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this is of course, after the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ and

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out this is the message to the 
disciples, but go your way, tell

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his disciples and Peter, that he
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there, shall you see him as he 
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talking about the Apostle Peter 
this afternoon for a little 

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while something of his life. 
There's something special about 

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the very name of this impulsive 
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that awakens our interest in 
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We know ourselves better when we
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well, we study him in his 
failures and we grow discouraged

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sometimes for we say if a man 
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Christ as Peter with him in the 
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Transfiguration mountain and in 
Gethsemane, if he could deny him

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then it's certainly not strange 
that we should fail in this 

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sinful and adulterous generation
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Are we starting him though? 
In his successes and we Rejoice?

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But we say, if a man, like 
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fishermen as he was, if he could
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the Lord even after he had 
denied him. 

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Then there's hope for every one 
of us. 

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And so I hope we will look at it
that way this afternoon. 

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Now there are many reasons why I
like this man, Simon Peter. 

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And I'm sure that next to the 
Lord Jesus Christ of all the men

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whose Names appear in the New 
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He would be one of the ones I 
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heaven and see exactly what he's
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I like to him because of his 
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I like an enthusiastic person. 
I like a person who really shows

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what he means, Peter had an 
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radiate through everything that 
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If he was right, he was 
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wrong, he was enthusiastically 
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And I like such a man is that? 
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isn't that the thing that caused
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But I would say that the world 
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over cautious. 
People he was a brave man. 

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I'm sure though that somebody's 
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man. 
Didn't he deny the Lord in the 

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presence of a little girl when 
he said, I know he not and the 

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old habit of his profanity came 
back upon him. 

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And he denied the Lord with an 
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true too, but then you have to 
remember that Peter had courage 

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enough to follow Jesus down into
the presence of his enemies. 

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And Peter was one of the ones of
the disciples near the master in

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the courtroom. 
There are many reasons why I 

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think the Apostle Peter is an 
outstanding man. 

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But I want you to get our sermon
this afternoon and Peter. 

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Now these words, which form an 
angel's message to the 

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Brokenhearted disciples percent,
one of the sweetest pictures in 

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the whole Bible to us. 
And I hope you'll get this 

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afternoon. 
The crucifixion scene is over 

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now and the rocks have ceased 
their throbbings into crosses on

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the hillside stand still and 
strange. 

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The text is the Angels message 
to the disciples who have 

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gathered themselves together 
after that dark dark day and are

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seeking to comfort each other. 
They had always imagined that 

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the master whom they had loved 
and followed wants to be a king 

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of a temporal Kingdom. 
And they were to have positions 

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of power in that Mmm. 
You know, the mother of two 

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wonted, two of her sons to sit 
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On the right hand and one on the
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But now, he's been crucified, 
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hearts are, well, not breaking 
within them because it's an 

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oral, a mystery to them. 
How can he be a king after he's 

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died? 
It seems I can see them almost 

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as they sit in that little Upper
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say to one another, we had 
trusted that it had been he that

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should have redeemed Israel. 
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the third day since all this was
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was one who was not in that 
company in Jerusalem. 

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I feel sure that that was a 
vacant chair. 

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This one's name was Peter. 
He must have felt that he was no

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more of disciple and felt that 
he what did no more qualify to 

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the right of communion and 
fellowship with the other 

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disciples. 
I expect he was someplace on the

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outskirts of the city and some 
Dark Lonely, Place far away from

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any human eye. 
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hearted, man. 
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that way at times, but if Peter 
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disciples, I'm sure of one other
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Thing too. 
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disciples must have been talking
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Hasn't changed that much. 
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remembering all about a person's
failures, and downfalls, and 

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forgetting the strong points in 
their character, remembering 

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onto their weak places and 
forgetting and tired of their 

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virtues. 
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disciples were speaking. 
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What about Peter wondering why 
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Can't you just hear them? 
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And maybe we've been a party to 
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Someone asked Wonder, where's 
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And they are all, of course, 
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Ida says, you didn't expect him 
to be here, did you did you ever

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know of him falling through 
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Maybe another one says yeah, 
he's always great on speaking up

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and watch and see if one of the 
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mouth, maybe they started 
mentioning some of the things 

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that Peter had done irrationally
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mentioned a number. 
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his failures. 
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time that he started walking on 
the water and started sinking, 

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and that, cause that seemed to 
my mind to Jesus, Was coming to 

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them on the water. 
They were so afraid because they

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thought he was an apparition, 
our spirit. 

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And then Jesus cried out. 
His voice. 

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Ringing like a silver bell in 
the midst of all the hurricane 

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and the winds and the Raging of 
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Be not afraid. 
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calmed himself somewhat Peter 
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come unto thee on the water and 
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come. 
Jesus, cried out of that boat 

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and started walking to Jesus. 
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accomplished that for some time 
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All right. 
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became so boisterous and he 
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The Bible said he took his eye 
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Alright, we do sometimes and 
when he did, he is Faith failed 

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him and he began to sink down 
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He said, Lord help me Jesus 
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him and put him back into the 
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Now they could have mentioned 
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failure own Peters part. 
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think of it. 
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great degree of courage to climb
out of that boat. 

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The others didn't I notice? 
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over the side of that boat. 
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No sir they stayed put did 
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So if you're going to criticize 
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to be said about those who never
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make it effort are always quick 
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effort and sometimes fail into 
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So they could have mentioned 
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not have mentioned, sometimes 
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So recent when the Lord was 
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sudden, Peter impossibly sprang 
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not wash my feet. 
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at it, that was because of a 
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Peter's heart the time he seemed
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is the master down there, doing 
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and he was about to let us the 
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and wash his feet while he sat 
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No sir. 
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point Jesus wanted to express 
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So he said, Lord, he said Peter,
if I wash not that feet Dynasty,

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the partner love with me and 
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impulsive, Peter, Peter. 
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He said, well then, Lord not my 
feet only but my head. 

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Also, if that's the way it is, 
just take me off. 

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Take all of it. 
That's better. 

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Although they could have 
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too. 
You know, we don't usually 

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mention people's good things 
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Do we? 
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any kind of in one their kind 
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yes, but his love for, Jesus was
so wonderful. 

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You never heard the master asked
a question that Peter wasn't the

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first one to answer it. 
He respected the Lord, his 

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mansur might not always be so 
might not be true but he would 

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try. 
He really would whom say ye that

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I am Jesus said Peter spoke up. 
That's the way it was whom say 

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ye that, I am he answers and 
says so. 

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And so, we could mention some of
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It's a bad thing to dislike 
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ever remember his good points. 
I hope I never get so hardened 

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until I can't ever see a good 
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like the person. 
That doesn't mean that they're 

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completely abandon because I 
don't write them, you know. 

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But if Peter were not gathered 
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about, but if they were gathered
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Peter, there's another thing of 
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afternoon, he was the most 
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the city of the king for Mark. 
You well, this one thing and 

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don't ever forget it. 
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Kings Table and taste you to the
Kings meat, you can no more 

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expect him to find real pleasure
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Then you can expect the I could 
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husk to satisfy himself with the
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time. 
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broken hearted, man, this day. 
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outskirts of Jerusalem. 
If there's one whom I pity, if 

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there's one in the world, I pity
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Peter of old out of communion 
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But I think maybe he finally 
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get back with the boys and get 
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He didn't do like Judas. 
He did have some feeling left in

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his heart. 
So I've got to go back and try 

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to fix this up somehow. 
Someway, maybe the fellows will 

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pity me and help my terrible 
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You know, the night that he was 
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rather in the courtroom. 
He was standing outside when he 

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went inside, when the Lord was 
taken inside to be tried, he was

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out there warming himself around
a thorn by the scholars. 

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Believe it was about midnight, 
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And here the soldiers were 
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men about maybe and then all of 
a sudden, a damsel comes out and

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sees Peter slinking In the 
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Trying to Or himself around the 
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She said you're one of his 
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know him. 
Jesus had told Peter, you know 

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that before the cock crows you 
will deny me Thrice. 

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Again she comes out and said you
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and he said no I don't know him 
and about this time that door 

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opens and a shaft of light 
pierces through the darkness of 

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the night and then they see 
Jesus bound and being led out. 

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And just about this time, she 
says, I know you were one of his

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disciples, your speech betrays 
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Peter take. 
His old habit, reverting. 

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He said he, the Bible says he 
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him. 
The agency said that remark 

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falls out on the air. 
Jesus has just walked out in 

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earshot and the Bible says he 
turned and looked at I don't 

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think that was a hateful look. 
I don't think that was a 

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spiteful, look. 
I don't think that was an angry,

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look. 
I think it was a look of hurt. 

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Love, what did I tell you? 
So Peter type of a look And then

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Jesus looked away. 
That look got Theatre. 

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The Bible says he went out into 
the darkness. 

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And cried aloud. 
He went out into the darkness 

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and wept. 
Now later translation gives that

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this way he went out into the 
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Now you know, the reason he did 
that was because it suddenly 

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dawned on him, he had done the 
worst thing that a human being 

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could ever do in this world. 
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might do, you might commit 
murder. 

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You might commit all kinds of 
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deny the Lord, you've done the 
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this life. 
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that look remind you, then he 
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Lord. 
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on you. 
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somewhere out in the darkness of
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Are on the outskirts of town, 
the next day. 

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I don't think he just ran, got 
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slept it, all wrong things, all 
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No sir, no way. 
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best to go back and get what the
apostles again. 

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through the city and comes to 
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courage, fails, perhaps the time
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Goes back to his old Retreat and
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bowed head biting. 
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face, but finally, he gets up 
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go. 
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He went, and with thankful for 
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leading up to the room. 
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dragging his feet. 
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reaches the latch. 
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Voices Inside? 
Are people. 

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Talking about him inside? 
Are they say? 

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Saying those things about him 
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drive him off again. 
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I don't know what happened when 
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by in a manly way placed his 
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shook him. 
Good said Peter, We're Glad You 

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Came. 
We've been all missing you It's 

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never been the same since you 
left. 

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You know, you've always been our
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you. 
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I hope that was the way it was, 
I don't know you know, show the 

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right attitude toward the area 
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It'll bring them back. 
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man needs the words of sympathy,
when he needs the warm class for

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her hand, it is when he has 
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line. 
Say the right thing and do the 

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right thing and many a man will 
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of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
And we hope that's the case. 

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But listen, somebody else is 
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Not wearily, dragging your feet,
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into that room like a glare of 
sunshine. 

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It was a lovely married. 
Mary Magdalene who had been over

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Yonder the tomb, Talking to 
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and as she Springs into the 
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calls out, perhaps, he's risen, 
he is risen. 

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And then she says it Jesus is 
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he would, he would see you all 
over in Galilee go, tell my 

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disciples that I go before them 
into Galilee. 

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Is that what she said? 
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what she said because if that's 
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over here would have felt 
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feels the Vatican artist and it 
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would have felt left out. 
Out. 

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Just as sure as you can believe 
because the Lord thought that 

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too and the Bible says and 
putting it, right? 

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Here's what she said, tell my 
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That I go before them into 
Galilee. 

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What did the Lord name him 
particularly and especially 

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well, I'll tell you why. 
He was the only ones named Mitch

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and and the only ones name 
mentioned is the only one who 

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had done wrong and felt that he 
would no longer qualify as a 

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disciple. 
I want to tell you today that 

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the Lord is the same yesterday 
today and forever. and he has an

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invitation for every one of his 
children, but if there's one if 

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there's a special individual in 
all the world, That needs the 

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message to be sent to anyone. 
It's that one who gives out of 

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favor with the Lord and don't 
forget those words and Peter. 

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And Peter. 
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love the other disciples he did.
he loved him as much as he did 

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Peter, but he was Peter, that 
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and that's the one he was 
thinking about the most, And at 

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that time, the Lord was grieving
for him. 

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Now I heard a story told one 
time Someone foolishly asked our

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old mother. 
Which one of her children she 

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loved the most a large family 
children. 

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She just really answered like 
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So, last morning every night 
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That one would be the one of her
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that's the one who would be Out 
of the circle. 

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And she would be most concerned 
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That's the one at that moment 
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And that's the case with Peter 
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the Lord doesn't want to give up
any one of his disciples He 

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doesn't have a single disciple 
that he would spare. 

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He loves you all in spite of our
mistakes, in spite of our 

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failures. 
In spite of our weaknesses. 

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I've read a poem, long time. 
It's a classic written in 

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England and I'm going to read. 
It is one of my favorite poems 

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and it illustrates this, just so
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As rather lengthy, the story is 
so you can get the thought real.

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Well, two brothers lived in 
England, one of them was 

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childish. 
And he made it well in life, he 

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had it going real well. 
His other brother had married 

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and had a whole house full of 
kids 7. 

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I believe. 
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Well, it seemed like it was hard
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He'd Fallen upon hard times. 
You just could make end meets 

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meat. 
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him a letter, and told him that 
I'll give you all, you need for 

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the rest of your life. 
If you'll just give me one of 

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your children, let's see what it
says. 

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Here's the letter. 
What shall it be? 

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What shall it be? 
I looked at John. 

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John looked at me. 
This is the why dear patient 

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John who loves me yet. 
As well as though my locks were 

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Jet and when I found that, I 
must speak, my voice, seems 

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strangely low and weak. 
Tell me again, what Robert said?

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And then I listening bent my 
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give a house and land. 
While you salil if in return 

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from out of your 71, child to me
for a is given Under to John's 

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old garments worn. 
I thought of all that John had 

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borne a poverty and work in care
which are the Willing could not 

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share. 
I thought of seven little mouths

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to feed. 
I'm seven little children's 

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need. 
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said, I will choose among them 
as they lie asleep. 

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So, walking hand in hand. 
Dear John, and I surveyed our 

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band first to the Cradle like 
this depth, For the new name, 

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this baby slept shall it be baby
quest for John? 

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I took his hand and hurried on 
to Lily's crib, her sleeping 

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grasp. 
Held her old dog within. 

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Its her class her dark curls, 
lay like Golda like a goal 

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against the pill of white 
softly. 

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Her father stopped to lay his 
rough hand down in loving way 

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when dreamer whisper made her 
sister. 

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Then us Kelly said John not her 
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trauma bed. 
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shed our thought, the boys faces
their slow sleep in pity in 

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sleep. 
So, pitiful and fair are so 

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Jamie's rough, red chica T run 
dried Here, John could speak 

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he's but a baby to said I and 
kissed him as we hurried by hail

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patient Robbie's suffering, 
angel face in sleep, still bore 

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sufferings Trace. 
No, not a thousand crowns, not 

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him. 
We whispered while our eyes were

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dim for dick. 
That dick, our wayward son 

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turbulent. 
Restless either one, could he be

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spared? 
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befriend him to the Grave. 
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patient enough for such. 
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would not dare to send him from 
her bedside prayer. 

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Then stole we softly up above 
and they'll primary Child Of 

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Love, perhaps for hurts, would 
better be? 

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I said to John. 
Quite silently. 

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He lifted up a curl, a straight 
across her cheek, and willful 

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way. 
Then shook his head nail of not 

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to eat the flower of my heart, 
the all degree, only one more. 

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Our eldest LED trustee truthful.
Good, and glad so, like his 

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father. 
No John, no, I cannot, I will 

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not let him go. 
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way, we could not give one child
away and afterwards tall, like 

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for seemed thinking of what 
thinking of that for which we up

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which we dream happy and true. 
That not one fakes we missed 

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from its accustomed Place 
thankful to work for all the 

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seven trusting, the restaurant 
in heaven. 

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That's just the way the Lord 
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Oaks. 
With all of your weaknesses with

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all of your troubles, with all 
of your problems, he doesn't 

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want to give one child away. 
well, you know That's the story.

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And that's the reason why the 
Jesus when he sent his message 

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from Heaven back down here to 
Earth, he said, you go tell them

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and Peter. 
I want Peter name. 

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And if you are stray this 
afternoon, if you're out of Duty

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with the Lord, if he were 
sending a message down to this 

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old world, he couldn't, he 
couldn't be more impressed. 

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He couldn't be more interested 
in you that if he had really 

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called your name, he's that much
interested in you though. 

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He's not talking to you audibly 
today, like you did. 

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Then he's talking through his 
word, but he means it just the 

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same You know, in spite of his 
failures, Peter had a met had a 

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message for us, that is rich in.
Hope he tells us in the most 

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emphatic, way that the man who 
followed a far out yesterday may

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enter into the intimacy of the 
Masters Fellowship today. 

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He tells us that there's a place
at his side, even for those of 

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us who have denied him that 
look, but Peters heart that day,

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you can have, you can hear 
Pathetic sobbing across the 

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centuries, he found his way once
more into the Masters 

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friendship. 
Jesus could hardly wait to get 

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the door of that tomb. 
Open to send Peter, a special 

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message. 
Go tell my disciples and Peter. 

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There's it, a private interview 
that Jesus had with Peter. 

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Did you know that it's not 
explained in the Bible? 

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And it's not clearly stated in 
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What took place we're not told 
but we can be sure of something 

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that he said, was said, Peter, 
proved that the, Peter poured 

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out, the whole wretched story 
before Jesus I think and Jesus 

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listened and forgot. 
And forgave the Bible says he 

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appeared on Unto Simon, he 
appeared unto some. 

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I don't know why that was no one
knows what that was. 

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But isn't that something Peter 
comes forth from that interview 

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wearing the different Garb than 
he had ever worn before the Garb

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of humility? 
MC commands that to you and me, 

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be clothed with humility. 
He writes for God, resisteth, 

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the proud and giveth grace to 
the humble wearing this robe. 

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Peter went forth into the 
ministry of the Lord. 

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It was in this costume that he 
preached in the house of 

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Cornelius in this Garb that he 
received his stripes. 

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And thought it owner that he was
counted worthy to suffer for the

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Lord. 
It was in this Garb that he went

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into prison and he was in this 
Garb to the Garb of humility 

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that he was crucified. 
When Peter wrote his epistle, 

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when he was converted and 
brought back to the Lord, you 

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know. 
Peter wrote an epistle. 

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And there's encouragement in 
that epistle to everyone. 

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Listen, he says, but God is Not 
slack. 

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Concerning his promise as some 
men count slackness but is 

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long-suffering to us-ward listen
to that long-suffering to 

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us-ward not willing that any 
should perish, but that all 

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should come to repentance 
something. 

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One, by the Holy Spirit, Peter 
Pan, those words back in the 

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Indy chamber of his heart, he 
could hear an echo. 70 and Peter

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and Peter because those words 
were the sweetest words he had 

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ever. 
Heard in all of his life they 

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welcomed him back. 
Again somewhere down in North 

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Africa, probably was As he was 
Faithfully following his duty to

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the Lord, and he never did go 
astray again. 

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His enemies apprehended him and 
they gave him the final 

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punishment. 
He was crucified, I like the 

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Lord. 
The only objection he had was, 

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don't crucify me in the normal 
way, crucify me upside down 

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because I'm not worthy to die 
like Jesus and they indulged 

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with him in that he was 
crucified upside down. 

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Wherever you are today. 
If you're out of Duty with the 

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Lord, remember these words and 
don't ever forget them, let me 

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be a encouragement and a 
challenge to you. 

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The Lord is calling for you to 
come back. 

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Now, he feels that way, just as 
much about you as he did Simon 

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Peter in the long long ago. 
I'm quite sure. 

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