Peter A Fisherman's Tale Pt 2 Series

Series – Come Alive in 2025

Thesis: We can come back to life – with a breath from heaven – nothing is too dead for God to bring back to life! The Bible says nothing is too lifeless for God! He is the Creator who took nothing and made it something and He can bring back to life anything! Can you catch the vision of this truth and reality for 2025?

Let’s all call on God to breathe life back into that which is dead and lifeless in our lives, our churches, and our schools in 2025!

Main Scripture Text for Series: Ezekiel 37:1-14:

1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “O Sovereign LORD, you alone know.”

4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ ”

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ ” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.’ ”

Introduction to series:

We need to Come Alive in 2025! It’s the breath of the Spirit of Heaven which takes something dead and hopeless and brings it back to life. We need a fresh vision of the Lord Jesus in all His glory today to believe this! We need to understand that there is hope beyond our failures, hope beyond our brokenness, hope beyond our circumstances, yes even hope beyond our sins!

Peter is our example to see how God can bring back to life that which is dead because of our failures (for Peter it was denying Jesus 3x) and yet Jesus restored Peter. Jesus will do the same for you if you humble yourself – if you repent of your sins and seek a breakfast campfire experience with Him like Peter.

Sermon: Peter pt 2 –The Fisherman’s tale

Thesis: Peter reveals through his rollercoaster life of mountain top experiences with Jesus to the valleys of denial and rebuke from the Lord that there is hope beyond our failures and mistakes.

Scripture: 1 Peter 1- A fisherman’s tale says – There is hope beyond failure, beyond hardships because we have a living hope! (I Peter 1:3)

Praise to God for a Living Hope 1 Peter 1:3-9

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”