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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun in practical
ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to

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the Bible Guys. I'm Chris,
this is Jeff, and we are glad

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to be here with you. Man, it's just one of it's the highlight

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of our day. Yeah, so
far, the highlight of our day is

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being here with you. And you
guys send us so many great messages and

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let us know that for some of
you, the Bible Guys is a highlight

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of your day too, one of
them which I appreciate that very It's amazing

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to me. So we have a
social Honestly, if people didn't communicate that

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to us, I'm not sure that
I'd be motivated to come back in and

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record stuff. Because he he quite
honestly, deep down doesn't like talking about

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the Bible fun and the ways like
I do. But so good, but

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since you guys like it so much, he keeps coming back. So today

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we have a social media minute right
of interacting with our listeners, and so

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Desiree picked out a few comments from
our social different social media places on you

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know, people send in emails at
info at Bible guys dot com. Uh,

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people will leave comments on uh,
you know, whatever platform you're listening

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on on YouTube, those kinds of
things. So here's a comment from Jambo

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B Jambo Jambo B jumbo jo.
It's probably Jumbo jumbo j a m b

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oh, it's probably jumbo Okay.
Chris always being angry, offended, defensive

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for the world is something we share, not only in spirit, but in

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the way we're jokingly picked on for
it. But Pastor Chris, I feel

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you. Uh, but Pastor Chris, I feel you. Keep fighting the

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good fight, praise the Lord.
So Jombo yep, yep, he feels

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you. I feel you, yep
yep. Yeah. So I just think

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it's funny. This starts off Chris
always being angry. That's uh, that's

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the the funny phrase there. Yeah. Well, I mean, let's be

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clear, okay, the uh the
opinions that I have because I've always and

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by the way, it was actually
this segment that helped me discover that I'm

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angry for the world. Right,
So like when I when I when I

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actually say it's it's it's a self
enlightening thing. Yeah yeah, yeah,

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because really because I'm just like I'm
like, ah, I can't believe that,

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but I can't believe that happened.
And even my family, even my

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family, because you know, not
all of my entire family listens to the

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Bible, guys, like my kids
what like my daughter, one daughter does,

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my other daughter doesn't. Anyway,
the point is is that, uh

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and by the way, she does
periodically, just not consistently. But I

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actually said, I said, do
you realize I've discovered that whenever I go,

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oh, I can't believe this.
And sometimes my kids get mad at

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me. Uh, you know,
they'll say, oh, Dad, let

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it be, Let it be.
And I say, I said, I

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think it's because I don't get mad
for my experience. I get mad that

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that exists for everybody. And then
all of a sudden, Torri goes,

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you are right, she goes,
that is exactly why you get mad.

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That's what you always say. So
anyway, so thanks John bo. He's

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my people, and thank you on
behalf of all the rest of us little

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people. Thank you for channeling your
rage and your anger and your offense,

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your defensiveness for the rest of us. All Right, So the number two

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says this, I love starting my
days with you guys. The perfect mix

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mix of learning, devotions and daily
application mixed with a little bit of fun

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and silliness. I share it with
all of my friends and family and even

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people I just meet, says Cecilia
G. That's nice. Nice, that's

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nice. That's so cool. Thanks. Sharing with all of your friends and

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family and even people you just meet. Yeah, wow, just having conversations

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and saying, hey, let me
let me share with you something you might

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like. Yeah. Well, hey, let's let's just right now, let's

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take a vote, an official vote, and make Cecilia G the number one

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fan of the day. No for
sure, right, I mean, man,

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if she is telling friends and family
and even people that she just meets,

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I can't imagine anybody beating that today. Right, So, good job,

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right today. Let it be known
this is the official day, Cecilia

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G. Day. Congratulations on that. Awesome. And then Joni P.

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She writes in often so hey,
she's welcome back. She's given us a

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few comments, she said, I
think both of you can sing. That's

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something you don't seem to want all
of us to know. Question my courch,

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my question, my course, my
course mark. Yeah, so she's

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she's wanting us to acknowledge the fact
that we can sing question mark, but

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we can't. We don't want anybody
to know I can't really sing sing.

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You know. It's so interesting is
that when I was at my first church,

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it was a tiny, little church, right, so it is it

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one hundred and eighty people, which
actually isn't tiny tiny for some, but

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you know, from what my experience
is, it was smaller. And I

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was there for eight years. It
was a very long time, and I

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was the worship leader for three years. I can't read music, I can't

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play anything, but I can hold
a tune kind of, and so I

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was. But I was doing the
choir, the band, the praise team.

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I was doing everything right. Well, you were the everything else pastor

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was everything else pastor, and we
had other part time people. They left.

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I got stuck in the rut,
you know. Anyway, the point

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is is that I used to sing
all the time. Well, then after

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I left that church, I went
to a large church, right, it

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was like two thousand on a weekend
or something, and so that my old

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people would say, hey, do
you sing on stage? And so my

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answer was always I don't have to, because everybody who's on stage is better

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than me. So why would I
Why would I ever sing? Right?

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And it's sort of been that way
for the rest of my entire career.

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Yeah, I was worship leader for
fifteen years. I do read music.

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I do have a music background music
degree. But yeah, everybody on our

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stage things better than I do.
Now. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah, But I every once in
a while break out in a little bit

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of tune like a little diddy.
You do, but you don't, I

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don't know. Yeah, why why
not? Does Jesus not put a song

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on your heart? Jeff? I
do have a song in my heart.

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I just don't have to break about
it all the time. Uh, show

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I don't have to show off.
You think anybody who sings worship and showing

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off not anybody. You're ladies and
gentlemen. Jeff is just announced. Jeff

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has just announced that our worship leader. It's on stage most of the time

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when you show off. Most of
the time when you sing, it sounds

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like good morning, good morning.
So most of the time you're not singing

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worship songs on here and singing to
the la you're singing show tunes. There's

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a big difference. Yeah, that's
definitely true. That's true. Okay,

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a little diddy. Yeah, so, uh well thanks. If you thought

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we were trying to be sneaky and
hide it, then why did you just

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expose us? Johny right right,
yeah, way to go, John.

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Well, she's not fan of the
day, I'll tell you that, right

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right. She ruined it. It's
like she just pulled the mask up on

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Batman. So so the real answer
is we can kind of sing, kind

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of sing, yeah, compared to
I made a living doing it. But

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yeah, you know, my brothers
sing. My brother Mark and his family,

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they travel full time. He owns
a recording studio. My brother Steven,

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he travels full time, sings,
he owns a recording studio. So

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yeah, there's a lot of music
in our family. But now I pretty

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much just preach and lead. Yeah, I don't do as much singing.

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Yeah, and you need to stick
with your day job. I do.

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I really do. I really do. Okay, Well, thank you for

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that. That was fun. So
we are in John chapter twenty one.

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John's starting to wrap things up here
and Jesus appears again yep, to some

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more disciples, not all of them, but to some more disciples. In

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John twenty one one through fourteen,
it says later Jesus appeared again to the

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disciples beside the sea Galilee, and
this is how it happened. Several of

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the disciples were there, Simon Peter
Thomas nicknamed the twin Nathaniel from cana and

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Galilee, the sons of Zebedee,
and two other disciples. Simon Peter said,

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I'm going fishing. We'll come too, they all said, and so

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they went out in the boat,
but they caught nothing all night. At

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dawn, Jesus was standing on the
beach, but the disciples couldn't see who

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he was, and he called out, fellows, have you caught any fish?

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No, they replied, and then
he said, throw out your net

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on the right side of the boat
and you'll get some. So they did,

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and they couldn't haul in the net
because there was so many fish in

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it. Then the disciple Jesus Loved
said to Peter, it's the Lord.

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And when Simon Peter heard that it
was the Lord, he put on his

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tunic, for he'd stripped for work, and he jumped into the water and

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headed to shore. The others stayed
with the boat and pulled the loaded net

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to shore, for there were only
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from shore. When they got there, they found a breakfast waiting for them,

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fish cooking over a charcoal fire,
and some bread. Bring some of

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the fish you've just caught, Jesus
said, So Simon Peter went aboard and

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dragged the net to shore, and
there were one hundred and fifty three large

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fish, and yet the net hadn't
torn. Now, come and have some

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breakfast, Jesus said. None of
the disciples dared to ask him, who

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are you. They knew it was
the Lord, and then Jesus served them

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the bread and the fish. This
was the third time Jesus had appeared to

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his disciples since he'd been raised from
the dead, which is extremely cool.

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I love it. You know,
Jesus had prepared the breakfast before he revealed

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himself to them. Yes, he
had shown up on the shore for a

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while while he was preparing. What
do you mean he revealed himself while he

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was preparing breakfast? Well, I
suppose so. But it says wait,

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wait, doesn't it say? Okay? It says the others stayed with the

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boat and pulled the loaded net into
the shore. They were only one hundred

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yards from the shore, so they
couldn't have taken long. And when they

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got there they found breakfast waiting for
them, which means it's already prepared.

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So how long could it have taken? And you know, they had to

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catch fish? So he was standing
on shore first. Okay, listen,

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there's no way that Jesus was in
the middle of cooking breakfast. And then

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shouted and then they all they had
to do was pull up the net.

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No, no, no, no, they had to throw their net on

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the other side. So at dawn, Jesus was standing at the beach,

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but the disciples couldn't see who he
was. He called out, fellows of

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cotting fish, no, throw out
your net on the other side of the

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boat, and so they did,
and they couldn't haul in the net because

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there's so many fish. Then they
realized it's Peter, Peter. They realized

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that Jesus Peter jumps in the water, right, and then they have to

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come in. When they get in
after having thrown their net full no fish.

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You know how hard it is to
pull in that great big net.

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Yeah, it takes probably ten minutes. Throw it over on the other side,

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and then now they're struggling trying to
get it out. And then they

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have to drag this full net that
they cannot pull into the boat, They

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have to pull it behind the boat, they had to get at the shore,

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all that kind of stuff. This
could have been thirty minutes. Jesus

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could have made a fire and made
breakfast in the time. I just don't

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be difficult. Yeah, it doesn't
matter though, But you know what,

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maybe I need to think more about
all that it takes than to go fishing.

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But I will say this, This
is the this is the only time

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in scripture that it tells us,
for whatever reason, there was one hundred

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and fifty three large fish. And
they weren't just meeting fish. They were

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large, large fish. And have
you ever held up and I don't go

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fishing often at all, but have
you ever held up a string of fish?

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And let's just say there's a dozen
small fishing there right that is hard

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to lift up, right? And
so yeah, you're right in that one

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hundred and fifty three large fish,
you know, And obviously it's it's it

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seems like the net should have torn, which is why the scripture says,

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and yet the net didn't tear,
that's right. So yeah, you're right.

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You know what, I bet you
it was three hours. That's not

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what I was saying. They rode
with one hundred and fifty three large fish

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and it took them through. He
could have been just there fixing breakfast,

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yes, when he calls out.
In fact, Jesus went home and took

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a nap. Yes, and then
it came back and then started the fire.

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But you know, I love this
past. It love this I love

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this story. And then it's going
to go just a little further in just

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a moment right tomorrow, Yes,
because he has breakfast and then challenges Peter.

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But if you think about it,
let's go back the last interaction Jesus,

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Jesus and Peter had directly Peter,
well besides him appearing twice. Yeah,

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but it doesn't say that they like
talked directly in that moment. Jesus

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talked directly to Thomas, right,
we talked directly with Gray Magdalen. But

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Peter still is carrying I believe he's
still carrying his shame of denying Christ.

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I think he's struggling with what is
his role now among the disciples. He's

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seen the resurrected Lord, which is
amazing, but he doesn't seem to have

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his call on him. He doesn't
feel like he does because he says,

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I'm going to go back to the
old job by head, right, I'm

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going to go back fishing. Literally, that's his phrase. Right, I'm

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going fishing, and a bunch of
the rest go me too. They didn't.

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They didn't know what to do.
Now. Now, didn't Jesus just

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say two days ago, as the
Father sent me, now I'm sending you.

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Didn't he just tell them again,
I've got a mission for you.

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And now Peter doesn't understand what he's
supposed to do next, and so he's

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going to go back to what he
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going to go back fishing, and
six of the others go us. Two,

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we're going back. We're going to
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we know that Thomas does. We
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and John do. And then there's
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So, you know, a lot
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or when we make a mistake,
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we get tempted to go, Well, it's over for me. I

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ruined it. I might as well
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doing before. We're tempted to go
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to go back to the old job, or tempt to go back to the

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old lifestyle. And he gave up
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Peter and the rest. He doesn't
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doing out here? Didn't I just
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send ayu? Didn't I just give
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that stuff. He's out there fixing
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time, because this is at dawn, right, they fished all night,

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So you know they're thinking, right, So you know they're thinking, oh,

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let's right up and get this wrapped
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know whenever I'm coming to the end
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end of a day and I'm like, I wonder what we're having for dinner.

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I'm almost done with work. What
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I'm so you know that's what they're
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gonna have for breakfast. And so
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wanting and needing, and he's prepping
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to bring satisfaction. And then he
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you caught any fish? No?
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the other side? Doesn't that feel
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Peter back to where he got Peter's
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He's taking him back to that because
in that moment, John, Oh,

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wait a minute, I remember that
happening before. Send chills down your

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spine kind of thing. Wait a
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it says the disciple Jesus loved again
John, This, John says to Peter,

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to shore. In that moment,
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the eupho you that moment is really
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to set this issue up. Now
tomorrow we're gonna talk about the incredible words

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Jesus said, But even just setting
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Peter gave up on himself. And
Jesus reminded Peter, dude, I called

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you the first time, and I
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he calls him back the same way
he called in the first time, cast

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your net on the other side.
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ago that was. That was over
three years ago. Yeah, and that

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was Peter's very first you know,
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you know, think about how personal
this was in every single way Jesus had

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first met Peter. Peter was a
fisherman, that's what he did. He

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was the expert fisherman. He couldn't
catch anything. And then when Jesus said

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the first time, cast your net
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in that moment, and Peter said, we just did that an hour ago,

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and so I know there's going to
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since you say so, I'll try
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and then of course it almost sinks
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boats, and that's when it says
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God. Right, So that's that's
his that's Peter's very personal you know,

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Jesus had met Peter, in connected
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world, you know, on such
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Peter's big mountaintop experience. And then
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and I'll make you fishers. Amen. Right, I've got a mission for

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you. Yeah, then just a
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the Father sent me. No,
I'm sending you. I'm sending you on

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this mission. And Peter didn't feel
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You know, I betrayed. Jesus
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him, And yeah, so I
just think it's it's just there's a beauty

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in here where when he shouts out
from the shore and says, cast it

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over on the right side, it
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great thing. And you're right.
I do believe that the reason probably why

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Jesus did this is because he was
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you fail, I still love you. I remember, I remember who you

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are. I know that you remember
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back to that original relationship that we
had. Even though that you know you've

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strayed, even though that you failed, even though that it was a rough

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time, and yeah you weren't proud
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which is a great reason why Peter
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hey, I'm not gonna take I'm
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is going to take to row one
hundred yards you know where Jesus, you

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know, cooked breakfast and then lunch
and dinner, then reckless again, right,

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Peter's like, no, I'm swimming
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And by the way, one hundred
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is. Yeah. So you know, sometimes people will feel like, you

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know, you've been on this amazing
spiritual journey and then life comes crashing down

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around you, either because of your
own choices or because the circumstances that were

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out of your control. Life collapses
around you. You have some massive disappointments.

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almost every time I recommend to people
go back to where you got started with

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Jesus. You know, maybe not
physically, but get back there. What

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were you thinking and doing then?
What were the steps that you took Then,

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so Peter goes back to where he
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he doesn't really know what to do. And Jesus met him where they first

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met each other. And a lot
of times, you know, we make

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things really complicated. Over those three
or four five years, ten years that

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you've been walking with the Lord,
you've added all these things, all these

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Bible studies and these ministries and these
friends and all these things. Then the

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world comes crashing down and this complicated
Christian life isn't manageable for you, and

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so you don't know what to do. Go back to the simple part when

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when you first met Jesus, you
know, you were excited to tell other

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people. You wanted your friends to
know you, just you wanted to know

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everything Jesus said. You want to
spend time in the Word. You Most

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of the time, most brand new
Christians are relatively comfortable talking to God just

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you know, in simple, simple
terms. And then we complicate it with

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big, fancy prayers and deep Bible
studies and we do all these things,

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and then it sometimes can begin to
fade. Go back to where you met

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Jesus and he'll meet you there.
Yeah, that's good. And then also

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there's another lesson too. We're in
here, we're as we're talking about peter

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evolving relationship with God, and we're
talking about the mountaintop experience when he first

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met Jesus Versus. Now, this
interaction that he's having and about to have

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with Jesus, it reminds me also
that marriage the institution of marriage, God

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tells us, and Paul actually says
it that and other places where marriage was

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designed as an institution by God to
be a reflection of our relationship with our

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heavenly Father. Right and so,
And we may not be an expert,

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we don't think in our relationship with
our heavenly Father. But the one thing

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that we do know a lot about
if we've been married for thirty years,

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like you and I have been,
right, is that not to each other,

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not to each other, we have
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Yes, that's correct. Here's what
I'm trying to say. I'm trying

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to say that love matures and gets
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I'm saying that the longer you're married, you cannot ever replicate those first

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two years when you were dating Bonnie. Right, that whole like you know.

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Even C. S. Lewis talks
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in his book The Main One,
The Big One Christianity, Yes, mere

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Christianity. When he talks about he
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couple ever uh be expected to live
in the fire and passion of when they

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were dating? He said, how
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that, you know, all their
entire marriage, of the relationship. He

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says, the bottom line is is
you can't. Right, So love then

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becomes a choice, it becomes deeper, it becomes you know, And so

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he talks about being in love versus
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being in love is the is merely
the explosion that started the relationship of

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choosing love, which is awesome.
And so anyway, all that to say,

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so think about Peter. He may
not necessarily when he goes back to

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the beginnings and the fun metals,
he may not necessarily experience that mountaintop feeling

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of euphoria that he first had with
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you know, that's what we want
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oh I just I seem to have
lost the joy of my salvation or you

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know, I wish I could go
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I very first you know, came
to know Christ. Well, if you

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think about it, marriage is a
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Yeah, it may not be that
way, but it's better now. It's

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more mature, right, there's more
pain, there's more struggle, it's deeper,

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it's richer, there's more commitment,
there's more choice. You know,

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you've learned more, there's more wisdom, you know, and so it's it's

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just better, it's richer, and
that's what Peter's going to have for the

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rest of his life, until he
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go back and do what you did. If you want what you had there,

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you go, right, so that
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there are times when you just don't
feel like doing a thing. But then

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when you start doing the thing,
then next thing, you know, you

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enjoy doing that thing. And so
you know, go back, spend time

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with you know, if you're talking
about spouses, go back and spend time

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with them on the go on dates
again, go for walks again, go

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to the movies again, go to
the restaurant again, go learn to laugh

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again, tell stories again, give
each other gifts again. If you want

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what you had, you have to
do what you did. And it's the

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same thing spiritually. I believe that
if you want what you used to have,

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that fire, that enthusiasm. Sometimes
you don't feel like it, but

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your feelings will follow your actions most
of the time. So if you decide

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that you're going to lean back in
and do the things you used to do,

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You're going to learn to pray again, You're going to learn to read

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the Bible again, You're going to
learn to hang out with new Christian friends

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that are talking about the Bible with
enthusiasm. You begin doing those things and

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next thing you know, you want
to do those things again and it'll relight

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that fire for you. That's great. Ye. Well, hey, that's

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a great place to end. That's
our time and so we'll see you next

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time on the Bible guys,