Peter

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0:00 All right. Okay, today we're thinking about the story where Jesus walks on water in Matthew chapter 14. I'm starting at verse 22. It says, immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him into the other side. And while he dismissed the crowds, and then after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. And when evening came, he was there alone. But the boat by this time was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves for the wind

0:33 was against them. And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, it's a ghost. And they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, take heart, it's I, don't be afraid. And Peter answered him, Lord, if it's you, come in me to come to you on the water. He said, come. So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me.

1:06 Jesus immediately reached out and saved, took his hand and took hold of him, saying, oh, you have little faith, why did you doubt? And when he got into the boat and the wind ceased and those in the boat worshiped him, saying, truly, you are the Son of God. I'm here today with Carol Forrest and Brian Carlson. Maybe you heard of him. I asked him to be here with us because I like the questions they ask of scripture. Guys, what does that story make you think of? I always think of wild Peter. I think because I think he's a little bit wild.

1:37 Wild Peter's out. You say wild Peter. Maybe impulsive. But it seems logical to ask Jesus, hey, you're standing out there. If you're real, let me come stand out there with you. And it's just thinking about him stepping out and then like, oh my gosh, what did I just do? Right. And it's scary because I feel like I've been in that situation like, yeah, I'm going to go for this. And then like, whoa. And then I love the part where Jesus immediately picks him up out of the water.

2:13 It's fine. He ran out of faith. It's fine. Here's a little bit more. Let's go. Maybe they walk back to the boat. Who knows? No. Got in. We're safe. I just had the image when you're saying that. I don't think I've ever had the image before of Peter as wild coyote running off the car and then realizing he's super warm. That's really cool. Yeah. I just feel like he's so like previous stories of Peter like slicing off the ear of the car

2:46 and like just denying Jesus and then getting forgiven by Jesus. There's a lot of things like relatable things that Peter does. Wow. Yeah, wild, impulsive. A lot of things go through my head. I think when I was thinking I was like, oh man, what near death experience have I had? And I've had one. Oh gosh. And then my son had one where in Ethiopia he started choking and he got so bad that he was starting to turn colors and I was freaking out and then the one of me is, I was at an

3:20 intersection and the oncoming traffic was oddly as kind of aligned with the opposite direction and you got to shift kind of mid intersection a little bit to they got to shift to their right. Well, they weren't and I was in the car with my wife and it just, I mean, I put my, you know, I did the whole seatbelt thing for her and I thought we were going to die. Yeah. That happens very, I mean, everything goes so quickly, but everything stops and what would it be like to almost to think you're dying on Jesus, just go, Hey, it's all right.

3:50 Interesting. That's a, that he has that power to go. It's going to be all right. Yeah. No, that's interesting. Now I see what you're saying. Like I had a bike accident, like where I, I ran over these railroad tracks and saw this car coming and everything slows down. And you can, I can remember like the clicking of the thoughts and the realization and it's interesting to imagine Jesus coming into that moment at that pace and everything picking

4:22 back up and being okay. Yeah. And Peter, you know, there were, you had expert fishermen in that boat. So it was a storm, right? It's not that it's the wind. It was a storm. Yeah. And so like it was, it was a good one. If they were getting a little freaked out, it was a big one and they couldn't handle it. And so they're like, that's interesting. And I also, I would love to know the original translation that maybe you know this, but

4:54 what was Jesus, I hope Jesus is a tone was loving. I know that's what I'm just like, what a downer. I'm just like, I'm just, I'm just dying and you're sitting here like, Hey man, come on. Suck it up. I want to think he's, it's a loving like, Hey man, like, remember me, I got you. Yes. Well, and I think it's worth iterating. It's set a bunch. But Peter clearly still has faith in Jesus because he asks Jesus to save him. And so the invitation is for us, whether it's life like near death or just anxiety or the

5:34 test or the confusion to in the midst of doubting and being afraid, still know that Jesus is standing outside of it and can rescue us. And that applies whether we're sinking in the Sea of Galilee or dealing with storm, barreling down on us. Yes. True. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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