1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,340 Uh, there's some heroes among us that I just wanna shout out. 2 00:00:02,340 --> 00:00:06,180 Our trailer drivers, uh, they, they get all of this stuff here, the seed that 3 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:07,410 you're sitting on and all that stuff. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,960 Uh, the stage, everything else, they get it here week and week out. 5 00:00:10,110 --> 00:00:12,300 I've got good news for you two that I forgot about in the announcement. 6 00:00:12,510 --> 00:00:15,270 Um, we're gonna be able to store our trailers on site at this new school. 7 00:00:15,270 --> 00:00:16,590 So, um, 8 00:00:19,380 --> 00:00:20,940 so that's great news. 9 00:00:20,940 --> 00:00:23,550 It also means that if you own a truck, you just became a trailer driver. 10 00:00:23,939 --> 00:00:26,549 Uh, 'cause we're gonna have you help us get the No, I'm just kidding. 11 00:00:26,549 --> 00:00:29,820 But, uh, yeah, there's so many good things that's just Oh, so, 12 00:00:29,849 --> 00:00:31,379 so more that I could talk about. 13 00:00:31,379 --> 00:00:33,030 But for right now, we need to get preaching. 14 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,670 Um, you know, there's a great southern theologian. 15 00:00:35,670 --> 00:00:36,810 His name is Travis Trit. 16 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,170 Uh, some of you may know him. 17 00:00:40,170 --> 00:00:41,790 He's, it's a great day to be alive. 18 00:00:41,790 --> 00:00:42,870 That's, that's Mr. 19 00:00:42,870 --> 00:00:43,560 Travis Trit. 20 00:00:43,769 --> 00:00:46,620 Uh, but he has another song called The Best of Intentions. 21 00:00:47,370 --> 00:00:49,410 And the song starts, or the chorus goes like this. 22 00:00:49,410 --> 00:00:52,410 I, I'd give you a ring and I promised you things I always thought we'd do. 23 00:00:53,129 --> 00:00:56,850 But my best laid plans slipped right through my hands to show my love for you. 24 00:00:57,839 --> 00:01:01,739 And if you could read my heart, then you'd know without exception, it was all what? 25 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:02,940 Somebody sing it? 26 00:01:02,970 --> 00:01:10,020 No, with the best of intentions, you know, that that chorus that is written obviously 27 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:14,340 for a, a woman I, I think, is a chorus that we sometimes sing to God on Fridays 28 00:01:14,340 --> 00:01:18,900 after a week where we think, man, God, I, I had the best of intentions this week. 29 00:01:19,695 --> 00:01:22,304 I had the best of intentions that this week was gonna be different. 30 00:01:22,335 --> 00:01:23,235 It was gonna look different. 31 00:01:23,235 --> 00:01:26,535 I was gonna, that momentum, that wave, that excitement that, that, that faith 32 00:01:26,535 --> 00:01:29,145 that was building on Sunday morning, I was gonna sustain it all the way through. 33 00:01:29,145 --> 00:01:33,794 And I had the best of intentions until the, the fog of Monday set in and that 34 00:01:33,794 --> 00:01:39,435 faith that I had on Sunday was derailed by that Monday fog This morning. 35 00:01:39,435 --> 00:01:43,095 I'd like to talk to us about how we can make this next week different. 36 00:01:43,815 --> 00:01:46,365 How we can make sure together that we avoid the Monday 37 00:01:46,365 --> 00:01:48,464 fog that so easily derails. 38 00:01:48,870 --> 00:01:51,285 The Sunday phase so that we're not with Mr. 39 00:01:51,285 --> 00:01:52,259 Travis Tritt singing. 40 00:01:52,259 --> 00:01:57,780 I had the Best of Intentions, Lord, as we get to Friday, John 21, as 41 00:01:57,780 --> 00:02:01,320 we get into our text, uh, this is a bit of an epilogue in John's gospel. 42 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,520 It's the, and then, uh, 'cause John had wrapped things up with his purpose 43 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,080 statement at the end of John chapter 20. 44 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,259 And now in John chapter 21, he is kind of given us the rest of the story. 45 00:02:10,259 --> 00:02:12,060 He's, he's helping type some loose ends here. 46 00:02:12,405 --> 00:02:14,355 Some ends that, that need to be tied up. 47 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:17,265 For example, we're gonna find out next week what happened with Peter and, uh, 48 00:02:17,505 --> 00:02:19,304 and, and some of the other disciples here. 49 00:02:19,304 --> 00:02:23,744 But for this morning, we open up, it says after this, it's the word in Greek metta. 50 00:02:24,165 --> 00:02:27,885 It's, it's two words there, undefined amount of time, basically sometime 51 00:02:27,885 --> 00:02:29,505 later you could translate it that way. 52 00:02:29,864 --> 00:02:33,855 It, it doesn't mean immediately on the heels of when he appeared to Thomas 53 00:02:33,855 --> 00:02:35,924 and the disciples in that upper room. 54 00:02:36,135 --> 00:02:38,234 In fact, we know it must have been some time because they had 55 00:02:38,234 --> 00:02:40,545 been in Jerusalem and now we're gonna find them up in Galilee. 56 00:02:40,905 --> 00:02:47,204 And so sometime later after this, Jesus revealed himself, manifested himself again 57 00:02:47,565 --> 00:02:50,174 to the disciples by the sea of Tiberius. 58 00:02:50,894 --> 00:02:53,325 The Sea of Tiberius is another name for the Sea of Galilee. 59 00:02:53,655 --> 00:02:56,774 In fact, if you go to Israel today, there's still a region known as Tiberius, 60 00:02:56,774 --> 00:02:58,605 and the reason is that was the Roman name. 61 00:02:58,950 --> 00:03:00,180 That's what they referred to it as. 62 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:02,340 They referred to it, that region as Tiberius. 63 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:07,170 And so as John is writing his, his gospel, the fourth gospel, uh, sometime close to 64 00:03:07,170 --> 00:03:11,520 the end of the first century, ad Tiberius would've been the common name at the time. 65 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,160 And so that's why he says they were near the sea of Tiberius. 66 00:03:14,250 --> 00:03:17,460 But earlier in chapter six, he had mentioned, and the, the Sea of Tiberius 67 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:19,079 and said, this is the, the Sea of Galilee. 68 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:20,220 So they're there. 69 00:03:20,220 --> 00:03:20,579 Why? 70 00:03:20,579 --> 00:03:25,350 Because Jesus, in Matthew 28, verse 10, had said to the women, he had 71 00:03:25,350 --> 00:03:28,260 said, don't be afraid, but go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. 72 00:03:28,605 --> 00:03:29,655 And there they will see me. 73 00:03:30,315 --> 00:03:34,305 So the disciples are there, at least in part, in obedience to Jesus. 74 00:03:34,305 --> 00:03:36,465 Jesus has said, go to Galilee and I'll meet you there. 75 00:03:37,125 --> 00:03:39,345 Well, they get to Galilee and there's seven of them here. 76 00:03:39,345 --> 00:03:39,975 Look at verse two. 77 00:03:39,975 --> 00:03:44,655 It says, Simon Peter Thomas called the twin Nathaniel of Cana and 78 00:03:44,655 --> 00:03:46,485 Galilee, the sons of Zebedee. 79 00:03:46,485 --> 00:03:49,335 That would've been James and John and two other disciples. 80 00:03:49,335 --> 00:03:51,885 We don't know who they were, but all these seven, they were 81 00:03:51,885 --> 00:03:53,445 together there in gallery. 82 00:03:53,690 --> 00:03:54,495 And, and they're there. 83 00:03:54,495 --> 00:03:55,785 They're waiting for Jesus. 84 00:03:55,785 --> 00:03:57,674 And yet Jesus hadn't shown up yet. 85 00:03:58,095 --> 00:04:02,325 It, it reminds me a little bit of the story of Samuel and Saul, where Samuel 86 00:04:02,325 --> 00:04:04,365 told Saul, Hey, I need you to wait for me. 87 00:04:04,454 --> 00:04:07,275 Wait seven days and then I'll be there, and when I show up, 88 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:08,715 then I'll, I'll, I'll help you. 89 00:04:09,315 --> 00:04:13,515 Well, Saul was waiting, and at the end of seven days, Samuel wasn't there right 90 00:04:13,515 --> 00:04:14,654 when Saul expected him to be there. 91 00:04:14,654 --> 00:04:17,144 So Saul went ahead and offered the burn offerings and sacrifices 92 00:04:17,415 --> 00:04:18,495 against the law of God. 93 00:04:18,495 --> 00:04:20,774 And Samuel showed up right after that and said, Saul, what are you doing? 94 00:04:20,774 --> 00:04:21,855 You shouldn't be doing that. 95 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,099 This isn't as egregious because God didn't prohibit his disciples from 96 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:27,359 doing what they're about to do. 97 00:04:27,539 --> 00:04:30,690 And yet God also didn't tell the disciples to go do what they were about to do. 98 00:04:31,140 --> 00:04:35,460 And so in verse three, Peter says to the others, I'm gonna go fishing. 99 00:04:36,210 --> 00:04:40,919 And the others said to him, well, we will go with you, Peter, James, and John. 100 00:04:40,919 --> 00:04:44,340 We know for sure that at least three of the seven were avid fishermen. 101 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,940 These were the, the, the men that Jesus had called from the boats. 102 00:04:48,330 --> 00:04:49,680 They were mending their father's nets. 103 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,130 And Jesus had said, come and follow me and I will make you fishers of men. 104 00:04:53,370 --> 00:04:56,400 And so now they're in Galilee and I want us to, to get the scene. 105 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,090 They're there, but they've just come off of this mountaintop experience with Jesus. 106 00:05:00,495 --> 00:05:03,465 They've just come out of the upper room sometime before this, but 107 00:05:03,675 --> 00:05:04,995 still in recent enough memory. 108 00:05:04,995 --> 00:05:08,235 I mean, Jesus was only on earth for 40 days after the, the resurrection. 109 00:05:08,685 --> 00:05:10,335 Jesus has risen from the dead. 110 00:05:10,335 --> 00:05:14,385 He showed them the nail pierced hands and feet, and they felt his side and, 111 00:05:14,385 --> 00:05:18,315 and they get to Galilee and it doesn't take long before that Monday fog sets 112 00:05:18,315 --> 00:05:21,075 in, so to speak, and they look around, they're like, well, Jesus isn't here. 113 00:05:21,075 --> 00:05:21,945 What should we do? 114 00:05:22,875 --> 00:05:23,925 I guess let's just go fishing. 115 00:05:25,470 --> 00:05:28,980 And I just, I want us to, to feel that and also to be careful of 116 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:33,180 chronological snobbery, to think that, well, we would've never done that. 117 00:05:33,780 --> 00:05:35,790 We would've known, Hey, Jesus is coming. 118 00:05:35,790 --> 00:05:38,430 He told you to be fishers of, of men, not fishers of fish. 119 00:05:38,970 --> 00:05:40,080 So just wait. 120 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:40,770 Just be patient. 121 00:05:40,770 --> 00:05:41,790 Hold your horses, Peter. 122 00:05:42,930 --> 00:05:47,700 But church, I, I, I think there's ways that, that we quote, unquote 123 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:51,180 go fishing just like Peter and the other disciples went fishing. 124 00:05:51,465 --> 00:05:53,580 That, that, that we come off of a weekend. 125 00:05:53,985 --> 00:05:57,405 That we come off of a time where, where we spend this time together on a Sunday, 126 00:05:57,405 --> 00:06:01,425 and maybe you, you hear a message that really encourages you or convicts you 127 00:06:01,425 --> 00:06:04,725 or challenges you, or you, you're just built up by the worship and you're 128 00:06:04,725 --> 00:06:07,995 just fired up and you feel like, man, I just, I'm, I'm ready for the week. 129 00:06:07,995 --> 00:06:12,105 And the, and the wave begins to crest and, and you're just ready to go 130 00:06:12,105 --> 00:06:14,745 out and make this next week the best week walking with Jesus that you've 131 00:06:14,745 --> 00:06:17,865 ever had, only to wake up Monday. 132 00:06:18,375 --> 00:06:20,445 And the, the drift to the default happens. 133 00:06:20,970 --> 00:06:24,120 You wake up Monday and your schedule's there, you've got meetings, you've 134 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,770 gotta get kids out the door to school. 135 00:06:25,770 --> 00:06:29,310 You've got a, a job in front of you that you wish you didn't have to go to. 136 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,670 You, you've got tension at home between you and your, your spouse. 137 00:06:32,670 --> 00:06:36,060 You've got a, a wayward child that's not walking with the Lord, and all 138 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:37,470 of the realities crash back in. 139 00:06:37,470 --> 00:06:40,320 And all that momentum that you once felt on Sunday morning, Monday hits 140 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,560 and the fog sets in and the faith of Sunday disappears and the fog on Monday. 141 00:06:43,590 --> 00:06:46,409 And you look at yourself in the mirror and you say, well, I, I 142 00:06:46,409 --> 00:06:47,430 guess I'm just gonna go fishing. 143 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:53,039 My first point for us this morning as we consider about how to avoid this, 144 00:06:53,039 --> 00:06:55,739 is this, don't go fishing on Monday. 145 00:06:57,780 --> 00:07:00,750 You say, well, that seems like a little bit of a, of a vague point. 146 00:07:01,289 --> 00:07:03,989 It it's not as, as clear as some of the other ones that you've given in the 147 00:07:03,989 --> 00:07:07,469 past, and I get that, but I, I want it to set in with us, and I'm not, if you're 148 00:07:07,469 --> 00:07:08,880 a fisherman, this is not about you. 149 00:07:08,909 --> 00:07:09,299 Okay. 150 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,309 You can go fishing on a Monday. 151 00:07:11,309 --> 00:07:11,700 Literally. 152 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:12,150 That's okay. 153 00:07:12,150 --> 00:07:14,250 I'm, I'm, as long as you're glorifying Jesus with it. 154 00:07:14,250 --> 00:07:14,940 That's that's all right. 155 00:07:16,155 --> 00:07:19,365 I'm just saying don't let the default sit in again on Monday. 156 00:07:19,784 --> 00:07:20,984 Don't drift to that default. 157 00:07:21,015 --> 00:07:23,294 Don't let the Monday fog derail your Sunday faith. 158 00:07:24,435 --> 00:07:28,844 When I first graduated from seminary, um, I was looking for a job in ministry, 159 00:07:29,294 --> 00:07:32,775 and while I was looking for that job in ministry, my mom, who was a doctor 160 00:07:32,775 --> 00:07:35,715 at the time, at a private practice, she hired me to, to be the person 161 00:07:35,715 --> 00:07:38,354 that goes into the waiting room and calls you back and, and, and weighs 162 00:07:38,354 --> 00:07:39,854 you, and then puts you in the room. 163 00:07:40,230 --> 00:07:43,200 And says the doctor will be with you in about two hours and then goes 164 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,340 back and enters in the information. 165 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:45,060 That was my job. 166 00:07:45,540 --> 00:07:48,870 Um, and I, I was thankful for it. 167 00:07:48,930 --> 00:07:52,500 It was, it helped support my wife and my kid at the time. 168 00:07:52,890 --> 00:07:55,890 Um, but I knew it wasn't what God was calling me to do. 169 00:07:56,670 --> 00:07:59,850 I knew it wasn't really what I was supposed to be doing, and 170 00:07:59,850 --> 00:08:01,440 if I had stayed doing that. 171 00:08:01,845 --> 00:08:04,575 Then I would've been going fishing, so to speak on Monday. 172 00:08:04,965 --> 00:08:08,865 So one of the ways you might go fishing on Monday is when you're ignoring something 173 00:08:08,865 --> 00:08:10,785 that God is impressing upon your life. 174 00:08:11,085 --> 00:08:14,325 When you're ignoring something that God has equipped you to do when 175 00:08:14,325 --> 00:08:17,865 you're not using the giftedness that God has given you in, in the 176 00:08:17,865 --> 00:08:19,125 way that he would have you use it. 177 00:08:19,125 --> 00:08:23,175 That's one way that you might go fishing on Monday, but there's other 178 00:08:23,175 --> 00:08:26,415 ways that maybe you could go fishing on Monday that are, are probably 179 00:08:26,415 --> 00:08:28,875 more, um, more in our kitchen. 180 00:08:29,325 --> 00:08:31,545 Uh, lemme give you some examples of what this might look like. 181 00:08:32,325 --> 00:08:36,405 Maybe you hear a sermon on Sunday from the pastor saying, Hey, you know what? 182 00:08:36,405 --> 00:08:40,155 You, you need to be in the word of God on a daily basis. 183 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:42,195 You've heard me preach that before, man. 184 00:08:42,195 --> 00:08:45,735 We need to be in God's word regularly, and maybe the, the wave, 185 00:08:45,735 --> 00:08:47,475 the, the momentum begins to crest. 186 00:08:47,475 --> 00:08:49,215 As you're sitting there and you're listening to this sermon and you're 187 00:08:49,215 --> 00:08:50,565 thinking to yourself, man, he's right. 188 00:08:50,805 --> 00:08:52,125 I gotta get in the word of God. 189 00:08:52,215 --> 00:08:53,145 I gotta get after it. 190 00:08:53,145 --> 00:08:56,325 And this is great, and I love this moment right now, and I'm convinced that I'm 191 00:08:56,325 --> 00:08:57,585 gonna read the whole Bible on Monday. 192 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,185 And, and that momentum is just building and you're just chomping at the bit. 193 00:09:01,185 --> 00:09:04,545 You can't wait to go and get after reading the Bible on Monday, but then 194 00:09:04,905 --> 00:09:07,215 after church, you and your family, maybe you go out and you grab some 195 00:09:07,215 --> 00:09:10,845 lunch together and you get busy talking about what's coming up this week. 196 00:09:10,845 --> 00:09:13,695 And maybe you're watching the Rangers lose another game in the, 197 00:09:13,695 --> 00:09:16,875 the restaurant there on TV because their offense has just gone away. 198 00:09:17,235 --> 00:09:19,125 Uh, and, and you're just going, oh, okay. 199 00:09:19,125 --> 00:09:22,875 And, and, and that, that passion that you felt that wave is, is beginning to. 200 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,060 To, to peter out a little bit, and then you get home and, and that bible that 201 00:09:27,060 --> 00:09:30,150 you were so excited about getting into, man, you've got that table by your door 202 00:09:30,150 --> 00:09:32,400 that you normally keep your stuff by, and you throw that Bible down on that 203 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,640 table like you do every week, and then all of a sudden it's Wednesday and you 204 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,075 look up and the Bible's still sitting there and you haven't been in it at all. 205 00:09:39,930 --> 00:09:42,810 See sometimes on Sunday, it, it's like a wave. 206 00:09:42,810 --> 00:09:46,500 If you stood on the beach and you've seen those waves rolling in off the, the, the 207 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:50,460 ocean, and they come in so powerfully and they look like they're just monstrous, 208 00:09:50,460 --> 00:09:53,460 and you sit there and you go, man, if I was standing out in the water when that 209 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:55,800 wave hit me, I'd be just knocked over. 210 00:09:56,370 --> 00:09:58,590 And yet, by the time it gets to you on the shore, it's just 211 00:09:58,590 --> 00:10:00,000 barely lapping at your toes. 212 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,400 It's lost all of its fervor, all of its energy. 213 00:10:03,390 --> 00:10:07,230 If we're not careful, y'all, that's what it's like when we leave church. 214 00:10:07,230 --> 00:10:08,220 Super motivated. 215 00:10:08,985 --> 00:10:10,095 To go out and make a change. 216 00:10:10,125 --> 00:10:14,355 Super convicted, super encouraged, and, and yet if, if that's where 217 00:10:14,355 --> 00:10:18,195 it ends, then that wave of momentum is gonna crash out on the shore 218 00:10:18,195 --> 00:10:19,335 of the apathy of Monday morning. 219 00:10:21,015 --> 00:10:24,915 Maybe it's reading your Bible, maybe you hear a sermon on roles of husband 220 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:28,605 and husband and wives, and you think to yourself about your own marriage 221 00:10:28,635 --> 00:10:32,055 and you're sitting there going, man, yeah, we, we could do some work here. 222 00:10:32,505 --> 00:10:34,785 We've got some room to grow in our marital roles. 223 00:10:35,685 --> 00:10:36,795 I wanna be a better husband. 224 00:10:37,035 --> 00:10:37,725 Your ladies. 225 00:10:37,725 --> 00:10:38,745 I wanna be a better wife. 226 00:10:39,435 --> 00:10:41,445 And I'm, I'm fired up and I'm excited about this. 227 00:10:41,445 --> 00:10:44,175 But then, you know what, you, you get home from church and your kids are 228 00:10:44,175 --> 00:10:45,735 like, mom, dad, I'm, I'm, I'm hungry. 229 00:10:46,215 --> 00:10:48,765 And so you gotta get about getting them lunch and you're, you're feeding them 230 00:10:48,765 --> 00:10:52,035 and, and then they're like, uh, mom, dad, I've, I've got this field trip tomorrow. 231 00:10:52,035 --> 00:10:53,325 Did you sign the form for me? 232 00:10:53,805 --> 00:10:56,535 And so then you're trying to chase down the form and, and then they're like, 233 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:58,095 uh, I, Hey, I've gotta pack my lunch. 234 00:10:58,095 --> 00:10:59,715 And, and we don't have food in the refrigerator. 235 00:11:00,195 --> 00:11:03,045 So then you're trying to get creative to figure out how you can make lunch out 236 00:11:03,045 --> 00:11:07,965 of carrots and, uh, and cel restocks and some Vegemite in your, your, your pantry. 237 00:11:08,505 --> 00:11:09,435 We don't have Vegemite, by the way. 238 00:11:09,435 --> 00:11:10,155 I don't know why I said that. 239 00:11:10,155 --> 00:11:11,145 That's just what popped into my mind. 240 00:11:12,555 --> 00:11:16,395 And then after all that is settled, then by that time it's, it's time 241 00:11:16,395 --> 00:11:18,795 for dinner and you don't, you're trying to scramble up dinner. 242 00:11:19,380 --> 00:11:21,989 And then after that, the kids need baths or showers, and 243 00:11:21,989 --> 00:11:23,010 then they've gotta go to bed. 244 00:11:23,010 --> 00:11:25,290 So you're doing the whole bedtime routine, and then finally when you and 245 00:11:25,290 --> 00:11:28,410 your husband get a free moment to sit down together on the couch, you're so 246 00:11:28,410 --> 00:11:30,839 worn out and exhausted from everything that all you can do is pick up your 247 00:11:30,839 --> 00:11:35,520 phone and jump back into Instagram again, and then Monday hits, and then 248 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:36,869 you're back into the routine of the week. 249 00:11:38,219 --> 00:11:39,989 That's another way we can go fishing on Monday 250 00:11:45,359 --> 00:11:47,790 Church, if we're going to avoid this. 251 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,500 We have to make sure that that wave of momentum that we're 252 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:56,250 feeling right now doesn't crash out on the shore of Monday's. 253 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:56,640 Apathy. 254 00:11:57,660 --> 00:12:00,420 We've gotta make sure that the fog on Monday doesn't derail the faith of Sunday. 255 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,310 And, and, and the way that we do that is we have to be intentional. 256 00:12:05,550 --> 00:12:08,430 When you're feeling that, that, man, I'm excited about this. 257 00:12:08,430 --> 00:12:10,439 I wanna make these changes, y'all. 258 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:12,300 That's the spirit's work in your life. 259 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,500 And then it's about going home and sitting down and going, okay, how am 260 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:19,830 I gonna plan to make sure that this doesn't crash out on Monday morning? 261 00:12:20,820 --> 00:12:22,440 How am I gonna do something with this? 262 00:12:22,980 --> 00:12:25,950 How am I gonna make this last so that I don't just go 263 00:12:25,950 --> 00:12:27,510 fishing again tomorrow morning? 264 00:12:28,980 --> 00:12:31,980 Couple thoughts I wanna suggest for you that I think will be helpful. 265 00:12:32,430 --> 00:12:37,320 Number one is to ask the question, what are the changes that you wanna make? 266 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:40,110 You feel this momentum, you feel this encouragement? 267 00:12:40,110 --> 00:12:41,220 Let's talk reading your Bible. 268 00:12:41,835 --> 00:12:42,465 And, and so on. 269 00:12:42,465 --> 00:12:45,195 Sunday, you're like, yeah, I, I need to be in my Bible more regularly. 270 00:12:45,195 --> 00:12:47,295 So you're going, that's a change that I need to make. 271 00:12:47,295 --> 00:12:50,025 And so you hear the sermon, then you go home and you're sitting down, 272 00:12:50,025 --> 00:12:52,485 you're going, I need to identify what's the change that I need to make. 273 00:12:52,755 --> 00:12:56,535 I wanna read my Bible every day this week, at least for five 274 00:12:56,535 --> 00:12:58,155 minutes a day, every day this week. 275 00:12:58,995 --> 00:13:00,045 Or maybe you're already doing that. 276 00:13:00,045 --> 00:13:03,285 You're gonna, I, I just wanna do more, I'm gonna add 20 minutes 277 00:13:03,285 --> 00:13:04,275 to my Bible reading this week. 278 00:13:04,305 --> 00:13:04,335 Okay. 279 00:13:05,385 --> 00:13:07,094 So you're asking what changes need to be made. 280 00:13:07,094 --> 00:13:07,724 You're identifying that. 281 00:13:07,724 --> 00:13:11,415 Second, you need to then ask, okay, well what routines or structures do I need 282 00:13:11,415 --> 00:13:15,224 to be putting putting in place right now in order to sustain these changes? 283 00:13:16,275 --> 00:13:19,334 Because to identify the change is one thing, but then the question 284 00:13:19,334 --> 00:13:20,564 becomes, how do I sustain that? 285 00:13:21,319 --> 00:13:23,714 And, and that's where routines and structures come into place. 286 00:13:23,714 --> 00:13:26,234 So maybe it's Bible reading and you're gonna think, you know what, if I'm gonna 287 00:13:26,234 --> 00:13:29,444 do my Bible reading in the morning, then I just need to wake up earlier. 288 00:13:29,850 --> 00:13:33,420 So I'm gonna wake up 30 minutes earlier tomorrow morning and every day this week. 289 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:36,720 And that means I'm gonna try to get to bed 30 minutes earlier each night this week. 290 00:13:37,140 --> 00:13:39,450 And so the routine and structure that you're gonna put into place 291 00:13:39,450 --> 00:13:42,780 that's gonna help you read your Bible is pulling out your phone and your 292 00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:45,840 alarm clock and setting your alarm clock to go off 30 minutes earlier. 293 00:13:46,170 --> 00:13:46,380 Okay? 294 00:13:47,010 --> 00:13:48,810 So what routines or structures need to be changed? 295 00:13:48,930 --> 00:13:51,480 Third, where's accountability gonna be found? 296 00:13:52,410 --> 00:13:53,640 That's crucial to this too. 297 00:13:54,570 --> 00:13:56,520 And so if you're married, maybe that's your spouse, maybe you're 298 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,980 gonna say together, Hey, we're gonna get up and do this at the same time. 299 00:13:59,355 --> 00:14:01,185 Or maybe you've got somebody in your community group that 300 00:14:01,185 --> 00:14:01,755 you can say, you know what? 301 00:14:01,755 --> 00:14:03,045 I wanna read my Bible more this week. 302 00:14:03,045 --> 00:14:03,975 This is what I'm committing to. 303 00:14:04,275 --> 00:14:05,235 Will you text me? 304 00:14:05,745 --> 00:14:08,115 Will you text me daily and say, Hey, are are you doing it? 305 00:14:09,075 --> 00:14:11,355 Will you hold me accountable to this? 306 00:14:11,895 --> 00:14:15,585 Listen, these aren't guarantees that this is gonna sustain the momentum 307 00:14:15,585 --> 00:14:17,415 that you've got, but it's gonna help. 308 00:14:18,045 --> 00:14:18,615 It's gonna help. 309 00:14:18,615 --> 00:14:21,225 And, and I can tell you, if you don't do this, you're gonna be far more likely 310 00:14:21,225 --> 00:14:24,345 to have Monday's apathy, cause that wave to just crash out on the shore. 311 00:14:26,085 --> 00:14:27,615 Don't go fishing on Monday. 312 00:14:28,860 --> 00:14:31,140 Uh, what we read next in the text, it says, just as day was 313 00:14:31,140 --> 00:14:32,880 breaking, Jesus stood on the shore. 314 00:14:33,060 --> 00:14:35,370 Yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 315 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,189 So, day is breaking, the sun is just barely coming up. 316 00:14:38,370 --> 00:14:41,010 Uh, the, the fishermen in Galilee, they would fish overnight. 317 00:14:41,069 --> 00:14:43,890 They would go out all night long, and, and we know that to be still 318 00:14:43,890 --> 00:14:46,319 true today with fishermen, they don't keep the same schedules. 319 00:14:46,319 --> 00:14:46,680 We keep. 320 00:14:47,145 --> 00:14:49,425 The show Deadliest Catch if you guys have ever watched that, right? 321 00:14:49,425 --> 00:14:52,814 They're out all night long on the, the bearing sea and they're, they're out there 322 00:14:52,814 --> 00:14:54,255 and it's, it's all hours in the night. 323 00:14:54,255 --> 00:14:56,175 It, it, they don't keep the same schedules. 324 00:14:56,564 --> 00:14:59,084 So likewise here, the, the fishermen, they'd been out all night long 325 00:14:59,084 --> 00:15:01,035 fishing and they don't catch anything. 326 00:15:01,035 --> 00:15:02,895 And listen, I don't think that was on accident. 327 00:15:03,704 --> 00:15:05,145 These are, they know what they're doing. 328 00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:07,694 The Sea of Galilee was their home turf. 329 00:15:08,175 --> 00:15:11,505 They had been out there countless times before they knew how to catch fish. 330 00:15:11,895 --> 00:15:14,204 So I don't think it was an accident that they came back skunked. 331 00:15:14,865 --> 00:15:16,515 And we'll talk about why in just a minute here. 332 00:15:17,265 --> 00:15:18,285 But they come back nonetheless. 333 00:15:18,285 --> 00:15:21,015 And Jesus is standing on the shore, says they did not know that it was Jesus. 334 00:15:21,015 --> 00:15:21,735 Why not? 335 00:15:22,065 --> 00:15:25,275 Well, maybe he was keeping them from understanding that the way that he 336 00:15:25,275 --> 00:15:28,455 had with the disciples on the road to Emmaus or initially possibly 337 00:15:28,455 --> 00:15:29,745 with Mary Magdalene in the garden. 338 00:15:30,345 --> 00:15:32,655 I think it's because they're a hundred yards off shore 339 00:15:32,655 --> 00:15:33,645 as we're about to find out. 340 00:15:33,855 --> 00:15:35,265 And it's dark, okay? 341 00:15:35,595 --> 00:15:38,535 There's no light pollution like we have in our society today. 342 00:15:38,745 --> 00:15:41,355 So imagine being in a pitch black football field. 343 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:45,210 And you're standing on one end of the football field and looking to the other 344 00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:49,350 end of the football field at the earliest rays of dawn breaking forward, and there's 345 00:15:49,350 --> 00:15:53,010 just a person standing at the other end of the field, you're probably not gonna 346 00:15:53,010 --> 00:15:54,750 be able to tell and pick out who that is. 347 00:15:55,380 --> 00:15:58,440 And so I think that's why the disciples don't initially recognize who Jesus is. 348 00:15:58,650 --> 00:16:02,610 Jesus calls to them though in verse five, children, do you have any fish? 349 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,500 Well, wouldn't they have recognized his voice? 350 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,680 Well, if he's trying to cover a hundred yards, he's having to raise his voice 351 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:08,730 and holler at them a little bit. 352 00:16:09,210 --> 00:16:11,670 And when you do that, the voice changes, its timber a little 353 00:16:11,670 --> 00:16:12,630 bit and it's hard to pick up. 354 00:16:12,630 --> 00:16:15,510 So I still don't think that we're in grounds to say, well, why 355 00:16:15,510 --> 00:16:17,340 didn't they understand children? 356 00:16:17,340 --> 00:16:17,970 Do you have any fish? 357 00:16:17,970 --> 00:16:22,140 Now, the word children there in the Greek pion is not pejorative, but it's, 358 00:16:22,140 --> 00:16:24,090 it's a term of endearment, of affection. 359 00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:27,150 Jesus is referring to them as his beloved children. 360 00:16:27,150 --> 00:16:31,140 His followers, his the rabbi would often do this with his students, and 361 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:32,760 so his children, do you have any fish? 362 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,980 Jesus knew they didn't have any fish. 363 00:16:36,015 --> 00:16:39,615 And he's, he's, I think, trying to get them to realize why don't, 364 00:16:39,675 --> 00:16:40,814 why don't we have any fish? 365 00:16:40,814 --> 00:16:41,474 We're good at this. 366 00:16:41,479 --> 00:16:43,155 What, what, what are we doing wrong? 367 00:16:44,084 --> 00:16:47,115 And they say in a probably short, a little bit impatient answer. 368 00:16:47,145 --> 00:16:49,094 No, no, we don't have any fish. 369 00:16:49,545 --> 00:16:51,974 Verse six, he said to them, cast the net on the right side of 370 00:16:51,974 --> 00:16:53,385 the boat and you will find some. 371 00:16:54,495 --> 00:16:57,015 So they cast it and they were not able to haul it in because 372 00:16:57,015 --> 00:16:57,854 of the quantity of fish. 373 00:16:57,854 --> 00:17:01,994 Now do you think they had thrown the net on both sides of the boat overnight? 374 00:17:01,994 --> 00:17:03,165 A couple times. 375 00:17:04,095 --> 00:17:06,944 Now some have suggested, well, the steering ore was on the right side of 376 00:17:06,944 --> 00:17:09,585 the boat so they wouldn't have thrown it naturally on the right side of the boat. 377 00:17:10,335 --> 00:17:13,335 No, I, I think Jesus is just showing that this is Jesus. 378 00:17:13,935 --> 00:17:17,355 And, and he says, cast it on the right side of the boat, and immediately 379 00:17:17,355 --> 00:17:19,243 they, they catch this quantity of fish. 380 00:17:19,243 --> 00:17:20,505 153 is, we'll find out. 381 00:17:20,983 --> 00:17:22,964 That's so great that they're barely able to bring it in. 382 00:17:23,025 --> 00:17:24,345 They're not able to even haul it in. 383 00:17:24,915 --> 00:17:27,795 And then look at verse seven, that disciple whom Jesus loved. 384 00:17:28,005 --> 00:17:32,205 That's John therefore said to Peter, it is the Lord. 385 00:17:32,580 --> 00:17:33,150 It's the Lord. 386 00:17:33,150 --> 00:17:34,260 It's Jesus, Peter. 387 00:17:34,740 --> 00:17:38,010 Now, how do we know? 388 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:38,850 How did he know? 389 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:41,820 Why was this the moment of recognition for John, do you think? 390 00:17:42,750 --> 00:17:45,330 And I think the reason is you're probably right. 391 00:17:45,330 --> 00:17:46,590 So track with me for just a second. 392 00:17:46,590 --> 00:17:49,020 You just nodded your head along and then everybody will think that 393 00:17:49,020 --> 00:17:50,910 you know exactly where I'm going. 394 00:17:50,910 --> 00:17:51,450 I'm sure you do. 395 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,440 Luke chapter five, you remember the disciples, they had been out 396 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:56,880 fishing all night in that context. 397 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,920 Jesus came out and got in the boat with the disciples. 398 00:17:59,955 --> 00:18:02,685 And he said to Peter, Hey Peter, shove out into the deep water 399 00:18:02,685 --> 00:18:03,825 and let your nets down again. 400 00:18:04,815 --> 00:18:05,985 And you remember what Peter said to him? 401 00:18:06,615 --> 00:18:10,770 He said, Lord, we've been fishing all night long, but okay, Mr. 402 00:18:10,770 --> 00:18:13,155 Carpenter, we'll push out into the deep. 403 00:18:13,155 --> 00:18:14,565 We'll do it because you're telling us to. 404 00:18:15,225 --> 00:18:17,264 So they shove out into the deep water and they let their nets down. 405 00:18:17,264 --> 00:18:17,865 And what happens? 406 00:18:18,345 --> 00:18:21,254 They catch a, a hall of fish so big the nets were, were breaking. 407 00:18:21,764 --> 00:18:22,544 And what does Peter do? 408 00:18:22,544 --> 00:18:25,274 Peter falls at the knees of Jesus and says, I'm an unworthy man. 409 00:18:26,310 --> 00:18:28,170 And so I think here we have a callback to that. 410 00:18:28,350 --> 00:18:31,379 I think Jesus at multiple times in John 21, is doing these little 411 00:18:31,379 --> 00:18:35,220 callbacks to remind them of who he is, and here's one of them. 412 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,420 And so that's the moment that John, who is there with Peter goes, it's Jesus. 413 00:18:39,659 --> 00:18:40,350 It's the Lord. 414 00:18:40,350 --> 00:18:41,370 And I love Peter. 415 00:18:41,550 --> 00:18:44,430 I love Peter because Peter, it says, when Peter heard that it was the 416 00:18:44,430 --> 00:18:45,870 Lord, he put on his outer garment. 417 00:18:45,870 --> 00:18:46,110 Now. 418 00:18:46,185 --> 00:18:48,735 And that, that's a little bit misleading. 419 00:18:48,945 --> 00:18:51,915 He was probably wearing a fishing smock, which would've hung down a little bit. 420 00:18:52,370 --> 00:18:55,875 And, and, and so when he saw that it was, Lord, the word put on in the 421 00:18:55,875 --> 00:18:59,925 Greek actually means to gird up and, and to gird up would've been something 422 00:18:59,925 --> 00:19:02,985 that they would've done in preparing for battle or more laborious work. 423 00:19:02,985 --> 00:19:05,595 They would've taken the robes and they would've pulled it up under, and they 424 00:19:05,595 --> 00:19:08,835 would've tucked it into their belt to make them more freely able to move around. 425 00:19:09,250 --> 00:19:12,764 And, and so when Peter does this, he, he girds himself up. 426 00:19:12,825 --> 00:19:14,085 He's not putting on a bathrobe. 427 00:19:14,430 --> 00:19:16,710 Nobody in their right mind would do that and jump into the water. 428 00:19:17,130 --> 00:19:18,510 That's not gonna help you get anywhere. 429 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:23,430 And so he, he, he girds himself up because he let it down to fish. 430 00:19:23,490 --> 00:19:23,760 Okay? 431 00:19:24,030 --> 00:19:27,030 So he girds himself up and he jumps in the water and he swims a hundred 432 00:19:27,030 --> 00:19:29,670 yards to shore to be with Jesus. 433 00:19:30,870 --> 00:19:31,890 That's amazing. 434 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,830 Meanwhile, the other disciples not thinking, it's so amazing, they're 435 00:19:34,830 --> 00:19:35,970 like, don't worry about it, Peter. 436 00:19:36,690 --> 00:19:37,770 We'll handle the fish. 437 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:40,350 You go, man, we got the fish back here. 438 00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:43,770 And so they, they take the net and they're dragging the net full of 439 00:19:43,770 --> 00:19:46,650 fish for, they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards. 440 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:47,310 Y'all. 441 00:19:47,310 --> 00:19:51,930 Here's a, a picture of what this, uh, rock is, that Jesus was 442 00:19:52,350 --> 00:19:55,560 purportedly traditionally, at least standing on when he called out to 443 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:56,700 the disciples there in Galilee. 444 00:19:57,450 --> 00:20:00,720 And so if you go to Israel, you may notice that sign on there. 445 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,990 It's probably hard to read still, but it says this is holy ground. 446 00:20:04,935 --> 00:20:08,865 That that tradition from the earliest parts of the church believed that this is 447 00:20:08,865 --> 00:20:11,745 the rock and held, that this is the rock that Jesus stood on and called to the 448 00:20:11,745 --> 00:20:13,935 disciples while they were out fishing. 449 00:20:14,055 --> 00:20:16,005 And you may notice in this original picture that there's 450 00:20:16,005 --> 00:20:17,085 a building right next to it. 451 00:20:17,265 --> 00:20:20,565 That building is a church because that's what the, the, the people, 452 00:20:20,565 --> 00:20:23,475 the crusaders especially used to do, they would go to Israel and be 453 00:20:23,475 --> 00:20:25,035 like, look at this cool holy site. 454 00:20:25,035 --> 00:20:26,265 Let's build a church on top of it. 455 00:20:26,865 --> 00:20:30,495 And so you go inside that church and there's this rock here, and 456 00:20:30,495 --> 00:20:33,465 this rock has a sign in front of it that says Mensa Christi. 457 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,240 Which means table of Christ. 458 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,159 And so this is the rock according to church history tradition, that this is the 459 00:20:41,159 --> 00:20:44,940 rock where we're gonna find out that Jesus had prepared the fire and the fish that 460 00:20:44,940 --> 00:20:46,860 he was going to enjoy with his disciples. 461 00:20:47,820 --> 00:20:51,090 And so just, I, I want you to see that, that this is not just a fairy 462 00:20:51,090 --> 00:20:55,710 tale, that there's, that's legs to this, but back in our context here, 463 00:20:57,090 --> 00:21:00,540 the disciples had gone fishing on Monday, but Jesus was patient with them. 464 00:21:01,050 --> 00:21:02,610 Jesus was kind and loving to them. 465 00:21:03,090 --> 00:21:05,520 He shows up and he pursues them even when they're out fishing. 466 00:21:05,610 --> 00:21:06,960 Not for men, but for fish. 467 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,960 And he stands on the shore and he calls them back. 468 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,540 And y'all, he still does that for us. 469 00:21:13,050 --> 00:21:16,290 When we're out fishing on Monday, the spirit pursues us. 470 00:21:16,290 --> 00:21:17,370 The Spirit provokes us. 471 00:21:17,370 --> 00:21:21,180 The Bible that sat on our table as we've walked by, it calls out to us. 472 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,510 A thought from the week, sermon the week before jumps into our mind. 473 00:21:25,710 --> 00:21:30,870 And all I'm saying y'all is, is let's be a little bit like Peter in those moments. 474 00:21:32,070 --> 00:21:36,510 Let's be like Peter, who nothing was gonna stop Peter from getting to Jesus. 475 00:21:37,139 --> 00:21:40,020 That was the only thing he wanted was to be with Jesus. 476 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:43,350 So he girds himself up and he jumps in the water and he swims to shore. 477 00:21:43,350 --> 00:21:44,250 Point number two this morning. 478 00:21:44,250 --> 00:21:48,270 Is this be like Peter, in your pursuit of Jesus, be like Peter, 479 00:21:48,750 --> 00:21:50,129 in your pursuit of Jesus this week, 480 00:21:53,010 --> 00:21:53,160 huh? 481 00:21:53,910 --> 00:21:58,290 Our garage door, um, sounds like what I imagine the demons chained in the 482 00:21:58,290 --> 00:22:00,720 utter darkness sound like when it opens. 483 00:22:03,705 --> 00:22:05,505 All that just loud noise. 484 00:22:06,165 --> 00:22:09,945 But what that means is this, it means that my, my kids know when I get home and 485 00:22:09,945 --> 00:22:15,945 every so often, not enough in my book, but every so often my two youngest ones will, 486 00:22:15,945 --> 00:22:17,655 will come out to meet me when I get home. 487 00:22:18,735 --> 00:22:19,935 They come out to meet me when I get home. 488 00:22:19,965 --> 00:22:22,455 Now, on Friday mornings, they come out to meet me when I get home 'cause I have 489 00:22:22,455 --> 00:22:24,825 donuts with me and they want the donuts. 490 00:22:25,755 --> 00:22:27,855 But other times they come out to meet me 'cause they just wanna be with me. 491 00:22:28,455 --> 00:22:28,935 Dad's home. 492 00:22:30,014 --> 00:22:33,074 And you dads who've had that experience, you know how much 493 00:22:33,074 --> 00:22:34,514 joy that brings to your heart, 494 00:22:36,645 --> 00:22:38,564 y'all, let's be like that with Jesus. 495 00:22:39,554 --> 00:22:41,745 Let's pursue Jesus like that. 496 00:22:42,135 --> 00:22:44,655 Nothing was gonna keep Peter from getting to Jesus. 497 00:22:44,774 --> 00:22:46,485 What's keeping you from being with Jesus? 498 00:22:49,425 --> 00:22:51,675 Some things that might be keeping you from being with Jesus. 499 00:22:52,635 --> 00:22:55,605 Maybe work your schedule is keeping you from being with Jesus. 500 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,460 He was just like, man, I'm, I'm just, I know I need to read my Bible. 501 00:22:59,850 --> 00:23:01,110 I know I'm supposed to pray. 502 00:23:02,190 --> 00:23:04,470 I know I'm supposed to, to be involved in a community group. 503 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:07,230 You know, I, I wanna do these things, but I'm just so busy I can't. 504 00:23:10,530 --> 00:23:13,590 Are you so busy with work that you're saying, I, I'm gonna pursue 505 00:23:13,590 --> 00:23:16,110 my work over pursuing Jesus? 506 00:23:17,460 --> 00:23:22,800 Are you conveying to Jesus my work is more important than you are? 507 00:23:24,764 --> 00:23:27,285 And listen, I'm, I'm not suggesting, well, what do you want me to do, pastor? 508 00:23:27,285 --> 00:23:30,735 Just quit my job and walk away so I can spend time with Jesus like a monk. 509 00:23:30,735 --> 00:23:32,055 No, that's not what I'm suggesting. 510 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:35,565 The, the disciples still tended to the catch. 511 00:23:35,565 --> 00:23:36,555 Did you notice that? 512 00:23:37,455 --> 00:23:39,524 And when they get to shore, Jesus doesn't look at them and be like, 513 00:23:39,524 --> 00:23:40,425 why couldn't you be like Peter? 514 00:23:40,425 --> 00:23:42,405 Why didn't you just leave that out there and come with me? 515 00:23:43,485 --> 00:23:45,915 In other words, the disciples still did the work that needed to be done 516 00:23:45,915 --> 00:23:47,865 that day, but they still got to Jesus. 517 00:23:49,485 --> 00:23:52,215 And I'm just saying church, that we need to make sure that we are getting to Jesus. 518 00:23:53,445 --> 00:23:57,465 That we're like Peter, in our desire, and sometimes work needs to be rethought. 519 00:23:57,465 --> 00:23:58,695 We need to rethink our schedule. 520 00:23:58,695 --> 00:23:59,745 We need to get up earlier. 521 00:23:59,745 --> 00:24:02,895 We need to find time, get creative with our calendars 522 00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:04,875 to find time to be with Jesus. 523 00:24:04,875 --> 00:24:07,485 'cause we need to want to be with Jesus, like Peter wants to be with Jesus. 524 00:24:09,584 --> 00:24:10,695 Maybe it's it's legalism. 525 00:24:12,044 --> 00:24:12,764 Say what? 526 00:24:13,095 --> 00:24:16,064 Legalism can be an impediment to you being with Jesus. 527 00:24:17,024 --> 00:24:17,804 Here's what I mean by that. 528 00:24:17,865 --> 00:24:20,415 You can think, well, A plus B plus C equals this. 529 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,320 Equals intimacy with Jesus. 530 00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:26,370 So if I read my Bible and I pray and I go to community group and I've got my 531 00:24:26,370 --> 00:24:31,110 kids involved in church and I'm doing all these things, then I'm pursuing Jesus. 532 00:24:31,110 --> 00:24:33,450 But the problem is you're pursuing things about Jesus, but maybe 533 00:24:33,450 --> 00:24:35,070 not pursuing Jesus himself. 534 00:24:36,330 --> 00:24:39,390 The apostle Paul said this, he said, I, I, I'm not ashamed for 535 00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:41,790 I know whom I have believed. 536 00:24:42,510 --> 00:24:44,400 Paul didn't say I know what I have believed. 537 00:24:46,170 --> 00:24:49,110 The, the one responsible for, for 90% of our New Testament 538 00:24:49,110 --> 00:24:50,850 doctrine in theology, right? 539 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:54,630 The Apostle Paul, he said, I know whom I have believed. 540 00:24:56,130 --> 00:24:59,010 And so we need to be, be sure that that our pursuit of our Bible reading 541 00:24:59,010 --> 00:25:02,640 and our prayer and all these things is really about Jesus and not about 542 00:25:02,790 --> 00:25:05,790 checking boxes to think that we're okay 'cause we've done enough. 543 00:25:07,860 --> 00:25:10,350 The other thing that can keep us from Jesus is just our, our own 544 00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:12,540 laziness, our our love of leisure. 545 00:25:13,890 --> 00:25:16,200 We'd rather just pick up our phones. 546 00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:18,690 We'd rather just turn on the tv. 547 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,550 We'd rather turn on the, the, the radio host in the car and just 548 00:25:23,550 --> 00:25:27,960 listen to the political talking heads than to be with Jesus. 549 00:25:30,510 --> 00:25:33,150 All of us have things in our day that we have to tend to, just like 550 00:25:33,150 --> 00:25:34,170 they had to tend to the catch. 551 00:25:34,890 --> 00:25:37,860 I just wanna make sure that we're still getting to Jesus, 552 00:25:38,490 --> 00:25:39,900 pursuing Jesus like Peter. 553 00:25:42,450 --> 00:25:43,620 But why would you want that? 554 00:25:45,270 --> 00:25:47,550 Well, Jesus said this in Matthew chapter 11 about what 555 00:25:47,550 --> 00:25:48,480 it looks like to be with him. 556 00:25:49,110 --> 00:25:53,220 Matthew 1128 through 30 come to me all who labor and are heavy 557 00:25:53,220 --> 00:25:55,890 laden and I will give you rest. 558 00:25:56,250 --> 00:26:00,540 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, 559 00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:02,910 and you will find rest for your souls. 560 00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:07,140 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 561 00:26:08,130 --> 00:26:13,980 A rabbi's yoke was his system of teaching, his principles, his laws, 562 00:26:13,980 --> 00:26:16,920 his statutes, his commandments that he would give to his followers. 563 00:26:17,460 --> 00:26:19,980 And so Jesus is telling us, come to me. 564 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,330 My yoke notice he says, is light and my burden is easy. 565 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,240 He, he wants us to understand that, that to follow him this way, if we begin to 566 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,830 pursue him like Peter was pursuing him. 567 00:26:32,505 --> 00:26:34,090 That we're not gonna find itsome. 568 00:26:34,125 --> 00:26:35,385 We're not gonna find it burdensome. 569 00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:37,845 We're not gonna find it to be something that we can't bear up under. 570 00:26:37,845 --> 00:26:40,725 Rather, the more we do this and the more faithful we are in this 571 00:26:40,725 --> 00:26:45,345 pursuit, we will find that it is easy and the burden is light. 572 00:26:49,785 --> 00:26:52,785 If all this sounds so good to you, but you're like, okay, but how do I get there? 573 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:56,565 If that's not where I'm at, how do I get there? 574 00:26:58,125 --> 00:27:00,735 Can I suggest to you very carefully here? 575 00:27:00,794 --> 00:27:03,105 I wanna be careful with this because I, again, I don't want to create 576 00:27:03,105 --> 00:27:06,735 this mindset that if I do all these things then I'm gonna be good. 577 00:27:06,735 --> 00:27:10,004 But I do wanna suggest that sometimes y'all, our head needs to lead our heart. 578 00:27:11,595 --> 00:27:14,804 Sometimes we need to begin to discipline and, and to choose to do some of 579 00:27:14,804 --> 00:27:16,245 these things in pursuing Jesus. 580 00:27:16,514 --> 00:27:20,385 And at the same time, pray, God, please use this to draw me near to 581 00:27:20,385 --> 00:27:23,804 you, to deepen my relationship with you, to stir my affections for Christ. 582 00:27:23,925 --> 00:27:27,014 And I believe wholeheartedly that he will delight to answer those prayers. 583 00:27:27,794 --> 00:27:31,725 But maybe for you, that means that you need to spend, choose with the the mind 584 00:27:31,725 --> 00:27:35,354 over the heart to spend time with Jesus during your commute instead of again, 585 00:27:35,354 --> 00:27:37,245 listening to that political talking head. 586 00:27:39,854 --> 00:27:42,584 Maybe that means that you need to choose to spend time with Jesus 587 00:27:42,584 --> 00:27:45,165 first thing in the morning instead of picking up your social media feed. 588 00:27:47,370 --> 00:27:50,460 Maybe that means that you need to, to choose to spend time with Jesus on your 589 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:52,290 lunch break instead of your news browser. 590 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,360 Maybe that needs means that you need to choose to spend time with Jesus on your 591 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,060 walk instead of your true crime podcasts. 592 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,250 Maybe that means you need to, to choose to spend time with Jesus in the evening 593 00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:06,665 instead of watching just one more episode. 594 00:28:09,330 --> 00:28:12,419 Maybe that means you need to choose to spend time with Jesus when getting ready 595 00:28:12,419 --> 00:28:15,480 in the morning instead of worrying about your meeting schedule for that day. 596 00:28:18,419 --> 00:28:23,850 Jesus is there, and for us it's just about, Hey, do you want to pursue him? 597 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,439 Pursue him like Peter, and there's joy there. 598 00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:29,399 Psalm 1611. 599 00:28:30,060 --> 00:28:31,800 In your presence, there's fullness of joy. 600 00:28:33,015 --> 00:28:35,565 Ultimately that's about eternity, but I'm, I'm saying right, right. 601 00:28:35,565 --> 00:28:39,105 Now, Christians, if we begin to pursue Jesus and if we deepen our relationship 602 00:28:39,105 --> 00:28:42,285 with him again, we're, we're gonna let the, the head lead, the heart, but we're 603 00:28:42,285 --> 00:28:43,845 gonna pray that the heart follows, right? 604 00:28:44,385 --> 00:28:47,295 If we get there and our affections begin to be stirred for Jesus, we are gonna 605 00:28:47,295 --> 00:28:53,415 know some of that joy that's in his presence, even here and now pursue Jesus. 606 00:28:53,415 --> 00:28:54,195 Like Peter, 607 00:28:56,590 --> 00:29:01,035 as we get back into our text though, verse nine, verse nine. 608 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,520 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place 609 00:29:05,550 --> 00:29:07,560 with fish laid on it and bread. 610 00:29:08,159 --> 00:29:10,920 Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish that you have just caught. 611 00:29:10,980 --> 00:29:12,780 Okay, who's providing the fish here? 612 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:15,090 Jesus'. 613 00:29:15,629 --> 00:29:16,080 All of it. 614 00:29:16,740 --> 00:29:20,310 Notice that the disciples are bringing some of the fish that they've just 615 00:29:20,310 --> 00:29:23,940 hauled in, and this is a great picture of how Paul says, work out 616 00:29:23,940 --> 00:29:26,280 your salvation, knowing that it's God who's at work in you, both the 617 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,629 willing to work for his good pleasure. 618 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,390 Because the disciples are bringing some of the fish that they've 619 00:29:30,390 --> 00:29:32,700 brought from the shore, but who gave them the fish to begin with? 620 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,050 Jesus did. 621 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,990 And so all the fish being provided is still from Jesus here. 622 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,040 So Jesus has a couple of fish, uh, on the fire as, as well as some bread. 623 00:29:41,130 --> 00:29:42,630 Here's another callback for you. 624 00:29:42,810 --> 00:29:45,480 When was the last time that we saw Jesus with fish and loaves 625 00:29:46,710 --> 00:29:47,970 feeding in the 5,000, right? 626 00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:52,590 And so there's another flashback here for the disciples, and they get on 627 00:29:52,590 --> 00:29:54,930 land and, and Jesus says, bring some of the fish that you've just caught. 628 00:29:55,575 --> 00:29:58,004 And so Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore full 629 00:29:58,004 --> 00:30:00,254 of large fish, 153 of them. 630 00:30:00,554 --> 00:30:02,745 Well, what does 153 fish represent? 631 00:30:02,745 --> 00:30:04,965 I think it represents 153 fish. 632 00:30:06,855 --> 00:30:13,605 Now, pages of commentaries have been written about what 153 means, um, 633 00:30:14,054 --> 00:30:18,195 example of, of one solution, uh, that it is purported that, that at this 634 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:23,534 time in history there were 153 known varieties of fish in the world who. 635 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:24,750 Figured that out. 636 00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,750 Somebody smarter than I did, figured that out. 637 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,230 So they have said, well, because there's 153 known varieties of fish 638 00:30:31,230 --> 00:30:33,780 in the world at the time that John is trying to communicate to us, or Jesus 639 00:30:33,780 --> 00:30:36,900 is trying to communicate to us that he's after fishing from all different 640 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:40,650 types of people, all kinds of different people, disciples of all nations. 641 00:30:40,650 --> 00:30:42,480 And so that's why there's 153 fish in that. 642 00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:46,500 Others have broken it down in ways that I can't even begin to 643 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:48,390 explain to you to try to make 10. 644 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,060 And, and the, the, this is what it was. 645 00:30:51,210 --> 00:30:55,560 The numbers one through 17, when you add all of them together, it equals 153. 646 00:30:57,780 --> 00:30:58,530 I didn't do it. 647 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:00,210 I read it. 648 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:03,060 I trust whoever did it. 649 00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:06,810 And they're trying to, to make the argument that, that, that 17 650 00:31:07,050 --> 00:31:10,920 is 10 for the 10 commandments, and seven the number of God. 651 00:31:11,475 --> 00:31:14,835 And so Jesus is communicating something with that to us. 652 00:31:15,975 --> 00:31:18,615 Here's the thing, y'all, John is really good about explaining what he means 653 00:31:18,615 --> 00:31:20,024 with a, a term that we wouldn't know. 654 00:31:20,625 --> 00:31:22,004 He's done that through the whole gospel. 655 00:31:22,845 --> 00:31:26,565 He did that earlier with the Sea of Tiberius back in John chapter six, and 656 00:31:26,565 --> 00:31:27,975 then he said, which is the Sea of Galilee. 657 00:31:28,665 --> 00:31:31,815 And so I think if John meant for us to understand something deeper with 153, he 658 00:31:31,815 --> 00:31:34,875 would've communicated that to us as it is. 659 00:31:34,905 --> 00:31:37,514 It was common practice for fishermen to come back from 660 00:31:37,514 --> 00:31:38,745 fishing and count their catch. 661 00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:42,540 They needed to know the number because they were about to take that number into 662 00:31:42,540 --> 00:31:47,010 town and sell it, and so they would've needed to know how many fish they had in 663 00:31:47,010 --> 00:31:49,080 order to go into town and sell the fish. 664 00:31:49,620 --> 00:31:51,390 153 was a large catch. 665 00:31:51,390 --> 00:31:54,270 John had made that point, so I think what John is doing is saying, 666 00:31:54,270 --> 00:31:55,740 yeah, this was a massive catch. 667 00:31:55,740 --> 00:32:00,930 We had 153 fish in this thing, and so Jesus says, bring some fish. 668 00:32:00,930 --> 00:32:05,250 Peter goes out, gets some of the fish from the 153, and then it says there, although 669 00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:06,570 there were so many, the net was not torn. 670 00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:07,680 Jesus then says this. 671 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,160 Come and have breakfast with me Now. 672 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,320 None of the disciples dare to ask him, who are you? 673 00:32:13,350 --> 00:32:14,460 They knew it was the Lord. 674 00:32:14,970 --> 00:32:18,090 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them and sow the fish. 675 00:32:18,330 --> 00:32:21,300 This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples 676 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:22,650 after he was raised from the dead. 677 00:32:23,850 --> 00:32:25,170 I love verse 12. 678 00:32:25,350 --> 00:32:26,640 Come and have breakfast with me. 679 00:32:27,270 --> 00:32:29,820 The disciples don't get back from fishing on Monday, only for 680 00:32:29,820 --> 00:32:31,200 Jesus to go, what are you doing? 681 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,100 You knuckleheads. 682 00:32:33,030 --> 00:32:34,350 Jesus doesn't berate them. 683 00:32:35,355 --> 00:32:37,995 Jesus doesn't look at them and be like, you fools, I've got 684 00:32:37,995 --> 00:32:39,135 other things for you to do. 685 00:32:40,305 --> 00:32:42,975 He doesn't even get them back on shore and be like, okay, now that you're back, 686 00:32:42,975 --> 00:32:44,565 go do what I told you to do, please. 687 00:32:45,885 --> 00:32:48,105 He says, Hey, come and eat with me. 688 00:32:48,945 --> 00:32:49,905 Come have breakfast with me. 689 00:32:50,595 --> 00:32:51,555 Come spend time with me. 690 00:32:53,625 --> 00:32:57,645 Third callback that we see here, when's the last time Jesus took 691 00:32:57,645 --> 00:32:59,025 bread and gave it to his disciples? 692 00:33:00,525 --> 00:33:01,245 The upper room. 693 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:06,780 So all of these moments of intimacy between Jesus and the disciples just 694 00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:11,550 flooding into their memory banks here, but Jesus I love says, come and eat with me. 695 00:33:11,550 --> 00:33:12,870 Come and have breakfast with me. 696 00:33:15,899 --> 00:33:21,300 To, to have a meal with someone in our day is not as intimate as it was in this time. 697 00:33:22,410 --> 00:33:24,510 You may invite a stranger who you're just getting to know 698 00:33:24,510 --> 00:33:25,980 out to, to lunch after church. 699 00:33:26,910 --> 00:33:29,040 You may invite your neighbors who you're just getting to know 700 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:29,875 over to your house for dinner. 701 00:33:31,005 --> 00:33:33,645 But in the ancient ne Near Eastern culture, to have somebody into 702 00:33:33,645 --> 00:33:36,075 your home or to have a meal with somebody was an expression of 703 00:33:36,075 --> 00:33:37,665 intimate closeness and friendship. 704 00:33:38,715 --> 00:33:42,585 And so Jesus, before he sends them out on mission, says, Hey, I 705 00:33:42,585 --> 00:33:44,925 want to start by being with you. 706 00:33:45,675 --> 00:33:48,765 I want to start with a meal with you, church. 707 00:33:48,915 --> 00:33:53,295 My concern is that for some, the only meal you have with Jesus is Sunday morning. 708 00:33:55,050 --> 00:33:58,379 And as we're after, making sure that the wave of momentum that we 709 00:33:58,379 --> 00:34:01,409 have to today doesn't crash out on the shore of Monday's apathy. 710 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,730 We need to make sure that that Sunday's not the only meal with Jesus that 711 00:34:05,730 --> 00:34:06,719 we're having throughout the week. 712 00:34:07,770 --> 00:34:11,549 Our third and final point this week is this Feast with Jesus every day. 713 00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:14,130 Feast with Jesus. 714 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,449 Every day 715 00:34:17,670 --> 00:34:21,120 in Revelation three 20, Jesus says, behold, I stand at the door and knock. 716 00:34:21,540 --> 00:34:24,600 If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him 717 00:34:24,779 --> 00:34:27,089 and eat with him and he with me. 718 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,629 You may have heard that preached evangelistically, but really that's about 719 00:34:30,629 --> 00:34:35,129 believers, about the idea that we have an opportunity to fellowship with Jesus 720 00:34:35,129 --> 00:34:40,168 to pursue that M intimacy with Jesus on a daily basis, and he desires that with 721 00:34:40,168 --> 00:34:43,139 us Church, if I can put it this way. 722 00:34:43,139 --> 00:34:46,949 Your effectiveness and your usefulness to Christ will only grow in proportion 723 00:34:46,949 --> 00:34:48,330 to your fellowship with Christ. 724 00:34:50,429 --> 00:34:52,290 Jesus wants to be with you now. 725 00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:55,590 Point number two, I was talking about pursuing things, some of the nuts and 726 00:34:55,590 --> 00:34:57,180 bolts of our relationship with Christ. 727 00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:59,730 Here, though, I, I wanna talk about something different. 728 00:35:00,090 --> 00:35:04,890 Not so much what you're gonna do for him or in pursuit of him, but I wanna 729 00:35:04,890 --> 00:35:11,640 talk about being with Jesus during the week, being intentional to be with 730 00:35:11,730 --> 00:35:15,660 him and, and, and this is admittedly where this gets hard to preach. 731 00:35:15,975 --> 00:35:19,935 Because this is an intensely personal and this is an intimate, and this 732 00:35:19,935 --> 00:35:21,735 is something that is not formulaic. 733 00:35:22,755 --> 00:35:24,495 I can't stand up here and preach to you. 734 00:35:24,645 --> 00:35:27,525 This is what it looks like for you to be with Jesus this week. 735 00:35:28,155 --> 00:35:31,545 I can't stand up here and preach to you that if you do this plus this, 736 00:35:31,695 --> 00:35:33,285 then you will feast with Jesus today. 737 00:35:34,905 --> 00:35:37,365 This is something that's gonna look different for everybody in the room. 738 00:35:37,365 --> 00:35:40,785 And hey, as long as it's not sin, there's freedom in Christ for how 739 00:35:40,785 --> 00:35:41,865 you're gonna choose to be with. 740 00:35:42,465 --> 00:35:46,755 Jesus this week, but I want you to focus on being with him every single 741 00:35:46,845 --> 00:35:49,725 day, this week being in his presence. 742 00:35:49,725 --> 00:35:53,265 And certainly that does come through our time in the word and through prayer, but 743 00:35:53,265 --> 00:35:54,585 I think there's some more than that too. 744 00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:58,035 And so I'm gonna list some things, but again, I, I do this with the caveat 745 00:35:58,035 --> 00:36:00,345 that, that this is not A plus B equals C. 746 00:36:00,495 --> 00:36:03,765 This is not a formula that I'm about to give you, but just some ideas of what 747 00:36:03,765 --> 00:36:07,215 I'm driving at here with what it means to feast, feasting is meditating on Christ. 748 00:36:08,444 --> 00:36:10,575 New age meditation is emptying your mind. 749 00:36:10,575 --> 00:36:12,255 Biblical meditation is filling your mind. 750 00:36:12,975 --> 00:36:15,825 So feasting with Jesus on a daily basis is filling your mind 751 00:36:15,825 --> 00:36:17,444 with the truths about Christ. 752 00:36:19,904 --> 00:36:23,685 Feasting with Jesus is talking about Jesus with other people 753 00:36:25,694 --> 00:36:29,955 through text or phone conversations, or in person to feast with Jesus. 754 00:36:29,955 --> 00:36:30,944 To be with Jesus. 755 00:36:30,944 --> 00:36:33,884 To sit with Jesus is to talk about Jesus. 756 00:36:35,279 --> 00:36:37,740 Feasting with Jesus is worshiping Jesus. 757 00:36:39,270 --> 00:36:42,629 And so often we think about this in song and, and yeah, that's what I'm driving 758 00:36:42,629 --> 00:36:44,220 at primarily right now with this one. 759 00:36:44,730 --> 00:36:47,819 Maybe you wanna create a Spotify playlist this week, feasting with Jesus. 760 00:36:47,819 --> 00:36:50,339 And you're gonna put in there some of the, the hymns that you love or the 761 00:36:50,339 --> 00:36:53,189 praise songs that you love, the ones that stir your affections for Christ, 762 00:36:53,549 --> 00:36:56,129 the ones that you're gonna be at the stoplight, belting out at the top of 763 00:36:56,129 --> 00:36:59,310 your lungs, not even caring, saying, Jesus, come quickly as everybody's just 764 00:36:59,310 --> 00:37:02,580 staring at you, but you and Jesus are spending time together in that moment. 765 00:37:04,380 --> 00:37:06,060 Feasting is journaling. 766 00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:10,770 Maybe for some of you reflecting on your day and, and being honest before the 767 00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:13,920 Lord about your day and what he's done and, and what that's looked like for you. 768 00:37:15,510 --> 00:37:18,090 Maybe for some of you feasting is fellowshipping with other believers, 769 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,510 spending time with other believers who stir your affections for Jesus, 770 00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:25,230 who make you love Jesus more, who cause you to think about Jesus more. 771 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,140 Maybe for others. 772 00:37:28,170 --> 00:37:29,910 Feasting is taking a walk. 773 00:37:30,870 --> 00:37:34,319 You're going outside and you're seeing the beauty of God's creation and your 774 00:37:34,319 --> 00:37:37,919 time with Jesus is realizing that he's the creator and sustainer of the universe. 775 00:37:37,919 --> 00:37:41,370 That in Him all things hold together and you're seeing that beauty and it's 776 00:37:41,370 --> 00:37:43,290 moving you to praise and worship God. 777 00:37:45,060 --> 00:37:48,450 Maybe for some others, feasting might be just redeeming your dead air. 778 00:37:49,109 --> 00:37:52,500 What I mean by that is that time that you really aren't doing anything else. 779 00:37:52,529 --> 00:37:55,950 Getting ready in the morning, taking a shower, your commute to work. 780 00:37:56,805 --> 00:37:59,835 What are you filling that dead, dead air with and how you, how can you fill 781 00:37:59,835 --> 00:38:01,875 that dead air with time with Jesus? 782 00:38:03,315 --> 00:38:06,435 Y'all Sunday morning can't be the only meal that we enjoy throughout the week. 783 00:38:09,375 --> 00:38:12,194 In a few moments here, uh, we'll take communion together. 784 00:38:12,194 --> 00:38:15,045 Not yet, but just in a few moments here and, and we will remember 785 00:38:15,045 --> 00:38:17,085 the death of Jesus as we do this. 786 00:38:18,615 --> 00:38:21,075 And, and that's so significant for us because if, if we're gonna 787 00:38:21,075 --> 00:38:25,845 avoid the, the, the fog of Monday driving out the faith of Sunday. 788 00:38:27,060 --> 00:38:31,620 If we don't have what we're about to remember, then we can go somewhere 789 00:38:31,620 --> 00:38:33,990 else and hear a motivational speech that's gonna make you want to be 790 00:38:33,990 --> 00:38:37,710 a better businessman or a better husband or a better parent or 791 00:38:37,710 --> 00:38:40,529 whatever, and, and, and the world can teach you all of those things. 792 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:49,799 The difference here is because of the death of Christ, we now 793 00:38:49,799 --> 00:38:52,500 have a relationship with the God of the universe, and it's the God 794 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:54,060 of the universe calling us into. 795 00:38:54,930 --> 00:38:57,450 This motivation calling us into this desire to change. 796 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,290 And it's the God of the universe, who, by his grace, has given us his spirit 797 00:39:01,290 --> 00:39:04,620 to be able to walk in obedience to him and to be able to do the things 798 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:05,760 that we're talking about this morning. 799 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,050 And so in just a second, the elements are gonna be passed, 800 00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:12,000 the music is gonna play here. 801 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,640 And, and maybe as you hold those elements, ponder some of the things that maybe 802 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,020 you do want to see change this week. 803 00:39:17,130 --> 00:39:20,340 And consider what steps are necessary to secure and maintain 804 00:39:20,340 --> 00:39:22,260 those changes at the same time. 805 00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:25,890 And so as the elements are past the music plays, I'll come back up here in a 806 00:39:25,890 --> 00:39:27,300 moment and we'll take them all together.