You Can Still Get There - Bishop T.D. Jakes [February 24, 2019]

[Music] [Applause] mark chapter 16 verse 4 through 8 when you have it's a man and when they looked they saw that the stone was rolled away for it was very great and entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the right side clothed in a long white garment and they were affrighted or scared to death and he saith unto them be not afraid it ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was crucified he is risen he is not here behold the place where they laid him but go your way tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee there ye shall see him as he said unto you and they went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre for they trembled and were amazed leaders said they anything to any man for they were afraid the real thing I want you to see is in verse 7 but go your way and tell his disciples and Peter that's all I really want is and Peter look at your neighbor and say you can still get there you can still get there you can still get there less Freight spirit of the Living God fall fresh on the word as it is being preached today unknowing it in sanctified in my lips oh god I do declare I trust you to preach and flow through me until it is no more mean with you had my flesh behind the cross that it will not glory in that side and speak to this star people Oh God in the name of Jesus we pray amen you may be seated let's go to work I have always been Bob vocational I have not always had to be by vocational but I have always chosen to be by vocational in the beginning it was the necessity I passed through the church they couldn't feed me I passed through the church he couldn't feed itself they couldn't keep its lights on that couldn't keep these utilities over the only way I could pass through the church was go to work and take most of my salary and throw it in the church to keep it going when I ran out of money my mother started putting her money in it my mother's sister told her I they call a tube they said to don't put all your money in that boy's church you got to be wise you getting old ain't gonna be nothing don't put all your money in that you and my mother kept right on sewing as usual mama was right I come to learn that from those days to now that there are things that you learn outside of the household of faith that strengthen your understanding of faith that keeps you in touch with ordinary people that keeps you tied into the culture I like to interact with people I don't like to be isolated I don't like to be put in a cage I don't live in my house and not come out I still go to Krogers pick out my chicken wings see what's going on in the world now I'm by vocational I have I have a ministry but I also have a business my business centers around entertainment and real estate and we've been doing some amazing things in entertainment I learned a lot about entertainment I get scripts from all over the world I look at scripts I look at stories all the time and I have learned that the worst stories are stories that do not depict realistic characters realistic characters are different from idealistic characters it's interesting we spend all of our lives trying to act like ideal people but we don't want to watch our deal people because ideal people are boring and because ideal people are not realistic because ideal people are fictitious we want reality realistic characters demands that the character has an arc and that they have a conflict that they have an arc in their life that we can watch them go through ups and downs and ends and outs and back and forth and that they have a conflict that is just say that if you've lived long enough you've learned that there's a little bit of bad in the best person and there's a little bit of good in the worst person and you cannot really judge a person just by one moment of one's seen out of their lives I know what we say in public but down in our hearts we realize that you can catch a person at a bad season in their life and did not be as effective as there are in other seasons this is why this is why David would rather be judged by God than to be judged by man because you can do a hundred things right and do one thing wrong and man will always talk about what you did wrong and never remember what you did right God uses ordinary people he does in the Old Testament in the Old Testament he lets us see all into the personal lives of the people that he called thank God for the Old Testament because it gives us a realistic view of people who were good and bad who were strong and weak who were right and wrong who were victorious and victimized it helps us to assess our old life that your life is not going to be a straight line it's not going to be a straight horizontal there's gonna be peaks and valleys and uprisings and down setting such as life somebody was talking to me the other day about something they were going through and I told him life is going what life does life is just doing what life it's not a demonic attack it's not spiritual warfare life is just doing what life does it gives and it takes it makes you laugh it makes you cry it has moments of victory and a has moments of defeat such as the case with the character before us today he's an interesting character I must admit that if I were Jesus I probably would not knowingly have gotten involved with this guy there are certain people if you get involved with them there gonna be a lot of work all of us gonna be some work but there are certain people there's gonna be a lot of work this guy this guy was a lot of work I would have tried to if I only had 12 guys in three years to get it all done I try to pick 12 of the best to make it easy so that I didn't have to waste time ministering inwardly while I'm trying to reach outwardly but such his life such as life you're always ministering outwardly and inwardly simultaneously you're always trying to be a message to the world and not lose your house you're always trying to encourage somebody and wrestling with discouragement inside of yourself where my real people had but Jesus had to get ahold of this guy because this guy did not know who he was when Jesus first met him he is one of the first disciples Jesus picked this guy thought he was just a businessman he thought he was a business owner he had a fishing company and efficiently he went out every day to fish with Jesus with Jesus first reading that's how he saw himself as a fisherman and Jesus had a higher vision of him and said I will make you fishers of men right now your fishers of fish you're doing what you're going to do on a lower level your history is always a glimpse of what you're going to do in your destiny God's gonna take something that you already did and take it to the next level and use it to bless you you're going to the next dimension you still gonna be fishing but you're gonna fish in another kind of way and any gifts or hope to Pete Peter and he comes along on Peter at the time that Peters washing his nets he's washing his Nancy thought he was through for the day and Jesus walks down to the seashore and Peter and Andrew are washing their nets and Jesus says to him can I use your boat suppose Peter had said no that's my boat I don't know you I might have said no don't hit me all funny can I use your car that's the equivalent of somebody strange you don't know just walking up to you saying can I borrow your car Peter's boat was his livelihood but he freely he had a giving spirit that might be why God chose him he had a giving generous spirit the very thing that all your friends tell you to stop being that might be the very thing that got him got his whole life chain he had not become cynical yet he had not become so suspicious yet Peter let a stranger borrow his car I mean his boat I got to bring it down where you can see the level of sacrifice somebody just walk up to you and said they left it said let me use your car for a No and all of a sudden something happens because what people what Jesus is really teaching Peter is listen to this his business is his platform Peters business becomes Christ's platform I put you in business so you could have this moment I didn't put you in this business about the fish I started you out of the fishermen because I knew I was coming and I was gonna need some I could trust to take me across the waters I'm positioning you for purpose not for profit [Applause] [Music] oh my god i preaching already God didn't put you on that job to make money God can let money rain down in your backyard if he wanted to God could let you let somebody just give you some money win some money walk away with some money God puts you on that job for purpose and a relationship ensue when Jesus got through preaching on Peters boat there was a connection there was a tie almost like a Elijah Elijah woman it was a tie where Jesus says to Peter follow me and I'll make you fishers of men in order to follow Jesus he had to walk away from what he had in mind the hardest thing in the world is to walk away from what you had in mind he had never got up that morning thinking I'm gonna stop fishing and start driving this guy around that was not what he was planning to do for the next three years of his life but for the next three years of his life he becomes the uber driver moving Jesus from place to place having an encounter with Jesus that was life chain and and it we and his life would never be the same again he not only does he become Jesus driver on the water he has encounters because of his connection with Jesus that he would have never had any other way Peter got he Peter got to walk on the water just because he was connected to Jesus it doesn't matter who you're connected to there are certain perks and certain benefits and certain favors that come not because of who you are but because of who you're connected to you get to have some experiences just because you're connected to the right people that's one of the enemies trying to isolate you because many times your blessing is in your relationship with the very person he's trying to cut you off from I don't know who I'm preaching to you're you're next is in your connections you're next is in your connection and peter has earnest and all of a sudden he becomes a part of Jesus inner circle inner circle in a circle with Jesus the Messiah the son of David the seed of Abraham the root of Jesse I am the mighty God the Prince of Peace the everlasting father the kids when redeemer the Daystar the lily of the valley the Son of God Emmanuel Jehovah sick a new jehova rohi jehova manna he becomes in the inner circle with hell should die oh god can you imagine what is life to be just kickin it with Jesus is one thing to come worship him is another thing to be a Starbucks with Jesus hey Jesus has stopped at McDonald's and get a Big Mac and fry just kickin it with Jesus he was in the inner circle and he got to do things he would have never done he would have never got to walk on the water had he not been connected with Jesus he never would have gotten to see the woman with the issue of blood get me get healed if he wasn't connected with Jesus he never would have seen blind Bartimaeus eyes open up but he got it because he was connected to Jesus is anybody connected to Jesus there's a blessings you're gonna get just because you're connected with Jesus there's some blessings you don't get because you're connected with Jesus he was part of the inner circle and he probably had less reason to be in the inner circle if God would judge like men Peter would have never made the cut to be in the inner circle he was the most unlearned of all the disciples he was not there because he wasn't intellectual he was not there because he was educated but he had something about him they said the thing that God puts inside of people that transcends your background your intellect your IQ if you've got education and don't have that thing you still might not be successful in life there's a thing God gives you I don't even know what to call it it's lived unless it's in the script it's hard to find you can't manufacture it and you can't Willet anybody you either got it or you know there's that glory to God Peter had that thing about it he was rough around the edges but he had that thing about him and Jesus took him everywhere took him up from the Mount of Transfiguration and showed him the glory that should be showed him in the future allowed him to see amazing things of which Peter didn't even know how to respond to Peter got excited because Peter was a man action and whenever he's in showed Peter something he's gonna do something said let's build three Tabernacles one for Moses and one for Elijah had one for you let's build three of them he said calm down Peter was excited when he said Jesus was gonna wanna high if that she leave me to come I'm going out there where you are Peter was excited he was excited he was rambunctious he was so real buster when they came to get Jesus he cut out his sword and said the devil is alive I got it sometimes it's nice to have a few Peters in the crowd just you know it's a good feeling you know I get tired of people who say they with you but when you're in a fight they won't say nothing then people make me nervous those people who come back and telling you what everybody's saying about you and you know that that means that they didn't say that then Peter it was clear whose side he was over there was no ambiguity about where he stood in a fight Peter pulled his sword and said I take you out right now cut the man's here right off his head so you know he was aiming too high he wasn't a guy who pulled out his sword and stabbed the guy in the foot he cut his ear off said don't come over here no more it's gonna get worse [Applause] Peter had an understanding of who Jesus was he had an understanding without intellect he had an understanding without intellect he had an instinct he had a revelation Jesus is walking down the street and said who do men say that I am and they were quick to say what the gossip was some saying you are Elias and something you are Jeremiah and something you are a science real loud on the gossip reacquired on the revelation everybody's talked about what some say out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh their hearts were more filled with what men said about their leader then it was filled with what God said about their leader so they could quickly tell him what was on the blog site but they did not have a cause he turned around and who do you say that I am and it is not the answer that I want you to see first it is not the answer of the one it is the silence of the 11 how could you walk that wrong with me three years you've been walking with me and you still have no revelation of Who I am how could you see me raise the dead and heal the sick and turn water into wine and not draw conclusion about Who I am how could you go to a great church and still be biblically illiterate how can you hear great preaching had not become a great preacher how can you be exposed to deliverance and never be delivered [Applause] eleven of them couldn't make up their mind who Jesus what they were following him who do you say that I they got quiet maybe they were intimidated by what some say I don't want to be wrong so I'm not gonna say nothing but Peter spoke up I'm sorry to see why Jesus called him Peter spoke up Peter said thou art the Christ the Son of the true and living God there was no there was no variableness there were no shakiness there was no insecurity he was clear about who he was following thou art the Christ the Son of the true and living God are you clear about who you follow or did you just come to church are you clear about who you power are you clear thou art the Christ the Son of the true and living God it was one thing for him to say that Jesus was the son of God because there had been some discussions about that but when he said thou art the Christ Christ is not Jesus last name it's the title as in description he said here the Messiah you're the Anointed One that should come thou art the Christ and Jesus had not yet taught them that he was the Christ so Jesus goes Peter's answer shop Jesus you know you bear when you get shot Jesus and Jesus said something that shocked me he says flesh and blood have not revealed this I leave but my father which is in heaven what shocked me about that is Jesus has not yet gone to the cross and yet Peter has tapped into divine information from the Father did you hear what I just said Jesus has not gone to the cross it's not even time for you to give direct revelation from the Father but some kind of way Peter with his crazy self had tapped in to the supernatural immutable everlasting power of God and he was getting messages from heaven before the blood ever hit the cross flesh and blood have not revealed this under you but my father which is in heaven and upon this rock upon this rock not so much upon peter but upon this rock this rock of revelation this rock of people who can hear from God this rock of people who can perceive the in perceivable this rock of people who have been touched by the father was divine I will build my church or the backs of men who have heard from God and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it it was mountains all the way mountain after Mountain mountain a Transfiguration mountain of revelation mountain of understanding it was mountains all the way mountains of the presence of God mountains of experiences walking on the water mountains all the way and while he was having mountaintop experiences Jesus tells him something Satan has desired to have you that he might sift you as sweet now you have to understand the circumstances around the conversation this is after that they have had the Passover meal where Jesus has said around the table said one of you is a devil and every guy around the passel of the Board of Directors of the first Prime baptized Church of the Living God incorporated was having a Board of Directors meeting and the CEO said one of you is the devil and all of the board responded which means there's some friction because these guys were perfect if they were pure if they were holy if they were glorified there'd be no question he couldn't be talking about me but every man around that table knew something about himself that made him question is Jesus talking about me Lord imagine if Jesus appeared in here and said one of you is a devil [Applause] don't it make you think and Jesus has identified the devil as the one who dips with him and Peter got away he talked about you know talking about me you know you'd be dancing a little bit I mean I'm not hating on Judas I'm just rejoicing in the fact that it ain't me that whatever it is that made me say Lord is that I does not rise to the level of being a devil I got conflict but I haven't crossed over and it's right after this that he turns to Peter and he says Satan has desired to have you that he might sift you as wheat saving gets his hands on you he's gonna tear you apart he's gonna ripping me you in the most savage way he's gonna break you into little bitty pieces and throw you in the wind because that's how they sit at wheat by breaking it into pieces and throwing it in the wind he's gonna break you into pieces and throw you in the wind that's not the kind of prophecy you want you don't get a prophecy like Adam raised a good offer that kind of prophecy you say I rebuke you Satan has desired to have you that he might see fear sweet but I prayed for you I prayed for you I prayed for you watch this not that you wouldn't fail but that your faith fail deem huh yeah yeah yeah I'm not praying that you won't fail I'm praying that your faith fail Bilan and when thou art converted when you come out of this not if you come out of this when you when you come out of this touching neighbors say when I come out of this [Applause] you should come forth is to go and Peter vehemently argued with Jesus and Jesus prophesied he said before the crows three times you will have denied me fast for Peter who had been all up on top of the mountains Peter who had walked on water Peter who wanted to build three Tabernacles Peter who had seen the woman with the issue of blood heal Peter who had seen Lazarus raised from the dead right after he got to cutting off people's ears and saying he would die for Jesus when he saw them beat Jesus when he saw them stripped Jesus out of his clothes and beat him like a slave [Music] Peter got nervous it's good - it's good that's easy to talk faith in church the choirs are all the singing their song and the music is going and everybody's clapping and Oh glory to God hallelujah brother glory to God we who are whatever God would we call Lord hallelujah but if your faith doesn't make it to your private life if your faith didn't affect your business and your character and how you interact with people and the choices you make and the decisions that are made in your life if your faith don't make you apologize sometime if your faith don't make you call people back and say I'm sorry if your faith and conviction of your private life I'd give you a hill of beans for how you run all over the church if it doesn't affect how you treat your wife how you raise your children how you talk to your mama if your faith don't make you shut your mouth and say yes ma'am to your mama don't you dance all over this church like you are all covered with power sit yourself down and say Lord is it I [Applause] they took Jesus they took him they took him they took him captive they took him captive the Jesus who had disappeared and slipped through crowds undetected they caught him the Jesus would walk to water they caught it the Jesus had either speak of he and the ground open up they caught him and it looked like he was fresh out of miracles and what do you do when the one you serve is fresh out of vehicles and they has Peter they said Peter at the dinner aren't you one of them a dabbler son said it aren't you one of them Peter said what had happened was [Applause] and Peter did one of the worst things a person could ever do the epitome of relationship is acknowledgement anybody who's ever been in any kind of relationship understands that the strength of a relationship lies on your ability to acknowledge me to acknowledge me is everything it is everything to acknowledge me to recognize that I am your move let all them know let them know when we come in the world that you taken don't go be one waiting at the corner your I must be clear about [Applause] let let them know who you is that's why I put a ring on your finger so all the sisters would know if you're shopping shop elsewhere this is reserved for customer acknowledgement is everything if I am your son acknowledge me don't acknowledge all other kids that never acknowledge me let me know that I'm your son Pat me on the head say something about me acknowledge that I am your son because when you don't acknowledge me it says you're ashamed of me if you're ashamed of me you don't want me and Who am I my daddy won't acknowledge mama you can't kiss my forehead enough to take the place of the fact and my daddy act like I mean here's acknowledgement defines relationship thank acknowledgment defines relationship I called my sister on the phone one day I said I give Sarita roses like everybody else give their wife roses and I won't get the reaction that I'm supposed to get it's how I call my sister I said what's up with this rose and stuff I could give roses she's supposed to like green a cry faintness I'm she say oh that's nice and put them over the corner somewhere and I spend like $300 worth of roses I want to see a TIA and my sister said one thing to me change mama she said you're doing it wrong I said what do you mean I'm doing it wrong I got three dudes in the rows we did that weird rose they went yellow nothing they wasn't thrown out in the bag got ground on the quantity the fresh roses but it in her face she said give him on her job she said let the delivery man come to the office and let all the women stop typing and want to see who got roses won't pass all them other women and put the roses on her desk and all of a sudden the roses have all kind of value because acknowledgement acknowledgement defines relationship so I did it I sent him on the jobs because we yearn to be acknowledged we yearn to be acknowledged to be recognized to say that to acknowledge me says that I matter bigger than here some of the churches are always upset about moral failure but what Peter did is worsen moral failure because moral failure is weakness to not acknowledge me is wicked it is wicked for you to walk in that room and act like he's not my wife it's wicked I walked with you I love you I clothed you I paid the rent every month I bought the stockings on your legs and you walk in that room and you act like you do not mind give me them stockings back didn't she give me that brat out but raining on you tonight and you get something with [Applause] praise God praise God hallelujah because acknowledgement determines relationship jesus said if you deny me before me I'll deny you before my father which is in heaven you know acknowledge me I know acknowledge you and let's see who needs the other the quickest I bet you I can get by without you better than you to get by without me he says okay you want to water Peter who was ready to build three Tabernacles upper depression upon depression sin Jesus blood spatter watching him weird around the tree as a pain lacerated his flesh and his neurological impulses kept sending messages to his brain so strong he should have passed out Peter who saw his Jesus transform from a lion into a trembling bleeding lamb who saw his Jesus who commanded angels rear the jerk and scratched like a child and they looked at him and asked him were you with him is that who you call Messiah is that your lord up there naked naked that's your Lord butt-naked bleeding squirming flipping is that who you worship now you must understand that Peter lived in a world of crosses Christians like to think that Jesus was only one to be crucified but history proves it to be a myth the Romans controlled the Jews with crucifixes that means that they grew up seeing people hung Huynh stretched wide dying in the Sun bulges picking at the flesh it was a way that power intimidates the oppressed I'll kill you if you disobey me I'll kill you it's a it's like lynchings I knew if I said that you would get it it's like lynchings you know you know the lynchings were always public come out and watch the lynching because it's intimidation is terrorism unless you rise up you don't run to come out and watch me cut his foot off and let me see how much running you do you bear I think full-time is a good thing I was born I was boy hit let me tell you something I would have shut up shut your mouth you ain't seen nothing it's a difference between hip-hop and hip-hop it somebody cut off your foot you shut your mouth as you drag them back in the tent and pray the gangrene don't take the whole lid and without any anesthesia you try to sew up the damages and stop the bleeding and you watch grandma wrap her sheets around somebody's foot Peter grew up in a world of intimidation there was no question in his mind that kill you too were you with him and the Peter who argued with Jesus said he would never deny you and the Peter who cut off ears and the Peter who performed miracles in the Peter who had insight as to Christ being the Messiah now says Oh and I would have thought it was a one-time thing but again they came up and another one pointing and I said I saw him I recognized him he's one of them Jake heights I saw him over did yo that's him miss me he go he go - Jake Church and yet again failing him and failing him and failing him have you ever done something that you said you would never do you taught against said you spoke against you you laughed at other people who did it you ran your mouth and then you got yourself in a situation and even to this day you don't tell nobody that you did what you did but you did it and you know you did it and you talk about people who'll do it and it's not just and he did it one time he did it again and again and the third time he did it he said I don't know Jesus I don't know Jesus it's worse than I know Jesus but I'm having a weak moment I know Jesus but my flesh is taken over I know Jesus when I got a weakness I know Jesus but I got a problem this is this is on one hand I feel from Peter cuz I know he must have been scared out of his mind I know he's normally courageous he's known to be Cory ain't scared of nobody of God Julia right now I know he's Tom and I won had my heart beats for him because I know he's afraid but if he knew that Jesus was the Messiah if he knew that Jesus was a resurrection in the life if he saw Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead then why does death still terrify him to the point that he will not believer if he if he knew that Jesus was the I am and the bodyguard and everlasting father the Prince of Peace then why did he deny him and I have learned as a leader that people will love you and support you as long as other people do but when it no longer comes popular to be associated with you you have to always you you have to always keep your heart prepared for rejection never get so comfortable in the lap of the applauds of men that you actually believe it because all you're doing is setting yourself up for failure because it is easy to love people when other people love it the hardest time to love people is when everybody turns against stuff and they're writing about it and they're talking about it and they're in the news and they're in the paper and they're everywhere and that's why I got multi above everything else because I appreciate most not the people who are with me when people are with me I appreciate people who are with me when everybody turns against me and you knock on my door and say I still love you now you got clout with me and Peter who had been a nobody and a nothing and a failure Peter who hadn't been nothing who had risen for power only because he was connected to Jesus now denies the one who raised him who raised you who raised when I was is denied you and through your way they said you'd never be nothing who was there for you when mother and father for Sookie who who brought you to storms and valleys and ridges and Hallows at low places if there's anybody you ought to be loyal to it ought to be Jesus it ought to be Jesus said the least you can do is not deny him your struggles are your struggles and your problems are your problems and you grow in grace is God didn't steal but you could at least say I know him Peter denied him and then the crowed and when the crowed his heart fell cuz he realize that said Jesus was right about him Jesus was right about me and he started crying he's done cried he didn't want Jesus to be right it's the only time he didn't want to use this to be right he didn't want to be he didn't want him to be right about it that he would deny Jesus publicly from everybody he started the Bible said he wept solely and walked away he was ashamed he was ashamed because not his left is definitely at least but before he was a disciple he was a disciple he gave him identity gave him a people look at you when you ain't laughing [Music] with no community embraces you and nobody except you you know and it's not good for man to be alone with metal Peter is alone after all and if years and all of that experience and all of their love Peter is absolutely alone and he denied him in front of everybody it's one thing to have a secret set but when your sin goes public when your same goals public people act like they have none [Applause] it's not that you can't still come around them but you can feel you know what I mean that feeling that they give you that [Music] [Laughter] god bless you that low set of signals that we send out to people when they are excommunicated out of our circles and it's one thing to deny a guy who died that was that was bad that was terrible that was humiliating but if he died and he stayed dead didn't maybe it was right the problem with denying Jesus is not just denying Jesus it's not just denying of Jesus that got crucified it's not just a line or Jesus that died it's not just denying Jesus who had a funeral and the cemetery service he died off whispering to three people let's say he got up [Applause] he got her he got her he got up he got up he got up he got up he got up he got a I tell you what is kind of like it's like the more he rejected in high school becomes the President of the United States and you look and you say I made a mistake I apologize see it's one thing to reject somebody who never goes up but when you reject somebody and they come into their power and they're throwing a party and you know you all have been there and you should have been invited and you should have been included and you were earmarked to be at the celebration but now you I was over in Fort Worth and they're doing a lot of construction over in Fort Worth and they haven't popped my GPS that you can't turn left here because I got this concrete temporary wall built up here and so you can't turn left and the GPS is spinning and people are behind me blowing and I'm fussing and it's embarrassing and I'm irritated and I'm not feeling real Bishop II and the moment you answer it's just one of the moments that I have every nightmare that I just if I don't take my medication I tell you there's somebody else I was never one of them good moments it was a detour things weren't laid out like they used to be and I couldn't get there like I used to and so I had to drive in confusion and forlorn man and I didn't know exactly where I was and I didn't know what I needed to do to get straightened back out but I always told my sister as long as you got gas you'd be all right I had guests I kept on driving and kept on drivers lost but I kept on Drive and I was confused but I kept on driving see you can hit here y'all don't hear me you can be lost and still keep going you can be lost still go through the motions you can be lost and still laugh at jokes and still go to the movies and still do stuff and to the other drivers they can't see that she lost cuz he still driving but down on me inside was this nagging feeling that some kind of way I got my life all tried and I should have been there by now I should have been there by now I should have been there by now [Laughter] but I got away I expected to get there because it was under construction and it was shut down and it was messed up then Jesus had risen from the dead and he was getting ready to throw this massive party for all the people been faithful and it used to be me but I got I got lost I would have been helping plan the meeting and Galilee I can tell by the way the disciples act when I come around that I'm not really one of them anymore and the only thing bad about being the ex is that when you aren't that who are you first lady Obama is first lady Obama first lady Trump his first lady Trump and that comes with all kinds of stuff that goes along with being that I'm not saying she's not gifted in her own right both I'm not strong at all right but there's some perks that come through who you're connected to there were parts for being a disciple but not an egg's people love the personal ad to the pastor that no no no no you don't like it but that's the tie there's some first ladies in this room that I tell you he was given the flowers and the roses and the cakes and everything your husband bad and they said we got we we have to take the person he's back [Applause] that's how it works see Peter has not spent his life building up him he spent his life building up Jesus he's putting his business on hold for three years he's lost his client base he's lost his contacts a lot can happen in three years Peter is lost and even though he got call with Andrew and you can't call him back and that's why this text is important to me because when Jesus rose up from the dead and showed himself alive he told the woman he said go tell the disciples [Applause] and Peter not my back my car it started spinning this little thing starts spinning on my on my GPS system and then after a while it said rerouting I came to tell you about a god we can reroute [Applause] I'm telling to tell you about a God who can reroute a mess and a messy situation and you've been downed of nothing and everybody's looking at you funny and you'll embarrass your family and you embarrass yourself and you're a bear your name and everything I came to tell you that God is spinning and when he gets to spin it he's gonna leave ouch him it was something that she's never had before so Jesus says go tell the disciples and Peter I don't know whether he's even considered a disciple anymore but I have not given up on him I don't know whether he'll be in the circle or not but I still got a plan for him I don't know whether they like him or not but I still got a plan for his life I don't know whether they accept him or not but I called him by his name like I called him the first time like I called him a rock like I called him to walk with the water like I called him to the Mount of Transfiguration all of other times I called him he looked like a tear said but I call you in spite of data reliability I called you when your backs up against the wall I call you when you messed up your pants I call you when you've been locked up in jail I call you when you've been in a scandal I call you what everybody's talking about you like a dog I call you though you had a baby out of wedlock call you billion struck out of run I call you I call you I call you like homeless for you I call you by your name that's your title not your degree not your pedigree not how much money you got not how talented you are and Peter I want you back [Applause] and so with my car got to reroute it worked it out another way and it said you're only five minutes away [Music] and suddenly I realize what I want you to realize today [Applause] I said all of that to you this morning because there's somebody in this room who got lost and got off track and made a wrong turn and got yourself in a mess and I don't know I thought recognized if you come about although if you recognizable to me but you're recognizable to God because God gave me this message for you [Applause] he told me to tell you you've been driving and going on like you doing something but you know you lost you've been busy with all kind of busyness but you know that you are not living your life's purpose you just going with the traffic just driving with the crowd but you've been off course for a minute cut that music out you get off course for a minute late at night and nobody is listening your heart aches because being in the traffic is not what you were born for you were supposed to be gone somewhere you were supposed to be somebody God was gonna use your life in a spectacular way something got you off track and you know it because even in your failure your instinctive enough to know when you're off track if you were instinctive enough to know that Jesus was the Messiah you are instinctive enough to know that you are off track I don't care what you make I don't care what you drive I don't care where you live I don't care who you're married to I have one simple thing to say you can still get no no no you gotta hear this you gotta hear this because the enemy wants you to think that you are no longer eligible then it is too late that you have messed up too bad that your destiny has been aborted that God doesn't love you that God doesn't care that God is ashamed and embarrassed by you the enemy wants you to forget that God knew you were gonna mess up before you messed up you know what the Bible says the Bible says gifts and callings are without the repentance of God then when he called you the first half he already knew this was gonna happen to you and he has not changed his mind and you can still get

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