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We will need someone to dim the lights.
(To dIm the lights, slide the top two dimmers on the Narthex wall down).
After reader finishes and walks down off the platform, then dim the front sanctuary lights.
I will bring the stand to the center, then switch to the video slide.
It should start automatically, and the sound should be at a good level.
After the video switch to the title slide, and raise the lights.
Title Slide
They were fishermen.
They lived in a small town, maybe a couple hundred, at best.
I sure they smelled like fish, the whole town probably smelled like fish.
It was hard work, but honest work
The Story
When Jesus came by, they are working.
Casting a net into the lake, because they were fishermen.
That is what fishermen do.
They would not be doing anything else, because that is whothey did.
It was what there father did, and this was fishing village, it is what the people did.
People then did not have many choices then.
Most people did not have very much education.
Children would go to Hebrew school, but only for so long.
Then it was off to the family business.
If you showed promise, you went on for further study, but that was for a few.
Still fewer who showed a real heart for God, and real talent would go on further.
It was the elite that went on to become Rabbis.
Those elite would find a Rabbi, they admired.
Once they found that Rabbi, they would ask him if they could follow Him.
This is different.
This is different.
Jesus found them.
The Rabbi does not find the students, the students show there interest in the rabbi, and ask Him if they could follow Him.
Jesus turns it upside down.
Jesus is in the small town, not the city.
Jesus is in the fishing village, The students are not the elite, not the highly educated, not the promising.
Peter and Andrew thought there education was over.
Fishing was what they did, it was who they were.
Everything about this is very odd, and because of our familiarity with it, we sometimes miss how strange this is.
First, as we said earlier, you apply to learn from a rabbi, this rabbi, went to them.
Next, you have to have at the education leading up to to it, they did not.
Then, on top of all that, iIt is not necessarily a request.
It is a command.
Come, follow me.
What would be the Faribault equivalent?
Take a young man that did not go to college, but was working here in a factory as welder.
A trade he picked up from his family.
He lived here, had a place here friends.
Maybe he was in youth group as a kid, but now attends church on most Sundays.
Then picture a professor from Dallas Seminary walk into the factory as the guy is welding and say to Him Come with me, we are going to travel around the country and preach.
Not would you like to?
No Just come and follow me-and I will make you fishers of men.
I will make you.
Your job is to follow-Jesus will make you, fishers of men, something they could understand.
Catching, men for the kingdom of God.
They probably understood a little about Jesus, and the kingdom of God, they had encountered Him before.
In John chapter 1, verses 35-42 Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist and he brought Peter to meet Jesus.
So they had probably heard about the kingdom of God, and knew they were part of the movement, and they went.
At once, or immediately they left their nets.
It was their chance to be a part of this radical movement.
They left their business, their career, their identity, and put it aside.
It’s interesting isn’t it?
They didn’t even stop to pray about it, or at least it wasn’t recorded, Just radical immediate obedience to the command.
Radical, immediate obedience.Imagine if the kingdom of God today was filled with people who were radically and immediately obedient to Jesus.
Simon and Andrew weren’t the only ones with this radical and immediate obedience either, there were others.
They too left the business, and not only that they left their father too.
There was nothing holding them back.
They are letting go of all of their ties to the world in order to follow Jesus.
When these men left everything to follow Jesus they were entering into something entirely different.
To follow a Rabbi, meant literally to follow him.
You went where he went, You did what he did You stayed so close to him that literally the dust from his feet would get on your feet.
Jesus was calling these men to discipleship, and it was 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You walked where he walked, you ate with him , you listened to his teaching, you learned from him as he lived.
You were doing everything you could to be like him.
This is not a classroom where you were learning from him you were learning to be like him.
This is something called discipleship.
Jesus is asking these men to be his disciples.
To live with him and follow him everywhere he goes and to be with him continually, and they go.
They give up everything and go.
Is it for us?
This whole idea is so outside of our understanding that we separate ourselves from it.
We see this a unique call to these men by Jesus in person for them to be fisher of men.
We say that this is a one time unique call by Jesus for them to learn from Him, and carry on the message of the kingdom of God.
Sometimes at best we take another step and say that this call also applies to the Pastor’s and Evangelists.
We even say it is a “calling”, they have been called we say.
They are the fishers of men, not us.
People even separate the gospel from this call to discipleship.
Oh I have answered the call of the gospel some say.
I have believed in Jesus and trusted him for the forgiveness of my sins, but this call to discipleship is for the advanced class.
This is for the gifted the talented, or for those who want to go on to the advanced class.
We look at it like a two step process.
Step one get saved, or believe the gospel, and then there is an optional step two of discipleship.
That is a common understanding, however I don’t believe that the Bible teaches that.
Instead the call of the Gospel IS the call to discipleship.
Your mental ascent to the fact that Jesus is Lord and Savior means that you do what he says.
Let me show you.
I want to turn to John 8:28
Jesus is talking about who He is, and that he will be crucified .
They believed him, they believed the gospel.
Now, Jesus does not just stop there, and say very good, see you later, instead he starts to talk about this thing called Discipleship.
If you hold to my teaching-you are REALLY my disciples-if you do what Jesus says, you are His follower.
If you do what he does, then you will be like him.
When you really believe-then you do as He says.
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