2012 03-11 jesus was the original gorton's fisherman
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Jesus Was
The Original
Gorton’s Fisherman
Matthew 4:18-22; 14: 22-36
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I like the Gorton’s TV
commercials with the
actor dressed up in the
yellow slicker and the
catchy jingle at the end.
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I didn’t like fish as a child,
but I liked the
commercials. Then it was
odd to see the actors
changing who played him.
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I also like the Dos Equis
beer commercials with
“The Most Interesting
Man in the World” and his
cool exploits.
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So when I saw that picture
I had to download it from
the internet and include it
here for a little bit of
humor.
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Our message from the
Gospel of John next week
draws upon a few events
from earlier in Jesus’
ministry…
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…so I thought this week
we would look at those
earlier events and see
Jesus beginning His
ministry with fishing…
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…just as He finishes it in
the last chapter of John by
the lakeshore dealing with
fishermen, fishing boats
and nets, and lots of fish.
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You might go ahead and
locate the 14th chapter of
Matthew in your Bibles
and bookmark it, while we
look at the 4th chapter first
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Matthew 4:18-22
As Jesus was walking
beside the Sea of Galilee, he
saw two brothers, Simon
called Peter and…
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Matthew 4:18-22
…his brother Andrew. They
were casting a net into the
lake, for they were
fishermen.
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Matthew 4:18-22
“Come, follow me,” Jesus
said, “and I will make you
fishers of men.”
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Matthew 4:18-22
At once they left their nets
and followed him.
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Matthew 4:18-22
Going on from there, he saw
two other brothers, James
son of Zebedee and his
brother John.
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Matthew 4:18-22
They were in a boat with
their father Zebedee,
preparing their nets.
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Matthew 4:18-22
Jesus called them, and
immediately they left the
boat and their father and
followed him.
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Matthew 4:18-22
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That is a very familiar
passage. I remember
being taught that passage
as a child over and over,
but something’s wrong.
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I guess maybe it’s part of
the calling to ministry, or
it could just be me, but I
was troubled by another
passage not fitting this.
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Isaiah 53:2b-3
He had no beauty or
majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance
that we should desire him.
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Isaiah 53:2b-3
He was despised and
rejected by men, a man of
sorrows, and familiar with
suffering.
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Isaiah 53:2b-3Like one
from
whom men
hide their
faces
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Isaiah 53:2b-3…he was
despised,
and we
esteemed
him not.
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How do your reconcile
that with the idea that
Jesus just called people,
and they left their homes
and families with Him?
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You can’t.
But you don’t need to,
because that’s not the
whole story. This is just a
snippet of the story.
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These fishermen Jesus
called to follow Him, at
least some of them, were
followers of John the
Baptist and knew Jesus.
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John the Baptist, if you
recall from the beginning
of the Gospel of John, told
them to leave him and
follow after Jesus instead.
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After John baptized Jesus,
He went into the desert to
fast and was tempted by
Satan. After 40 days, like
the 40 days of Lent…
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Jesus came back to civili-
zation and sought out the
men He knew from their
time together with John
the Baptist.
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Andrew was one of the
men who knew Jesus from
their time with John the
Baptist, and he recruited
his brother Simon Peter.
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How Jesus knew to call
James and John the sons
of Zebedee isn’t stated.
There are many
possibilities.
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All of these men, except
Andrew are named as
being in the boat in the
chapter 21 passage we will
look at next week.
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It’s possible Andrew was
there; we just don’t know,
but either way there’s
something of a beginning
and an end here.
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These men are making
their living fishing in the
Sea of Galilee, and Jesus
tells them that they will
gather people instead.
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John the Baptist had
attracted crowds, so they
would have expected
Jesus to be carrying on
from there doing the same
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Certainly when John was
killed people would have
expected that Jesus was
merely the next one in
line.
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The next passage is too
long to put up here when
we can just look it up. It’s
a bit back from where we
were in chapter 14.
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It shows, along with many
other events, that Jesus is
not just the next man in
line after John the
Baptist.
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Matthew 14:22-36
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Matthew 14:22-36
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The thing about this I
usually think about is that
Peter was fine as long as
he was only looking at
Jesus.
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When he let his attention
be diverted from Jesus by
the dangers around him,
he began to sink down
into the water.
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You and I have cars that
wear out and develop
problems, bills that keep
coming in, people who
give us fits and trouble.
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Retreating to Bible
reading, watching only
Christian programming,
and going to church won’t
make those go away.
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Keeping our focus on
Jesus saves us from being
drowned in the hopeless-
ness of the world around
us. It’s hopeless, isn’t it?
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All the happy people I
know are either folks who
just fit in with the unjust
world and play the game,
or they don’t care, because
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…they woke up that day
with Jesus on their minds,
spent time with Him
before anything else, and
go with Him everywhere.
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…and one other thing:
they go to church not just
to be there, but they go to
share the walk with others
who want that peace too.
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This Peter who wanted to
walk on water with Jesus
was brought to Jesus by
someone else, not called
by Jesus directly.
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Peter was part of the inner
circle with Jesus, along
with James and his little
brother John, the sons of
Zebedee.
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Peter was never alone in
the Gospels. He was
always part of a group
surrounding Jesus.
Except for one time.
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The only time Peter was
alone, was when The
Beloved Disciple went
ahead to see Jesus after
He was arrested.
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Peter was left alone with
strangers there outside
the house where they had
taken Jesus.
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As soon as he was alone,
Peter got scared, and
when someone asked if he
was Jesus’ disciple, he
denied it.
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Peter kept denying it as
more people claimed that
they had seen him with
Jesus. He denied it until
at last the worst…
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The final time Peter
denied Jesus, they had
brought Him out, and He
looked Peter in the eye as
he denied Jesus again.
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It’s been coming up again
and again, that we all face
the test, and we have to
meet it with whatever we
have available to us then.
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You may remember The
Lord’s Prayer, Psalm 23,
John 3:16 or something
else. That may be all you
have available to you.
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The point is not to use
those as magic chants to
brainwash yourself into
feeling no pain. They
have a different purpose.
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Even at the worst, when
Peter was denying Jesus
or when he was sinking in
the Sea of Galilee, Jesus
was there with him.
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He’s here with us now,
and He’s there with you
no matter where you go or
what you do. You just
need to look for Him.
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Reciting scripture or
prayers is a way for us to
re-center ourselves, so
that we can recognize His
voice when He speaks.
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Are you sinking in the
waves right now, so that
this is the only view of
Jesus you can see?
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Trust Jesus now, and cry
out to Him. He will reach
down to save you.