back to his fishing nets.

00:43:56.840 Again, our Lord found him, showed him his ability in the realm of fishing,

00:44:00.260 and then told him that he was called to a higher vocation,

00:44:03.240 that of catching men alive.

00:44:05.380 Now, we might go through these gospel stories dwelling upon every incident, which, of course, is not possible.

00:44:10.900 But if we did, we should see how all the way our Lord was dealing with this man and keeping him near to himself.

00:44:16.360 We will glance at four crises in the story, in the history.

00:44:21.420 The first came when he had been saying such things as they had never heard concerning the eating of his flesh and the drinking of his blood.

00:44:28.260 And many had left him because of the difficulty of these sayings.

00:44:31.680 Jesus had said to the group, will you also go away?

00:44:34.560 It was Simon who uttered the words, Lord, to whom shall we go?

00:44:38.320 Thou hast the words of eternal life.

00:44:41.220 Yeah, that's again the idea, right?

00:44:44.640 There's no going back now.

00:44:46.140 Yeah, you're part of this.

00:44:48.100 I guess, I don't know, a lot of the apostles still at this time weren't formed into stone,

00:44:53.560 but they were close to them.

00:44:55.280 They had gone far enough that they're like, there's no going back.

00:44:57.540 If I go back now, I'm nothing.

00:44:59.580 It's like you're on this journey and you went past the halfway point.

00:45:01.820 It's like it's harder to go back now than to just keep going forward.

00:45:04.560 I mean, by that point, I don't know, when do you think the apostles, probably they were formed into stone after the Holy Spirit comes down on them, right, in the book of Acts?

00:45:14.200 There's a thought that even before that, at like the end of John, when Jesus comes back and breathes on them and says, receive the Holy Spirit.

00:45:21.700 Oh, right, right, right.

00:45:22.860 Which is intriguing because then it's those same guys who still do receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, but they've already been breathed on and Jesus already told them, receive the Holy Spirit.

00:45:31.400 Yeah, but I mean, you don't stop receiving the Holy Spirit.

00:45:33.940 you could that's like a continual process right and that's what it sure seems like if you follow

00:45:38.400 that story out like peter especially he's there to get breathed on to say when jesus has received

00:45:42.900 the holy spirit then he's there on the day of pentecost but then he's in the house um where

00:45:46.500 they're all praying and the holy spirit fell again and the whole place was shaken not the people

00:45:50.740 shaking but the whole place was shaken yeah it's like there yeah you see in peter's life multiple

00:45:54.940 times of him receiving the holy spirit so it's it's an interesting conversation i think it gets

00:46:00.100 It's a little rowdy and offensive, but it's an interesting conversation.

00:46:03.600 Yeah.

00:46:03.880 Then at Caesarea Philippi, our Lord, after a general inquiry, asked his disciples who they said he was.

00:46:09.720 Then came from the lips of Peter the great confession.

00:46:12.460 You are the Messiah, the son of the living God.

00:46:15.260 Immediately the third followed when our Lord brought him face to face with the cross.

00:46:19.380 Peter was then brought suddenly face to face with something utterly beyond his comprehension.

00:46:23.900 He protested and he protested angrily, falling into language that was almost out of profanity.

00:46:29.620 At this moment, our Lord, shall I not say, in the most dramatic and drastic way, rebuked him.

00:46:35.200 Peter had taken him, that is, taken him aside to utter his protest.

00:46:39.000 Then the evangelist tells us that the Lord turned, that is, turned from Peter,

00:46:43.880 turned his back upon him, and uttered his rebuke.

00:46:47.660 We are driven here to inquire what was wrong in Peter's action and speech.

00:46:51.440 Let us remember that he saw the glory of the wonderful life of his Lord,

00:46:54.860 had been completely possessed by his teaching and all this so much so that he had come to conviction

00:47:01.140 that he was the Messiah and the very son of God. Now he was told that he must fall into the hands

00:47:06.540 of evil men, suffer and be killed. It was against that he made his protest. But let it be remembered 0.95

00:47:12.460 that when our Lord had told him in the rest of these things, he had declared that they were

00:47:17.920 inevitable, that he must go and had added the words, which quite evidently Peter had not

00:47:23.280 apprehended the value of that he must rise again seeing only the cross he put his intellectual

00:47:29.060 conception over against the wisdom of the lord or as jesus said he was minding the things of men

00:47:34.880 measuring what his lord had said by human standards you see what i'm saying he's like yeah man he's

00:47:41.760 talking about like going to the cross but then he's talking about rising again it may be well 0.91

00:47:46.160 to remember here that it's also you now again this is a stupid thought but like at that point 0.94

00:47:51.920 peter could have physically tried to stop jesus like he could have done a physical action to 0.95

00:47:58.280 stop jesus from doing this but jesus is supposed to be crucified from the foundation of the earth

00:48:02.940 right so therefore if you kind of play that out it could never happen what would happen is like

00:48:09.940 peter would probably explode into a million pieces before he's able to do anything one way or another

00:48:14.620 he wouldn't be able to accomplish it yeah but like yeah so the but the the resolve of peter like his

00:48:20.280 his character to do a thing like,

00:48:22.700 you know,

00:48:22.860 cutting someone's ear off.

00:48:23.760 He's a dude of action.

00:48:24.600 Like when he says that,

00:48:25.700 like did Jesus read his resolve?

00:48:28.160 Like he,

00:48:28.580 he might do it,

00:48:29.440 you know?

00:48:30.240 And,

00:48:30.460 and if he does,

00:48:31.240 he's going to have to be stopped and Jesus loves him.

00:48:34.980 You got to stop.

00:48:35.800 Yeah.

00:48:35.940 Yeah.

00:48:36.140 So he,

00:48:36.540 so he's harsh with him right then because he's saying,

00:48:38.500 dude,

00:48:38.660 this guy could try to stop me.

00:48:40.440 Yeah.

00:48:40.640 He could try to stop me.

00:48:41.540 And it's like,

00:48:41.940 but like interesting then him dying is like,

00:48:44.600 but that's like a temptation of the devil.

00:48:46.300 So he's talking to the devil.

00:48:47.560 Like it's,

00:48:48.400 it's a crazy thought to think about it.

00:48:50.040 Because he never could stop.

00:48:51.300 Never could stop him.

00:48:52.480 Right.

00:48:53.060 But you could try.

00:48:53.640 He's like, yeah, if so Peter stops or tries to stop me and is capable of it, he's going

00:48:57.920 to have to die because I'm going to the cross.

00:49:01.700 Yeah, it's got to go that way.

00:49:02.960 It's always going to go that way.

00:49:04.280 You can't stop it.

00:49:05.080 You can try it.

00:49:05.500 He's got to be harsh with him because he's like, dude, if I don't stop you, you're going

00:49:08.480 to do this.

00:49:10.440 Yeah, I guess that shows the strength of free will of men as well, right?

00:49:15.260 I think men can do something like that.

00:49:17.520 But like, yeah, with a plan like this, a plan that God has specifically set out from the

00:49:22.040 beginning of time, that's not changeable.

00:49:24.940 That's God's plan.

00:49:25.900 Yeah.

00:49:26.140 You can step in the way, but you're going to get crushed, blacked up because God's stuff

00:49:30.000 that he's going to do is going to happen.

00:49:32.060 He, he leaves room for us to have, to play a part in it and what part we play, he leaves

00:49:37.720 room for that.

00:49:38.380 But like his purposes are going to happen.

00:49:40.840 Yeah.

00:49:41.000 And this one here is like, you know, that's played out.

00:49:43.020 Like this is 30 something years, 33 years into Jesus's life.

00:49:46.140 That's played out.

00:49:46.820 this is too far to even like there's no plan change here yeah yeah but either way he takes

00:49:52.920 it serious and gets rowdy with peter because of it yeah it may well it may be well to remember

00:49:58.640 here that he never did understand until the cross was accomplished and he had found the risen christ

00:50:03.560 that is proven when the opening sentences of his letter are read here's the opening sentences of

00:50:10.040 his letter blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who according to his great mercy

00:50:14.500 begat us again unto living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

00:50:20.060 When he protested, his hope was not living.

00:50:23.300 For this setting up of his own thinking against that of his Lord,

00:50:26.780 he was sternly rebuked in the words,

00:50:28.620 get thee behind me, Satan, you are an offense unto me.

00:50:32.440 Yeah, that's interesting.

00:50:34.020 He says, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

00:50:37.540 who according to his great mercy begat us again unto living hope

00:50:42.020 by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

00:50:45.660 When he protested, his hope was not living, right?

00:50:49.520 For this setting up of his own thinking

00:50:51.320 against that of his Lord,

00:50:52.360 he was sternly rebuked in the words,

00:50:54.040 get thee behind me, Satan, you are an offense unto me.

00:50:56.860 Then after eight days of comparative silence,

00:50:59.100 we see him again on the Mount of Transfiguration.

00:51:02.020 There he saw his Lord transfigured, metamorphosed.

00:51:05.640 In the presence of that vision, he said,

00:51:07.420 Lord, it is good for us to be here.

00:51:09.880 If you will, I will make here three tabernacles,

00:51:12.860 one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.

00:51:15.840 It is impossible to read that without calling to mind

00:51:18.520 the last previous thing recorded as having fallen from his lips.

00:51:22.440 When Jesus had spoken of the cross, he had said,

00:51:25.440 that be far from thee.

00:51:26.900 Now in the glory, he said, it is good to be here. 0.92

00:51:30.980 Not there in Jerusalem in suffering and death,

00:51:33.780 but here in glory and the beauty.

00:51:35.900 Let it be observed that whereas he suggested building tabernacles

00:51:39.040 for Moses and Elijah also, because he saw them there, they were talking to Jesus about the very

00:51:44.180 thing that Peter was shunning, the deceased, the exodus, which he was about to accomplish in

00:51:49.040 Jerusalem. Here it was that he heard the voice of God saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am

00:51:54.760 well pleased. Hear ye him. Hear ye him, an evident reference to what he had said concerning his cross,

00:52:01.520 which was the subject of his converse with the heavenly visitors. So he's already told Jesus,

00:52:06.320 like, don't say that. Don't say you're going to the cross. Then Moses and Elijah show up. They

00:52:10.880 start talking to Jesus about the cross. And Peter says, yeah, yeah, we'll make tabernacles. One for

00:52:15.700 Jesus, one for Moses, one for Elijah. And God says, this is my beloved son. Hear him. Right?

00:52:20.700 And so he's saying, like, hear him what he's saying about the cross. Hear what they're saying.

00:52:24.780 He's going to the cross. The same cross that Peter was trying to tell him, no, you never will.

00:52:29.420 But there's an interesting element wrapped up in it too. You got Moses and Elijah, right? That's,

00:52:33.120 You know, people would look at that and say it's representative of the law and prophets.

00:52:36.820 Either way, it's two people that are part of our story.

00:52:40.720 And God from heaven is saying, this is my beloved son.

00:52:44.000 Hear him.

00:52:44.980 Like, this isn't about Moses and Elijah.

00:52:47.280 This is about anybody else.

00:52:48.580 This is about him.

00:52:49.640 This is my beloved son.

00:52:50.580 Hear him.

00:52:52.240 This gets into the time travel thing that you love so much, huh?

00:52:55.060 You really do love time travel.

00:52:56.720 No, no.

00:52:57.220 Yeah, you do.

00:52:58.560 Yeah, you do.

00:52:59.820 I know you do.

00:53:00.660 Okay, once more at the very end, talking to this man in the upper room, our Lord told him of the still latent weakness that lurked within him as he said, will you lay down your life for me?

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00:55:30.460 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, the cock shall not crow till you have denied me thrice.

00:55:35.600 But in close connection therewith, including the other disciples, but by no means excluding

00:55:40.040 Peter, he said, let not your heart be troubled.

00:55:42.980 You believe in God, believe in me also.

00:55:46.780 And continuing, he told them that he was going to prepare a place for them.

00:55:50.940 And if he went, he would come again and receive them unto himself.

00:55:54.380 So far as Peter was concerned,

00:55:55.980 it was a declaration that he was able to realize the best in him in spite of the worst.

00:56:01.360 I like that, man.

00:56:03.440 I know we keep coming back to that, but that's what this whole thing is about, man.

00:56:06.560 Even all the worst that we know about ourselves, God already knows that.

00:56:11.080 And he's still willing to die for us, even in that state.

00:56:14.660 Then a solemn hush falls upon the heart as we think of what followed.

00:56:18.940 Jesus was arraigned in the judgment hall.

00:56:21.220 And Peter, first outside until John gained him admission,

00:56:24.480 and then within is heard denying his Lord

00:56:26.500 and adding to his denial that false emphasis of language,

00:56:29.380 profane swearing.

00:56:30.920 It is here that once again our eyes are fixed upon the master.

00:56:34.380 He turned and looked at Simon.

00:56:36.200 It is the same word that was used at the beginning.

00:56:38.720 It means that he fixed his eyes upon him

00:56:40.700 and looked him through and through.

00:56:42.540 So that same thing is calling, like looking through him.

00:56:45.760 Peter denies him.

00:56:46.960 They make eye contact and Jesus looks through him again.

00:56:49.640 How do they describe him in Revelation?

00:56:51.660 They describe Jesus' eyes.

00:56:53.420 It's like a...

00:56:54.200 I don't know.

00:56:54.720 There's flames of fire.

00:56:55.960 There's hair that's white like wool.

00:56:58.300 Are the eyes on fire?

00:56:59.640 I can't remember.

00:57:00.560 Burnished brass.

00:57:01.440 That might be the feet.

00:57:03.100 I don't exactly remember.

00:57:04.620 I think there's a description about the eyes specifically,

00:57:07.320 but it's like, yeah, dude,

00:57:08.100 I don't think it was much different in,

00:57:10.160 like, when he had his earthly body.

00:57:12.100 That's a good point.

00:57:13.160 That probably, I mean,

00:57:14.060 maybe not looking like that on the outside,

00:57:16.180 but when he looks right at you, 0.99

00:57:17.160 he's like, damn. 0.99

00:57:17.860 That's a good point, man. 1.00

00:57:19.380 Yeah.

00:57:19.640 okay it is here that once again our eyes are fixed upon the master he turned and looked at

00:57:27.320 simon it is the same word that was used at the beginning it means that he fixed his eyes upon

00:57:31.100 him and looked him through and through he knew that in that hour of reflection there was the

00:57:35.880 underlying desire to be true in spite of all the cursing and swearing i wonder how that look might

00:57:41.300 be interpreted and yet perhaps there is no need to wonder at all it is perfectly certain that it

00:57:46.500 was not a look intended to prove the accuracy of the Lord's forecast concerning the man as though

00:57:50.980 he should say, I told you so. Neither do I believe the look had in it anything of reproach for the

00:57:57.080 wrong that was being done to the heart of Jesus. It was rather the look of eternal love and

00:58:01.720 compassion, a look which said in effect, I told you, Simon, that you should be rock. I also told

00:58:07.220 you what would happen on this dark night. Trust me now, and in spite of everything, the original

00:58:12.520 word shall be fulfilled the result is very clearly declared the look broke his heart and he went out

00:58:18.980 into the night weeping bitterly i like that he's saying it's not a look of saying like i told you

00:58:23.960 so peter it's definitely not that uh he says uh it was rather a look of eternal love and compassion

00:58:31.540 which said in effect i told you that you should be rock not i told you so that you were going to do

00:58:35.580 this but i told you that you should be rock and you're gonna be you know i even told you it was

00:58:40.220 going to happen tonight look it happened and you're still going to be rock i love that's heavy

00:58:47.300 right yeah yeah again it's like a great what a great insight into that specific part of peter

00:58:52.380 because that's one of that's one of the biggest mess ups in the bible probably yeah man like he

00:58:57.580 just already referred to it earlier as spiritual suicide yeah yeah like denying christ man

00:59:02.620 so while i think there's such a lesson in it though like some people might might be able to

00:59:08.440 justify that by saying like, well, yeah, but he was just trying to stay close to him. If he told

00:59:12.620 him he's with Jesus, he would have got kicked out of the courtyard, like would have got kicked out

00:59:16.080 of where they were at. He wouldn't have been able to be close to him. So he had to deny him to be

00:59:19.920 able to get close to him. Maybe they would have killed him. People think like that. People think 0.98

00:59:23.360 like, well, yeah, if somebody has a gun to my head and says, deny Jesus, well, then if I don't deny

00:59:27.920 Jesus, then I can't preach the gospel anymore. This is the discussion that we had about Nicodemus,

00:59:32.380 right? Like when he approached Jesus, was he approaching him at night because he would have

00:59:37.040 had a better conversation or was he doing it because he didn't want to fight in the comments

00:59:40.640 man maybe maybe maybe they can go both ways i don't know but that idea there with peter is a

00:59:48.820 it's a crazy one because not like when you're talking to your kids and you're i don't know

00:59:54.340 you know that they're going to do a thing right and it's almost like you're setting them up not

00:59:57.760 you're not you're not setting them up but i can't tell you not to do the thing i got to let you

01:00:03.120 learn it yourself jesus does tell him and then he still does it i know man and it's like uh

01:00:10.940 that's a harsh lesson to learn dude i know imagine he tells you ahead of time like you

01:00:16.740 like that's the staggering thing about that he says and look at peter and all his uh whatever

01:00:23.040 you want to call it man like and all all of his strong characteristics a strong great man among

01:00:28.000 men. He, Jesus tells him that guy, you're going to do this. He says, no, no, I never will. And

01:00:34.200 he still does it. That's not crazy. You don't know. You think you'd be like, okay, things to

01:00:39.000 not do tonight, deny Jesus. And you know what? Even if I, even if I screw up twice, dude, even

01:00:45.620 if I screw up twice, I still got one more. I'm still good. He said, I'm going to deny him three

01:00:50.280 times. It's like my only thing I need to make sure I do tonight is don't deny Jesus. But even

01:00:55.760 if i screw up twice like i'm still good i still didn't do it the three like he said i would and

01:01:01.740 then he still does the three staggering dude the whole thing is wild and at the perfect time that

01:01:07.720 the rooster's right there to crow does that does that take free will away in any x like any form

01:01:13.280 or fashion or is it just like that that because that has to happen again i don't think so at all

01:01:18.700 i think it's the it's man's free will and the sovereignty of god is just all wrapped up in one

01:01:23.420 story man you know it's like he yeah he didn't like reach inside peter and twist him to the

01:01:29.240 right to make him do it is there anywhere else in the bible where uh god tells somebody that

01:01:33.900 they're gonna do a thing i mean it's kind of the story of pharaoh right i mean it's kind of yeah

01:01:38.360 but i mean pharaoh meets pharaoh gets killed by god later um anybody else that then has like this

01:01:44.760 kind of ultimate redemption i think off the top of my head so okay so he tells peter before the

01:01:49.480 cock crows, you'll deny me three times.

01:01:52.320 Is there anybody else who

01:01:53.400 says, you're going to do this?

01:01:55.820 Maybe

01:01:56.140 Jonah? I don't know. But he doesn't

01:01:59.460 tell him you're going to do this. He asks him.

01:02:01.200 He asks him to do it.

01:02:03.140 You have to put that in finger quotes. He

01:02:05.340 asks him. He did

01:02:07.280 ask him, and then he made him.

01:02:09.640 But he didn't tell him that he wouldn't do it.

01:02:11.980 I don't know.

01:02:14.040 Yeah, no, that is an

01:02:15.340 interesting one. The Jonah one's interesting. He tells him to

01:02:17.340 do it. He does everything he can to get out

01:02:19.340 at doing it but he still ends up doing it yeah but it's it's different because he's taken

01:02:25.320 he's taken i think that is a good example of free will and the sovereignty of god like in all of his

01:02:31.340 free will he's trying to get away and in the sovereignty of god the whale comes and swallows

01:02:35.820 him and spits him back up on the sea but still at some point in his free will he realizes like

01:02:40.400 i guess this is going to happen one way or another dude i just spent three days in a whale

01:02:43.920 but all of his free will was probably still like i ain't going there and then like you god's like

01:02:48.540 no, you're, you're there now. And then moves him. Peter, that doesn't happen with him here. Peter

01:02:53.280 is just, even though he's been told like that's an, that's an internal thing that he does himself.

01:02:59.140 He's not moved by a force to do a thing. That's like, I don't, I don't know what to think of that.

01:03:06.360 No, I just think it's like, God knows, man. Like he knows the ins and outs of Peter, dude. Like he

01:03:11.960 knows the ins and outs of him. And maybe he knew this weakness, if you will, was that he was going

01:03:16.540 to do everything he can to stay close to jesus maybe that's what it was dude and he said for

01:03:21.500 peter to be able to stay close to me tonight he's gonna have to deny me you know what i'm saying the

01:03:26.880 second he says i'm with jesus they're like okay arrest him yeah right so maybe he knows that maybe

01:03:32.080 he knows that peter's got this soft spot if you will that he's not gonna leave jesus side dude

01:03:36.980 he's gonna do everything he can to stay close to him and jesus knows that about him and says well

01:03:42.380 The only way he's going to be able to do that, even if I tell him ahead of time, he's still

01:03:47.120 not going to be able to not try to stay close to me.

01:03:49.680 So in that, I know he's going to do this.

01:03:51.940 I know he's going to deny me to stay close to me to see.

01:03:54.820 I mean, that's the whole reason.

01:03:56.120 That's why he's there.

01:03:57.860 The only reason he's there is because he's trying to follow Jesus and stay close to him.

01:04:01.020 The others have left.

01:04:01.940 It's just psychotic to even think like, do you do it the first time?

01:04:04.560 And then you remember like, oh, I know.

01:04:06.460 But did Jesus just know like, no, dude, he's not going to be able to stop.

01:04:09.800 Like, he's going to do everything he can to stay close to me, including denying me if he has to.

01:04:15.160 Wow.

01:04:15.480 And that's what I'm saying.

01:04:16.260 That's why that look is not like, I told you so. 1.00

01:04:18.560 Or that look is not like, you bitch. 1.00

01:04:20.120 He's not doing that at all. 1.00

01:04:21.680 Hey, language.

01:04:22.440 He's just looking at him and he's being like, bro, I love you.

01:04:25.200 Like, it's okay.

01:04:25.800 We'll work this out.

01:04:26.920 Yeah, yeah.

01:04:28.560 You get that with your kids, dude.

01:04:30.320 Some crazy thing happens and you have to just kind of have this look with them like, hey, we'll work this out.

01:04:36.020 Like, this is a lot, but we'll work this out.

01:04:38.460 Yeah, I saw that coming, though.

01:04:40.440 What do you mean?

01:04:40.980 I saw it coming, but it's not as big of a deal as you think.

01:04:45.480 Yeah, yeah, it is like that.

01:04:46.860 Yeah.

01:04:47.180 Yeah.

01:04:48.680 All right, let's finish this up because we have to get out there.

01:04:51.460 You're always in a hurry, dude.

01:04:52.520 I'm always in a hurry.

01:04:53.280 I'm really liking it, man.

01:04:54.560 Well, tune in next time we do it.

01:04:57.100 All right.

01:04:57.360 Resurrection, you want all officials and all contended for the accuracy of the Lord.

01:05:00.600 He went out in the night.

01:05:01.680 Okay, then came the cross, followed by the resurrection morning.

01:05:04.380 We inquire, where was Simon?

01:05:06.460 And as we saw him in dealing with John, he had been found by him and taken to his home.

01:05:11.240 John took Peter to his home.

01:05:13.100 There he received a message telling him of the risen Lord.

01:05:16.500 The message was given by special comment.

01:05:20.440 Go tell my disciples and Peter.

01:05:25.100 It is very suggestive and very beautiful.

01:05:28.180 Would not the expression, my disciples, have been enough?

01:05:31.520 No.

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01:07:57.740 Therefore, his Lord specially named him.

01:08:01.240 I mean, it could be that or it could just be that Jesus is like,

01:08:04.580 bro, I know what he's going through.

01:08:06.480 Make sure he knows he's named.

01:08:08.760 Like, I can only imagine what Peter's going through right now.

01:08:11.660 Make sure they tell him, hey, bring the disciples and Peter.

01:08:14.700 He's got to be named.

01:08:15.720 well i just wonder yeah i wonder at that point it's like what does it mean what does it mean

01:08:23.040 to be a disciple like you're learning from this guy yeah disciplined one under the discipline of

01:08:30.760 whoever you're a disciple of and what happens when you've strayed no when you've learned

01:08:36.420 what happens does he become rock there like what happens when when you have learned

01:08:42.640 Are you still a disciple of that person?

01:08:45.140 You could say like, you know, like people say Dave Burns,

01:08:47.440 shout out Dave Burns who does all the art for us.

01:08:49.700 His teacher for artwork, the guy that did the Action Bible,

01:08:54.600 he refers to him, he's like, yeah, yeah, my former teacher.

01:08:57.540 Like he was my teacher.

01:08:59.200 No longer is that relationship.

01:09:01.080 Now they're peers, they work together in their, you know,

01:09:04.300 conventions when they do this stuff side by side.

01:09:06.520 But this was my teacher.

01:09:07.420 Is that what that means?

01:09:09.240 I mean, that's a staggering thought that at first you're even offended that you could apply that to Jesus to say, like, he was my teacher, but not now.

01:09:16.240 But then, of course, you think about this thing that we're co-laborers together with him.

01:09:19.760 And then in some sense, he is saying, like, OK, didn't we just read where God talked to Moses?

01:09:25.160 He said, Moses, what are you talking to me for?

01:09:26.700 You do it.

01:09:28.040 I mean, I don't know.

01:09:29.260 Is there this offensive thing where, like, of course, he's always our teacher forever?

01:09:33.160 Amen.

01:09:34.200 But it's like offensive to say otherwise.

01:09:35.780 But at some point he says, like, hey, you're like, you're pretty up in the game now.

01:09:39.240 Like, let's go.

01:09:39.980 That's why I was asking at the top of the show, like, Peter is sort of the guy with the other apostles.

01:09:48.760 I don't know.

01:09:49.080 That's just how I always read it or saw it.

01:09:50.880 Like, it was like Peter and these other guys are kind of, I don't know.

01:09:54.920 He's the guy that's leading the charge.

01:09:56.860 You always think he's the main one?

01:09:58.200 I don't know why.

01:09:59.020 I never thought that.

01:09:59.940 You never thought that?

01:10:01.000 He just seems like the guy that's always out there.

01:10:02.840 Yeah, he's the guy who's maybe the biggest personality.

01:10:05.580 So he's getting the most, you know, he's being written about the most.

01:10:08.040 And at G. Campbell Morgan's point, he asked the most questions, right?

01:10:11.160 Like he's the most intuitive, like he's the most, he's the most engaged in it for whatever

01:10:16.280 reason.

01:10:16.760 I don't know, but I don't, I just, I don't know that like it puts any higher or lower

01:10:21.860 importance on any of the disciples, man.

01:10:24.820 Like, I think that's the unique thing about this book that it's kind of showing of like,

01:10:27.860 yeah, Andrew was this real, real quiet guy and very little said about him and very little

01:10:32.820 of him speaking, but like he had his role.

01:10:35.800 Yeah.

01:10:36.080 If there's no Andrew, there's no Peter.

01:10:37.720 you could say. Like he's the one who goes and finds Peter. So it's like, well, in the end,

01:10:41.820 everybody's got their role, man. Again, I'm not trying to say one is more important than the

01:10:45.860 other, but there is a hierarchy of things. Yeah. Like he calls Peter, James, and John with them

01:10:51.780 to go do stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're saying. I don't know. That might be a

01:10:56.560 stupid thought. But they all play their role. Like in the end, we all play our role. 1.00

01:11:02.200 Further, we gather that he had a private interview with Peter for when the two came back from Emmaus,

01:11:06.640 the disciples said, the Lord is risen indeed and has appeared unto Simon. We have no account of

01:11:11.940 that interview. We do not know exactly what was said, and yet we are sure that it was an interview

01:11:17.460 in which there was complete forgiveness and perfect restoration. We can reverently almost

01:11:22.500 imagine him saying to him, Simon, in spite of your protest, I have been to the cross. And as I told

01:11:28.540 you, I am alive from the dead, victorious over sin and death. Because of that, your sin is forgiven

01:11:34.420 and the fulfillment of your life is possible.

01:11:37.280 I love that.

01:11:39.440 Once more, he met him by Tiberius,

01:11:41.640 challenged him concerning his devotion and his love,

01:11:43.960 and gave him his work to do.

01:11:46.120 If we desire to know the issue,

01:11:47.900 this is where we're wrapping it up right here.

01:11:50.020 If we desire to know the issue,

01:11:52.180 we glance onto Pentecost,

01:11:54.200 and there we see this man unified, consistent,

01:11:56.680 all the elements of his personality

01:11:58.200 welded into consistency in his loyalty to Christ.

01:12:01.440 Like you could say that the baptism of the Holy Spirit

01:12:03.800 is what did that, right, that brought all his unified parts together, brought all his parts

01:12:10.660 that were not unified and unified them. We observe his courage as he faced the crowd and are amazed

01:12:16.600 at the clarity with which he sets forth the facts concerning his Lord, because that does go hard,

01:12:20.920 the Sermon of Peter on the day of Pentecost. Further on, we have glimpses of him, and we find

01:12:25.740 that while the principle was at work bringing in the rock nature, there were still evidences of

01:12:30.720 the old weakness. Paul had to withstand him once to the face, but there was that in him,

01:12:36.440 which was submissive. And in one of his letters, he referred to Paul as our beloved brother.

01:12:42.320 That's it. Yeah. That's like the formation or the solidification of Peter. Cause earlier,

01:12:46.660 I don't think Peter would have been receptive to somebody telling him stand down on this.

01:12:51.200 Right. I think because he's in the leadership role, but that's also his personality.

01:12:56.300 Right. I don't know. I don't know. But with Paul, yeah, he talks about him as our beloved

01:13:00.100 brother. And then he talks about his writings as scripture. Cause he says that like people

01:13:03.800 wrestle with these writings of Paul as they do the other scriptures. It's funny, right? Like as

01:13:08.300 he becomes the rock, he becomes, uh, his disposition becomes softer in a way. Amen.

01:13:15.420 That's what I'm saying, dude. Like in our mindset, like the, the guy who's right is the guy who never

01:13:19.800 asked questions and is never humble enough to act like he could be wrong. Like, like in our culture,

01:13:25.140 that's what we assume is right. The guy says, no, no, no, it's this. No, no, no, it's that.

01:13:29.320 but like as you study out scripture it's like people people become humble like the closer they

01:13:33.940 get to god the more they realize how mysterious the whole game is dude the game is very very

01:13:39.000 mysterious and people who act like it's not mysterious and they have it all figured out

01:13:43.140 it just kind of makes you feel like man you still got a way to go like you like you haven't gotten

01:13:47.700 to the stage yet where you go whoa like all this stuff is so mysterious all this stuff is way more

01:13:52.740 complex than i thought because sometimes people will be lower than you but by your saying that

01:13:58.120 no, I don't understand. This is very mysterious. They're saying, oh, he's a lot lower than me.

01:14:02.480 He hasn't figured this out yet. But in fact, that guy's a couple of levels up. He's gotten

01:14:06.240 past where you're at and he's gotten to the point where he goes, none of this stuff looks like how

01:14:10.300 I would have thought this would have been done. And then you get to that point and then you go,

01:14:14.740 and that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's great comfort in that. Like there's, there's great

01:14:19.120 comfort in being like, I don't have to know all the things. I don't have to win the debates. I

01:14:22.740 don't have to hold some specific doctrine. I guess if I go to cemetery school and start a 501c3

01:14:27.720 church, then I do have to be right about all these things because I'm the leader. I have to have all

01:14:32.260 the answers, but just to be in the body of Christ, just to be one of the members of the body of

01:14:36.680 Christ, you just humbly play your part, man. You just, you just say, God, I'm here for whatever

01:14:40.720 role you want me to play. So I don't have to be right about everything. And the more I read the

01:14:45.360 Bible and the more I look at my own life and the way you structured my own life, it's very mysterious.

01:14:50.780 It's, I don't know what you're going to do next. I don't know what you're going to do next in my

01:14:54.300 life personally, and I don't know what you're going to do next in regards to your kingdom and

01:14:57.960 when you come back and all the things that have to happen for that. I don't know. I don't know.

01:15:02.560 It's very mysterious. Paul had to withstand him once to the face, but there was that in him which

01:15:08.380 was submissive. And in one of his letters, he referred to Paul as our beloved brother.

01:15:12.700 As we see him in these varied other glimpses, we observe a man of untiring energy, of unbending

01:15:18.540 loyalty, an intellect supremely illuminated, an emotion completely yielded to his Lord,

01:15:24.520 and a will that bore him onward in the pathway of fellowship.

01:15:29.440 I like these series because they, they, they're not, it's not doctrine. It's a deep dive into

01:15:36.060 these people, the, the mind, well, I guess the mind of Jesus, how he deals with them. And then

01:15:44.480 Tozer obviously is like a whole nother thing that we're dealing with, but it's never telling,

01:15:47.800 It's not like I never come away from this saying, like, I need to think this or it's forming my doctrine this way.

01:15:56.140 But I come away from it going like, oh, I have like I have a lot more questions now than I had previously.

01:16:02.600 Amen. Yeah, because all this is pertaining to life.

01:16:06.240 This isn't pertaining to like intellect and proving out this scripture means that or that scripture means this.

01:16:12.400 It doesn't it's never comes down to that.

01:16:14.200 It comes down to like, this is life, right?

01:16:16.460 And that's what we're always talking about.

01:16:17.980 Like, I hope that is like the testimony of whatever straight Bible is or whatever straight

01:16:21.740 Bible becomes that like, it's talking to people about life, a life in God, a life in knowing

01:16:26.140 God, a life of surrendering and submitting to God, right? 0.96

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Nephilim Death Squad - October 29, 2026

Simon Peter： Why Jesus Called Him a Rock (John 1_42) ｜ G. Campbell Morgan Sermon Breakdown ｜ Straight Bible

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