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Ed Young TV | A Fishing Trip To Remember | January 9, 2022
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- announcer: Welcome to the international broadcast ministry
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- of Ed Young.
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- Here at Ed Young Television
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- our mission is to make the complex simple.
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- As he speaks truth to people in ways they can understand
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- and apply in their every day lives.
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- And now, here's pastor, author, and speaker
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- Pastor Ed Young.
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- Ed Young: Nineteen eighty was the time--
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- the Fourth of July weekend specifically--
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- some friends of mine and I, my brother was one of these guys,
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- traveled down to beautiful Galveston, Texas, to do
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- some shark fishing.
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- Now, not from a boat, from the beach, which is kind of crazy,
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- kind of illegal, but we did it anyway.
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- So, we arrived in Galveston, we had my Cherokee Chief, we had it
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- packed with bloody fish, two bucketloads of bloody fish.
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- Fishermen call bloody fish chum, and chum attracts sharks.
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- So, we took a little boat, rode out just past the surf line, I
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- hate to confess this, but I will, and dumped all of the
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- bloody fish in the water.
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- Now, at that time, no one was in swimming, so it was great.
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- We were there early, Fourth of July weekend,
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- it was pretty calm, pretty casual.
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- There was, though, a lot of bloody fish in the water.
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- So, I hooked a giant hook with a couple of stingrays, put the
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- giant hook with the stingrays in the middle of the chum, rode
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- back to the beach, put the rod and reel on a rock pier right by
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- the Flagship Hotel.
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- If you've ever been to Galveston, wow, one of the best
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- hotels in the world.
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- We sat there on this pier with four of my Mexican friends, who
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- couldn't speak a lick of English, and we waited.
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- So, here we are, just those of us who just spoke English with
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- these four Mexican fisherman, and we were all fishing.
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- And, you know, fishermen have a lot in common.
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- Even though we couldn't really communicate, we kind of looked
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- at each other and nodded, and thumbs up, and all that, so
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- everything was working out well.
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- And I could tell, they were looking at this giant rod and
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- reel kind of quizzically, like, what are these guys doing?
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- Shark fishing? On the beach?
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- I could tell they were thinking that, crazy, loco, you know?
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- But they were nice guys.
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- We wait, and we wait, and we wait some more.
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- We wait, and we wait, and we wait some more.
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- Finally, my friends and my brother, they were like,
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- "Ed, this is wearing us out.
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- We're starving.
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- We're going to Sonic to get some food."
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- So, I order from Sonic, I said, "You guys,
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- you know, just cruise.
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- I'll be here waiting with my friends, and hopefully
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- we'll get a shark.
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- Well, the sun was really coming up now, it was getting pretty
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- hot, and the waters were teeming not only with fish,
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- but also with swimmers.
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- The swimmers had no clue that we were chumming,
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- and I didn't tell them.
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- And I looked around, and I noticed
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- the swimmers also were Mexican.
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- So, I'm thinking to myself, wow, if we do hook a shark, we're
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- gonna be in trouble, because I don't speak Spanish, my friends
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- don't speak Spanish, so I don't know what we'll do, but I
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- thought, yeah, we'll just work that out if it happens.
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- So, I lather up with Hawaiian Tropic.
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- I'm like an eel, I'm just shining with Hawaiian Tropic,
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- working on my savage tan.
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- That was before the skin cancer scare.
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- You know, people used to do that, baby oil, all sorts of
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- stuff to attract the sun.
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- So, I'm out there trying to catch some rays, and waiting for
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- the shark, waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting for the shark.
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- Suddenly, out of nowhere, zzzzzzzz,
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- that whine that every
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- fisherman loves, the reel begins to scream.
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- And sure enough, the big one had taken the stingrays.
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- The hook had sunk deep into the mouth of a bull shark.
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- Now, if you know anything about sharks, bull sharks are one of
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- the most dangerous sharks in the ocean.
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- A bull shark has more testosterone than any animal on
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- planet earth.
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- So, I am latched up,
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- I'm tethered to this bull shark, oh my gosh.
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- I'm on a little rock pier on the beach next to the Flagship
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- Hotel, Fourth of July weekend, now there's squillions of people
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- in the water, walking down the sea wall,
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- and I'm battling this shark.
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- I'm having a hard time battling the shark because I'm so
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- slippery, the reel is slipping from the Hawaiian Tropic.
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- I'm thinking, "Where's my brother?
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- Where are my friends?"
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- They finally show up in the middle of the battle,
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- and so we all helped reel in this bull shark.
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- My Mexican friends, my brother, my friends,
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- we reel the shark in, and the closer the shark got,
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- we were like, woah, this is the real deal.
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- There was the dorsal fin.
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- There was the tail, kind of blood trickling
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- out of the shark's mouth.
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- You can see his teeth.
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- It was--it was-- it was unbelievable.
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- So, I'm thinking to myself, "Wow, if a shark is hooked, that
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- means the people around us could be in trouble because if a shark
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- is injured, a shark will latch onto anything,
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- especially a bull shark.
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- So, I said, "Hey, hey, tell everybody to get
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- out of the water!
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- Tell everybody to get out of the water!"
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- Well, my friends knew zero Spanish, my brother knew
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- a little bit of Spanish, and here's what Ben did,
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- "El sharko, el sharko."
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- Well, one of them saw that and it was like a scene
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- from the movie "Jaws."
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- People were just leaving the ocean, leaving their babies
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- out in the ocean.
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- People were in total and complete pandemonium.
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- We finally got the shark on the beach, hundreds and hundreds
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- of people were stopping, traffic was stopping to watch us
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- battle this shark.
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- I all of a sudden thought, "Wow, we could get arrested."
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- So, we quickly tied a rope around the shark's tail,
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- and we drug the shark.
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- I would not do this now, I wouldn't kill a shark.
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- But back in the day, you know, I didn't know what I was doing.
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- So, we pulled the shark up over the sea wall.
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- It took ten guys and we threw the shark in the back
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- of my Cherokee Chief.
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- His tail was hanging out of the back.
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- And so, here we are, driving down 45 back to Houston.
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- People were like honk, honk, honk.
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- And when we got home, I hung the bull shark over our basketball
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- goal, and we got some pictures.
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- Well, after a while, the shark began to smell.
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- And dad said, "Son, you got to get rid of the shark."
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- So, I thought, "How do you get rid of a nice size bull shark?"
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- The shark weighed well over 100 pounds.
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- I wasn't going to ride back to Galveston, so I thought,
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- "I'll just find a lake or maybe like a little--
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- a little stream or somewhere.
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- I'll just dump the shark somewhere."
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- So, I drove around in the neighborhoods where family
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- lived, found a little creek, and I just--
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- I felt like I was getting rid of a body.
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- I just rolled the shark down into the creek, and that was
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- the last I saw of the shark.
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- I have thought, though, can you imagine little kids playing
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- in the creek, "Oh my gosh."
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- The smell? Ooh.
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- That is a fish story, my favorite fish story.
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- And once that happened, I was hooked literally
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- on shark fishing.
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- It's funny, you talk to anyone who's ever fished, anybody,
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- anybody, they have a fishing story.
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- Today, I want to talk to you about
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- the ultimate fishing story.
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- I would argue that your life, my life is a fishing trip.
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- Your life, my life is a fishing trip.
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- And because it's a fishing trip, we should have fishing stories.
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- If you have your Bibles, turn to the book of Luke, the Gospel
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- of Luke, Luke chapter 5.
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- And we're going to look at verses 1 through 11.
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- Jesus was preaching to a bunch of people on the shores
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- of the Sea of Galilee.
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- The Sea of Galilee was 13 miles long, 8 miles wide.
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- Thirty towns were on the Sea of Galilee.
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- Jesus is talking to people.
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- So many people are there, so many people are pressing in,
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- he thinks to himself, "Well, I need to improvise."
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- So, Jesus improvises.
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- Jesus does something very, very interesting.
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- Let's read together Luke chapter 5, verse 1.
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- "One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the sea
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- of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen
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- to the Word of God.
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- He," let's say it together, one, two, three, "noticed."
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- He just noticed two empty boats at the water's edge, for the
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- fishermen had left them and were washing their nets."
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- Washing their nets.
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- They had bageled, they had been skunked.
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- They had fished all night and hadn't caught jack.
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- They were mad. Hadn't caught a fish.
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- They were mending their nets.
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- As you study ancient fishermen they spent the lion's share of
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- their time mending these nets.
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- These nets were large, they had weights around the edges.
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- You would throw the nets over fish,
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- the weights would sink around the fish,
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- they would pull the rope, and you would catch the fish.
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- When they fished at the sea of Galilee, they fished at night.
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- The fish would swim in the shallows at night,
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- they were dumb at night.
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- They would catch them at night.
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- No one would even think about, no great fisherman would even
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- entertain the thought of fishing during the day.
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- During the day, the fish are deep, the nets
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- won't reach that deep.
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- No one would fish in the middle of the day.
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- Oh, really?
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- But notice the craft, say craft with me.
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- Craft, I'm talking about the boat.
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- "So he noticed," he being Jesus, "a couple of boats at the
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- water's edge where the fishermen had left them
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- and were washing their nets.
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- Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner."
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- Simon Peter owned this thriving fishing business.
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- "He said, 'Simon, push it out into the water,' so he sat in
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- the boat and taught the crowds from there."
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- I like, too, that he noticed something that was common,
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- just a boat.
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- He noticed a boat, and that boat became his pulpit.
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- What in your life is ordinary that Jesus wants to turn
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- into something extraordinary?
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- What in your life is commonplace, is pedestrian
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- that Jesus wants to turn into a pulpit?
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- What interest do you have?
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- What slant do you have?
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- What hobby do you have?
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- What platform do you have that Jesus wants
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- to turn into a pulpit?
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- It's time that we notice, like Jesus did, because there
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- are three groups of people here.
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- The first group will be those who are not believers.
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- We have many people, Fellowship, who come each and every weekend
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- who have never stepped over the line.
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- You're not a follower of Christ.
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- You're welcome, and this is a great series for you to listen
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- to, a great message for you to listen to, a great weekend for
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- you to attend because you're going to see, number one,
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- how much you matter to God.
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- Number two, how much you matter to us because you were on our
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- minds when we planned this experience.
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- The second group of people will be those here who are believers.
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- You're a brand-new believer, and maybe, just maybe you've stepped
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- over the line, but you've never, ever, ever gone fishing for
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- people who don't know the Lord.
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- You've never, ever shared your fishing story with others.
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- You've never said, "Hey, here was my life before I met Christ.
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- Here's how I took the bait, Jesus.
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- I was hooked by the Spirit of God and brought into the church.
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- I was caught and released into ministry."
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- You have never really done that.
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- I know some of you are that way.
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- Others here are people, you're believers, you're a follower
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- of Christ, and you are sharing your fishing story.
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- It's amazing how those of us who fish like
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- to share fishing stories.
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- Yet those of us who've been caught by the grace of God,
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- those of us who've been hooked by the Holy Spirit, those of us
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- who've taken the bait, rarely, rarely do we really go fishing.
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- We talk about fishing, we buy fishing gear, we sing fishing
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- songs, we go to these beautiful aquariums, and this one is
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- as big as Sea World.
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- Rarely, though, do we fish.
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- So, this is a wakeup call in all of our lives.
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- So, notice the craft.
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- What would happen if Jesus walked
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- into your craft, into your boat?
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- What would happen?
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- Whenever you fish and you fish with a guide, there's a rule.
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- Never guide the guide.
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- Yet Jesus here is going to flip the script.
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- He's going to guide the guide.
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- Simon Peter is an old salt.
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- He's a fishing hawk.
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- And Jesus, this carpenter, hammer and nails, and finish
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- out, and foundation work, fixer upper, that's what Jesus knew.
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- And now Jesus is going to talk to Simon about fishing?
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- What?
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- Say that with me kind of high, "What?"
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- Yeah, that's what I thought, 'cause that's what I thought
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- when I was reading this.
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- Luke chapter 5, verse 4, "When he finished speaking,"
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- the sermon was done, I love this, "he said to Simon, 'Now,'"
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- let's say it together, one, two, three, "go out."
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- Say it again, "Go out."
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- He said, that's the first command,
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- "Go out where it is deeper.
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- Go out, Simon," this is Jesus the carpenter telling the guy,
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- "Go out where it is deeper."
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- Do you want to go deep?
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- Go out into the deep.
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- The second command, "Let down."
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- Jesus said, "Go out, Simon."
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- And now, "Let down."
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- Say "Let down," with me.
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- Let down, that means let down the nets.
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- And don't you know Simon was like,
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- "You've got to be kidding me.
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- I've cleaned these nets, we've been working all night, all the
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- seaweed and all the other junk is out of the nets.
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- All the beer cans, we've thrown them out, and now you're asking
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- me, Jesus, to lower the nets again in the middle of the day?
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- It's 100 degrees.
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- The nets don't go that deep.
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- We're not going to catch a fish."
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- That's what he was thinking.
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- I know it because Simon Peter was rude and crude
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- and socially unacceptable.
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- Foul-mouthed, uneducated.
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- Yet, that's who Jesus picked as his inner circle.
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- Why fishermen?
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- Because they're purposeful.
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- Why fishermen?
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- Because they're patient.
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- Why fishermen?
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- Because they're passionate.
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- When he finished speaking, two commands,
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- "Go out and let down your nets to catch some fish."
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- That's what Jesus is telling you and me.
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- If you're a Christ follower, go out.
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- You want to go deep?
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- I mean, you want to go deep?
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- It's right here, go out.
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- And don't just go out and work on your spiritual tan
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- with Hawaiian Tropic.
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- Drop the nets.
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- Go out, drop the nets.
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- Go out and drop the nets.
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- Go out where the fish are.
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- In the highways and byways, go out where the fish are.
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- In your neighborhood, go out where the fish are.
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- On the soccer team, go out where the fish are.
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- In your school, go out where the fish are.
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- In the corporation, go out where the fish are.
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- In the firm, go out where the fish are.
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- In the hospital, go deep, but don't just go deep,
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- drop the nets.
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- So, I love the excuse.
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- "We worked hard all last night, Lord."
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- Look at him in verse 5, "We didn't catch a thing,
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- but if you say so," read here doubt.
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- Read here like, "You've got to be joking."
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- Don't you love it that Jesus can use you and me
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- even in our doubts?
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- "If you say so, I'll let the nets down again.
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- I'll let the nets down again.
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- If you say so, I'll let the nets down again."
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- He did, so he got the craft, the conversation.
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- Look at the catch, a world record catch.
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- In the middle of the day, the nets wouldn't reach the deep,
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- they dropped the nets, and look at this fish story.
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- This is crazy, isn't it?
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- Luke 5, verse 6, "And this time their nets were so--"
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- say it with me--
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- "full of fish they began to tear."
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- They shouted for help.
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- He shouted for his--for his associates to come in.
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- Another boat helped him.
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- Both boats began to sink because of so many fish.
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- I love it that Jesus is interested
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- in our daily activities.
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- So, those of us who are Christ followers, our lives
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- should be a fishing trip.
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- And if we're doing what Jesus wants us to do, we're going out
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- into the deep, dropping our nets, and Jesus says,
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- "You fish, I'll catch."
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- What a deal.
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- "You fish, I'll do the catching."
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- This was the second call that Jesus made, the second time
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- he had tapped these guys on the shoulder.
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- This is not their first calling.
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- He's calling you, he's calling me, it's a command,
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- it's not an option.
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- "Go," Jesus said.
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- Matthew 28, "Go."
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- What part of go don't we get?
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- "Go out into the deep and let your nets down."
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- "Well, Ed, I just want to live as an example, man.
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- If I live the Christian life as an example,
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- people will see me and--"
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- Example?
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- What if Jesus has said that?
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- "I'm just going to be an example.
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- No words, just an example."
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- Jesus used words.
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- We've got to use words.
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- Obviously, we live our lives as an example.
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- But if you're a believer, you've got a fish story.
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- I was swimming in this body of water, I was lost.
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- I ate the bait, Jesus on the hook.
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- I was hooked by the Holy Spirit of God.
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- Here's what's happened in my life when I was caught.
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- Now, I've been caught, captured by the grace.
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- I've been released by God into the greatest life possible.
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- Share that.
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- Talk to others about that.
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- Pray for people in your life.
- 00:21:11.016 --> 00:21:14.753
- There is nothing like being used by God, nothing.
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- There's no high, there's no buzz, there's no trip, there's
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- no deal, there's no amount of money that compares
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- to being used by God to save souls.
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- There's no business like soul business.
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- I've gone to New Zealand, I've gone to Australia, I've gone
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- to Asia, I've gone to Europe, I've gone to Africa,
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- I've gone all over the country.
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- Take me out of it, I have never seen a church like Fellowship.
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- And for the life of me, I cannot believe how so many of you who
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- call yourselves Christians don't regularly invite people, your
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- friends who are going to hell, here to Fellowship.
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- Because one day when you clock out, God's going to look at you
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- and say, "Man, your life was a fishing trip.
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- Tell me about the fish that you caught."
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- Because if you're not concerned about your neighbor's salvation,
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- quite frankly I'm concerned about yours.
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- If you don't have a heart for people coming to know Jesus,
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- there's a great chance you're not a believer.
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- These are hard words, tough words.
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- Fishermen are tough.
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- For 25 years, this deal has been tough.
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- We'll get up in your grill and challenge you because the
- 00:22:51.917 --> 00:22:55.454
- beginning and end of discipleship is evangelism.
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- You don't become a disciple until you get saved.
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- And then once you become a disciple, you go deep
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- and you do what?
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- Put down your nets.
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- Any fishing stories?
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- Jesus replied to Simon, "Don't be afraid.
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- From now on, you'll be fishing for people."
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- This word "fishing for people," zogreo in the original language,
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- means to take alive.
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- It's kind of paradoxical.
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- When we fish, we take fish from life to death.
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- When we fish for men, we take men from death to life.
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- "As soon as they landed, they left everything
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- and followed Jesus."
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- John 6:44, what did Jesus say?
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- "No one can come to me unless the Father
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- who sent me draws him."
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- We've got to draw the net.
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- Everything we do in Fellowship has a hook in it.
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- What's the bait?
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- Jesus.
- 00:24:06.258 --> 00:24:07.859
- And so often, people don't even know they need Jesus until they
- 00:24:07.859 --> 00:24:10.962
- understand who he is, and then, "Whoa, I need Jesus."
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- Two of the most embarrassing questions I could ask you,
- 00:24:20.539 --> 00:24:25.310
- I'm talking to Christians now, are these two questions.
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- A great theologian asked these questions a long time ago.
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- Number one, who was the last person you led to Jesus?
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- Number two, when was the last time you tried?
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- What would happen, what would happen
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- if we became fishers of men?
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- What would happen?
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- What would happen?
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- So, it's time for us to go out, go deep, and put the net down.
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- Are you hooked?
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- I said are you hooked?
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- I'm glad I'm hooked by the grace of God.
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- I'm glad I'm saved.
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- I'm glad I'm rescued.
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- I'm glad I'm transformed.
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- I'm glad I'm justified.
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- I'm glad I'm sanctified.
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- I'm glad I listened to Jesus.
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- I'm glad I've lived for him.
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- I'm glad I'm following his command.
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- I am glad that I am hooked, I'm hooked.
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- Let's pray together.
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- Every head is bowed and every eye is closed,
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- everyone standing.
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- If you've never, ever, ever given your life to Jesus,
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- he is the bait.
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- Just say, "Jesus, I give my life to you."
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- That's all you got to say, "Jesus, I give my life to you.
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- I admit to you I'm a sinner.
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- I give everything to you.
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- I bow before you.
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- Like Simon did, I bow before you.
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- I give it all to you."
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- If you said that prayer, that's the greatest prayer
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- you'll ever pray.
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- You're hooked and you can never get off the hook.
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