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Summit family all over campus locations and again those of you that are joining us at home. That's great for us to be will start out with some good news this weekend. A good news is over the last two weekends we have had 99 people profess faith in Christ in this or not is not fantastic. What an awesome thing to be able to celebrate which of the five if you got your Bible before we jump into the passage for this weekend. I want to throw out a picture for you if you give me just a few minutes leading into the passage a picture of of who our church is and where we are going because I think Luke chapter 5 explains beautifully why we do this and why this church strives to be what it strives to be our mission statement and perhaps your campus pastor shared this with you in our mission statement at the summit church is following the Holy Spirit. We want to create a movement of disciple making disciples in Raleigh-Durham and Artie knew admin around the world, a movement of disciple making disciples, we believe that that is more important simply growing a big audience. Sometimes I think we think of the book of acts as the good old days of the church. We think you know small groups regularly prayed to the night and Peter and Paul preached with breathtaking boldness before receiving Caesar's and cantankerous crowds. Martyrs cheerfully sacrifice their lives in the Coliseum beaters hankies healed the sick, and imposters got struck that in the offering. We think man that would've been awesome to be alive during that time the church must've felt like this unstoppable powerful movement only problem church historian say is that, had you been alive during this time, it would not have felt to you like an unstoppable movement. Here's what I mean. The best estimates the best estimates that historians can come up with to the total number of believers. Followers of Jesus that were alive in 99 A.D. that where the end of the first century.

Total number was 7530, which I know is oddly specific but that's what they say about 7530 total. Would you let that sink in every weekend of the summit church. We have nearly twice that many that dial in every weekend. In fact, that that the early church father origin was born late in the second century describe the Christian movement in his day, which would've been a couple hundred years, you know, after after after Jesus with the he described it as still just a few scattered communities geographically broad but numerically insignificant and yet and yet by 312 A.D. Christians have become so numerous in the Roman empire that the Emperor Constantine felt like he needed to convert to Christianity for political reasons.

Over half of the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity in key favor with the people. Constantine had to follow suit. Here's the question, how do you go for less than 10,100 A.D. to over half the Roman Empire by three 1280.

Think about of the early church, and very very little compared to what we have today. They have big budgets. They didn't have grand auditoriums like the one that I'm standing in bed and have publishing presses or TV station. No representation in the Senate. What they did have church historian say what they one thing they did have that we don't is an ingrained sense of the great commission belongs to everybody. They believe that every single Christian in every single church every follower of Jesus was called to multiply. They believe what I'm going to show you today from Luke chapter 5 and that may Christianity take off your remember that annoying math riddle from middle school. For this I hopefully where you were given a choice between receiving one penny and doubling every single day or hitting $10,000 a day. But why this is not $10,000.

I can only get our CFO to give me $1000 so the jewel of Obama trustworthiness is like a monster.

You come back with all of it but furious.

Okay so this is a thousand us� Pretend this is $10,000 on kids right if you get a choice between you get $10,000 today and then $10,000 every single day for 30 days. That's option one or you get one penny today and then we double it tomorrow and end up with the third day in the keep Dublin for 30 days. Which of those three would you choose well. Like most middle school students. I chose the $10,000 a day and then my math teacher explains to me that that was a foolish choice because it's true.

After 30 days.

I have $300,000 and I was like I could buy so many pairs of Air Jordan's with $3000.

Every videogame available on the Atari 2600, and even get one of those Deslauriers by Michael J Fox River back to the future, so kissing like a no-brainer, but my math teacher explained that how I started with the penny sure after the first week I would've only had a couple box below the end of the month. I would have $10,737,418.23.

I asked her CFO to bring that amount appeared. He deftly said no that's a whole fleet of DeLorean's right. That's the power of multiplication that the power multiplication and that was what was going on in Luke five. Did you know today. Today there are more Baptist churches there more Southern Baptist churches in America. Then there are the number of Starbucks subways and McDonald's combined. The question is, what if every single one of those churches saw that it was their responsibility to multiply. What if every believer in these churches saw the great commission as their responsibility was just a handful of people in each of the church is the might not our great grandchildren look back on this time. And see these as the good old days as global. What this means for us. If that's true, is that we can have a change of emphasis in the mission of the church means that were not as can be focused on church expansion and be focused on church multiplication when I can be focused primarily on growing a massive audience and be focused on creating a movement of disciple making disciples. The church I've heard it said often functions in practice like and I can a few people blogging and an ACC football game you got 22 guys in desperate need of rest surrounded by 22,000 cut outs of people in desperate need of exercise medicine 2020. But 22,000 people in desperate need of exercise or have described like this to you before, I'm so you were watching Super Bowl. The most recent Super Bowl Tom Brady. I you know by the liquid stop for a minute and just acknowledge it's a 43-year-old man that has won his seventh Super Bowl kid.

I guess a lot of us mid 40 guys a lot of night. So here you go Tom Brady you watching the Super Bowl you watch and get you know is team out there and it was good to be next year will you get somebody out there, and he calls this plate and you will you don't know the players would you watch all the that the player stand out and be like wow that was an amazing play. We have never heard play caller like Tom Brady is he not the greatest of all time breakup and they clap and they go back and me sit on the bench and after a couple minutes they run back out the field to get back in the huddle, the obstacle also play in this, like, will that was amazing.

Literally this is the greatest play caller of all time.

I got children, place, and they call their friends and make podcast, the player may pass around all their friends or you listen got called boy and they keep doing this over and over and over again at some point you're going to look at this team is going to say guys run the place.

The point is not how well Tom Brady calls the play. The point is running the play what I think we got in a lot of churches like ours is you got a lot of people who are like man I love hearing the pastor called play the boys, not me calling playboys you running the boy in the play is not what takes place during the week in the play is what you do and be a disciple making disciple in the world. So it's time for us to run the plate but I think our dream for what our church look like were summarized by getting Francis Chan made a statement about us Vince asked. It wasn't long gone are the days when we should be content with a bunch of people who sing out loud. Don't divorce and give to missions. I want to know that I can drop off any member of my church in a new city and that person could grow in Jesus make disciples and help start a church that's the vision. All this leads to Luke five and something I want to call you to hear a couple weeks in a couple week someone asked you you've heard about this to renew your commitment to be the disciple making disciple right into making disciples.

One of the things we talked about as we emerge here from lockdown is that we ought to look at the season like a church relaunch when we come back and ask what new ministry should we be starting back which ministry should we stop a part of this relaunch is I want you to recommit to be more than just a spectator here. I want you to commit to being part of the mission.

I want you to commit to not just hearing the plate running the plate and not just gathering together weekly in the huddle during our final weekend in February, ask everybody who calls this church home to make a commitment to being the disciple making disciple. We are calling this my discipleship commitment this week right this this coming week. If we got your email or your mailing address your to get something in the mail that gives you more information about this commitment to look like this can explain what it means to commit here to be a disciple if we do not have your information.

You just go to the website and find it there but the weight would love to get your information does allow us to connect with you on things like this, but this is not for you to simply check a few boxes and then fill you good about yourself. It's about renewing a commitment to not just me a spectator here, but to being an actual disciple and I would say that whether or not you make this commitment will will reveal a lot about where your heart actually is on that okay for Jesus.

There was no such thing as a follower who was not actively engaged in the mission. Let me show you. Luke chapter 5.

As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God's word. He was standing by Lake Janessa Rhett which was another name for the sea of Galilee, which name you might ever he saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left those boats and were washing their nets. After a day of work verse three he got into one of the boats which belongs to Simon which was another name for Peter and he asked Simon Peter to put out a little from the land. He sat down and was teaching the crowd from the boat that serve two purposes. First, gave Jesus a little distance from the crowd, those who are wanting to touch him or get his autograph or take a selfie with him or whatever.

Secondly, water. Of course, serves as a natural amplifier. You never stood on a boat on a quiet lake and yelled at somebody across the water. The amplification is amazing and so pushing back a little bit gave Jesus both benefits a little distance in natural ramifications verse four when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon Peter, but out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch. Now here's what the New Testament fish fishing that actually look like. This is not an actual unit of ancient Jewish when this will come from Dick's sporting goods, but it'll it'll really be a picture right you get she's weights all around it and what the fishermen would do as he would just tested out goes out into the thing he pulls up the string pulls up the fish and there was quite a bit bigger and that's what they would do this over and over again cast them pull castable castable. Peter is been out the entire night testing this net drawing and fish and he is caught nothing. Jesus tells him go out a little deeper and try again. Here's the problem. That's what Peter has been doing all night testing and picking out captive and picking up Peter is a professional and he knows when the fish are biting and Jesus telling him to give just one more toss frankly is a little insulting. Plus we know that Jesus was not a fisherman. Professionally, he was a carpenter and Peter was probably like listen man if you if I got a wobbly chair.

I'll call you but don't give me any advice about fishing verse five master Simon Peter replied, respectfully, but I'm sure with a little irritation.

We worked hard all night long and caught nothing but if you say so I'll let down the natural sometimes like to think about how much Peter's life changed in that pause.

I call this the pause of eternal significance. Your heart is filled out, but you decide to obey anyway how much the Peter's life changed because of that pause. Can you look back on your life and see places where your heart was filled with doubt. But you decided to obey. Anyway, that pause of faith can make an eternal difference in your life or six when they did this they caught a great number of fish and their nets begin the day or so they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats so full they began to sink.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell Jesus's knees and said get away from me because I'm a simple man, Lord. Verse 10 don't be afraid you stole Simon from now on you can be catching people this net Peter this net you should just bring in fish that only work a few pennies from now on to get a cast that out is going to come back not with what what what with fish. This just work enough money to get you to the day it's going to be worth it can be filled with the souls of people can have eternal significance that your life is going to become something valuable and meaningful. That last even longer than your life. So they brought the boats to land they left everything their nets and all and I followed him uses passes EB three qualities that are necessary for you to be a disciple right number one persons.

The longest been the one all chapter 5, verse eight, a sense of all. In Luke chapter 5 Peter got overwhelmed by plan glimpse of Jesus power so overwhelmed. Verse eight that he fell Jesus's knees and said get away from me because I'm a simple man, Lord. And I might seem like an odd reaction to you and so you really think about it. You see, when you're in the presence of true greatness. You notice that your heart is mixed is filled with a weird mixture of attraction and repulsion at the same time you're not sure if you want to draw close or run away you've ever been in the presence of true greatness. You had those conflicting feelings. I told you before I when I was in middle school I got to meet Michael Jordan. I don't know if you could actually caught me Michael Jordan. But that's how I see it. It was a tingle golf tournament and this is by the way, when I was in middle school. He was in the height of his fame get everything we just didn't go with him and so he was the hottest thing around and so fun. I was getting this golf tournament under this golf tournament. My best friend and I looked all day long for Michael Jordan. We could not find him whatever his security detail was had successfully hit him from people like me. So the whole day thought a waste. I'm waiting on my mom and dad to come pick me up the end of the day and I'm standing there along the road and I see coming down the road.

This purple Porsche Carrera that I knew was I got Michael Jordan's car so I and as I turned yelled to my best friend was getting something from the computer. The concessions that I was like hey, it's Michael Jordan so good people hurt me, they'll come running up a Michael Jordan comes right starts to gets really slow. He lowers the window down that dark tinted window.

He's obviously looking for somebody not me, and it lowers the window down to about 5 miles an hour so I'm a walk alongside the car. My best friend takes me from behind and shoves me into the car to I'm out like waste your leaving through the passenger window. I was this close to that man's face. I could have licked him in one of my lifelong regret is that I did not and I had all these things, I just wanted to say to Michael Jordan, and in that moment I couldn't say any of that.

I just like the sky like an even under EE series is ravenous his car. He looks over me and the he says get out of my car and I said yes or Mr. Jordan are pushed back have car turned around McReynolds like these alternate we had a conversation right right attraction I just overwhelmed that his greatness but but there's also something about their greatness. That just makes you feel really really small right in the presence of true greatness. You're both attracted and you also want to run away. That's what happens to Peter when Jesus calls people to follow him. He often begins with this overwhelming vision of terror.

I mean think about it. Think about stories in the Bible that you might remember God called the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to be his messenger always the first thing he gave me him. Isaiah 6. A glimpse of his glory.

So much so that Isaiah cries out woe is me, which means let me be cursed. Let me be damned because I'm a man of unspeakable filth and I've got a dirty mouth. When Jesus called the apostle John, Revelation 1 to prepare his church for what was ahead, he gave to John a glimpse of his glory inserted John, who had been a friend of his friend Jesus is in his earthly life, so overwhelmed at what he saw that he fell on his face just positive that he was going to die.

I'll tell you that when God called me, he did it by first giving to me a glimpse of his awesome glory just as awesome power. How how how long eternity was how terrible it would be to go into eternity as his enemy, and as a teenager that kept me up late. Many a night scared to death of dying in a meeting God and in been under his judgment question is why does Jesus do this what he sees it. Why does he sometimes terrified you before he calls you.

There is a reason is because only all compels obedience until God is big to you. You never have the strength to obey that for some of you, I would say that your problem. You don't obey God. You don't seek God. It's not because you're not self-discipline enough, it's because God is distant to you. These small he's almost unreal. One of my favorite stories. I love that detail here is when I got invited few years ago by a group of fraternity guys that went to the cemetery from UNC Chapel Hill. They invited me to come into the fraternity and do a Bible study.

Well I definitely think that opportunity. So I went in and I was doing this Bible study and that subject had chosen was sexual temptation and I know this is all ironic, but I mean they're doing the Bible study of sexual temptation. I made a comment offhandedly that that you could turn off your sexual desire. You turn it on and off like a light switch. I'll never forget the look in these 19-year-old guys faces when I made that statement. One of them actually shook his head. He said bro that's crazy talk and I was anonymous true.

He said I we knew that you, your body changed you got older, but we had no idea that when you were four years old, you would say something that dumb and I want what you and I said no even for you. 19 years old. You turn your sexual desire on all floodlights which it is suggested that crazy ethanol is not your lubricity so you're with your girlfriend in your at her apartment, your buyer set yourselves and like to download one thing lead to another item which called anymore but when I was in college that something to do with the baseball diamond. And so you're working away on the baseball diamond and you get to that point. The point of no return will not in their heads on my youth alike and at this point there is no pulling back all nod their heads like that's over talk about right. There is an okay there you are in the apartment right your thought behind your passion and all the sudden, in that moment into the room first. This girls Navy seal father who's just gotten back from Afghanistan. All floodlights which the guy was like yeah it's a good point. I know what happened in a moment. Is it that's you know like he was lost all your sexual desires. No problem in that moment.

Or will the solution was your sexual desire got outweighed by out larger desire desire to stay alive right to keep all you lose your body attach your body, whatever. I told them I said the problem with you guys is not that your sexual desires are so big the problem is that your God is so small when God becomes big to you when you have a sense of all over God, then you'll have the strength to obey. If I tell you, if you have an obedience problem this weekend. It begins as an all problem God's just simply not big enough to you all. It's the first quality of the disciple, not before we leave this point actually feel like I would not be serving you well.

If I left you here because this whole discussion of all of this and in the mood five received all that Peter experienced here was not sufficient. Peter even after seeing Jesus this way is still a struggle with pride he still didn't deny Jesus. He's going after his denial in failure and shame.

He's going to flee away from Jesus. And so Jesus repeats this exact same miracle appear at the end of Peter's why are the of Jesus of life and it's got a hold mood and hold different effect. John 21 you stated in Luke five, but at the end of the Gospels right after the cross and the resurrection. After Peter denied Jesus.

Jesus does this whole miracle again peters out fishing again. This time Jesus appears to him on the shore and he calls out the Peter who was again been out fishing all night and caught nothing. He tells him again to cast his net on the other side. It starts with the exact same problem you'll Peter's been fishing all night and caught nothing right. In both stories Peter doesn't initially recognize Jesus in both stories, Jesus gives the same odd instructions gladden of the deep and put the net out on the other side in both stories the final task holes in a miraculous all it's the exact same miracle.

But there's one humongous distinction in both stories Peter has got this really strong reaction to the miracle but in the first story.

Our story here Luke 5P or tells Jesus to get away from me. But in John 21 after seeing the miracle John 921 and read it. Then Simon Peter tied his outer clothing around an predicament off and plunged into the sea. Peter jumps out naked except for his underwear and swims the Jesus talk about a different reaction in the first one Peter felt so unworthy that he just wanted to get away and the second he feel so comfortable that he swims back toward Jesus just as underwear must not feel comfortable around many of my guy friends about what I'm going to run toward one in just my underwear.

That's comfortable. What makes the difference.

What makes a difference in these two reactions. This last one happened on the other side of the cross were Peter had seen just how much Jesus cared for it and how committed he was to him even after Peter and send he see Pierce first reaction makes them think I've gotta live up to Jesus after the denial Peter knows I can't live up to Jesus and Jesus still came for me, if anything, Jesus's love for Peter seems stronger after Peter's failure than it had before. Peter had seen after the cross, how Jesus felt about Peter even during his failures.

You'll see this glorious Jesus who calls you to follow is not some Navy seal father who is coming to threaten you he is a tender father that is coming to comfort you.

He loves you just the same when you're wounded is when you struggle loves you is as much when you fall is when you succeed. Here's my question for you when you think about how Jesus feels about you right now what you think when you think about Jesus before you.

If you were standing before you, and all of his glory. What emotion comes over you when I was little my dad took me out fishing the always baited the hook for me. Just all I did to bait the hook that one day came where he wanted me to do it on my own was 19 years old not to yell like 10 years old, something like a coming-of-age moment will get a lot of guys maybe had this experience member and the worm is dirty and it's wiggling and you're trying to poke it in a poke in a certain live in the stuff that's coming out, this feeling of revulsion.

That's how we think Jesus is with sinners, but until you is not how he is everywhere we see Jesus in the Gospels interacting with broken people. He moved toward them rapidly right when the prodigal son returns from traveling in the far country fathers waiting and watching and picks up his road to run to him. And Jesus looks out over a rebellious Jerusalem is not filled with seething anger. He breaks down the we service when Jesus hangs on the cross next to a thief who sin and stupid decisions have ruined his whole life and that thief utters the slightest prayer for mercy.

Jesus, who is barely able to speak himself what to do he hoist himself up to assure that repentant thief that that very day to welcome him in the paradise when Jesus looks at the lives of those of us who have messed up messed up our lives to see if what emotion does he feel anger discussed righteous wrath. No, his first emotion is compassion compassion. The mixing draw near a compassion that makes him weep, right alongside of us of you in your pain. Yes, if you resist him and you shut them out. You will face his wrath. Of course, but the point is the first emotion that he feels his mercy and tenderness toward you seen this is what change Peter's heart. All of Jesus is awesome power Luke five may have commandeered Peter's will but wonder over Jesus mercy in John 21, is what captured his heart to here's my question as your heart had that revelation that here's your test when you messed up when you feel at your lowest or most embarrassed when you failed. What does your heart tend to do does it run from Jesus when that moment does it pull toward Jesus or you first Peter the second Peter, do you since Jesus looking at you with the disgust that I have for that worm or at best. He's merely tolerating you with this low-grade kind of annoyance. I'm here to tell you this morning that is not how he feels he feels tenderness even when you failed one friend. What a friend we have in Jesus. O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything. The good, the bad, or failures or embarrassments everything to him in prayer. It's all that compels obedience number two, number two, it's a commitment to multiply on the hit this business to pretty quickly. Verse 10 don't be afraid. Jesus told Simon from now on we catching people. Jesus not only commanded Peter to follow the command of indigo around the summit. We say that Jesus is like a spiritual tornado. He never pulls you in, without also hurling you back out if you know Jesus he's got a plan for you. He wants to take whatever nets whatever nets would I many professional fishermen in the church whatever nets you have. He wants to take them and use them for internal purposes.

It's an image for you. He wants to take a life of subsistence ally for you just get up, make money, take care your kids lease in your grandkids and die. You want to take that life had he wants to fill it with eternal significance.

A life of value what you think. The purpose of your life is releases to make lots of money to retire wealthy have you kids played grandkids leave them some money.

I'm telling you Jesus intends for you, not just me but for you to have a life that impacts eternity you want to take the net that you been fishing with and he wants to fill it with things of eternal value. So how can I do that I'm not not been a seminarian not a pastor, neither was Peter that Peter was as blue-collar as they come. Jesus will and follow Jesus. Just want to follow Jesus and learn from him all Jesus wants from you is your willingness to follow run summit church. We say you need your ability. Peter didn't have any that what he wants is your availability that here's how Jesus would explain it. A few chapters later in Luke Luke chapter 12.

He says that when were in that moment, we need to testify when that moment where we need to be a way that moment he wants to use us for something eternally significant.

Don't worry.

In that moment about what you should say you have gone to seminary sinners grade you should go get a chance, but you'll need to go there to be witness if you don't even go there to be used by God for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour. What must be said, what a great promise. The lesson God has taught me over and over again throughout my life is that a bond is willing to obey.

He will do the impossible for me.

Obedience often isn't some huge dramatic event that takes place in my life, which is the small, seemingly mundane acts of following Jesus that must and I was taken an early morning flight about seven years ago in early morning flight somewhere to middleware, but you always go to Atlanta if you leave Raleigh fly Delta when Jesus ruptures us pretty sure I will route to Atlanta to go up to heaven, but I was going somewhere and so I get into the gate area at the Raleigh airport and see a girl mid-20s or so reading a book that was written by an atheist, and I don't know I am a youth like a property is everywhere. I don't everywhere but I just since the Holy Spirit in my heart saying you need to ask her about that book. I just let her take the story cake jig is up and be coming off the night shift and was traveling to meet some friends and we are in are you airport and I brought along some reading materials and had been exploring religious outlets and of all natures and not a Christian I was not a Christian when I was very lost, but a gentleman who happens to be you on was sitting a couple seats down and looked over and tap me on the shoulder and amnesia just like interesting choice of title last night and invited to a church and actually have a great coworker to dialogue. He's a Christian and is invited me numerous times to a church in area don't remember the name but it's not as big mega churches there like some is in the background of the emblem. I think it other than that I don't member mention the really interesting likable. He thought about going and I went on probably a 2 to 3 minute rant about mega churches and how all this will and you just did mean pretty expressionless and sending.

I'm sorry that experience with churches or that impression and you just saying I encourage you to continue to talk to your friend and others in your life and really make sure you're exploring Christianity is one of your your your search is hearing address counseling okay and went on about my life for the next several weeks and my friend actually invited me some again that words resonated with like what I encourage you to just try before you make your final call and so I went and then they introduce pastor Janie Greer to have start the sermon and you walk out front and I have never wanted to be a blessing.

I definitely had that I really inserted my foot in my mouth that he and I and that what happens after that you didn't become a Christian that we did not become a Christian that we can.

What had started Avril years prior, was family.

Praying for me. With me, over me and me thinking it was ridiculous started really softening my heart is like that you understand and believe in God's you are you exactly in it's so clear to me now looking back that that semi people in my life. Along the way that you step out of their own comfort zone and approached me when again I just was so heartbroken I saw past nine innings on me and so one thing I am curious about through the moments of tapping grumpy, looking me in the morning on the shoulder.

I like in my day-to-day life. Sometimes crossing the line and reaching out to people in that way can be really scary and nerve-racking how you got where you are so comfortable well I would say that you understand everything years ago that essentially walking with God means that every day you get up and join in doing one thing to pray in the mornings God people you're already working so that I am not sure what it was in the book you're reading us all had some of it with atheism thought, that's not good direction to go. So master about it for every one conversation that turns out like this when this probably doesn't go anywhere but it's an exciting thing to thing the spirit of God is doing. He is seeking people and I get a chance to be a small part of that way. The first I heard anything about that story little he knew anything about it was when Stacy stood in my kitchen and she was my daughter small group leader and on her way out of for a small Ruby she stops it.

I need to tell you a story that you probably don't know and she tells me that story.

Now I know you hear that you think lashes the life of the pastor, not just all that is not true. Okay, in fact, been a pastor. That story actually was a liability, not an asset there on this couple things in that story that she did not actually that she didn't actually reveal and one of them was sheet unit.

She said we got on the plane. She said I was already a little annoyed. We had this conversation should I set a couple rows behind you and she said you're seated next to the guy on the plane and she said the entire way to Atlanta. You're telling him about Jesus and share your testimony should you know you will have an inside voice right and I said yes she said so everyone can hear it. So I said to sit there and listen for 40 minutes. As you share the gospel with him should then when we landed we landed at Atlanta. She said there's only one thing I wanted to do and that was to get to Atlanta bread company and have my morning bagel. Jesus will put my headphones in and I just went just as a wall stood in line. Should I look up Chernoff Christian right in front of me in line. She said with a woman in front of you, as she had two kids and her credit card was not functioning or something so should you. Just volunteered to pick up the check of the person in front of you not don't do that everywhere but in that moment it was just Holy Spirit same hate scrolls behind me. I am not saying that to brag. I'm just giving you context for what happening.

What I'm trying to tell you is that morning before I left the house at oh dark 30 was like Lord I don't know what you're doing out there today, but I know you called me to be a disciple making disciple here.

My send me that same thing is available to you the same Holy Spirit I got someone you got not Holy Spirit wants to lead you to do something eternally significant appeal disobey. It's not about abilities is calling Fisher me say it just present your net to me only filled with eternal value which leads me to the last quality of a disciple. Total surrender also delivers 11 verse 11, he says.

Then they brought their boats to the land they left everything and they followed him. That's a recurring theme in Luke admit that you sing a microstrip lawn and because we discovered it a few weeks ago, but the requirement to be used by Jesus. The requirement to be a follower of Jesus's total surrender. You let it all go now to determine if you falter your religious try to do the right thing. Religion is important to you is in a poor body life but have you ever taken your hands fully off of your life and just said you to spread out Annette before Jesus said this net represents everything that I have in life_spread it out before you and say what you put in it what you want to put in it. God letter represent my talents, my dreams, my hose my future. What you want from it, to put it right there in the ground before you fill with what you want. I promise you you're the most talented in this room for the least talented person listening. I promise you he can fill it with things of eternal significance in that what you want from life to life that matters is your life that makes a difference is more making more life than making money and having kids, and retired with a beach house with a bold move to put out this net before.I realize that but I want you to think of it in light of what you learned today and how tender and trustworthy Jesus is, why would you not trust him with the net of your life. Why would you trust Jesus to save your soul not take care of your needs. Why would you think that he be loving enough to die for your sins but not loving enough to guide you in the green pastures of happiness beside still waters of fulfillment this weekend. Why not let your net down is an act of surrender just say Jesus put into what you want is my schedule, my finances, my heart relationships. Everything is yours, ready to do that much.

The requirement to be a disciple making the psychologic value hits by your heads, the decision to follow Jesus responses like peters, you leave control of your life and you start to follow you ready to do that you do it right now. Good news. He's got forgiveness for you like Peter Saul. He died for your failures. He was hung up for your hangups of heard someone say right now you can receive his forgiveness accept him as Savior follow him as Lord you've already made this decision, you might renew a decision just to obey him make a decision every day you're going get up and say Jesus today will follow you today will join you and what you do and Hannah a week or so when you get this card. This discipleship commitment card you make that commitment you berated follow him. Father I pray I pray God for those were saying yes to you for the first time got me this can make a moment of eternal demarcation, pray for those who are renewing got afraid of this would be a moment, their life begins to take on eternal value by saying yes do you mean being used by you pray in Jesus name, amen