Gone Fishin'

“Gone Fishin’”—1
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• The Mission
  • John 17:18 Message—“‘In the same way that You [Father] gave Me a   in the world, I give them a in the world.’”
  • 2 Corinthians 5:18 TEV—“Christ changed us from enemies into His friends and gave us the of making others His friends also.”
  • John 20:21 NIV—“‘As the Father has sent Me, I am you.’”
  • Matthew 28:19-20 CEV—“‘Go to the people of all and make them My disciples. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to do everything I have told you.’”
  • Mark 1:17 NIV—“‘Come,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to for people.’”
    • We were born again to , because that is His metaphor for mission.
    • 3 John 4 NIV—“I have no greater   than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” (“Nothing could make me .” Message)
• The Story
  • Luke 5:1-5: “Push out into   water”—because that is where the fish are.
  • Luke 5:6-10: “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people with Me.”
    • Desire of Ages: “The deeper lesson which the miracle conveyed for the disciples is a lesson for us also—that He whose could gather the fishes from the sea could also impress human hearts, and draw them by the cords of His love, so that His servants might become ‘fishers of men.’” (249)
    • Desire of Ages: “The first thing to be learned by all who would become workers together with God is the lesson of self- .” (250)
    • Desire of Ages: “There is   to the usefulness of one who, by putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God.” (250-251)

“Don’t be afraid—from now on you will fish for people with Me.”