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Hey guys, welcome to Reset the Podcast with Archie Callahan, Episode 3.
Today we're going to look at the life of Peter, just a segment of his life, and see how Jesus reset the course of his life.
Recently at Bridge Church, we preached a series called Chiseled, and it looked at the life of Peter.
To be chiseled means to be built by Jesus.
Ephesians 2.10 says we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works that God has prepared for us in advance to do.
Before the beginning of time, God had a work for Peter, but Peter didn't actually understand that work.
But one day in Matthew chapter 4, Jesus called him out of the ordinary into an extraordinary world.
And I believe God is calling us out of the ordinary to reset, to recalibrate our lives for future effectiveness.
I want to look at one passage of Scripture in Matthew chapter 4, verses 18 through 22.
And this actually deals with the call of Peter, which was his initial reset.
It says this, as Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew.
They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
That's huge.
They were fishermen.
They were businessmen.
They were entrepreneurs.
Come follow me, Jesus said, and I will send you out to fish for people.
At once they left their nets and followed him.
Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John.
They were in a boat with their father Zebedee preparing their nets.
Jesus called them and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Jesus.
God chisels people and he resets their lives by calling them out of the familiar, out of the ordinary, out of their primary feeling of existence into an extraordinary life.
Peter was a brash fisherman.
He was rough, tough customer.
And Jesus came to him and called him out of his ordinary life.
out of his business, out of the family trade into following him.
Notice Peter had to leave his nets, had to leave his boat, had to leave his family to follow Jesus.
He was willing to cast down the nets
Leave the boat and leave the family to follow Jesus.
Oftentimes in life, when Jesus begins to reset our lives, we have to leave the past behind.
We have to be willing to let go of the familiar, let go of the comfortable, let go of what we know best in order to step out of our comfort zones and follow Jesus.
Now, when you look at Peter, Peter was a character.
You know, he wasn't trained in the finest schools.
He didn't have all the etiquette.
He didn't have the sense of saying the right words at the right time.
He was very bold.
He was very outspoken.
He was very brash.
He often said things that other people were just thinking but would not say out loud.
We would say it this way.
He would speak before he would think.
He was impulsive.
He sometimes acted and spoke before thinking.
He was just a very impulsive guy.
He was just one of those guys that probably fun to hang out with, probably not fun to be at times.
He was loyal.
He was loyal to his family.
He generally wanted to follow Jesus in a way that would change the world.
He was brave.
He was brave.
Peter was willing to step out, take risk, and lead.
I mean, you spell faith, R-I-S-K, risk.
He was willing to take a risk and follow Jesus.
In fact, he was the only disciple to step out of the boat
Walk on the water and we know he sank.
We know he began to look at the waves He heard the wind and he got his eyes off Jesus.
But when was the last time you and I walked on the water?
He was the only one that got out of the boat.
So he was brave.
He was human He was flawed
Peter is probably the second best New Testament character that I like of all time.
Paul is the first one.
Of course, Jesus would be at the top, very top.
But I'm talking beyond Jesus.
It would be Paul and Peter.
Peter was my kind of guy.
Though Peter was flawed, he was human, God still used him.
Oftentimes, we allow our flaws to disqualify us from the call.
We must not allow the flaws that are in our flesh, the flaws that are in our nature, the flaws that we perceive that disqualify us from the call of God and following Jesus.
We don't let that need to hinder our forward momentum.
Because when Jesus came to Peter while he was fishing, Peter didn't know this.
but it was a moment of reset.
It was a moment of recalibration.
It was a moment that would change his life forever.
Now, when you look at the lifespan of Peter, the
journey of Peter from the Sea of Galilee to the day of Pentecost to becoming a prominent member of building the church in Acts chapter 2, we see there were multiple resets in his life.
God doesn't just reset our lives one time.
There are multiple resets on the timeline of our journey with God.
The first reset for Peter was the initial call.
Jesus said, come follow me.
Come follow me.
That means Jesus is the leader.
My life is going to be reset.
I've got to allow Jesus to lead me in a direction that sometimes I don't want to go.
You know, we're playing follow the leader as believers, that Jesus is the leader and we are the followers.
You know what makes a great leader?
Great followers.
You know what makes a great follower?
Finding somebody to follow, a great leader.
Followship is very important.
Not everybody can lead the pack.
But everybody has to be a great follower.
And we are called to be great followers of Jesus.
Great followers of Christ.
He can lead us and he can guide us.
See, when we look at this story, Jesus comes to them.
And within the context of this,
Right before, the verse before verse 18, when Jesus calls Peter, he says this, Repent, for the kingdom of God, or heaven, has come near.
Oftentimes, this word repentance has gotten a bad rap.
We think it's just tearfully coming to Jesus.
We think it's worldly sorrow when, in fact, repentance is born out of godly sorrow, and our godly sorrow leads to repentance that leads to everlasting life.
But repentance literally means to think after or beyond.
It means to think again.
It comes from a Greek word, metanoia, which means to change your mind.
What area of your life do you need to change your mind?
What area of your mind is confusing?
See, oftentimes we're confused on our identity and who we are because we literally just came to Jesus for salvation, which I call fire insurance.
Jesus, the Bible says, is the door into the kingdom of God.
But you don't stop at the door.
You have to walk through the threshold of the door into the kingdom of God.
And when you get into the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God has a new way of thinking.
The principles of God's kingdom, the principles of the godly kingdom that we're in as believers, these principles and these values are diametrically opposite to the values of this world that we live in.
And because they're diametrically opposed and opposite, Paul comes in and tells us in Romans 12, 2, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Not the removal of your mind, but the renewing, the regeneration of your mind.
I say it like this sometimes, because as evangelical people, as an evangelical church, we really emphasize salvation.
that Christ has given you a new heart at the moment you receive him as your Savior and Lord.
But I like asking it this way.
I know you're saved, but is your mind saved?
What do I mean by that, is your mind saved?
Is your mind being renewed daily?
How is your thought life?
You see, Solomon said, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
How's your thought life, guys?
How's your thinking?
Because your thoughts will direct the direction of your life.
So Paul comes in the New Testament.
He tells us to put on the helmet of salvation.
See, salvation is not just for your eternal existence and eternity.
Salvation is about your whole life, spirit, soul, and body, about your mind, that life
that God begins to transform your thinking.
When he calls you to follow him, he understands in that call is a process of transformation.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed.
One word for transformed is transfigured.
Just as Jesus' body was transfigured on Mount Transfiguration before the disciples where he received this glorified body, it's the same process that happens in our minds to be transformed.
That word in the Greek is a Greek word, metamorpho, which we get our word metamorphosis.
It's like a caterpillar spinning a cocoon, staying in that cocoon until a transformation, a metamorphosis takes place, and he breaks out of that cocoon and becomes a beautiful butterfly.
But here's the deal.
If you try to help a butterfly escape the cocoon before it's time and before it's ready, the butterfly will die.
Because it's the struggle that pushes all the fluid out of its body into its wings.
It's the struggle that makes the butterfly strong.
How many of you know sometimes we want to be rescued from our struggle?
We want to be rescued from hardship.
We want to be rescued from pain.
But when we go through hardship, struggle, and pain, God is building our spiritual muscles that help us in the next season.
See, that butterfly could not live in the next season without the struggle of the previous season.
That butterfly's wings would be too weak if somebody helped it escape from the cocoon.
So it could not exist in its next season.
It could not soar.
It could not fly.
It could not live.
It could not go from flower to flower and eat.
without the struggle.
Can I tell you something?
If you're struggling today as a man, don't look at that struggle as something always the enemy places in your life.
Sometimes that struggle can be a blessing.
It is the gift of the struggle.
Sometimes struggle is a pure gift that prepares us for our future.
So even in Peter's life,
In the initial call, Jesus knew that Peter would struggle.
He knew that Peter would stick his foot in his mouth.
He knew that Peter would swing at a man, try to cut his ear off, actually cut his ear off.
He knew that Peter would always want to fight, but he was willing to allow Peter to be a disciple.
Don't count yourself out, guys.
Jesus loves you.
Jesus, man, he knows your flaws.
He knows your weaknesses.
Why try to hide all our weaknesses from Jesus?
Why try to hide our flaws?
If we're going to be built by Jesus...
we must realize that Jesus knows everything about us.
If he's going to chisel on us, if he's going to correct us, if he's going to work on us because we're his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, if God's going to do that, God already knows our weaknesses.
He already knows our flaws.
Repent.
Change your mind.
And in this verse, the tense is present.
It's a continuous action.
Repentance is not something you do one time.
Repentance is something you do on a daily basis as you change your mind and you align your thoughts up with God's Word.
You align your values up with God's values.
You align your life up to God's way of living that's prescribed in His Word.
And the mood of this verse, repent, is in the imperative.
It's a command.
So repentance is not even an option.
It's not like Jesus saying, if you want to do this, do it.
Jesus is actually saying, this is a command, and I'm commanding you to repent continuously until you become all that I have ordained you to become.
This continuous repentance and transformation is a lifelong journey.
It's not something we do one time.
It's not something we do occasionally.
It's something we do daily.
It's something that we do every day of our lives.
So I want to encourage you today to align your thoughts up with God's thoughts, to die to that old self.
Diedrich Bonhoeffer once said in his book, The Cost of Discipleship, when Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Did you know when Peter was called by Jesus, Peter was a man called by Jesus, but Jesus was actually saying, I'm calling you out of your former life into a new life.
I'm calling you to follow me.
That means you're going to have to die to your old ways of living, your old thinking, your old relationships, and your old patterns of actions.
I want you to come follow me.
But here's the deal.
Jesus meets Peter in ordinary work.
He didn't meet Peter in a palace.
He met Peter beside the Sea of Galilee when Peter was fishing.
Jesus came to him.
It says, As Jesus was walking, verse 18, beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew.
They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
He met him there.
Ordinary work.
Ordinary work.
It was productive work, but it was ordinary work.
It was a job that had provision, but it was ordinary work.
Matthew 4, 19, come follow me, Jesus said, and I will send you out to fish for people.
Notice the sequence here.
Following Jesus.
What does that mean?
I'm submitting to Jesus.
I'm submitting to his plan.
I'm submitting my life to his authority.
Then he says, I will make you.
That means there's a transformation that's going to take place, that Jesus is going to transform our lives.
So it's following Jesus, being transformed by Jesus.
Look here, he said, I will make you fishers of men.
That's the mission here.
to others that's the mission that god puts us on this whole reset is not just about us men it's about our families it's about our neighborhoods it's about our communities it's about the state in which we live in and the nation we live in and the nations of the world
that men are having a divine reset so they can begin to lead at a higher dimension in society.
So Jesus calls Peter out of an old existence again.
into a big new world.
Sometimes we get locked in to our little worlds.
But Jesus calls us into a big world.
But look what Peter does.
He leaves something behind to receive something higher.
He leaves something behind to receive something much higher.
What do you have to leave behind today?
Verse 20 in Matthew 4, he says, at once they left their nets and followed him.
At once.
They didn't think about it, and they didn't have a meeting about it.
They didn't ponder on it.
Man, they didn't try to come up with a five-year strategic plan.
No, at once they left their nets.
What nets do you need to leave behind to follow Jesus?
I'm going to challenge you today, men.
What do you need to leave behind?
Is it an addiction?
Is it a pattern of thought?
Is it pain of your childhood?
Is it unforgiveness?
Is it bitterness?
What net are you trying to carry with you?
See, Peter was not able to carry the net.
He had to leave it behind.
And sometimes we want Jesus, but we want Jesus with our net.
We want Jesus to not touch our bitterness, not touch our unforgiveness, not touch our addiction, not touch the false identities that we have erected in our lives.
We don't want Jesus to touch our idols because we want Jesus plus our nets.
How many of you know when you follow Jesus, it's not Jesus plus your nets.
It's just Jesus.
I am following Jesus.
They had to leave their nets behind.
Sometimes you have to leave and disconnect from your net worth.
What net do you need to leave behind?
See, the first step in being built by Jesus is total surrender.
Total surrender for me is saying, I can no longer control my life.
I can no longer control the outcome.
See, we love control.
We want to control the TV station at home.
We want to control our spouse.
We want to control our kids, our pet.
We want to control life.
We want to control our finances.
I've come to realize security and control, they're not real.
It's just an illusion.
that actually saps the energy from us.
Jesus said to his disciples, whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself, Matthew 16, 24.
Take up their cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
Radical surrender.
That's what we see in Peter's life.
He left the net.
He left the boat, which was his workspace, and father, family obligations, showing complete commitment.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to present your bodies as living sacrifices.
Romans 12, 1.
But guess what?
There are benefits of leaving the old life.
I'm going to say, hey, God's not calling you to leave without benefits.
There is something that God wants to give us, but he can't give it to us until we disconnect from the old way of thinking.
And Luke 18, verse 29 and 30 says it this way.
Truly, I tell you, Jesus said to them,
No one, say no one, no one who has left home, wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age as
and in the age to come eternal life.
How many of you know there's a blessing on the other side of your surrender that is never received unless you actually truly surrender.
You have to give up your net, give up your boat, walk away from some relationships in order to get where God wants you to be.
He wants you to be.
What do you need to leave behind?
Like Peter, God wants to recalibrate.
He wants to reset our lives.
Guys, you have courage to do that.
And I'm looking forward to next week as we look at Episode 4.
We're going to be interviewing Caleb Willis.
Caleb had a reset moment in his life that transformed his life.
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Come on, like Peter, let's follow Jesus.
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