Jesus Is Precious

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I'm going sure with their message. Leverage recently operated, it will be a blessing to more information, you can always go to our website. Best victory trap.order goal is your George always 804748881. Let's go to that service right now where God is moving by his peer first Peter 27 Derby in your Bible and first Peter two and seven is very short verse of Scripture and I want to I just read the first part of it. Peter said, therefore, to you who believe he or Jesus's precious word precious expresses closeness endearment infection.

Say someone is precious is to say that they are highly prized and valued. Peter uses word precious six times in the two short epistles that he authored and when he wrote these words. It was 30 years after he had first met the Lord by the Sea of Galilee.

He had been in prison. He had suffered for the gospel, but he found that his experience in Jesus Christ was meaningful to his heart after all those years Peter sat down any dictators equivalent of the quail under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he revealed the deepest feelings of his heart and he said, therefore, to those of us who believe Jesus is precious. I mean, why shouldn't he say Jesus is precious because Jesus had not only saved him but he had restored this morning I'm talking to people that have been born again I'm talking to people that have been saved by the grace of God. But I'm also talking to people who know what it is to fail God. Sometimes I think that we pretend that we never failed. Sometimes we pretend that since the moment we ask Christ to come in our hearts that we never let them down anyway. That's not the case is how many of you know what it is for God to restore you. Aren't you glad he's merciful. Aren't you glad he's long-suffering. Peter was a dynamic disciple. He was one of these disciples who was a type a personality there just a few of us around the day. I wish we could all wear some kind of a name tag so we know who were talking you know what I'm talking about the kind of person.

This passion the kind of person that always expresses deep emotions about everything.

I'm one of those people. I can't help but that's who I am alone.

It I'm the kind of person that goes into a new restaurant and they served him a glass of water.

Nieces my this is the best water I've had all day.

Things that happen to us. Make a mark on us were impressed by things we appreciate things well. Peter was one of those people. When he follow the Lord.

He filed him with his whole heart. He was passionate about serving Jesus. Jesus called them into the ministry by performing a miracle. Peter was a fisherman and Jesus sold his boat with fish. The net broke and by the way, think there's an interesting interesting story and I won't go into it because in detail anyway because it takes too long, but the Lord asked to use Simon Peter's boat to preach.

I don't know how far out from the shore, he went, but as he preached his voice was amplified by the water and the people hurting and then as a reward. He said now let me show you where the fish are. And he said you're not out deep enough now in Peter's day. That's not how they catch they caught fish they would catch them by trapping them against the bank and he said you need to get out of the shallow water. I'll show you where they are. Peter had been washing his next pull.

He was washing Max because he was frustrated he had been fishing all night and it caught nothing. Why would you wash next to the never been used and in frustration.

He's washing his nets.

When Jesus said cast out into the deep but he says that the net broke, so another words the nets that he had washed and had used all my work cast into the bow of the boat and no doubt Peter just took an old rotten man, and threw it in the water and said this God is need to know what he's talking about because he's not a fisherman he's a carpenter. What is he know about fishing. Little did he know that he was talking to the universe of the, the, the master of the universe.

The ultimate authority of the universe.

Little did he know that he was talking to the one that stood on nothing and said, let there be little did he know that he was talking to the one who laid the foundations of the earth and stretch the line upon it to determine the measurements thereof shot in the sea with doors and made the clouds its garment and commanded the morning and made the dawn denotes place. Little did he know that he was talking to the one of whom it said all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. If anybody knew where the fish were located.

Jesus was the fishfinder and he said not cast your lips plural out but what is Simon Peter Dewey cast out his net and the net began to break and over 150 fish were in that net and this man who was vile this man who was a hyperactive DDD DDD DDD DDD day personality. Suddenly felt the need to fall on his knees before the Lord and say you are the Messiah, and he followed the Lord with all of his heart will the miracle of multiplication when Jesus fed the hungry multitude took place in the hands of the disciples that means that Peter saw fish grow in his hands and and little breadcrumbs turn of the bread rolls and he fed the hungry multitude. He was right there with Jesus it was, it was Peter that identified Jesus as the son of the living God. It was Peter that said at the Last Supper.

I will never deny you the rest of these little half citizen preachers might but not me. Jesus, you remain. You call me Rocky, that's my nickname not about the quit I'm a fighter, I will give up the rest of these guys may quit but not me. Jesus said, well, you're going to deny me three times before morning not believe that Peter probably whispered under his breath. That's what you think because I went down bonus award and so when they came to get Jesus, Peter was the only one that stepped out in front of him and said Jesus is precious to me you're not taking him and he pulled out a sword and cut off the high priest, nephews, beer now. I don't think that that speaks well of his ability as a swordsman you know it would've said something if the Scripture said Peter Cody's animal buddy Cody's hero. He was trying to cut his head off. But he succeeded in cutting his ear off, and Jesus took the years swept back on his head and stayed there right so now he doesn't know what to do because Jesus said, put up your sword. I told you told me to sort they that live by the sword die by the sword, and Jesus was led away. Now watch this. Peter was the only one that followed the rest of them were scattered. I still try to be true is passionate but he's following a fall and maybe that's where you are right now.

Maybe you're still in the church, but maybe you're following a fall maybe you still have a relationship with the Lord but is not what it used to be and is not what it should be and is not what it auto bid is not what it could so he's following the Lord afar off the Lord is where he could see and Peter is warming by Coelho fires and a little woman says you are a disciple of Christ any panics and he says if I if I tell her I'm a disciple, they might just take me and crucify me and he said no I don't going with the will. That's okay.

Nobodies watching nobodies looking at what character's characters who you are when nobody's watching, I don't know when and she said I don't believe that you sound just like a beast from Galilee, and so are you northern actually I don't know.

And then she said I know I saw you remember when Jesus fed the 5000. Yes, it was in your group. I was, I saw your face to his disciples's floor and crouched beside like that people of all the Lord don't talk that way I don't know about that time the roosters and I'm getting good and Jesus looked at him and his eyes pierced his soul and he said, before the rooster crows, you will have denied me three times. And Peter went out and wept bitterly now. Sometimes we feel like we have disqualified ourselves for ministry.

But I want to encourage you and tell you that the Lord never did call the qualified. He only qualifies the call Peterson what idea has caused me to lose my ministry. I am no longer a disciple of Jesus I I'll just go back to doing what I used to do before I met the Lord.

If you if you're back where you used to be before you met the Lord your backslid hello if you went back to what you used to do and who you used to be your backslid, but don't despair. There's hope, an angel of the Lord appeared to the women after Jesus resurrection and told them to go preach something to the disciples. I'm sorry, but I believe in women preachers. I know one woman, the cured word for nine months. Her name was Mary.

So I said what is says be silent in the church will if you'd study that you know what it says. It says because the women could read and they did not understand anything they were calling out to their husbands in the church and he said listen, ask your husband at all. Don't call out in the middle of the worship service hey Freddie, what is that may that's always saying how they called folks will women know to keep silent. If you read the epistles.

You'll find time and time again where the apostles talked about people that assisted them in the ministry who were co-laborers who were women. Hello, and so God gave a message to the women to go back and deliver to the disciples and they said we just heard from an angel the Lord Jesus is risen, and he told you to go back to where you first met him and said to tell his disciples because he thought he had been left out and Peter showed up in the Lord gloriously restored him and said, feed my sheep now fast forward to the day of Pentecost who standing up with 11 on the day of Pentecost, who preach that soul stirring message that resulted in the conversion of 3000 souls. It was Simon Peter. Hallelujah.

Listen, you can color with a broken crayon. It still works a man and some you think that because you messed up and you failed you stumbled you skinned your knee.

I'll just quit. I'll give up. There's no reason for me go back to church.

There's no reason for me to do what I used to do. Don't stop. It is not over until God says it's over. Talk to God as you so no wonder after 30 years.

He said he still precious is precious to me and is precious to everyone who believes.

I want to ask you Jesus precious to you today. Are you a believer. Hebrews 11 one says. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Verse six is but without faith it is impossible to please a breather cometh to God must believe that he is and that is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him and what faith is.

Faith is that woman with the issue of blood. She had leukemia and she said if I can reach out and touch his garment. The hem of his garment, but they can't be made whole and healing virtue begin to flow into her Jesus turned her and says your faith has made you whole know what faith is. It's when a man with palsy says I can't get up and walk to Jesus, but I know where he is in that house interview my friends will carry me over there and get up on top of that house and ripped the roof tiles off and let me go get healed.

Jesus, I want glory to God's faith is a blind man that meets Jesus.

Jesus told the ground and makes clay and puts it in his eyes and tells him to go.

It was in the pool of subtle detail at some people grounds.

Jesus made in the millions not house a spittle may Jesus come on, that's that DNA of God, if you please, could you imagine having the DNA of God in your eyes. Those blind eyes had to be you see this man as I was whited out the lives of all people, not bad when you get that Rick long-term right is just our Telluride window that he wants to came back saying I was blind but now I didn't say that space that's faith you got a minute okay don't you put on your thinking With the Tillis in the fifth grade member put on your thinking cap think with me think with God is God all by himself so much simpler. Where did God come from right in which I now which God we talking about. We told Mike the God you made up in your mind. We talk about God Almighty LS this figure out which one were talking because if you talking about the one in the Bible is revealed in the Bible.

I watch he exists outside of time, space and matter and all those things had to be created simultaneously. Did you know that we live in a world where time, space and matter make up our so we are in Genesis 11 it says and in the best time God created that space. And that's matter, so a God who exists outside outside of time, space and matter created something, but he did leave it alone for it to wind down like an alarm clock will what he did as he said I'm going to uphold it and sustain it with the word of my power will make sure everything just continues because I said let there be. I never did say that they're not me.

So I'm going to maintain it all and the way my people will exist in that realm of time, space, and matter is by faith. So three times, four times in Scripture, Old Testament and New Testament it said that the just shall walk by faith and live by faith is in a way to hold of you will understand up in the University know why I'm just up just a product of billions of years of evolution. My mind is a computer that's all it is this body of mind it's the result of evolution. It you don't understand faith has nothing to do with all right been explained to me the emotions of love, hate, and reason that's not something you can put under microscope visit.

So there must be something spiritual and something invisible that impacts the right realm of the natural world about the preach. Some right now. David looked out one time over the Mediterranean Sea and he saw waterspout as a tornado on the water and he looked at it and he watched and he said to himself.

There's a reason why that was created out there and even though he lived a long time ago. He understood the times you know why we have a hard time.

Ledesma said the man lost his monarchy. While the boys are going to stay with me.

Do you know why we have a hard time in the low time is because of the pull of the moon on the earth see something way out there 200,000 miles away is pulling all the earth, and it causes the time to rush him to rise and to raise Comeau pastor Sam I think I know where you go what David said his deep call upon the deep at the noise of the waterspout something way dire in the universe has affected something way down deep to my house deep out of the bottom of the sea calls the waterspout calls something to impact the physical realm. The natural ramps it's spiritual it's invisible but somehow high Seo manifestation of the natural rail combine to let you know that I am not just a product of billions of years of evolution. I was created in the image of God who exists outside of time and space and matter, something way back then something way and walking by faith that I walk by faith and preach a better you let know I'm printed better not let no time to keep it on the down low.

What is the source of your faith is the word of government September 17. Faith comes by hearing the word of God's word is God's voice to our lives. If you will, faith read the word of God. Second Peter 120, 21 knowing this personal prophecy of the Scriptures of any private interpretation.

For the prophecy came not in old time of the Willamette holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Second Timothy 316 all Scripture is given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. Some 12 words of the Lord are pure words, a silver Trident vertebra, purified seven times. I shall keep the Lord shall preserve them from this generation forever. Isaiah 55 to 11 force rain coming down the snow from heaven return is not bitter but what if you're the mega to bring forth abundantly to see the sort and break it either, so shall my word be to go forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to be bored, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing were to I sent your faith comes from the word is derived by the work is produced by the work and when you confess the word of God. That's how you release your faith, a man all Jesus is precious to those who believe in the kind of faith we have spake the believes faith receives an faith that achieves somebody say man so there are three reasons why Jesus is precious. I wanted but to say that with Jesus is precious said again Jesus is precious said again Jesus is precious, turn to your neighbor say neighbor Jesus is precious Jesus is precious.

There's a connection between your faith in the value of Christ because you believe because you believe because you are a believer you can say Jesus is precious.

There's a connection between what you believe what you say sometimes you gotta say it to see right.

How many of you ever said I don't raise your hand. These kids are driving me crazy. Don't raise your hand. Reason commanders of this job is killing me and then when you have a problem.

My aching pack. You have already convinced your sales to be miserable. Why not today and every day after today when ever you are in a crisis situation when ever you are tempted to throw in the towel when ever you feel like you want to raise up your hands and shout, I quit. Why don't you just say Jesus is precious. Try one more time. Everybody shot Jesus is precious. Shall Jesus is precious, shout, Jesus is precious not know before I tell you, there are three things about that before I take these relate. Gotta tell you something this honest observation is not here's my observation work for whatever it's worth, is that somehow we have in this postmodern church come to a place where we don't really even want to talk about Jesus except as it relates to his blessings preach a sermon, a masterful sermon on Jesus and people sit there and just look at but if I say Jesus wants to make you rich hot say that again Jesus give you new car diesel.

I'm not, and is like oh now you got my attention. All I want to be healed. Do you let me tell you what if you want to be healed. The healer is precious in his name is Jesus hi last well the blasts or is Jesus and he's precious well be delivered what is Jesus and no longer is Jesus precious to us, but it's that thing and that last thing that he brings. I've been blessed beyond measure, but I could tell you this morning that if I never get one other thing from God than what I already got Jesus is precious. He's precious to me.

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah are you ready to be kicked if you got a few more minutes okay there are three things. First thing is this Jesus is precious because of who uses the son of God. Today Muslim price. These words there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet. The price of five times a day. He gives the beggars and keeps the fast next pilgrimage to Mecca. Hand observes Rosa Caskey worships a monkey in the Heel crawl on his belly like a worm to the Temple Beth, the filthy Ganges River where he wrecks a temple to one of the what millions literally millions of a noble, transcendent, impersonal God to know what helps to escape rebirth as a reptile woman. The confusion, the study is a sacred Classics learns rules of righteousness, but in the end he must save himself.

He can follow the path of duty, but that path ends at the great Hindu Buddhist and fusionist muzzle, all those world religions talk about things that you can do to be religious, and most of them will challenge you to lay your life down for your religion, but as far as I know Christianity is the only religion where God died for man, you know, the Muslim says the greatest honors to diving jihad. I could be wonderful. Not just be admitted interested to paradise. God says the greatest thing I could ever do is done for you.

So God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that is horribly should not perish but have everlasting life.

Remember it was the same Peter the road. Jesus is precious who ask Jesus teach me how to pray. Teach me how to love God and then after the lesson was over. Jesus said who do men say that I am and Simon Peter said I don't know what everybody else is saying. But this is what I know thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Can you say mentioned by the Bible says in John XX chapter verse 31 of this is one of the last things that John wrote he said, but these were written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ the son of God and that believing you might have life through his name John the Baptist stated that I have seen and testify that this is the son of God. Paul writing in Romans chapter 1 verse four is said that he was declared to be the son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness or Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead.

Jesus is precious because he is the son of God fully gone and fully man.

Galatians chapter 4 begin verse four, but in the fullness of the time, God sent forth his son made woman made on the law, to redeem them. The rentable that we might receive the adoption of sons and because your sons gotta support the spirit of the sun in your heart strike Abba father work without no more servant, but a son son and heir of God through Christ.

If you are a child of God you been born again you pass from death of the life you know you have a new nature. Your new creation in Christ Jesus which you give God your best praise right now.

Are you saying Jesus is process. Are you saying Jesus is again with a special prayer for you. I pray today that God will bless you and encourage you and that what you've heard today will stay with you and you will be able to walk out your thank you so much for being a part of victory today.

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