Feed My Sheep!

FEED MY SHEEP!

Home Coming -Come and Dine!

One of my favorite memories as a child was when I would be playing and mom would call me home for supper! I love the words to that that old song, ’Come home it supper time.’

When I was but a boy in days of childhood

I used to play ’til evening shadows come;

Then, winding down an old familiar pathway

I heard my mother call at set of sun:

CHORUS: Come home, come home, it’s suppertime--

The shadows lengthen fast--

Come home, come home, it’s suppertime--

We’re going home at last.

Years later by her bedside I was kneeling,

And angel-wings were winnowing the air;

She heard the call for suppertime in Heaven--

And now I know she’s waiting for me there.

CHORUS

In memory I can see her standing yonder,

And her familiar voice I hear once more;

The banquet table’s ready up in Heaven;

It’s suppertime upon that golden shore.

CHORUS

One day there will be a great call from heaven, saying it is suppertime. What a day that will be.

I. We must work for the Lord while it is time putting His commission first.

John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

(Moses at age 40- his own strength)

A. People today are following other people out of the timing of God. God will always have a timetable. (Jews are God’s spiritual clocks)

1. Many people run beating the air and nothing is accomplished.

a. Story of Bob Momfort in 1960 with the 50-cent piece.

1. Churches are being built, but where are the new converts.

II. Jesus appears on the scene.

John 21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.

A. Men are blind of Jesus today

B. The world needs to see Jesus in us.

John 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, John And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.

C. God’s plan can look foolish to us. We think we know better. How can you catch fish in the broad daylight.?? Thick ropes??

1. Is fish not supposed to be brain food?

2. The disciples obeyed.

3. Took Jesus at His Word.

John 21:6They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. 8. And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,)

III. ( The God of abundance. 3 John 2, John 10:) dragging the net with fishes.

John 21:9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

A: God really does not need us, we need Him. He can get along with out us but we can not get along with out Him He already had fish and fresh bread to boot.

10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.

11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

B. Again the God of Abundance is moving.

12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.

13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

IV. What was Jesus teaching them? ?

(Mat 4:19 KJV) And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

A. I have said often that the great task of the Church is the Evangelism of the World.

B. The world has more winnable people than ever before ... but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. Donal McGavran

C. Soul winning is the nearest and dearest work to God.

D. You’ve got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word. George Macdonald

V. The most important lesson was to follow breakfast.