1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:06,880 We're going to be in Luke chapter 5, and I entitled the message, fishing with Jesus. 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:09,740 And when you fish, you want to catch. 3 00:00:11,580 --> 00:00:14,880 And I just want to tell Janelle in the nest, a good catch. 4 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:16,700 That was pretty awesome. 5 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:24,880 You know, Jesus stirs all kinds of emotion. 6 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:29,600 You know, Jesus stirs all kinds of emotion. 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,760 As I get older, and the more I think about him, I turn into this blubbering idiot. 8 00:00:36,980 --> 00:00:41,220 And the worst thing about it is sometimes when I start blubber and I try to talk, 9 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,800 and of course, it's not legible. 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,540 But he also stirs up other things in people. 11 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,960 Kind of like our brothers and sisters in Syria. 12 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:59,440 I don't know if you've heard, but around 4,000 executed. 13 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:02,480 for their faith in Christ Jesus. 14 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,540 It's getting real, folks. 15 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:15,660 And I think it's pretty important for us to take this Jesus thing pretty serious 16 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,920 because it could cost you your life, right? 17 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:25,620 And yet we know that's what we sign up for when we follow Jesus. 18 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,220 He told us to lay it all down. 19 00:01:31,380 --> 00:01:33,820 and I am, what am I doing here? 20 00:01:35,380 --> 00:01:37,600 Sounds like there's a storm up here or something. 21 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:48,500 Anyway, so we're going to be in the fifth chapter of the gospel of Luke 22 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:51,580 and Jesus has been stirring people up. 23 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:58,240 We saw him stir up the people of his hometown that they weren't in awe of him 24 00:01:58,280 --> 00:01:59,720 or bowing before him. 25 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:05,280 They were grabbing him by the nap in the neck and going to chuck him off a cliff. 26 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,300 And so Jesus can stir love in your heart, but he can also stir murder in your heart. 27 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,820 And that is obvious with what we're seeing in our world today. 28 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,480 And so wouldn't it be just like the Lord? 29 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,340 I was thinking to this. 30 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,960 I'm thinking, Lord, this is crazy. 31 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:27,080 You know, America's maybe we're hoping we're kind of getting on the right track. 32 00:02:27,340 --> 00:02:31,560 Wouldn't it be just like the Lord to get everything lined out, right? 33 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,700 And get a lot of people right with God. 34 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,940 And then all said, boom, he takes us out. 35 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,160 What would America be like? 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,660 Oh, they could have the dude with the cane at the... 37 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,240 That looks like a demon. 38 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,780 Poor O'L Green, right? 39 00:02:51,940 --> 00:02:56,820 There wasn't an abundance of grace when they dealt out. 40 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:58,680 looks there, but... 41 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:04,500 Lord help that man. 42 00:03:08,999 --> 00:03:11,460 But wouldn't be just like the Lord to do that? 43 00:03:11,660 --> 00:03:13,600 Just, we're out of here. 44 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:23,759 And that's so true, because it doesn't look like America plays much of a role in the 45 00:03:24,060 --> 00:03:27,780 the last day's scenario, the days of the Antichrist. 46 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,740 And we're getting closer and closer by the day. 47 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:37,260 So we're going to read and then and then we'll pray. 48 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:38,960 I'm going to do something. 49 00:03:39,270 --> 00:03:44,660 I don't usually do this, but we're going to, we're going to stand to read. 50 00:03:44,940 --> 00:03:47,460 And it's just 11 verses and I'll try to read fast. 51 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,960 But in the scriptures, they would stand. 52 00:03:51,140 --> 00:03:53,740 It was a, it was, um, it was, um, 53 00:03:54,880 --> 00:04:01,980 respecting the power of God's word. And so we begin in verse one. And he says, so it was, 54 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,400 as the multitude pressed about him to hear the word of God, we're in Luke chapter 5, 55 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:17,320 that he stood by the lake of Ganeseret and saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen 56 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:23,720 had gone from them and were washing their nets. And then he got into one of the boats, which was 57 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:30,880 and asked him to put out little from the land. And when he sat down, he taught the multitude from the 58 00:04:31,350 --> 00:04:36,960 boat. And when he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your 59 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:44,640 nets for a catch. For some reason, this verse just makes me chuckle. But Simon answered and said to him, 60 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:50,980 Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net. 61 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,240 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. 62 00:04:56,370 --> 00:05:00,680 And so they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. 63 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,040 And they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink. 64 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:11,700 And when Simon saw it, he fell down at his knees, at Jesus' knees, saying, 65 00:05:12,180 --> 00:05:16,620 Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, oh Lord. 66 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,740 For he and all who were with him were astonished. 67 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:23,640 at the catch of fish which they had taken. 68 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:27,260 And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, 69 00:05:27,780 --> 00:05:29,440 who were partners with Simon. 70 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,140 And Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid. 71 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,580 From now on you will catch men. 72 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:37,980 And so when they had brought their boats to land, 73 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,320 they forsook all and followed him. 74 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:41,800 Let's pray. 75 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:43,180 Lord, thank you. 76 00:05:44,380 --> 00:05:49,000 Thank you that you are willing to come and to mingle among common people, 77 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,360 just like us. 78 00:05:51,160 --> 00:06:00,780 and Lord, that your word still is as alive, and Lord, is applicable to our lives as it was to those people in that day. 79 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:08,500 And so, Lord, may we take it to heart, Lord, the truths that we see before us in these verses. 80 00:06:09,030 --> 00:06:11,820 And Lord, that it would sink deep in Jesus' name. 81 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,840 Amen, you may be seated. Thank you. 82 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:23,540 And so it was as the multitude pressed about him. 83 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:29,420 A multitude, a lot of folk wanting to hear the word of God. 84 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,380 I don't know if that's why you're here today. 85 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:33,280 I hope so. 86 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:42,860 But, and really, having the word of God on Sunday is more like a treat. 87 00:06:44,620 --> 00:06:46,080 It's just a snack. 88 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:53,300 You should be digging in and self-feeding throughout the week and getting the word of God. 89 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,380 Praise God, we have it. Amen? 90 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:00,680 However, I am a bit spec. 91 00:07:01,780 --> 00:07:02,660 What I want to say? 92 00:07:02,780 --> 00:07:03,600 What word? Do it my... 93 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,920 Skeptical. There we go. That's what I'm looking for. 94 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:10,500 I'm a bit skeptical of the electronic stuff we have. 95 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:11,860 Right? 96 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:13,000 You should have our... 97 00:07:13,020 --> 00:07:22,000 hard copy. There's something glorious about the turning of pages. Right? And the thing about it is, 98 00:07:22,140 --> 00:07:28,900 once the ink is on it, it can't be manipulated. That's a redneck way of saying it. Manipulated. 99 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,980 Because no telling what they're going to be able to do with this stuff in the very near future, right? 100 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:42,820 And so a world is changing fast. 101 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:52,020 and to have the word of God in a book and pages that we can turn, I think, is a very good thing. 102 00:07:52,660 --> 00:07:59,360 And that it should be a consistent diet of ours as believers in Jesus. 103 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,020 So it says the multitude pressed about him. 104 00:08:05,260 --> 00:08:06,960 They're like digging in. 105 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,440 That word means to kind of lean into or to grab a hold of. 106 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,880 And people were wanting to hear the word of God. 107 00:08:15,860 --> 00:08:17,100 They want to hear it. 108 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,100 They want to hear God's word. 109 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:20,900 Now, that's not everybody. 110 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:24,220 That's something that you have to want. 111 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,660 And it's funny, just reading through Exodus this morning when they came to the mountain. 112 00:08:29,740 --> 00:08:33,099 You remember, they wanted, no, Moses, we don't want to hear God. 113 00:08:33,219 --> 00:08:34,539 You go, you go and talk to him. 114 00:08:34,820 --> 00:08:35,400 Because he's scaly. 115 00:08:37,020 --> 00:08:38,200 God is scaly. 116 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:41,219 God is scowee. 117 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:41,620 They were. 118 00:08:41,659 --> 00:08:42,560 we're afraid. 119 00:08:44,140 --> 00:08:45,960 And yet the Lord over and over again, 120 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,580 especially Jesus, when he comes in his earthly ministry, 121 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:53,760 and he tells us, come unto me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, 122 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,480 right, whether it's an unwanted pregnancy, or it's a death of a loved one, 123 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:04,380 or you're just, just weary of doing life by yourself. 124 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,040 And Jesus says, come. 125 00:09:07,340 --> 00:09:07,900 I'll help you. 126 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,200 He wants to help you. 127 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,480 but sometimes we don't want his help. 128 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:16,840 We want to go it alone. 129 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:25,180 And it's refreshing to see that people are hungry for the word of God and they want to know. 130 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:27,360 What does God want of me? 131 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,040 What does God want of me? 132 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,120 He wants us to come to him. 133 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:34,500 He wants us to walk by faith. 134 00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:40,200 And to do life according to. 135 00:09:40,220 --> 00:09:47,320 to his will and not according to our own. And so that they're pressing in to hear the word of God. 136 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:57,660 They're hungry for it. The increasing crowds began to show the increasing popularity of Jesus. 137 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,020 You know, in another place, the word tells us that he was a friend of publicans and sinners. 138 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:10,160 The crowd was so big that Jesus had to get into the boat and to teach. To teach, 139 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:21,680 the multitudes and people that know the whole science of sound and how it travels that off the water, 140 00:10:22,140 --> 00:10:29,240 it actually works quite well. And so obviously Jesus is the ultimate sound man. 141 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:40,120 And we seem, you know, in different, ultimate sound man. And we seem, you know, in different places. We seem, 142 00:10:40,180 --> 00:10:45,500 on the Mount of Olives. We see him in the temple delivering messages. Here he's at the Lake Ganeserite. 143 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,680 That's just another word for the Sea of Galilee or the Sea of Tiberius. It's also called. 144 00:10:51,340 --> 00:10:55,320 And he was in this region we know there. Nazareth was one of the towns around there. 145 00:10:56,100 --> 00:11:01,500 And wasn't too well received there. Now, we don't know what Jesus taught from the boat. 146 00:11:03,180 --> 00:11:09,560 We don't know what he taught. But we do know. It was the word. 147 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:17,200 right? And I think as a pastor, the desire that I have the most is that the word of God would go forth. 148 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,700 That if anything on Sundays, people would just be provoked to get into the word. 149 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,000 Because that was the most terrible message I've ever heard in my life. 150 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,700 I better read it to make sure it was halfway right. 151 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,320 See, that's why you should have your Bibles open in your lap right now. 152 00:11:37,980 --> 00:11:39,540 Not just for yourself, but to be it. 153 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,280 to make sure I'm okay, that I'm not teaching a lie. 154 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:49,300 So many people, especially in this area, they just, oh, just, just tell me what I'm supposed to do. 155 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:50,940 No, you read it for yourself. 156 00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:57,060 Then you're not as apt to be deceived. 157 00:11:57,780 --> 00:12:02,180 If you just listen to what somebody tells you, do you really know what you believe? 158 00:12:02,660 --> 00:12:04,980 And when you talk to people who are like that, no, they don't. 159 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:05,900 They don't have a clue. 160 00:12:06,220 --> 00:12:07,040 Well, I've been told. 161 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:15,600 No, you have the Lord speak directly to you by digging in to the word. 162 00:12:16,340 --> 00:12:21,060 And we know that Jesus only spoke what the Father told him to speak, right? 163 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:26,180 John 1249, for I have not spoken on my own authority, Jesus says, 164 00:12:26,860 --> 00:12:34,040 but the Father who sent me gave me a command what I should say and what I should speak. 165 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,020 You can take the Word. 166 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:44,280 words and read to the bank, folks. It's the word of God. And I don't know about you, but I've read some 167 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:52,000 words written and read that are quite disturbing. And they would be really disturbing if Jesus 168 00:12:52,240 --> 00:13:01,220 wasn't who he said he was. So because they sound just a little bit crazy if in fact he wasn't 169 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:07,000 who he said he was. But if he's who he said he was, right, we should hang on every 170 00:13:07,060 --> 00:13:17,280 single word that he speaks. Now, no doubt, Peter is listening to this sermon, and he's listening to the 171 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:25,800 Word of God. Do you listen to the Word of God? It's important for us to listen, right? Because it, 172 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:35,980 it, I mean, really, does it affect the way you live your life when you hear the Word of God? Or is it just kind of 173 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:36,840 an enro, 174 00:13:37,020 --> 00:13:39,140 Otrasale, is my Mexican friend says. 175 00:13:40,019 --> 00:13:41,480 In one ear and out the other. 176 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:48,240 And for a lot of people, that's the way it is. 177 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:53,300 They don't apply the word of God to their lives 178 00:13:53,370 --> 00:13:57,280 because it should, in fact, affect the way we live our lives. 179 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:03,140 And it's about to affect these four fishermen that we read about in these 11 verses 180 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:05,960 here in the fifth chapter. 181 00:14:05,980 --> 00:14:12,420 of the gospel of Luke. And so he finishes speaking, Jesus does. So we don't know really what he spoke, 182 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:18,040 other than we know he spoke the word of God. He finishes speaking. And I love verse four. 183 00:14:19,140 --> 00:14:25,540 Pete, I'm done preaching. Let's go fishing. Let's go fishing. Let's go fishing. Who's down with 184 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:33,980 fishing? Anybody down with fishing? Yeah. Let's go fishing. And so he says, and when he stopped 185 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:39,400 speaking. He said to Simon launch out into the deep and let down your net for a catch. 186 00:14:40,820 --> 00:14:45,880 Hot dog, we're going to catch a fish. I remember the first time I took my boy fishing. 187 00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:52,740 Buster, he was about five, and we get to the fishing spot, and I cast a little pole out, 188 00:14:52,740 --> 00:14:57,300 and I set it down in front of him. I said, you sit here and you watch his pole. He sat there for about 189 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,420 three seconds, and he goes, I ain't never going to catch a fish. 190 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:06,460 That was hilarious. 191 00:15:07,010 --> 00:15:08,860 And holy cow did we catch fish that day. 192 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:10,980 We caught a bucket load of perch. 193 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:16,440 But fishing, it's just, it's just cool, isn't it? 194 00:15:16,940 --> 00:15:17,920 Fishing is just cool. 195 00:15:18,260 --> 00:15:19,080 How that works. 196 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,260 And so Jesus is down with fishing. 197 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,480 That's just, let's go fishing. 198 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,800 Peter seriously thinks about arguing with Jesus here. 199 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:30,700 Right? 200 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:38,740 And in verse 5, but Simon answered and said to him, master, we've toiled all night and caught nothing. 201 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,700 Nevertheless, at your word. This was Peter's saving grace right now because we see Peter. 202 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:51,140 He usually has hoof and mouth disease, right? Just dusty foot right in his mouth, you know. 203 00:15:51,580 --> 00:15:56,660 And he gets called things that most people didn't get called in the Bible. He even gets called 204 00:15:56,820 --> 00:16:00,440 Satan. We remember when Jesus tells him, looks at Peter and says, get behind me, Satan. 205 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:06,900 but, you know, he thinks about it, but then he checks himself, bless his heart. 206 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,240 But he said, nevertheless, right? 207 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:12,440 It's your word. 208 00:16:13,460 --> 00:16:14,300 We've toiled on eye. 209 00:16:14,380 --> 00:16:21,900 This particular, it's interesting, this word for master here is a unique Greek word 210 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:24,020 that means commander or leader. 211 00:16:25,140 --> 00:16:28,060 Peter had seen enough of Jesus to recognize him. 212 00:16:30,260 --> 00:16:36,020 maybe not for who he really totally was, but he knew this dude had some clout. 213 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:37,240 Right? 214 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:44,200 And maybe it heard about John the Baptist and maybe Jesus was a step up on John the Baptist. 215 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:51,480 And so, you know, but he's still, you know, he's thinking, you know, all the things he could have said, 216 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:53,680 I worked online, and I'm tired. 217 00:16:54,380 --> 00:16:56,940 I know a lot more about fishing than a carpenter does. 218 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:58,680 Right? 219 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,160 The best fishing is at night, not during the day. 220 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,560 All these crowds and loud noises have scattered the fish away. 221 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,579 We already washed our nets, and we're going to have to do it again. 222 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,740 Jesus may know religion, but he doesn't know fishing. 223 00:17:14,780 --> 00:17:15,579 That's where he's wrong. 224 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:16,880 Right? 225 00:17:17,959 --> 00:17:18,740 That's where he's wrong. 226 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,520 At your word, I will let down the net. 227 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:28,339 Peter was willing to obey the word of God. 228 00:17:29,020 --> 00:17:31,940 And I think you and I need to be willing to obey the word of God. 229 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:36,760 Because it's not always easy to obey the word of God. 230 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:41,520 I was just reading this morning in Exodus 20, the 10 commandments. 231 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:42,600 Right? 232 00:17:42,660 --> 00:17:45,080 And I'm thinking, oh, you start checking them off. 233 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:46,040 Oh, broke that one. 234 00:17:46,180 --> 00:17:47,180 Oh, broke that one. 235 00:17:47,660 --> 00:17:49,080 Well, you only need to break one. 236 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,200 Because the Bible says if you break one, you're guilty of all. 237 00:17:58,600 --> 00:17:59,160 We're all guilty. 238 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:02,380 I was talking to an old friend this week. 239 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,680 And he said, I've been seriously considering 240 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:09,920 making a t-shirt that says the unconvicted felon. 241 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,680 That's a shirt that everyone in this room could wear. 242 00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:16,880 Right? 243 00:18:18,620 --> 00:18:22,540 When it comes to thought word in action, 244 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,220 thought word in action. 245 00:18:25,140 --> 00:18:27,100 Every one of us would be guilty. 246 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:28,040 Right? 247 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:29,840 And so 248 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:34,740 Peter here is 249 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:37,500 willing to listen to the word. 250 00:18:37,980 --> 00:18:40,080 Obviously, at your word, there was light. 251 00:18:40,220 --> 00:18:43,000 At your word, there was the sun and the moon and the stars and the plants were created. 252 00:18:43,380 --> 00:18:45,160 At your word, life came to this earth. 253 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,880 At your word, creation is held together and sustained. 254 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:50,360 At your word, empire's rise and fall. 255 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:51,520 History unfolds. 256 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:52,500 His great plan. 257 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:53,460 God's word. 258 00:18:54,580 --> 00:18:55,700 That's why we should hear it. 259 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:56,700 Right? 260 00:18:57,300 --> 00:19:05,660 Now, we always, we always quote or invoke this verse out of Hebrews, chapter 4, verse 12, right? 261 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:06,760 You guys have heard it. 262 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,940 I don't know how many times I've quoted it from this pulpit. 263 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:10,360 Some of you haven't memorized. 264 00:19:10,580 --> 00:19:12,080 Some of you have it on your refrigerator. 265 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:12,440 Some of you have it on your refrigerator. 266 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:13,980 Some might have it on the bathroom mirror. 267 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,780 I don't know, but we all know this verse. 268 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Where it says, right? 269 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,540 For the word of God is living and powerful. 270 00:19:23,890 --> 00:19:24,900 You guys know that verse, right? 271 00:19:26,660 --> 00:19:28,560 But what's interesting is the context. 272 00:19:28,860 --> 00:19:30,780 I always forget the context. 273 00:19:31,580 --> 00:19:36,040 And a lot of times we post those little verses on our refrigerators, 274 00:19:36,220 --> 00:19:42,520 and we forget the context in the context of what the writer of Hebrews is talking about. 275 00:19:42,780 --> 00:19:47,320 He's talking about the children of Israel not obeying the word of God. 276 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:49,700 And the trouble that it got them into. 277 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,080 When you don't hear God's word. 278 00:19:55,140 --> 00:19:55,980 And then do it. 279 00:19:57,380 --> 00:19:59,160 That's what Jesus said was so powerful, right? 280 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,420 You guys remember this story when his mom and his brothers come? 281 00:20:01,820 --> 00:20:04,020 They think Jesus is kind of losing it. 282 00:20:05,060 --> 00:20:07,380 And they're waiting outside and he's teaching the multitude. 283 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,280 And the people say, hey, Jesus, your mom, your mom and your brothers are here. 284 00:20:11,660 --> 00:20:14,140 And he says, who is my mother and my brothers? 285 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:18,100 But those who hear the word of God and do it. 286 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:19,860 Right? 287 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:23,460 There's a difference in just hearing and doing. 288 00:20:25,299 --> 00:20:27,460 So I'm just going to read it to you. 289 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,940 It's Hebrews 11 through 13. 290 00:20:31,180 --> 00:20:33,260 Chapter 4, verses 11 through 13. 291 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:34,500 And this is how it reads. 292 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:39,960 Let us therefore be diligent, you and I, to enter that rest, 293 00:20:40,420 --> 00:20:44,140 lest anyone fall according to the example of disobedience. 294 00:20:44,140 --> 00:20:48,000 That was the people in the wilderness who died. 295 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,400 Everyone 20 years. 296 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,800 and older that came out of Egypt, their bones were scattered in the wilderness. 297 00:20:54,910 --> 00:20:56,440 They didn't go into the promised land. 298 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,040 They wouldn't hear the word of God. 299 00:20:59,310 --> 00:21:00,440 They were disobedient. 300 00:21:01,820 --> 00:21:10,120 It says, so, lest we fall according to the same example of disobedience, 301 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:14,420 for the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, 302 00:21:14,860 --> 00:21:18,760 piercing even to the division of soul and spirit in joints and marrow, 303 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,320 and is a discern of the thoughts in the intends of the heart. 304 00:21:22,620 --> 00:21:26,380 And there is no creature hidden from his sight. 305 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,520 But all things are naked and open to the eyes of him, 306 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:32,900 to whom we must give an account. 307 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,340 That brings even a greater weight to this passage of scripture. 308 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,480 To me, it's like, wow. 309 00:21:41,060 --> 00:21:43,380 The thoughts in the intents of my heart, God knows them. 310 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,740 And when I read his word, he exposes them to me. 311 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:56,060 me. He reveals them to me. He reveals whether my heart is right and my intent is in the right 312 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:04,260 place. That's why obeying the word, hearing the word, doing what it says is so powerful. 313 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:14,200 It's funny this week. I watched a TV program where Samuel was there chastising Saul. 314 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:18,280 You guys remember the story, right? There in first Samuel chapter, 315 00:22:18,340 --> 00:22:26,140 15 in verses 21 through 23, you remember the, the Israelites were fighting the Amalekites and the 316 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:32,380 instruction to the king was to wipe them all out, kill everything, kill the animals, kill, kill the 317 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:40,060 king, kill everybody. And you remember Samuel, they didn't do it. And the Lord rips him, 318 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:48,320 or excuse me, through Samuel, he rips him. It says, but the people took up the people, took up the 319 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:52,980 plunder, the sheep in the oxen, which they were to do away with, and the best of the things which 320 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:59,840 should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice to the Lord God in Gilcal. This is in 1st Samuel 321 00:22:59,980 --> 00:23:05,280 chapter 15, verses 21 through 23. And so they thought, hey, there's some good booty here. We'll just 322 00:23:05,540 --> 00:23:13,060 sacrifice it to the Lord. So Samuel said, has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and 323 00:23:13,380 --> 00:23:16,260 sacrifice as in obeying the voice of the Lord? 324 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,660 Folks, listen, God does not care about stuff. 325 00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:34,820 All your stuff that you got, that you have to take care of that consumes two-thirds of your life is firewood. 326 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,640 Right, it's just going to burn. 327 00:23:38,860 --> 00:23:40,200 All this stuff we got. 328 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,060 It's ridiculous. 329 00:23:44,620 --> 00:23:46,240 And it is amazing how. 330 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,240 how quick stuff can accumulate. 331 00:23:49,460 --> 00:23:49,720 You know? 332 00:23:50,110 --> 00:23:52,020 You move from one house to another and you're thinking, 333 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,120 golly, I ain't seen this stuff in 15 years. 334 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,220 Oh, we got her stuff to weigh in some hole, though. 335 00:23:58,420 --> 00:23:59,460 I just might need that. 336 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:10,780 But Samuel's, Samuel's point here is that you should obey. 337 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,060 Behold, he says, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed. 338 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,680 than the fath of rams. 339 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,960 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 340 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,580 And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. 341 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,180 Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, 342 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,460 he also has rejected you from being king. 343 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,340 And you guys know the ploy from then on. 344 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,780 The dude loses his absolute mind. 345 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:38,620 He goes crazy. 346 00:24:40,060 --> 00:24:41,620 Why? He wouldn't hear the word of God. 347 00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:43,000 And I've told you. 348 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,400 I've told you from this pulpit. 349 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:45,960 I get out of the word from a, 350 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:53,780 a few days and psychosis actually sets in. I start becoming a loony tune. I know some of you think I'm 351 00:24:53,840 --> 00:25:02,700 loony anyway. But void of the word of God, it is dangerous. Right? Listen, Jesus desires to be 352 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:09,440 involved in our job, in our work. He's interested in what Peter's doing. Dude, 353 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:15,460 you're a fisherman. Right? The thing about it is, is Jesus, is Jesus, 354 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,760 is better at your job than you are. 355 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,580 Jesus is a better engineer than you are. 356 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:22,780 No offense engineers. 357 00:25:23,220 --> 00:25:23,700 Just say it. 358 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,660 Electrician, Jesus is a better electrician than you. 359 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:28,980 Right? 360 00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:31,440 Jesus is a better fisherman than you. 361 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:33,540 He's better at it. 362 00:25:34,220 --> 00:25:35,160 You should listen to him. 363 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,800 I got this as a horseman. 364 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:40,020 Right? 365 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,560 I remember working with this cult one time, 366 00:25:42,620 --> 00:25:43,760 and I was beside myself. 367 00:25:44,260 --> 00:25:45,520 And it was like the Lord, 368 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:46,380 just wish you did. 369 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:50,920 Why, you just pray, ask me, I can help you. 370 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,360 And then it hit me. 371 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,500 I thought, oh, my gosh. 372 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,460 The one who created this animal that I'm struggling with 373 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:02,800 knows him better than I do. 374 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,400 And so I started to incorporate prayer into starting colds. 375 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:13,780 I'm just like, no, I said colds, not colds. 376 00:26:15,419 --> 00:26:20,380 Palmer one time shared that starting colts and somebody said, Justin started a cult. 377 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,780 He was totally misunderstood. I was starting a cult, like a, he-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-holt. 378 00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:32,360 Got to clarify these things. 379 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:39,660 I was talking about a team of horses over at Rick's church the other day, and Rick goes, hey, they don't know what a team is. 380 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,060 You've got to tell them what a team is. 381 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,700 Oh, it's a horse. 382 00:26:43,980 --> 00:26:47,000 You know, they eat on one end and they... 383 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:48,800 I mean... 384 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:49,740 Yeah. 385 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:56,460 Some of the things we take for granted in this life, you know, 386 00:26:56,660 --> 00:26:58,400 it's just, it's quite comical. 387 00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:02,440 But I thought, Jesus is a much greater horseman than me. 388 00:27:06,299 --> 00:27:11,340 And so, he is the one, right? 389 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:13,680 Who can come, even in terms. 390 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:20,100 to our jobs and make us be the most effective at our job and mainly as a witness. 391 00:27:21,860 --> 00:27:26,580 Right? As a witness. Being a witness where you work. So many men, especially men, 392 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:33,360 women are better at this than men are. But men, they are like one way at church on Sunday. 393 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:39,660 And then they go to work. And it's like they cast off all restraint. They talk like everybody else, 394 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,840 tell filthy jokes, talk about their wives. I'm just like, 395 00:27:44,260 --> 00:27:45,740 are you the same guy I saw Sunday? 396 00:27:48,180 --> 00:27:48,940 What's up with that? 397 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,760 That's called hypocrisy in the greatest degree. 398 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,880 And it's a stench to the Lord. 399 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,800 To act one way simply because you're around people who love God. 400 00:28:04,980 --> 00:28:07,600 And then when you're around the heathens, you act just like them. 401 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:09,460 People can't even tell the difference. 402 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:15,420 The Lord wants to be involved in what we do. 403 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:18,080 He wants us to be a witness. 404 00:28:18,260 --> 00:28:23,600 I remember I worked on a dirt crew for 10 years in a machine, an excavator. 405 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,560 And I was serious about it. 406 00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:28,520 I was serious about following Jesus, right? 407 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:29,820 I always had Jesus on the radio. 408 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,640 I packed my Bible with me. 409 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,580 It was all duct taped together. 410 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:34,860 And I had me a prayer list. 411 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,440 And I would sit on my little inside my windshield on my excavator. 412 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,480 and I would try to go through that prayer list, you know, throughout the week. 413 00:28:44,980 --> 00:28:47,660 And the guys kind of got privy to it, the guys I worked with, right? 414 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:54,600 I obviously got called Jesus freak or, you know, Billy Graham, or I think I shared, 415 00:28:54,740 --> 00:28:56,500 praise God, I never got called oral Roberts. 416 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,200 Rick got called that once, but. 417 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,060 But, you know, the religious guy. 418 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,920 And so they'd come up and talk to me and, you know, I'd have to stop my machine. 419 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,440 They'd stop me, and I'd see him glance over at the prayer list to see if they're 420 00:29:09,460 --> 00:29:11,240 was on it. Right. 421 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,920 It's just, it was just being a witness, right? 422 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:17,200 Just being a witness. 423 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,580 Just living what you believe. 424 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,760 Because that old saying is so true. 425 00:29:25,260 --> 00:29:28,600 If you believe it, then please live it. 426 00:29:29,980 --> 00:29:33,320 But listen, if you don't live it, you don't believe it. 427 00:29:34,580 --> 00:29:34,660 Right? 428 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,300 You're just a stuff sure. 429 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:37,840 You're putting on a show. 430 00:29:38,420 --> 00:29:39,300 Save yourself from heart. 431 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,260 some heartache, right? And just go headlong into the world and forget about coming to church. 432 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,840 Right? Don't be too faced. Love Jesus or not. Right? It's kind of that simple. 433 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,620 Jesus said, follow me or not. If you're for me, you're for me. If you're not for me, you're against me. 434 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:09,320 Oh, no, no, no, that's pretty harsh. No, if you're not for me, you're against me 435 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:14,940 of Maranatha. I think I might even shared that last, last week. But Lord wants to be involved. 436 00:30:16,060 --> 00:30:21,480 He wants all of you. He doesn't just want some of you. He wants all of you. He wants all of you. 437 00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:27,740 As men and women, as husbands and wives and children and employees, he wants all of you. 438 00:30:28,420 --> 00:30:39,260 And so hearing what he says and doing what he says is powerful. And it's also fruitful. And it's also fruitful. 439 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,620 Check out verse 6. 440 00:30:41,020 --> 00:30:44,200 There, it says, where it says, and when they had done this, 441 00:30:44,380 --> 00:30:44,940 had done what? 442 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,260 Had done what Jesus said, right? 443 00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:51,100 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, 444 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,280 and their net was breaking. 445 00:30:53,710 --> 00:30:58,980 And so they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help, 446 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:03,400 and they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink. 447 00:31:05,020 --> 00:31:05,760 That's pretty fruitful. 448 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,720 Just do what God tells you to do. 449 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:18,380 Now, we don't have any record of the fishermen here going, hey, Jesus, you want to become a 50% partner? 450 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:19,800 Or 49%? 451 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:20,940 However that works. 452 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,140 No, I think I'd do 100%. 453 00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:25,220 Right? 454 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,660 Because obviously, you know how to fish. 455 00:31:32,679 --> 00:31:33,620 Pretty fruitful. 456 00:31:35,740 --> 00:31:36,980 Peter, it's interesting. 457 00:31:37,220 --> 00:31:38,700 Peter was relieved. 458 00:31:38,740 --> 00:31:45,720 in obedience to Jesus, but the fish, on the other hand, were zealously obedient, right? 459 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:52,600 It is as though as soon as Peter's net hit the water, every fish in the Sea of Galilee 460 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,620 obeyed the command of Jesus, their maker, to jump into the net. 461 00:32:02,460 --> 00:32:06,540 I know that does cause you to chuckle, but it's the truth. 462 00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:09,080 It is the truth. 463 00:32:10,020 --> 00:32:11,300 He's the God of the universe. 464 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,040 Right? 465 00:32:14,460 --> 00:32:16,540 He tells the ocean where to stop. 466 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,940 He speaks from the hosts of heaven. 467 00:32:24,020 --> 00:32:26,860 The Bible says they declare the glory of God. 468 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:29,820 Isn't it amazing? 469 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,560 The creation is so much more obedient than the pearl of creation, 470 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:35,000 mankind. 471 00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:39,360 It's amazing. 472 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:49,340 It's amazing that we can see this and forget it. 473 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,420 We forget how great our God is. 474 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:57,480 So, 475 00:32:58,430 --> 00:33:02,580 so Peter here has a good response. 476 00:33:05,579 --> 00:33:12,520 It says, and when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at his knee, at Jesus' knees, saying, 477 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,140 depart from me, for I am a sinful man, oh, Lord. 478 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:26,340 When you're in the presence of Jesus, obviously you are faced with your own shortcomings. 479 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,120 Or you should be. 480 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:36,600 And here, Peter is taken back. 481 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:41,320 Everyone is in amazement, obviously, at what happened. 482 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,240 But Peter, he falls on his knees. 483 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:52,500 Now, there's a couple takes on this. 484 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:53,180 It's interesting. 485 00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:57,100 One commentator I read, he said this. 486 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:00,160 He said, it was not merely a wicked desire on Peter. 487 00:34:00,180 --> 00:34:04,760 is part to want Jesus to live, or leave, excuse me, but it was stupid. 488 00:34:05,740 --> 00:34:10,740 It was foolish because of the reason he gave, Lord, depart from me because I am a sinful 489 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:16,260 man. If Peter had any sense at all, if he had a single brain in his head, he would have said, 490 00:34:16,379 --> 00:34:19,419 Lord, don't go, come here because I am a sinful man. 491 00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:23,340 What Peter needed more than anything in the world was a savior. And that's true. 492 00:34:24,980 --> 00:34:28,379 But I think throughout scripture, we see people when they're in the presence of God. 493 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:34,820 They hit their face. They're going, oh, man, woe is me. I am undone. Right? We've seen it with 494 00:34:35,139 --> 00:34:41,340 Balam, you know, after the donkey mashed his foot. Right? And he cussed the donkey and he hits the donkey. 495 00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:46,000 And she says, why are you hitting me? I'm not a good donkey, you know. 496 00:34:50,740 --> 00:34:57,900 I think the miracle of that story is not that the donkey spoke to Baylam, but the bailin actually spoke back to the donkey. 497 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,720 But when he sees the angel with the flaming sword, right? 498 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,240 What does he do? 499 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,340 Man, he's on his face. 500 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:09,880 He knew he's a dead man because of his failure. 501 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,600 We see Aaron and Moses fall on their face when the glory of the Lord feels the temple. 502 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,220 We see Isaiah undone, right? 503 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,900 When he sees the Lord high and lifted up, a man, he sees himself as a man of unclean lips. 504 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,900 We see Ezekiel on his face when he sees his visions. 505 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,720 Daniel was like a dead man. 506 00:35:26,940 --> 00:35:28,980 The Saul of Tarsus was knocked to the ground. 507 00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:33,640 The Apostle John was overwhelmed in the presence of the Lord Jesus. 508 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:35,980 And so should we be. 509 00:35:37,940 --> 00:35:38,380 Overwhelmed. 510 00:35:40,060 --> 00:35:42,680 Just a moment during worship, I had one of those moments. 511 00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:43,880 Lord, I'm overwhelmed. 512 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:50,620 Your goodness compared to my wickedness is just like, how could you ever? 513 00:35:51,140 --> 00:35:51,820 And yet he does. 514 00:35:52,620 --> 00:35:53,280 And that's overwhelming. 515 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,820 I love what Revelation 117 says here when John was undone. 516 00:36:00,860 --> 00:36:05,400 It says, and when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. 517 00:36:05,820 --> 00:36:09,560 But he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, do not be afraid. 518 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:11,620 I am the first and the last. 519 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,000 Lord says, hey, don't be afraid. 520 00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:17,700 We see that over and over again. 521 00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:22,060 Remember when we read through when the angel was showing up announcing the birds of John the Baptist and Jesus. 522 00:36:22,220 --> 00:36:23,360 Hey, don't be afraid. 523 00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:25,560 I'm here. 524 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:36,640 I love you. I got a plan for your life. Will you submit to me? Will you lay your life down? Will you follow me? 525 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:44,340 That's all God's looking for. But we're so stinking, hard-headed and hard-hearted and hard-hearted. 526 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:53,660 We hang on to things. No! My! Right? You want your life you can have it. Rots a rock. Ah! 527 00:36:59,359 --> 00:37:04,560 There is a sense in the presence of the Lord that he is holy and I am not. 528 00:37:04,610 --> 00:37:06,400 And I really think that that's Peter's. 529 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,900 That's Peter's thought here. 530 00:37:11,420 --> 00:37:12,300 Oh my gosh. 531 00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:14,960 I am truly in the presence of God. 532 00:37:15,140 --> 00:37:16,560 What do I know about fishing? 533 00:37:22,220 --> 00:37:23,700 So he tells him to deport. 534 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:32,620 heart. Then it says, for he and all who were with him were astonished, verse nine, at the catch of fish, 535 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:40,080 which they had taken. No doubt, though, their bills got paid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so also were James and John, 536 00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:46,720 the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon, and Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid. 537 00:37:47,180 --> 00:37:53,580 From now on, you will catch men. And so when they had brought their boats to the land, 538 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,260 Listen, they forsook all and followed him. 539 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,160 Forsook all and followed him. 540 00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:03,880 They were actually dumbfounded, 541 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:06,620 astonished what they were seeing, right? 542 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,920 Here this carpenter filled both their boats 543 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,660 to the point of them sinking. 544 00:38:13,060 --> 00:38:16,660 But listen, he was showing them that he was worthy of following. 545 00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:21,760 Has he showed that to you? 546 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,140 Is Jesus worthy to follow for you? 547 00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:27,740 Only in certain circumstances? 548 00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:31,400 Or with every breath? 549 00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:36,200 With every breath following our God. 550 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:40,700 I don't know if that's even doable, 551 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,140 but I sure would like to try. 552 00:38:45,020 --> 00:38:47,800 Because he's proved to me he's worth following. 553 00:38:51,940 --> 00:38:52,680 And he's worth following. 554 00:38:53,120 --> 00:39:00,080 It's worth, should be worth to you and me obeying his commands and being willing to do them, 555 00:39:00,180 --> 00:39:01,220 whatever he asks you to do. 556 00:39:05,020 --> 00:39:11,060 So Jesus comforts them by saying, listen, there's a purpose for this. 557 00:39:11,060 --> 00:39:12,240 I have a plan for you. 558 00:39:12,860 --> 00:39:13,860 You're going to catch men. 559 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:17,180 I like that thought. 560 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:17,860 Catching men. 561 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:19,480 Right? 562 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,360 A cowboy that doesn't rope very good. 563 00:39:22,580 --> 00:39:25,920 would like to try to rope a few men. I'd like to catch some of them. Right. 564 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,280 Bill first came in my office the other day and I said, Bill, because he asked me, he goes, 565 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,300 what are you going to do with your logo? I don't know. My daughter came up with this logo off of, 566 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:41,000 off of the internet, and we've kind of just adopted it. And it's got a dude on a horse. 567 00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:46,400 And I don't know what we're going to do with our logo. I said, but I was, I was scribbling on a 568 00:39:46,820 --> 00:39:51,840 envelope today with stick men. I could show you. He says, well, show me. 569 00:39:52,540 --> 00:39:54,540 I said, well, it's a stick man. 570 00:39:54,620 --> 00:39:55,920 It's a stick man on a horse. 571 00:39:56,340 --> 00:39:58,920 And he's roping a dude going into the flames of hell. 572 00:39:59,340 --> 00:40:00,600 And he's rescuing him out of that. 573 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,080 And I said, it's a little too busy. 574 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,220 And Bill goes, yeah, it's too busy. 575 00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:07,500 But bless, he's hard. 576 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:08,680 He took a picture of it anyway. 577 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:09,640 So. 578 00:40:13,660 --> 00:40:15,740 Out West Bible Church catching men. 579 00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:17,040 Yeah. 580 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:19,060 I like it. 581 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,000 Right? 582 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:28,760 Because listen, if we could catch enough men that would love Jesus, we'd rock the world until he comes. 583 00:40:29,310 --> 00:40:29,420 Amen? 584 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,400 We'd rock the world because they'd be being the husbands, they ought to be. 585 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,860 They'd be, you know, they'd be in the dads, they ought to be. 586 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,620 They'd be in the good workers that they ought to be. 587 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:42,620 Right? 588 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,620 There would be no need for the nest. 589 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,580 Because men wouldn't be impregnating women that they had no, no, um, 590 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:52,940 idea of marrying. 591 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:54,500 They wouldn't do that. 592 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:56,560 Unless they were going to get married. 593 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,160 A lot of problems would go away. 594 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,020 We'd have no pita because men are hunters. 595 00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:07,800 Okay, that's funny. 596 00:41:17,110 --> 00:41:19,040 We would be making spotted owl soup. 597 00:41:21,580 --> 00:41:22,700 Okay, you got that one maybe. 598 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,580 Jesse Lucero and I were just talking about this 599 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,020 because they breached the dam there at the clam at the irrigation deal 600 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,840 right in Oregon, dried up 220,000 acres of farm ground. 601 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,580 Now, that's one thing to be stupid, but that's being stupid on purpose, right? 602 00:41:47,230 --> 00:41:47,360 Right? 603 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:55,840 But Jesus has this call for us, no matter what occupation we're in, to be to be catchers of men. 604 00:41:57,340 --> 00:41:58,820 I have a plan for you. 605 00:41:59,780 --> 00:42:00,920 This guy's got a plan for your life. 606 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:01,960 Right where you're at. 607 00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:02,860 Right? 608 00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:06,040 You don't even have to change jobs for God to fulfill his plan. 609 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,800 I learned that, you know, because I was kind of just a dumb country kid. 610 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:11,900 Didn't know much. 611 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,420 I definitely wasn't going to get educated by higher education. 612 00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:18,900 I did get educated. 613 00:42:20,460 --> 00:42:23,220 But it was usually what not to do, not how to do. 614 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:30,280 But every place I found myself, I realized God's working, he's planning my life right where I'm at. 615 00:42:31,020 --> 00:42:36,680 Well, I was working on a ranch, working at a cemetery, working on a construction crew, 616 00:42:37,260 --> 00:42:40,240 being a pastor at the school, here now. 617 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:42,600 God's got a plan for your life. 618 00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:43,900 He's going to use you wherever you're at. 619 00:42:47,119 --> 00:42:55,720 just as the Lord had a plan for those fish to swim into the net to prove his power to these men 620 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:03,000 he's got a plan for you to reach out to the world and to catch those who would come 621 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,160 into the net of the kingdom of heaven. 622 00:43:10,340 --> 00:43:12,880 The Lord has a plan for us to go into all the world, 623 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:14,600 preaching the good news, 624 00:43:15,180 --> 00:43:17,700 thus making us fishers of men. 625 00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:19,620 It's a call to all of us. 626 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:22,840 It's not just the guy standing behind the pulpit. 627 00:43:23,820 --> 00:43:26,200 I'm telling you, the Lord could do a whole lot better than this. 628 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,620 You guys are dealing with the foolish things of the world, right? 629 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,420 But praise God, he can even use a donkey. 630 00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:42,780 That last verse, and I'll close with this. 631 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:48,840 So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed him. 632 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:50,820 They forsook it all? 633 00:43:52,220 --> 00:43:57,660 What is it in your life that you would have to forsake to truly follow Jesus wholeheartedly? 634 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,060 It's just a great question. 635 00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:02,040 It's just a great self-examination. 636 00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:04,740 What is it that I need to forsake? 637 00:44:06,820 --> 00:44:10,920 What is it my pursuit of building my own kingdom? 638 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,260 When I should be building his, 639 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,180 we need to be willing to forsake all 640 00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:24,400 to become catchers of men. 641 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:25,860 Right? 642 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,020 Even if it's only one. 643 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:29,820 Hey, we'll take it. 644 00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:35,280 Jesus gives certain talents 645 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,740 in out that we see. 646 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,500 And then he comes in and requires. 647 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:38,740 What? 648 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:40,900 In your sphere of influence, 649 00:44:40,940 --> 00:44:42,160 What'd you do? It's what I gave you. 650 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,260 Do you tell people about me? 651 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:48,020 Will you bold? 652 00:44:52,220 --> 00:44:53,740 Wasn't I a part of the conversation? 653 00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:57,040 When the son of man comes, will they find faith on the earth? 654 00:44:57,340 --> 00:45:00,540 Will we be operating in that place of faith? 655 00:45:01,180 --> 00:45:02,820 That just makes a difference, you guys. 656 00:45:04,100 --> 00:45:05,300 You just walk by faith. 657 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,140 Let the chips fall where they may. 658 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,660 People are going to go, wow. 659 00:45:09,780 --> 00:45:10,660 That guy's strange. 660 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,340 But eventually, the Lord will open doors. 661 00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:23,080 I remember when I first went to work on that dirt crew, man, you talk about flowery speech. 662 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:25,680 I mean, I was even shocked. 663 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:28,220 Because I hadn't talked like that for some time. 664 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:31,160 And I was in a little Christian bubble for two and a half years. 665 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,380 And then I stepped into this. 666 00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:34,180 And I mean, there were several times in the morning. 667 00:45:34,340 --> 00:45:36,600 The first couple weeks, I'd walk in the break room. 668 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:37,940 I'd hear what they were talking about. 669 00:45:38,020 --> 00:45:40,640 And I'd turn right back around and walk right back out of the book. 670 00:45:40,660 --> 00:45:50,760 break room. I just like, I, my ears are burning. I haven't heard talk like that. And obviously, 671 00:45:51,020 --> 00:45:57,080 that caught people's a ticket. How can you leave the break room? Well, the speech is a little flowery. 672 00:45:57,210 --> 00:46:05,520 Oh, really? So are you a do-gooder? What's up with you? No, I just love Jesus. So the Lord puts me in this 673 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:10,620 dump truck one day, which was scary. Because I went from an excavator going, three, 674 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:15,780 miles an hour to a dump truck going 70. People's lives were in danger. 675 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,600 And this dude had a little girly calendar on his, on his dashboard. 676 00:46:25,660 --> 00:46:30,260 You know, bare-breasted girls. And I pulled it off and I chucked it in the dumpster. 677 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,840 Well, he comes back a week later. Hey, Scotty, did you drive my truck last week? I said, yeah. 678 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:38,680 He said, where's my calendar? I said, Bob, I threw it away. 679 00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:43,440 What don't you like to look at women? 680 00:46:43,780 --> 00:46:45,500 I said, yeah, that's my problem, dude. 681 00:46:47,580 --> 00:46:48,360 That's why I threw it away. 682 00:46:52,980 --> 00:46:53,160 Right? 683 00:46:53,860 --> 00:46:55,080 That was weird to that guy. 684 00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:56,000 You know what? 685 00:46:56,060 --> 00:46:56,920 He's dead and gone. 686 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,620 And I don't know if that little tiny witness that I gave him 687 00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:04,440 had anything to do with his leaving this world. 688 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:06,540 But it may have. 689 00:47:08,420 --> 00:47:10,060 And I'm going to rest in that hope. 690 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:11,880 Bob knew that I love Jesus. 691 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:14,540 Right? 692 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,840 Just wherever you're at. 693 00:47:17,580 --> 00:47:18,380 Chuck a line out there. 694 00:47:19,820 --> 00:47:20,420 Real them in. 695 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:21,620 All right. 696 00:47:22,020 --> 00:47:22,480 Real them in. 697 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:24,940 Let's all stand, shall we? 698 00:47:30,299 --> 00:47:30,840 Let's pray. 699 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,060 Lord, thank you for showing us. 700 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:37,980 Lord, that you're in it for. 701 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:47,720 the catch. Lord, for keeps. You catch us for keeps and those who we share this gospel with, 702 00:47:47,860 --> 00:47:54,920 Lord, it's, I don't know why you choose to use us, but you, for some reason, you choose to use your 703 00:47:55,160 --> 00:48:00,600 people as your mouthpiece. Lord, would you fill us with your Holy Spirit? Lord, I know there's some 704 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:07,960 today, maybe that, Lord, they've just been kind of surfacy. Lord, do you want to take them deeper? I just pray 705 00:48:07,980 --> 00:48:09,300 say yes to that right now. 706 00:48:10,340 --> 00:48:12,160 And they'd say, oh, Lord, forgive me. 707 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:13,880 For I'm a sinful person. 708 00:48:14,820 --> 00:48:15,780 Help me to be like you. 709 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,940 And so, Lord, I just, just thank you for this time in which we live. 710 00:48:21,060 --> 00:48:22,880 Lord, the days are evil. 711 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,920 You've called us to redeem the time. 712 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,100 Lord, and a lot of us, it may just be shutting our mouth, Lord, 713 00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:33,340 and just showing up, being faithful, whether it's at work or home or, 714 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:37,940 or just with family stuff, Lord, just help us to show. 715 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,880 show up and be the fragrance of Christ Jesus and use words if necessary. 716 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,780 Bless your people, Lord, this week as we walk with you. 717 00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,520 For those who need prayer, Lord, I pray that you would give them a boldness to come up and to be 718 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:52,780 prayed for by the prayer team. 719 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:54,780 Lord, we love you. 720 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:56,260 We thank you. 721 00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,180 And we worship you. 722 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,560 And we know that you first loved us. 723 00:49:01,860 --> 00:49:05,960 So hopefully that would provoke a greater love in our hearts for our God. 724 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:07,120 In Jesus' name. 725 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,400 Amen. I want to sing a little song. You guys all know it. 726 00:49:15,940 --> 00:49:24,960 Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. 727 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,320 Oh, how I love Jesus. 728 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:37,080 Because he first loved me. God bless you. Have a great. 729 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,060 week in the Lord.