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*SOMETIMES PETER, NEVER JUDAS *
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*(JOHN 21:1-22)*
\\ A GROUP OF PROSPECTORS SET OUT FROM BANNOCK, MONTANA (THEN CAPITAL OF THE STATE), IN SEARCH FOR GOLD.
THEY WENT THROUGH MANY HARDSHIPS AND SEVERAL OF THEIR LITTLE COMPANY DIED EN ROUTE.
FINALLY THEY WERE OVERTAKEN BY THE INDIANS WHO TOOK THEIR GOOD HORSES, LEAVING THEM WITH ONLY A FEW LIMPING OLD PONIES.
THEN THE INDIANS THREATENED THEM, TELLING THEM TO GET BACK TO BANNOCK AND STAY THERE,
IF THEY FOUND THEM AGAIN, THEY WOULD KILL THE LOT OF THEM.
\\ \\ DEFEATED, DISCOURAGED AND DOWNHEARTED, THE PROSPECTORS SOUGHT TO MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO THE CAPITAL CITY.
ON ONE OCCASION AS THEY TETHERED OUT THE LIMPING PONIES ON A CREEKSIDE, ONE OF THE MEN CASUALLY PICKED UP A LITTLE STONE FROM THE CREEK BED.
HE CALLED TO HIS BUDDY FOR A HAMMER
AND BROKE THE ROCK, AND SAID,
“IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THERE MAY BE GOLD HERE.”
THE TWO OF THEM PANNED GOLD THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND MANAGED TO FIND TWELVE DOLLARS’ WORTH OF GOLD.
THE ENTIRE LITTLE COMPANY PANNED GOLD ALL NEXT DAY
AND FOUND FIFTY DOLLARS WORTH OF GOLD.
A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY IN THOSE DAYS.
THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER: “WE’VE STRUCK IT!”
SO THEY MADE THEIR WAY BACK TO BANNOCK
AND VOWED NOT TO BREATHE A WORD CONCERNING
THEIR GOLD STRIKE.
SECRETLY THEY SET OUT RE-EQUIPPING THEMSELVES WITH SUPPLIES FOR A SECOND PROSPECTING TRIP.
ON THE DAY THEY WERE ABOUT TO GO BACK,
THREE HUNDRED MEN WERE THERE READY TO FOLLOW THEM.
\\ \\ NONE OF THE LITTLE COMPANY HAD TOLD ANYONE
ABOUT THEIR GOLD FIND,
SO HOW DID EVERYONE KNOW?
IT WAS THEIR BEAMING FACES THAT BETRAYED THEM! \\ \\ \\
WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS
THE DISCIPLES WERE THE BIGGEST BUNCH
OF LOSERS, COWARDS AND DOUBTERS, YOU'VE EVER SEEN.
*WHEN JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED (LK 23:49).
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JUDAS HANGED HIMSELF,
PETER DENIED CHRIST THREE TIMES
AND ALL THE REST OF THEM HELD BACK AT A DISTANCE.
THEY WERE SURE
THE JEWS WERE COMING FOR THEM NEXT.
BUT THEN
THREE DAYS LATER EVERYTHING CHANGED.
AFTER SEEING THE RESURRECTED CHRIST,
AND THEN AFTER PENTECOST,
THEY BECAME TRANSFORMED MEN.
THEY BUILT THE FIRST CHURCH.
THEY WERE THE FIRST EVANGELISTS,
THEY WERE THE FIRST MISSIONARIES
AND THRY WERE THE FIRST MARTYRS,
THEY FEARLESSLY STOOD IN THE FACE OF DANGER
AND RISKED THEIR OWN LIVES.
THE TRANSFORMATION THAT TOOK PLACE
IN THE LIVES OF THESE DISCIPLES
IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST EVIDENCES THAT WE HAVE
THAT JESUS REALLY DID RISE FROM THE DEAD.
THESE SCARED, LEADERLESS MEN
THAT WERE HIDING IN FEAR.
THESE MEN WHO WERE AFRAID THAT THEY WERE THE NEXT TO BE CRUCIFIED,
SUDDENLY BECAME THE MEN THAT WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD.
JESUS HAD COME BACK
IN RECLAIMING, REDEEMING, EMPOWERING, *POWER*
JESUS WAS JUST WHAT HIS DISCIPLES NEEDED.
HIS DISCIPLES WERE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO REGROUP,
THEY HAD A ANOTHER CHANCE
ALL WAS NOT LOST.
JESUS REALLY WAS THE GOD MAN THEY HAD BELIEVED IN.
THE MISSION WAS STILL ON,
AND THEY WERE LEADERLESS NO MORE.
*OUR GOD IS THE GOD OF SECOND CHANCES.*
AND THIRD CHANCES, AND FOUR HUNDREDTH CHANCES.
EVEN THOUGH THE GRACE OF GOD IS AMAZING WE MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO ABUSE IT.
GOD KNOWS WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO CON HIM.
WE DON'T HAVE A HANDLE ON GOD.
THERE IS ALWAYS A CONSEQUENCE TO OUR ACTIONS.
BUT GOD ALSO KNOWS WHEN WE ARE SINCERE AND REALLY WANT HIS HELP.
DID YOU KNOW THAT 30% OF AN AVERAGE PERSON’S ANXIETY IS FOCUSED ON THINGS ABOUT THE PAST THAT CAN’T BE CHANGED.
IF WE WERE HONEST WITH OURSELVES, WE’D ALL AGREE THAT
THERE’S SOMETHING IN OUR PAST WE REGRET DOING.
IF WE COULD WE’D YELL "DO-OVER" AND GET A SECOND CHANCE.
EVEN THOUGH WE CAN'T GET A DO-OVER, GOD CAN GIVE US FORGIVENESS AND PEACE ABOUT IT.
GOD CAN GIVE US POWER TO OVERCOME OUR PAST FAILURES AND GIVE US A SECOND CHANCE TO DO IT RIGHT.
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OVER SOME FORTY DAYS (ACTS 1:3).
THE RISEN JESUS CHRIST APPEARED
TO MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE (1 COR 15:6)
EVEN THOUGH THE LORD HAD APPEARED TO ALL HIS DISCIPLES EXCEPT JUDAS WHO HAD HUNG HIMSELF,
IT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE DISCIPLES TO *JUST KNOW* THAT JESUS HAD RISEN FROM THE DEAD.
THEY NEEDED SOMETHING ELSE INSIDE THEM TO GIVE THEM POWER.
WE NEED POWER TOO.
JAY LENO COLLECTS CARS.
HE HAS SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARS THAT THEY HAVE ASKED HIM TO WRITE A COLUMN ABOUT HIS CARS IN THE *POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE*.
IN ONE OF HIS COLUMNS HE WROTE ABOUT A CAR THAT HAD A TANK MOTOR IN IT.
IT DIDN'T GET MANY MILES TO THE GALLON, BUT IT HAD A WHOLE LOT OF POWER.
THERE WAS ANOTHER CAR THAT HE WROTE ABOUT.
IT’S CALLED A BUGGOTTI.
THIS CAR'S MOTOR COULD PUT OUT 1000 HORSE POWER.
IT COULD REACH SPEEDS THAT WERE WAY TOO FAST FOR PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY USE.
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MANY OF US LIVE A LIFE OF FUTILITY AND FRUITLESSNESS.
WE LIVE A LIFE THAT DOESN’T HAVE ANY REAL WORLD CHANGING POWER.
OUT MOTOR ISN’T VERY BIG
IT ISN’T VERY POWERFUL.
ACTUALLY OUR MOTOR SEEMS TO BE MISSING ON AT LEAST FOUR OF OUR CYLINDERS.
WE HAVE TROUBLE JUST GETTING THROUGH THE DAY,
LET ALONE HELPING ANYONE ELSE WHO MAY NEED OUR HELP.
WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS, AND SO WE JUST DO WHAT WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IN THE PAST.
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