There are actually two things you have to
do before you can get a bountiful from the LORD. Luke 5:1-11 tells us how Jesus
chose his first disciples. Unlike the other two gospels viz Mathew and Mark,
which tells that Jesus just asked his disciples to follow him, Luke gives a
detailed narrative of what happened before they started to follow Jesus.
The Verse starts with Jesus asking Simon to
push his boat a little bit inside so that he could preach to the masses
gathered there.
One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people
were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He
saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were
washing their nets. He got into one of the
boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from
shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
Luke 5:1-3
After teaching the people, he asked Simon
who later came to be known as peter, to let down the net in the deep for a
catch.
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into
deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”
Luke 5:4
Now here is something interesting. Simon
also called Peter was a fisherman by trade and Jesus was a carpenter by trade.
But now he was a missionary, preaching the good news and doing what his father
and send him to do. We all know that fish swim near the surface at night for it
is cooler and they dive to the depths after morning to escape the heat. Now to
get a catch is really out of the equation. When we are in such a situation the
next thing we probably do, is to argue and tell what right and what’s not. But
look what Simon also called Peter did.
Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t
caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”
Luke 5:5
Now that’s what is called obedience. Mark
the words “But because you say so”.
He didn’t even argue or tell anything. In 2 Kings 5 there is a story of Naaman,
who was a commander of the Aram army, and it so happened that he was cured of Leprosy
by Elisha the prophet. He was asked to dip in the Jordan seven times by Elisha
but since he didn’t say it to his face he felt enraged and left after which his
servants persuaded he did it. Interestingly
it was not the Jordan water that cured him but it was the obedience to the
word. And here to we see what happened after Simon also called Peter obeyed the
LORD.
Another interesting thing that surfaces
before obedience is submission. Not the words “we’ve worked
hard all night and haven’t caught anything”
When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that
their nets began to break. So they signaled
their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and
filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
Luke 5:6:7
Now after obeying the LORDs word see the
abundant blessing. The catch was so
much that the net began to tear and the boats began to sink. Even beyond this
if you read Peter confess that he is sinner and now Jesus rewards him with
apostle crown.
From this story you can conclude three
things.
1 1)
Submission
2 2)
Obedience
3 3)
And the product of the two is “Unlimited
and Abundant Blessing”
Source
Our Pastor's Sunday sermon
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