1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:07,780 Good morning to everybody. I don't I don't need an introduction just because I'm Scotty's younger brother and assistant 2 00:00:07,780 --> 00:00:13,440 Pastor here to out west so when I'm called upon to come hang out with you guys 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:19,540 It's like old home week when I look around and see all the years and all the water that's under the bridge 4 00:00:19,540 --> 00:00:21,540 I was just joking with 5 00:00:21,540 --> 00:00:29,100 Glenn and Kathy Jensen because we've started a church about four weeks before months ago over in star by Boise and 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:35,520 they had emailed and threatened that they were gonna come because it was their silver wedding anniversary and they were gonna come to church and 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,680 So I was just remembering 8 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:45,840 Back through their journey and and Kathy's mom came to live with them and she was a little firecracker 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,320 she was a little bitty lady and she was on her deathbed and 10 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,240 She wanted pastor Rick 11 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:58,520 Will you please come pray for me because though I know Jesus and want to go to heaven 12 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,320 I just want to get through the Super Bowl 13 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,200 And 14 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:11,240 She was a big San Francisco 49ers fan. So I show up here. She is in bed. She's got her jersey on 15 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,040 You know, she's ready for the Super Bowl and we prayed for the grace of God 16 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,720 To take her to heaven after the Super Bowl 17 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:28,240 Well, she made it through the first half and then slowly slipped away till Tuesday that next week and this room 18 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,240 Is filled with those stories? 19 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,120 filled with those stories of 20 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,360 Literally, I spent half my life here pouring my heart out 21 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,000 Just curious about what God would do through his word 22 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:46,560 Because true revival is the Spirit of God working through the Word of God through the people of God and that's how revival lasts 23 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,840 It's not built on a personality. It's built on the Word of God 24 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,200 Danny Kishama came to a funeral that I did back in the day and 25 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,280 and 26 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,160 God radically got a hold of him through that that funeral process and 27 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:10,040 So, I mean just everywhere I look is a story Steve's up here doing announcements I remember the first Sunday morning 28 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,200 I met Steve he was it was a Sunday morning 29 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,320 We were doing Saturday night three Sunday services and the last service 30 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,440 I never go out because I'm just I'm so spent if I go out and talk to the people for a full hour then come to 31 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,280 Preach the last service. I just had no more energy in the tank 32 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:31,320 so I'm back there in the green room with the worship team and Steve comes busting through the doors and 33 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:38,000 He is having to come apart. I mean whatever God is doing in his life. He was having to come apart and he just 34 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,240 He just burst onto the scene and here he just starts us. He's still bursting on the scene 35 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,280 he just came up here and act like you own the room with the announcements and 36 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:53,680 You know, I guess it has to do with temperament once Jesus gets ahold of you and it's just very fun 37 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:59,640 I want to apologize. I might slur my words. I have a little bit of a grandpa hangover and 38 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:05,320 we've been at this family and friends music festival over at Hi-C and 39 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:12,720 that my son organized and so my grandson was my bunk mate for the last two nights and 40 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,600 his name is Tiberius and we call him Tiber and he's three and 41 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:26,760 So he he is a handful all night long. He just never stops moving and I haven't slept very good for a couple of nights 42 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:32,200 but the topper this morning I was coming out of this camper that we had written rented and 43 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,600 everybody was in the camper and I was gonna sneeze and 44 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:41,240 So the camper door was open because we're loading stuff out of the camper and I turned and I sneeze 45 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:46,240 But I didn't realize this little three-foot guy was he was on the stairs right underneath. I didn't cover my foot 46 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,240 I just showered him just 47 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:50,760 And 48 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:55,660 He looks at me in these little cowboy boots who goes hey, they call me boppo. Hey boppo 49 00:03:55,660 --> 00:03:58,920 You just blessed you all over me 50 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,720 It's sad to say and you sneezed on me we always say hey god bless you or bless you 51 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:11,060 He's like you just blessed you all over me. And so I'm hoping to sneeze on you today and bless all over you 52 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:18,880 I'll try to hold back the spit from that whole process. If you have a Bible turn to the Gospel of Luke chapter 5 53 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,120 As we look at our message the search for meaning 54 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,000 Because that's what ultimately brings all of us on this big journey in life 55 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,760 Paul the Apostle when he was speaking to the Athenians who they spent all of their time 56 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,760 just finding out what the latest trends and cultural changes and 57 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,360 dynamics are and 58 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,920 Paul the Apostle told them that the God of 59 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:53,720 Creation had created them with this futility in their hearts so that they might grope for him 60 00:04:53,720 --> 00:05:00,240 And all through life. It's like where these blind people just groping around in the dark trying to find meaning 61 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:09,000 We try to find it in relationships and in putting families first, but some of you did not win the lottery on your family 62 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,880 Right. So you're like this is the the counter lottery 63 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,840 whatever is the kind of the the 64 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:21,520 Consolation prize of that some people since they can't find fulfillment in their families 65 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,120 then they begin to find it in achievement and 66 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:30,320 accomplishments and they're going to win accolades in athletics or academics or get the degree and they 67 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,120 Arrive only to come up empty 68 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:40,860 There are those who are trying to move through life and have some kind of notoriety or or fame 69 00:05:40,860 --> 00:05:48,480 Hollywood all these people move to Hollywood or they've moved to Nashville because they want to be famous in music or famous and here they're 70 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:54,840 Waiters and waitresses and they're looking for their big break that the rest of the world could finally see how special they are 71 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,120 And would give them the opportunity that they're looking for 72 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,600 Some people think it's the accumulation of material wealth, you know he who has the most toys wins 73 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:12,320 Or in recreation. Hey, I just I discover God out in nature nature is beautiful and God created all of it 74 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,140 but if you 75 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:15,920 stop short 76 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:21,520 Along a nice stream with pine trees and don't discover Jesus. You're still just as empty as 77 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,640 before you win 78 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,600 The whole journey of life is groping in the dark trying to find that 79 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:38,340 That fulfillment that missing piece to the puzzle. We used to do thousand piece jigsaw puzzles and the long winter nights of Idaho Falls 80 00:06:38,340 --> 00:06:42,120 With our children it would be on the dining room table 81 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,600 and so rather than turn on the TV we would be doing these jigsaw puzzles and 82 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:52,140 Every without fail all the puzzles we did through the years you get down to the end and you're convinced 83 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:54,140 We've lost one piece of the puzzle 84 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,640 And we would look our little schnauzer who was named Brownie and we say Brownie 85 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:05,480 Did you eat this piece of puzzle and he'd pull his ears back and slink off into the other he got blamed for so many things 86 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:12,900 He was not innocent until proven guilty and then we would find the piece of the puzzle fulfill the puzzle and then apologize to Brownie 87 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:15,580 That's the way it would go over and over and over again 88 00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:21,740 But I find in our hearts and our lives and what has brought all of us together 89 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,400 Is that Jesus is that missing piece to the puzzle? 90 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,080 But you see here in Luke chapter 5 91 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,620 Peter Andrew James and John have not fully discovered that yet 92 00:07:36,620 --> 00:07:38,360 in 93 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:42,760 This passage there's ten thoughts in which a follower of Jesus 94 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,880 Engages and begins to surrender their life in a greater way of usefulness to the Lord 95 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,440 It first starts by 96 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:56,040 Retaining meaning that here. How are you going to be captured captivated or a 97 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:02,340 Retraining in your worldview because most of us when we came to Christ our worldview was skewed 98 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:05,920 we had some really funky messed up worldview and 99 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:14,840 Jesus is starting the training process with teaching in verse 1 it says so it was as the multitude pressed about him to hear the 100 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,020 Word of God that he stood by the lake of Gennesaret 101 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:24,000 It's also known as the lake of Chenarith and also the lake of or the Sea of Galilee, but it 102 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,620 Gennesaret and Chenarith mean the shape of a harp if you have an aerial view of the the view of the Sea of Galilee 103 00:08:30,620 --> 00:08:35,800 14 miles long 7 miles wide if you if you've ever been on a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee 104 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,560 It's it's quite euphoric as a Christian like man 105 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:42,880 My Savior was on this Sea of Galilee preaching around these regions 106 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,740 But they came to hear the Word of God that the multitudes were pressing upon him 107 00:08:48,740 --> 00:08:52,640 And isn't that the thing that attracted to you you came to church? 108 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,180 If you're like me, I I dreaded going to church when I was a kid 109 00:08:57,180 --> 00:09:00,760 I did not I had we had some Christian family and we did not go very often 110 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:06,720 But when I got drugged at church, I truly had a drug problem because I did not want to go 111 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,040 and 112 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,000 I 113 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,180 Was not open to it. I tried to go to sleep whatever it might be 114 00:09:13,180 --> 00:09:18,440 but as soon as I discovered Jesus, I fell in love with the Word of God and 115 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:26,160 Scotty and I threw a series of events. We stumbled into Calvary Chapel back in the summer of 1984 of Twin Falls 116 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:34,020 And I would come to church and that preacher would open his Bible begin to teach it and I felt like he had been following me 117 00:09:34,020 --> 00:09:36,020 Around all week you ever have that. I 118 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,240 Could not wait to get to church the next Sunday to find out what I've been up to 119 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:47,780 But it really felt like that. I felt like wow, what why what is this it felt like this weird supernatural mystery 120 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:51,200 But then discovering it in 1st Corinthians chapter 14 121 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:56,440 That's actually prophecy which when somebody's speaking under the anointing of the Spirit of God through the Word of God 122 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:02,800 That the secrets of your hearts will be revealed and you will fall on your face and say God is in this place 123 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:08,520 That's what was happening to me and I wanted to keep coming and find out what God was going to tell me 124 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:16,080 Once you discover that God's Word has the answers to life you begin to press in you begin to lean in 125 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,320 to the transformation that comes from God's Word 126 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:29,100 Because all true transformation is going to happen from you discovering the Word of God through Holy Spirit illumination 127 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,320 The Christian whose Bible is not falling apart 128 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:40,520 Your life is probably falling apart and you just limp along from Sunday to Sunday to get some starvation diet 129 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:45,480 you got to discover how to read the word and all these multitudes they showed up because 130 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:51,440 Jesus and him speaking under the anointed. He's not only declaring the Word of God, but he is 131 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:01,400 We got background music I thought it was Marshall for a moment. No, it's okay. It's not Marshall 132 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:10,780 But so we need retraining your mindset 133 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:17,940 You are either living your life by divine revelation from the Word of God or from human opinion 134 00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:24,720 Those are just two radical different things. I'll be sharing God's Word with someone and they'll tell me something like this. Well 135 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,240 I don't agree with that. I think 136 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,040 And I'm like, well, that's valuable 137 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:34,840 Your opinion right that's super weighty 138 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,840 because you think you're smarter than God and 139 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:43,600 You go through and I know even Christians do this in the sense that I don't think God's Word is really saying that I'm like 140 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:43,800 well 141 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,920 if a third grader read it, that's what I would say to the third grader and 142 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,100 Why do you think you're some professor of idiocy? 143 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:52,700 That you don't get that simple sense 144 00:11:53,260 --> 00:12:00,540 because if the plain sense makes good sense seek no other sense lets you come up with nonsense and 145 00:12:00,540 --> 00:12:08,280 That's the place where we see the church about 50% of the churches in America are now woke because they're embracing 146 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:14,260 Anti-biblical Christian worldview and they're exchanging it for human opinion 147 00:12:14,260 --> 00:12:22,400 Rather than divine revelation and divine revelation Paul the Apostle said let God be true and let every man be a liar 148 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,380 If God is true and somebody comes up with some other human opinion 149 00:12:27,380 --> 00:12:32,360 I don't care what PhD or letters the alphabet they have behind their name 150 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,660 The Bible says that if the fool says in his heart, there is no God 151 00:12:37,660 --> 00:12:40,180 You're a total fool 152 00:12:40,180 --> 00:12:44,700 So the people have discovered the source of being 153 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:50,260 Retrained and having a new worldview, but also there's a regard God is speaking to us 154 00:12:50,260 --> 00:12:54,840 But have you just thought about this morning? You're getting ready. You're brushing your teeth. You're in the shower 155 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:00,240 You're getting the kids ready. You're running around like a chicken with your head cut off and you're trying to get the kids loaded up 156 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,780 Isn't it something it's like a rodeo every single Sunday if you got kids and you're trying to get it done and 157 00:13:04,780 --> 00:13:08,320 Like one woman said she said I we have three kids 158 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,260 I've been trying to get them ready and my husband sits out in the car and he honks the whole time 159 00:13:12,260 --> 00:13:19,380 So I told him I went out that Sunday very frustrated with half my hair curled because I couldn't get the other half 160 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:25,760 And I told him I said let's do this next week you get everybody ready and I'll sit in the car and honk the horn 161 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,760 It's kind of a team effort. You kind of got a you know, everybody participate 162 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:38,340 But do you know that God sees you here Jesus it says regards. It means to take notice of someone in 163 00:13:38,340 --> 00:13:42,240 verse 3 then he got into one of the boats which was 164 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:49,080 Simon's and asked him to put out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat 165 00:13:49,380 --> 00:13:54,460 He sees Simon in his boat and he's cleaning his nets after fishing all night 166 00:13:54,460 --> 00:13:59,060 They would clean the net so that it would preserve them because otherwise they would rot faster. They would deteriorate 167 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:01,020 So here's a hard-working guy 168 00:14:01,020 --> 00:14:07,780 He's fished all night now if you've ever been up all night and then you're invited to a Bible study or a prayer meeting 169 00:14:07,780 --> 00:14:09,340 How's that go? 170 00:14:09,340 --> 00:14:11,340 Let me show you 171 00:14:11,340 --> 00:14:17,360 That's how it goes right I'm exhausted I'm not gonna go to China I I have a grandpa I'm up here 172 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,660 I want to go to sleep right now in this moment from not very much sleep and 173 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:26,340 So the Lord takes notice and I want you to know the Lord takes notice of you 174 00:14:26,340 --> 00:14:28,900 I don't care if you're 14 or you're 72 175 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:34,820 The Lord sees you he sees your heart. He sees your struggles. He sees what's going on in your life 176 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:39,100 He regards you one of my favorite promises in the scriptures 177 00:14:39,100 --> 00:14:44,940 Is that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are? 178 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:51,780 Loyal towards him. Do you know that God's eyes are just looking all around planet earth for men and women 179 00:14:51,780 --> 00:14:56,180 That would want to give their hearts in a loyal way to him 180 00:14:56,180 --> 00:15:01,820 He takes notice of you sometimes we come into a room like this and especially if you're really discouraged or depressed 181 00:15:01,820 --> 00:15:08,060 You come into a room like this and you see the joyful music and you look around and you see these happy families and I believe 182 00:15:08,060 --> 00:15:14,780 The devil that some of his best line in church on Sunday morning as he whispers in your ear. See you're the only one 183 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,200 You're the only one struggling like this you look around like look at all these happy couples 184 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,460 They don't have struggles like bozo and me here 185 00:15:23,460 --> 00:15:31,780 They just don't they just don't have those, you know, look at that family with those beautiful kids. Those kids must be little angels 186 00:15:31,780 --> 00:15:36,600 You have no idea right? We'll truly you just 187 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,660 Everybody in this room is a hot mess dumpster fire 188 00:15:40,660 --> 00:15:43,420 So that's why you're welcome. Here we go 189 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:50,060 This is church and we all have struggles. We all have challenges, but I think sometimes we think that 190 00:15:50,060 --> 00:15:53,000 We've been praying about something God has an answer 191 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:01,920 God don't you notice don't you see isn't that some of the cries of the psalmist throughout the Psalms? Don't you see? 192 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,600 God, where are you? 193 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:09,920 But I want you to know the Lord sees and he sees Peter here and he asked him he says hey, you know Pete 194 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,760 Can I get in your boat? It's Pete's the first uber driver on the Sea of Galilee 195 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:23,340 Gets in the Sea of Galilee pushes offshore a little bit and the water the water is a natural amplification of his voice 196 00:16:23,340 --> 00:16:28,200 He speaks to thousands. These are thousands of people around the Sea of Galilee. He speaks to them and 197 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,340 But here's this 198 00:16:32,340 --> 00:16:35,280 Incredible requests when the Lord begins to ask you 199 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:42,540 To step out and serve him. He usually starts in small ways small ways. God's not asking you to be the next Billy Graham 200 00:16:42,540 --> 00:16:48,580 He's not asking you. You don't have to cross the ocean to see the cross. He's not asking you to go to Africa 201 00:16:48,580 --> 00:16:52,680 He asked you to do some small things people ask me all the time. I love Jesus pastor Rick 202 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,680 I want to get involved and I'm like, well, what's the needs in your church? 203 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:02,080 And I'll say well, they'll they're always saying this and that and this and then I said well just be faithful with something in a simplest 204 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:02,860 way 205 00:17:02,860 --> 00:17:07,540 You have to be doing big things, but he asked him in this simple request 206 00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:09,700 So Pete no doubt exhausted tired 207 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:17,580 But Jesus goes from requesting now to basically being the captain of the ship in verse 4 when he had stopped speaking 208 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:21,900 He said to Simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch 209 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:29,820 Now when Jesus who is a carpenter from Nazareth 210 00:17:30,420 --> 00:17:35,300 Give some fishing advice. I just want you to know if you want some fishing advice in this room 211 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:40,380 You want to talk to Danny? Okay, you want to talk to Danny Kishiyama? 212 00:17:40,380 --> 00:17:43,220 Who is such a crazy? 213 00:17:43,220 --> 00:17:49,020 Radical fisherman that recently when he injured his shoulder the doc said hey we can have you all bunched up here 214 00:17:49,020 --> 00:17:52,300 Or you can learn to fish left-handed. So what he's fishing left-handed 215 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,180 Can't slow him down 216 00:17:55,180 --> 00:17:59,280 Michael Dodge also loves the fish. These are guys I would ask where's your fishing hole? 217 00:17:59,660 --> 00:18:05,060 And only people only if you're their pastor and they really love you. Will they tell you where their fishing hole is? 218 00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:12,440 But I promise you there is a not a day that I've ever known Danny or Michael Dodge that they've ever asked me for fishing advice 219 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,780 ever I 220 00:18:14,780 --> 00:18:16,780 am NOT a fisherman and 221 00:18:16,780 --> 00:18:19,420 Here when Jesus takes over 222 00:18:19,420 --> 00:18:23,500 It's very much like Paul the Apostle in the last chapters of the book of Acts 223 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:26,560 When he warns the captain of the ship, I think if we go on this journey 224 00:18:26,860 --> 00:18:30,700 We're all gonna die and and we're gonna lose the ship, but he's a preacher 225 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:37,620 What's he know but by the end of that storm who's in charge of the boat all the fossil why because he knows God and 226 00:18:37,620 --> 00:18:42,280 Here Jesus tells him to get launch out into the deep 227 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:50,560 Because the Lord goes from a simple request to see if you'll take a simple step now to launch out into the big step 228 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,800 Because if you won't take step one, he's not gonna reveal step two 229 00:18:55,340 --> 00:18:59,780 launch into the deep what seems quite ominous and 230 00:18:59,780 --> 00:19:06,300 Peter's natural resistance is the kind of resistance that you and I have when the Lord asked us to be 231 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:09,540 to do big things that are outside of our realm of 232 00:19:09,540 --> 00:19:14,320 Comfort so it says in verse 5 but Simon answered and said to him master 233 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:20,480 We have toiled all night and caught nothing nevertheless at your word. I will let down the net he's like Lord 234 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,480 I'm gonna do what you're asking, but I'm just letting you know 235 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:25,300 I'm gonna tell you I told you so in advance 236 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:30,440 I'm gonna tell you we fished all night. We know we know what we're doing 237 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,960 I've only fished all night one night. We can't got back just before daybreak 238 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,680 Down by Twin Falls, Myrtle Lake we catfished all night 239 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,780 We were around this wood that we had brought which was green wood 240 00:19:42,780 --> 00:19:45,920 So it gave more smoke than fire and I didn't realize it 241 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,460 but when I fell into bed shortly before the Sun came up I fell into Scotty's bed and 242 00:19:50,780 --> 00:19:55,980 I was covered from head to toe with black soot and I didn't even know and 243 00:19:55,980 --> 00:19:59,980 and so I just fell into bed and Scotty came in there and here he is a 244 00:19:59,980 --> 00:20:05,660 His little brother is in his bed covered with 245 00:20:05,660 --> 00:20:08,460 black soot and 246 00:20:08,460 --> 00:20:14,740 I got a tongue-lashing because before Scotty and I knew Jesus things were much more rough than they are now 247 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:19,620 Right now let's praise the Lord back then it was I'm gonna knock you out. So 248 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:21,620 But 249 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:26,900 The resistance is that hey we fished all night we caught nothing 250 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:30,340 But this is the reality, isn't it? 251 00:20:30,340 --> 00:20:36,620 Why did you fish all night and catch nothing because Jesus is not in the boat 252 00:20:36,620 --> 00:20:38,980 right 253 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:44,620 You've been fishing all night. You've been coming up empty. You're fishing all night in your marriage 254 00:20:45,340 --> 00:20:49,740 Coming up empty you thought this would be the ultimate fulfillment in your life 255 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:57,460 You put all your expectations and hopes in a dream in your husband or in your wife and no human being can fulfill your deepest needs 256 00:20:57,460 --> 00:21:00,700 Yet you're frustrated with that wife or that husband 257 00:21:00,700 --> 00:21:05,660 Because you're putting that burden on them a burden that only God can fulfill 258 00:21:05,660 --> 00:21:11,980 Only God can fulfill my deepest longing to turn my heart into an individual 259 00:21:11,980 --> 00:21:19,100 That's gonna love and serve the people in my life rather than how come they're not loving and serving me the way I want 260 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:22,060 Tell you what, you're gonna fish all night 261 00:21:22,060 --> 00:21:26,940 You're gonna catch nothing over and over and over again 262 00:21:26,940 --> 00:21:31,240 You're gonna come up empty and many of us have been living life 263 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:38,260 Fishing our whole life coming up empty. I was over here at water springs years ago and this guy walks in 264 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:44,340 Him and it he has a songwriter and he had written a number of songs and some of them were on the charts 265 00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:50,180 He was 70 years old and he had lived his whole life his adult life as an alcoholic. He had accolades 266 00:21:50,180 --> 00:21:52,180 They had won awards him in this specific 267 00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:54,780 musician that he had 268 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:59,800 Collaborated with and he came in and as he just set and wept in my office at 70 years of age 269 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,800 They gave him like three months to live 270 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,660 They said 271 00:22:04,660 --> 00:22:08,540 This is my life and he explained his life. He said my life is 272 00:22:08,540 --> 00:22:13,020 Basically like a puff of smoke 273 00:22:13,020 --> 00:22:16,300 I 274 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:18,300 I've lived my whole life this way 275 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:20,860 in emptiness 276 00:22:20,860 --> 00:22:22,860 No fulfillment 277 00:22:22,860 --> 00:22:25,420 And he gave his life to Christ 278 00:22:25,420 --> 00:22:28,380 We baptized him a few months later. He was dead 279 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:33,940 But through that process the Lord reached his kids and God began to do an incredible work 280 00:22:34,460 --> 00:22:35,780 some 281 00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:37,780 of you are the recipients of 282 00:22:37,780 --> 00:22:41,780 your parents fishing all night and they came up with nothing and 283 00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:46,820 they gave you the answer in Jesus from day one of your life and 284 00:22:46,820 --> 00:22:53,180 You've grown up in the church resenting it because you've known Jesus so long. Oh the church. I don't need the church 285 00:22:53,180 --> 00:22:54,540 What happened the church? 286 00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:56,540 Hey, the church is never gonna save anybody 287 00:22:56,540 --> 00:23:01,480 Only Jesus saves and so if you get your eyes on the church 288 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,380 We're gonna let you down 289 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:09,540 Right. This elders gonna let you down. This preacher is gonna let you down this worship person. We're gonna let you down 290 00:23:09,540 --> 00:23:14,660 This is the craziest thing to me in a whole generation of church kids that I know 291 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:21,620 So many of them are out of church and out of fellowship because of the problems that they saw in church and 292 00:23:21,620 --> 00:23:24,180 All those problems can be directly 293 00:23:24,180 --> 00:23:26,460 traced to 294 00:23:26,460 --> 00:23:27,900 humans 295 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:29,900 being in the church 296 00:23:33,180 --> 00:23:35,180 Hello 297 00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:39,460 And I don't know why for whatever reason but I have never been stumbled 298 00:23:39,460 --> 00:23:46,780 By people in their idiosyncrasies or their failures or this or that because I 299 00:23:46,780 --> 00:23:50,220 grew up in such a dysfunction junction 300 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:53,220 When I met Jesus 301 00:23:53,220 --> 00:23:57,820 It was the first time in my life. I met someone who never let me down 302 00:23:57,820 --> 00:24:01,860 And he's never let me down since 40 years 303 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:04,620 You 304 00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:11,840 Might be young you meet the 15 year old they go. I don't want to surrender to Jesus yet. I 305 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:17,040 Want to do some living on the wild side right and I'll do that 306 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:24,820 I'll do that prodigal thing at that 30 after I've sowed my wild oats, then I'll pray for crop failure that that doesn't grow 307 00:24:24,820 --> 00:24:29,260 And then they'll come I want you to know I only have one regret my whole life 308 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:35,060 That I heard the gospel crystal clear when I was 13 years old and that I did not surrender on that day 309 00:24:35,060 --> 00:24:39,260 When regret my life I should have a million, but I got one regret 310 00:24:39,260 --> 00:24:46,260 That I did not walk with him because it is the best thing that's ever happened to me and until you've personally fallen in love 311 00:24:46,260 --> 00:24:51,820 With Jesus, I don't mean family. I don't mean people. I don't mean I don't mean anything but Jesus 312 00:24:51,820 --> 00:24:58,920 He is the way the truth in life and he is the only one that's gonna bring you into a satisfied fulfilled life 313 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:07,040 So when he finally responds in verse 6 it says when they had done this they caught a great number of fish and their 314 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,080 Net was breaking 315 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,800 Holy cow, Jesus is in the boat. We fished all night 316 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:19,040 We caught nothing and I'm convinced Simon hasn't Peter has never caught a caught catch a fish like this 317 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,040 the nets are breaking and 318 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,960 and 319 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:28,660 Because the Lord now is going to bring such an abundance in this realm of his occupation 320 00:25:28,660 --> 00:25:34,620 To point to greater spiritual truths in his life that the nets are breaking and this is what happens when you declare the Word of God 321 00:25:34,620 --> 00:25:40,540 And people begin to be transformed pretty soon. Okay, our nets are breaking. There's not a not enough room in the nursery 322 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:45,120 There's not enough parking spaces. They're not oh wait, we got to figure out how do we put more people? 323 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:51,200 We got to do more services because when Jesus is in the house, you know that wonderful story when the four men brought the man 324 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,440 To Jesus, but they couldn't get to him because the house was packed 325 00:25:53,480 --> 00:26:00,820 They ripped the roof off right to lower Jesus down like if Jesus is being proclaimed in the house. It's a packed house 326 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:04,340 People are being transformed and changed 327 00:26:04,340 --> 00:26:10,500 But that means now the nets are beginning to break as the Lord began to bless the early years at water Springs 328 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:15,880 We had the school and the church and I wanted to do both because I love the kids and I love the church 329 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:22,380 and the only way I could think to duplicate myself was for Scotty to come to be the pastor of the school and 330 00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:27,220 He you know, even in the hallway the kids would be confused 331 00:26:27,220 --> 00:26:32,940 They would call me coach or Pastor Scotty and then they would kind of look at me like a calf looks at a new gate 332 00:26:32,940 --> 00:26:34,940 Like what's wrong with this picture? 333 00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:44,300 But our nets were breaking God was blessing but we just didn't have enough people to do those things I'd asked Gordon to 334 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:46,780 retire early from his 335 00:26:46,780 --> 00:26:51,340 Deputy sheriff position Gordon. I need your help man. Come help me 336 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:57,060 Like there's too many people after six months Gordon working with me said Rick. I've been with you six months 337 00:26:57,060 --> 00:27:01,340 He said I'm busy busier than I've ever been he goes. How did you do this all by yourself? 338 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:08,660 I said I have no clue and no idea but I'm so glad you're doing all this and I couldn't train Jordan Gordon because I didn't 339 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:14,380 Know anything right and Gordon's like well, well train me. I said, I don't know how to train you figure it out 340 00:27:14,380 --> 00:27:16,380 I had to figure it out figure it out 341 00:27:16,380 --> 00:27:20,300 And so our offices were right next to each other and he would listen to me counsel 342 00:27:20,660 --> 00:27:24,280 You know for a year or so and his office was next thing 343 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:29,180 He said I learned to counsel by eavesdropping on Rick counseling. So he said well, I just started doing what you do 344 00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:36,560 But your nets begin to break and now there's this abundance of what God is doing in our lives 345 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,600 So you got to recruit other people to get involved in verse 7 346 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,000 So they signal to their partners and then the other boat 347 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,540 To come and help them and they came and filled both the boats 348 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:52,960 So that they began to sink so the nets are breaking now the boats are sinking and they call so there's Peter Andrew James and John 349 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,600 Now this is not the first meeting according to John chapter 1 350 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:03,000 Andrew and Pete and all these guys have met Jesus earlier. And so this is a little later on 351 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,520 They've been growing on their walk with the Lord listening to the Savior as he preaches around the Sea of Galilee 352 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,560 And so now these guys are recruited 353 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:16,100 To come along and to help because it says James and John or excuse me inverse 354 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:19,760 The realization hits them in verse 8 when Simon Peter saw it 355 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,380 He fell down at Jesus's knees saying depart from me for I am a sinful man 356 00:28:23,380 --> 00:28:27,800 Oh Lord for he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish 357 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:34,420 Which they had taken so also were James and John and the sons of Zebedee who were partners with Simon 358 00:28:34,420 --> 00:28:36,460 Check this out 359 00:28:36,460 --> 00:28:40,340 They all are so thunderstruck now that this is not a normal rabbi 360 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,600 This is the Son of God. This is God in human flesh 361 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:49,900 This is nobody does miracles like that. This is this is overwhelming and do you know when you get a glimpse of the glory of God? 362 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:54,400 It it devastates your soul man. It wrecks your soul 363 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,160 Pete falls on his knees and he's 364 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:04,240 Repenting he's he's asking God please you I can't interact with you. I'm a sinner. You're holy 365 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,660 How do we do this? And 366 00:29:06,660 --> 00:29:12,600 As he in his brokenness and it says James and John the sons of Zebedee and Andrew also, they're all there 367 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,100 they're they're in this place of brokenness and let me just ask you and your 368 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:21,980 Approach to Jesus and how there's been a brokenness Jesus said if you fall on this rock 369 00:29:21,980 --> 00:29:24,380 You will be broken 370 00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:28,480 But if this rock falls on you in judgment, you will be ground to powder. I 371 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,620 Would much rather be broken at Jesus's feet 372 00:29:31,620 --> 00:29:33,900 humbled 373 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:35,980 When I got saved at the age of 19 374 00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:41,120 And the Lord spoke to me. I was home alone and it's still small boys 375 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,060 Why don't you pray I laughed out loud because I could never remember praying 376 00:29:46,060 --> 00:29:47,740 and 377 00:29:47,740 --> 00:29:54,020 Then the presence of the Lord filled the room and I fell on my knees and I just began to sob and beg God to forgive 378 00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:56,020 Me for all the wicked stuff I had been doing 379 00:29:56,020 --> 00:29:57,340 and 380 00:29:57,340 --> 00:30:03,260 That brokenness moment when you meet Jesus now for some it's not as dramatic like you've grown up in Sunday school 381 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:08,860 You've you've went through, you know, you you've grown up in a culture where you don't remember not knowing Jesus 382 00:30:08,860 --> 00:30:15,640 But there is that awareness that you will have at different times as God does something amazing that you go. Wow 383 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:22,420 The God that I serve is awesome. And this is an awe-inspiring moment for Pete Andy 384 00:30:22,420 --> 00:30:27,420 Jimmy and John I mean the whole gang they're just like totally blown away 385 00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:34,660 So then there's a redirecting right when God gets a broken man broken woman and now you're actually broken and surrendered 386 00:30:34,660 --> 00:30:42,220 to the God of the universe to be useful to him to be a servant of his to offer yourself as Romans 1 and 12 387 00:30:42,220 --> 00:30:47,900 Wanted to say to offer your bodies as living sacrifice is wholly unacceptable to the Lord 388 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:52,860 Which is your reading will service when you finally just say Lord here I am. I know you don't have much to work with 389 00:30:52,860 --> 00:30:55,620 here I am and 390 00:30:55,980 --> 00:31:00,380 And when you're in that place and Jesus says in verse 10 and Jesus said to Simon do not be afraid 391 00:31:00,380 --> 00:31:02,780 From now on you will catch men 392 00:31:02,780 --> 00:31:10,340 Peter now is going to have to surrender his life his career. No doubt his dad his grandparents. They were all fishermen 393 00:31:10,340 --> 00:31:16,220 James and John the sons of Zebedee the John's Gospel says that dad was there 394 00:31:16,220 --> 00:31:16,520 I mean 395 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,380 This is the father and son fishing business 396 00:31:18,380 --> 00:31:23,820 right and they have to walk away from the father and son business to go serve Jesus and 397 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,360 Jesus tells him you know how you've been catching fish 398 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,060 Now you're gonna catch men 399 00:31:29,060 --> 00:31:33,840 All through the scriptures God takes that skill that people have and he says now 400 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,380 I want you to surrender that to me and watch what I do 401 00:31:36,380 --> 00:31:43,220 Moses he's at the burning bush. He's been a shepherd for 40 years and the Lord says what's in your hand and he goes 402 00:31:43,220 --> 00:31:48,680 Staff it's rod. He goes throw it down. So he throws it down and it becomes a serpent 403 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,280 Says now pick it up and he picks it up by the tail 404 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,780 that picture 405 00:31:53,820 --> 00:31:58,120 He had a shepherd's staff. He goes Moses. You've been a shepherd for 40 years. I 406 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:06,100 Want you to surrender your life from shepherding sheep to now shepherding people. He doesn't ask him like Peter 407 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:11,440 Hey, you're gonna catch fish. No pizza fishermen you talk to him on a fishing, you know illustration 408 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,540 But I find for many people 409 00:32:14,540 --> 00:32:19,900 Whatever God has called you to and you've been fruitful out to the Lord says hey, do you want to surrender this? 410 00:32:21,020 --> 00:32:26,820 To me, even if you continue in that occupation so that you can be useful one of the I love doing construction 411 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:32,700 I was a tile setter by trade the thing I miss most about tile setting is witnessing to all the heathen dogs on the site 412 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:38,180 Because I was one of them right so to be a witness to these guys and to share Bible stories 413 00:32:38,180 --> 00:32:40,220 And I mean I would just have a lot of fun 414 00:32:40,220 --> 00:32:45,180 I mean there's times that I thought I was gonna get my teeth knocked in but it was just a lot of fun and 415 00:32:46,660 --> 00:32:54,580 And I'm doing this in this occupation, but I'm wanting to share the Lord in the place of my 416 00:32:54,580 --> 00:32:57,300 work 417 00:32:57,300 --> 00:32:59,660 And God begins to use that and goes, okay 418 00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:06,060 You took that step of faith. Now. I'm gonna give you another opportunity and God will give you other opportunities 419 00:33:06,060 --> 00:33:10,740 For Moses is hey, what's in your hand? I want you to surrender that to me 420 00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:17,460 You're gonna shepherd men now women for David David. What's in your hand a sling? I kill bears and lions 421 00:33:17,460 --> 00:33:22,460 With a sling the Lord's like, okay, you're gonna slay Goliath and you've been a shepherd 422 00:33:22,460 --> 00:33:24,460 But now you're gonna shepherd the entire nation of Israel 423 00:33:24,460 --> 00:33:28,340 For 424 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:30,660 Someone like Paul the Apostle. Hey Paul, what's in your hand? 425 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:33,380 It's a pen. I'm a scholar 426 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:37,200 It's like okay you surrender your life to me and you're gonna write half the New Testament 427 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:45,380 Isn't it amazing that you know here Danny kashama as he surrendered his life if you don't know Danny was quite notorious 428 00:33:45,380 --> 00:33:48,680 He was a drug dealer in our area for about 25 years 429 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,420 Which made a very? 430 00:33:51,420 --> 00:33:57,820 Jacked up marriage because you see his beloved Nancy was in probation and parole 431 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:10,500 That's why Nancy and Danny are married three times to each other true story, right 432 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:14,380 Married Nancy got a clue divorced him 433 00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:18,300 Danny smoozed her sweet after married again 434 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,420 She divorces him again 435 00:34:20,420 --> 00:34:24,540 She was about ready to get to married to somebody else that third time finally got daddy's attention 436 00:34:24,540 --> 00:34:30,140 Right and here they are in the front row. So when you asked Danny Danny, how long you been married? 437 00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:32,780 He goes now do you want the accumulated marriages? 438 00:34:32,780 --> 00:34:35,740 or do you want just 439 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:38,780 That right is that right and Nancy is this all correct? 440 00:34:38,780 --> 00:34:46,300 Got ya. Well, I've only heard daddy's side of it. So Nancy could correct us afterwards anyway 441 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:51,420 But how do you go? I mean dealing drugs 442 00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:55,860 You know cooking with the family business at the North, you know 443 00:34:55,860 --> 00:35:01,620 Highway cafe and dealing drugs out the back and eggs out the front. I don't know how that worked Danny, but something like that 444 00:35:01,620 --> 00:35:06,980 But then when he surrendered what's he want to do? What's the do pure word? 445 00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:10,380 now he wasn't convinced because he was doing 12 steps and 446 00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:17,060 Him and Michael Dodge who had to come to Jesus meeting about hey that this pure word 447 00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:21,180 It's different than that. They went round and round and round and round finally Daniel Dan's like, okay 448 00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:23,100 I'm just gonna teach pure pure word 449 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:25,100 and all these years later 450 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:31,240 I've never heard the conversation Danny. What's in your hand a bag of weed? 451 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:38,860 You want you want to go share with other people how they don't need that bag of weed? Yeah, I guess I'll do that 452 00:35:38,860 --> 00:35:47,220 When we surrender you have no idea what God is gonna do I mean honestly you just don't know 453 00:35:47,220 --> 00:35:51,540 Scotty's a heavy equipment operator. He's working a track hoe for a canal company 454 00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:55,700 But he's known as the Twin Falls Canal preacher 455 00:35:55,700 --> 00:36:02,180 Everywhere Scotty's preaching the gospel everywhere. No, he's a heavy equipment operator, but everybody that's gonna do a funeral 456 00:36:02,180 --> 00:36:06,220 They're having Scotty come and he's preaching here and he's preaching there and he's Scotty's like a feather in the wind 457 00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:11,620 Whatever God wants him to do. He just hit there and yawn, but everybody is hearing about Jesus 458 00:36:11,620 --> 00:36:18,880 As he surrenders, you know what you've been digging trenches to bring water to the dry Magic Valley 459 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:23,420 I want to use you to dig trenches for the glory of God 460 00:36:23,420 --> 00:36:31,080 To bring the refreshment of the Spirit of God into people's lives so that they're like well watered souls 461 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:35,000 What's in your hand what's in your heart 462 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,960 Doesn't mean God's gonna pick you up and put you on staff somewhere or send you to go preach 463 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,300 It's just simply this beautiful way to live 464 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:45,640 Like Lord, this is who I am. I don't have much to offer 465 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,620 I know that you're awesome and I'm not that's that's a great lesson to look great 466 00:36:49,620 --> 00:36:55,760 Best truth in the world. There is a God and I'm not him there. There we go. That's all my theology right there 467 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:01,140 But then there's the relocating and there's had to be tough verse 11 468 00:37:01,140 --> 00:37:06,340 So when they had brought their boats to the land they forsook all and followed him 469 00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:10,200 They brought their boats to shore and said say la vie 470 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,840 And they're gonna go follow Jesus 471 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,020 James and John say say la vie 472 00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:17,660 adios 473 00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:20,200 To the family business and they go to serve him 474 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:25,540 You know when we surrender the Lord that means he's in charge. You can't say Jesus is 475 00:37:25,540 --> 00:37:29,140 Lord without doing what the Lord says, correct? 476 00:37:29,140 --> 00:37:33,340 When the Lord called me to go into ministry back in Twin Falls 477 00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:36,780 And I was there for seven years the last two years as an assistant pastor 478 00:37:36,780 --> 00:37:39,760 Then the Lord said go to Pocatello, Idaho and start a church man 479 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:46,120 I really thought I was taking one for the team because there's nothing about smoke at Elo, Idaho that I ever liked in my whole life 480 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:53,820 we had drive through there and we we smell simplot and FMC and the inversion of the stinky fertilizer factories and I'm like 481 00:37:53,820 --> 00:38:00,720 Is this what this means to pick up my cross and deny myself and go to Pocatello, Idaho and serve Jesus? Okay 482 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:05,160 So I went there and started the church and we were going for a while 483 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:12,580 And I'm driving home after doing the church one day and Tammy was asleep with our two new, you know, our young kids and 484 00:38:12,580 --> 00:38:19,400 The Lord spoke to my heart. Hey, you're gonna start this work, but you're not gonna pastor here. I was so ecstatic. I 485 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:24,840 Was pumped we got home and Tammy says well you seem awful chipper with that big smile 486 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,360 I said Jesus just spoke to me and said I don't have to be the pastor of that church 487 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:33,300 I'm gonna start that church handed off and we don't have to live and smoke at the L. Iowa. Whoo. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord 488 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:35,300 And 489 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:38,900 Tammy says was that a thing? Is that the way that works? 490 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,620 I said well Paul the Apostle did it all the time came to town started something left 491 00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:46,780 Went to prison three years later to write a letter. How you doing? You know, I mean, I'm just gonna do it 492 00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:53,600 And then the Lord calls me to go to Idaho Falls and I come here and 493 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:58,260 Spend half my life 494 00:38:58,260 --> 00:39:02,960 In 2017 the Lord spoke to my heart and said hey, you're done here at Water Springs. You've crossed your finish line 495 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,220 I want you to hand it off 496 00:39:04,220 --> 00:39:08,460 And I have some other things for you to do and you're gonna come back here to the Boise Valley and start a work for 497 00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:11,840 Me here. I thought a few things was gonna be like take six months and 498 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,580 I even told people yeah, we're gonna you know, eventually I don't know what's gonna happen 499 00:39:15,580 --> 00:39:17,020 I didn't know what the few things were 500 00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:20,580 You know do some few things and I said but I'm gonna end up in Boise 501 00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:23,900 So the rumor was I mean people that knew me. Hey, where Rick's coming to Boise 502 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:28,060 And then six months went by and then a year went by and all through this 503 00:39:28,060 --> 00:39:32,660 I'm like about every six months I would pray and I would talk to Tim and I say hey do you think you know? 504 00:39:32,660 --> 00:39:38,500 And the timing just just felt like the Lord said you are gonna go but not now. I've been sitting at a stoplight for 505 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:43,320 Basically six years and then the Lord said why don't you start that work? 506 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,720 so we started to work four months ago and star, Idaho and 507 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:52,240 Outside of Boise and we've been going four months. We're meeting in tents we have 508 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,720 We back in the day when I was at Water Springs 509 00:39:55,720 --> 00:40:01,580 I bought a couple of 40 by 40 tents for our vacation Bible school program and I asked Gordon there 510 00:40:01,580 --> 00:40:07,260 They're not using them and so they gave them to us so that we could be meeting in tents over there for the last four 511 00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:07,680 months 512 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,560 We got about a hundred people coming and it's just so exciting 513 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:17,640 Because I only want to be under the spout where the blessings flow out, which means you're the Lord 514 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,640 I'm your servant. Where do you want me to be? 515 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,300 now those few things took me from New York to Phoenix to 516 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:29,140 California and all over the place meeting new people doing new things and God has really 517 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,800 Taught us a lot in the last six years before we came back 518 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,520 There were things we had to learn and we learned those things and that's a blessing 519 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:41,820 Somebody has said life's the best teacher if you can afford the tuition. It's been a rough go, right? 520 00:40:41,820 --> 00:40:47,780 But here we are and then we started this church and we're about a mile from this childhood home 521 00:40:47,780 --> 00:40:53,400 Scotty and I we went to school in I went to school in the sixth grade and star Scotty went to Lowell Scott and meridian 522 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,480 and my sister who's here with us - she was at Lowell Scott and 523 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:06,280 The house is about that little farmhouse where we lived is still there about a mile from where we started this new church and 524 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,160 Some epic things happen there 525 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,980 Your beloved pastor shot himself in the foot with a 38 while we lived there. That was a very exciting thing 526 00:41:14,980 --> 00:41:20,320 And my my sister Shawna fell asleep smoking cigarettes and cut her mattress on fire 527 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,520 So we almost caught the house on fire. That was very exciting 528 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,960 and 529 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:29,080 The old cowboy that's the oldest son of the the people we used to rent from his name's Dale Stevens 530 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,940 And I went knocked on his door and chewed the fat with him for about half an hour one day 531 00:41:32,940 --> 00:41:35,800 And I said hey Dale I said cuz he's living in that house 532 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,960 I said hey Dale we used to live here when I was a kid and 533 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:46,660 And he's kind of thinking back his mind because we Scotty and I were friends with his his youngest brother Leland 534 00:41:46,660 --> 00:41:50,240 and I said, you know Leland and I mean, uh, we were friends with Leland and 535 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:54,400 I said, you know, my brother shot himself in the foot in this rental house 536 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,760 I mean, that's a notable thing right? We remember he remembers things like that 537 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:03,000 He had this blank look my sister started her mattress on fire about burn the house down kind of a blank 538 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,000 Look, then he looked at me and said 539 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,840 Was your mom that really good-looking woman I said, there you go, right 540 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:17,220 Leave it to a man. He doesn't remember the gunshot doesn't remember that, you know, you can be shot in our house 541 00:42:17,220 --> 00:42:22,880 You could start it on fire, but he remembered my good-looking mother which was true. Just very beautiful and 542 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:29,040 When we left when when my mom left that home 543 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:34,320 she left my sister who was 16 at the time just left her there left her with the furniture and 544 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,000 She was homeless for a bit after that 545 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:44,080 Our family is such a messed up thing and yet here today 546 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:52,200 Our search for meaning in life was fulfilled when we met one person 547 00:42:53,860 --> 00:42:55,860 Jesus the Savior of our life 548 00:42:55,860 --> 00:43:02,900 Jesus is my sister Savior. She's Scottish Savior. She's my Savior and you know until we came to that surrender 549 00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:05,560 We were fishing all night and catching nothing 550 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:12,800 but Jesus has so blessed us now with his overflowing goodness and all that he's teaching us and 551 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:19,320 Jesus truly has ruined me for this world. What's the world got to offer me? I mean sex drugs and rock and roll 552 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,820 I mean pleasure is probably the 553 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,060 American idolatry right the pleasure of sin and 554 00:43:27,060 --> 00:43:34,520 So there's a big thrill but boy come payday the next day or the next week or that whatever it's painful, isn't it? 555 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:40,960 Right that pleasure comes with the hangover it comes with the divorce or it comes with all of these other things 556 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:45,640 but Jesus will satisfy your deepest needs and 557 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,400 You know what happens even in your Christian life 558 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,400 You go through these seasons where you're just dry 559 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,760 You've lost touch with Jesus. You haven't been in the word 560 00:43:54,760 --> 00:44:01,320 You haven't been abiding yet haven't been really planted by the rivers of living water and God's Word refreshing you 561 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,660 You're just going through the motions and here you are 562 00:44:03,660 --> 00:44:10,420 You're like this tree that everybody that looks at your life right now would say you're a healthy tree 563 00:44:10,420 --> 00:44:15,960 My dad has some friends that in California. They're crazy about trees, right? 564 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,480 You if you move on to a piece of property, you can't cut that oak tree down 565 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,760 Because they're certified and they're certified and so you have to ask for permission to cut your own tree down on your own property 566 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,920 so this guy built this beautiful new home and 567 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,760 In this beautiful new home 568 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,820 There was this certified oak tree out there and they have to come out and you know certify that's great 569 00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:43,520 And then a big storm came and that tree fell over and went right through the new house. They're supposed to certify that as 570 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:49,360 Healthy it went right through David's house didn't pop and when they looked inside it was total dry rot 571 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,680 They're like you couldn't tell on the outside the leaves were still there 572 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:58,980 But I want you to know in this room there are those who are just overflowing 573 00:44:58,980 --> 00:45:05,840 With the abundant life of Jesus, but there's also people in this room that you are like that oak tree 574 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,840 There are leaves on 575 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,340 the branches 576 00:45:11,340 --> 00:45:18,440 And on the outside it looks great but you know on the inside of your heart your mind your marriage 577 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,920 your private life is 578 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,120 dry rot and 579 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,080 It's only waiting for the right storm to bust you wide open 580 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,160 Break you wide open 581 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,880 And I hope when that day comes 582 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,160 And it breaks you wide open 583 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:42,360 That there is a refreshing work of grace and Jesus is love because Jesus is compassionate. He is merciful. He is forgiving and 584 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:47,020 He will do a fresh new work in your heart in your life, too 585 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:53,980 But you know what? You don't have to have that you can just choose to abide in him each day 586 00:45:53,980 --> 00:46:00,580 Peter later in life when Jesus taught some really hard things he was saying in John 6 587 00:46:00,580 --> 00:46:04,000 Hey, if you don't eat my flesh and drink my blood you can't follow me 588 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:10,880 It sounded like cannibalism Jesus was speaking to us about a spiritual reality unless you feed on who I am and 589 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:16,680 Are nourished and experience all the goodness of me. You're you're gonna be malnourished, right? 590 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,000 You're gonna be dehydrated, but they didn't get that. They only heard the physical illustration 591 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,260 So it's a lot of the disciples left on that day and when they left Jesus turned to the twelve 592 00:46:24,260 --> 00:46:26,920 Apostles and he said are you guys gonna leave too? 593 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:32,480 And Peter looked Pete looks at him. I mean, here's the guy with the he caught the he's like 594 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,480 Lord where we gonna go? 595 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,960 Lose paraphrase you've ruined us for this life 596 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,000 Right. I mean you alone have the words of eternal life 597 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:48,360 We have believed and come to know that you are the Christ you are the Messiah you alone have the words of eternal life 598 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,360 There's nothing 599 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,560 That this world could offer me that would lure me 600 00:46:54,560 --> 00:47:00,940 From the incredible intimacy and abundant life that you bring when my soul is connected to you 601 00:47:00,940 --> 00:47:08,520 The thing I long for most is his love and his joy and his peace and that's what the world is looking for 602 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,300 They want love they want joy and they want peace. They look for it in all the wrong places 603 00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:16,080 But that's what they're looking for. And Jesus the Savior is here 604 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,400 Alive and well resurrected from the dead present with us 605 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,780 To do that work in each one of our hearts. Let's pray father 606 00:47:23,780 --> 00:47:28,840 We ask that your spirit would bring the refreshment Jesus that you have 607 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:33,560 Ordained this Sunday to be for the human hearts here 608 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:37,300 Lord I ask for the men and the women the young and the old Lord 609 00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:44,980 I pray that your spirit would draw them into this place that you would break us all wide open Lord in a fresh renewed way 610 00:47:44,980 --> 00:47:49,200 To surrender to you 611 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:56,420 So we're just an attitude of prayer if you want to open your heart and just invite the Lord to do a work of 612 00:47:56,420 --> 00:47:59,540 Refreshment inside of you. I just want to invite you to pray with me right now 613 00:47:59,540 --> 00:48:04,200 Lord Jesus, please forgive me 614 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,200 For 615 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,140 Going through the motions 616 00:48:09,140 --> 00:48:12,660 The routine 617 00:48:12,660 --> 00:48:15,180 Playing the game 618 00:48:15,180 --> 00:48:18,460 You know and I know I 619 00:48:18,460 --> 00:48:22,540 Just feel dead inside 620 00:48:22,540 --> 00:48:26,060 And Lord, please forgive me 621 00:48:26,060 --> 00:48:28,980 Then my heart and mind 622 00:48:28,980 --> 00:48:32,300 I've been focused on the wrong things 623 00:48:33,380 --> 00:48:35,380 Thinking other things are gonna satisfy me 624 00:48:35,380 --> 00:48:39,980 And they've been leading me astray 625 00:48:39,980 --> 00:48:46,300 So Lord today I just ask for your forgiveness 626 00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:53,520 You're cleansing and your redemption Lord buy back 627 00:48:53,520 --> 00:49:02,820 Lord these lost years of the hardness of my heart and bring your abundant life 628 00:49:03,660 --> 00:49:07,820 In your grace in Jesus name amen 629 00:49:07,820 --> 00:49:11,740 Amen 630 00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:13,740 our friend Roxy 631 00:49:13,740 --> 00:49:20,180 Boyle likes to say that she prays that the Lord doesn't have her get old and cold and 632 00:49:20,180 --> 00:49:24,800 If you know Roxas heart, she's got such a truly 633 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,040 Beautiful heart for the Lord. Let's stand together 634 00:49:29,060 --> 00:49:33,140 Once you know as we sing this closing song if you need prayer the prayer team is gonna be over here and 635 00:49:33,140 --> 00:49:40,480 If you're going to be baptized you can head your way out there for those who are gonna be baptized 636 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,340 They have a few minutes to set things up 637 00:49:42,340 --> 00:49:46,820 But I want to invite all of you to celebrate with those who are gonna follow the Lord in baptism today 638 00:49:46,820 --> 00:49:53,540 And then afterwards we're gonna have a potluck and just have a great meal and food and fellowship together. So I pray that 639 00:49:53,540 --> 00:49:58,820 We can rejoice with those who are making that decision. Let's worship the Lord 640 00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:01,100 with this closing song