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So I, I, I think I want to ask you a simple question.

When you look at your life, do you have regrets? Now, many people will say, "I have no regrets.

No regrets.

I look back at my life, and I have no regrets." And, and I, I think what they mean to say [laughs] is not really that they have no regrets, that they didn't make any mistakes.

I think what they mean to say is, "When I look at my life, including all of the mistakes that I've made and including all of the regrets, that I'm okay and that God has seen me through all of this and God has used the, even the, the difficult parts and the mistakes I've made, the places I've been stupid along the way, God has used that for good and, and it has all turned out well in my life and I'm, I, I, I am grateful.

I am grateful.

It's all grace," and I affirm that 100%.

But to say one has no regrets is to imply, gosh, I would, I would make that same stupid mistake all over again.[laughs] There is this, uh, scene in this, this, uh, really slimy movie, uh, called We're the Millers, and I don't recommend the movie.

It's full of inappropriate things, and please don't let your children see it.

Um, but, uh, it is, um, it's probably not appropriate for grown-ups either, actually.

Um.

[laughs]

But there's this wonderful scene.

It stars Jason Sudeikis and, and Jennifer Aniston, and they are p- they're pretending to be married and pretending to be a family, and they have this daughter who's a teenager, this pretend daughter, who brings this boy home, this, uh, boy home to, to meet them, and he has this big tattoo across his chest that says, "No regrets." It's no R-A-G-R-E-T-S.

[laughs]

Spelled regrets.

And he says, "Yeah, it's my motto in life, no regrets." [laughs] And Jason Sudeikis says, "Not...

You don't even regret one letter?"

[laughs]

Just one letter? Maybe just one letter you regret, right? And I think that is, is like us.

We like to say, "I've got no regrets." Well, you oughta have if you don't.

[laughs]

You oughta have some regrets if you really look at your, look at your life.

Our scripture today is, to me, a powerful picture of regret.

It is this, um, this story, uh, of Simon Peter in the courtyard, and Jesus has told him at the Last Supper that he will deny Jesus three times before the rooster crows.