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0:00welcome to preaching that matters a
0:02place you can find Apostolic Pentecostal
0:05preaching a place where all generations
0:07can be fed with the word of God we hope
0:10you enjoy let's give the Lord another
0:12hand clap of Praise Rich you praise
0:20God praise
0:22[Music]
0:24God praise
0:26God oh we praise you Jesus
0:30hallelujah hallelujah
0:34hallelujah We Praise You Jesus We
0:37Worship You Lord you're worthy tonight
0:41Jesus you're worthy tonight praise God
0:46praise God praise God in the name of the
0:50Lord turn with me if you would to Luke
0:52chapter
0:557 Luke 7 I'm going to read one verse
0:59there the 2
1:01second let me say again what a pleasure
1:03it is for us to be here in Ohio and what
1:06a great time we've had all of your uh
1:09kindness to us and I'm thankful for the
1:11privilege that uh uh We've enjoyed to
1:14come and share this camp meeting with
1:15you and uh the good Lord's been doing
1:18some wonderful things here and I know
1:21that he's not finished he still wants to
1:24touch some hearts and there are lives
1:26that he's going to reach out to tonight
1:29the Lord reaches out to you and touches
1:31your heart I pray that you'd respond to
1:33that love and mercy of God and let him
1:36accomplish and
1:37complete uh his work uh tonight I want
1:42to say even though they've gone how much
1:43I appreciate Tupelo uh here tonight I
1:46was in the back as they were singing
1:49never failed to touch my heart every
1:50year at our allocation meeting when we
1:54allocate she's for Christ funds they
1:56bring some of those uh kids in and what
2:01a what a touching thing it is when they
2:03share with us some of the
2:06stories that um of the lives of these
2:09young people and I'm so thrilled to see
2:13them when they come and
2:16and worship God and glorify his name
2:20what a good work they're
2:22doing Luke chapter
2:257 verse
2:2822 then Jesus
2:32answering said unto
2:35them go your way and tell
2:38John what things you have
2:41seen and
2:43heard how did the blind see the lame
2:48walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf
2:52hear the dead are
2:54raised to the
2:56poor the gospel is preached
3:02Jesus
3:03said go your
3:06way and tell
3:08John and what I want to preach tonight
3:11is
3:13somebody tell
3:16John Let's lift our hands again and
3:18thank the Lord for his power and
3:20presence in this
3:22service oh thank you
3:24[Music]
3:25Jesus thank you
3:28Jesus thank thank you Jesus praise
3:36God
3:39Jesus praise
3:41God hallelujah hallelujah
3:45hallelujah glory to God glory to God
3:49glory to
3:50God oh we praise you today
3:54Jesus we love you Lord in Jesus name
3:59amen thank you so much you may be
4:07seated it
4:10was at that
4:16Gathering of Jesus and his disciples
4:19that we
4:20call the
4:22Last Supper
4:30he must have shocked them
4:35all when he suddenly
4:39announced all of
4:42you shall be
4:45offended because of
4:49me this
4:54night I believe it must have shocked
4:57them and caught them off guard because
5:01for just a little
5:04bit the 12 men that sat at table Jesus
5:09that
5:12night
5:16recognized their own
5:19humanity and for just a moment every one
5:23of them
5:26saw the
5:28potential for
5:31failure that was in each of
5:42them because when he said one of you
5:45shall betray
5:49me every one of them
5:52asked
5:55Lord is it I
6:01I wonder how relieved they must have
6:05been when he took the piece of bread and
6:08he dipped it in a sauce and he handed it
6:12to
6:14Judas after having said that to whom I
6:17hand the
6:19S he is the
6:22betrayer and when he handed it to Judas
6:25and he said whatever you're going to do
6:27do it quickly
6:31Judas stood and left that room and went
6:35into the
6:38night there must have been a collective
6:40sigh of
6:42relief from those others who had asked
6:46Lord is it
6:49I then later when he announced that each
6:53of them would be
6:56offended there was a difference
7:00the 11 men that had only moments before
7:04at least considered the idea that they
7:07might have been the
7:09betrayer
7:11adamantly
7:13denied that they would ever be
7:16offended because of
7:19him in fact Simon Peter went so far as
7:22to say though all men shall be offended
7:26if everybody else here if everybody gets
7:29discouraged if everybody else
7:32quits I will
7:34never be
7:37offended Because of
7:40You Jesus responded to Simon's statement
7:44by saying oh
7:45yeah then let me tell you that on this
7:49very night
7:50tonight before the rooster crws you're
7:53going to deny
7:55me three
7:57times oh no said Simon
8:01Peter I would die
8:05first but I will
8:08never deny
8:10thee and the Bible says
8:14likewise also said all the
8:20disciples but let me tell you
8:22something I don't have to spend a lot of
8:25time giving you the details of what
8:27happened that night in the courtyard of
8:29the high priest's
8:31Palace when warming by the fire as Jesus
8:35was interrogated and
8:37tortured Simon Peter was approached by
8:40someone who said I think you're one of
8:43his
8:45disciples and the man who had made the
8:49statement that I will die before I'll
8:54deny I wonder how hard it was for him to
8:58say those words
9:00words I wonder if they didn't at first
9:03catch in his
9:05Thro but finally he said
9:08it I don't know
9:12him a little later someone else came by
9:16perhaps they said I remember seeing you
9:18at the temple you're one of his main
9:22men this
9:24time it was a little
9:27easier I tell you he said
9:30I don't know
9:32him and finally it was a servant girl
9:35who came by it's your accent she said
9:40you're a Galilean you're one of
9:42them and this time he swore and with an
9:47oath he said I tell you I don't know
9:52him and in the distance he heard a
9:55rooster
9:57crow a door slam Med back and Jesus was
10:01thrust onto a
10:03balcony and no wonder when their eyes
10:08met the heart of the big fisherman
10:11broke and he went
10:13out and he weed
10:18bitterly Simon Peter discovered that
10:21words come
10:25easy but there is a vast difference
10:30in the reality of
10:34life and the promises of the
10:37mouth theory is one thing reality is
10:43another Peter discovered that words came
10:47so easy with a full belly in a warm
10:50Upper Room surrounded by his friends but
10:54alone in a courtyard facing imprisonment
10:58or death where nerves didn't mean very
11:01much and he discovered how easy it is H
11:04to lose your
11:06determination and cross the
11:09line in the presence of God sitting
11:13there with Jesus in their midst it was
11:16easy to say I'll serve you
11:19regardless I'll never give up I'll never
11:22give in let others back up I'll Never
11:25back up let others get discouraged I'll
11:28never get discouraged it's easy in a
11:30camp meeting with the glory of God
11:32falling and choir singing and worship
11:35going for us to say Lord this is all I
11:39want I don't care what happens uh I'll
11:42never turn back I'll serve you it's easy
11:45to say it in the presence of God but
11:48when Heaven is brass and prayers seem
11:51unanswered H and trouble piles higher
11:53than you could ever imagine uh then you
11:56discover that there's a difference uh in
11:58real
12:01life and what happens at camp
12:05meeting we might as well face it tonight
12:08I want to be very honest with you and I
12:10hope you'll be honest with yourself you
12:13get home from this conference let me
12:15tell you something it's going to have
12:17the same heartaches the same problems
12:20you'll have to deal with the same folks
12:22the job will be waiting there for you
12:25pastors same church struggles the same
12:28thing thing that you have faced before
12:31you came you're going to have to face it
12:33when you get home and regardless of what
12:37happens here when the lights are finally
12:39out and the last song is sung and the
12:43last altar service ends H then it's
12:45going to be real life again and you're
12:48going to have to face it all by yourself
12:51just like you did before you came and
12:54though you might have made a lot of
12:56promises h i want you to know
12:58discouragement can come and sit on your
13:01shoulder and drag you back down to the
13:04bottom that's just the way it is and I
13:07can't change it and you can't change it
13:10discouragement can come to
13:15anybody I really believe that I am
13:17preaching to folks that know exactly
13:20what I'm talking about there are people
13:22here that have set alone in a dark room
13:24and thought thoughts they would never
13:26share with anybody there are people here
13:29here that have thought about quitting
13:30about giving up who did I think I was
13:33fooling anyway there are pastors that
13:35have decided it just isn't worth it it's
13:39just not worth the strain and the effort
13:42uh there are men and women here that
13:44have thought about cashing in throwing
13:47in the towel giving it all up it's just
13:50uh too hard H and I want to preach to
13:53you tonight you're not alone and it's
13:55not unusual discouragement
13:59to
14:03everybody
14:05life can be so
14:08hard no matter who we
14:11are what our name is none of us are so
14:16strong that life could not crush us
14:20beneath its
14:21weight everyone of us here tonight are
14:25one phone call away from disaster
14:30heartbreaks
14:32loss
14:34disappointments a lifetime of effort
14:38Swept Away in an hour and nothing left
14:42but
14:43dust and
14:45Ashes I should have never
14:48tried who did I think I
14:51was I should have never
14:54thought I
14:56could I want you to understand
14:59some things about discouragement
15:02tonight and the first one
15:05is you're in good
15:08company it happens to the very
15:13best David says that his foot almost
15:18slipped he talked of encouraging himself
15:22he didn't even have anybody to help him
15:24at all and so he says I encouraged
15:28myself in the Lord Elijah Elijah called
15:32down fire from heaven and only hours
15:35later set under a juniper tree and said
15:39God just kill me it isn't worth going
15:43on job the patient reached the place
15:47where he cursed the day he was ever born
15:50and say I wish I had never lived Moses
15:54made one stab at his Destiny and gave up
15:58for 40 years
15:59and even when a bush burst into flame he
16:02tried to get somebody else drafted
16:05instead of him Lord here am I send my
16:12brother so if you're discouraged tonight
16:16the first thing I want you to know is
16:18you're not alone and there's nothing
16:20wrong it's part of Being Human
16:24discouragement comes to the very best
16:27and so when the devil tches on your
16:29shoulder and says if you were what you
16:32ought to be he wouldn't be discouraged
16:34it's a lie discouragement happens to the
16:41best
16:42John was the greatest of the
16:46prophets I want you to think about that
16:49for just a moment I didn't say that
16:51that's not Clarence larin's Theory Jesus
16:54Christ said that John was the greatest
16:58greatest than Isaiah greater than
17:00Jeremiah greater than the fiery Elijah
17:03greater than the smooth and sve Elisha
17:06greater than the Visionary Ezekiel
17:09greater than Amos greater than Daniel
17:12greater than Jonah the greatest of the
17:18prophets and he had a
17:21theory what a man he
17:24was look what God decided to use him in
17:29he was
17:31selected to introduce Jesus
17:36Christ to
17:38Israel Behold the Lamb of God which
17:42taketh away the sins of the
17:45world with his own hands he baptized
17:50Jesus in The River Jordan he saw heaven
17:54open he saw the spirit of God descend in
17:58the form of the D
17:59and he heard the voice of God say this
18:02is my beloved Son in whom I am well
18:05please just think about what it meant
18:08for John to baptize Jesus Christ oh what
18:13a preacher he was he didn't have a good
18:16location for his church he was out in
18:18the Boondocks and yet the Bible says all
18:21of Jerusalem left the city and came to
18:25find it where he was preaching even when
18:28he scored them and his fiery words
18:30lanced their backs uh he cried to the
18:33Pharisees uh who warned you you snakes
18:36uh to escape from the Wrath to come
18:38Still They Came uh his name was on every
18:42lip they were baptized no doubt by the
18:45thousands what a preacher what a man of
18:49God and at the height of his
18:55ministry when
18:57all h on his ever word he made this
19:03statement he speaking of Jesus Christ
19:07must
19:09increase but
19:11I
19:13must
19:15decrease easy to say John when all of
19:19Jerusalem is coming out to hear you
19:23preach easy to say when your name is on
19:27ever lip when power is Fallen when the
19:31glory of God is moving when thousands
19:35are being baptized but when he was
19:37locked away in a dungeon and his
19:41disciples had dwindled down to only two
19:45and nobody seemed to care and nobody
19:49seemed to notice then it became not just
19:53Theory but it became
19:57reality when trouble is not academic
20:00anymore when trouble is not something
20:02that happens to other people when you
20:05are going through that Valley of travail
20:08and discouragement and even despair then
20:11suddenly all the words you might have
20:14ever said count for nothing and
20:17discouragement can come to the very best
20:21John called those last two disciples he
20:25spoke to them through the bars of the
20:27little window in the dungeon cell where
20:30he lived he said I want you to go to
20:34Jesus and I want you to ask him for
20:39me are you
20:41really the
20:45Messiah or should we look for
20:50another do you know what John was really
20:54saying have I
20:57wasted my life
21:00have I
21:01invested my energy my strength in the
21:06wrong
21:08cause was it all for nothing have I made
21:14a tragic mistake I want you to
21:18understand something very clearly
21:20tonight John the Baptist the greatest of
21:24the prophets he who baptized Jesus
21:27Christ and heard the voice of the spirit
21:30say this is my beloved Son reached such
21:34a level of discouragement where he
21:37doubted whether Jesus was really the
21:44Messiah you've got to
21:47understand you've got to get it in your
21:50head that
21:52discouragement can
21:54come deep and bitter discouragement
21:59you can Wade through Waters dark and
22:04chilly your faith
22:07itself may be
22:11shaken ask him are you
22:14really the
22:16Messiah or have I made a terrible
22:22mistake but not only must we understand
22:26that discouragement comes to the very
22:30best much less to the rest but we've got
22:34to learn from my text tonight what Jesus
22:39reaction to John's discouragement
22:43was he did not rebuke
22:47John how easily it would have been for
22:50him to say after all you have felt after
22:55all you have
22:56seen after all all I've done for you you
23:01baptized me John you saw heaven open you
23:04heard the voice of God you knew who I
23:07was then I'm shocked I'm offended I'm
23:12insulted that you would ever doubt who I
23:15was he could have said it but he never
23:18said
23:19it he did not judge John he did not
23:23condemn John he did not criticize John
23:29instead he Whirled to the crowd that was
23:32around him and he Unleashed an avalanche
23:36of his power he let go a whirlwind of
23:40his majesty he opened a blind eye he
23:44made deaf ears to hear he made dumb
23:47tongues to talk H he raised the dead he
23:50preached the gospel and then he turned
23:52and said somebody go and tell John you
23:56didn't make a mistake you didn't invest
23:59in the wrong cause what you did was
24:02right I am who I said I
24:09was when you walked down that
24:11Pentecostal aisle and repented of your
24:13sins and was filled with the Holy Ghost
24:15you didn't make a mistake when you gave
24:18your heart to God and answered the call
24:20to the ministry you didn't make a
24:22mistake when you heard the call to your
24:25city and you went there you didn't make
24:27a mistake discouragement is a liar it
24:30will tremble our very Faith but Jesus
24:34Christ is the same regardless of how I
24:38[Applause]
24:41feel somebody tell
24:44John you aren't
24:46wrong I am the
24:49Messiah now Jesus was saying a lot of
24:52things to
24:53John I don't have time I think to deal
24:56with all the nuances of his words
24:59I think he said John you're in prison
25:03but I'm
25:05not you're
25:07discouraged but I'm
25:10not nobody's hearing you preach but you
25:13ought to see the crowds that are coming
25:16out to my
25:18meetings you can't do much it seems but
25:21my power is
25:24undiminished I so appreciate brother
25:27Cole
25:28willingness to be open and honest
25:31yesterday morning I don't know if you
25:34realize how difficult it is for a man of
25:37his stature to stand before a camp
25:39meeting crowd and confess to bitterness
25:43and confess to an anger that ate away in
25:46his soul a bitterness to the degree that
25:49when another preacher was invited to
25:51preach in his stad he wept and cried
25:55there is no justice but he did that to
25:58tell you something about God God did not
26:01judge God did not condemn but instead
26:05God delivered and you hear me no matter
26:08how you feel tonight Jesus Christ is
26:11alive and well and it work in your life
26:16and in your
26:19church he was saying life is too hard
26:22for you John but it's not too hard for
26:27me
26:30you're in prison you're
26:34discouraged but my power is able to take
26:39care of whatever you're struggling
26:42against I am still free John to do your
26:48bidding and thirdly and I think probably
26:50the most difficult to understand is he
26:54was
26:55saying I could get you out
26:59I do have that
27:00power but there is a
27:04purpose at work in your
27:08life so somebody tell John don't worry
27:13about the
27:14theology don't worry about the Old
27:16Testament prophets just go tell John
27:20what you see and what you hear I want
27:24you to know our world needs to get the
27:27message
27:28that Jesus Christ is who he says he is
27:32he is not the figment of preachers
27:35imaginations I wish somebody would tell
27:38John I wish somebody could have told
27:41margorie once before she met Dr cavar in
27:45that 35 day dollar a day cabin in the
27:48Michigan Woods Marjorie left an Epitaph
27:52that haunts me to this very day she said
27:55if God won't come to me then I am going
27:59to find God and she triggered that
28:02suicide machine and launched herself
28:05into eternity oh margorie I wish
28:09somebody could have got to you before
28:12you made that fatal mistake and could
28:15have said Marjorie he has come to you he
28:19came to you 2,000 years ago when he
28:22walked this Earth and gave his life but
28:25more than that he's willing to come to
28:27you today
28:28and touch your life and give you a
28:31reason to live somebody needs to tell
28:35John our Wilder world is full of
28:38desperate people who once had dreams and
28:40goals but are now overwhelmed by life
28:43and its cruelty a suicide how- to book
28:46scales the heights to the number one
28:49slot in the New York Times bestseller
28:51list somebody needs to tell John a man
28:55walks into a cafeteria and coldly
28:57murders 26 people and his neighbor shrug
29:00their shoulders and say I guess he
29:02couldn't cope anymore my God somebody
29:05needs to tell John Jesus is your answer
29:09he is alive and he is
29:12well I tell you the church needs to hear
29:17the same message hurting Saints and
29:20preachers depression and glooms
29:22everywhere pressure destroying
29:24Ministries men flinging up their hands
29:27and saying it's not worth going on
29:29preachers struggling to preach Sunday
29:31morning Sunday night Wednesday night
29:33bible study living in depression and
29:36loneliness barely Holding On by their
29:38fingernails somebody needs to get the
29:41message somebody needs to tell John
29:44Jesus didn't make a mistake you're where
29:46you are in the will of God our lives are
29:49not wasted he can he will s Revival to
29:53us hang on a little longer John the
29:57answer is on the
29:59way our generation desperately needs a
30:04word of
30:07Hope Proverbs says a word fitly spoken
30:12is like apples of gold in pictures of
30:15silver but it brings it down even
30:18clearer than that death and life are in
30:23the power of the
30:26tongue what I said say can save or what
30:31I choose not to say can kill it is in
30:36the power of
30:39communication that life or death is
30:43decided it is such a basic human need
30:48that in Desperate Hours of hurting and
30:51longing that there is such a hunger to
30:55reach out and to hear somebody
30:59anybody with some word of Hope to cause
31:03us to continue on there is a deep vital
31:06human need for communication to hear
31:09that somebody knows and somebody cares
31:13prisoners especially P's locked behind
31:16Bob dwire tell of their desperate
31:19efforts to communicate one with another
31:22secret codes devised to communicate
31:25through stone walls across Courtyards
31:27through through Bob wire reaching out to
31:30anybody somebody does anybody know does
31:34anybody care is Anybody Out There Lonely
31:38prisoners locked away in solitary for
31:40hours days weeks months and sometimes
31:43years tapping on walls the ceiling the
31:46floor fingers and and elbows and fists
31:50and 10 cups whatever they can do to
31:53somehow someway get a word of Hope but
31:58word
32:00hope of All American PS that
32:03suffered in the Vietnam War none
32:06suffered more than vice admiral James B
32:08Stockdale Admiral Stockdale spent more
32:11than seven years in a Vietnamese
32:14prisoner of war camp
32:182,714 days most of the time he was the
32:21ranking officer in any Camp he was in
32:23and was often singled out for especially
32:27cruel treatment anytime another prisoner
32:30stepped out of line they often punished
32:32Admiral Stockdale in an effort to break
32:35him and to break the uh line of command
32:38among the prisoners of War one time
32:41after particular uh angering uh effort
32:45by the prisoners Admiral Stockdale was
32:48locked away in solitary confinement in a
32:50pitch black room for a number of weeks
32:53suddenly without warning he was drugged
32:55from that room into a brilliantly sunlit
32:57Courtyard and there he was flung down
33:00almost immediately coming out of the
33:02darkness into that harsh light trained
33:04him of all of his strength Admiral
33:06Stockdale was flung to the ground his
33:09hands were rudely and cruy handcuffed
33:11behind his back his legs were ired
33:14together and he was left lying in that
33:17blazing sun for three days with barely
33:20enough water to survive and no food at
33:23all Admiral Stockdale was soon reduced
33:26to near death any time he would doze off
33:29and start to sleep his captors would
33:32come and kick him and beat him until he
33:35was awake again after 3 days of this
33:38inhuman treatment Admiral Stockdale
33:40testified I knew I was dying he had sunk
33:44into a near coma he hardly knew anything
33:48about what was going on he later said I
33:50don't know how long it had been going on
33:53before I even realized that a sound a
33:57noise was there I lay in my stoer and I
34:00listened to it for a long time before I
34:03ever understood that it was rhythmic it
34:07was a repetition the same sound a dull
34:11thumping popping sound again and again
34:14and again he said I lay and listened a
34:17long while longer before it finally
34:20penetrated my dying mind that somebody
34:23was trying to communicate with me
34:26through prison code I couldn't figure
34:28out how they were doing it later he said
34:30I discovered that someone at Great risk
34:33to themselves was standing at the window
34:36of a cell with a bath towel in their
34:38hands and they were popping that bath
34:41towel over and over again sending a
34:45message to Admiral Stockdale lying near
34:49death in the sun in that courtyard over
34:52and over for who knows how long Admiral
34:55Stockdale said it could have been for
34:57how
34:58but they never quit they kept
35:00telegraphing they kept sending the
35:02message again and again and he said
35:05finally after the longest of times I
35:08understood what the message was somebody
35:12was saying over and over in an effort to
35:16communicate God bless you Jim Stockdale
35:21God bless you Jim Stockdale God bless
35:26you Jim stock D and he said when I
35:29understood that somebody knew what I was
35:32going through and somebody cared about
35:36my suffering and somebody wanted me to
35:40live H it did something in my soul and I
35:44made up my mind I will not
35:49die and Admiral stock de limped down a
35:53gangplank one day and stooped to the
35:56tarmac and kiss miss the soil of the
35:59good old USA and told Dr Julius Seagal
36:03it's because somebody got the word to me
36:07don't give up don't give in you can make
36:11it if you try somebody has got to find
36:15them wherever they are and reach for
36:18them behind the bars of their
36:22discouragement and tell them hang on a
36:26little longer
36:29somebody tell
36:31John somebody reach that discouraged
36:34pastor and tell him preach another
36:36sermon Pastor pray another prayer
36:40somebody's got to tell John somebody's
36:43got to find that mother that wife whose
36:45husband is not saved who is on her last
36:48legs at the end of her robe just about
36:50ready to give up somebody's got to
36:52notice somebody's got to care somebody's
36:56got to get a message God bless you Jim
36:58Stockdale somebody has got to tell John
37:02I know you're in prison now but Jesus
37:04said for me to tell you he knows what
37:06you're going through and he loves you
37:09just the same and his Mercy is able to
37:12reach you where you are somebody tell
37:17John don't quit
37:19now don't give up
37:22now
37:26somebody tell John
37:32I've always
37:33wondered where they found him I I know
37:37the scripture story is a little nebulous
37:41but I've always imagined maybe it was on
37:44a little dark back
37:49street on a seier side of
37:54Jerusalem he was staggering
37:57like a drunken
37:59man those massive shoulders hunched that
38:03head
38:08bowed hardly
38:13recognizable we don't know who it
38:17was somebody found him
38:21there and
38:23said
38:25Simon is that you
38:31and that head came up in the
38:34eyes filled the
38:39tears first thing he
38:42said I denied him did you know
38:48that I said I die
38:52first and I meant it when I said
38:56it but I was
38:59alone and I was so
39:04stad that mean
39:07to now he's
39:09dead and the
39:11last the last he ever saw
39:16me I was letting him
39:20down I didn't mean
39:23to I denied him did you know that
39:27yes
39:29Simon said the one who found
39:33him but I've come to tell you
39:37something he's not
39:41dead He's
39:45Alive a
39:47lie Jesus yes you remember he said
39:51destroy this Temple 3 days I'll raise
39:53now cleophus and His companion met him
39:56on the road to it was Jesus he's
40:02alive and he sent me with a
40:07message those shoulders are squared
40:10again that chin is high the eyes are
40:12clearing a message for me what did he
40:16say he said tell my
40:19disciples that I go before them into
40:22Galilee and I'll be waiting for them
40:25there
40:30but the shoulder sagged and the chin
40:32fell to the chest
40:34again that's not
40:39me I'm not
40:43fit I failed
40:45you I'm not a
40:48disciple he couldn't meet
40:52me well you know
40:55Simon he must have thought should feel
40:57that
40:59way because there were 11 names he could
41:01have used but he only used
41:04one he said tell my
41:08disciples and be
41:10sure and tell Simon
41:14Peter I'll be
41:17waiting I'll be in Galilee will you come
41:21will you
41:23go you better believe I'll go and so it
41:27was was that in the early
41:29Dawning it was the younger sharper eyes
41:31of John sitting in the bow of the boat
41:33that first saw the form knelt by the
41:35fire and recognized him and announced to
41:37the other 11 it's the
41:40master but John might have been
41:42younger but he wasn't quicker because
41:46the first one out of the boat was that
41:48big fisherman that had denied the master
41:52in the courtyard he splashed through the
41:54surf and he pounded across the sand and
41:57and he slid to his knees at the foot of
41:59Jesus and he said why don't you give up
42:01on me why don't you leave me for I am a
42:05sinful man I'm sorry I let you down I
42:09said I'd never do it but I did it I
42:11didn't mean to I was afraid and Jesus
42:13touched him and said I know all about it
42:16I know what you did I know you didn't
42:19intend it I know what discouragement can
42:21do but I've only got three questions for
42:24you okay how many times did you deny me
42:27three then here's three questions do you
42:30love
42:32me I love you that's one second question
42:37do you love me I love you that's two
42:41third question do you really love me
42:44more than anything in all the world
42:48discouragement can bring you to the
42:50point of utter despair so there is
42:52nothing left but one sure thing I love
42:57you Lord you know all things and you
43:01know I love
43:03[Applause]
43:03[Music]
43:05you then get up I've got a sermon for
43:08you to preach I've got some keys for you
43:11to use I got a church for you to build
43:15come on let's start over somebody that's
43:19got to tell John
43:22[Music]
43:27he has not abandoned you he's not upset
43:31not offended even if you've reached the
43:34point of doubting whether he is God he
43:38still loves
43:41you and he's
43:44waiting in
43:51G let's pray right now
43:56[Music]
44:07[Music]
44:20now I'm going to give as everyone stands
44:24two part peel tonight
44:28first of
44:30all I want to fulfill my
44:33charge because Jesus told
44:38me to go my way my
44:42way and tell
44:45John so
44:49John you're here
44:52tonight I'm standing on my tiptoes
45:00I've got my hands reached up and caught
45:01a hold of the
45:03bars of your prison
45:08cell I've come to tell you don't
45:12quit don't give
45:17up I told him what you
45:20said and he said go tell
45:24him you didn't make a mistake
45:28you are not
45:31wrong I'm still in
45:35charge and it's going to be all right
45:39John it's going to be all right
45:44John so John if you're here
45:47tonight he's waiting for
45:50you can't meeting '92 it's your
45:54meeting so many things surging through
45:56your soul
45:58so many questions and
46:02fears so many things you
46:04meant and could not
46:09do he
46:12knows but he still loves
46:16you so
46:18John I invite you to
46:20come and
46:23here in the Sand by the seashore
46:28tell him all about it he's got a
46:30question for
46:32you will you come and answer that
46:37question come on
46:40John come on
46:45[Music]
46:55John
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