Peter a Man With Emotions (1)

Feelings or Facts

LISTEN TO THE SERMON BY PASTOR TAYLOR “BACK TO OUR ROOTS” APRIL

FEELINGS OR FACTS

MATTHEW 16:22, MATTHEW 17:4, MATTHEW 18:21, MATTHEW 26:33-35, MATTHEW 26:58-75.

THESE VERSES IS ABOUT WHAT PETER THOUGHT HE COULD DO FOR JESUS BUT PETER FAILED AND WEPT BITTERLY.

BUT WHEN WE LOOK IN THE BOOK OF ACTS WE SEE HOW JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT USED PETER FAR MORE THAN HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED.

ACTS 1:13-15, ACTS 2:14, ACTS 2:37-38, ACTS 3:1-12, ACTS 9:34-40, ACTS 12:11, GALATIANS 2:8-14, 1 PETER 1:1, 2 PETER 1:1.

FEELINGS FEELINGS FEELINGS

WHAT ARE FEELING

THERE ARE VARIOUS DEFINITIONS FOR FELLING AND EMOTIONS

DEFINITION > WEBSTER

1 (a) A CONSCIOUS MENTAL REACTION (SUCH AS ANGER OR FEAR) SUBJECTIVELY EXPERIENCED AS STRONG FEELING USUALLY DIRECTED TOWARD A SPECIFIC OBJECT AND TYPICALLY ACCOMPANIED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN THE BODY

(b) : A STATE OF FEELING.

MY OBJECTIVE IS TO SHOW US AS MEN HOW TO TRUST IN GOD AND NOT OUR FEELINGS.

PASTOR BOB GEORGE USE TO SAY THAT FELLING IS A SECONDARY RESPONSE TO OUR THOUGHTS. IF WE ARE ANGRY IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE THING ANGRY THOUGHTS. IF WE ARE HAPPY IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE THINKING HAPPY THOUGHTS

PASTOR TAYLOR TELL US THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US OUR 5 SENSES IN ORDER FOR US TO RELATE BECAUSE WE ARE RELATIONAL BEINGS.

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT OUR 5 SENSES, ONE OF WHICH IS TOUCH. I AM TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS / EMOTIONS.

OUR STUDY TO DAY IS ABOUT OUR FELLING .

HOW WE DARE NOT TO HAVE FAITH IN OUR FEELINGS BUT TO HAVE FAITH IN OUR GOD.

WE WILL LOOK AT SOME OF THE EMOTIONAL FELLING THAT PETER REACTED ON AND HAD TO REFOCUS HIS FAITH IN GOD / IN JESUS THE CHRIST.

MY QUESTION TO YOU TO DAY IS DO EVER GET AN EMOTIONAL STATE WITH GOD? DO YOU EVER GET ANGRY

WE HEAR ON MANY PREACHING OCCASION OF PETER PUTTING HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH. HE SPEAKS BEFORE HE THINKS.

THERE ARE MEN LIKE THAT. I AM NOT ONE. BUT I AM VERY EMOTIONAL. THE REASON I DON’T SPEAK MUCH IS BECAUSE I TEND TO CRY. MY BUDDY BRUCE CALL ME THE CRYING PREACHER, I CRY LIKE ISAIAH HE SAYS.

BEFORE I GET TO EMOTIONS I WANT TO TOUCH ON FEELINGS.

LET ME TELL YOU MY 2 DOLLAR STORY

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IN OCTOBER - SEPTEMBER 2018 IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE A CHILD SUPPORT JUDGE NAMED LU ANN BALLEW, ORDER A MOTHER TO CHANGE HER 8 MONTH SON’S FIRST NAME FROM MESSIAH TO MARTIN. SHE SAID THE CHILD NAME SHOULD BE CHANGED BECAUSE “MESSIAH” IS A TITLE THAT IS HELD ONLY BY JESUS CHRIST”

THE BOY’S NAME WAS MESSIAH DESHAWN MARTIN. SHE HAD IN HER WRITTEN ORDER THAT THE NAME “MESSIAH WAS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE BABY AND LABELING THIS CHILD “MESSIAH” PLACES AND UNDUE BURDEN ON HIM THAT AS A HUMAN BEING, HE CANNOT FULFILL.”

SHE WENT ON TO STATE THAT THE NAME WOULD LIKLEY OFFEND THE MANY RESIDENT OF COCKE COUNTY, WITH ITS LARGE CHRISTIAN POPULATION.

HOWEVER IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH JUDGE TELFORD . FORGETY OVERTURNED BALLEW’S DECISION, SAYING THAT SHE ACTED UNCONSTITUTIONALLY.

JALEESA MARTIN THE MOTHER AND HER TWO OTHER SONS NAME MICAH AND MAISON, ALONG WITH KRISTI DAVIS HER ATTORNEY AND THE BOY’S FATHER NAME JAWAAN McCULLOUGH, SAID THE ORIGINAL RULING WAS RIDICULOUS.

NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?

THE REASON I ASK IS BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE NAME “MESSIAH”

AND WHEN IT COMES TO PETER, TO HELP US DISCOVER WHAT WAS “THE MESSIAH” TO HIM.

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PETER

A FISHERMAN AND ONE OF THE TWELVE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST AND AN APOSTLE OF THE EARLY CHURCH

PETER SPOKE OF CHRIST WHO SAVES US FROM OUR SINS

PAUL SPOKE OF CHRIST WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS

PETER WAS A HUMBLE FISHERMAN WHO THE HOLY SPIRIT LIFTED UP

PAUL WAS A HIGH OFFICIAL IN THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY WHO CHRIST HUMBLED ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD.

WE CAN AGREE THAT BOTH MEN WERE POWERFUL PRO CLAIMERS OF JESUS CHRIST

IF WE CAN, IN THIS TALK, I WANT TO FOCUS ON PETER .

PURPOSE THIS SESSION

TO EXPLORE PETER’S MIND SET (VIEW) OF JESUS

AND TO EXAMINED OURSELVES AS TO HOW WE VIEW JESUS IN OUR EVERY DAY LIFE.

LET’S START OUT BY LOOKING AT HOW PETER WAS INTRODUCED TO JESUS.

LET’S LOOK AT JOHN CHAPTER 1 VERSE THIRTY FIVE THROUGH VERSE FORTY TWO

Andrew and Peter Follow Christ

J0HN:1 35 TO 42

35 Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. 36 And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God!”

37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 38 Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?”

They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), “where are You staying?”

39 He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour).

40 One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus.

Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone).

The New King James Version. (1982). (Jn 1:35–42). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

PETER’S INTRODUCTION TO JESUS AS “THE MESSIAH”. JOHN 1:35-42

THE BOOK OF JOHN IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR GOSPEL THAT GIVE THIS DETAIL ACCOUNT OF ANDREW AND PETER FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS. CHAPTER 1 TELL HOW ANDREW WAS FIRST A FOLLOWER OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. AND HOW ANDREW CAME TO HIS BROTHER, AND TOLD HIM ABOUT JESUS.

IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER FOUR AND THE BOOK OF MARK CHAPTER ONE IT GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF ANDREW AND PETER FISHING WHEN JESUS SPEAKS TO THEM SAYING FOLLOW ME AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHER OF MEN, AND THEY FOLLOW HIM.

IN THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER 5 IT GIVES A DETAIL ACCOUNT OF SIMON PETER AND OTHER FISHERMEN NEAR THE SHORE, WASHING THEIR NETS AFTER FISHING ALL NIGHT. JESUS GETS INTO SIMON PETER’S BOAT AND ASK PETER TO PULL LITTLE AWAY FORM THE SHORE, AND JESUS STARTED TO PREACH TO THE CROWD OF PEOPLE FROM SIMON PETER’S BOAT. AFTER JESUS HAD FINISH TALKING TO THE CROWD, HE SAID TO SIMON PETER, LAUNCH OUT IN THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS. EVEN THOUGH PETER WAS HESITANT HE DID IT ANY WAY. AND WHEN HE DID, THEY CAUGHT SO MUCH FISH FROM PETER ‘S BOAT TO THE POINT THAT THEY HAD TO CALL FOR HELP FROM OTHER FISHER MEN THAT WAS IN A BOAT CLOSE BY. IT WAS ENOUGH FISH TO FILL BOTH BOATS.

EVEN WITH THE ACCOUNT IN MATHEW AND MARK AND THE DETAIL ACCOUNT IN THE BOOK OF LUKE, I HAVE FOUND THAT, WHAT JOHN HAS SAID HERE IS ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING PETER PERCEPTION AND EXCEPTION OF JESUS.

I WILL ATTEMPT TO SHARE EVENTS IN (THE FOUR GOSPELS) MATHEW, MARK AND LUKE FROM THE VIEW POINT OF “WE HAVE FOUND THE MESSIAH” IN THE BOOK OF JOHN, IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE HOW PETER’S PERCEPTION AFFECTED HOW HE INTER-ACTED WITH JESUS CHRIST.

WE SEE HERE THAT ONE OF JOHNS THE BAPTIST FOLLOWERS WAS ANDREW, WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES OF JESUS.

ANDREW WENT AND TOLD PETER HIS BROTHER “WE HAVE FOUND THE MESSIAH.

THE QUESTION IS, WHAT DID THAT MEANS TO PETER WHEN HE HEARD ANDREW SAY THAT. “WE HAVE FOUND THE MESSIAH?

IT IS IMPORTANT TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANT TO PETER IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND PETER’S VIEW OF JESUS THE CHRIST, IN LIGHT OF HIS INTERACTION WITH JESUS. WHEN I SAY INTERACTION I MEAN PETER DAY TO DAY ACTIONS WITH JESUS. MAINLY HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH JESUS

FIRST LET US GET AN UNDERSTAND OF WHAT “THE MESSIAH” MEANS.

IT MEANS THE ANOINTED ONE - THE CHOSEN ONE - JESUS IS THE ANOINTED ONE.

MESSIAH IS NOT A NAME… MESSIAH IS A TITLE… JUST LIKE CHRIST IS NOT JESUS LAST NAME.. JESUS IS THE CHRIST THE ANOINTED ONE. NO JESUS PARENTS LAST NAME WAS NOT CHRIST. THEIR NAMES WAS NOT MARY AND JOSEPH CHRIST. AND NONE OF JESUS’S BROTHERS AND SISTER HAD THE LAST NAME OF CHRIST. CHRIST IS A TITLE.

THE MESSIAH AND THE CHRIST BOTH MEANS THE ANOINTED ONE. THE MESSIAH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE CHRIST IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU FIND

THE ANOINTED PROPHET

- IN FRIST KING 19 AND VERSE 16 - ELIJAH ANOINTS ELISHA

THE ANOINTED PRIEST

- WHEN AARON WAS ANOINTED AS THE FIRST HIGH PRIEST OF ISRAEL IN LEVITCUS 8:12

THE ANOINTED KING

- WHEN SAMUEL ANOINTED SAUL AND DAVID AS KINGS OF ISRAEL. IN FRISR SAMUEL CHPTS. 10 AND 16

WE SEE THESE MEN AND OTHER HELD “ANOINTED POSITIONS”

YET THE OLD TESTAMENT TOLD OF A DELIVERER ANOINTED BY GOD TO REDEEM ISRAEL IN ISAIAHA CHAPTER 42 AND CHAPTER 61...

“THE MESSIAH” MEANS THE ANOINTED ONE “THE CHRIST” MEANS THE ANOINTED ONE

WELL NOW WHAT DO ANOINTED MEANS?

PASTOR’S TAYLOR SAY THAT ANOINTED MEAN THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU THE ABILITY AND THE AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT GOD’S ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU LIFE.

{[( TO BE DELETED STARTS HERE REPEATED IDEAL AND STATEMENTS)]}

LET’S LOOK AT THEIR EXPECTATION OF THE MESSIAH

A) THE EXPECTATION OF THE MESSIAH.

(SEE TEXT REFERENCES LATER)

THE OLD TESTAMENT GIVES US SOME EXCEPTIONS THAT ANDREW AND PETER MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING AND HOPING FOR WHEN THEY THOUGHT OF “THE MESSIAH”.

THE MESSIAH WOULD BE HEBREW MALE CHILD WHO WILL GOVERN ISRAEL AND CARRY THE NAME OF WONDERFUL, COUNCILOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE, (ISAIAH 9:6) ISAIAH. 9 6

THIS COULD HAVE BEEN WHAT PETER HAD IN MIND WHEN HE HEAR “WE HAVE FOUND THE MESSIAH”

{ THE MESSIAH ALSO HAD TO HAVE BEEN BORN OF A VIRGIN

A PROPHET LIKE MOSES DEUT. 18:18

I WILL RAISE UP FOR THEM A PROPHET LIKE YOU FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN, AND WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH, AND HE SHALL SPEAK TO THEM ALL THAT I COMMAND HIM.

THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY GIVES A LOT OF INSTRUCTION AND REQUIREMENT OF A PROPHET. THIS IS JUST ONE OF THEM. WE REALLY WON’T BE ABLE TO HIT THEM ALL.

A PRIEST IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK FOUND IN PSL. 110:4. (PSALM 110).

THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT RELENT, “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.

JESUS IS THAT PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER MELCHIZEDEK. HE HAD NO BEGINNING AND HE HAD NO END. THAT SPEAKS TO JESUS ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD

A KING IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 9 VERSE 7 (ISAIAH 9:7) THE MESSIAH HAS TO BE THE SON OF DAVID FROM THE STEM OF JESSE

OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE WILL BE NO END, UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND OVER HIS KINGDOM, TO ORDER IT AND ESTABLISH IT WITH JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE FROM THAT TIME FORWARD, EVEN FOREVER. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOST WILL PERFORM THIS.}

{[( TO BE DELETED ENDS HERE)]}

PETER MAY HAVE ANTICIPATED THE MESSIAH AS A FUTURE DELIVERER AND SAVIOR OF ISRAEL WHO WOULD RESCUE HIS PEOPLE AND USHER IN A TIME OF PROSPERITY AND BLESSING.

PETER’S EXPECTATIONS OF “THE MESSIAH” IS THAT “THE MESSIAH” WAS TO BE THE CONQUERING KING.

PETER MUST HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A DELIVERER WITH AN ARMY WHO WOULD DELIVERER ISRAEL.

“THE MESSIAH” THAT WOULD TAKE OVER THE ROMANS, AND ESTABLISH THE THRONE OF DAVID.

“THE MESSIAH” WHO WOULD RULE THE WORLD.

PETER MUST NOT HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A WEAK MESSIAH, NOT A KIND, AND TENDERHEARTED MESSIAH.

PETER WAS LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY WITH POWER

A ROD OF POWER TO TAKE OVER.

AND PETER WAS GOING TO HELP “THE MESSIAH” TO TAKE OVER.

PETER’S MIND SET WAS “THE MESSIAH” CAN COUNT ON ME TO PROTECT HIM

YOU KNOW HOW WE ARE, AS MEN WE WANT TO BE ON THE WINNING TEAM. AND WIN. WE WANT TO RULE OVER EVERYBODY AND NOT BE RULED UNDER BY NOBODY

WE AS MEN FELL THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE CHARGE. AND TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. WE ARE LIKE PETER, WE WILL TRY TO PROTECT OUR INTEREST.

2) ? IMAGINE ANDREW AND PETER AS LITTLE BOYS HEARING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE MESSIAH. AS FOR AS WE KNOW ANDREW WAS PETER’S THE ONLY BROTHER THEY HAD THERE WAS NO OTHER BROTHER IN THEIR FAMILY AND THERE WAS NO SISTERS EITHER.

SO PETER AND HIS BROTHER ANDREW, GREW UP TOGETHER AND GOT TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR HISTORY AT HOME, AT WORK AS FISHERMEN AND AT THE TEMPLE.

THEIR HISTORY ALWAYS GAVE THEM HOPE IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD TO SEE THE DAY THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME.

{(JESUS SAID TO ANDREW AND ONE OF THE OTHER DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHEN THEY ASKED HIM WHERE WAS STAYING “COME AND SEE”). THESE THREE WORDS MUST HAVE RESONATED WITH ANDREW.

THIS WAS JESUS’S WORDS OF EVANGELISM.

MEN DO WE INVITE OUR BROTHERS TO “COME AND SEE”?

SUPPOSE SOMEONE ASK YOU WHAT ABOUT THIS?, OR WHAT ABOUT THAT? ARE YOU ABLE TO SAY COME AND SEE? OR COME AND LET ME SHOW YOU?

PLEASE UNDERSTAND PEOPLE ARE ASKING QUESTIONS)}

DO WE HEAR THE QUESTIONS AND DO WE HAVE THE ANSWER. JESUS IS THE ANSWER FOR THE WORLD TODAY FOR THERE IS NO OTHER FOR JESUS IS THE WAY. ACTTS 4 12 SAYS NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN UNTO MEN WHEREBY MEN MUST BE SAVED|

BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT

THE PEOPLE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT JUST LIKE PETER HAD STRONG EXPECTATION OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH

IT CAN BE COMPARED TO WHAT WE AS BELIEVERS LOOK FORWARD TO TODAY.

THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS AND THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST.

AS PASTOR TOOK US THOUGH THE BOOK OF REVELATION, HE LET US KNOW THAT THESE ARE TWO GLORIOUS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE.

WHEN IN COMES TO THE RAPTURE, IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:50-52 FIRST COR. FIFTEEN AND VERSE 52 SAYS IN A MOMENT IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP.

WHEN THAT HAPPENS, YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THE MOMENT.

IN THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER OF REVELATION IN TALK ABOUT JESUS RETURNING TO THE EARTH TO ESTABLISH HIS REIN ON EARTH. AND THAT WE THE CHURCH “THE ANOINTED ONES” WILL REIN WITH HIM FOREVER AND EVER.

3) Q: HAVE YOU TOLD YOUR BROTHER OR BROTHERS ABOUT JESUS?

IT IS NOT OUT OF THE ORDINARY THAT ANDREW WENT AND TOLD HIS BROTHER PETER ABOUT JESUS. AND WHEN PETER WAS INTRODUCED TO JESUS. HE REALLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT BUT JESUS KNEW PETER EVEN BEFORE THEY MEET. JESUS CALLED HIM BY BIRTH NAME SIMON SON OF BAR JONAH. THEN JESUS SAID I WILL CALL YOU PETER (A NEW NAME)(PETER IS NOT THE BIRTH NAME THAT HIS MOTHER AND FATHER GAVE HIM) PETER’S BIRTH NAME WAS SIMON.

WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY IS THAT JESUS ALREADY KNOWS YOUR BROTHER AND HE EVEN KNOWS HIS NICK NAME OR HIS NEW NAME. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TALK TO YOUR BROTHER AND INTRODUCE HIM TO JESUS. JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL DO THE REST.

HOW DO YOU DO THAT? JUST TELL YOU BROTHERS IN YOU FAMILY, BROTHERS ON THE JOB AND BROTHER IN YOU CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE AND SAY “LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT JESUS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR ME” YOU GOT A STORY, JUST TELL IT. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR.

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JUST LIKE JESUS KNOWS WHAT’S IN OUR MIND, JESUS KNEW WHAT WAS IN PETER’S MIND. THAT COULD BE WHY JESUS ASK TWO CRITICAL QUESTIONS. THESE QUESTIONS WERE ASKED IN CHAPTER 16: VERSES 13 - 15

WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN AM?

WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?

.When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

MATTHEW 16:13-17

JESUS ASKED TWO QUESTION AND HE GOT FOUR ANSWERS TO ONE QUESTION AND ONE ANSWER TO THE SECOND QUESTION.

LETS LOOK AT THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?

1. SOME SAY JOHN THE BAPTIST -

WHY SAY JESUS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST?

JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD NOT TO LONG BEEN BEHEADED BY HEROD BY THE REQUEST OF HIS WIFE AND HER DAUGHTER. THERE WERE FOLLOWERS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST THAT BELIEVED JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD BEEN REINCARNATED, AND THAT JESUS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST 1

2. SOME SAY ELIJAH

3. OTHERS SAY JEREMIAH

4. SOME SAY ONE OF THE PROPHETS

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SOME SAY

IN GENISES HE IS THE CREATOR

IN EXODUS HE IS THE REDEEMER

IN LEVITICUS HE IS YOUR SANCTIFICATION

IN NUMBERS HE IS YOUR GUIDE

IN DEUTERONOMY HE IS YOUR TEACHER

IN JOSHUA HE IS YOU MIGHTY COUNSEL

IN JUDGES HE GIVES YOU VICTORY OVER YOUR ENEMIES

IN RUTH HE IS YOUR KINSMAN, YOUR LOVER. YOUR REDEEMER

IN 1 SAMUEL HE IS THE ROOT OF JESSIE

IN 2 SAMUEL HE IS THE SON OF DAVID

IN 1 & 2 KINGS HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS

IN 1 7 2 CHRONICLES HE IS YOU INTERSESIOR AND HIGH PRIEST

IN EZRA HE IS YOUR TEMPLE YOUR HOUSE OF WORSHIP

IN NEHEMIAH HE IS YOUR MIGHTY WALL PROTECTING YOUR FROM YOUR ENEMIES

IN ESTER HE STANDS IN THE GAP TO DELIVER YOU FROM YOUR ENEMIES

IN JON HE IS THE ARBITRATOR WHO UNDERSTAND YOUR TROUBLES AND HAS THE POWER TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

IN PSALMS HE IS YOUR SONG AND YOUR REASON TO SING

IN PROVERBS HE IS YOUR WISDOM FOR LIFE HELPING YOU MAKE SENSE OF IT

IN ECCLESIASTES HE IS YOUR PURPOSE FOR LIVING

IN SONGS OF SOLOMON HE IS YOUR LOVER, YOUR ROSE OF SHARRON

IN ISIAH HE IS THE MIGHT COUNCIL THE PRINCE OF PEACE THE EVERLASTING FATHER

IN JEREMIAH HE IS YOUR BALM OF GILEAD

IN LAMENTATIONS HE IS THE EVER FAITHFUL ONE

IN EZEKIEL HE IS THE WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WHEEL

IN DANIEL HE IS THE ANCIENT OF DAYS

IN HOSEA HE IS YOUR FAITHFUL LOVER

IN JOEL HE IS YOUR REFUGE KEEPING YOU SAFE IN TIMES OF TROUBLES

IN AMOS HE IS THE HUSBAND WHO WILL STAY BY YOUR SIDE

IN OBADIAH HE IS THE LORD OF THE KINGDOM

IN JONAH HE IS THE SALVATION BRING YOU BACK TO HIS WILL

IN MICAH HE IS TH JUDGE OF THE NATIONS

IN NAHUM HE IS TH JEALOUS GOD

IN HABAKKUK HE IS THE HOLY ONE

IN ZEPHANIAH HE IS THE WITNESS

IN HAGGIAH HE IS THE ONE THAT OVER THROWS THE ENEMY

IN ZECHARIAH HE IS THE LORD OF HOST

IN MALACHI HE IS THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

3). PETER’S CORRECTION BY JESUS

C) THE SUFFERING MESSIAH

TEXT: (FLESH AND BLOOD DID NOT REVEAL THAT TO YOU BUT MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.)

IN OTHER WORDS JESUS IS SAYING TO PETER

PETER DON’T GET THE BIG HEAD. DON’T THINK YOU CAME UP WITH THAT ON YOUR OWN. THE ONLY WAY YOU WERE ABEL TO SAY THAT IS BECAUSE GOD REVEALED IT TO YOU.

SOMETIME WE AS TEACHES AND AS PREACHER WE SAY SOMETHING IN OUR TEACHING, PREACHING, TALKS AND EVEN IN OUR STUDY TIME, THAT WE REALLY HAD NOT PLANED TO SAY. AND IT SOUND SO PROFOUND AND WE LIKE IT. BUT WE MUST REALIZE THAT GOD GAVE THE TO US. THAT IS WHAT LIKE ABOUT OUR PASTOR, PASTOR TAYLOR, HE ALWAYS SAY PROFOUND STATEMENT AND HE REALIZES HE DID’T COME UP WITH IT, BECAUSE HE WILL TELL US “SOMEBODY WRITE THAT DOWN AND SENT IT TO ME”

TODAY SOMETIMES, GOD DEALS WITH US WHEN IT COMES TO WORD THE SAME WAY. HE REVEALS TO US SOMETHING IN HIS WORD THAT RELATES TO US PERSONALLY AS INDIVIDUALS. SOMETIMES SOMETHING WILL “POP” IN OUR HEAD OR “POP” OUT OF OUR MOUTH THAT SOUNDS PROFOUND. BUT WE HAVE TO BE VERY VERY CAREFUL BEFORE WE RUN WITH IT, WE NEED TO WEIGH IT WITH THE ENTIRE WORD OF GOD. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT IS FOR GOD. BECAUSE WE CAN COME UP WITH COME CRAZY STUFF ON OUR OWN, WHICH WE DO MOST OF THE TIME. (WELL, MAYBE IT’S JUST ME}

WE CAN SEE IT HAPPENED TO PETER TO THE POINT THAT JESUS TOLD PETER IN MATTHEW 16:22-23 “GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN”

2. PETER’S PROTECTION OF THE MESSIAH

BECAUSE OF PETER’S PERCEPTION OF JESUS AS “THE CONQUERING KING” YOU WILL SEE HOW PETER IS MOST OF THE TIMES IN “TAKE OVER” MIND SET.

PETER IS READY TO HELP JESUS TAKE CONTROL.

PETER GOT JESUS’S BACK.

PETER IS A RIDE OR DIE TYPE OF GUY

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE TEXT THAT BRINGS THAT OUT. MATTHEW CHAPTER SIXTEEN VERSE 21 -23

B) PETER SEES JESUS AS THE CONQUERING MESSIAH

FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO SHOW TO HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE MUST GO TO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY THINGS FROM THE ELDERS AND SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED, AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY.

PETER TOOK HIM SAID AND BEGAN TOE REBUKE HIM, SAYING “FAR BE IT FROM YOU, LORD; THIS SHALL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU!”

JESUS WAS TELLING PETER AND HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE WAS A MESSIAH THAT IS GOING TO SUFFER.

WHEN PETER REBUKED JESUS HE WAS TRYING TO PROTECT JESUS. WHEN HE SAID “FAR BE IT FROM YOU, LORD: THIS SHALL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU!”

PETER SAID THAT TO JESUS AS TO SAY THAT “I WILL NEVER LET NOTHING HAPPEN TO YOU” NOT ON MY WATCH. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME. I GOT YOUR BACK. I WILL HELP YOU TAKE OVER. WITH ME HELPING YOU WE CAN TAKE ON OUR ENEMIES, AND WIN. YOU ARE THE CONQUERING MESSIAH. WHAT DO YOU MEAN SUFFER MANY THINGS FROM THE ELDERS, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES? NO NO NO THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I AM HERE TO MAKE SURE IT DON’T.

THE ELDERS AND THE CHIEF PRIEST AND THE SCRIBES WILL SUFFER MANY THINGS! NOT YOU LORD! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BE KILLED? ARE YOU OUT OF YOU MIND? THEY WILL BE KILLED BUT NOT YOU. I WILL KILL THEM MYSELF FOR YOU. JUST WATCH AND SEE. IF THEY SO MUCH AS RAISE A HAND TO YOU I WILL CUT IT OFF. WATCH WATCH WATCH. JESUS MAN DON’T WORRY ABOUT A THING. DON’T YOU EVEN THINK LIKE THAT.

YOU GOT THE THINK POSITIVE JESUS MAN. I GOT YOU, I GOT YOU. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, YOU TALKING ABOUT RAISING FORM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY. YOU AIN’T GOT TO WORRY ABOUT RAISING FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY CAUSE YOU AIN’T GOING TO BE DEAD. NO NO LIKE I SAID THAT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN. THEM ELDERS AND SCRIBES AND THEM CHIEF PRIESTS ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RAISING FROM THE DEAD, CAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES THAT’S GOING TO BE DEAD. LORD NOT YOU! THE MESSIAH.

NOW WHEN PETER SAID THIS IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 HE HAD ALREADY SEEN JESUS DO MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE IN EARLIER CHAPTERS IN. PETER HAD SEEN JESUS MINISTRY FROM THE BEGINNING.

PETER SEEN JESUS; (FROM THE BOOK OF MATTHEW ONLY)

CLEANSED THE LEPERS / CHAPTER 8:1 -4

SPEAKS AND HEALED THE CENTURION’S SERVANT FROM A DISTANCE. YOU DON’T NEED TO COME JUST SPEAK AND HE SHALL BE HEALED / CHAPTER 8:5-13

CALM THE WIND AND WAVES ON A STORMING SEA, HE SAID PEACE BE STILL / CHAPTER 8:23-26

CAST DEMONS OUT OF A MAN AND CAST THEM IN TO SWINES THAT RAN INTO THE SEA / CHAPTER 8:28-32

HEALED THE PARALYTIC MAN THAT WAS LET DOWN THOUGH THE ROOF OF A HOUSE / CHAPTER 9:1-8

HEALED JAIRUS’ ( A SYNAGOGUE RULER) DIEING 12YRS OLD DAUGHTER / 9:18-19

HEALED THE WOMAN WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD / CHAPTER 9:20-23

GIVE SIGHT TO TWO BLIND MEN WHO CRIED OUT HAVE MERCY ON US / CHAPTER 9:27-31

CASED OUT A DEMON-POSSESSED DUMB MAN, AND THE DUMB MAN BEGAN TO SPEAK / CHAPTER 9:32-33

HEALING EVERY KIND SICKNESS AND EVERY KIND DISEASE IN ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES AROUND / 9:35

WALKING ON WATER AND PETER WALKED ON WATER TOO / 14:25-32

HEALED AS MANY AS WHOEVER TOUCH THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT / 14:35-36 ( ITS THE HIM IN THE HEM OF HIS)

HEALS THE GENTILE WOMAN’S DEMON POSSESSED DAUGHTER / 15:21-28

HEAL THE LAME, BLIND,MUTE, MAIMED AND MANY OTHERS / 15:29-31

FEED 4 THOUSAND WITH 7 LOVES AND FISH / 15:32-38

FEED 5 THOUSAND WITH 2 FISH AND 5 LOVES OF BREAD

PETER SEEN JESUS DO ALL THIS AND PETER WAS EXCITED SAYING TO HIMSELF YOU GO JESUS. YOU ARE THE MESSIAH. AND I AM WITH YOU ALL THE WAY.

WITH THE ALL THE PEOPLE FOLLOWING YOU. WE CAN BUILD AN ARMY AND TAKE OVER AND CONCUR THE WORLD.

DO YOU SEE HOW PETER CAN ONLY SEE JESUS AS THE CONCURRING MESSIAH.

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NOTE IN CONCLUSION

{“PETER DENIED JESUS TO POTENTIALLY SAVE HIS OWN LIFE BUT WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE PETER GAVE HIS LIFE TO JESUS AND FOR JESUS

SIMON PETER ASKED JESUS IF IT’S YOU ALLOW ME TO WALKED ON THE WATER TO COME TO YOU AND

BEFORE HE COULD GET TO JESUS HE STARTED TO SINK IN THE WATER.

SIMON PETER WAS THE FIRST TO CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD AND IN THE NEXT CHAPTER PETER TRIED TO REPRIMAND JESUS AS TO DECLARE THAT WHAT JESUS SAID HE MUST DO, WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

SIMON PETER WAS A RIDE OR DIE KIND OF GUY FOR JESUS. HE SWORE THAT HE WOULD DIE FOR JESUS, BUT WHEN JESUS NEED PETER TO SPEAK UP FOR HIM PETER DENIED JESUS THREE TIMES.

SIMON PETER GAVE UP HIS LIVELIHOOD TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE GENTILES YET AT A LATER TIME SIMON PETER REFUSED TO EAT WITH GENTILES.

JESUS CALLED SIMON PETER TO BE A FISHER OF MEN, BUT SIMON PETER WENT BACK TO FISHING FOR FISH. 153 WAS SIMON PETER’S LAST CATCH OF FISH, AND SIMON PETER;S FIRST SERMON SAVED 3, 000 SOULS.

JESUS CHANGED SIMON PETER’S NAME AND HIS SELF-IMAGE,

JESUS CHANGED SIMON PETER’S PROFESSION AND HIS PREJUDICES.

JESUS CHANGED SIMON PETER’S EXPECTATIONS AND PRIORITIES,

JESUS CHANGED SIMON PETER’S FAMILY LIFE AND PRAYER PETITIONS.

JESUS CHANGED SIMON PETER COMPLETELY

SIMON PETER’S LIFE LETS US SEE OF GODS FAITHFULNESS IN PHILIPPIANS 1:6 GOD WHO BEGAN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL CARRY IT ON TO COMPLETION UNTIL, THE DAY OF CHRIST JESUS.” THE LIFE OF SIMON PETER SHOWS US THAT THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS NOT EASY. IT IS NOT WITHOUT PAIN. IT IS NOT RISK. IT IS NOT WITHOUT HEART ACES. IT IS NOT WITHOUT TRIALS. IT IS NOT WITHOUT TRIBULATIONS. IT IS NOT WITHOUT BEING LIED ON. IT IS NOT WITH BE LIED TO. IT IS NOT WITHOUT REJECTION. IT IS NOT WITHOUT BEING OSTRACIZES. IT IS NOT WITHOUT BEING MISTREATED. IT IS NOT WITHOUT BEING MISTREATED. IT IS NOT WITHOUT BEING USED.

NEITHER IS IT NOT WITHOUT FAITH, OBEDIENCE AND JOY. BECAUSE OF YOUR FAITH, YOU OBEY AND EXPERIENCE THE JOY IN KNOWING THAT THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS WELL WORTH IT. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. WE MUST REALIZED THAT WHAT YOU GO THROUGH ON EARTH IS TEMPORARY, BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN ETERNAL REWARD.

SIMON PETER LIVED HIS LIFE OUT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE HIS EMOTIONS, AND HOW THEY EFFECTED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST, IN DO SO WE LEARN HOW TO LEAN AND DEPEND ON JESUS, IN ORDER TO BE CONFORMED MORE AND MORE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD ON A DAILY BASES. WE BECOME IMAGE BEARERS, WE BECOMES WALKING, TALKING, LIVING MANIFESTATIONS OF JESUS CHRIST HERE ON EARTH.

WHEN GOD ENTERS OUR HEARTS, HE MAKES A TOTAL CHANGE. HE MAKES US A “NEW CREATION” (2 COR 5:17) THEREFORE IF ANY MAN IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION; OLD THING HAS PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAS BECOME NEW.

SIMON PETER SHOWS US HOW. AS BELIEVERS WE ARE TRANSFORMED BY GOD IN OUR INNER BEING, AND WE LEARN TO GROW IN GRACE, TO BE WHO WE REALLY ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, AGAIN WALING TALKING LIVING MANIFESTATIONS OF JESUS CHRIST. WE BECOME LIKE HIM.