Forsaking All to Follow Jesus
Richard Bradley
Luke 5:1-11
1 So it was, as the multitude (literally, ''a riot of people'') pressed (''to rest upon or to physically contact'') about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret (''Sea or Lake of Galilee'' Gennesaret was the Roman name for this natural lake.),
A vast throng of people, a riot of people, pressed in on Jesus to what? To be healed, to be fed? No, to hear the Word of God!
2 and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.
Here we see a completely normal scene of everyday life on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. When God breaks through it will normally be in the most usual of times.
3 Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
Did Simon (Peter) know who Jesus was? Likely he did because he immediately did what Jesus asked him to do. If he had not known something about Jesus he likely would have turned Him down.
4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, ''Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.''
Simon did what Jesus asked him to do. As a reward Jesus then blessed Simon's faithfulness with an miraculous catch of fish.
5 But Simon answered and said to Him, ''Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.''
What Jesus asked Simon to do made no sense to him. Simon knew Jesus was an iterant preacher whereas Simon had likely been a fisherman his whole life. He certainly would have known more about fishing than Jesus, or so he thought. What he did, even though he knew better, was an act of obedience and likely not an a ...
Richard Bradley
Luke 5:1-11
1 So it was, as the multitude (literally, ''a riot of people'') pressed (''to rest upon or to physically contact'') about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret (''Sea or Lake of Galilee'' Gennesaret was the Roman name for this natural lake.),
A vast throng of people, a riot of people, pressed in on Jesus to what? To be healed, to be fed? No, to hear the Word of God!
2 and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.
Here we see a completely normal scene of everyday life on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. When God breaks through it will normally be in the most usual of times.
3 Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
Did Simon (Peter) know who Jesus was? Likely he did because he immediately did what Jesus asked him to do. If he had not known something about Jesus he likely would have turned Him down.
4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, ''Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.''
Simon did what Jesus asked him to do. As a reward Jesus then blessed Simon's faithfulness with an miraculous catch of fish.
5 But Simon answered and said to Him, ''Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.''
What Jesus asked Simon to do made no sense to him. Simon knew Jesus was an iterant preacher whereas Simon had likely been a fisherman his whole life. He certainly would have known more about fishing than Jesus, or so he thought. What he did, even though he knew better, was an act of obedience and likely not an a ...
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