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Matthew chapter 4 verse 19

Jesus said to them follow me

and I will make you fissures of men.

This was Jesus' initial invitation to four disciples.

Simon also. four disciples. Simon, also called Peter, Andrew, his brother, and then after that James and

John, follow me and I will make you fisss of men and in this picture we see

Jesus invitation to every single one of us.

He has invited us to follow him which is pure mercy from the start that Jesus would just like he did with

these guys he would come to us he would initiate relationship with us that he would call us to himself. But then notice as we follow

him the inevitable result, he says, follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

And from the very beginning, following Jesus was attached to fishing for men.

Every follower would be made a fisher.

And fishing for men, obviously Jesus is using an analogy here

to picture of how these were fishermen,

they were used to this and he was saying

listen instead of just going out looking for fish you're now going out looking for

people to bring into the kingdom this is what what it's going to mean to follow me.

As you follow me, you're going to bring other people to follow me.

I think about a friend of mine who served for a long time in a really hard part of the world

when it comes to sharing the gospel a dangerous part of the world and as soon as they led someone to Christ in that part of the world they would

would immediately say to them,

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