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Luke chapter 5, verse 4.

And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. Ah, this is such a good verse and such a good

story. So Simon, Peter, and these disciples have been trying to catch fish all night long,

and nothing has happened. It's been totally empty. And so Jesus comes up and he actually gets into a

boat and he starts teaching people from the boat because all these crowds are there on the

shore. And then he looks at Simon and says, put out to the deep, let down your nets for a catch.

And Simon immediately answers. He said, master, we toiled all night. We took nothing. In other words,

we've tried and it's not gotten us anywhere. But then he says, but at your word. In other words,

because you said so, I'm going to let down the nets. And when they did that, the Bible says they enclosed a large number of fish.

Their nets were breaking.

They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them.

And they came and filled both the boats.

So they began to sink.

Jesus calling Simon to do that which didn't make sense to him, but Simon did it because he

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