Welcome to Faith Chapel.
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My name is Lynell
LaMountain the Speaker
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and Director of Life Ignited
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and I am so happy that
you are join me here today.
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In a study today we
are going be to studying
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Luke Chapter five.
Before we get into that
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I would like to have prayer
with you so that God bless
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our time together. Let's pray.
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Father in heaven we
thank you so much for
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being here among us today.
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I pray Lord as we open your word
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and we study what
you teach us about
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how to live and be
happy with your holy spirit
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and blesses and we see
clearly for the first time
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Lord that we can trust
you. The life of happiness is
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ours just waiting to be
claimed, so Lord bless us
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now as we open
your word and study
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it together in
your name we pray. Amen.
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A cold wind
blew across the lake.
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The sky was golden red
as the sun flamed upward.
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The odor of
slippery fish, musty sails
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and brownie
water filled the air.
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The time for rebuilt
boat rocked as lazy waves
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rippled by. It would
have been a perfect morning
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for these fishermen
who have been for the empty
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nets. They had
fished all night long then
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have anything to
show for it, not even a
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minnow to take to
the fish market later.
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It was one of those
mornings when you find
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yourself asking,
what's the point.
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Must life be this
hard, does it get any better,
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is this all that there
is? Does it have to be a
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constant struggle?
It's a morning fill,
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but empty hopes,
empty dreams, empty pockets
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and empty nets for
these guys nothing to
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take with them to earn
their keep for the day.
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Simon Peter and the
others were alone where their
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thoughts headed for
the shore to mint the nets
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and to clean the
sails. They were very,
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they warned and they
were wounded from their
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forth fruitless night of
toil. Although nearly been a
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year since Jesus had
asked them to follow him.
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They hadn't still
fully committed to be
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his disciples.
They were taken the wait
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and see attitude. You
know what I am talking
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about plan A was to
give Jesus a chance to see
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if he is worthy of following.
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Plan B well was to keep
fishing just in case things
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don't workout and
this morning it seemed like
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both plans were not working out.
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They weren't succeeding
as part-time fishermen
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or as part-time
disciples. Since the time Jesus
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had first called them
they had seen him turn water
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into wine. They saw
him supernaturally vanish
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from an angry mob
that's about of through him
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over a cliff to his
death. They saw demon
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shrieking terror as
Jesus expelled them for
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people's lives.
He healed the blind.
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He healed the deaf.
He healed leprosy fathers
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giving dads back to their kids,
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what more to Peter need to see.
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What more did they need to hear.
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What proof were
they waiting for?
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What would it to
take for these men to stop
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wavering between
fishing and following?
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Each day for nearly a
year they had wavered.
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They held back and
they found some reasons,
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some excuse not the
fully answered God's call,
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but also Peter
want to know what else,
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did he need to know.
Well if you asked him for
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starters from his point
of view. He wanted to know
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if his faith would be
any different than John A
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Baptist his close friend.
Despite Christ promising,
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raise a power. He certainly
had in help John very much,
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these last few
months. The very one who had
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baptized in, in fact,
and then there was a failed
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mission to Judea and lets
not forget about the vivid
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hatred of the
Priest and the teachers,
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and the Rabbis.
Peter could list for more
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reasons for not following
Jesus than fore-following
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him. Troubled followed
Jesus everywhere they went?
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There is often times
ahead of them when they got
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there waiting for
them. Follow me, follow him
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where, follow him
into an empty dungeon cell
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beside John A Baptist,
follow him into the middle
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of blood thirsty
mobs, follow him into open
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confrontation
with Church leaders.
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Follow him away from
the safety and security
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of a sleepy fishing
business into a murky future of
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permanent
uncertainty. Is that where is
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he leading us to? Hey
if Jesus were a Messiah
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they would follow
him no questions asked,
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no problem, but as
far as Peter was concerned
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the jury was still out
on that one and until Jesus
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who gave them
more reasons to say yes
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than they say no,
then he would gladly choose
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the occasional
empty fishing net over
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imprisonment or
dismemberment or death,
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because if things kept
going this way it wouldn't
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be long until they
found himself strung up
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on one of those crosses
the Romans were so famous for;
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follow me, not today
buddy thank you very much
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I have got plans. In
fact Peter did have the plans.
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His day time was already
full. He needed to go home
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clean the sails, I
mean the nets, sleep,
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eat and get back
out under the water
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and fish all night again
to make-up for the poor night
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that they just had
had. His wooden boat drag
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along the sandy
bottom as skimmed ashore,
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and who be the first
person he saw standing there
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but Jesus, doesn't
figure and behind Jesus
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descending the hill
there is large crowd of people
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coming toward them. The
masses were looking for a
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hope, that's why they
all was gathered around
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Christ they needed
some one to promise
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that they might pass
the point of no return,
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they need to some one
to seal the promise was
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something more than
just empty words they
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needed someone to
take their pain away,
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they make it stop,
pain that was caused by
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malfunctioning bodies,
malfunctioning beliefs,
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and malfunctioning
hearts, malfunctioning dreams,
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they needed to
someone to drive there tears
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and calm their
fears and sue the spirits.
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They longed for redemption,
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may be this not
word they would use
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but they were
searching for that's
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why they came
around where the Jesus was.
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He wanted to hear the
words again from Christ mouth,
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but how God valued
them because that was news
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to them good news in fact,
Christ presence invigorated
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them. His eternal law
has restored them and his
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grace ignited the
hearts with the joy they push
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forward, they pressed
in, they closed around him
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wanting to be as near
to him as they possibly
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could get. Says in
Luke chapter 5:1:33
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and I m reading the
new king James version
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it says, so it was
there is a multitude pressed
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about him and
hear the word of God,
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that He stood by
the lake of Gennesaret,
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and saw two boats
standing by the lake;
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but the fishermen
had gone from them
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and were washing
their nets. Then He got into
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one of the boats,
which was Simon's and
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asked him to put out
a little from the land.
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And He sat down and
taught the multitudes
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from the boat. Peter
was anxious to get home
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and go to back, he
didn't want to go backyard under
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the water again, put
yourself in his shoes
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he was a exhausted
he was disappointed
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he was gloomy
and he was big crumpy
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he had even had
time to home grab a glass
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of orange juice and
now Jesus wants him to
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put boat out of ways. So
Christ could have some room
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to sit down and teach
the people who were pressed
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along shore. Peter
shoved the boat away from shore.
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He got into away
Christ, he gazed at the crowd.
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It was a motley
group, old men with drooping
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shoulders, would perish
their spirits in the mud
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while leaning
forward gazing at Christ.
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There are people
dressed in precious silks,
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enemy side people
wearing tighter ropes,
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blue collared workers
were standing beside white
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collared workers.
Among the crowd where there
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are sick and lame
and the abandoned,
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there were the blind,
the deaf and the diseased,
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there were and priests
and scribes who were there too
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along with spies
that have been sent to see
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what Jesus was doing,
what wrong he was doing.
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And many of Peter's
colleagues were in the
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crowd too, fishermen who
also had just come in off
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the sea that night,
they wanted to see what Jesus
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had to see and say,
Jesus appealed to everyone
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that's what Peter
noticed wasn't just to a certain
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group of people,
it was to everybody,
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everyone came to this
man who spoke words of hope.
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The boat rocked and
swayed admits the rolling
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waves as Christ, the
creator of the heavens
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and the earth
sat and taught people
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how to live and how to be happy,
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is the message
that everybody is wanted
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to hear since the
beginning of the world,
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how can I live and be
happy. Tell anybody wants.
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Peter listened to the
words of Christ he felt
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an unseen power
tugging at his heart.
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What would it be? Would
it be his precious desires
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or God's
destiny? His preference,
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or God's prophets? In
his life would it be his
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comfort or God's
commission his convenience
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or God's cosmic
adventure to which he have been
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called almost a year
ago. Would he keep doing
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his own thing? Or
begin doing Christ's thing,
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which would it be?
Fishing or following?
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After Jesus had finished
unfolding time his wisdom
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to the truth thirsty
crowd he turned to Peter
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and he said, take
this out into deep water.
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Luke Chapter 5
Verses 4 and 5 says
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When He had stopped speaking;
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He said to Simon,
Launch out into the deep
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and let down
your nets for a catch.
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But Simon answered
and said to Him, Master,
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we have toiled all
night and caught nothing:
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nevertheless at your
word I will let down the net.
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There was a good
reason why fishermen fished
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at night. Fishermen who
use nets always fished at
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night because the
darkness made impossible
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for the fish to see the
nets, nobody, no fishermen in
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his right mind
ever would even think
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or consider taking
the boat out and dropping
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those nets into the
water during the brilliant rays
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of the sun because the
fish, they would see it from
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a mile away and here
Jesus says he is telling
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Peter this seasoned
fishermen, this man who was
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successful as a
fisherman, he saying go out drop
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your nets in the
water and not only that,
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it would be one thing
if, Jesus was telling Peter
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to do this when no
one was there watching
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but there is a crowd
on the shore watching
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and in that crowd
are seasoned fishermen,
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and Peter know, he
knows what they are thinking,
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he is wondering if he
is actually going to do it
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and he is probably
little bit embarrassed
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and he tries to
talk Jesus out of it.
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But Lord we didn't
have any success last night,
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just wasn't good and
you know I am pretty sure
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that we didn't have any
success last night at all
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our fishing wholes that
we had a lot of success that
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before if that didn't
happened last night really
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probably not the
best investment of time
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and energy to take
the boat out and nets all
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right now, may be we
should wait for later,
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may be tonight. Jesus
didn't say anything keeps
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looking out toward
the wild blue yonder.
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So Peter launches the
boat out takes Christ out
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that's where Christ
wants to go the nets
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that's where he is
going to take Christ.
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Peter takes Jesus
out into deep water
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and casts the nets
just as he has been asked
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and no sooner he had
casts the nets into the water
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and the water began
roiling and swirling
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and stirring as fish
were jumping into the nets,
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in broad daylight,
this does not happen.
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It is impossible, must a
fish or couple of fin short,
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of a full deck of fins
they don't just jump into
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empty nets. Bible
tells us about it in
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Luke Chapter 5
Verses 6 and 7 I am reading
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from the New King
James version starting the
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Verse 6, And when
they had done this,
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they caught a
great number of fish,
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and their net was breaking.
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So they signaled to
their partners in the other
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boat to come and
help them. And they came
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and filled both
the boats, so that they
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began to sink.
Instantly the nets were full,
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it didn't make sense,
it was an irrational result
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in fact, it was
impossible. Peter and the others
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grab the nets that
were breaking and they
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divided the fish
between the boats,
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there are so many
fish that the boats were in
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danger of sinking,
does that ever happen
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when you fish?
Never happens when I fish.
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Fish were splashing
around even popping up
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and smacking Peter
against the cheeks,
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slapping him on his
arms and snapping about
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the bottom of the
boat. And Jesus, I can just
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I just imagine him sitting
there in the boat watching
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it all take place,
can't you just imagine Jesus
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of beaming from ear to ear
with his unchangeable smile,
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this joy that he can't
contain as he is watching
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Peter being swatted on
the knees by these fish
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that are slapping
about in the bottom of boat,
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and then it happened.
Peter while standing knee
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deep in fish slimy
slippery scaly fish he starts
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putting to and two together.
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Under the canopy of
darkness he had caught
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nothing with those
nets, those very same nets
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but now under the
brilliant noon day sun he had
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the biggest catch of
his career and this was one
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for the record books,
he had always dreamed of
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catching this many fish
and it never had happened
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until now and he
begins wondering what made the
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difference? What's
change since last night?
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Jesus, Jesus that was a
change since last night,
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apart from Jesus Peter's
efforts have been fruitless,
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they have been pointless,
they have been worthless.
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With Jesus he had
success beyond his wildest
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imagination and
then it really hit him.
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What had just
happened was impossible,
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impossible but Jesus
said, he had somehow managed
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to manifests
Peter's nets full of fish;
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Jesus did that in broad
day light, in clear water,
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nets abundantly full
of fish. Peter knew that
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if Jesus can manifest
this then there wasn't anything
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he couldn't do and
there wasn't anything that
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Jesus couldn't make
happen in his life and then
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he realize the kind,
loving, patient God who had been
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with him nearly a year
now waiting for him to make
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a decision are you
going to fish or you going to
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follow? That
patience and that grace,
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and that kindness
that bear down upon him.
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And in that
moment he felt unworthy,
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he felt unworthy to
be invited by God who was
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so loving, A
God who was so kind,
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A God who was so
forgiving and A god
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that was so
giving. The Bible says in
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Luke 5 Verses 8 and 9,
When Simon Peter saw it,
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he fell down at
Jesus' knees, saying,
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Depart from me, for I
am a sinful man, O Lord.
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For he and all
who were with him were
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astonished at the
catch of fish which they had
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taken. Peter was
overcome by the greatness
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of Christ he was
ashamed of his unbelief,
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he was overwhelmed with
the gratitude that Christ
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had come to him but he
felt insignificant in the
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presence of such
power, now though he asks
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Jesus Christ to
leave Jesus stayed there,
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Peter mattered to
Jesus or else Christ
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wouldn't have happened
to just been by the sea
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that morning when
Peter came off from his night
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of fishing. Luke 5
Verses 10 and 11 starting with
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the second half of
verse 10 says this,
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And Jesus said so
Simon, Do not be afraid.
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From now on you will catch men.
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So when they had
brought their boats to land,
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they forsook all
and followed Him.
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Peter realized that
up until now he had been
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thinking too small, his
dreams had been too small,
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his goals had been too
small, his faith had been
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too small and his
worry had been too big.
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There wasn't any
need to doubt Christ
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because there wasn't
any need that Jesus Christ
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could not supply, not
after performing this miracle,
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this Peter was sure
of, if anyone could cram
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fish into nets during
broad day light then they
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could do anything. So
they came to shore they
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sold all their fish and
left everything behind in
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order to follow Jesus
Christ. This time he didn't
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have to ask him,
he couldn't keep them
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away from him this
time and Peter would follow
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Jesus Christ
until his dying breath,
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Peter's dying breath,
he wouldn't follow him most
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perfectly but he would
follow him perfectly in
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Christ because of
Christ. Peter moth-balled
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his boat and his
fishing here and he was now a
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fully devoted
disciple to Christ he was fully
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committed, he was fully
his, he had a new mission
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now and his mission
was to fish for souls.
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In the Greek fishers of
men literally reads catch
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men alive. Jesus
taught Peter that men were
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languishing dead in their
sins and he would reach out
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with a net of grace and
he would catch those men
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and in the
process of catching them,
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they would come to life
he would catch men alive
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grace brings people
alive spiritually grace gives
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them hope, Peter
would now catch people alive
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in the nets of grace
offering eternal life to them in
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Christ's. That day on
the lake Peter learned to
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how to live and to
be happy he learned
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how to be happy by doing this.
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By surrendering
his ambitions to Jesus,
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by surrendering
his desires to Jesus by
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surrendering his goals to Jesus,
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because Christ's
ambitions for him were bigger,
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Christ's goals
for him were bigger;
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Christ's longings
for him were bigger.
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Peter surrendered his goals;
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he surrendered his
ambitions to Christ,
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he surrendered
his life to Christ,
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because Christ's
life for him was bigger
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so big in fact that
would take eternity for
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Peter to live out the
life that Jesus Christ
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had now given him,
on that day on the lake
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Peter saw that Christ
could manifest for him
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anything that he
wanted that whatever Christ
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could manifest
was much bigger than
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what Peter could
manifests. Jesus tries to comes
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to us like he does
to Peter and to like
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he did to the disciples
whoever we are he meets
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us there if we were
lonely, he meets us there
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if we were
discouraged he meets us there,
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if our
relationship are in shambles
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he meets us there
if we feel all as well
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and that we don't need anything
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because we are
getting along pretty good
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in life he meets us
there. In those time,
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when we feel like
we are need of nothing,
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wherever we are Jesus finds us.
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He finds us on our
beliefs and in our disbelief,
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he comes to us he finds
us knee deep in our failures
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and in our sins, he
meets us where we are
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and he invites us to follow him.
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He invites us to
leave the darkness
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and to walk into the
light, he invites us to leave
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those, to leave
lives of meaninglessness
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to leave the lives
and live a life of truth,
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he invites us to leave
our life lessening habits,
00:18:03.13\00:18:05.63
life lessening
attitudes and our life lessening
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beliefs and to embrace
life and to be filled up
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over flowing
abundantly with life,
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he invites us,
follow me. Are you fishing?
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Doing your own
thing or you following,
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doing Christ's thing for
you? Are you busy trying to
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manifest small
dreams? Are you busy trying to
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make your dream life happen?
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Have you heard enough
of this lately dream life,
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dream life, dream
life. Everybody is teaching
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you had a have a dream life,
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or you have been
captured by Christ
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and the dream life
that he has for you.
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There are two
dreams you can have.
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You can have your
own, or you can have his.
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In the lot of
times he is just scary
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because it takes us
to places where may be
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we wouldn't choose to
go at least for the short
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term, but in the long
term we are going some
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place that even the
mind cannot begin to imagine
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how great it is.
They make any mistake,
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the disciples, they
started living their dream
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life in Christ
but it wasn't easy,
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What Jesus lead him
through, according to
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Church tradition here
is what happened to the
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disciples once they started
following him completely,
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once they put their
entire trust in him,
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this is their faith,
this is what happened.
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It says Mathews
suffered martyrdom by being
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slain with a sword at a
distinct city in Ethiopia.
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Mark died at
Alexandria after being cruelly
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dragged to the
streets of that city.
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Luke was hanged
upon an olive tree in the
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Classic land of
Greece. John was put in a
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caldron of boiling
oil but escaped death in a
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miraculous manner
was afterward banished to
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Patmos. Peter was
crucified upside down
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and he was crucified upside down
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because he felt he
wasn't worthy to be
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crucified in the manner
that Jesus was crucified,
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so by request they
crucified him upside
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down. James the
greater, Jesus' brother was
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beheaded at
Jerusalem, James, the lesser,
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was thrown from a
lofty pinnacle of the temple,
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and then beaten to
death with a fuller's club.
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Bartholomew was flayed
alive. Andrew was bound
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to a cross,
whence he preached to his
00:20:06.04\00:20:07.89
persecutors
until his dying breath;
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Thomas died by a
lance being pushed
00:20:10.46\00:20:12.87
through his body,
Jude was shot to death
00:20:12.90\00:20:16.65
with arrows.
Matthais was first stoned
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and then beheaded him
Barnabas of the Gentiles
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was stoned to death at Salonica.
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Paul, after various
tortures and persecutions,
00:20:24.57\00:20:27.37
was at length
beheaded at Rome by the
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Emperor Nero; such
was the fate of these men
00:20:30.42\00:20:33.61
who were living
their dream lives.
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They were where they
needed to be at the time
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and they were
following Jesus Christ no matter
00:20:39.14\00:20:41.06
what their lives in
this earth were irrelevant
00:20:41.09\00:20:43.60
to them. It didn't
mean anything to them
00:20:43.63\00:20:45.41
because where they
were now compared to where
00:20:45.44\00:20:48.04
they were going, it was a
decision they made easily,
00:20:48.07\00:20:52.00
can give it all for
Christ. Christ dreams are
00:20:52.03\00:20:55.36
much bigger than our
dreams and his dreams
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don't square with
the dreams the world has,
00:20:57.45\00:20:59.56
when he says
manifest your dream life,
00:20:59.59\00:21:01.76
it's a dream life
that involves eternity
00:21:01.79\00:21:03.26
but some times
the row between here
00:21:03.29\00:21:05.05
and eternity is not
the easiest one to walk
00:21:05.08\00:21:07.37
but you walk it gladly with joy
00:21:07.40\00:21:09.01
because we are
going endure with Jesus
00:21:09.04\00:21:10.49
face to face
forever, in his presence,
00:21:10.52\00:21:12.42
experiencing
eternal satisfaction.
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Where we are, Jesus
finds us and he offers us
00:21:14.53\00:21:17.33
life, a life that
defies rationalization
00:21:17.36\00:21:20.90
he finds us knee
deep in our failures
00:21:20.93\00:21:22.69
and our sins, he
meets us where we are
00:21:22.72\00:21:24.40
and he invites us
just to follow him,
00:21:24.43\00:21:25.88
he invites us to
leave the darkness
00:21:25.91\00:21:27.38
and walk in the life
he invites us to leave
00:21:27.41\00:21:29.07
the lives and live in
truth, he invites us to leave
00:21:29.10\00:21:31.42
our, life
lessening habits and our life
00:21:31.45\00:21:33.63
lessening attitudes and
our life lessening beliefs
00:21:33.66\00:21:35.90
and he invites us to
embrace life in his full nets,
00:21:35.93\00:21:39.11
he invites us,
follow me. In the question
00:21:39.14\00:21:42.64
I have for you, in
the question I have for me
00:21:42.67\00:21:44.10
is the question I
ask myself everyday
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am I fishing? Or am I following?
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Am I fishing doing my own thing
00:21:48.64\00:21:50.04
or am I following
doing Christ's thing for me?
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How we busy trying
to manifest our dreams
00:21:53.75\00:21:55.29
or are being captured by
Christ in giving the dream,
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the eternal dream. All
people wanted to do is live
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and by happy, I
am convinced of that,
00:22:01.28\00:22:03.05
alright. They
never feel fully alive
00:22:03.08\00:22:05.86
or fully happy or
fully free though apart from
00:22:05.89\00:22:08.04
Christ, apart from
the one who gives that
00:22:08.07\00:22:09.98
live the one who
gives that eternal life
00:22:10.01\00:22:11.88
into their souls places
eternity in their hearts,
00:22:11.91\00:22:14.23
they may have dreams,
we might have desires,
00:22:14.26\00:22:16.51
we might have ambitions,
but without Jesus Christ
00:22:16.54\00:22:19.11
they fall apart.
They mean nothing
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.39
and I guess the thing I
am really trying to say is
00:22:24.42\00:22:26.50
they leave us totally
unsatisfied apart from Christ.
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Jesus Christ created
us, he knows what it makes,
00:22:31.89\00:22:34.24
what it takes to make us happy,
00:22:34.27\00:22:36.63
he knows what it
takes to make us feel full
00:22:36.66\00:22:38.24
of life he knows what
thrills us in our divine
00:22:38.27\00:22:41.09
partnership with him
he will supply all of our
00:22:41.12\00:22:43.30
needs no matter
where we go no matter
00:22:43.33\00:22:44.84
what we need, he
fulfills us with the eternal
00:22:44.87\00:22:46.65
satisfaction and abundant life.
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Would you like to
be completely his?
00:22:48.86\00:22:51.33
Would you like to
be fully committed him?
00:22:51.36\00:22:53.85
Would like to be
fully happy? Would you like
00:22:55.59\00:22:58.92
to feel fully
alive and fully free?
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Back in world war II
at night there are planes
00:23:03.92\00:23:09.04
started flying over
city and dropping bombs
00:23:09.07\00:23:11.71
the air raids were
blaring, buildings were on fire.
00:23:11.74\00:23:15.85
A father took his son
and he started running
00:23:16.86\00:23:18.92
through the
streets to escape the bombs
00:23:18.95\00:23:20.87
trying to find cover
trying to hide trying to
00:23:20.90\00:23:23.25
survive yet another
attack on their town,
00:23:23.28\00:23:25.66
they couldn't see
there were no lights
00:23:25.69\00:23:27.87
all they could see was
a light that was caused
00:23:27.90\00:23:30.81
by the flames and they
did run and a bomb that
00:23:30.84\00:23:33.92
dropped in they had
fall down and the dirt
00:23:33.95\00:23:35.88
would scattered and they get up
00:23:35.91\00:23:36.91
and run somewhere and
finally the father had
00:23:36.94\00:23:38.96
an idea probably the
best place to hide with
00:23:38.99\00:23:41.39
his son, the best
chance that they had a
00:23:41.42\00:23:43.05
survival would be to,
find a bombed out hole in
00:23:43.08\00:23:47.71
the middle of the
street and so he took his son
00:23:47.74\00:23:51.28
he ran down the
street he found a hole
00:23:52.25\00:23:54.01
and he jumped in,
his son was standing at
00:23:54.04\00:23:57.39
the top and
father held out his arms
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and he said jump,
son jump and the son was
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at the top and he was
looking into the darkness
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and he said I can't
see you, the father says,
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jump I will catch you
and the son started to cry,
00:24:09.44\00:24:12.11
he said but I can't
see you and the father
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he looked up and
because of the flames
00:24:15.27\00:24:17.41
burning the buildings
he could see a faint orange
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hue and his son
silhouette against the hue
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and that son said I
can't see you but the
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father said jump
because I can see you
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and so his jumped
into his arms and that's
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what Jesus had been
saying these disciples
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for a year jump I can
see you, I will catch you,
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trust me but I
believe we hold back.
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We hold back
because we question whether
00:24:42.88\00:24:44.70
or not he knows what
it makes what it takes
00:24:44.73\00:24:46.47
to make us happy we
don't really think that
00:24:46.50\00:24:49.34
he has our best
interests of heart,
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we really don't think
that he is on our side,
00:24:51.21\00:24:53.48
we really don't think
that he knows what thrills
00:24:53.51\00:24:56.09
our hearts, now will
take care of that Jesus,
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give us a little
time we are going to work
00:24:58.63\00:25:00.47
little harder, we are
going to make little bit
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more money, we get
things of a control
00:25:01.68\00:25:04.01
we got our organized
out and how mapped out
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now, we are going
to take care of this,
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I want to tell you
today, if you really want
00:25:08.60\00:25:12.28
to live and be happy
and there is one thing
00:25:12.31\00:25:14.43
you have to do and
that you have to hand
00:25:14.46\00:25:17.57
over your dreams to Jesus.
00:25:17.60\00:25:19.62
You have to hand
over your ambitions to
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Jesus Christ, you and
I, we think too small,
00:25:21.93\00:25:26.89
we think in terms of
all waterfront property
00:25:26.92\00:25:29.51
and there is nothing
wrong waterfront property
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but you realize that
in Christ who is gone
00:25:31.33\00:25:32.92
ahead of us to
heaven, he has built a mansion
00:25:32.95\00:25:34.72
there just
waiting for you to occupy
00:25:34.75\00:25:36.38
that you already
have waterfront property
00:25:36.41\00:25:38.49
looking out of window
there is a river of live
00:25:38.52\00:25:40.10
just streaming by down below.
00:25:40.13\00:25:42.02
You can have a house
in the ocean or a house
00:25:42.96\00:25:44.91
overlooking the river of
life, which would you choose.
00:25:44.94\00:25:47.30
We think too small
whatever you go through here
00:25:47.33\00:25:49.35
is no big deal. It's
just going to last a little
00:25:49.38\00:25:52.16
while, but then
forever starts and then that
00:25:52.19\00:25:55.83
forever is eternal satisfaction.
00:25:55.86\00:25:57.47
But I want to say something too,
00:25:57.50\00:25:58.78
eternal
satisfaction just doesn't start
00:25:58.81\00:26:00.76
when Jesus comes and
we start living with him.
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When Christ comes into your life
00:26:03.52\00:26:05.39
when you allow him to
come in when you start
00:26:05.42\00:26:06.89
following him satisfaction
begins in that moment
00:26:06.92\00:26:09.82
and you feel fulfilled
like you never were fulfilled
00:26:09.85\00:26:12.53
before that's how
the disciples felt,
00:26:12.56\00:26:14.55
that's why they
followed him, that's why
00:26:14.58\00:26:16.21
they followed
him to their deaths
00:26:16.24\00:26:17.42
because he made
them feel fully alive
00:26:17.45\00:26:19.48
he made them fully
alive, so today I ask you
00:26:19.51\00:26:23.12
and I ask myself are we
fishing or are we following?
00:26:23.15\00:26:26.60
Do you take your plans to him?
00:26:26.63\00:26:29.86
What is that that
you trying to work out in
00:26:31.54\00:26:32.88
your life that you
not trusting him with.
00:26:32.91\00:26:35.53
Why do you afraid of?
I know sometimes you get
00:26:36.44\00:26:38.87
beaten down by
life and you feel like
00:26:38.90\00:26:40.46
I can't take this anymore,
if I can just work it our
00:26:40.49\00:26:43.17
or I can save little
money pay few things off
00:26:43.20\00:26:45.68
or may be go buy
a house somewhere
00:26:45.71\00:26:47.46
I will move or relocate
and then things will start
00:26:47.49\00:26:49.47
working out great
man then I will be happy.
00:26:49.50\00:26:52.24
There is one thing in
this world, there is one thing
00:26:52.27\00:26:55.64
about this world
nothing makes us happy
00:26:55.67\00:26:58.55
and those who had
everything find out
00:26:58.58\00:27:01.96
sooner or later,
satisfaction comes from Christ.
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Remember hearing
Jim Carrey the comedian
00:27:05.70\00:27:07.52
say once he says
,I hope everybody gets
00:27:07.55\00:27:08.95
what they want he
says I hope they go
00:27:08.98\00:27:10.20
and they get
famous and they get rich
00:27:10.23\00:27:11.34
and they call the
money they buy all the things
00:27:11.37\00:27:13.22
that they want to
buy may be and they get
00:27:13.25\00:27:14.96
all important, he said
because they all learned,
00:27:14.99\00:27:17.85
that none of
that makes you happy,
00:27:17.88\00:27:21.32
these disciples
waiver between fishing
00:27:21.35\00:27:23.66
and following for
almost a year and then they
00:27:23.69\00:27:27.97
put their hearts in
line for Christ they gave him
00:27:28.00\00:27:30.54
everything to him and
Jesus took it and he made
00:27:30.57\00:27:34.18
them happy.
Romans 8 Verses 1 and 2,
00:27:34.21\00:27:36.49
the Bible says put yourself
on the alter offer yourself
00:27:36.52\00:27:39.68
as living sacrifices,
this is real worship,
00:27:39.71\00:27:42.31
now is a real worship
putting yourself on the
00:27:42.34\00:27:44.63
alter offering yourself
as a living sacrifice to
00:27:44.66\00:27:46.87
Jesus Christ giving
him your desires your goals
00:27:46.90\00:27:49.09
and your
ambitions that is a secret
00:27:49.12\00:27:50.92
being fully alive
into being happy forever.
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