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*Intro*
I remember when I was working at Moody Graduate School in administration, I would often get calls from people who were all about trying to get short-cuts.
The Master of Divinity program (M.Div) was about 96 hours, which meant 32 classes (3 year program if you went full-time).
It was intense and the Lord somehow got me through in three years!
Praise God.
Although to be honest, I would probably go back and do it at a slower pace if I could.
It was literally like drinking from a fire hydrant!
Now the M.Div.
degree has a lot of pre-requisites.
In other words, you can’t take level 3 of Greek if you haven’t taken level 2. It seems like common sense right?
However, from time to time, I would be on the phone with people who want to go to graduate school and talk to me about taking Greek 3 or some other third year course in the first year.
They will say things like, “You know, I learned a little Greek on my vacation once, do you think I can try to get in to Greek 3?” Ok, no one ever told me that (I am totally exaggerating)—although some arguments come close to that, but it occurred to me that people were so anxious to get to the destination of getting a degree that they forgot the journey.
They want to get the product without the process.
Often I would have to calm them down and tell them that there is a reason why Greek 1 is called Greek 1.
You need to slowly go through each course and allow the Lord to train you and grow you in His time.
If you jump into level 3 now, you will do more damage than good.
You do not have the capacity to handle level 3 right now.
The older I am getting now, the more I am learning to enjoy the journey of faith.
This is difficult though.
I want to know the product so badly!
Sometimes I wonder, what’s going to happen with EFC?
Or where will I be at the end my life?
Sometimes I look at our daughter and think, “I can’t wait until she grows up!
Then she can feed herself and go to the bathroom on her own and sleep on her own, etc.”
But the more I talk to parents, the more they tell me to enjoy and cherish them in each step and milestone because before you know it, they will be all grown up and maybe one day Lord willing, she will be feeding you and changing your diaper!
I think they are saying the same thing.
Embrace the journey!
I love serving Him mostly through serving you here at EFC.
But I ask myself sometimes, “What is Jesus looking for in me as I serve Him in this journey?
What are the character traits that will bring applause from the nail-scarred hands?”
Are there Level 1 qualities I need to make sure I am continually cultivating as He walks with me on this journey?
I wonder what are the qualities in people you are really looking for in your followers?
Hopefully our text this morning can shed some light on this for us.
We are going to look at another encounter in Luke 5:1-11.
Again I am indebted to Ken Gire for his wonderful imagery on these encounters to help us paint the picture.[1]
So what kind of a person does Jesus call for His service?
Hmm, I wonder what the qualifications will be?
Ohh, I got it!
Is it going to be powerful preaching ability?
Or is it a theological degree?
No, I know!
Is it the ability to gather people into a large crowd?
Or how about amazing administrative abilities?
The title of the message is “An Encounter with the qualifier of the called.”
By this I mean, Jesus does not call the qualified, but qualifies the called.
Let’s start with this:
*I.   **Available in the Little** (Luke 5:1-3)*
Jesus has just gotten really popular.
He has started a healing ministry (Luke 4:38-41), taught powerfully in the synagogues (Luke 4:14-15; 42-44), changed water into wine at a wedding (John 2:1-11), people heard about him cleansing the Temple on Passover (John 2:12-22), and even an unclean demon was cast out of a man and many others (Luke 4:31-37; 41).
So we are not surprised in Luke 5:1, that people are almost about to crush Him to death to get close to Him.
Not only do you the crowd around Jesus, but there are also many out to get the first pick of the fisherman’s catch that morning.
Moreover, there are a lot of curious people out there probably all with different agendas.
Some may think that the Messiah had come and wanting in on the action when He kicks the Romans out of their holy land.
Others just want a healing or for Jesus to come to their home to heal their loved ones.
Still others are there out of curiosity and just want to be part of a large crowd.
There is no order here and the crowd is literally overwhelming.
They are pushing and straining around Jesus.
Jesus is standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
This is another name for the Sea of Galilee or as John calls it, the Sea of Tiberias (John 6:1; 21:1).
This lake is about eight miles by fourteen miles in size and was a popular locale for fishing.[2] For comparison, Lake Michigan is 307 miles long and 118 miles wide.
In fact, “the Sea of Galilee (located in the region of Galilee) is a very large lake of freshwater—650 feet below sea level, 150 feet deep, and surrounded by hills.”[3]
Jesus seizes the opportunity for a teaching moment.
However, Jesus needs to separate himself from the crowd so that they can hear him adequately.
In Luke 5:2, he sees two boats nearby.
It was unoccupied and nearby he sees fishermen washing their nets.
They are using nets that are used for evening fishing in deep water.[4]
The fishermen would fish during the night because the fish would be active and feed closer to the surface at night.
But fishing was backbreaking work.
It “involved laying out a great net in a semicircle, encompassing over 100 feet, drawing it in hand-over-hand, then repeating the procedure again and again.”[5]
The fishermen would have used what is called a dragnet.
One commentary notes that “this net was about three hundred feet long and eight feet wide.
One side had corks to keep it afloat; the other side had lead sinkers.
Sometimes the net would be stretched between two boats; then the fishermen would row in a circle to bring the ends of the net together.
Other fishermen on the boat would work at drawing in the cord at the bottom and top of the net in order to trap the fish inside.
If Simon and the others had been doing this over and over all night long and had /caught nothing,/ surely they were tired and frustrated.”
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One of the fishermen is Peter.
He had, we will find out, returned from the sea that morning after a long night of futility.
All he had to show for all the hard work was a sore back and empty nets that needed cleaning.
The whole process of getting the nets ready for the night was also tedious.
Once they beached their boats, they would have to eat breakfast and begin the process of cleaning, mending, stretching, drying, folding and arranging the nets for the following night.
If the nets were not taken care of like so, they would rot and break.
So Jesus watches Peter hunched over, trying to pry loose the slender silky seaweed that got caught in the nets.
Peter shivers a little, as he is still drying off himself from being in the cold water, but the sun is getting higher and brighter in the sky, warming him up.
Warren Wiersbe comments that one of the great qualities about fishermen is their perseverance.
Do you think perhaps this is one of the reasons why seven out of twelve disciples are fishermen?[7]
Wiersbe says, “If I had fished all night and caught nothing, I would probably be /selling/ my nets, not washing them to get ready to go out again!
But true fishermen don’t quit.”[8]
Blessed be those who come up empty at times in life and in ministry, but still go at it again!
Peter will be learning this for the rest of his life won’t he?
But his spirit is down definitely.
It had been a long, cold, tough night on the water.
Earlier, Peter had been brought to Jesus by his brother Andrew who had told him that Jesus was the Messiah and the Lamb of God (John 1:35-42).
Peter had traveled with Jesus around Capernaum as He taught in the synagogues.
He had even seen Jesus heal his mother-in-law (Luke 4:38-39).
And Peter soaked it all in like a sponge, which was what he was trying to do here as he is mindlessly cleaning his net and listening to Jesus preach the Word of God to the crowds.
The eager crowd begins to push and now edges closer to the point where Jesus has no margin of shore left where He can stand.
He is about to be pushed out into the sea!
Look at Luke 5:3.
So He jumps on to Simon’s boat and asks him to push out.
Now if this was an average ancient fishing boat, it would have been twenty to thirty feet long.[9]
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