Jack Graham - The Apostle of Hope

April 6, 2025 | S25:E14

Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - The Apostle of Hope | April 6, 2025

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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God has given us a message of hope and we're calling this
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Message series living hope, because it shows up right in
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The first sentences of 1 peter chapter 1, that we have this
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Living hope in jesus christ in the midst of a hostile world;
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Filled with devils, filled with demonic activity, filled with
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All kinds of extremes and extremists. and so how then
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Shall we live?
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That's what 1 peter is about. how are we going to live in a
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Secularized world? how are we going live our christian life
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In 2024? and what peter, the author of this book, tells us
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In this epistle... somebody said, "what is an epistle?"
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This is an epistle of hope written by "the apostle of
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Hope", and that's the title of this message. somebody said,
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"what is an epistle?" somebody said, "i know, i know. an
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Epistle is the wife of an apostle. [laughter] no, an
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Epistle is a letter... it is a message inspired by the holy
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Spirit and in this case through the pen and through the
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Persuasion of peter a mighty apostle of hope.
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Verses 1 and 2 says:
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1) peter, an apostle of jesus christ, to those who are elect
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Exiles of the dispersion in pontus, galatia, cappadocia,
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Asia, and bithynia, 2) according to the foreknowledge
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Of god the father, in the sanctification of the spirit,
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For obedience to jesus christ and for sprinkling with his
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Blood: (and watch this...) may grace and peace be multiplied
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To you.
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More and more and more... may you experience the grace and
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Peace of our lord jesus christ. that's the promise of this
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Book. it is the promise of a living hope.
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And so in the midst of all of that pain and persecution and
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Suffering, and today all the secularism in the world, here
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Is a message of promise and of hope. hope is not wishful
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Thinking or a positive mental attitude. i like positive
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Thinking. i like have a positive mental attitude. but
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Hope is much, much more. hope is the resurrection; hope is
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The horizon that we just sang about. hope is the promises of
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God; hope is what holds on to us; hope is a rope that we gain
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The presence and the power of his peace. it is confidence; it
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Is certainty. i say it is the knowledge of knowing that our
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Future is in his nail-scarred hand. hope- not only do you
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Have hope, but hope has you. and when we look at this book
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There are all kinds of subjects.
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For example, we're going to be talking about the new birth and
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Salvation; we're going to be talking about redemption and
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The resurrection; we're going to be talking about heaven and
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The second coming; we're going to talking about how to live a
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Godly life in a godless world; how to live a holy life in an
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Unholy world. we're going to talk about god's word, the
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Bible, the jesus book, and how this book is like milk to us,
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To help us grow in our faith stronger. we're going to be
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Talking about our position in christ, the priesthood of the
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Believer, how we have total access to god through our lord
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Jesus christ.
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In an election season we're going to be talking right out
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Of 1 peter about christian citizenship and what it means
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To be a responsible citizen in our nation. we're going to be
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Talking about the marriage relationship and our
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Relationship with our co-workers. we're going to be
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Talking about what it means to endure when we suffer, when
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There is grief. we're going to be talking about how to resist
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The devil “who roars like a lion seeking whom he may
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Devour”.
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We're going to talking about humility... how we humble
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Ourselves before god and live in his likeness. we're going to
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Be dealing with anxiety and how to overcome. this has been
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Called the anxious generation. we're going to be talking about
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What god says about anxiety. we'll talk about church
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Leadership and so much more.
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Can you see why i'm pumped about peter and this life
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Lesson that we're going get? this is why... 1 peter. this is
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Why this and this is why now. because it speaks to us today.
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And how does it speak to us today? because we... and this
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Is the audience... we talk a little bit about the aim of
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This book. but the audience are those saints who are scattered
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Because of the elect... we'll talk about what that means next
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Week... we call them the exiles.
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Have you ever been homesick? who's been homesick? okay, most
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Of us. i know i have.
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Well, we are also homesick for something far more than our
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Earthly home; we're homesick for heaven. why? because this
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World is not our home. and so we are living like exiles,
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Like pilgrims, all around the world, scattered around
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The world. and yet, if you're a christian and
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The longer you're here, the more homesick for heaven you
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Get. and you're ready for the coming of the lord. you're...
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You're really not just saying it or singing it; you're
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Praying it like john. it's the last prayer of the bible. "even
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So, come, lord jesus, come."
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And so the audience is you and me... people like you and me.
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Have you ever felt alienated? have you ever felt isolated?
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Have you ever felt distances from people? you can feel alone
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In a crowd like this. you may feel like that nobody is there
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For you.
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One of the themes that you will see again and again is the
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Scene of the scattered saints of suffering. first peter
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Wanted them to know that it was tough but it was going to get
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Tougher. nero was the emperor of rome and it was just getting
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Started. the fires of persecution were just beginning
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To ignite. and the theme of this book runs red throughout
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The chapters. for example, the theme of suffering in chapter
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1, verse 6. we'll put these on the screen; we're going to
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Hustle through them. but i just want you see the tone, the
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Tender, the theme of this book. it's all about dealing with
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Suffering and secularism, and all the rest.
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Verse 6 says “in this you rejoice (yes, there's joy in
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The journey), though now for a little while, if necessary, you
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Have been grieved by various trials.”
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Chapter 2, verse 21 says: "for this you have been called,
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Because christ also suffered for you... (we're going to
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Remember his suffering today at this table.) ... he suffered
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For you, leaving you an example, so that you would
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Follow in his steps." that includes the steps of
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Suffering. jesus said, "pick up the cross and follow after me."
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Chapter 3: 13 and 14: "now who is there to harm you if you are
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Zealous for what is good? but even if you should suffer for
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Righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. have no fear of
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Them, nor be troubled..."
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Chapter 4, verse 12... here's another one. it's in every
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Chapter. it runs red. it's like a bloody book: "beloved, do not
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Be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you (to do
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What?) to test you, as though something strange were
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Happening to you." in other words, when you go through a
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Trial... when you go through a test and you face fire in your
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Life or your faith in particular, or if you suffer in
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This world, don't be surprised. don't be surprised because
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We're warned it's coming. and this... this book is a warning,
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It's an exhortation and it's also an encouragement in the
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Midst of all this.
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Then one more: chapter 5 and verse 10: ”and after you have
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Suffered a little while, the god of all grace, who has
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Called you to his eternal glory in christ (there's the living
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Hope) will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and
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Establish you.”
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I know several years ago when i was going through a particular
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Trial, a physical trial in my life, 1 peter chapter 5, verse
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10... i leaned on him... that promise that he would restore
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And confirm and strengthen and establish me as a believer. he
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Will do the same for you.
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♪♪♪
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I know you would agree that our world is in trouble, its in
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Turmoil. and although it is full of so many uncertainties,
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There is one answer for believers and followers of
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Jesus. it is the first place we should go, and that is the
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Place of prayer. to take our concerns, our anxieties, our
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Worries and fears to the lord in prayer.
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God is seeking people who will connect with him and connect
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With him very deeply. to be plugged in to his spiritual
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Power that can transform our lives and people around us.
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That power can overcome any trial and transform our daily
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Lives. but so many people struggle with prayer and just
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Don't know where to start.
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[jack graham] amazing things happen when we simply ask and
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When we pray god's way, the kingdom way. by prayer, we
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Receive god's presence and power for our lives. god wants
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Us to always keep growing and seeking after him, so that we
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Can know him more and more, and love him better and better.
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That we would share his message of hope and compassion to a
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World desperately in need.
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♪♪♪
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How can we talk about 1 peter without talking about the
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Author himself, the apostle of hope? he speaks to us today.
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I'm looking forward to meeting simon peter. and so many of us
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Love him because he's so like us, he's so human. but
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Something happened in his life that totally turned his life
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Around. he was living basically a good life. as a fisherman he
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Had a nice career going on. had a family, he was married and he
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Lived on a beaut... at a beautiful place, one of the
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Most beautiful lake... seas in the world is the sea of
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Galilee. he lived on the northern shore and fished there
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For a living. he had a brother andrew and a lot of good
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Friends. he had a sailor's mouth. we know that because
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That shows up later. but he's living a good life and he could
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Have lived and died and, of course, we would have never
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Heard of him.
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Except one day jesus showed up, a carpenter from galilee, and
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He looked at peter and the other fishermen that were
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There, and he was choosing his disciples. and he said to simon
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Peter, “follow me and i'll make you a fisher of men.” your life
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Can matter more than this. again, he was living a good
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Life. an ordinary life, if you will. but god had something
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More for him. jesus had something better for him. he
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Wanted to take his ordinary life and do something
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Extraordinary through him. and that's exactly what happened.
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And so simon peter and the others who were there... andrew
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His brother introduced simon. i love andrew. he's one of the
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Great unknowns and unsung of the bible. every time we meet
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Him, he is introducing somebody to jesus, and he brought his
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Own brother to jesus. by the way, that's the best kind of
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Evangelism there is; same as andrew. andrew found his
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Brother and he brought him to jesus. go find your brother, go
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Find your friend, go find your neighbor, go find your
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Co-worker and bring them... introduce them to jesus. jesus
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Will do the rest.
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So he begins to follow jesus. and what an adventure for the
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Next three years. he sees the power of christ, the presence
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Of christ. he is a disciple. he becomes an apostle. an apostle
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Literally means one with a message. but the apostles in
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The new testament are one-of-a-kind apostles. and the
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12 of them originally, and hand-picked by jesus, and they
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Weren't necessarily the elite or the most educated of
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Society. they were common ordinary people. peter, like
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The rest of these disciples is an illustration of what we read
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About in 1 corinthians chapter 1, "not being mighty, not being
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Noble, not being powerful people are called." the
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Greatest ability is availability and expendability.
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And so this man was available and he saw the power of christ.
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He saw jesus walk on water, heal sick people, restore sight
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To blind eyes, make clean the skin of lepers. he heard those
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Magnificent words... those incredible words. no words like
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Him were ever spoken... the word of god, the word of jesus.
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He was there; he had a front row seat to jesus, the one and
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Only one who can change the world. and changed his life. he
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Saw it all.
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On one occasion jesus said, "who do people say that i am?"
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It was simon peter, under the inspiration of the holy spirit.
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He was often impulsive and impudent, and impetuous but he
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Was inspired that day by the holy spirit, and he said, "you
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Are the christ, the son of the living god." and that bold
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Fisherman, the big fisherman, simon peter was commended by
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Jesus. jesus said, "you didn't know this on your own; the holy
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Spirit told you." he said, "upon this rock... this
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Confession that i am the christ, the son of the living
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God, i will build my church." and we get to be the stones in
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The building of the church of god.
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You know, simon's first name was simon. that was his given
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Name. simon. and jesus looked at him and changed his name to
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Petros, or peter. cephas in the aramaic. so he kind of had
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Three names. simon, peter, cephas. you see those
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Interchangeable. but in one sense when you look at it, his
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Given name... his human name, his first name, if you will,
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Simon represents his old life, and there was a lot of the old
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Life in simon peter. but when jesus changed his heart and
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Made his life the life of a changed, cleansed, transformed
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Man, he became peter, the rock.
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You know, simon was always fumbling and stumbling and
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Bumbling, and you know, often, you know when he opened his
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Mouth, it was to exchange feet. i mean he was always...[laughs]
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But he said the right thing at the right time in this case and
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He was transformed, as we have been transformed by confessing
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Jesus, you are the christ, the son of the living god who died
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For me and rose again that i might have eternal life.
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So i could say a lot. it would be a whole message series on
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The life of simon peter but how can we talk about this man
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Apart from the worst moment in his life
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Simon peter during the trial of jesus followed christ at a
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Distance, the bible says. at least he was there at a
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Distance but at a distance he was warming his hands in the
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Fire of the romans while his master was on trial for his
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Life, preparing to die for the sins of the world. peter did
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Exactly what jesus predicted he would do. peter with bluster
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Had said, all these other guys... they may deny you, not
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Me! not me! i'll go to death for you!" and jesus said, "no,
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Before morning... before the rooster crows, you're going to
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Deny me three times." "no! no!"
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Well, if you know your story of the bible ... the story of the
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Bible, you know that peter did deny the lord. he was asked
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"aren't you one of the disciples? aren't you one of
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The followers? aren't you one..." and three times with
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Profanity he blasphemed the lord by denying the lord. "i
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Never knew him. i never knew him. i never knew him." and
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Then shortly after when the rooster crowed, he saw the face
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Of jesus. looked right at him. can you imagine what he felt?
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How he denied the lord. he was such... in his own eyes... a
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Loser. he had denied the one who had given him everything
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And life would never be the same, or so he thought.
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Well, simon peter was restored. you say, "i... i did a lot of
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Wrong things but i really never denied the lord." well, what
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About that time you didn't speak up when his name was
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Blasphemed? what about the time the holy spirit prompted you to
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Witness, to share the gospel with a friend, and you were
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Afraid, and you said nothing? what about the time when you
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Could have made a bold stand for christ among your friends
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And you cowered back; you went to the shadows? what about the
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Time you didn't live for the lord though you told people
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That you would? the various ways we all deny the lord.
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But there's good news and grace that is seen right here in this
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Passage in the close of the second verse. he says "grace
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And peace be multiplied to you." because what happens...
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And this is what i'm going to call the aspirations of this
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Passage... this is the hope of this passage. so often when we
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Deny the lord, we think that we can never be forgiven. that
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We've gone too far and we've lived too fast. simon peter
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Must have thought, "even if christ is alive, it will never
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Be the same. he'll never take me back." oh, yes, christ came
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Out of that grave and peter was an eye-witness to the
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Resurrection. he knew that christ was alive. i love the
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Little phrase in the gospels when the angel said of ... of
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The disciples, said, "go tell the disciples and peter..."
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Jesus said this actually, "go tell the disciples and peter
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That i'm alive." he singled out peter. he said, "go tell peter."
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When they did, peter ultimately said, "i'm going fishing." that
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Didn't mean he was going to go on a vacation. what he was
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Saying was, "i'm going back to galilee. i'm done as a
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Disciple. i... i can't do this. i'm a total failure." but
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Jesus, the risen christ, met him on the shores of galilee
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And said, "do you love me?" and three times peter said, "yes,
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Lord, you know i love you. i love you, i love you, lord. you
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Know."
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And so peter is writing here to men and women like you and me,
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Some who have denied the lord, some who have defected from the
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Faith because the heat was on, some who were discouraged, some
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Who were disillusioned, and gave them hope. this hope that
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Our past is forgiven. listen to the words of lamentations
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3:21-23 in your old testament. it's all about hope. "but this
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I call to mind, and therefore i have hope: the steadfast [love]
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Of the lord never ceases... the steadfast love of lord never
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Ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every
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Morning; great is your faithfulness."
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What... someone said, "what oxygen is to the body, hope is
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To the soul." you can't live without hope. this is why so
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Many take their lives. they're hopeless. and even when we fail
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God, or fail our families, or fail ourselves, there is hope.
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God's grace and peace is available every single day! new
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Every morning.
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And the message of the bible is that there is good news that
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You can begin again. you can get multiple do-overs in your
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Life. now we all have regrets we wish we didn't have. this is
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Not to celebrate our sin or our past, but the fact is there are
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Mulligans of mercy available to us.
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You know what a mulligan is? yeah, i know, a lot of you know
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What a mulligan is on the golf course. [laughter] it's that
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Do-over. aren't you glad that we have a god of the do-over
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Because of what christ has done? because there in that
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Sentence of this introductory message... these first verses,
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It speaks of the sprinkling of the blood." you see the trinity
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There in those first two verses. god the father who
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Planned and prepared the salvation; god the son who
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Procured it and paid for it by his blood on the cross, the
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Sprinkling of the blood; and then the work of the holy
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Spirit who procures it for us, possesses us in christ. you
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Have the trinity right there. god the father, god the son,
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God the holy spirit at work in us.
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And why? all for his multiplied grace and peace. grace... the
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Unmerited favor and faithfulness of god, the
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Steadfast love of god in our lives. the hope that never lets
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Us go. peace... that thing that you cannot explain. when you're
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Hurting in ways you cannot even imagine, when you cannot even
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Breathe, there is a peace that you can't explain because you
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Know christ and christ knows you. and it's multiplied. more
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And more grace, more and more peace. and we are restored. you
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Know, you can hide your sin, you can cover your sin, or your
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Sin can be cleansed by the power of the cross and of his
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Blood.
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This is what happened to simon peter. he was a mess and became
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A miracle, and a message from the lord. jesus loved simon
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Peter and he never... he never mistakes the moment for the
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Man. you think you've gone too far and done too much. but
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Jesus doesn't mistake the moment for the man or the woman
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You are or could become.
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Do you realize how much potential christ sees in you?
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He looks at you and he doesn't see a loser, a loudmouth like
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Simon peter. he sees someone loved. and so his blood
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Purchases us. we are blood-bought and heaven-bound.
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That is hope... the grace and peace be multiplied to you.
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Jeremiah 29:11 says, “i know the plans i have for you. plans
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Not to harm you, but to give you a future and a hope.” simon
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Peter at one point thought he was done; his future was over,
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But it was just beginning because of hope in jesus. amen?
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - The Apostle of Hope

April 6, 2025 | S25:E14

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