The Sermon Peter: Don't Rock The Boat by David McGee
Feb 17, 2013
Peter: Don't Rock The Boat (41:21)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 4:18-19; Matthew 14:22-33
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Matthew 4:18-19
18) Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
19) He said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers for men."
Matthew 14:22-33
22) Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
23) After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.
24) But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
25) In the fourth watch of the night Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
26) When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a ghost!" and they cried out for fear.
27) But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! I AM! Don‘t be afraid."
28) Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters."
29) He said, "Come!" Peter went down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.
30) But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"
31) Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
32) When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.
33) Those who were in the boat came and worshipped him, saying, "You are truly the Son of God!"
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They were funny about Peter and don't rock the boat don't rock the boat. I won't sing that song from the sixties. But anyhow Peter don't rock the boat. Matthew chapter fourteen versus eighteen and nineteen. This is our introduction to Peter and Peter 's introduction of Jesus 's introduction to Peter in our introduction to handsome report for eighteen and nineteen and Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee sought to brother Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. And he said, other than follow me and I will make you fishers of men. So, the first words that Jesus spoke to Peter discounting it is little background on Peter were common. Follow me in the last words that Jesus spoke to Peter. Once you follow me and what it happened there in the last segment, Jesus was talking about John and things were going to take place in John's life and fears as well. What happened was I grab him and not me, and he goes on and on. And Jesus as you follow me not worry about others and what happens to them. You follow me so clear is this character we know that Peter never failed in following Jesus. But we know that he often had many struggles when Jesus entered Peter 's life. This playing fisherman became very new person with new goals and new priorities, and fear was why these guys in no way was he a perfect person he was still many times that are brawny fisherman. He never stopped being Peter, even whatever he was a follower of Jesus and we know that some of the characteristics of Peter was. He is very impetuous my vitamin is little reckless than his approach to life and again that part of him never changed. We have whenever they're running to the tomb after the resurrection of believers, Johnny gets there first, but he doesn't go in the period of Ronald Reagan in up appears this impetuous sensuous personages, right very in-your-face thirties. These stuff doesn't mind jumping out of the boat, so we wonder what a wise and in this man in Peter that made him so special that Jesus would call him to be a leader of the church feet and often act like that walk that Jesus referred him to that, he would no longer be called to this video be called Peter and that important message that we see about Peter is one that we need to have look at in our life today. Peter didn't become that rock when Jesus said, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church that Peter didn't become that stable force for many years. There were a lot of situations that Kamen came and went in his life that caused Peter to gradually grow and that understanding. So Jesus chooses real people to be his followers and real people have hang ups, nine oh, you'll ground. There's not many here that have hangups. But anyhow, there are people I have difficulties in their life, or there are stumbling blocks in things that we trip over in their some parts of our character, the need to be refined while don't back off because you discover them or find that you have them appear was such a foul and Jesus chose people who could be changed by his love and Peter was changed, but it took a lot to take the make that change happen and Peter felt many times run with when we go skiing a lot and documents are in her teacher friend go skiing, and they were and they have been having lessons which I that that's a good thing that she has lessons for her to have, but you don't understand we all have to have lessons and I even whenever David whatever he was racing in things out, always but you have to teach me what you need to do what they taught you add salt is always interesting, but her and her friend Vinay God they take lessons in the digital abuse better spirit while yesterday on the receipt notices. She said that she said was that a lot of time with the instructor when lessons over we go Speedway. We always have. Yes okay I added anyone as you are are a harder friend or two peas on the same pod. They can make us all look at the trail look at the snow over there. Look at all. Look at the mountainside across the image of Phoenix fears that was that. But as in, and it's true that you and that you may feel like nothing is changed. That's what I say to her to run is that you may feel like nothing is changed, but each lesson gives you something more. Give you something more to think about gives you a different approach and it has changed the way that she skied and has changed the way in her abilities and what she does so. We all need lessons and if that commitment to growing in the commitment to learning that takes us onboard NR NR abilities will peter is like this in his spiritual walk. Then called by God, he's been changed by Jesus, but yet here doesn't say instantly become this walk that Jesus calls them because Peter this point of his life, your will be the rock and the rock that Peter was referring to was lowered to Christ upon the upon the fun here that the Doctor Christ on the living God and Jesus and Peter flesh and blood and reveal it to you, but my father in heaven. And Jesus said to Peter, you that rock that truth. Islam will build my church by church on end. And fully understand that until sometime later while in our lives. God has a way of dealing with us. Where were at, but gosh& let us because we're where Barak, whether we follow in her mother were skyhigh. We still have a process to grow on on the foundation that we are to grow on and when we look at Peter. He was one of these individuals that needed to grow just like all of us, it will turn to Matthew, chapter fourteen, beginning in verse twenty two to thirty three and this of course is known as a favorite stories and in Scripture, and this of course is one of my and this is where Peter and the disciples have been with Jesus and Jesus goes up into the mountain to pray and so as soon as the meal was finished, he insisted that disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismisses the people other than his great crowd of people and things going on and when the crowd was dispersed, he climbed the mountain so he could be by himself and pray he stayed there alone, late into the night, and this is speaking of Jesus. Meanwhile, the boat was far out to sea when the wind came up against them, and they were battered by the waves at about four o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. They were scared out of their wits, a ghost, they said, crying out in terror, but Jesus was quick to comfort and encourage its me, don't be afraid. Pierce suddenly bold said master and it's really you call me to come to you on the water, he said, had shopping out of the boat. I like that you don't thought about it walked on the water to Jesus. But when a truck but when he looked down at the waves churning beneath his feet. He lost his nerve and started to sink he cried Master save me. Jesus didn't hesitate. He reached down and grabbed his hand and he said think heart what got into you. The two of them climbed into the boat, the wind died down, the disciples and about having watched the whole thing worship Jesus saying this is it you are God 's son, for sure. Now if this happens even to you or me how the public to how this experience change your life. You think that some type of event like this would change your life. First of all you come back and you tell somebody you know what I was out on the lake. The other day and there was a storm come up and I saw Jesus, he told me to get on the boat and I walked on water, Jesus again know what you think of this person is a bitmap holding only guess at an end, where the other disciples, active in the way it was hard for us to imagine that these things could or did happen. I've read stories in Africa missionaries early missionaries and how that they were escaping for their life in this this one individual literally ran across the river. This is his story. He was running for his life. He was preaching the gospel in abilities, and some people came into the village and they were going to kill him, and he took off for his life when he ran and he literally ran across the river. Its units in the book I read it the Mister Buckley said he ran across the river and those who were following and stopped. They didn't attempt to run across the river because it was infested with alligators, so he was dealt. That's his story and so do these things happen, but they happen don't know, but one of the things we have to decide if we are and about our on the lake and in the storm are we the disciples. The other ones. The elaborate are we Peter probably be the would we be Peter would be other disciples say the other disciples never got out about the jet have a friend who just didn't also stuff in with: stupid things. But the sunlight was just really impossible now the phone away and go do something else. Stop off a roof. If effective, it is that I felt off a roof is the jump out a mouth, and that you know wasn't bad whenever Europe and the raptors in the haze and the independents in the following notes. Way up there, pop it in the spring, when his weight on the bottom. Yup maybe one Dale in your jumping off to get the one veil now then, but that's nothing compared to know what some people right in their bikes and IV of that month even has video programs. Now people doing stupid stuff, you know, yet I launched their guy goes up the bike. He's right easily jump from jump one jump to another. It makes it halfway then goes down brakes, alarm in her funding will go skiing to that very same thing that meeting meager at best. The Dell I would always yell and yell at David, you know he'll be going down the hill, and I was suddenly disappeared, whereas the youngest CMO site jumping somewhere in and levers of a rat. He goes over and need to jump and not the sudden he did to where it was going and ended in the trail went to the right and he jumped straight and it was rocks and everything are usually seen about their dilemma. These they signed up. He didn't know that within me. I'm still still on the rocks, so that any shows about it while people in boats are both people you imagine being related to Peter 's Andrew his brother and the imagine being related to Peter impetuous Peter is always doing reckless things. The setting there and about and it's Jesus out there and your brother says PR efforts. Yeah, I'm a Jesus DiMaggio, you come out there. Peter don't think about this test there down in a Confederate, you're going to Leslie again. Yeah, I'm about to drown the shutdown. Jason and I you know any other disciples. They are noted as Peter again into the sky. The loss that needs your in a just never can keep his mouth shut and is always the first one is on something to get Osama got some crazy idea. While this is Peter and Mrs. Carter. This is really an and we have to look at our life. I'm generally not that way am generally very conservative. Most of mine, but the most okay well) and then so all those in the boat, although the boat were spectators and Peter is not impulsive one now they've all been out there all night for black-and-white with a left in the evening, probably about eight nine o'clock guessing at that. Now it's four o'clock in the morning and hear these experienced, but some of them are experienced fishermen like Peter and roundabout route on the Sea of Galilee Sea of Galilee is not this Lake Erie is in Galilee. As you can see across the eye. It's very, very deep, but what happens is there's this month is all around America. It has booted the mountains around, and the nurses one Valley comes in from the Mediterranean Sea and what happens is when a storm comes in from Mediterranean it funnels through this valid through this pass, and that is like a funnel blowing in on the Sea of Galilee. And when it comes in. There is like unity is strong. A glass and it is new. Just so the Sea of Galilee. Storms can come up very quickly and they can be very, very turbulent and even though it's not that large of a body of water, it becomes very dangerous. So these guys about there all night, four o'clock in the morning, they don't have a clue whether a their GPS system has gone down, and there lost, though nowhere thereat so they're out there in the city and what happens. Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. Everything is under the dominion of Jesus. Everything, whether it's the sea whether it's the breaking of the bread and feeding five thousand, whether it's dealing with people who are blind or lame or death. It doesn't matter everything is under his dominion SLJ. This is the minimum or all of this without laughing. Then he comes walking on the water because he's the one who made the laws you can break them when Jesus came to them. They were scared me that the Bible says they were scared out of their wits and been scared are your wits and they said it's a ghost crying out in terror, so maybe I'll be here in fishermen and stories and whatever, and the only they're generally not to their men who are not too frightened. It's what happens at night and see, but here we have when Jesus them walking across the sea. Their cross by the boat they were scared of the wits did you say something about it was one thing wasn't a big ever been hunting in the urban hunting. You've seen lots of things about what they were supposed to be in your hunting deer. You see this home, but the bulk of the L I regret it when I was a on the farm. I went out hunting groundhog guys in the evening, Joe, nothing to do on the farm. If an evening not to do something just because of the housing Bill Reynolds sunset on this bank. The long hill and watching offense rolling whenever I look over and maybe from here the wall. There is this weed looks just like a groundhog standing up in her look at that method sound like a shoot that this is the week amok in full by that and I'd look at it there in watching Donnelley overground function, look over still there since a week at Ruthanne Brown as we I looked over and it( in the hall and news about so often. It's easy for us to see things we do that are not there think the drive there and talk ourselves out of them, while the disciples, and here it is. Jesus is confident that Jesus has done many miracle he's done many miracles in their presence. He's done lots of things for them but yet there's still think that they're going back to their old ways. There they learned many things, but they think they're in the role-playing now take many lessons but we did back stealing always keep on where we go take drivers license and we does the back driveway mall is driven though there are to be changes, and there are changes that place even if we don't think there are still some things going on insanity. Einstein said, describing signs of insanity is containing the same behavior and expecting a different result. So if you keep doing the same thing to save my expecting something different. You don't have it together very well. So in our lives. We've got to keep adding things to let when I keep developing robotic keep growing understanding growing in our relationship helping ourselves and grow because we need to put these things, then you cannot put new things in your gaining new. So the disciples were fearful. What did Jesus do this and important thing for again. Another important thing for us to see here Jesus comforted them, because courage. It's May don't be afraid, carnage, it's me. Don't be a Frank Jesus says Karim, it's me. Don't be afraid ready. Jesus said. Kari asked me don't be afraid. So in our lives. We are in storms, whether they be physical storms, whether they be storms on our communities, funds of our lives forms of our nation storms of relationships. We are in these things. And God is coming to watch always because he will never leave us or forsake us in Jesus is going to come to us, but sometimes we miss taking for something that is not Jesus as a ghost. Jesus always gives us hope. Jesus always gives us direction. He always will bring to us comfort, so we mistakenly look at the events of life, and we had fearful when he comes. Full with income fund, well we do focused on problems when he comes in looking at this and they seem to this Jesus, but if they will recognize them for what he has. And Jesus says, courage, it's me. Don't be afraid things are not what they seem so. Peter then hearing this, a Lutheran terrier from terror, the courage to collisions or was it foolish. She hurried people do you know, I walked on water was frozen assets I know that it has got be one of the crowd at the region didn't think of that one. I walk on water, yet nobody can you was broken with a teasing never thought that when I so anyhow, what is alleged in Israel under the Sea of Galilee that is it. It's it. It's not frozen but I have maybe when we don't walk the water just Peter and Jesus so many times we think of this situation with Peter was helping your site. No Peter walked on water thing and has an estimated company Jesus and Peter walking on water, soak master. He says if it's really your call me to come to you on the water now you think, many times people have impressions, I think I want to do this. I think I was needed that. And Peter is a clarification here. Peter says Jesus FAQ music, not every thought that comes into our mind is God. I didn't really stupid. Stop putting us to sell everything I have, in which Israel. Okay, I think you should check this out. You know, I think I did not estimate no United check in God if this is really you, I want you, I need your help now. We had a lady in our church affords buyers. She was a missionary to Japan and she was there for fifty two years and eighteen years of age. She's been dead now. How many years of your mercy, born the remember why she would be close to a hundred now, so she was probably born, so she was. She was in Japan before the second world war by so when she left Johnstown the Chambersburg version of what Shaila Chambersburg to go to Japan as a missionary, she didn't know the language can take a boat for a month to get there. So here's an eighteen -year-old twenty -year-old teen, teenager or young woman fearing God 's call to go to Japan and become a missionary, and she had a contact there and she didn't know the language, so there are times with things like this happen and she spent fifty two years of our life. There, and when World War II came, she was kicked out of the country because she was an American. So where did she go, she went to why he and worked in the camps with the Japanese people and then she was the first nonmilitary person back into Japan general letter signed by MacArthur that she could go in it. General MacArthur that she could go back in and start serving the people. So there are times of these things happen, but there has to be a clarification. I think she jumped out of the boat big-time to leave everything she know and to go someplace that he knew very little about, but with the call upon her heart and life, and there are these things happen their people. I member a few years ago there were individuals. They felt that they were to be missionaries to China, and this is back when it was very, very communistic and in no US citizen was to go in, but they felt that they were to be missionaries to China something like this: learn the language learned everything and as soon as the doors opened. They were the first in because they had prepared for call that they knew would happen to these things do happen. So there are times that God says, get out of the boat. But there is sometimes what what we have thought there just a little off. When we need to pray about them and ask for clarification and Jesus answered Peter, if you admit you call me to come to the right thing here is Peter knew Jesus and Peter knew the voice of God. He knew the voice of Jesus thing. If you have children, there's fifty kids. Client you can tell if yours is you can hear their voice you hear of them because your accountant advised and clear heard the voice of Jesus and see our relationship with God that's over. Afterwards we walked probably know his voice. And if God is the one speaking to us, we are able then to say while yes, it's okay. Jump out of the boat. If it's maybe your parents come from it should masturbate you come home in Konduz is okay. Come and when he did, we'd say that perhaps Peter the only one vote that faith. I don't know it all. I think the they never thought of getting out of the boat. How many things in our life. The answers are there. We just haven't thought of. Sometimes crises forces us to look at things from a different perspective. The disciples. The rest of the disciples were glad that Jesus was there. They were abundant for now, but they have any idea getting out the vote, but they are being this text was person once you get the picture. Jesus, let's get out about so appears on Jesus on the water heard Jesus say, and Peter believed Jesus, nothing is impossible. So when we get out of the boat while hopefully not on a whim and knows when doing on a test either young are trying to test Jesus. You know, while I think we need to put Jesus to a test. He really loves me. They can do that smell and then after you get that is it wow that's really is enough lately, Jason is really you know Melhorn on three times out of the boat if it only and would probably hold things out there know here who know the voice and God doesn't cause us to jump out of votes, he causes us to hear his voice and know his voice. And when we know his voice being able to walk with him is much easier when we get out about while Jesus given issue. If it is you really you call me to come, but the rest of the disciples they didn't see it that way. So Peter got out of the boat and he got out because he heard the voice of God speak to him. This is the way walked the unit in the Bible Scriptures policy about this and walking in the way of truth walking the way of life. And hesitate. He jumped know that within the dinner they can speak it's hard that there is a thin ice is not how such as this ice. Avail. The clearest visibility and message level since jumping out of the boat you're welcome. The water did Jesus. He heard a word he believed the word. The respondent acquired a job and he walked on the water changes of how far away was. I don't know. I weather is ten days or thirty yards or five feet whenever why he jumped out of the boat and a walk. Did he want to Jesus, but another reality settled in Raleigh struggling with realities. The reality of our faith and the reality of our sort and you began to realize he's in a place that he's never been before. In fact no one 's ever been here before understanding by Jesus and understanding on the water, but the waters churning underneath me so many looking at Jesus is not aware of the surroundings. But when he gets there he becomes more aware like will I do now. I was going to get a piece of tape. You know, put it across the platform here ill duct tape. I didn't do it, pretend okay. I got duct tape across two decades. How far how life will get the Y kind three inches getting they must walk on three inches of duct tape and I'm sure all is pretty well could do that. Now let's take the three inches and put it between two strikes back room skyscrapers, thirty stories in the air and walked between them. I will not, and that's what happens in our life. It is what is it hasn't changed. Has it changed any front France is on the carpet. The plant is still the same three inches is just what's underneath the changes, and sometimes in our life. Without waiving God has a web working on our life and were born five walking with God in everyday life, and we may be blocking it, although the defendant in the Olympics when the girls and men are doing the Palo, the being walking on the being ill. They start with the game just being on the floor, but it's still a beam and they walked on the Dean, but you take the beam up for five feet, everything changes in our life. Sometimes it's hard to walk with Jesus while not lovelorn drylands. Why should it be any different on the Sea of Galilee, and this is why Jesus challenges us with, but the circumstances, the sea or the land are really not that important. Our focus on God is an peer began to feel the wind. Perhaps the waves splashing against his feet and he lost his focus is on the scenic route distracted by life distracted by failures distracted by our past distracted by what's going to happen. Distractions always come and Jesus heard Peter 's request when he became distracted. We began to think, and this is again what happens in our life very real things, we are confronted with very real circumstances and we have a very real God. We have very real problems with the very real faith the two of them come together in our daily walk and we choose how were going to walk with God and with care began to sink. Jesus didn't go well. I think he should come out here last to save me. Jesus didn't hesitate. He reached down grabbing his hand and Jesus said faith heart. What got into you faint heart. What got into you. What gets into us that we lose focus the perspective of where we are we are with Jesus now I'm on the water, but I'm on the water with Jesus. So this was not a criticism of Peter brought up how that the wind and the waves can challenge us and how that we say about our life and where we're at what's going on in verse thirty, June the third thirty three, says the children climbed into the boat and the wind died down now you Pat Peter on the back while I was great. When you criticize him for all of Dooley, Pat Peter on the back while locals alike to walk on water, orderly, St. Peter, I knew you would think him and that's the reality we live in. I know when I knew when Mark was setting by people who hated for edited breakfast than the and I don't know how because they were so coming they hated their work. They hated what they did and nothing was ever the work out and it was the bottom of the barrel and it was never delegate Dennis and noted that in the flag. I know I'm so as I was planning to get out of the restaurant. You know my breakfast like paperwork enough and that I was leaving and the lady says wow that was quick. Today I will send. I couldn't take it anymore had to get out of. I would sit and cry to God. He had a result, a negative and critical. I can have faith, Muslims, mice, but a regaling notice that negative is a turnaround. Tell them down about no jump ship. The resulting sync with adult lay there and wallow. So how many events that the take to make our life change. I many lessons does it take for us to change every time we hear the word, every time we read the word, every time we pray every time we ask God for direction and asking for his blessing asking for is guided every time we have incremental changes because God has a purpose in our life. God has a way of working in our life and we need to realize how much God wants to do with us and Lord Peter, and upon this rock. This truth that you have revealed that flesh and blood. Didn't get to you, God gave it to you. And it's on this truth. I will build my church here wasn't even anywhere near being that men at that point would take years in our lives. God has a purpose God has a plan were not anywhere near what the promisee is given to us in the heart, but we need to keep on growing, growing, keep on going. The disciples looked disciples look to be leaders in the new kingdom they thought of themselves. They saw what Jesus was doing and never listen on his right is left when the crucifixion came, it all fell apart. But when the resurrection came. It all came back together with a whole new perspective, and that's our life, we have the resurrection of Jesus Christ in our lives and we may be disappointed with this and that don't get upset with it. We still have to get out about here the voice of God that this was again a voice of God clarify Jesus that you bid me come to and then jump out of the boat. She would gobble to I came across this prayer is that it was it was it was in a devotional that was reading on the from Bible Gateway to another. It says my child, your faithful sore when you look up to me and let go of what you see in the natural world. Don't you know by now that I will do the supernatural for you if you will allow me to you no longer have to be controlled by your circumstances, you can choose to live, fueled by faith in the starting today. What you see on this earth may cause you to lose hope, but your trust in me will free you from your fear and out faith in me will give you the power to preserve to persevere with passion and purpose. I want you to learn that what I say and do can never be shaken or taken without your permission. Now breathe in my presence, my child, and choose to never again doubt in the dark us what you know to be true in the light of my truth that this prayer had nothing to do with the rated bidding go together, but they did and what God has shown us his seat Peter knew the voice of Jesus. He knew it in the light of their everyday life and in the darkness of the night. He knew the voice of Jesus and in our darkness never doubt what God has given us in the light of our everyday walk with him. Father, thank you for speaking to a hearts God giving us your truth in your spirit and your love to challenge us change us empower us, and sometimes we become impulsive and jump out of the boat, whatever it may be oh, God, let us let us hear your voice. Know your voice respond in faith taught us now. Got we pray in Jesus name we ask everyone said amen, should don't rock the boatThey were funny about Peter and don't rock the boat don't rock the boat. I won't sing that song from the sixties. But anyhow Peter don't rock the boat. Matthew chapter fourteen versus eighteen and nineteen. This is our introduction to Peter and Peter 's introduction of Jesus 's introduction to Peter in our introduction to handsome report for eighteen and nineteen and Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee sought to brother Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. And he said, other than follow me and I will make you fishers of men. So, the first words that Jesus spoke to Peter discounting it is little background on Peter were common. Follow me in the last words that Jesus spoke to Peter. Once you follow me and what it happened there in the last segment, Jesus was talking about John and things were going to take place in John's life and fears as well. What happened was I grab him and not me, and he goes on and on. And Jesus as you follow me not worry about others and what happens to them. You follow me so clear is this character we know that Peter never failed in following Jesus. But we know that he often had many struggles when Jesus entered Peter 's life. This playing fisherman became very new person with new goals and new priorities, and fear was why these guys in no way was he a perfect person he was still many times that are brawny fisherman. He never stopped being Peter, even whatever he was a follower of Jesus and we know that some of the characteristics of Peter was. He is very impetuous my vitamin is little reckless than his approach to life and again that part of him never changed. We have whenever they're running to the tomb after the resurrection of believers, Johnny gets there first, but he doesn't go in the period of Ronald Reagan in up appears this impetuous sensuous personages, right very in-your-face thirties. These stuff doesn't mind jumping out of the boat, so we wonder what a wise and in this man in Peter that made him so special that Jesus would call him to be a leader of the church feet and often act like that walk that Jesus referred him to that, he would no longer be called to this video be called Peter and that important message that we see about Peter is one that we need to have look at in our life today. Peter didn't become that rock when Jesus said, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church that Peter didn't become that stable force for many years. There were a lot of situations that Kamen came and went in his life that caused Peter to gradually grow and that understanding. So Jesus chooses real people to be his followers and real people have hang ups, nine oh, you'll ground. There's not many here that have hangups. But anyhow, there are people I have difficulties in their life, or there are stumbling blocks in things that we trip over in their some parts of our character, the need to be refined while don't back off because you discover them or find that you have them appear was such a foul and Jesus chose people who could be changed by his love and Peter was changed, but it took a lot to take the make that change happen and Peter felt many times run with when we go skiing a lot and documents are in her teacher friend go skiing, and they were and they have been having lessons which I that that's a good thing that she has lessons for her to have, but you don't understand we all have to have lessons and I even whenever David whatever he was racing in things out, always but you have to teach me what you need to do what they taught you add salt is always interesting, but her and her friend Vinay God they take lessons in the digital abuse better spirit while yesterday on the receipt notices. She said that she said was that a lot of time with the instructor when lessons over we go Speedway. We always have. Yes okay I added anyone as you are are a harder friend or two peas on the same pod. They can make us all look at the trail look at the snow over there. Look at all. Look at the mountainside across the image of Phoenix fears that was that. But as in, and it's true that you and that you may feel like nothing is changed. That's what I say to her to run is that you may feel like nothing is changed, but each lesson gives you something more. Give you something more to think about gives you a different approach and it has changed the way that she skied and has changed the way in her abilities and what she does so. We all need lessons and if that commitment to growing in the commitment to learning that takes us onboard NR NR abilities will peter is like this in his spiritual walk. Then called by God, he's been changed by Jesus, but yet here doesn't say instantly become this walk that Jesus calls them because Peter this point of his life, your will be the rock and the rock that Peter was referring to was lowered to Christ upon the upon the fun here that the Doctor Christ on the living God and Jesus and Peter flesh and blood and reveal it to you, but my father in heaven. And Jesus said to Peter, you that rock that truth. Islam will build my church by church on end. And fully understand that until sometime later while in our lives. God has a way of dealing with us. Where were at, but gosh& let us because we're where Barak, whether we follow in her mother were skyhigh. We still have a process to grow on on the foundation that we are to grow on and when we look at Peter. He was one of these individuals that needed to grow just like all of us, it will turn to Matthew, chapter fourteen, beginning in verse twenty two to thirty three and this of course is known as a favorite stories and in Scripture, and this of course is one of my and this is where Peter and the disciples have been with Jesus and Jesus goes up into the mountain to pray and so as soon as the meal was finished, he insisted that disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismisses the people other than his great crowd of people and things going on and when the crowd was dispersed, he climbed the mountain so he could be by himself and pray he stayed there alone, late into the night, and this is speaking of Jesus. Meanwhile, the boat was far out to sea when the wind came up against them, and they were battered by the waves at about four o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. They were scared out of their wits, a ghost, they said, crying out in terror, but Jesus was quick to comfort and encourage its me, don't be afraid. Pierce suddenly bold said master and it's really you call me to come to you on the water, he said, had shopping out of the boat. I like that you don't thought about it walked on the water to Jesus. But when a truck but when he looked down at the waves churning beneath his feet. He lost his nerve and started to sink he cried Master save me. Jesus didn't hesitate. He reached down and grabbed his hand and he said think heart what got into you. The two of them climbed into the boat, the wind died down, the disciples and about having watched the whole thing worship Jesus saying this is it you are God 's son, for sure. Now if this happens even to you or me how the public to how this experience change your life. You think that some type of event like this would change your life. First of all you come back and you tell somebody you know what I was out on the lake. The other day and there was a storm come up and I saw Jesus, he told me to get on the boat and I walked on water, Jesus again know what you think of this person is a bitmap holding only guess at an end, where the other disciples, active in the way it was hard for us to imagine that these things could or did happen. I've read stories in Africa missionaries early missionaries and how that they were escaping for their life in this this one individual literally ran across the river. This is his story. He was running for his life. He was preaching the gospel in abilities, and some people came into the village and they were going to kill him, and he took off for his life when he ran and he literally ran across the river. Its units in the book I read it the Mister Buckley said he ran across the river and those who were following and stopped. They didn't attempt to run across the river because it was infested with alligators, so he was dealt. That's his story and so do these things happen, but they happen don't know, but one of the things we have to decide if we are and about our on the lake and in the storm are we the disciples. The other ones. The elaborate are we Peter probably be the would we be Peter would be other disciples say the other disciples never got out about the jet have a friend who just didn't also stuff in with: stupid things. But the sunlight was just really impossible now the phone away and go do something else. Stop off a roof. If effective, it is that I felt off a roof is the jump out a mouth, and that you know wasn't bad whenever Europe and the raptors in the haze and the independents in the following notes. Way up there, pop it in the spring, when his weight on the bottom. Yup maybe one Dale in your jumping off to get the one veil now then, but that's nothing compared to know what some people right in their bikes and IV of that month even has video programs. Now people doing stupid stuff, you know, yet I launched their guy goes up the bike. He's right easily jump from jump one jump to another. It makes it halfway then goes down brakes, alarm in her funding will go skiing to that very same thing that meeting meager at best. The Dell I would always yell and yell at David, you know he'll be going down the hill, and I was suddenly disappeared, whereas the youngest CMO site jumping somewhere in and levers of a rat. He goes over and need to jump and not the sudden he did to where it was going and ended in the trail went to the right and he jumped straight and it was rocks and everything are usually seen about their dilemma. These they signed up. He didn't know that within me. I'm still still on the rocks, so that any shows about it while people in boats are both people you imagine being related to Peter 's Andrew his brother and the imagine being related to Peter impetuous Peter is always doing reckless things. The setting there and about and it's Jesus out there and your brother says PR efforts. Yeah, I'm a Jesus DiMaggio, you come out there. Peter don't think about this test there down in a Confederate, you're going to Leslie again. Yeah, I'm about to drown the shutdown. Jason and I you know any other disciples. They are noted as Peter again into the sky. The loss that needs your in a just never can keep his mouth shut and is always the first one is on something to get Osama got some crazy idea. While this is Peter and Mrs. Carter. This is really an and we have to look at our life. I'm generally not that way am generally very conservative. Most of mine, but the most okay well) and then so all those in the boat, although the boat were spectators and Peter is not impulsive one now they've all been out there all night for black-and-white with a left in the evening, probably about eight nine o'clock guessing at that. Now it's four o'clock in the morning and hear these experienced, but some of them are experienced fishermen like Peter and roundabout route on the Sea of Galilee Sea of Galilee is not this Lake Erie is in Galilee. As you can see across the eye. It's very, very deep, but what happens is there's this month is all around America. It has booted the mountains around, and the nurses one Valley comes in from the Mediterranean Sea and what happens is when a storm comes in from Mediterranean it funnels through this valid through this pass, and that is like a funnel blowing in on the Sea of Galilee. And when it comes in. There is like unity is strong. A glass and it is new. Just so the Sea of Galilee. Storms can come up very quickly and they can be very, very turbulent and even though it's not that large of a body of water, it becomes very dangerous. So these guys about there all night, four o'clock in the morning, they don't have a clue whether a their GPS system has gone down, and there lost, though nowhere thereat so they're out there in the city and what happens. Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. Everything is under the dominion of Jesus. Everything, whether it's the sea whether it's the breaking of the bread and feeding five thousand, whether it's dealing with people who are blind or lame or death. It doesn't matter everything is under his dominion SLJ. This is the minimum or all of this without laughing. Then he comes walking on the water because he's the one who made the laws you can break them when Jesus came to them. They were scared me that the Bible says they were scared out of their wits and been scared are your wits and they said it's a ghost crying out in terror, so maybe I'll be here in fishermen and stories and whatever, and the only they're generally not to their men who are not too frightened. It's what happens at night and see, but here we have when Jesus them walking across the sea. Their cross by the boat they were scared of the wits did you say something about it was one thing wasn't a big ever been hunting in the urban hunting. You've seen lots of things about what they were supposed to be in your hunting deer. You see this home, but the bulk of the L I regret it when I was a on the farm. I went out hunting groundhog guys in the evening, Joe, nothing to do on the farm. If an evening not to do something just because of the housing Bill Reynolds sunset on this bank. The long hill and watching offense rolling whenever I look over and maybe from here the wall. There is this weed looks just like a groundhog standing up in her look at that method sound like a shoot that this is the week amok in full by that and I'd look at it there in watching Donnelley overground function, look over still there since a week at Ruthanne Brown as we I looked over and it( in the hall and news about so often. It's easy for us to see things we do that are not there think the drive there and talk ourselves out of them, while the disciples, and here it is. Jesus is confident that Jesus has done many miracle he's done many miracles in their presence. He's done lots of things for them but yet there's still think that they're going back to their old ways. There they learned many things, but they think they're in the role-playing now take many lessons but we did back stealing always keep on where we go take drivers license and we does the back driveway mall is driven though there are to be changes, and there are changes that place even if we don't think there are still some things going on insanity. Einstein said, describing signs of insanity is containing the same behavior and expecting a different result. So if you keep doing the same thing to save my expecting something different. You don't have it together very well. So in our lives. We've got to keep adding things to let when I keep developing robotic keep growing understanding growing in our relationship helping ourselves and grow because we need to put these things, then you cannot put new things in your gaining new. So the disciples were fearful. What did Jesus do this and important thing for again. Another important thing for us to see here Jesus comforted them, because courage. It's May don't be afraid, carnage, it's me. Don't be a Frank Jesus says Karim, it's me. Don't be afraid ready. Jesus said. Kari asked me don't be afraid. So in our lives. We are in storms, whether they be physical storms, whether they be storms on our communities, funds of our lives forms of our nation storms of relationships. We are in these things. And God is coming to watch always because he will never leave us or forsake us in Jesus is going to come to us, but sometimes we miss taking for something that is not Jesus as a ghost. Jesus always gives us hope. Jesus always gives us direction. He always will bring to us comfort, so we mistakenly look at the events of life, and we had fearful when he comes. Full with income fund, well we do focused on problems when he comes in looking at this and they seem to this Jesus, but if they will recognize them for what he has. And Jesus says, courage, it's me. Don't be afraid things are not what they seem so. Peter then hearing this, a Lutheran terrier from terror, the courage to collisions or was it foolish. She hurried people do you know, I walked on water was frozen assets I know that it has got be one of the crowd at the region didn't think of that one. I walk on water, yet nobody can you was broken with a teasing never thought that when I so anyhow, what is alleged in Israel under the Sea of Galilee that is it. It's it. It's not frozen but I have maybe when we don't walk the water just Peter and Jesus so many times we think of this situation with Peter was helping your site. No Peter walked on water thing and has an estimated company Jesus and Peter walking on water, soak master. He says if it's really your call me to come to you on the water now you think, many times people have impressions, I think I want to do this. I think I was needed that. And Peter is a clarification here. Peter says Jesus FAQ music, not every thought that comes into our mind is God. I didn't really stupid. Stop putting us to sell everything I have, in which Israel. Okay, I think you should check this out. You know, I think I did not estimate no United check in God if this is really you, I want you, I need your help now. We had a lady in our church affords buyers. She was a missionary to Japan and she was there for fifty two years and eighteen years of age. She's been dead now. How many years of your mercy, born the remember why she would be close to a hundred now, so she was probably born, so she was. She was in Japan before the second world war by so when she left Johnstown the Chambersburg version of what Shaila Chambersburg to go to Japan as a missionary, she didn't know the language can take a boat for a month to get there. So here's an eighteen -year-old twenty -year-old teen, teenager or young woman fearing God 's call to go to Japan and become a missionary, and she had a contact there and she didn't know the language, so there are times with things like this happen and she spent fifty two years of our life. There, and when World War II came, she was kicked out of the country because she was an American. So where did she go, she went to why he and worked in the camps with the Japanese people and then she was the first nonmilitary person back into Japan general letter signed by MacArthur that she could go in it. General MacArthur that she could go back in and start serving the people. So there are times of these things happen, but there has to be a clarification. I think she jumped out of the boat big-time to leave everything she know and to go someplace that he knew very little about, but with the call upon her heart and life, and there are these things happen their people. I member a few years ago there were individuals. They felt that they were to be missionaries to China, and this is back when it was very, very communistic and in no US citizen was to go in, but they felt that they were to be missionaries to China something like this: learn the language learned everything and as soon as the doors opened. They were the first in because they had prepared for call that they knew would happen to these things do happen. So there are times that God says, get out of the boat. But there is sometimes what what we have thought there just a little off. When we need to pray about them and ask for clarification and Jesus answered Peter, if you admit you call me to come to the right thing here is Peter knew Jesus and Peter knew the voice of God. He knew the voice of Jesus thing. If you have children, there's fifty kids. Client you can tell if yours is you can hear their voice you hear of them because your accountant advised and clear heard the voice of Jesus and see our relationship with God that's over. Afterwards we walked probably know his voice. And if God is the one speaking to us, we are able then to say while yes, it's okay. Jump out of the boat. If it's maybe your parents come from it should masturbate you come home in Konduz is okay. Come and when he did, we'd say that perhaps Peter the only one vote that faith. I don't know it all. I think the they never thought of getting out of the boat. How many things in our life. The answers are there. We just haven't thought of. Sometimes crises forces us to look at things from a different perspective. The disciples. The rest of the disciples were glad that Jesus was there. They were abundant for now, but they have any idea getting out the vote, but they are being this text was person once you get the picture. Jesus, let's get out about so appears on Jesus on the water heard Jesus say, and Peter believed Jesus, nothing is impossible. So when we get out of the boat while hopefully not on a whim and knows when doing on a test either young are trying to test Jesus. You know, while I think we need to put Jesus to a test. He really loves me. They can do that smell and then after you get that is it wow that's really is enough lately, Jason is really you know Melhorn on three times out of the boat if it only and would probably hold things out there know here who know the voice and God doesn't cause us to jump out of votes, he causes us to hear his voice and know his voice. And when we know his voice being able to walk with him is much easier when we get out about while Jesus given issue. If it is you really you call me to come, but the rest of the disciples they didn't see it that way. So Peter got out of the boat and he got out because he heard the voice of God speak to him. This is the way walked the unit in the Bible Scriptures policy about this and walking in the way of truth walking the way of life. And hesitate. He jumped know that within the dinner they can speak it's hard that there is a thin ice is not how such as this ice. Avail. The clearest visibility and message level since jumping out of the boat you're welcome. The water did Jesus. He heard a word he believed the word. The respondent acquired a job and he walked on the water changes of how far away was. I don't know. I weather is ten days or thirty yards or five feet whenever why he jumped out of the boat and a walk. Did he want to Jesus, but another reality settled in Raleigh struggling with realities. The reality of our faith and the reality of our sort and you began to realize he's in a place that he's never been before. In fact no one 's ever been here before understanding by Jesus and understanding on the water, but the waters churning underneath me so many looking at Jesus is not aware of the surroundings. But when he gets there he becomes more aware like will I do now. I was going to get a piece of tape. You know, put it across the platform here ill duct tape. I didn't do it, pretend okay. I got duct tape across two decades. How far how life will get the Y kind three inches getting they must walk on three inches of duct tape and I'm sure all is pretty well could do that. Now let's take the three inches and put it between two strikes back room skyscrapers, thirty stories in the air and walked between them. I will not, and that's what happens in our life. It is what is it hasn't changed. Has it changed any front France is on the carpet. The plant is still the same three inches is just what's underneath the changes, and sometimes in our life. Without waiving God has a web working on our life and were born five walking with God in everyday life, and we may be blocking it, although the defendant in the Olympics when the girls and men are doing the Palo, the being walking on the being ill. They start with the game just being on the floor, but it's still a beam and they walked on the Dean, but you take the beam up for five feet, everything changes in our life. Sometimes it's hard to walk with Jesus while not lovelorn drylands. Why should it be any different on the Sea of Galilee, and this is why Jesus challenges us with, but the circumstances, the sea or the land are really not that important. Our focus on God is an peer began to feel the wind. Perhaps the waves splashing against his feet and he lost his focus is on the scenic route distracted by life distracted by failures distracted by our past distracted by what's going to happen. Distractions always come and Jesus heard Peter 's request when he became distracted. We began to think, and this is again what happens in our life very real things, we are confronted with very real circumstances and we have a very real God. We have very real problems with the very real faith the two of them come together in our daily walk and we choose how were going to walk with God and with care began to sink. Jesus didn't go well. I think he should come out here last to save me. Jesus didn't hesitate. He reached down grabbing his hand and Jesus said faith heart. What got into you faint heart. What got into you. What gets into us that we lose focus the perspective of where we are we are with Jesus now I'm on the water, but I'm on the water with Jesus. So this was not a criticism of Peter brought up how that the wind and the waves can challenge us and how that we say about our life and where we're at what's going on in verse thirty, June the third thirty three, says the children climbed into the boat and the wind died down now you Pat Peter on the back while I was great. When you criticize him for all of Dooley, Pat Peter on the back while locals alike to walk on water, orderly, St. Peter, I knew you would think him and that's the reality we live in. I know when I knew when Mark was setting by people who hated for edited breakfast than the and I don't know how because they were so coming they hated their work. They hated what they did and nothing was ever the work out and it was the bottom of the barrel and it was never delegate Dennis and noted that in the flag. I know I'm so as I was planning to get out of the restaurant. You know my breakfast like paperwork enough and that I was leaving and the lady says wow that was quick. Today I will send. I couldn't take it anymore had to get out of. I would sit and cry to God. He had a result, a negative and critical. I can have faith, Muslims, mice, but a regaling notice that negative is a turnaround. Tell them down about no jump ship. The resulting sync with adult lay there and wallow. So how many events that the take to make our life change. I many lessons does it take for us to change every time we hear the word, every time we read the word, every time we pray every time we ask God for direction and asking for his blessing asking for is guided every time we have incremental changes because God has a purpose in our life. God has a way of working in our life and we need to realize how much God wants to do with us and Lord Peter, and upon this rock. This truth that you have revealed that flesh and blood. Didn't get to you, God gave it to you. And it's on this truth. I will build my church here wasn't even anywhere near being that men at that point would take years in our lives. God has a purpose God has a plan were not anywhere near what the promisee is given to us in the heart, but we need to keep on growing, growing, keep on going. The disciples looked disciples look to be leaders in the new kingdom they thought of themselves. They saw what Jesus was doing and never listen on his right is left when the crucifixion came, it all fell apart. But when the resurrection came. It all came back together with a whole new perspective, and that's our life, we have the resurrection of Jesus Christ in our lives and we may be disappointed with this and that don't get upset with it. We still have to get out about here the voice of God that this was again a voice of God clarify Jesus that you bid me come to and then jump out of the boat. She would gobble to I came across this prayer is that it was it was it was in a devotional that was reading on the from Bible Gateway to another. It says my child, your faithful sore when you look up to me and let go of what you see in the natural world. Don't you know by now that I will do the supernatural for you if you will allow me to you no longer have to be controlled by your circumstances, you can choose to live, fueled by faith in the starting today. What you see on this earth may cause you to lose hope, but your trust in me will free you from your fear and out faith in me will give you the power to preserve to persevere with passion and purpose. I want you to learn that what I say and do can never be shaken or taken without your permission. Now breathe in my presence, my child, and choose to never again doubt in the dark us what you know to be true in the light of my truth that this prayer had nothing to do with the rated bidding go together, but they did and what God has shown us his seat Peter knew the voice of Jesus. He knew it in the light of their everyday life and in the darkness of the night. He knew the voice of Jesus and in our darkness never doubt what God has given us in the light of our everyday walk with him. Father, thank you for speaking to a hearts God giving us your truth in your spirit and your love to challenge us change us empower us, and sometimes we become impulsive and jump out of the boat, whatever it may be oh, God, let us let us hear your voice. Know your voice respond in faith taught us now. Got we pray in Jesus name we ask everyone said amen, should don't rock the boat