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Pray the Word with David Platt

#1,062 – Follow Me (Mark 1:16–18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

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πŸ—“οΈ 6 July 2020

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Summary

Followers of Jesus do not always know where they are going, but they do always know who they are with.

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.

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March chapter 1, verses 16 through 18.

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Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen and

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Jesus said to them follow me and I will make you become fishers of men.

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And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

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What a scene!

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Like can you imagine?

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Like it sounds so simple, but just put yourself in the shoes of

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Simon and Andrew. They're fishing like doing their normal work for the day.

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Jesus comes up to them and we've got a sentence, follow me and I

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will make you become fishers of men. Follow me. I think if I'm them I'm asking well where are you going?

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Like what does this mean? But the verse doesn't say where he was going.

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Like that in and of itself is revolutionary. Just let that soak in. Like there's a million sermons here, but just let

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this one reality soak in today. Followers of Jesus don't always know where they are going, but they do

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always know who they're with. Huh, let me say that again.

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Followers of Jesus don't always know where they're going,

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but they do always know who they're with.

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Follow me. Like this is Jesus call to every single one of us. Follow me. Where are we going? Follow me. What will

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that involve? Follow me. Like we follow Jesus. we don't always know where how he is leading will

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lead us but we do know. We can trust him wherever he leads. There's old him wherever he leads I'll go.

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That's what's expressed here. And verse 18 says immediately they left their nets and followed him.

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Like just like that, they left it all behind and they followed Jesus not knowing where they were going.

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