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🗓️ 25 February 2010
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0:00.0 | Think about it. What would happen if Jesus showed up at your work and without warning all of a sudden filled the equivalent of your nets. |
0:19.6 | More clients than you can possibly imagine. |
0:22.4 | You have to hire extra people. |
0:24.0 | A 40% increase in business. |
0:27.0 | Customers lined up out the door, you name it. |
0:30.0 | You'd be totally stoked. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, |
0:40.0 | our Lord. |
0:41.0 | You're listening to The Gift, a radio ministry of Faith Lutheran Church in |
0:45.0 | Capacono Beach, California. This week's gift is presented to us by |
0:49.2 | Pastor Ron Hodle. God's grace, His mercy and His peace be multiplied among my dear friends and fellow Christians. |
0:58.0 | It had been a long night for Peter, longer still because he and his crew hadn't caught any fish. |
1:07.0 | It's one thing to have a long productive night. It's another thing to stay up all night for nothing. Not easy moving |
1:18.8 | around a boat at night. Dim lights or maybe no lights at all with a deck heaving port to starboard hauling cold wet |
1:28.8 | empty nets in through the darkness. Now I am sure that the Sea of Galilee that night wasn't like the |
1:36.1 | deadliest catch, but on the other hand it wasn't easy either. |
1:45.0 | Some nights are just like that. The fish don't always cooperate. |
1:49.0 | And so that's why I fish at John's Fish Market, Costco or Albertsons. Fish there are very accommodating. |
2:00.1 | So it was time to teach their boats, wash their nets. |
2:07.0 | On shore, Jesus was teaching a crowd of people who were pressing on him so that they began to back him up into the lake. |
2:15.0 | So when Peter and his crew beached their boats, Jesus asked if he might sit down in one of them |
2:20.0 | and teach the people from just off the beach. |
2:24.0 | Peter does Jesus a favor. |
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