Jona Lawson – Class 1: Follow Me

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Well, thank you very much for
that reading and good evening to

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everyone.
It’s really nice to be with you

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all here and share what
hopefully is going to be a

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really excellent week together
with all of you.

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And I say, hopefully because we
live in a new world, don’t we?

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Where we don’t know from day to
day what is going to happen from

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hour to hour?
What is going to happen?

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So what that’s taught me coming
from Melbourne is you’ve got to

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make the most of every single
moment that you have at any time

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and I look at on this audience
and to me it’s just amazing to

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have this many people in a room.
Coming from Melbourne where for

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the last two years we’ve had I
think something like 280 days of

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lockdown and just last Sunday,
we were able to for the very

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first time.
Actually meet together as a

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whole Ecclesia since this
pandemic began.

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It’s amazing.
Isn’t it?

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I remember we had a youth group
before when it was just

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starting.
We were just starting to hear

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about all of this.
This thing that was going on.

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And, and the speaker that youth
group said, just imagine like

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that, this is the last time
we’re going to be able to meet

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together as a group for a long
long period of time.

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And that’s exactly what
happened.

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And here we are two years later
still.

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In the circumstances that we
find ourselves in, but we have

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an opportunity this week that
God’s given us to be together

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and to Fellowship together.
And that’s such an awesome thing

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for us to experience.
And it was, it was it even

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experienced just for us to get
across to the border to get

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here, right?
It’s been a mission, I’ve had so

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many things stuck up my nose.
My mouth and the mouths of my

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family and my kids, right?
Just to get across the border,

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here’s a picture of Earth.
When we just arrived across the

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South Australian Border, having
got through all the, you know,

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the the Army there, you know,
that’s there to stop victorians

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getting across, we managed to
get across and here’s a picture

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of my beautiful family for kids
and my wife, I must have been, I

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looked at that picture and
thought it looks like, I got

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five kids, they’re right.
But Of them actually is my wife

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Leann and my four kids.
Earlier this year, we went to,

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we went to manage to get on a
plane and go on a holiday and I

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was up the front at the ticket
booth and something had gone

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wrong and the man and I was
there with Leann and the man

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said to me, looks at we’ve got a
bit of a delay here.

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Could you and your daughter?
So, and stand aside, and we’ll

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get there soon.
So that’s gratefully an right?

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Not so good for me.
But we made it across here.

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And in challenging times, we’re
all here together.

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And we’re going to be looking at
this week. the man, Peter And

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he’s a great character, isn’t
he?

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Because as soon as you say the
man, Peter we all picture in our

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mind of a man that we that we
almost know already because he’s

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such a graphic and powerful
character in The Bible and he be

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one of the most loved wouldn’t
he in all the scripture?

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This man Peter, and I think one
of the reasons why he is like

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that is because he’s so real.
He’s such a real character, he’s

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a character that has these
unbelievable triumphs in his

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life.
These moments of great faith.

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But he’s also a man that has
moments of great doubt.

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And he has moments of Great
Depression.

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And moments of great trial.
But through all of those things,

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this man is able to work his way
through those different aspects

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of his life and that I find so
helpful because I can relate to

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it.
So hopefully you’re going to be

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able to relate to some of the
lessons that we take from Peter

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this week.
The other thing that’s so great

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about looking at Peter is that
it’s a study of Our Lord as

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well.
And it’s nothing better than

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looking at our Lord because he’s
he’s the master he’s the most

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amazing man that ever lived.
And we’re going to watch our

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Lord as he works with this man,
Peter To bring him to where he

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wants him to bring and that’s
going to be a beautiful to watch

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and see as he works with that
man.

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And we’re going to look at
predominantly the gospel record

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of Peter.
We’re going to look at from

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tonight.
He’s calling right through to

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John chapter 21 and then our
last study will look a little

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bit at acts and then through
into his into his letters a

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little bit and what we’ll find
and we will look at his letters

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a little bit because The letters
were written right at the end of

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his life.
And they’re great because what

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they do is they give us a little
commentary every now and again

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about some of the lessons that
he learned and some of the

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things that he went through,
he’ll refer back to in his

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letter years later.
And he show us what he learned

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and some of the powerful
messages that he’s Lord taught

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him.
So let’s turn to John chapter 1

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and let’s go back, 2000 years to
this different world to ours.

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And when I say different world,
I mean different since different

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in time and Circumstance, but
not really that different really

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when it comes to people because
people really haven’t changed in

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that time.
And in John chapter 1, we see a

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group of people Who are
searching for something greater

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and better in life.
This group of men, these group

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of disciples have been searching
and their search has led.

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It led them to this man named
John this amazing Prophet who

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appeared in the land.
And we see in John chapter 1, we

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see that John, the Baptist has
come to the end of his

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particular teaching and in verse
36 it says and looking upon

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Jesus.
This is John as he walked, he

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said, behold the lamb and what
he was doing was he was pointing

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all these disciples that he’d
been teaching on to Jesus

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Christ, who was going to take
over from him who he was

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introducing, and verse 37 says,
and the two disciples heard him

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speak.
And they followed Jesus. so,

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these men who’d been following
John, Obey the words of John.

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And they see this man, Jesus
walking.

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And they follow him.
And begin to follow this man,

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Jesus.
And verse 38 says and Jesus

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turned around as he saw these
two men following.

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They probably followed for a
little while and Jesus

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recognizes that they follow
their following him and Jesus

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turns around to them and he says
to them.

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What are you seeking?
What do you guys want?

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Why are you following me?
What are you after?

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We’ll see these men were seeking
something.

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And what they were seeking was
they were seeking something

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greater in life and what that
was was the Messiah.

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This savior that was going to
come and they’d heard about this

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Messiah that was going to come
and they were interested in it

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and they wanted to know more
about him and this Pursuit that

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they went on had led them to
this man, John, who had started

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preaching in this amazing way.
And they started following him

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around the country, wherever
he’d speak, to listen to what he

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had to say.
And most importantly to listen

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to He had to say about the
Messiah, this man that was going

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to come.
They were actively pursuing this

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man and they were listening
carefully to him.

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Weren’t they you might have
picked it up in verse 37.

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When John directed them to go to
Jesus.

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They listen to what this man
said because they daughter

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already recognize that the words
of John were powerful and they

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had something in them and when
he said, you need to start

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following this man, they listen
to him.

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And they followed him.
And you know, look what else

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they were doing in their search.
First 45 says, this and Philip,

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he was one of these men who was
searching it says, Philip found

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Nathanael.
And he said unto him, we found

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him, we found the Messiah.
Of whom Moses and the law, and

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the prophets did, right?
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of

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Joseph.
So their search was not just

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listening to John, but they’d
been searching themselves in the

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Old Testament.
Bible to find out about this

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Messiah.
That gone back to Moses and then

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they’d gone through the prophets
and they were trying to find

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everything.
They could about this man to

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learn more about him to learn
who he was.

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And that is founded.
And they’re seeking it.

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And Jesus says, what do you
want?

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And I answer in verse 38, they
said unto him Rabbi which is to

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say B, which is to say being
interpreted Master.

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Where do you dwell?
We want to know where you live,

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Jesus.
Because we want to come and

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spend time with you. and we want
to learn from you and find out

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from you more and more
information about you And see

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brothers and sisters and young
people.

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This is how discipleship starts,
and we’re going to be looking at

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this week, some lessons in
discipleship and discipleship

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starts where these men, we find
these men in an active Pursuit

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for Jesus Christ.
These men were actively pursuing

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Jesus Christ.
They were actively pursuing

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something different in life.
And what they were doing was

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they were listening and they
were searching and they were

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making sure they went to the
right places to listen and hear

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and get what they need to hear.
And if they have to travel all

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the way down to the bottom of
Jordan, where John was

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preaching, they do it and now
they’ve been directed to Jesus

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and they want to spend time with
him.

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Because he’s got this message.
And that’s the same with us. if

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we want to find Jesus Christ, if
we want to find the truth of his

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message, we’ve got to pursue it.
And that Pursuit needs to be

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active.
We can’t expect that one day.

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We’re just going to get like a
lightning bolt out of the sky.

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That’s going to struck Us in the
head that suddenly going to make

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a spiritually motivated,
understand everything about

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Jesus and about the kingdom
because that’s not how it works.

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If we want to find out about
Christ, if we want to find out

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something better and something
greater, in this life, we’re

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going to pursue it.
And that’s what Jesus said,

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didn’t he?
he said, ask and it shall be

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given unto you.
Seek.

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And you shall find knock.
And it shall be opened unto you.

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Each of those words are active
words because that’s how Christ

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wants us to pursue him actively,
and that’s what these men’s men

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are doing.
They are pursuing him.

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And Jesus says, to him, in verse
39, very casually.

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I love the way that Jesus
writes, this it, Says this, he

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says he said unto them come and
see so Jesus doesn’t pressurize

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these men.
He says just come and have a

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look.
Come and see what I’ve got.

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And these men go and verse 39,
and they abide with him and

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dwell with him.
And I was so impressed when they

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got into his house.
And they started to listen to

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this man that they stayed the
entire night verse 39 says, and

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John says, it was about the
tenth hour, right?

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So, he remembered the very hour
in which he came into that

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house.
We remember things, don’t we

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that are really important to us
or make a difference in our

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life.
I can still remember this is a

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good one to get in early I can
still remember the very moment.

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I first saw my wife right.
She was probably 15 years old

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Sun was shining just still
remember the beauty, the Beauty

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and the glint in her eye.
Well Jesus.

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These men remembered The very
moment they met Christ for the

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first time.
And I ended up staying the

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entire night with him and the
very next morning.

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It says these two men who were
John and Andrew.

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These two men were so excited
about what they’d found that

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they ran from that house as
quickly as they possibly could.

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And verse 40 41 says that P,
that’s Andrew.

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Went first to find his brother.
And he says verse 41.

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He first found his own brother
Simon and said unto him.

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We have found the Messiah, which
is being interpreted the Christ.

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We’ve found him says Andrew to
his brother Peter, this man that

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we’ve been looking at the
Messiah.

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He’s the one that we found now,
their idea of who the Messiah

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was at this point was like a
savior who was going to come see

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Israel at that time.
Is under in, under oppression

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from the Romans.
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someone who could lead them out
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And so they’re concept at this
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amazing savior that was going to
come and save them from the

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Roman, the Roman people.
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Andrew, then brings Peter to
Jesus Christ and we have their

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first meeting in verse 42.
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And when Jesus beheld him, He
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Jonah.
Thou shalt be called cephas.

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Which is in by, which is by
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So Andrew brings Peter to Jesus.
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looks at him, and the word means
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His eyes at this man.
And what did he say?

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Well, what he saw when he saw
Peter and I’m sure you’ve

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already got a bit of a visual
picture of what Peter looks

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like.
But here’s some things about him

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that maybe will help to build
that picture of what this man

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was.
Like, when he saw him, he saw a

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man from bethsaida.
Bethsaida was like a small

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little fishing Village on one
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of Galilee.
And this man that the word

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bethsaida means House of fish.
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And he would have come from
bethsaida and everyone from

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best, cider would have been a
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His dad would have been a
fisherman and his Grandpa would

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have been a fisherman and his
Grandpa’s, Grandpa would have

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been a fisherman.
They were from a long line of

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fishermen for Generations.
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late 20s.
Maybe early 30s a young man.

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He’s absolute prime.
He was big bright.

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He was a big man.
He was a strong man.

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He was used to lifting huge Nets
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in a huge catch.
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I imagine he had a beard.
I’d be shocked if I get to the

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kingdom and he’s clean shaven
right by imagining with a huge

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big beard, right?
How do you face would have been

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lined with all of the the Either
of the sea and he was at often

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at night working that working
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and he probably stunk of fish,
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stunk of fish, right?
And everyone would have known

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that.
These were the fisherman from

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bethsaida and he was loud.
He was outspoken, he was Brash.

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We know that he had a very, very
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And it comes out at times in the
record, this man was was an

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in-your-face type character.
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He was a man that was fiercely
loyal to anyone that he came to

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know and love, he was passionate
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But he’s also lovable.
He was the kind of man that when

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he came into the room, you knew
about it.

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You knew that Peter was there
instantly?

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Because there was this this,
this, this or about his

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character.
That’s the man.

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Peter, that’s what he was like.
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something greater than just this
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He was seeking something bigger
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This idea of the Messiah.
Her man, he was going to come

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and save them from the Romans
and he was interested to know

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who this man was and suddenly
he’s got this man Jesus in front

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of him and he looked right
through him and you know what?

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He already knew him.
He says there in verse 22, 42

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and Jesus said unto him, Thou
Art Simon Son of Jonah but

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you’re going to be called.
Cephas which is in by

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interpretation.
A stone would be pretty awkward

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wouldn’t.
If that’s the first meeting you

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had with someone, and they
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And I said your name. and I said
the name of your family, and I

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said, you’re going to be Peter,
a rock.

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A stone.
And what is a change of name

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usually made in the Bible?
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Don’t we that Abram became
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And Jacob became Israel.
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changing a name to show that
someone’s character changes and

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they develop because he’s going
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And that’s what Jesus was going
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He was going to change him from
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To Peter.
And Simon means hearing.

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And that’s actually, the means
by which this man was going to

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be converted by listening to
this, man, Jesus.

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And if he listened, Then Jesus
was going to turn him into Peter

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and what is Peter mean, Peter
means Rock.

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Pray to means stable.
Peter means confirmed, a man who

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knows where he’s going in life,
has purpose has Direction.

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And that’s what Jesus was going
to do to this man.

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And we can use his name.
We can see the development of

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this man’s character through the
record.

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By the way, the Bible uses his
name sometimes is called Simon

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because Jesus is trying to tell
Peter that he needs to listen.

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Sometimes he’s called Simon
Peter because that’s going to be

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a key moment is life where this
man starts to grow towards

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discipleship.
And then eventually he’s going

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to be called Peter.
The Rock.

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Now, that process was not going
to happen, quickly, like that.

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You notice what Jesus says he
says that thou art Simon.

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Son of Jonah.
Thou shalt be Peter.

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You’re not Peter yet but you
will be Peter.

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But you’re going to be taken on
a process of discipleship to get

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there and it’s going to be an
up-and-down process and we’re

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going to follow Peter as we go
through that process sometimes

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High sometimes low, sometimes
Simon sometimes Peter.

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We’re going to watch that man,
grow through this process of

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discipleship.
And you know what?

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That’s what the cycle ship
means, disciple, just means a

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learner.
It just means someone who’s

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learning.
And that’s what we’re all doing.

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At week, we’re all learning my
son, Ethan, my oldest son, 16,

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he’s a learner, right?
Because he’s learning to drive a

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car and sometimes we have good
experiences, right?

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And sometimes we have not so
good experiences, right?

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But that’s how we learn.
And that’s how this Peter was

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going to learn as well, and his
life, brothers and sisters.

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Is a type for all of us in our
discipleship.

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You’ll notice there that he was
brought to Jesus, he’s the first

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person that was brought to
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And so, he becomes a type of all
disciples who will come to

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Jesus, and we will see the
process that Jesus will lead him

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through and take him through the
ups and downs.

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The journeys, the things that he
needs to learn other things that

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we need to learn.
As disciples.

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And that’s how we grow as
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We grow like this man does.
Now we might think I’m not like

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Peter, I’m not like an outgoing
guy, I’m not someone who’s

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allowed or Brash.
All I’m going to colorful

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tongue, right?
How am I going to be relating to

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be able to relate to this man,
Peter, but God’s chosen, this

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man, Peter.
This extraordinary character who

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has extraordinary things happen
to us so that we can see in a

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graphic way.
How we learn?

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And hopefully, you can see
yourself in that.

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And you can see the ups and
downs that you will go on in

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life.
To become a disciple.

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To become.
Stable and firm and that’s what

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Peter was doing to this man.
And you know what?

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Jesus and God look out at us all
here tonight in the same way

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that they looked into Peters
eyes and what do they see?

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They see great potential.
God knows you.

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He knows every one of you.
He’s watched you as you’ve grown

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from a tiny baby.
He knows your name and he knows

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the potential that you have to
become one with him.

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And that’s what he wants to do.
He wants you to take you through

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this process of discipleship.
Now we’re going to very briefly

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tonight, look at the calling of
this man, Peter and how he

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started on that journey of
discipleship.

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Now, I always thought right
before I looked at this, that

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the disciples just Jesus walked
past, he sort of clicked his

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fingers and suddenly there’s
sciples were there. 12 of them?

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Ready to go already Bibles.
Mark ready to go as disciples?

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But that’s actually not what
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Paid, I like us went through a
process to be called to Jesus.

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And you know what?
It took him over a year and

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three separate callings that we
know of for this man, to

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actually commit to Christ.
Even to commit to following him,

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And we’re a bit like that,
aren’t we?

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It takes a while for us to and
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He wants us to understand him
and know him before we

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completely commit to him.
So the first one that we saw of

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the first calling Was here,
right?

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He’s a timeline, right will
refer to this a few times in our

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studies together, but here’s a
timeline of the tight life of

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Peter, the life of the ministry
of Jesus and Peter, and it’s

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three and a half years.
Isn’t it?

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Starts here at the baptism of
Jesus, right?

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Where these men were introduced
to Jesus and it goes 46 around

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six months and then there’s
three years of the ministry of

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Christ.
And then the pass over here, and

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these events here are all the
events recorded in the

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scripture.
That peda is involved in that or

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interacts that we know of,
right.

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And you’ll see John one Peters
first calling is here but it’s a

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long time between the next
calling of Peter right between 6

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to 10 months before Jesus finds
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Again, let’s go to Mark, chapter
1, where we find this man, Peter

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Again, and what has he been
doing in that period of time

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will no doubt?
He’d still been listening to

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Jesus, he would never forgot
that first meeting with him and

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he would have continued to
listen and find out about this

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man.
But in might Mark chapter 1.

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Jesus now comes definitively to
Peter, to call him to the next

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stage of his discipleship stage.
One of our discipleship is a

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searching, we’ve got to go out
and search for the Lord, and

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then the Lord.
To ask as he does in verse 16.

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And this is in Capernaum.
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So this is where the most of
what happens with Peter will go

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on this little area of the Sea
of Galilee.

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And here we are at the top in
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Jesus is moved from Nazareth.
And he is now residing in

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Capernaum and he comes in verse
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Now, as he walked by the Sea of
Galilee, he saw, Simon and

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Andrew his brother casting.
Being a net into the sea for

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they were Fishers.
And Jesus said unto them, Come

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Ye after me and I will make you
to become Fishers of Men.

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So Jesus, walks past the Sea of
Galilee and he sees this man,

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Peter, who’s already got some
kind of relationship with, and

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he goes up to him, and he’s a
fisherman and he’s fishing by

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the Sea.
And this is his identity to this

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point.
He’s a Fisher, he’s a fisherman.

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He had a business card that
identified him as a fisherman

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and he’s got a pretty successful
business going, right?

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A fishing startup business.
We know that he’s got a partner

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in Andrew and John and James.
They’re working with him in this

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business and we also know that
the end of in verse 20 that he’s

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got hired servants.
So it’s not a small business.

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He’s got other people that he’s
working with.

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He’s got Zebedee.
Who’s also working him with him

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in this business?
Us.

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And he’s got this growing
fishing business and the Sea of

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Galilee had probably around.
200,000, people living around

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the Sea of Galilee at that time,
it’s a lot of people, right?

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That’s a lot of people that
needed fish and Peters business

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was growing, as a result of the
population that lived there.

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So he’s probably making good
money or had potential to make

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good money.
And Peter, Jesus comes to Peter

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in verse 17 and says, I want you
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Not everyone here.
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don’t we hearing about the
message and knowing about it in

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Sunday school, but there will
come a point in time as their

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00:28:41,400 –> 00:28:45,100
came here for Peter where Jesus
comes to him and says I need you

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00:28:45,100 –> 00:28:46,800
to get more serious about this
Peter.

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00:28:48,700 –> 00:28:50,500
And I need you to stop to follow
me.

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00:28:52,200 –> 00:28:57,700
To actually begin your journey
with me and what I want you to

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00:28:57,700 –> 00:29:00,000
be verse 17.
He says he had, I’ve got a

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00:29:00,000 –> 00:29:03,700
specific Purpose with you.
He says, I want you to become

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00:29:04,100 –> 00:29:09,000
Fishers of Men.
So, my purpose with you is a

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00:29:09,008 –> 00:29:11,900
completely different identity to
your current identity.

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00:29:11,900 –> 00:29:15,800
Your current identity is a
fisherman, your career, dictates

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00:29:15,800 –> 00:29:18,500
what you’re going to do, but I
want something different for

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00:29:18,500 –> 00:29:21,700
you.
I’ve got a separate purpose for

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00:29:21,700 –> 00:29:24,800
you.
I no longer want your identity,

446
00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:29,500
your identity to be your job or
your family, or your town, but I

447
00:29:29,500 –> 00:29:31,200
want you to start working for
me.

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00:29:32,200 –> 00:29:35,400
And I want you to be a fisher of
men.

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00:29:36,500 –> 00:29:39,600
To pass on the message to other
people.

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00:29:40,100 –> 00:29:43,500
And this is ultimately where
Jesus wants these men to get to.

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He wants them to become Fishers
of Men.

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00:29:48,200 –> 00:29:57,200
He is a verse from the very end
of Matthew We’re here Jesus says

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to the disciples at the very end
of their discipleship.

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What they needed to go and do
and he says go therefore and

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00:30:04,300 –> 00:30:08,100
Make Disciples of all Nations,
baptizing them in the name of

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the father, and the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, teaching them to

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00:30:12,300 –> 00:30:15,600
observe all that.
I have commanded you.

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00:30:16,400 –> 00:30:20,700
So that’s the purpose, the
endpoint in which Jesus was

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00:30:20,700 –> 00:30:24,800
bringing these men to be Fishers
of Men and their word.

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00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:29,100
Transferable skills from what
they had from their fishing,

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00:30:29,100 –> 00:30:32,100
life to their life of
discipleship.

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00:30:32,400 –> 00:30:36,400
And the ultimate life of fishing
for men, you’ll notice there in

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00:30:36,400 –> 00:30:42,200
verse 16 and then that down in
verse 19, that there’s two

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00:30:42,200 –> 00:30:46,200
essential activities that are
fishermen is involved in.

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00:30:46,900 –> 00:30:51,400
He’s involved in catching fish,
which is casting in there.

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00:30:52,300 –> 00:30:55,800
And he’s involved in mending
Nets and that is all about

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00:30:56,100 –> 00:30:59,400
making sure when he catches them
that he keeps them.

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00:30:59,900 –> 00:31:02,100
Right.
That’s the to thing that a

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00:31:02,100 –> 00:31:04,900
fisherman.
Does he catches fish and he

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00:31:04,900 –> 00:31:08,100
keeps fish.
I remember when I first went out

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00:31:08,100 –> 00:31:13,500
fishing with East, right?
We caught and like, it was out

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00:31:13,500 –> 00:31:17,200
of the blue, completely amazing.
We caught this a massive amazing

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00:31:17,200 –> 00:31:20,800
fish, it would no no joke.
It was like this big, right?

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00:31:21,700 –> 00:31:26,300
But all we had there was like a
bucket that was this big to hold

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00:31:26,300 –> 00:31:28,200
it in.
We didn’t expect that we were

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00:31:28,200 –> 00:31:31,700
going to catch anything like
this and we caught this enormous

477
00:31:31,700 –> 00:31:35,200
fish and we tried to put it in
the bucket and the fish jumped

478
00:31:35,200 –> 00:31:37,300
out of the bucket.
I remember me and eat both

479
00:31:37,300 –> 00:31:40,600
holding on to that fish.
As the fish went out of their

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00:31:40,600 –> 00:31:45,600
heads into the water gone
because we didn’t have a net to

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00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:49,600
keep it in.
Because it was gone and we went

482
00:31:49,600 –> 00:31:51,400
back to the and said you’re
never going to believe it and

483
00:31:51,400 –> 00:31:54,400
she never believed it, right?
She never believed it.

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00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:59,600
But that’s what fishing involves
involves catching fish and

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00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:02,300
keeping fish.
And that’s what Jesus was going

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00:32:02,300 –> 00:32:06,400
to teach these fishermen about
fishing for men and we’re going

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00:32:06,400 –> 00:32:09,700
to see that as he goes on, Jesus
is going to teach these men, how

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00:32:09,700 –> 00:32:13,500
to catch men.
And then once he’s caught, those

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00:32:13,500 –> 00:32:18,100
men had to look after them in
the meeting, two important parts

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00:32:18,100 –> 00:32:21,500
of discipleship that we’re going
to be taught to Peter.

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00:32:21,900 –> 00:32:26,200
Now, Peter after answering this
call verse It says and

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00:32:26,200 –> 00:32:30,000
straightway he forsook his Nets
and followed him.

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00:32:31,000 –> 00:32:36,700
He followed after Jesus and left
his Nets behind the word,

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00:32:36,700 –> 00:32:41,500
forsook means to let go.
And the Nets, there are a symbol

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00:32:41,500 –> 00:32:45,100
of his old identity, which he
now for sakes.

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00:32:46,900 –> 00:32:52,900
And he begins to follow Jesus
more seriously, but that proved

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00:32:53,100 –> 00:32:55,600
to be a struggle for Peter.
It was, it was tough.

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00:32:56,000 –> 00:33:03,000
Look at verse 29.
We find in verse 29 that after

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Peter has now begun to follow
after Jesus.

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00:33:07,900 –> 00:33:12,400
That perhaps in verse 29, what
happens is that Pete?

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00:33:12,400 –> 00:33:16,800
Jesus moves in with Peter It
says in fourth with when they

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00:33:16,800 –> 00:33:20,100
were come out of the synagogue,
they entered into the house of

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00:33:20,100 –> 00:33:25,400
Simon and Andrew with James and
John and Simon’s wife’s mother

504
00:33:25,400 –> 00:33:29,200
lay sick of a fever and a non,
they tell her off him.

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00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:33,700
So Jesus, perhaps comes to live
with Peter here and he heals her

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00:33:33,700 –> 00:33:38,900
his mother-in-law and Peter has
a home, doesn’t he?

507
00:33:40,100 –> 00:33:42,100
And it seems he that he’s
definitely going to wife.

508
00:33:43,300 –> 00:33:47,200
And he perhaps had kids and he’s
also got his mother-in-law

509
00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:50,300
living with him.
So he’s got a busy family that

510
00:33:50,300 –> 00:33:54,300
he now lives him and now he’s
got he’s got the large

511
00:33:54,300 –> 00:33:57,500
responsibility of that house and
looking after all those mouths

512
00:33:57,500 –> 00:34:01,500
that need feeding and he’s
juggling that now with following

513
00:34:01,500 –> 00:34:05,600
after Jesus and the demands that
that is bringing upon his life

514
00:34:06,200 –> 00:34:10,400
and Jesus the popularity of
Jesus is growing enormously, and

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00:34:10,400 –> 00:34:13,000
what happens is Jesus says to
the disciples.

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00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:15,500
We need you to go, I need you to
come with me.

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00:34:15,699 –> 00:34:20,199
We’re going on to the next town.
And verse 36 says, and Simon and

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00:34:20,199 –> 00:34:24,600
they that were with him,
followed after him and when they

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00:34:24,600 –> 00:34:26,500
had found him they said unto
him.

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00:34:26,699 –> 00:34:32,000
All men are seeking after you
paid out stops Jesus and says

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00:34:32,100 –> 00:34:34,800
Jesus, you can’t go marks record
says that.

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00:34:34,808 –> 00:34:37,500
He says I don’t want you to
depart can’t you stay here with

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00:34:37,500 –> 00:34:40,000
us in Capernaum.
Do we really need to go on to

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00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:45,800
the next town and verse 38?
Is this and he said unto them.

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00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:51,000
Let us go into the next towns
that I may preach there.

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00:34:51,000 –> 00:34:56,300
Also for therefore came I for
therefore came I forth.

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00:34:57,100 –> 00:35:01,400
So Jesus says to these disciples
and to Peter I need you to come

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00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:04,200
with me.
That’s why I’ve called you.

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00:35:05,100 –> 00:35:07,400
I need you to come with me to
the next town.

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00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:12,400
But verse 39 says that he
preached in their synagogues

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00:35:12,400 –> 00:35:17,400
therefore all Galilean, cast out
Devils so Peter didn’t go with

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00:35:17,400 –> 00:35:20,000
him.
Because he had too much

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00:35:20,000 –> 00:35:23,900
responsibility at home, and he
couldn’t leave and follow after

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00:35:23,900 –> 00:35:27,400
and continue to follow after
Jesus to the next towns.

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00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:33,300
So, G Peter is is juggling his
personal responsibilities of his

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00:35:33,300 –> 00:35:36,600
home life with now, following
after Jesus.

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00:35:37,500 –> 00:35:40,800
And then finally, we come to the
last calling of Peter, in Luke

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00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:42,900
Chapter 5.
Let’s come there now,

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00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:09,200
Luke chapter 5 verse 1 says, and
it came to pass that.

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00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:13,000
As the people pressed upon him
to hear the word of God, he

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00:36:13,000 –> 00:36:17,200
stood by the lake of Janessa it.
Here’s our timeline again.

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00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:22,500
Peter’s second calling.
And then Pete, Jesus comes

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00:36:22,500 –> 00:36:25,300
probably to live with Jesus in
Capernaum.

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00:36:26,000 –> 00:36:30,800
And then Jesus leaves Peter in
Capernaum and goes preaching

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00:36:30,800 –> 00:36:36,900
through the next towns and then
he returns to an area just near

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00:36:36,900 –> 00:36:41,000
Capernaum and that’s where he
gives The Sermon on the Mount.

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00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:46,300
And he’s just given The Sermon
on the Mount just before Peters,

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00:36:46,500 –> 00:36:48,300
third calling.
And that’s of course, one of the

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00:36:48,300 –> 00:36:51,700
most Famous sermons or speeches
about Jesus ever gave.

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00:36:52,100 –> 00:36:56,000
And then after that he preached,
it comes here to call Peter for

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00:36:56,000 –> 00:36:59,400
the third time.
And it says there, that in verse

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00:36:59,400 –> 00:37:02,900
one, people were pressing Upon
Jesus to hear the word of God.

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00:37:03,000 –> 00:37:06,300
And that’s probably because he’s
just given this amazing sermon

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00:37:06,300 –> 00:37:10,000
about discipleship and people
wanted to know what he had to

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00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:12,700
say and they were pressing upon
him.

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00:37:14,300 –> 00:37:19,400
But Peter wasn’t listening.
Peter was preoccupied and look

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00:37:19,400 –> 00:37:24,100
what we find him in verse 2.
It says and he saw two ships

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00:37:24,100 –> 00:37:27,900
standing by the lake but the
fishermen were gone out of them

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00:37:28,300 –> 00:37:30,300
and they were washing their
Nets.

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00:37:31,200 –> 00:37:36,300
So we find Peter here after he’s
been called, he’s gone back to

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00:37:36,300 –> 00:37:40,700
his fishing nets.
And he’s back being a fisherman.

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00:37:40,700 –> 00:37:44,100
Now.
And he’s no longer following

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00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:49,400
after Christ.
He’s returned to his old way of

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00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:53,400
life.
And he’s washing the Nets.

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00:37:54,400 –> 00:37:58,200
Now, if you washing the Nets,
you’ve used the Nets.

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00:37:59,200 –> 00:38:01,100
And you planning to use the Nets
again.

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00:38:02,400 –> 00:38:06,800
And Peter was Fallen back into
his old life.

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00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:12,300
Those things are taken a
priority over his life again.

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00:38:13,400 –> 00:38:19,100
And I squeezed out, Jesus.
From what he was doing.

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00:38:20,000 –> 00:38:22,700
To the point now where he’s not
even listening to Jesus.

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00:38:22,700 –> 00:38:25,400
You’ve got this huge crowd of
people that are excited about

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00:38:25,400 –> 00:38:29,500
what Jesus is saying, and Peter
is completely preoccupied with

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00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:31,400
the job that he’s doing of
fishing.

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00:38:32,600 –> 00:38:35,600
And don’t brothers and sisters.
We all struggle with this.

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00:38:36,900 –> 00:38:41,500
We struggle with the commitments
and responsibilities and

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00:38:41,500 –> 00:38:45,100
activities that we have in life
that come upon us.

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00:38:46,100 –> 00:38:48,500
And all of us are busy with all
sorts of different things.

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00:38:48,500 –> 00:38:53,400
All sorts of priorities, like
school and career, and family,

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00:38:53,600 –> 00:38:57,200
and our jobs, and all sorts of
little things that come into our

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00:38:57,200 –> 00:38:59,600
life and often, what can happen
is those things.

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00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:04,300
Like with Peter have crept right
into his life now until he can’t

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00:39:04,300 –> 00:39:10,300
even listen to Jesus Anymore.
And Jesus needs to teach him a

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00:39:10,308 –> 00:39:14,700
lesson because what he needs
Peter to do is he needs Peter to

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00:39:14,700 –> 00:39:18,800
make this calling his number one
purpose in life.

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00:39:19,800 –> 00:39:24,600
And at the moment God is just
one thing in this whole list of

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00:39:24,600 –> 00:39:28,500
different things that he has
going on his life. and Jesus

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00:39:28,500 –> 00:39:33,200
wants him to put it, number one,
And so in verse 3, it says and

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00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:37,700
Jesus entered into his boat.
See, Jesus keeps getting closer

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00:39:37,700 –> 00:39:41,500
to this man Peter and now it
says he entered right into

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00:39:41,700 –> 00:39:47,400
Simon’s ship.
And he’s going to teach this

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00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:52,400
man.
A lesson about priorities in his

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00:39:52,400 –> 00:39:55,500
life.
Where his priorities should be.

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00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:02,300
And Jesus might do that one day
for us in our life.

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00:40:03,500 –> 00:40:09,000
He might come to teach us a
lesson about priorities and it

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00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:12,100
might be an inconvenient lesson
like it was here for Peter.

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00:40:13,300 –> 00:40:20,600
I remember for myself when I was
18 years old, God came and

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00:40:20,600 –> 00:40:22,500
taught me a lesson about
priorities.

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00:40:25,500 –> 00:40:27,700
I was probably similar age to a
lot of you here.

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00:40:28,900 –> 00:40:31,700
And I remember, I just finished
school.

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00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:36,100
And I had all these plans about
what I wanted to do with my

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00:40:36,100 –> 00:40:38,200
life.
I’d got into University and I

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00:40:38,400 –> 00:40:41,500
had planned and I got into the
university wanted to get into

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00:40:41,500 –> 00:40:43,600
and I had all the plans about
what I was going to do with

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00:40:43,600 –> 00:40:46,800
that.
And I had plans about what I

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00:40:46,808 –> 00:40:49,900
want to do with my friends and I
had plans about a girl.

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00:40:51,500 –> 00:40:57,600
And that girl lived in Adelaide.
and so, when I finish school, I

607
00:40:57,600 –> 00:41:01,900
came straight across to Adelaide
with the intention of getting

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00:41:01,900 –> 00:41:06,200
that girl and then getting my,
you need of each degree and

609
00:41:06,200 –> 00:41:08,100
getting my course and doing
whatever I wanted to.

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00:41:09,500 –> 00:41:14,500
But when I came over here, when
I was 18, From Melbourne.

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00:41:16,900 –> 00:41:21,300
It didn’t work out with a girl.
She wasn’t interested for

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00:41:21,500 –> 00:41:26,800
whatever reason.
And I remember after that, we

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00:41:26,800 –> 00:41:29,800
went out like I was here with a
couple of friends and the next

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00:41:29,800 –> 00:41:33,500
day they said, oh, let’s let’s
go and do something and, you

615
00:41:33,500 –> 00:41:36,500
know, forget about forget about
the girl and just move on with

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00:41:36,500 –> 00:41:38,400
life and we went down to Victor
Harbor.

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00:41:39,900 –> 00:41:42,300
And when we were down there, we
used to be able to hire these

618
00:41:42,300 –> 00:41:46,800
little nifty 50 motorbikes,
right and we thought let’s just

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00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:48,700
hire these little motorbikes for
the day.

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00:41:49,100 –> 00:41:52,800
I say we hide these motorbikes
and we took them around

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00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:56,800
everywhere all across Victor
Harbor and we burned across all

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00:41:56,800 –> 00:41:58,800
these different things.
And we went to his car partners,

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00:41:58,800 –> 00:42:01,100
gravel car park and we’re in the
car park.

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00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:04,000
Not doing probably good things
with the little nifty 50 bikes.

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00:42:04,000 –> 00:42:07,200
Just right.
You know, in the gravel and I

626
00:42:07,200 –> 00:42:10,700
was on one of these bikes and I
was going fast on the gravel and

627
00:42:10,700 –> 00:42:14,900
I came out of that car park on
the gravel and I came out onto

628
00:42:14,900 –> 00:42:19,400
the bitumen Road and as I came
out onto the bitumen Road, Down

629
00:42:19,400 –> 00:42:21,600
was coming.
I fell off the bike.

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00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:25,900
And the bike went down onto the
ground and I was with it sliding

631
00:42:25,900 –> 00:42:29,000
on the ground.
And a car came around the

632
00:42:29,000 –> 00:42:33,000
corner.
And the car went right over the

633
00:42:33,000 –> 00:42:40,300
top of my bike.
And destroyed the bike. and

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00:42:40,300 –> 00:42:46,600
luckily, I was thrown clear.
And I wasn’t hurt.

635
00:42:49,800 –> 00:42:54,000
And I rushed from that moment
all the way I it was my bus was

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00:42:54,000 –> 00:42:57,600
leaving that night and I rushed
from that place and I had blood

637
00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:00,800
all down my knees and I rushed
rushed into the bus and I got

638
00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:03,600
into the bus and I was dirt
going home in the bus.

639
00:43:05,100 –> 00:43:07,200
Thinking about all the things
that happened that weekend.

640
00:43:10,800 –> 00:43:12,400
Everything had gone completely
wrong.

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00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:18,200
And I had all these plans about
what I was going to do and where

642
00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:22,400
I was going to go.
And none of it happened.

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00:43:24,900 –> 00:43:29,600
But the next couple of months.
I ended up doing something that

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00:43:29,600 –> 00:43:34,100
I never thought that I would do.
And I went to someone said to

645
00:43:34,100 –> 00:43:36,000
me, one of my friends said, why
don’t you come to school of

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00:43:36,008 –> 00:43:39,600
prophets and Adelaide?
And I went to the school of

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00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:43,800
prophets in Adelaide.
And I loved it.

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00:43:45,900 –> 00:43:52,700
And it changed my life.
And say, God taught me a lesson

649
00:43:52,700 –> 00:43:56,000
about priorities.
And a few months, six months

650
00:43:56,000 –> 00:43:58,700
later.
I was baptized after that.

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00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:03,500
And it completely probably
changed the immediate course of

652
00:44:03,500 –> 00:44:07,900
my life.
And Jesus here is going to come

653
00:44:07,900 –> 00:44:13,600
and teach Peter finally in here
a lesson about priorities and he

654
00:44:13,600 –> 00:44:16,600
does it by coming and stepping
into Peters ship.

655
00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:22,700
And he says to him there in
verse 4.

656
00:44:23,700 –> 00:44:28,000
Now when he had left speaking he
said unto Simon launch out into

657
00:44:28,000 –> 00:44:31,300
the deep and let down your nets
for the dry up.

658
00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:36,100
So first of all, he commandeered
Peters ship and he went out into

659
00:44:36,100 –> 00:44:40,800
the deep and he taught the
people and Peter sat there in

660
00:44:40,800 –> 00:44:43,500
the boat and he had no choice.
But to listen, did he?

661
00:44:43,500 –> 00:44:46,000
He had no choice but to listen
to Jesus.

662
00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:50,200
And perhaps Jesus was going over
some of those things that he

663
00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:51,800
taught in The Sermon on the
Mount.

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00:44:51,800 –> 00:44:56,400
And then once he taught them he
said to Peter, Peter I want you

665
00:44:56,400 –> 00:45:01,000
to go and take your ship out
into the deep and catch fish.

666
00:45:01,000 –> 00:45:04,800
Now look what Peter says Verse 5
and Simon answering said unto

667
00:45:04,800 –> 00:45:07,000
him Master.
We’ve toiled all night, we’ve

668
00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:11,500
been out fishing all night and
we’ve caught nothing.

669
00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:15,200
And you want us to go out there
again and fish.

670
00:45:15,900 –> 00:45:19,400
Peter probably roll his eyes and
he looked at this man, Jesus!

671
00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:23,000
He respected this man.
And Jesus is a teacher, but I’m

672
00:45:23,000 –> 00:45:24,700
the fisherman.
I’m the one that knows about

673
00:45:24,700 –> 00:45:27,700
fishing and I’ve been fishing
all night and we’ve caught

674
00:45:27,700 –> 00:45:31,500
nothing.
He was skeptical of the outcome

675
00:45:32,400 –> 00:45:36,000
and he’d been toiling all night.
And this is half of Jupiter’s

676
00:45:36,000 –> 00:45:38,200
problem.
Peters problem was he was trying

677
00:45:38,200 –> 00:45:41,400
to do everything.
He was trying to work and do

678
00:45:41,400 –> 00:45:43,300
everything at night.
And then he was trying to listen

679
00:45:43,300 –> 00:45:46,600
to Jesus during the day and he
couldn’t do everything.

680
00:45:46,600 –> 00:45:48,600
And you know what?
Jesus had just been talking

681
00:45:48,600 –> 00:45:52,400
about this very thing in The
Sermon on the Mount, Jesus

682
00:45:52,400 –> 00:45:54,800
taught in The Sermon on the
Mount that you can’t turn to

683
00:45:54,800 –> 00:45:59,900
serve two masters.
You can only serve one, you must

684
00:45:59,900 –> 00:46:04,100
prioritize Peter who you’re
going to serve number two.

685
00:46:04,100 –> 00:46:09,500
He says, I want you to take no
thought for tomorrow and he was

686
00:46:09,500 –> 00:46:15,300
saying, I don’t want you to use
all your energy in life. to look

687
00:46:15,300 –> 00:46:20,700
after temporary things that you
have in life, And then he said,

688
00:46:20,700 –> 00:46:22,700
I want you to consider the
lilies.

689
00:46:23,800 –> 00:46:27,900
They’re beautiful and they’re
not out toiling every day.

690
00:46:29,800 –> 00:46:34,300
But God looks after them and
then he summarized his see, this

691
00:46:34,300 –> 00:46:35,600
section on The Sermon, on the
Mount.

692
00:46:35,600 –> 00:46:40,300
By saying this, I want you to
seek first, the kingdom of God,

693
00:46:40,700 –> 00:46:45,300
and all these things will be
added unto you if you make the

694
00:46:45,300 –> 00:46:48,000
kingdom of God and God in your
life.

695
00:46:48,000 –> 00:46:51,300
The number one priority, then
all the other things that you

696
00:46:51,300 –> 00:46:56,900
have in life that you worried
about, I will look after That’s

697
00:46:56,900 –> 00:47:01,700
what Jesus said to Peter, Peter,
I need you to make my calling

698
00:47:01,700 –> 00:47:05,900
and you’re calling the number
one, priority above all else in

699
00:47:05,900 –> 00:47:10,200
your life.
And if you do that, I will take

700
00:47:10,200 –> 00:47:12,400
care of the rest of these
things.

701
00:47:12,400 –> 00:47:16,600
Now, Peter struggle with that
because Peter thought look, I’m

702
00:47:16,600 –> 00:47:19,100
impressed Jesus with your
teaching and everything you’ve

703
00:47:19,100 –> 00:47:24,600
got to say, but do you really
have power over all else in

704
00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:27,400
life?
Do you have power over fish and

705
00:47:27,400 –> 00:47:31,000
all these other responsibilities
that I have in my life?

706
00:47:32,200 –> 00:47:37,500
And Jesus says, I do.
And he teaches Peter a lesson

707
00:47:37,500 –> 00:47:40,200
here.
He says, in verse 5,

708
00:47:40,600 –> 00:47:44,800
nevertheless at Thy word, I will
let down my net.

709
00:47:44,800 –> 00:47:48,600
So, Peter says, look, I don’t
know whether I can’t see what

710
00:47:48,600 –> 00:47:53,500
how it’s going to happen, but he
reluctantly agrees and then

711
00:47:53,500 –> 00:47:58,200
verse 6, it says.
And when they had thus done, He

712
00:47:58,200 –> 00:48:03,200
went out into the water.
And they enclosed a great

713
00:48:03,300 –> 00:48:07,400
multitude of fishes.
And their net break.

714
00:48:08,200 –> 00:48:13,100
So they went out into the water.
And they throw out the Nets into

715
00:48:13,100 –> 00:48:18,800
the sea.
And all of a sudden, the fish

716
00:48:19,600 –> 00:48:25,200
start to flow into those Nets.
And Peter who was a seasoned

717
00:48:25,200 –> 00:48:28,400
fishermen.
Had never seen anything like it.

718
00:48:28,400 –> 00:48:32,400
Look at it says in verse 7 and
they beckon under their Partners

719
00:48:32,400 –> 00:48:35,800
which were in the other ship
that they should come and help

720
00:48:35,800 –> 00:48:40,000
them and they came and filled
both the ships so that they

721
00:48:40,000 –> 00:48:45,700
began to sink.
So so many fish were they that

722
00:48:45,700 –> 00:48:49,700
Peter has to call his other ship
is brother with it.

723
00:48:49,700 –> 00:48:52,600
His friends in that ship and
they come with their ship.

724
00:48:52,800 –> 00:49:00,400
And help to bring the fish into
the other boat. and when Peter

725
00:49:00,400 –> 00:49:06,200
saw this, the power that Jesus
had over these fish.

726
00:49:07,200 –> 00:49:18,200
It says he was astonished. and
then verse 8, it says When Simon

727
00:49:18,200 –> 00:49:22,700
Peter saw it?
He fell down at Jesus knees and

728
00:49:22,700 –> 00:49:26,600
said, depart from me for I am a
sinful man.

729
00:49:28,000 –> 00:49:31,800
That would Simon.
Peter is an indication to us

730
00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:37,300
that this man was growing.
And this was a key moment in his

731
00:49:37,300 –> 00:49:41,500
life.
And when he saw it, this

732
00:49:41,500 –> 00:49:47,000
enormous catch of fish.
He realized who Jesus was.

733
00:49:48,100 –> 00:49:53,000
And the power that he yielded.
And he ran to Jesus.

734
00:49:54,000 –> 00:49:58,700
And he fell down on his knees.
And he said, depart from me.

735
00:49:59,800 –> 00:50:05,100
For I am a sinful, man.
That word Lord.

736
00:50:06,600 –> 00:50:13,100
Means Supreme controller.
Previously in verse 5, he called

737
00:50:13,300 –> 00:50:18,000
Jesus his master.
But now he understood.

738
00:50:19,000 –> 00:50:23,700
That Jesus was more than that.
He was his Lord.

739
00:50:25,100 –> 00:50:29,300
And he didn’t just have power
over the spiritual world, but he

740
00:50:29,300 –> 00:50:33,600
has power over the natural world
and everything associated with

741
00:50:33,600 –> 00:50:37,800
it.
And Peter runs to Jesus ashamed.

742
00:50:38,900 –> 00:50:42,900
That he had doubted that he’d
been distracted.

743
00:50:44,100 –> 00:50:47,900
And he’s now ready to give his
whole life to this man.

744
00:50:50,900 –> 00:50:55,500
And so Jesus says to these men
and all the other disciples were

745
00:50:55,500 –> 00:51:00,300
the same, they came to give
their life to Jesus verse 10,

746
00:51:01,100 –> 00:51:08,100
Jesus says to them.
Sorry verse verse 10 and so was

747
00:51:08,100 –> 00:51:12,100
also James and John, the sons of
Zebedee which were partners with

748
00:51:12,100 –> 00:51:18,400
Simon and Jesus said unto Simon
fear, not from henceforth.

749
00:51:18,800 –> 00:51:24,300
Thou shalt catch fish.
Jason said to pay that, I don’t

750
00:51:24,300 –> 00:51:28,000
want you to fear and what would
Peter have feared?

751
00:51:29,400 –> 00:51:32,700
Well, he was fearing the
challenge of his calling.

752
00:51:34,200 –> 00:51:41,000
It required a full commitment.
It required him to give all and

753
00:51:41,000 –> 00:51:44,300
for Peter, that meant leaving
his family.

754
00:51:45,200 –> 00:51:48,800
It meant leaving his job.
It means that meant leaving his

755
00:51:48,800 –> 00:51:52,400
home for a period of time and
that would have been a daunting

756
00:51:52,400 –> 00:51:57,100
experience, but Jesus is, I
don’t want you to fear Because

757
00:51:57,100 –> 00:52:00,800
I’m with you.
And then in verse 11, it says

758
00:52:01,000 –> 00:52:07,000
and they brought their ships to
land. and they forsook all And

759
00:52:07,000 –> 00:52:11,400
followed him.
Not last time.

760
00:52:11,400 –> 00:52:14,300
G Peter had just forsaken his
Nets.

761
00:52:16,100 –> 00:52:17,900
And then it quickly gone back to
them.

762
00:52:19,600 –> 00:52:24,400
But this time Peter and the
other disciples walked away from

763
00:52:24,400 –> 00:52:27,900
everything.
And they were now ready to give

764
00:52:27,900 –> 00:52:33,300
Peter their first priority.
They’re number one.

765
00:52:35,400 –> 00:52:38,500
Now, this is the Cole.
And the beginning of

766
00:52:38,500 –> 00:52:41,100
discipleship, that Jesus makes
to all of us.

767
00:52:42,900 –> 00:52:46,300
He wants us to make him our
number one priority in life.

768
00:52:48,000 –> 00:52:51,800
And we might think, well am I
really expected to do what Peter

769
00:52:51,800 –> 00:52:55,200
did.
And that is leave my family and

770
00:52:55,200 –> 00:52:59,200
my home and my career and
everything that I’ve got.

771
00:53:00,800 –> 00:53:05,800
To give my whole life to Jesus.
And of course, all of our

772
00:53:05,800 –> 00:53:09,200
callings are different.
And Peter was cold to that

773
00:53:09,200 –> 00:53:11,400
unique task for a couple of
years.

774
00:53:11,400 –> 00:53:15,600
And our callings are not all
exactly the same, but what our

775
00:53:15,600 –> 00:53:19,400
callings are is they are
callings to make Jesus our

776
00:53:19,400 –> 00:53:26,600
number one priority in life.
And that may take time like it

777
00:53:26,600 –> 00:53:31,200
did for Peter But ultimately
that’s what God wants us to do.

778
00:53:32,100 –> 00:53:35,900
He wants us to seek first, the
kingdom of God and all these

779
00:53:35,900 –> 00:53:40,400
things will be added unto you.
He wants that pursuit to be

780
00:53:40,400 –> 00:53:43,400
number one.
He wants us.

781
00:53:45,000 –> 00:53:49,200
To see him as our Lord.
And that’s challenge today,

782
00:53:49,200 –> 00:53:53,700
isn’t it?
I find that challenging because

783
00:53:53,700 –> 00:53:58,200
we live in a world that provides
us with so many options, so many

784
00:53:58,200 –> 00:54:02,700
things to do so many options in
our career or our schooling, or

785
00:54:02,700 –> 00:54:06,100
our life.
And so, what we find ourselves

786
00:54:06,100 –> 00:54:09,100
or what I find myself doing
sometimes is my life is like a

787
00:54:09,100 –> 00:54:13,000
giant list and I have all these
things and one of those things

788
00:54:13,000 –> 00:54:18,700
on that list is God and I do my
job and then I have my, my

789
00:54:18,700 –> 00:54:21,600
family and then I have God and
then I have all these other

790
00:54:21,600 –> 00:54:24,500
priorities and I just cycle
through those priorities

791
00:54:24,500 –> 00:54:26,400
depending on what’s going on in
my life.

792
00:54:27,500 –> 00:54:30,100
And I’ll give a certain period
of time to God for a certain

793
00:54:30,100 –> 00:54:32,800
time and then I go back to my
job and my family.

794
00:54:34,300 –> 00:54:36,300
But God says, that’s not what I
want you to do.

795
00:54:37,200 –> 00:54:40,800
I want you to seek first, the
kingdom of God as your number

796
00:54:40,800 –> 00:54:43,500
one priority.
I want that to be above your

797
00:54:43,500 –> 00:54:46,700
list and everything else.
Connect into that.

798
00:54:48,000 –> 00:54:51,200
And the lesson that Peter was
taught in that miraculous Hall

799
00:54:51,200 –> 00:54:54,600
of fishes.
Was that if you do that, Peter,

800
00:54:55,500 –> 00:55:01,700
I will look after you, I will
care for you and I will provide

801
00:55:01,700 –> 00:55:06,400
for all of your needs.
The amazing thing about that

802
00:55:06,400 –> 00:55:09,200
story that I told you about the
scooter and what happened to me.

803
00:55:09,200 –> 00:55:12,400
And God directly.
My priorities, is that six

804
00:55:12,400 –> 00:55:17,600
months later, that girl that I
went over to Adelaide to get

805
00:55:18,500 –> 00:55:21,900
Came back to me.
And she’s now my wife.

806
00:55:23,100 –> 00:55:25,300
And I have a beautiful beautiful
family with her.

807
00:55:26,500 –> 00:55:30,800
But God works in our life in
that way and he worked in my

808
00:55:30,800 –> 00:55:35,800
life to direct my priorities to
him and the lesson that he

809
00:55:35,800 –> 00:55:41,200
taught me was if you do that and
you prioritize me above all

810
00:55:41,200 –> 00:55:45,100
else, I will take care of your
life.

811
00:55:46,200 –> 00:55:50,200
And the things that you need in
it, now I’m not telling you and

812
00:55:50,200 –> 00:55:51,900
I think God’s telling you that
you’re going to.

813
00:55:52,200 –> 00:55:54,700
If you follow him, you’re going
to get the girl of your dreams

814
00:55:54,700 –> 00:55:56,700
or some girls going to fall.
Come after you.

815
00:55:57,500 –> 00:56:05,100
But what God does teach us. is
if we make him number one, he

816
00:56:05,100 –> 00:56:09,200
will look after us.
Now, this was a key moment in

817
00:56:09,200 –> 00:56:13,000
the life of Peter.
He was at a massive Crossroads

818
00:56:13,000 –> 00:56:17,000
in his life, as we will come to
Crossroads in our lives Forks in

819
00:56:17,000 –> 00:56:19,300
the road where we’re going to
make the decision about where

820
00:56:19,300 –> 00:56:21,600
we’re going to go.
And Peter could have made the

821
00:56:21,600 –> 00:56:24,900
decision that I can see.
You’re calling their Jesus, but

822
00:56:24,900 –> 00:56:27,900
I’ve got an awesome business
here and fishing business that

823
00:56:27,900 –> 00:56:30,500
I’m going to pursue.
And he could have made the Lord

824
00:56:30,500 –> 00:56:34,700
of his life, his fishing
business and he could have built

825
00:56:35,000 –> 00:56:38,200
a whole Fleet of fishing boats.
He could have built five or ten

826
00:56:38,200 –> 00:56:41,600
or a hundred boats and he could
have been renowned in the All of

827
00:56:41,600 –> 00:56:45,300
the area has the greatest
feature of fish that’s ever

828
00:56:45,300 –> 00:56:48,200
existed in Galilee and at the
end of his life, they would have

829
00:56:48,200 –> 00:56:51,000
built a jetty for him.
And they would have had a plaque

830
00:56:51,000 –> 00:56:54,900
at the end of that Jetty, that
said, Peter the Great Fisher of

831
00:56:54,900 –> 00:56:58,200
fish.
And he would have died.

832
00:56:59,500 –> 00:57:03,700
And he would have disappeared.
And we would never ever, ever

833
00:57:03,700 –> 00:57:08,700
have heard of him of gain.
But that fork in the road Peter

834
00:57:08,700 –> 00:57:11,800
chose to do something different
and he said I’m going to make

835
00:57:11,800 –> 00:57:15,400
the Lord Of My Life.
Jesus Christ.

836
00:57:16,700 –> 00:57:21,400
And I’m going to follow him.
And when he did pursue that

837
00:57:21,400 –> 00:57:25,000
path, he was going to become one
of the greatest Fishers of Men

838
00:57:25,700 –> 00:57:30,900
that the world has ever seen and
were here tonight as witnesses

839
00:57:30,900 –> 00:57:33,600
to that.
Because that’s what he did.

840
00:57:34,700 –> 00:57:37,200
And if it wasn’t for Peter, we
wouldn’t be here.

841
00:57:39,100 –> 00:57:41,100
Now, that’s Jesus challenge to
us all.

842
00:57:41,100 –> 00:57:47,100
So, he walked past our life as
he walked past Peters on the Sea

843
00:57:47,100 –> 00:57:49,800
of Galilee.
Any presents us with an

844
00:57:49,808 –> 00:57:54,500
invitation?
And that invitation is come and

845
00:57:54,500 –> 00:57:57,200
follow me.
I know it’s daunting.

846
00:57:58,200 –> 00:58:00,600
I know there’s so many other
things that you could do in

847
00:58:00,600 –> 00:58:05,300
life, but trust me.
Put your hand in mine.

848
00:58:06,400 –> 00:58:12,000
And come and follow me.
Three steps.

849
00:58:12,100 –> 00:58:15,400
We’ve looked at tonight to
answering God’s call.

850
00:58:17,000 –> 00:58:21,800
The first one is our Pursuit for
Christ needs to be active.

851
00:58:22,600 –> 00:58:26,700
If we want to find out about
Christ, we’ve got to pursue him

852
00:58:26,700 –> 00:58:30,200
actively like those disciples
did put ourselves in the right

853
00:58:30,200 –> 00:58:33,600
spots search and find out who he
is.

854
00:58:34,700 –> 00:58:36,800
We then need to begin to follow
him.

855
00:58:38,100 –> 00:58:41,700
To actively try and live out his
life in our life.

856
00:58:41,900 –> 00:58:47,400
And finally, we then need to
prioritize him above all other

857
00:58:47,400 –> 00:58:48,900
things that we have in life.