Luke 5:1-11

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Luke 51-11

• A Spiritual Fishing Trip

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The Word Comes First

• 1 Corinthians 121
• For since in the wisdom of God the world through
  its wisdom did not come to know God, God was
  well-pleased through the foolishness of the
  message preached to save those who believe.
• Luke 1631
• But he said to him, If they do not listen to
  Moses and the Prophets, they will not be
  persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.' "

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The Lord Knows What He Speaks of

• Are we willing to trust and obey?
• Romans 1217-21- vengeance or love
• 1 Corinthians 1533-34- wise companions or
  worldly
• 2 Corinthians 416-17- give up or go on

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Seeds of Greatness Seen in Obedience

• Luke 1610
• He who is faithful in a very little thing is
  faithful also in much and he who is unrighteous
  in a very little thing is unrighteous also in
  much.

A pop quiz with fish led to a graduation with
honors.
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Great Blessing ONLY Comes with Obedience

• 1 Peter 310-12
• For, "THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE
  GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS
  LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT. 11 "HE MUST TURN AWAY
  FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND
  PURSUE IT. 12 "FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE
  TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO
  THEIR PRAYER, BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST
  THOSE WHO DO EVIL.

God doesnt bless his competition.
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Matthew 1929

• And everyone who has left houses or brothers or
  sisters or father or mother or children or farms
  for My name's sake, will receive many times as
  much, and will inherit eternal life.

Family and life
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Matthew 619-20

• Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
  earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
  thieves break in and steal. 20 "But store up for
  yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
  moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not
  break in or steal

Eternal treasures
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Our Lord is an Amazing Lord

• Abraham sacrificed his son
• Saul sacrificed his culture
• The diverse became unified

More Christians have been martyred in this
century than in all centuries previous. Dr. Paul
Carlsen, BY THEIR BLOOD
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Evidence Demands Action

• Matthew 721
• Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord,' will
  enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
  will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

They left everything and followed Jesus. What
might you be holding onto that keeps you from
serving Christ?