Moving Out Into Deeper Waters

AND WHEN WE ARE IN HIS PRESENCE, WE will RECOGNIZE OUR UNHOLINESS...

LET ME SAY THIS, THOSE WHO ARE UNMOVED BY THEIR SIN/UNMOTIVATED TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS; -- OBVIOUSLY HAVE NOT BEEN IN THE PRESENCES OF GOD....

HOLY, HOLY HOLY IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY -- WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME!!

WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHO JESUS IS.... AND WE MUST ACT ACCORDINGLY; HUMBLY; FALL AT HIS FEET; REPENTANT; OF OUR SIN AND STRIVE TO BE HOLY, BECAUSE HE IS HOLY...

THAT IS, IF WE WANT A FULL NET....

IV. AND WE LIKE PETER IF WE WANT A FULL NET, ALSO MUST ACCEPT THE NATURE OF OUR CALL... (MANY DON’T)

A. IT IS A FULL TIME CALL

Peter had been with Jesus for a year -- but he did not realize (and neither did the others REALIZE) the nature of their call.. They thought that it was a part time call.... That it was okay to be with Jesus some of the time and, that it was okay to not be with Jesus, at other times....

But they needed to understand (and Jesus was teaching here) that it was a full time call... They were to be with Jesus all of the time...

WHAT ABOUT TODAY, ARE WE CALLED TO FOLLOW JESUS PART TIME OR A FULL TIME?

NOW IF WE WERE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BY THE WAY MANY PEOPLE LIVED, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MOST PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED TO PART TIME DISCIPLESHIP... THAT IT IS OKAY TO BE WITH JESUS, AND THAT IT IS OKAY TO NOT, BE WITH JESUS TOO....

I MEAN JESUS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT WITH PEOPLE (AT LEAST IN THEIR MINDS, HEARTS AND SOULS) ... WHEN THEY LIE, GOSSIP, WHEN THEY SAY THINGS THEY SHOULD NOT SAY, GO PLACES THEY SHOULD NOT GO, MISS CHURCH TO DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE, WHEN THEY SPEND MONEY MEANT FOR THE KINGDOM, ON THEMSELVES.... WHEN THEY LISTEN TO FILTHY JOKES OR WATCH DIRTY MOVIES... ETC ETC.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS HAS NEVER MADE A CALL TO PART TIME Discipleship TO ANYONE -- WE TOO HAVE BEEN CALLED TO A FULL TIME WALK WITH CHRIST -- JESUS SAID, UNLESS WE PICK UP OUR CROSS DAILY AND FOLLOW HIM -- WE CAN NOT BE HIS DISCIPLES (DO YOU THINK HE MEANT IT WHEN HE SAID THOSE WORDS -- I DO!)...

YOU SEE, IT IS NOT OKAY TO ACT ONE WAY WHEN YOU THINK JESUS IS WATCHING (OR AT CHURCH) AND TO ACT ANOTHER WAY AT WORK, HOME, BAR, SECRET RONDAVOUZ OR ANYWHERE ELSE...

WE/YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED TO FULL TIME DISCIPLESHIP....

WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TO LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND

Have you ever been on vacation? When you are on vacation do you buy a house there? Set up bank accounts? Enroll your kids in school? Find a doctor? Join the PTA? Get a membership at the local health spa?

Probably not, and why not? because we don’t leave their and we won’t be there for very long... It would make no sense to do those things, would it?

Do see where I am going with this? Like the song says this world is not my home -- I am just passing through my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue...

Am telling you to not by a home or have a bank account OR ANY OF THIS WORLDS GOODS? No I am not... But Jesus did say he must come first, before mother Father, spouse, home, job even ourselves....