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Coming up on the Butters Touch.

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Jesus is confronting fishermen who are

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washing their nets, which is a

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sign I have given up.

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And I want to know, is there

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anybody in here who's washing your nets?

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Who has decided it's too late? I'm

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too old, I'm too fat, I'm too

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this, I'm too bad, I'm too thin,

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I'm too short, I'm too... Whatever it

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is that made you wash your nets,

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I want to challenge you today. Because

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Jesus is about bringing

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Simon into the awareness

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that his belief system is wrong. When

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Jesus was preaching in Janasirih,

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and he comes down to Simon, Simon

1:05

is not yet called Peter. He's

1:07

not even a disciple, he doesn't even

1:09

know that much about who Jesus is

1:11

and what's going on. Simon is just

1:14

a fisherman. When Jesus encounters Simon,

1:16

the Bible said that Simon

1:19

was washing his nets. His

1:23

belief system said, it's over.

1:28

They had told all night and caught

1:31

nothing. And

1:33

his belief system had taught him that

1:35

if you can't catch at night, you

1:39

can't catch at all. His

1:43

limited belief system has left him

1:45

in a place of giving up

1:47

on what he needed to make

1:49

his business work. And

1:52

when Jesus came along, that's right, he

1:55

gave up. When Jesus came along, Jesus

1:57

is confronting fishermen who are washing their

1:59

nets. washing their nets, which is a

2:01

sign I have given up. And

2:03

I want to know, is there anybody in

2:05

here who's washing your nets? Who

2:11

has decided it's too late, I'm too

2:13

old, I'm too fat, I'm too dense,

2:15

I'm too thin, I'm too short, I'm

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too...whatever it is that made you wash

2:21

your nets. I

2:23

want to challenge you today, because

2:27

Jesus is about bringing

2:29

Simon into the awareness

2:32

that his belief system is wrong.

2:36

Washing your nets means you have given

2:38

up hope that you can go

2:41

any further, and you have

2:43

settled to be on

2:45

the sidelines of life rather

2:47

than to be in the game. You

2:52

have made yourself comfortable with

2:55

an empty boat, no

2:58

fish, which means no

3:00

business, and you

3:02

have decided this is as far as you

3:05

can go. And

3:07

some of you even justified by saying, if the

3:09

Lord would have meant for me to catch fish,

3:13

he would have blessed me to catch

3:15

fish, so it must not be God's

3:17

will for me to catch any fish.

3:20

Now here comes God walking in Jesus

3:22

down to the seashore, and Simon is

3:25

washing his nets. Washing

3:30

your nets means deciding that nobody will ever love

3:32

you. Washing

3:36

your nets means deciding that you can't

3:38

go any higher or any further than

3:40

where you've gone. Washing

3:43

your nets is giving up on your dream and

3:45

deciding that all of your effort was for

3:47

naught. Because it

3:49

didn't work like he thought it was going to

3:51

work, he quit. He's

3:54

alive, but he quit. He's

3:57

breathing, but he quit. He's

3:59

functioning. But he quit. You'll be

4:02

surprised that the people in here

4:04

that are breathing and dead. They

4:10

breathe him, but they quit. They got their makeup on,

4:12

but they quit. They got

4:14

their dress on, but they quit. They got their

4:16

suit on, but they quit. They came to church,

4:19

but they quit. They quit long time ago. Let

4:21

me tell you something. Divorces don't happen when the

4:23

papers come. People

4:29

can quit and still be fixing breakfast.

4:34

Do you hear what I'm saying to you? People

4:36

can quit and still be giving roses. Quitting

4:41

isn't just a removal of the

4:43

body from the situation. It's a

4:45

removal of the spirit from the

4:47

situation. And Peter's spirit has been

4:49

broken and he's washing his nets.

4:54

And Jesus comes down there

4:56

and disrupts everything

5:00

that Peter believes. Whatever

5:05

Jesus comes, let me warn you, he

5:07

will disrupt everything. I

5:10

know you want a nice, neat little

5:12

Jesus that fits comfortable inside your belief

5:14

system, that won't shake up anything, that

5:16

won't get you out of your comfort

5:18

zone, that won't make you have to

5:20

go for yourself, that won't make you

5:23

have to stand for yourself. I know

5:25

you want a nice, little, neat little

5:27

Jesus that you can fit into a

5:29

package of what you've been taught about

5:31

Jesus. But Jesus was a rabble-rouser. Jesus

5:33

was radical. Jesus was a

5:36

joke-breaker. Wherever Jesus went,

5:38

he terrorized the city. He turned

5:40

it upside down. If Jesus died

5:43

in a city, all

5:45

bets were off on how things

5:47

were going to go. See, everything

5:49

was going according to plan until

5:51

Jesus come. Now somebody tell him

5:53

Jesus is coming. Jesus

5:55

is coming. Jesus is coming. He's coming into

5:58

your house. He's

6:00

coming into your presence. He's coming into your life.

6:02

He's coming into your prayers. He's coming into your

6:04

future. And everything you f to

6:17

start an uprising. And

6:32

Jesus wants over. He don't even

6:34

know whose boat it is. He

6:36

just gets on the boat. And

6:42

then says to Simon, thrust

6:45

out a little from land.

6:49

Listen to this. And all

6:51

of a sudden you see Simon have

6:54

to put down his nets and

6:59

get back on the boat. That

7:03

alone is revival. Just

7:10

stop feeling sorry for yourself and talk

7:12

about what didn't work and

7:15

how you work so hard and how you put so much into it

7:18

and how you told all life and

7:20

let them came through you ain't got time to

7:22

rehearse all this stuff that's over that's over that's

7:24

over You can't do nothing about that that's over

7:26

You can't fix that that's over You can't change

7:29

that that's over That's over

7:31

that's over that's over You are spinning

7:33

up your today rehearsing your yesterday Don't

7:35

let your yesterday steal your today that's

7:38

over that's over that's

7:41

over that's over That's over Maybe

7:43

there's a higher purpose for the boat than what you know Jesus

7:49

says, thrust out a little from land and

7:52

Jesus turns Peter's business

7:54

into a platform This

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is only time in scripture that

8:02

I know of where Jesus turns

8:05

a boat into a podium. And

8:08

Jesus gets on the boat and sits

8:10

down. And

8:13

the crowd is all on the beach. And

8:16

he thrust out from the land and

8:18

turned the boat into a pulpit. And

8:21

he sits in the pulpit. And

8:25

he teaches. I

8:27

do not know what he taught. But

8:30

it must have been mesmerizing enough that

8:32

he could sit on a boat without

8:35

a knife that was thrust out from

8:37

the land and not lose a cloud.

8:40

Could God? Can't nobody preach

8:42

like Jesus? If

8:44

Jesus gets into a place, he'll turn

8:46

it upside down. Do not

8:49

know that Jesus never had a PA

8:51

system, never had a microphone, never had

8:53

a camera, never had a flyer, never

8:56

had a business card. And yet

8:58

he preached to thousands of people, 5,000 men,

9:01

not to mention women and children. And

9:03

people would rather faint than miss hearing

9:05

him preach. He didn't even have to

9:07

jump. He didn't have

9:09

to hoop. He didn't holler. Jesus sat down.

9:12

And the crowd didn't leave. Jesus

9:15

sat when he preached. He

9:17

sat on the Mount of Olives and

9:19

preached to the attitude. Sit

9:24

off me, Jesus. Sit

9:26

off me, Jesus. Sit

9:29

off me, Jesus. What I'm

9:31

doing ain't working. Sit

9:34

off me, Jesus. Jesus

9:39

sat down on the boat. And

9:42

he began to minister. And

9:46

as he began to minister,

9:49

the Bible says when he had finished

9:51

preaching, I've noticed this is

9:54

interesting. It never

9:56

tells us what he preached. It

10:00

tells us that He preached. It brings us all

10:02

the way up to the bone. The bone thrust

10:05

out from land. Jesus sets down and starts to

10:07

preach. They never tell us what He

10:09

preached. They just say, when

10:11

He had finished. Come on, keep

10:13

up with me, Jamel. They say, when He had

10:15

finished. There

10:18

are some things that God has kept a mist

10:20

to Him. Because

10:23

the real power here isn't just in

10:25

what He said, but what He did.

10:31

And when He began to

10:33

speak these words and had

10:35

ended speaking, He now says

10:37

to Simon, and

10:39

wait a minute, maybe this is

10:41

not about the sermon. Maybe

10:44

this is about Simon. Maybe

10:49

the sermon is just the

10:51

vehicle that Jesus traveled to

10:54

capture Simon's attention. Maybe

10:57

it's Simon that Jesus is after. Maybe it's

10:59

Simon that Jesus wants to get to and

11:02

make him understand what's

11:05

going on. And He says

11:07

to Simon, He says to Simon,

11:09

what He told me to tell

11:11

you. Launch

11:14

out into the deep. Launch

11:22

out. They don't

11:24

hear me, Lord. I

11:27

wish I had a group of choirs. Somebody, is

11:30

anybody ready for this? Launch

11:33

out into the deep. Get

11:36

out of the shallow water. Go

11:39

out into the deep. Launch

11:46

out into the deep. God's

11:50

got something for you, but it's in the

11:52

deep. Look

11:54

at the matter, you ain't deep enough. The

11:58

Reason it's not happening for you, the real. Having

12:01

a little bit. Of

12:03

a lot of your life have

12:05

a god or the up forgive.

12:09

Us for of improve our goal laws have

12:11

a problem at all. by that I would.

12:14

Allow. For

12:29

the God living with Jesus referred

12:31

to. As with

12:33

the food of our lives with

12:35

his verbal phrase that just about

12:38

watches the service but with friends

12:40

with our substance added so doing

12:42

we generate the covenant with your

12:45

ability to exceed all expectations. Not

12:47

just it's foods are ways but

12:49

it as always we thank you

12:52

for divide favor we thank you

12:54

for the cab doors that overthrew

12:56

us that cause us to get

12:59

butterflies in are stuff of with

13:01

regular for future. That is so

13:03

for a that we the sunglasses

13:05

to be able to see if

13:07

we take you more for the

13:10

escalator right about of area where

13:12

we have club of up you're

13:14

going to expedite the process. Hallelujah

13:16

is going to be. We thank

13:18

you for surrounding us would pick

13:20

people with big ideas at supper

13:22

we'd all that understand how we

13:24

got could make this but you're

13:27

setting yourself for something. Ah,

13:34

and power and living

13:37

within. Limits he says.

13:40

I'm tired of covering and sad of

13:43

allow I'm had been a good little

13:45

boy. Be mindful and go in the

13:47

way it should. Read it: a large

13:50

out and seventeen and get ready to

13:52

get radical. Get ready to go to

13:54

the next level. Somebody wants to be

13:56

all laugh. You know we'll also dollars

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even thought. New a business is

14:01

very for biggest threat for a god

14:03

help me the do a group of

14:05

this is so that he could get

14:07

the growing out of your life as

14:09

you're frustrated. Probably worth of The problem

14:11

is a business. The problem is that

14:13

is a business A problem with a

14:15

view. God

14:19

short censor everything of your business

14:21

is gonna try Everything of your

14:23

life is not say everything on

14:26

the boat as laundered friends. Who

14:33

am I presume to? Resonate

14:37

with some up diverted a lot. If

14:40

you. Go. Through

14:44

current role to play with

14:47

Go no longer willing to

14:49

stay on the Saw. Love

14:52

to see through Competent Void.

14:54

A lot sounded so that.the

14:56

mods by myself. although Go.

15:00

Go Go through my

15:02

brother Joseph. Going to

15:05

look. At

15:09

what's the purpose of the

15:11

Up through some know it's

15:13

not supposed to work for

15:15

the daytime percent normal. Died

15:18

that night. Visa says it

15:20

is or happen at any

15:22

plans for the devil. Thought

15:24

it was a proper. Resources

15:28

of put your father was

15:30

mobile. And

15:40

suddenly I realized. That.

15:43

All. Birds

15:47

are so. i

15:59

said knows the boat, but

16:02

Jesus owns the sea. And

16:05

what you want ain't in the

16:07

boat, it's in the sea. And

16:09

Jesus knows where your fish are.

16:12

Blot somebody and tell them, he knows

16:15

where the fish are. He knows

16:18

where the fish are.

16:24

Wait a minute.

16:26

Wait a minute.

16:28

Wait a

16:42

minute. It's the wrong time.

16:44

Ain't nobody fishing. All the boats

16:46

are docked. Everybody's quiet.

16:49

Everybody's spilled passes. Everybody's laid back. Peter

16:51

the only fool out there in the

16:53

middle of the water, in the middle

16:55

of the day at a time when

16:57

no fishermen would be out in the

17:00

water because when the sun goes up,

17:02

the fish go down. They eat at

17:04

night or early in the morning. And

17:06

at a time there's not supposed to

17:08

be fish. Jesus says they're going to be

17:10

launching to the deep. Whoever I'm preaching to

17:13

is not even supposed to work like it's going

17:15

to work. You get ready to

17:17

break a rule. You get ready to go

17:19

into another dimension. You get

17:21

ready to do something out of season.

17:23

It don't even make sense, but

17:25

God's going to do it. You thought it was

17:28

too late, but God's going to do it.

17:30

Launch out into the air.

17:36

Shake yourself like this. I'll break

17:38

every limitation that's been

17:40

on you. I'll break every limitation that

17:42

held you back. I'll break every limitation

17:45

that stood in between you and what

17:47

God said He's going to do.

17:57

This is about unlocking your limitation. This

18:01

is about kicking the brakes off. Have

18:04

you ever tried to drive with the emergency brake on? You

18:07

can do it, but it's, ugh,

18:10

ugh, ugh. God's getting ready to kick

18:12

the brakes off. He's

18:14

getting ready to unlock your limitation, that

18:16

drag that's been in your life, that

18:18

undertow that's been in your life. The

18:21

Lord sent me here this morning to

18:23

tell you He's going to unlock your

18:25

limitation. You've been frustrated. You've been tied

18:27

down. You even gave up and started

18:30

washing your nets, but stop

18:32

washing your nets. It's time to

18:34

launch your boat. You

18:39

own the boat, but

18:42

He owns the sea. And

18:49

when they have launched out into the deep, they

18:52

drop their net. Watch

18:55

this. This is important. They almost

18:57

finished. They dropped their net. Net, N-E-T. N-E-T.

19:00

They didn't bring enough. They didn't bring enough. They're

19:03

thinking too small. They're thinking too limited. They

19:05

only had one net with them. When I met them, they

19:08

were washing nets, but

19:10

they only put one net on

19:12

the boat. Any

19:14

time you see Jesus on

19:17

the boat, you better believe that. Any

19:24

time you see Jesus on the

19:26

boat, you better bring everything you've

19:28

got, because whatever God

19:31

is talking to you about is

19:33

bigger than anything you ever did

19:35

in your life. I

19:37

came to tell you it's bigger. Are you

19:39

hearing me? It's bigger than you're thinking here.

19:42

Are you hearing me online? It's

19:45

bigger than you're thinking here. That little net

19:47

you've got ain't going to be enough,

19:49

because God's going to do exceedingly. Abundantly. Above.

19:53

All you may ask or think. You

19:56

didn't bring enough for what God is

19:58

about. Wow

20:03

Say good luck. Wanna

20:05

know what? To.

20:21

Do about to get in trouble

20:23

you about to get a good

20:25

trouble for saying bad trouble is

20:28

good promo for time I hope

20:30

you mean when you have overestimated

20:32

God is about to do with

20:34

your life as you realize what

20:37

you've rock is not enough for

20:39

where he's taking you. Is

20:50

all about with this is all about

20:52

the this is all about the that's

20:55

when we start off with was a

20:57

mess and when we get to the

20:59

both were bridge emit A That's A

21:01

that's why did you throw everything you

21:03

have added Peter: why did you. Know

21:21

reluctance to even go in the first

21:23

place. Jolie,

21:25

who admitted. That

21:29

double crosser. A. Seizure

21:33

Federal Reserve under would be a

21:36

copper Different? What does he know

21:38

up. And

21:41

throw at math. One

21:46

that and so many

21:49

piss that have been

21:51

waiting on obedience. god

21:56

is waiting on all previous

21:59

as As soon as you

22:01

stop playing pity pat with

22:03

God and drink down to

22:05

obedience and do what he

22:07

said do, God's got the

22:10

fish on reserve. They're

22:12

waiting on you. The money's

22:14

not going to be a problem. The

22:16

buildings are not going to be a

22:18

problem. The employees are not going to

22:20

be a problem. God's got everything you

22:22

need waiting on you. But because you

22:24

keep throwing a little pity, God's

22:26

got the fish on reserve. He's

22:33

going to

22:35

break your

22:38

neck. Because

22:41

you're just talking about enough

22:44

and you're with El Shaddai

22:47

who is more than enough. So

22:52

here's Peter out there, Simon, and

22:55

he's throwing out his net. And

22:58

so many fish are in the net that

23:00

the net that he was

23:02

washing is now breaking. And

23:06

he has to help! No,

23:11

no, no, no, no. Sh,

23:15

sh, sh, sh, help!

23:17

They way back on the shoreline. And

23:22

here they come getting on their boats and they're

23:24

coming out to tug it in. In

23:27

order for you to get what God is

23:29

about to give you, you're going to need

23:31

partnerships. Whoever's

23:34

taking this message seriously, let me drop this

23:36

on you. You're going to need strategic alignment.

23:39

You're going to have to have

23:41

backup in place to receive on

23:43

the level that you're going to

23:45

right now. You cannot do this

23:47

like you normally do it. You

23:49

have got to have a network

23:51

because you're coming against a system.

23:53

You're coming against a system. And

23:55

any time you're coming against a

23:57

system, it takes a system. to

24:00

overcome a system. And so when he

24:02

hollers for help, he gets back

24:05

up coming from every direction. And even

24:07

when his boys come in and they

24:09

start dropping in their nets, they

24:11

still were about to break. How

24:17

many fish had Peter

24:19

missed? All

24:24

of these fish were in the

24:27

Janasseret Lake. He

24:29

just left. God

24:35

didn't create the fish. They

24:38

were there. Look at

24:40

how much he missed. My

24:43

father ran a janitorious service. He used

24:45

to make me mad in fire. We'd be cleaning up

24:47

offices, sweeping the office. He'd come in behind me and

24:49

sweep the office. I'd just

24:51

sweep and say, boy, look at what

24:53

you missed. Where

24:56

was he sweeping? What's going on? What's going

24:58

on? Look at this. Look

25:00

at this. Look at what you missed. And I couldn't say

25:02

nothing because

25:05

I knew he didn't throw the dirt down. Do

25:10

you have any idea what

25:13

you missed? While

25:19

you're washing your nets and you think

25:21

you threw,

25:24

there's so many fish waiting on you

25:26

to obey God that

25:28

when you obey God, your

25:31

net and neither the net of

25:33

your partners will be enough, but

25:36

together they pulled it in. It's

25:41

going to stretch you. It's

25:45

going to stretch you. It's going to take you out

25:47

of your comfort zone. It's going

25:49

to challenge your belief systems. It's

25:51

going to come against all the things

25:53

that have been inbred in your head

25:55

that define you. Your.

26:02

God didn't read it in Limerick.

26:04

Solve for read it and lots

26:06

of say said that this rid of

26:08

your life better so that rid

26:10

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