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LOWER THE NETS

“If You say so, I will lower the nets.” –Luke 5:5 When Jesus gives Peter a miraculous catch of fish, this is the miracle that Peter, the fisherman, can completely understand. Peter knows his inadequacies. Yet Peter also knows that Jesus is Lord and so he is ready to obey any commands Jesus might give. Thus Peter brought his boat to the shore, left everything, and became Jesus’ follower (Lk 5:11). Peter recognizes that Jesus is calling him, and so does not let his sinfulness hold him back from responding to the Lord’s call. How Jesus must have loved Peter’s...

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GOT MILK?

“I could not talk to you as spiritual men but only as men of flesh, as infants in Christ.” –1 Corinthians 3:1 When you were a child or at some other time in your life, did you learn the ABCs of the Christian life? If so, you have been fed milk (1 Cor 3:2). What did you do with your milk? Were you as eager as a newborn baby for more “milk of the Spirit to make you grow unto salvation?” (1 Pt 2:2) Have you digested your milk and become rooted in the Christian life? (see Mk 4:16-17) Have...

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ABOUT HIS WORD

“What is there about His word?” –Luke 4:36, RNAB What is there about His Word? “He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power and they leave” (Lk 4:36). God’s Word overcomes temptation (Mt 4:3-11) and sin (Ps 119:11). What is there about His Word? “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Ps 33:6). The Word of God creates (Gn 1:1ff). God’s Word is life (Jn 6:63) and gives life where there was no life (Ez 37:9ff). Jesus spoke and people at a distance were healed (Mt 8:13; Jn 4:50-53). What is there about His Word? God’s...

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JESUS, THE WORKER

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; therefore He has anointed Me. He has sent Me…” –Luke 4:18 As Jesus began His public ministry, His culminating work of our salvation, He taught us how to work. Jesus worked: in the synagogue (Lk 4:16). Begin your work at church. reading the Bible (Lk 4:16). Base your work on the Bible. anointed by the Holy Spirit (Lk 4:18). to bring the gospel to the poor (Lk 4:18). proclaiming “liberty to captives, recovery of sight to the blind and release to prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the Lord” (Lk...

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THE KING OF HEARTS

“Their heart is far from Me.” –Mark 7:6 The human heart is: tortuous, twisted, deceitful (Jer 17:9), beyond repair (Jer 17:9), in a state of psychological denial about its fallen condition (see Jer 7:8-9), the source of good and evil (see Lk 6:45; Mk 7:21), and far away from God (Mk 7:6), when we have the wrong priorities (Lk 12:34). If, by God’s grace and the various “stress tests” of life, we realize that we need new hearts (see Ez 36:26), we have nowhere to turn but to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He will give us new hearts by...