It was the summer of 1986.
I had just finished my junior year in high school.
Having grown up in a home that went to church, but in which Christian worship was not a daily part of our lives.
Having gone through a confirmation process where I filled out a statement of faith without knowing any of what I really wrote.
And submitted it so that I could be brought in as a member of the church that our family went to.
Having wandered out on a youth group retreat one night and looking up at the stars and wondered if maybe there was a God.
And wondering if maybe there was something to this whole thing.
But never getting an answer until during my sophomore and junior year I met Bill and Becky and other friends who knew Jesus.
And I didn't like their Jesus very much, but I liked them.
And I saw that they had something that was to me irresistibly attractive.
And so I kept hanging out with them and I kept asking questions.
And it brought me to this summer.
The summer where my friend went off across the sea and left me with Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
And in that time as I read through this book.
I saw who Jesus was for the first time.
And C.S. Lewis walked through the argument that he puts forth in that book.
I found myself being compelled by it.
And I got to the end.
And I remember thinking, if this is true,
what am I going to do with it?
I could no longer think, I wonder if there might be something to this.
Now I knew something.
Now I knew something about who Jesus was.
I had been confronted with him.
And I knew that I needed to respond.
Friends, this morning as we continue in our series in the book of Luke,
we will find a similar encounter with the Apostle Peter and some of his friends.
As they encountered Jesus and saw him, perhaps for the first time, with real eyes.
So we're looking at the Gospel of Luke.
If you want to turn there, I think it's page 860 in your pew Bible.
Is that right?
Yes?
Good.
As we turn there, let me just remind us of where we are.
We're doing a series this winter on who is this Jesus.
Looking at Luke chapter 4 through chapter 8.
If you remember, we started a couple weeks ago hearing about Jesus as he walked into the synagogue
and he sat down and he read the words from Isaiah.
Isaiah, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the day of the Lord's favor.
And then having read this, he sat down and he said,
Today it is fulfilled.
What he was basically saying is,
Now that I am here.
And then as we've seen, after that he went out and he did ministry.
And he did it with a kind of authority.
Authority over spiritual forces of darkness.
Authority over physical sickness that would cause to destroy.
Destroy.
And in all of these things it arouses in our hearts the question,
Who is this one?
And that brings us to our text this morning.
Luke chapter 5.
We're going to look at verses 1 through 11.
So please read along with me.
On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,
he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake.
But the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land.
And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
And Simon answered,
Master, we toiled all night and took nothing.
But at your word, I will let down the nets.
And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish.
And their nets were breaking.
They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them.
And they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink.
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken.
And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
And Jesus said to Simon,
Do not be afraid.
From now on, you will be catching men.
And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
Let's pray together.
Lord, we thank you for your word.
And we thank you that in it you reveal yourself to us.
Lord, that it is not simply an instruction book for us on how to live.
But it is a book about you.
That we might see you clearly and know you rightly.
And respond in love and worship and obedience.
God, what a precious gift it is that you have given us your word.
So that we might know what kind of a God you truly are.
And Lord, as we look at this word this morning, I pray for receptive hearts.
Lord, for eyes that are ready to see you anew, afresh.
Or maybe for the first time.
Lord, I pray that you might use me.
Lord, that my words would be useful in lifting up Jesus in our midst.
That we might see him and respond.
And we pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Well, friends.
As we look at this story, one of the fun things about doing the Gospels is that they're stories.
And by that I don't mean they're fictional.
By that I mean they're narrative.
Which means that the way that God is telling truth is telling it through an account of what happened.
And so, what we're going to do is we're going to look at this.
And instead of giving you an outline of here are the three theses that Luke wants you to understand.
What I want you to see is there are three movements in this drama.
There are three actions that happen.
Or three places.
Three sections of this passage that capture us and grip us and teach us a bit about what is going on.
We're going to see first, we're going to see Jesus unveiled.
And secondly, we're going to see Peter undone.
And third, we are going to see Jesus calling for us to follow.
So, let's look at those three movements and see what they have for us this morning.
First of all, Jesus unveiled in the glory of the catch.
This is in verses 1 through 7.
And as you look at this, I want you to sit by the Sea of Galilee.
This Gennesaret is just a section of shoreline along the Sea of Galilee.
Luke uses a different word to tell you.
It's the same familiar place of Galilee.
So, Jesus is ministering up north in Israel.
He's collected a group of people.
They've heard about what he's doing.
They've heard about his teaching with authority.
And they've gathered along to do it.
I want you to notice, too, that Luke says on one occasion.
He's not saying this is an account of everything Jesus did.
And he's not even saying, oh, and this is what happened right after what happened at the end of chapter 4.
He's just saying, oh, let me tell you something else about what Jesus was doing during this time.
And he was gathered in this.
And the crowd became so big that they were pressing in on him.
And he saw the crowd growing and he thought, how do I love them?
They've come here to hear the words that I have to say to them.
And I want them to do that.
So, we love them enough to look for a solution.
And lo and behold, there it was.
Two fishing boats by the water.
The fishermen, having fished all night, were now out of their boats.
Tending to their nets at the end of a long night.
And he said to the fishermen, hey, can I use your boat?
And so, they pushed out from shore and the boat became his pulpit.
And the water became his microphone amplification as he preached to a large crowd.
But notice that for Luke, this isn't the point today.
It is the context in which Jesus was doing something else.
It's simply the setup.
Because in verse 4 then, we begin to see the story really take shape.
Peter, put out into the deep.
Put your nets down.
Now, Peter would have been pretty taken aback by this.
For a number of reasons.
One, Jesus was a carpenter, not a fisherman.
Or maybe Jesus was an itinerant religious teacher.
But he still didn't know anything about fishing.
And anyone who knows anything about fishing knows that if you've fished all night and you haven't caught anything,
you don't go out in the middle of the day to try again.
Because the fish aren't out in the middle of the day.
That's why fishermen always fish at dawn and dusk.
They go out in the right times of day.
And this was the wrong time of day.
As one commentator said,
But interestingly, with all of that resistance, Peter still responds.
He knows something of Jesus.
He's heard the teaching, maybe, as he's been mending the nets.
Maybe, likely, the account of his healing of his mother had happened, as it was reported in chapter 4.
He knew something of him.
He called him master.
It's an honorary term, like, of teacher or one who deserves honor.
He said,
This is the dumbest thing in the world, but alright, I'll try it.
Peter allowed Jesus to invade an inappropriate place in his life.
Peter may have looked at him and said,
He's a great teacher.
He maybe even, he healed my mother.
That seems like a good place for Jesus to stay in my life.
Now Jesus has insinuated himself into the place of Peter's expertise.
The place of his greatest ability.
Peter's doubtful, but he gives him a chance.
I want to stop for a minute.
I want you to think about your own life.
Jesus walks into your lab.
Why don't you try this?
I couldn't even begin to, like, give you technical terms.
Titrate this.
Spin this.
I don't even know.
I was an astry major.
You know what I mean.
Jesus walks into your homeschooling.
Maybe you should do this with your kids.
He invites you into your romantic life.
He goes along on the date.
Follows you into your bedroom.
How about this?
He walks with you down the hall in your high school.
Greeting your friends.
Sitting with you in the lunchroom.
How do you respond?
Master, we fished all night.
We didn't catch anything.
But since you ask, we'll do it.
I'll bet he wouldn't get master out of us most of the time.
More like the question.
Jesus, what do you have to do with this part of my life?
This isn't where you belong.
In those places of our greatest expertise.
When we think we're in control,
and when we think God really doesn't know what he's doing or what he's up to,
we resist him, and we don't see him as he truly is.
But Peter gave him a doubtful chance.
And look with me at verse 6 and 7.
Luke tells us in excruciating detail to make sure we don't miss what happened.
They enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.
That meant that the weight was greater than what those nets were built to catch.
And so they called their friend over in the other boat,
and they put the fish in the boat,
and these boats that were made to fish,
made to hold fish, were sinking because the catch was so great.
This is a fisherman's tale beyond belief.
It was this big!
But it really was.
It wasn't a fiction.
And joy turns into panic.
But it's a gleeful panic.
What are we going to do?
And notice this too.
When Jesus invades Peter's area of expertise,
he doesn't do it flippantly.
It's not just a random display of power for the fun of it.
He actually graciously provides for Peter the thing that he most needed and didn't have on his own.
He blessed Peter and the other fishermen with the catch that they could not catch on their own.
So Jesus' display of power was not simply asserting himself to say,
I'm better than you, or I'm bigger than you, or I'm greater than you,
although all of those things, as we will see, are true.
But he's saying, don't you see how much I love you?
That I will use all of my greatness for your good.
And so, with Peter, we must look at this Jesus again with new eyes.
Who is this man?
Suddenly the compartments come down.
It's running through Peter's head.
Who is he?
What has he just done?
He's the creator who knows the fish.
Whether he commanded them to jump into the nets,
or whether he just knew where they were at the wrong time of day,
he's the one who rules over creation.
He's the almighty provider who's able, at the snap of his finger,
with what humanly seems like an irrational request,
provide the thing that we most need.
He is the sovereign over all.
He is the Holy One of God.
Who is he?
This must be God.
Not just a teacher.
Not just a helpful man
who might tell me something useful about my spiritual life.
But someone who is greater than all.
This must be God.
The analogy is,
if Jesus can rule in the area of my greatest expertise,
then doesn't he have a claim to rule over all?
If Jesus can do this in the place where I'm the professional,
then doesn't Jesus make me accountable to him in everything that I do?
And if that request is so surprising,
and the response so unbelievable,
then the second thing that happens in this story
is additionally so surprising.
Because,
as we see moving on to verses 8 through 10,
we see our second movement.
Because we see Peter,
Simon Peter,
responding,
and his response
is surprising.
What we see is him undone.
Look with me again at verse 8.
When Simon Peter saw it,
he fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying,
Depart from me,
for I am a sinful man,
O Lord.
With echoes of the Isaiah passage
that we read further,
when Isaiah encountered the glory of God,
and fell down before him,
and says,
Woe is me.
Peter falls down before Jesus.
And he says three things.
First thing he says is,
Depart from me.
This is not a Mike Myers,
I am not worthy.
There is no tongue in cheek.
It is not even just awe and wonder.
You are bigger than me.
But what it is,
is in this common pattern
that we see over and over in the scriptures,
when people encounter God himself,
when people encounter messengers
of the God most high,
they fall down on their faces,
and their beginning start is,
O Lord,
I can't handle this.
It's too much.
Depart from me,
for I am afraid
that I might die in your presence.
Depart from me,
for I am fearful
that I am not worthy
to be before you.
I cannot stand
in your presence.
It would be like the present
who,
hearing a surprising knock at the door,
finds the king
standing at the doorstep saying,
May I come in and eat?
No, I'm not worthy.
My table is not clean.
My food is not good enough.
I have nothing to offer
what you really deserve.
You must be mistaken, Lord.
It must be another house
you're looking for.
I think that's what Peter is saying
when he says,
Depart from me, Lord.
He's expressing this fear.
Then the second thing,
For I am a sinful man.
Jesus hasn't said anything
about sin.
We haven't heard anything
about righteousness,
about the law,
about doing right and wrong.
None of that has happened.
How did Peter get here?
This doesn't make any sense,
does it?
Spurgeon helpfully
says this about it.
I do not doubt
that in the sermon
which Christ delivered,
there was such a clear declaration
of the holiness of God
that Peter felt himself
unveiled,
discovered,
his heart laid bare.
And now came
the finishing stroke.
The one who had done this
could also rule
the fishes of the sea.
He must, therefore,
be God.
And if it was to God
that all the defects
and evils of Peter's heart
had been revealed
and thoroughly known,
and almost fearing,
with a kind of
inarticulate cry of alarm
because the criminal
was in the presence
of the judge,
the polluted
in the presence
of the immaculate,
Peter says,
depart from me
for I am a sinful man,
O Lord.
When we find ourselves
in the presence of God,
we find ourselves
in the presence
of all of him.
And in his perfect power,
in his perfect creatorness
that rules over all things,
he is also the perfect
moral one.
And in his greatness,
we see our smallness.
In his perfection,
we see our sinfulness.
In his power,
we see our weakness.
And Peter confesses it.
For I am a sinful man.
I cannot stand
before your holiness.
I think it's possible
that part of what Peter
recognized
in that moment
was,
I didn't really think,
Jesus,
that you knew anything
about fishing.
And so I had you over here
in this nice little compartment
in my life.
And you've now blown that up.
And I've recognized
how sinful that is.
Because if you are God
over all,
then you are God
over me.
And I am a sinful man
for not seeing your glory
and responding rightly.
Depart from me,
for I am a sinful man,
O Lord.
This is the final recognition.
He called him earlier,
Master.
You're one who deserves honor.
But now he says,
you are Lord.
And fascinatingly,
if you have the time,
go back and read Luke 1-3
and see the almost 30 times
when the writer Luke
uses the word Lord.
And in all of those contexts,
it is the Lord God Almighty,
the Lord who rules over,
the Lord of Israel,
the Lord of the promises
of the Old Testament,
the Lord who brings life
to a virgin womb,
the Lord who appears
and opens barren Elizabeth,
the Lord who has shown favor
to those who don't deserve favor.
It is this sovereign good Lord.
And Peter now uses this term
on his lips,
no longer master,
but Lord.
Peter has experienced both his awesome power
and greatness
and his gracious goodness.
And in this,
he is undone.
He's forgotten about the fish.
He fell down in the boat
at Jesus' knees.
Suddenly,
as he sees what Jesus has done,
Jesus now fills
the whole screen of his life.
Everything that he's concerned about
now fades.
Only Jesus is there.
Friends,
I wonder if Jesus has undone you
this morning.
I wonder if you've seen him
as he really is.
If he's opened your eyes
to see him as the creator
to whom you're accountable,
as the holy one
whose moral perfection
exposes our sin
and the ugliness
of our hearts.
His gracious love for us
that shows us
how ungrateful and selfish
we really are.
His sovereign goodness
that shows us
how often we grasp
for control,
for power
in our own lives.
Have you seen him
as he really is?
Has he undone you?
When he undoes you,
there's no more pretense.
There's no more excuses.
There's no more expertise
to fall back on
in parts of our lives.
We are laid bare before him
when he undoes us.
We realize we have no basis
to claim
rightness before him.
We have no merit
that we might be commended
to him.
We have no goodness
to cling to
and no self
to exalt
before him.
we see him
and we are undone
because he is
greater
because he is God.
Maybe you've been a Christian
for a long time.
Maybe you grew up
reading these stories
and thinking,
oh yeah,
I know that one.
That's all about,
we'll get to the end
about following Jesus
and I know the song,
I have decided
to follow Jesus.
You know,
we,
you know,
or the,
I'm sure there are other songs
about the fishermen
and stuff,
but I didn't grow up
in that as much
so I don't know the songs.
But maybe you've grown up
in that kind of a background
and you know those stories
from heart
and you're sort of like,
yeah, yeah, yeah,
we've done this a lot.
I know that.
But I wonder if Jesus
has become too familiar
to you.
I wonder if the Jesus
of this story
has been lost to you
under the guise of
a nice,
pleasant Jesus
who wants good for you
in your life
and yeah,
he died on the cross
for your sins
and that's good
and you know,
he can sort of take care
of that part of your life
and let you go
on your merry way.
I wonder if this morning
you would see him afresh,
if you would see him
with new eyes
and see him in his glory
as he says,
I am Lord of all.
I am the giver of life.
I am the one who calls you.
Maybe some of you
are like me
and you've grown up in church
and you've known about Jesus
but you've never really
encountered him
and you've never really
seen him this way ever.
Or maybe you're here
because
through
God's gracious work
in your life
you're wondering
whether there might be
something to this Christianity.
Maybe like me
you have a friend
who
believes this stuff
and you're like
what is that all about?
I gotta figure that out.
Maybe you're here
this morning wondering
who is this Jesus?
Jesus.
Whatever it is.
Whatever your situation is.
I pray this morning
that as you see him
that you would be undone.
I pray this morning
that you would
encounter him.
Friends,
when I encountered him
it was
not because
God intervened
in some
he didn't suddenly
make me win
the lacrosse championship
or make me
the star of the school play
or give me a straight egg
average or whatever.
He didn't come in
and invade my areas
of expertise.
But through
the words of my friends
and through the words
of C.S. Lewis
and through my own time
actually reading
parts of the Bible
I encountered him
and saw who he was
and God opened my eyes
to see him
for the first time.
So friends,
wherever you are
this morning
I pray
I pray that you
would see him
and if you're sitting there
and you know
I haven't been undone
by Jesus
I don't even know
this Jesus
friends,
this is where we look.
This is where
you will find him.
Keep reading.
Keep looking.
Come talk to me.
Talk to your friend
who brought you.
Talk to your friend
who you've known
for 30 years
as you've gone to church
together
and marvel again
at who Jesus is.
Be undone by him.
So Jesus unveils himself
in his glory.
Peter and his friends
and we are undone
as we see him
as he really is.
And then Jesus
responds to us again
as he does to Peter
and he gives this call.
Look with me again.
Verse 10.
Second half.
And Jesus said to Simon
don't be afraid.
That is
I haven't come
to destroy you.
I'm not going
to simply wipe you out
though your sin is real
and though your unworthiness
is right.
No
I've come
to do something else.
You see
it's never been
about the fish.
The beginning
and the end
of the story
tell us that
the fish
has just been
a sign
and a symbol
and an unveiling
of the person.
Jesus says
no I'm not going
to run from you
Peter.
Instead
I'm going to call you.
I'm going to call you
to follow me.
He doesn't say
okay now you've
understood me better
go back and do your thing
and we'll go on
and do our thing
and I'll go teach
and you go fish
and we'll be fine.
Isn't that nice?
Jesus doesn't say that.
He says
no I've come
to radically
reorient your life.
There's a place
for you to fish.
but what I want
you to do
is I want you
to begin to see
what I'm about
and to reorient
your life around me
and what my purposes
are in the world
and what my glory
is all about.
He says
no longer
will you fish
for those things
in the lake
but you will fish
for the souls
of men and women.
He'll say
come follow me
because this is
what I'm about
don't you see
this is my teaching
ministry that you've seen.
The net that I throw out
is the net
of the good news
of the kingdom of God
and the gospel
and the catch
that I get
is not
flapping little
fish
but it's the souls
of men and women
cast over the crowds.
This is the call
that Jesus gives
to them.
He says
Peter you are not undone
I am now capturing you
and calling you
in fact
into a greater thing
than what you've ever done
and as you are undone
from all these little things
that consumed your lives
and dominated your attention
now I want you
to reorient those things
around me
and the things
that I am about.
he wants to say
no longer
is fishing
the purpose
of your life.
No longer
is fishing
your security.
No longer
is fishing
your capital.
No longer
is being a fisherman
your identity.
Jesus is Lord
of all
the fish
and the fishermen
and he has come
to say
I now
as I call you
to follow me
I will be for you
your security
your capital
your identity
your purpose
in life.
Jesus is saying
I am not the moon
that simply reflects
light on you
at the night
but I am the sun
around which you
and the planets
of your life
are meant to orbit.
I am meant to be
and call you
to make me
the gravitational
center
of what you are
and who you are.
Because don't you see
how easy it is
for us
to not do that?
How easy it is
for us to say
yeah Jesus
we will give you
some of it
but not this stuff
you can't touch this.
This is mine
this is where
I am in charge
this is where
I exalt myself
this is where
I am the one
who knows
what is going on.
Jesus says
no
I am the lord
of everything
even your fishing
and now look
let's make sure
we get this right
Jesus doesn't call
all Christians
to forsake
every other vocation
to become a minister
in case you are
confused by that
that is not
what he is saying
here
right?
not everyone
is called
to literally
leave their boats
and their nets
God called
these men
in a very special
way
to play a special
role
they were his
disciples
who went with him
and through them
he then
shared
and spread
the ministry
that he was called
to
of proclaiming
the word
and bringing
the kingdom
of God
to this world
they were the
beginning of the
church
which was the
thing that he
was birthing
through his
ministry
and yes
he called
them to
leave their
nets
and their
fish
and everything
to follow
him
but practically
for us
some of you
are going to
be called
to leave
all the
security
all the
identity
all the
capital
and all
the expertise
that you
have in your
career
and to
abandon
all of those
things
to Jesus
hand
and then
to go back
and to do
the very
same thing
and I know
some of you
that's a
really hard
road to
walk
I don't
know if you
ever think
about it
but I
sit up here
sometimes
and I
think I
have the
easy life
I get to
do this
all day
every day
this is my
joy
that this
is my
vocation
some of
you have a
hard road
to walk
in what
you do
having to
live out
making
Jesus
the center
of your
life
as a
carpenter
or a
fisherman
as a
postdoc
or a
mom
as a
teacher
as an
executive
as a
student
as simply
a citizen
in this
world
whatever
you do
the call
here
is to
reorient
your life
around
Jesus
and to
live
for him
and to
follow him
in his
work
and yes
that does
mean
that in
your
workplace
you are
called
to carry
out
his
mission
which is
to love
people in
his name
and to
proclaim
the good
news
that Jesus
has come
you are
called to
do that
wherever
you are
and whatever
you do
but he
doesn't
mean
that you
have to
leave your
vocation
and your
work
but he
does mean
reorient
your life
make me
the center
see who
I am
and this
is what I
want you
to see
friends
is that
this isn't
a command
try harder
to be a
better
Christian
be more
committed
to being
more
committed
no
that's
not it
because
you see
friends
this story
helps us
see
the very
dynamics
of the
gospel
itself
Jesus
reveals
himself
in his
glory
and friends
you know
that in
the gospel
of Luke
this section
chapter 4
through 9
is a
setup
it started
with this
quotation
from Isaiah
about Jesus
has come
and the
kingdom
has come
and then
there's a
display of
it in
chapters 4
through 9
this is
what it
looks like
Jesus
is Lord
over this
Jesus
is Lord
over that
Jesus
showing
the character
of God's
kingdom
where he's
setting the
captives free
and bringing
freedom to
those who are
oppressed
and bringing
sight to the
blind
and he does
all these
things
and then in
chapter 9
in Luke
Jesus
turns and he
sets his
face towards
Jerusalem
and as he
goes to
Jerusalem
he encounters
increasing
resistance
people hate
him
for his
message
and he
has resisted
more and
more
and Luke
structures
the whole
gospel to
lead us
to the
end chapters
where we
see Jesus
in the
fullness of
his glory
in the
greatest
expression
of his
sovereign
power
and his
love
for us
as he
lays down
his life
for us
as he
offers
himself
up
in
our
place
because
we
are
sinful
men
and
ought
to
be
destroyed
by
holy
God
yet
Jesus
says
no
I
will
take
that
place
and I
will
suffer
the
destruction
that
your
sins
deserve
and I
will
hang
on that
cross
in
your
place
because
I
love
you
and
because
I
have
come
to
redeem
you
to
make
you
my
own
and
he
died
and
he
rose
again
to
show
his
power
even
over
sin
and
death
to
show
that
his
redemption
is
real
and
one
day
will
be
complete
as
he
lives
it
out
as
he
comes
one
day
to
return
to
make
it
all
right
friends
when
we
see
this
Jesus
when
this
Jesus
is
unveiled
before
our
eyes
we
are
able
both
like
Peter
to
fall
at
his
knees
and
say
woe
is
me
I
am
undone
before
you
and
yet
we
are
able
then
to
rise
at
his
gracious
call
and
say
I
will
follow
you
and
I
will
leave
everything
because
I've
seen
how
great
you
are
why
would
I
want
to
follow
anything
else
why
would
I
want
to
spend
my
life
glorifying
anything
else
other than
the thing
that you
are
because
you
are
the
best
and
the
greatest
thing
I
have
ever
encountered
so
friends
it's
not about
us
working
harder
to work
harder
or being
more
committed
to being
more
committed
but
it's
about
us
seeing
Jesus
as he
really
is
because
when
we
see
him
like
that
he
will
do
this
work
in
us
he
will
undo
us
and
convict
us
of
sin
he
will
show
us
the
areas
where
we
have
not
given
him
the
lordship
of
our
lives
he
will
bring
us
faith
when
we
don't
have
faith
he
will
do
these
things
when
we
see
him
rightly
so
friends
the
call
to
Peter
is
a
call
to
us
will
you
follow
me
with
all
that
means
from
this
passage
we
talked
about
it
before
some
of
you
this
may
be
a
call
for
the
first
time
that
you
need
to
respond
to
I
have
never
followed
him
I
have
never
seen
him
like
that
I
have
never
understood
what
he
did
for
me
I
never
understood
who
he
really
is
friends
today
he
calls
you
follow
me
some
of
you
have
lived
your
life
knowing
about
him
or
knowing
him
for
a
long
time
but
maybe
today
he's
put
a
finger
on
a
part
of
your
life
that
he's
invaded
with
his
lordship
and
his
call
to
follow
to
leave
everything
and
to
follow
him
maybe
you
need
to
surrender
those
areas
to
him
and
reaffirm
that
you
will
follow
him
no
turning
back
no
turning
back
we
don't
usually
do
this
in
this
church
but
I'm
actually
going
to
ask
the
worship
team
to
come
in
and
I
want
to
give
you
just
a
reflect
on
what
we've
heard
this
morning
to
think
about
this
to
pray
God
will
you
help
me
to
pray
God
will
you
will
you
show
me
yourself
will
you
make
my
eyes
see
who
you
are
maybe
you
already
hear
the
Holy
Spirit
whispering
to
you
how
you
need
to
respond
to
him
this
morning
so
the
musicians
begin
to
play
I'm
just
going
to
give
you
just
a
moment
here
to
reflect
to
pray
and
then
we'll
respond
by
singing
a song
of
recognition
that
Jesus
is
worthy
to
follow
him
so
why don't
we bow
our heads
and
just take
a moment
together
to
forget
to
forward
oh
and
to
battle
ologist
Thank you.
So stand as you will and let's sing together.