My Magnificent Obsession

Matthew 4: 18 - 20

18 ¶ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

Jesus call Simon Peter and his brother Andrew to follow him he says: follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men.

That word follow did not and does not mean just to tag along behind.

In those words there was an invitation to become what he was. That was the core power of those words in it was the invitation to become just like him.

To follow Jesus to be a disciple of Jesus.

To follow: to observe to study to walk where he walked literally for those disciples it was to step in the prince that his feet had made period to learn but Jesus enjoyed to see what affected Jesus negatively period to watch and study and learn with the expectation of doing the same thing. They watched Jesus cast out Devils heal the sick they watched Jesus open blind eyes they watched Jesus Touch The Untouchables like the leper who came to Jesus full of leprosy and Jesus touched him and made him whole they saw Jesus speak to the storm and the storm had to obey his voice. Uline it all started with an invitation to follow me and the invitation to make Jesus their Magnificent Obsession.

In this world we live in we have all kinds of people, we have entertainers we have or Enthusiast we have athletes we have artist we have all kinds of people.

We've come to look at certain people among us as celebrities some are movie stars some are sports Giants who have mastered their sport summer singers and performers you capture the attention and the imagination of Millions.

And these celebrities seem to produce among us another group of people sometimes they're called stalkers because they go Way Beyond just a casual appreciation or enjoyment of their celebrity and their craft or their talent and they become obsessed with them. They follow them everywhere they go they find out everything about them they study their habits they are Way Beyond fans they are fanatics they're even Beyond Fanatics they become consumed with their celebrity they know their favorite colors or kind of flowers they like their favorite foods they learned their daily routines and eventually they go beyond just extreme interest and they actually become invasive and intrusive in the life of the celebrity they're obsessed with. You seen this on the news from time to time when some celebrity is being stalked.

They begin to walk in the same steps they said in the same chair that eat the same Foods then they even start showing up in the same places at the same timeMatthew 4: 19 - 20 Jesus call Simon Peter and his brother Andrew the follow him he says calling follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

That word follow did not and does not mean just to tag along behind.

In those words there was an invitation to become what he was. That was the core power of those words

To follow: to observe to study, to walk were He walked literally for those disciples it was to step in the prints that his feet had made. To learn what Jesus enjoyed, to see what affected Jesus negatively. To watch and study and learn with the expectation of doing the same things he did.

They watched Jesus cast out Devils heal the sick, they watched Jesus open blind eyes, they watched Jesus touch the untouchable like the leper who came to Jesus full of leprosy and Jesus touched him and made him and made him whole, they heard Jesus speak to the storm and the storm had to obey his voice.

It all started with an invitation to follow me and the invitation to make Jesus their magnificent obsession.

In this world we live in we have all kinds of people, we have entertainers we have enthusiast we have athletes we have artist we have all kinds of people.

But we've come to look at certain people among us as celebrities. Some are movie stars some are sports giants who have mastered their sport and some are singers and performers who capture the attention and the imagination of millions.

And these celebrities seem to produce among us another group of people sometimes they're called stalkers because they go way beyond just a casual appreciation or enjoyment of their celebrity and their craft or their talent and they become obsessed with them.