WEBVTT 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:01.760 John chapter 21. 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:02.860 I want to set the background of this. 00:00:02.900 --> 00:00:10.140 On the series we've been together, we've been looking at the theme of scripture, so when we pick up the Bible, we get this broad picture of what God's trying to communicate to 00:00:10.140 --> 00:00:10.340 us. 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:17.840 If you read scripture and you see the individual stories, it is important to tie the individual stories to the grand theme of what God's communicating to us. 00:00:18.340 --> 00:00:18.720 He is a King. 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:20.420 He has built His kingdom. 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:22.120 Man has sinned and in rebellion. 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.360 In that rebellion, God can bring his wrath and judgment, but God has offered us His grace. 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:29.260 That's why Jesus has come. 00:00:29.260 --> 00:00:30.560 God's plan of redemption. 00:00:30.660 --> 00:00:37.160 God's come for you to give his life to you, to die in your place so that you don't face death and judgment before the Lord. 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:39.700 Rather, you find grace, forgiveness and renewal. 00:00:39.780 --> 00:00:41.640 God can make all things new in your life. 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.690 The story of the Bible, if I brought it down into one word, it would be redemption. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.520 This King and His kingdom delivering it to you. 00:00:49.540 --> 00:00:54.140 So we've seen how this is tied together in the Old Testament bringing into the New Testament. 00:00:54.620 --> 00:00:59.860 And last time I spoke two weeks ago, we talked about the beginning of these gospels and tying this picture together. 00:01:00.660 --> 00:01:03.340 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.` Why we have four gospels and yada yada. 00:01:03.580 --> 00:01:09.920 If you don't know the answer to why we have four gospels and some other questions related to the gospels, I would tell you listen to the message a couple of weeks ago. 00:01:10.360 --> 00:01:11.440 But today this is what I want to do. 00:01:12.260 --> 00:01:19.420 I love John 21 I am so thankful for where it is in the Bible and how God has positioned at here and what he teaches us 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:19.820 through it. 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:28.640 John 21 addresses for us the human experience as it relates to living life for 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:29.100 the Lord. 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:30.760 It is not always easy. 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:33.470 We have battles and we aren't perfect. 00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:38.410 When you read the gospels, what you see is as Jesus lived his life, it was brilliant. 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:39.280 It was beautiful. 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:44.450 He was a leader, he was humble, he was firm, he was loving and he was bold. 00:01:44.930 --> 00:01:48.180 How can he mix all of that together? 00:01:48.180 --> 00:01:50.520 How can he lead with such confidence yet with such gentleness? 00:01:50.820 --> 00:01:51.310 It is incredible. 00:01:51.960 --> 00:01:52.800 And then you get to the disciples. 00:01:53.800 --> 00:01:59.450 And on some days, at best, maybe the best description you could give them is a train wreck in motion. 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.880 If we could ever have a do over, today would be the day for these disciples. 00:02:04.300 --> 00:02:07.280 They were trying, but it didn't always work out. 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.820 And when you get to the end of the gospels, you really see this happening. 00:02:11.190 --> 00:02:19.520 At the end of the gospels, it starts to lay out for us this picture that is difficult emotionally, 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.460 spiritually, every capacity of the human being to deal with. 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:25.560 And I'm just going to give you a synopsis. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:27.150 I don't want to dive into these verses. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:33.880 I just want to give you a synopsis so that you can go on this journey with me as I'm explaining to you the importance of John 21. 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:37.720 Because everything leading into this is exactly why we have John 21. 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:46.020 I'm going to use it from the gospel of Luke just to set a precedent because Luke is a little more detailed before I leap into John 21 but if you look at the end 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:51.340 of Luke, what you find starting in John 19 is Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.120 This is his last moments on earth. 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:01.400 He's on the back of a donkey going into the city and they're all shouting, "Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." Basically saying, 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.840 "take your kingdom now, King." Giving this kind of declaration. 00:03:05.660 --> 00:03:12.260 But while this is happening, the religious leaders it tells us in Luke 19 looked at Jesus and tell Jesus to silence the crowd. 00:03:12.660 --> 00:03:14.570 And Jesus basically says, I'm not going to do that. 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:18.690 He goes a little further and says, if I did, even the rocks would cry out in this moment. 00:03:19.880 --> 00:03:25.800 But shortly after this time where Jesus is getting the celebration, Jesus knows it's short lived. 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:28.500 That the genuineness of people's hearts really aren't there. 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:29.980 That they're not praising him for who he is. 00:03:29.980 --> 00:03:31.720 They're praising them because of what they get from him. 00:03:32.740 --> 00:03:38.680 He's sort of like this walking magic show that every once in a while if they get hungry, he'll just pop out five loaves and feed the whole crowd. 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:41.600 And Jesus knows this. 00:03:41.660 --> 00:03:46.210 And in Luke 19:41 he weeps over Jerusalem because the people have rejected him. 00:03:47.100 --> 00:03:50.730 Verse 45 he goes to the temple and he drives out the money changers. 00:03:50.980 --> 00:03:52.880 This is where Jesus wreaks havoc on the temple. 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:56.680 And you see crazy Jesus in these moments driving out people in the temple. 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:59.080 I could explain to you why, but I don't have time for that. 00:03:59.140 --> 00:04:00.540 So if you want to know, you can ask me later. 00:04:00.780 --> 00:04:02.890 I've taught on a few times, but Jesus drives out people. 00:04:03.160 --> 00:04:06.340 In verse 47 the religious leaders want to kill him. 00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:13.800 And then when you get to chapter 20 this is where the religious leaders come to Jesus and they pose questions to them because they're trying to trick 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:14.720 him and trap him. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.360 And Jesus answers these questions masterfully. 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.610 And they get to the end of that and they realize they can't trap Jesus in the questions. 00:04:23.260 --> 00:04:30.520 And after Jesus answers these questions, he turns and looks at the crowd and very loudly, he warns them of the danger 00:04:30.520 --> 00:04:31.980 of the religious leaders. 00:04:33.020 --> 00:04:35.120 And so you sort of see this tension building. 00:04:35.460 --> 00:04:37.580 Jesus goes in, religious leaders, they stop. 00:04:37.980 --> 00:04:40.280 Jesus says no, they're like, we're gonna, we want to kill you. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:42.440 And then they decide they're gonna try to embarrass them. 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:43.300 They can embarrass him. 00:04:43.760 --> 00:04:49.360 And Jesus instead turns the crowd and points to the danger of the religious leaders. 00:04:49.400 --> 00:04:50.650 And now they really want to kill Jesus. 00:04:50.900 --> 00:04:52.480 And the disciples see this tension build. 00:04:53.440 --> 00:04:56.260 And as if to kind of downplay this moment, they just sort of turn back. 00:04:56.380 --> 00:04:58.820 And this morning we're like, yeah, that was kind of a weird day, Jesus. 00:04:58.820 --> 00:04:59.550 But look at the temple. 00:04:59.700 --> 00:05:00.710 Isn't the temple great? 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.830 And Jesus is like, yeah, it's all going to be destroyed too. 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:05.860 It's kind of like a pandemonium moment. 00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:06.640 This is chaotic. 00:05:07.140 --> 00:05:10.370 Jesus, in Luke 21:20 says, the temple is going to be destroyed. 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:16.900 And then the religious leaders in Luke 22:2 they not just want to kill him, actually plot to kill him. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:22.020 And in that same chapter, this is where Jesus tells his disciples he's going to die. 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:30.600 And Peter takes this bold statement and says to Jesus, "Jesus, you're not going to die and I would even give my life for 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:36.600 you." And then Jesus tells him in verse 34 he says to him, Peter, before the night's done, you're going to deny me three times. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:46.180 When you get to this point of Luke, Jesus is with his disciples in the upper room spending his 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:48.570 final hours, his last six hours on earth. 00:05:49.780 --> 00:05:51.020 And he takes them to the garden. 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:53.730 And all that they had gone through. 00:05:53.980 --> 00:05:58.020 They see the religious leaders building against Jesus. 00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:00.720 They likely know that these guys want to kill him. 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:02.500 If not have created a plot to kill him. 00:06:04.340 --> 00:06:07.710 And they're in this city where the tension is just enormous. 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.320 And thinking, why are we even here? 00:06:09.320 --> 00:06:10.600 We need to be hiding right now. 00:06:12.540 --> 00:06:13.800 Difficult moments for them. 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.090 And now their leader just told them, I'm going to die. 00:06:18.660 --> 00:06:21.140 He goes to the garden and he's praying in anguish. 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:26.320 And you really, in this moment, see how this has taken a toll on the disciples. 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:35.140 It tells us in Luke 22:45, when Jesus rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them 00:06:35.140 --> 00:06:39.740 sleeping from sorrow He said to them. 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:40.240 Why are you sleeping? 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:47.500 Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation. 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:51.150 Right after this moment. 00:06:52.280 --> 00:06:59.420 Jesus has taken and he's carried off into this night trial that's illegal 00:06:59.420 --> 00:07:01.320 in this day and time. 00:07:01.320 --> 00:07:08.400 But he's run through this trial and Peter actually goes up to this trial that's taking place and he sort of watches from 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:11.020 the outskirts, this interaction that they're having with Jesus. 00:07:12.340 --> 00:07:16.860 And then Peter ultimately does exactly what Jesus said he would do in verse 60. 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:22.460 Peter's approach and he denies Jesus and then he denies Jesus again. 00:07:22.460 --> 00:07:25.180 And finally the third time they ask him, don't you know this man? 00:07:25.180 --> 00:07:29.280 And Peter said, man, I do not know what you're talking about. 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:36.520 Immediately while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed and the Lord turned and looked at Peter and 00:07:36.620 --> 00:07:43.600 Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had told him before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times. 00:07:44.540 --> 00:07:48.000 And Peter went out and wept bitterly. 00:07:50.900 --> 00:07:52.020 You see how Peter got here, right? 00:07:53.860 --> 00:07:57.000 He had these moments that build that just wear on the soul. 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.230 Your leader is telling him that he's going to die. 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:03.840 You follow this leader for years. 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:05.500 You think this leader is going to set up the Kingdom. 00:08:05.540 --> 00:08:12.560 Everything that you anticipate, all the hope that you've put towards over all these last few years and spending life with Jesus and walking with him 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.960 and giving up the fishing and going out and just being a follower of Christ. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.680 And all of a sudden you feel like your world is coming crashing down. 00:08:21.580 --> 00:08:29.480 In those moments of sorrow, depression, sometimes it happens where our decision making isn't 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:30.720 always the strongest. 00:08:32.220 --> 00:08:35.900 In fact, we could say it's most likely the weakest moments in our lives. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.659 What we find with Peter's that Peter messed up. 00:08:42.409 --> 00:08:47.140 Inevitably, when you serve the Lord, at some point you will mess up. 00:08:49.160 --> 00:08:49.700 What do you do? 00:08:51.780 --> 00:08:53.000 How could God use you? 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.020 How could you come back from that? 00:08:54.040 --> 00:08:59.140 When you think about this moment, Peter, he denies Jesus and Jesus said he was going to do it before he even did it. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:05.120 And when he does it, Jesus even hears him do it and he looked straight at Peter right after Peter denies Him. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.260 Can you imagine how gut churning that was for Peter? 00:09:10.580 --> 00:09:15.320 And his response is immediately is to turn face and to run away and just weep bitterly in his failure. 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:18.590 How do you come back from that? 00:09:19.880 --> 00:09:22.620 I think our English language we have a vocabulary word for that. 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:24.260 We call it regret, right? 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:33.120 Regret is when you look back with remorse at something for either a foolish choice or a lack of making a choice or something that's 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:33.460 done. 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:41.620 I think one regret is one of the most difficult emotions for us to handle as people. 00:09:42.260 --> 00:09:49.620 And you only have to have regret because as necessarily something that you did sinful, but we all deal with it in some capacity. 00:09:50.760 --> 00:09:57.580 And I think one of the reasons it's such a difficult human emotion to handle is because we're often used to handling things on our own. 00:09:59.660 --> 00:10:00.560 It's up to me. 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:01.260 I've got this. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.830 You just pull up the bootstraps and you move forward. 00:10:03.880 --> 00:10:12.620 But when it comes to regret, what we're acknowledging is that something out of our control, Peter messed up and 00:10:12.620 --> 00:10:14.620 he can't undo what's been done. 00:10:15.640 --> 00:10:17.250 And because now it's out of his power. 00:10:17.460 --> 00:10:22.600 He carries this emotion of regret towards Jesus in this moment now what does he do? 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:27.260 You know how those times play in your mind. 00:10:28.540 --> 00:10:34.770 If I'd only known how much they hurt, I would have done more. 00:10:36.780 --> 00:10:42.000 If I had known it was my last time to be with them or how it was going to go, I would've done things different. 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:48.040 If I could only go back and undo it, I would. 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:57.780 In those moments of regret, what you do here, the message spoken into 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:02.180 your heart in that moment is critical. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:10.120 And I would encourage us as we think about those times that we've gone through, maybe we even hold onto moments of regret right now or we're going to encounter. 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:15.920 I would encourage you to let the Lord speak that message into your life rather than yourself. 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.860 Because what we acknowledge and regret is it's really something beyond our control. 00:11:24.300 --> 00:11:25.990 You can't undo what's been done. 00:11:27.460 --> 00:11:34.030 And when you look at the end of the gospel story, is really what you see are two examples of how to deal with it. 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:40.690 One example leads to death and the other one there is health, there is life, there is hope. 00:11:41.940 --> 00:11:46.540 When I talk about two examples, what I mean is there's Judas and there's Peter. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.980 You see at the end of Jesus's life is there are two people that deny Jesus. 00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:55.420 Two people that turn backs on the scripture, makes plainly clear and how they behave. 00:11:55.900 --> 00:11:57.920 One is Judas and one is Peter. 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:05.680 Judas in his remorse we find in the Bible, Matthew 27:33-35, that his regret led him to such 00:12:05.680 --> 00:12:07.260 an unhealthy place that it brought death. 00:12:10.100 --> 00:12:11.920 Judas ultimately went out and hung himself. 00:12:13.560 --> 00:12:16.180 Now, I'm not trying to give this blanket statement about suicide. 00:12:16.180 --> 00:12:17.560 I would never do that. 00:12:18.660 --> 00:12:25.740 But I think there is a degree that we carry such remorse that even if it physically doesn't lead us to death spiritually it 00:12:25.740 --> 00:12:25.940 will. 00:12:27.420 --> 00:12:29.620 And ultimately that's where it always ends up. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.860 Regret in your own strength produces death. 00:12:34.980 --> 00:12:35.800 It destroys the soul. 00:12:37.420 --> 00:12:41.480 But there is another way that leads to life. 00:12:43.640 --> 00:12:48.880 And this is what this passage in John 21 is all about. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:56.820 So you turn to this chapter and you begin in John chapter 21 you'd asked the question, okay, then we see what Judas did and it ultimately led to death. 00:12:56.820 --> 00:12:59.400 And living a life captivated in regret. 00:12:59.500 --> 00:13:00.120 That's what it produces. 00:13:00.520 --> 00:13:04.060 A regret is all about looking at the past and in remorse. 00:13:04.140 --> 00:13:06.220 Wishing you can change it, having no power to do something. 00:13:06.740 --> 00:13:09.840 And I think it's important to know that is how Satan operates. 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:14.460 Satan is all about the past. 00:13:16.380 --> 00:13:18.940 Jesus is all about your present and your future. 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.520 Jesus doesn't so much care about where you've been as to where you are going. 00:13:24.460 --> 00:13:31.740 Satan, it tells us in Revelation 21, he is the accuser of the brethren, which means he likes to take your past and throw it in your future so you stay stuck 00:13:31.740 --> 00:13:32.040 there. 00:13:34.220 --> 00:13:40.940 And in John 21, we come to this chapter and I am so glad that John included this in scripture. 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:48.000 Because you think about, you read the other gospels and you see the way Jesus and Peter have interacted the end of his life that Peter denied Jesus. 00:13:48.060 --> 00:13:51.820 And the question in everybody's mind is, well, what happened in this relationship? 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.200 Like where is Peter in all of this? 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:55.860 And how are we to view this? 00:13:55.860 --> 00:14:00.760 And how can we have hope if Peter who becomes the leader denies Jesus? 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:01.860 What hope do I have right? 00:14:04.760 --> 00:14:06.840 And John 21 faces it. 00:14:07.300 --> 00:14:08.510 So what does Peter do? 00:14:09.880 --> 00:14:11.830 verse three, ready for this profound thought. 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:16.720 Simon Peter said to them, I'm going fishing. 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:17.990 So what I say to you this morning is take a vacation. 00:14:19.690 --> 00:14:23.120 What Peter is doing in this moment is honestly he's doing nothing. 00:14:24.250 --> 00:14:29.830 Theologians look at this section of scripture and they try to make this a black and white one where they're like, okay, Peter's going fishing. 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:31.700 Is this a good thing or a bad thing? 00:14:31.740 --> 00:14:34.390 If you ever read commentaries on this is what they try to weigh in on this verse. 00:14:35.060 --> 00:14:36.960 And I really just think it's this. 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:37.320 It's nothing. 00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:40.020 I don't think Peter knows what to do. 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:47.020 And so what he does is he just goes back to what he's familiar with until he figures out what he can do because the guy's got to eat. 00:14:48.280 --> 00:14:49.250 This is what I did before. 00:14:49.300 --> 00:14:50.240 This is where I made money. 00:14:50.300 --> 00:14:53.120 Until I figured out what the next step is, I need to be doing something. 00:14:53.760 --> 00:14:58.940 And so I'm just going to continue in this pattern of which I trusted in before I knew Jesus, which was fishing. 00:15:00.280 --> 00:15:06.540 And so Peter said to the disciples, "I'm going fishing." And they, the disciples said to him, we will also come with you. 00:15:07.660 --> 00:15:11.140 They went out and got into the boat and that night they caught nothing. 00:15:13.340 --> 00:15:14.120 Now why does that matter? 00:15:14.580 --> 00:15:15.560 Well, I'll tell you why it matters. 00:15:16.260 --> 00:15:21.160 It's because in life, so many times you take gut punches and you think to yourself, I can't take one more, not even a little. 00:15:21.540 --> 00:15:23.980 And he's just saying, and here comes a little one. 00:15:24.580 --> 00:15:26.660 They went all night long fishing and they came and they can't even catch a fish. 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:28.440 These guys aren't good to anything right now. 00:15:30.260 --> 00:15:30.860 You felt like that? 00:15:33.540 --> 00:15:34.050 What do you do? 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:40.220 I think the better question is what does Jesus do? 00:15:41.560 --> 00:15:43.380 Because we've been honest with the fact of regret. 00:15:43.700 --> 00:15:48.520 Really, we don't have the ability within ourselves to change things that have been done. 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:50.960 So what does Jesus do? 00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:52.540 Verse verse four tells us. 00:15:54.700 --> 00:16:02.060 When the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples 00:16:02.060 --> 00:16:03.450 did not know that it was Jesus. 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:08.740 So Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" The answered him no. 00:16:09.580 --> 00:16:14.310 And he said to them, cast the net on the right side of the boat and you'll find a catch. 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:19.620 So they cast and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish. 00:16:19.640 --> 00:16:23.180 Therefore, the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, it's the Lord. 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:30.300 And so when Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on for, he was stripped for work and threw himself into 00:16:30.300 --> 00:16:31.160 the sea. 00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:33.990 I don't know if we should tell Peter this, but he got it backwards. 00:16:35.380 --> 00:16:37.720 You don't put your clothes on to then jump in the water. 00:16:37.980 --> 00:16:40.940 You carry your clothes until you get out of the water, so your clothes aren't wet, right? 00:16:41.020 --> 00:16:42.610 It's like he's still not thinking straight here. 00:16:42.900 --> 00:16:48.330 Peter, he puts his clothes on, he jumps in the water and he goes and sees Jesus. 00:16:48.760 --> 00:16:55.760 And what you begin to see in this moment is this beautiful story of how God meets us in our brokenness and our failures 00:16:55.760 --> 00:16:56.960 and our regrets. 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:00.030 I mean, could you imagine this, what this was like? 00:17:01.280 --> 00:17:02.640 You walk with regrets, right? 00:17:02.680 --> 00:17:04.760 "If I'd only known I would've done it different. 00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:08.000 If I'd only knew it was the last time I would have said something else. 00:17:08.040 --> 00:17:15.339 If I could go back, I would've done it differently." And Peter, no doubt in these moments of his life, he walked around with regret saying, "If 00:17:15.339 --> 00:17:18.829 I could've just relived that moment, that night, one more time, I would've died with Jesus. 00:17:19.540 --> 00:17:25.920 Or if I could just tell Him, I'm sorry." And what you see in this moment is everything bad is coming, untrue. 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.340 Everything bad coming untrue. 00:17:30.340 --> 00:17:32.670 The one that he loved, who he thought he lost. 00:17:33.040 --> 00:17:35.420 And now he's walking on the shores in front of him. 00:17:35.820 --> 00:17:42.920 It's no wonder that Peter just leaps out of the boat and runs to Jesus because out of all the disciples, no doubt he is the one carrying 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:46.020 the deepest regret over everything that has taken place. 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:55.520 And when I read this story, this action, these words that John shares 00:17:55.520 --> 00:17:57.160 makes my heart so happy. 00:17:58.620 --> 00:18:03.320 Because what you see is a God that has not given up on him. 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:11.420 Jesus shows up in Peter's life and he doesn't stop loving him. 00:18:14.420 --> 00:18:21.440 When I think about this idea of regret, I think the reason that we often struggle with what 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:28.760 to do, having no power really to undo anything, is because so often we think about the solution in 00:18:28.760 --> 00:18:29.840 terms of religion. 00:18:31.540 --> 00:18:35.300 Our default as human beings is to fight ourselves religiously. 00:18:37.320 --> 00:18:44.380 And what I mean is when we think about our regret in life, what we've learned is: I need 00:18:44.380 --> 00:18:50.480 to behave different, to become something different so I can belong and be loved. 00:18:53.380 --> 00:18:54.700 I need to modify my behavior. 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.380 I need to behave different, to become different in order to belong. 00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:08.560 And what Jesus is teaching us here, it's that Jesus' primary interest isn't in your behavior. 00:19:10.420 --> 00:19:15.280 I think God cares about your behavior, but behavior is a fruit. 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.720 And what God is more interested is the root. 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:24.420 God doesn't primarily care about your behavior. 00:19:26.300 --> 00:19:27.980 God primarily cares about who you're becoming. 00:19:30.500 --> 00:19:35.390 And God knows the way you become who He desires for you to be is based on where you belong. 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:37.200 Does that make sense? 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.460 What I'm saying is in religious way of thinking, there is no hope. 00:19:44.540 --> 00:19:45.200 And here's why. 00:19:45.760 --> 00:19:51.610 You can change your behavior all day long, but it can never undo the things that you've done that you regret. 00:19:53.600 --> 00:20:00.660 You can change your behavior all day long, but it's not going to ever necessitate that it's going to be perfect from this point forward and you're always going 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:01.800 to have to deal with regret. 00:20:01.900 --> 00:20:02.540 And what do you do with it? 00:20:02.820 --> 00:20:05.300 Well, when you can't find a solution, it leads to death. 00:20:09.210 --> 00:20:13.430 Behavior, becoming, belonging = religion. 00:20:13.430 --> 00:20:20.590 Jesus, however, is this: belong, become and then behave. 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.370 Jesus knows Peter's not perfect. 00:20:27.730 --> 00:20:33.800 Could you imagine if God had treated Peter in these moments, in a religious way? 00:20:34.890 --> 00:20:38.010 He comes to Peter and says, "Oh man, that guy, jeez! 00:20:38.810 --> 00:20:40.710 You know, I've given him chance after chance. 00:20:40.710 --> 00:20:44.410 He goes, lopping people's ears off, always shooting off at the mouth. 00:20:44.710 --> 00:20:48.830 If I keep going with this, he's going to deny me in Galatians 1. 00:20:49.190 --> 00:20:51.270 Forget this guy, let's pick someone new. 00:20:51.930 --> 00:20:53.110 I can't deal with anymore. 00:20:53.130 --> 00:20:54.150 His behavior is awful. 00:20:56.290 --> 00:21:05.650 He even denied me." But God is showing in this story, his 00:21:05.670 --> 00:21:11.650 interest isn't in what Peter does so much is where Peter belongs. 00:21:13.170 --> 00:21:16.630 Because in belonging, God can produce in him a different heart. 00:21:16.730 --> 00:21:18.110 And Jesus preached this over and over. 00:21:18.110 --> 00:21:18.810 I would say it like this. 00:21:20.030 --> 00:21:24.590 Here's where we battle in religion versus relationship to Christ. 00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:29.600 Sometimes we come to a church gathering and we think, okay, this morning, here's what's going to happen. 00:21:29.650 --> 00:21:32.030 Some of us are even timid to come to church cause this is what we think is going to happen. 00:21:32.710 --> 00:21:33.610 And it does happen. 00:21:33.990 --> 00:21:35.930 This sinfully happens, wrongfully happens. 00:21:36.170 --> 00:21:39.670 And if we think Christianity is this, I want to tell you in the front it's wrong. 00:21:39.970 --> 00:21:41.150 What I'm about to tell you is wrong. 00:21:41.760 --> 00:21:42.540 Here's what we think happens. 00:21:42.670 --> 00:21:43.500 I'm going to go to church now. 00:21:43.710 --> 00:21:45.410 They're going to tell me all the bad things that I've done. 00:21:45.730 --> 00:21:49.730 They're going to want all the good things that I need to do and I'm pulling my bootstraps and I'm going to do those things right? 00:21:51.570 --> 00:21:52.810 That is not Christianity. 00:21:53.970 --> 00:21:57.730 That will never get past regret, that'll never find forgiveness. 00:21:58.290 --> 00:22:00.190 That'll teach you all about depending on yourself. 00:22:00.650 --> 00:22:03.270 That doesn't give you the transformation that God calls you into. 00:22:03.570 --> 00:22:05.910 That is not what Christianity is about. 00:22:06.370 --> 00:22:07.830 That is what religion is about. 00:22:08.130 --> 00:22:10.450 That is not what Christianity is about. 00:22:10.750 --> 00:22:13.510 If you don't hear anything else today, please hear that. 00:22:13.510 --> 00:22:15.350 That is not Christianity. 00:22:15.830 --> 00:22:20.930 Yes, you will read texts of the Bible that say, look, here's things that are bad, here's things that are good. 00:22:21.150 --> 00:22:24.110 But God's purpose in that isn't to say to you now go do good. 00:22:24.390 --> 00:22:31.410 God certainly wants you to do good things, but the driving force behind why you do what you do isn't about your strength in doing good. 00:22:31.750 --> 00:22:33.590 It's about what God does in you. 00:22:33.870 --> 00:22:41.130 The reason God talks about good things and bad things, is so we can recognize in our lives, there's something deeper than just my behavior, 00:22:41.170 --> 00:22:42.450 which God wants to address. 00:22:42.750 --> 00:22:44.990 And what he wants to speak to is my heart. 00:22:46.310 --> 00:22:49.850 This is why we battle with regret is because we fight religion. 00:22:51.370 --> 00:22:53.760 We look at it and we realize we can't change the past. 00:22:55.070 --> 00:23:01.570 And so we walk around with this guilt and shame and penance as if I live in that long enough, then maybe God will love you. 00:23:01.650 --> 00:23:04.210 Well, the answer is God loves you. 00:23:06.450 --> 00:23:07.550 That's why he died. 00:23:09.830 --> 00:23:12.710 God cares about your behavior, but that's not his driving force. 00:23:12.710 --> 00:23:15.170 What God wants more than anything is your heart. 00:23:15.190 --> 00:23:17.810 Because if he can get your heart, he changes your life. 00:23:19.030 --> 00:23:21.690 And that's what he's teaching Peter in this lesson. 00:23:22.050 --> 00:23:28.290 And inevitably what we learned through Peter's example, which becomes a beautiful story of redemption and hope for us. 00:23:28.350 --> 00:23:33.190 And so what we begin to learn as the story plays out is give the Lord your regrets. 00:23:35.070 --> 00:23:36.970 What God does in verse 9 to 14. 00:23:37.030 --> 00:23:40.150 I'm not gonna read that, I'm gonna skip past it, but I love this. 00:23:40.150 --> 00:23:40.850 God has a meal. 00:23:41.650 --> 00:23:43.350 The disciples come onto the shore and he has a meal. 00:23:43.370 --> 00:23:48.630 If you read the gospels, what you find, every thing that happens in the Gospels happens around a meal. 00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:53.530 It's communion with God. 00:23:53.730 --> 00:23:54.530 It's relationship. 00:23:54.810 --> 00:23:58.730 And then God jumps to the elephant in the room after the meal in verse 15. 00:24:01.290 --> 00:24:08.630 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do 00:24:08.630 --> 00:24:16.290 you love me more than these?" He said, "Yes Lord, you know that I love you." Let me stop here and say this: commentaries 00:24:16.290 --> 00:24:17.770 have a different response on this. 00:24:17.790 --> 00:24:20.210 When he says, Peter, do you love me more than these? 00:24:20.570 --> 00:24:21.990 They're speculation as to what that means. 00:24:23.110 --> 00:24:27.750 Some people say, well, he's saying, do you love me more than you love the disciples? 00:24:28.670 --> 00:24:30.830 Or do you love me more than the disciples love me? 00:24:31.790 --> 00:24:34.810 Or do you love me more than you love this occupation of fishing? 00:24:36.030 --> 00:24:38.770 People speculate in the different areas as to what it is. 00:24:38.990 --> 00:24:41.270 I'm the person that thinks, I think he's talking about fishing here. 00:24:42.490 --> 00:24:45.350 I think that he's not competing to have a better love than the disciples have. 00:24:45.390 --> 00:24:48.010 He just wants Peter to love him the way that God's called him to love him. 00:24:48.290 --> 00:24:52.210 But I think he's saying, look, are you giving up and going back to this way of life? 00:24:52.250 --> 00:24:53.690 Are you really committed to me? 00:24:54.430 --> 00:25:01.610 And so he says, you can pick your own preference by the way, I don't, it doesn't matter here, but what does matter is the 00:25:01.610 --> 00:25:04.810 idea of where Peter's heart is in connection to God. 00:25:04.970 --> 00:25:12.070 And so he says, "When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?' And he said, 'Yes, Lord, you know that 00:25:12.070 --> 00:25:19.250 I love you.' And he said to him, 'Tend my sheep.' And he said to him again a second time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' He said to him, 'Yes Lord. 00:25:19.250 --> 00:25:26.290 You know that I love you.' He said, 'Shepherd my sheep.' And he said to him a third time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' And Peter was grieved because he said 00:25:26.290 --> 00:25:27.450 to him a third time, do you love me? 00:25:27.750 --> 00:25:33.130 And he said to him, 'Lord, you know that I love you.' And Jesus said, 'take care of my sheep.'" Let me just say this. 00:25:33.250 --> 00:25:38.030 If Peter was stuck in the past of regret, he wouldn't have never lived how God has called him to live in this world. 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:46.630 And so once Peter defined forgiveness, and he never brings up forgiveness here, but here's the reason I think that we find God bringing Peter in this place 00:25:46.630 --> 00:25:47.330 of forgiveness. 00:25:47.670 --> 00:25:52.870 It tells us in verse 17 after Jesus asked the question three times, Peter was what? 00:25:54.730 --> 00:25:55.030 Grieved. 00:25:56.820 --> 00:25:57.370 Peter was grieved. 00:25:58.830 --> 00:25:59.630 Why was Peter grieved? 00:26:01.230 --> 00:26:03.450 Well, I think Peter recognized what Jesus was doing here. 00:26:05.290 --> 00:26:11.470 That Peter had denied Jesus three times as Jesus was about to be crucified. 00:26:13.370 --> 00:26:20.450 And so Jesus brings up that tension in their relationship for which Peter had left Jesus by asking Peter this question three 00:26:20.450 --> 00:26:21.150 times. 00:26:22.450 --> 00:26:23.570 It was a place of restoring. 00:26:23.690 --> 00:26:28.870 Just as you had forsaken him three times, I want to know three times, Peter, do you love me? 00:26:29.210 --> 00:26:34.080 And Peter, I think in this moment was grieved because he knew exactly what Jesus was pointing to. 00:26:35.390 --> 00:26:41.700 And when you look at the way that this story is written, this idea of love, there's actually a different word for love used throughout this passage. 00:26:41.930 --> 00:26:44.390 When Jesus asked the question, Peter, do you love me? 00:26:45.330 --> 00:26:46.510 Peter does answer yes. 00:26:46.990 --> 00:26:49.460 But when Jesus asked this question, the first thing he says is, do you agape? 00:26:49.970 --> 00:26:51.070 Do you unconditionally love me? 00:26:52.030 --> 00:26:55.090 And Peter's response, yes Lord, I love you. 00:26:55.750 --> 00:27:01.010 But when Peter says, I love you, Peter says, phileo, which is brotherly love. 00:27:01.790 --> 00:27:03.000 So I think Peter answers the question. 00:27:03.130 --> 00:27:05.920 He's like, yes, Lord, I agape love you and I brotherly love you. 00:27:06.190 --> 00:27:08.530 But Jesus asks him again, do you agape love me? 00:27:08.870 --> 00:27:10.690 And Peter says, yes, I love you. 00:27:10.750 --> 00:27:15.870 And the third time, Jesus, rather than say, do you agape love me, Jesus changes his word for love here. 00:27:15.910 --> 00:27:17.990 And he says, do you brotherly love me? 00:27:19.550 --> 00:27:22.700 And people look at this and they speculate as to what happened here. 00:27:22.910 --> 00:27:31.090 Some people say, look, it's not that big of a deal that this is oftentimes done in Greek literature where they'll 00:27:31.090 --> 00:27:35.470 play on this word love and use it in different ways, even though it may be the same word that they're intending. 00:27:35.670 --> 00:27:38.450 They'll switch these words out and then not a big deal. 00:27:38.830 --> 00:27:40.330 I think there's a little something to this. 00:27:40.370 --> 00:27:41.650 And here's what I think Jesus is doing. 00:27:43.130 --> 00:27:48.930 Peter, more than these fish, are you willing to forsake things to make me Lord? 00:27:51.260 --> 00:27:53.200 Unconditionally do you give your life to me? 00:27:53.870 --> 00:27:56.230 Peter's response is yes. 00:27:56.730 --> 00:27:59.550 Are you sure you unconditionally give your life to me? 00:27:59.550 --> 00:28:01.150 Yes. 00:28:01.630 --> 00:28:07.120 Well, in addition to me just being the King that you lay your life down, Peter, here's what I'll also want to know. 00:28:08.630 --> 00:28:08.970 Are we friends? 00:28:17.870 --> 00:28:18.510 I love this story. 00:28:20.690 --> 00:28:24.070 Because when it comes to regret, you don't have the power to make things different. 00:28:26.350 --> 00:28:27.890 It has to come from outside of you. 00:28:29.010 --> 00:28:30.590 Someone that forgives you. 00:28:33.150 --> 00:28:34.610 And here's what Jesus is teaching Peter. 00:28:35.930 --> 00:28:37.750 Peter, let me handle what I handle. 00:28:38.290 --> 00:28:39.750 You're forgiven. 00:28:40.110 --> 00:28:41.450 And you go do what I've called you to do. 00:28:43.010 --> 00:28:43.770 Let go of the past. 00:28:55.210 --> 00:28:55.230 We're friends. 00:28:55.230 --> 00:28:55.230 You belong. 00:28:55.230 --> 00:29:00.660 I think the encouragement to us in this story is, take it to the Lord. 00:29:01.730 --> 00:29:02.590 Take it to the Lord. 00:29:02.630 --> 00:29:04.650 And you look at this and you're like, well, this is great for Peter. 00:29:06.030 --> 00:29:06.550 This is great. 00:29:06.590 --> 00:29:07.710 Peter got his moment. 00:29:07.950 --> 00:29:08.390 But what about me? 00:29:09.650 --> 00:29:13.610 I think about this passage in Philippians 4:6. 00:29:13.650 --> 00:29:16.310 We like to say this, be anxious for nothing. 00:29:16.330 --> 00:29:17.970 Be anxious for nothing. 00:29:17.970 --> 00:29:22.390 And then when we make the application, our lives are like, be anxious for nothing by just all of a sudden not being anxious anymore. 00:29:22.450 --> 00:29:25.460 Oh yeah, I shouldn't be anxious, therefore I'll use my strength and I won't be anxious anymore. 00:29:25.710 --> 00:29:30.010 But you know, the reason why Paul says this to us, be anxious for nothing? 00:29:30.690 --> 00:29:31.630 It has nothing to do with you. 00:29:33.110 --> 00:29:36.840 The verse that precedes this says this to us, the Lord is near. 00:29:39.570 --> 00:29:40.590 Why do I have not to be anxious? 00:29:40.790 --> 00:29:43.840 Is it because within myself I draw up the strength and not be anxious. 00:29:43.850 --> 00:29:44.110 No. 00:29:45.130 --> 00:29:47.530 It is to recognize that everywhere I go, it's in his presence. 00:29:49.590 --> 00:29:53.240 Let this moment that Peter had is a moment that I can have with the Lord too. 00:29:54.410 --> 00:30:01.450 Just as he was walking with Jesus on the shore and in his life, finding His grace and forgiveness, so God knows everything in my life 00:30:01.450 --> 00:30:01.950 as well. 00:30:02.250 --> 00:30:04.290 And it tells me in this passage, be anxious for nothing. 00:30:04.290 --> 00:30:04.570 Why? 00:30:04.570 --> 00:30:06.670 Because God's right there. 00:30:07.950 --> 00:30:09.190 So here's what it is encouraging us to do. 00:30:09.190 --> 00:30:14.870 Rather than hold onto regret and religious mindset, trust the Lord. 00:30:16.990 --> 00:30:23.990 One of the famous passages in scripture says this, we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those 00:30:23.990 --> 00:30:26.000 who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 00:30:26.110 --> 00:30:28.840 And guys get this, even your regrets. 00:30:31.510 --> 00:30:33.470 God works all things together for good. 00:30:35.950 --> 00:30:36.450 Even your regrets. 00:30:39.610 --> 00:30:40.090 God's big enough. 00:30:43.030 --> 00:30:44.190 God's big enough to do that. 00:30:44.230 --> 00:30:45.830 And he loves you enough to do that. 00:30:48.610 --> 00:30:53.120 Even our regrets, God works together for good. 00:30:56.210 --> 00:31:00.150 I know sometimes for us, this is where our battle is. 00:31:00.250 --> 00:31:01.690 It's hard for us to imagine. 00:31:02.970 --> 00:31:07.070 You think to yourself, well, how could God ever work through my regrets? 00:31:08.690 --> 00:31:09.170 I'm not perfect. 00:31:11.290 --> 00:31:12.550 How can God work through that? 00:31:12.550 --> 00:31:14.870 Well, that's the whole Bible. 00:31:16.330 --> 00:31:21.870 The whole Bible is God using crooked sticks to make His glory made known in this world. 00:31:22.570 --> 00:31:29.610 You think about this, not only does everything true become untrue by seeing Jesus resurrected for Peter, which is why Peter runs the shore. 00:31:30.010 --> 00:31:32.830 But you think this story has been written for almost 2,000 years. 00:31:33.870 --> 00:31:38.110 And if you think about the way the church has received this is a sigh of relief passage. 00:31:39.470 --> 00:31:46.710 And you think about what this story is, it is a place where you're like, Lord, I'm not, I'm not happy Peter was an idiot, 00:31:47.670 --> 00:31:49.980 but thank you Peter was an idiot. 00:31:50.300 --> 00:31:56.870 Thank you for his value in this because what I learned in my was a place of grace. 00:31:58.890 --> 00:32:05.930 And so even in Peter's failure, it becomes a passage that brings comfort to God's people because we see 00:32:05.930 --> 00:32:09.410 a path forward for our lives in our failures. 00:32:10.970 --> 00:32:13.130 So how in the world could God work all things together for good? 00:32:13.130 --> 00:32:16.970 Well, for 2,000 years, I think Peter's been a living example for it. 00:32:17.270 --> 00:32:23.070 And not only that, the enormous example for our lives always is and forever will be the cross of Christ. 00:32:25.330 --> 00:32:31.590 The symbol of the darkest, most destructive torturous device in all of history. 00:32:34.330 --> 00:32:35.690 And it's our anthem of victory. 00:32:38.230 --> 00:32:41.270 We boast in the cross of Christ because it is the place of hope. 00:32:41.270 --> 00:32:47.710 If God can turn the darkest of moments in all of human history to the greatest day of celebration. 00:32:48.510 --> 00:32:49.560 We call it Good Friday. 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.840 What is good about that Friday? 00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:01.340 If God can do that, I'm pretty sure he's got your life handled too. 00:33:04.810 --> 00:33:10.870 You think about holding onto the regret and the place, it keeps you captive in the destruction it brings to your soul. 00:33:12.290 --> 00:33:15.810 And Jesus showing up to the shore of your life. 00:33:18.810 --> 00:33:22.050 One of my favorite passages. 00:33:22.070 --> 00:33:23.750 Laminations 3, listen to this. 00:33:24.850 --> 00:33:26.430 Remember my afflictions and my wanderings. 00:33:27.770 --> 00:33:29.010 Wormwood and bitterness. 00:33:29.030 --> 00:33:32.570 And surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me. 00:33:33.610 --> 00:33:39.610 And if you're like that in these moments you're thinking, I need Jesus to show up in the shore of my life so I can move forward. 00:33:39.950 --> 00:33:44.070 It says this in verse 21, than this I recalled to my mind, therefore I have hope. 00:33:45.650 --> 00:33:53.410 The Lord's loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassions 00:33:53.410 --> 00:33:54.910 never fail. 00:33:56.270 --> 00:33:57.690 They are new every morning. 00:33:59.130 --> 00:34:00.470 Great is your faithfulness. 00:34:03.210 --> 00:34:04.370 Why would God say that? 00:34:06.750 --> 00:34:11.230 Because what God is ultimately interested in isn't your behavior. 00:34:11.290 --> 00:34:12.690 Though he cares about what you do. 00:34:15.090 --> 00:34:17.489 God is ultimately interested in is where you belong. 00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:25.429 Because if where are you belong as in his presence, God can transform your life. 00:34:27.030 --> 00:34:31.170 And God is so big he can control it all and redeem it for his glory. 00:34:33.310 --> 00:34:36.190 On that morning, Peter found the mercy of God. 00:34:38.469 --> 00:34:39.610 And so can we. 00:34:41.190 --> 00:34:47.409 If we had to live in our past regrets, no one could ever do anything for Jesus. 00:34:49.070 --> 00:34:54.870 Not Moses, not David, not Abraham, certainly not Peter. 00:34:56.250 --> 00:35:03.620 Because that's the goodness of the gospel spoken into our lives, that God knows that he's not finished with us yet. 00:35:05.530 --> 00:35:10.370 I think about the way the epistle writers have just described us. 00:35:10.390 --> 00:35:17.850 Listen to why Paul says this, but one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and 00:35:17.850 --> 00:35:25.230 straining forward to what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward 00:35:25.650 --> 00:35:26.270 in Christ Jesus. 00:35:27.850 --> 00:35:34.990 Peter the one that denied Jesus, said this, set your hope fully on the grace that will be 00:35:35.090 --> 00:35:38.630 brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:35:41.010 --> 00:35:44.670 When we talk about our regrets, it's not about excusing our sins. 00:35:46.570 --> 00:35:49.260 It's about finding a healthy way to deal with it. 00:35:50.350 --> 00:35:51.590 And the answer is Jesus. 00:35:53.150 --> 00:35:59.560 It's where justice and grace are found so that you find yourself free in him. 00:35:59.890 --> 00:36:01.900 That's God's desire for your life. 00:36:02.610 --> 00:36:04.960 That's how we move forward as Christians. 00:36:05.570 --> 00:36:09.340 That this morning not be about what you do or don't do. 00:36:10.330 --> 00:36:15.600 This morning, be primarily about this: are you and him friends? 00:36:17.370 --> 00:36:21.870 Do you agape love him unconditionally, sacrificially? 00:36:22.110 --> 00:36:22.860 Is he your King? 00:36:24.750 --> 00:36:27.000 And as your King, are you friends? 00:36:28.770 --> 00:36:32.070 His mercy is new every morning. 00:36:32.990 --> 00:36:33.790 Great is his faithfulness.