“ What is your relationship with the Lord? ”

2. “What is your relationship with the Lord?” Love Lecture

3. Peter & the Fish Mysterious Miracles in the Bible

4. Matthew 17: 24-27 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” 25 “Yes, he does,” he replied.    When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” 26 “From others,” Peter answered.    “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

5. Peter Fishes for Taxes • Just Believe, Jesus could make even the wierdest miracles come true • I can’t believe - this is like a children’s story • You shouldn’t ask or doubt the bible • I don’t know – Maybe we should dig a little deeper?

7. Mt 4:18-20 (Mk 1:16-20) 18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 20 At once they left their nets and followed him.

9. Luke 5:1-11 1 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,[a] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” 6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

10. Luke 5:1-11 (cont) 8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners.    Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.

13. Reality of Jesus’ Situation Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

14. Matthew 13:47-48 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

15. Jesus used Parables Kingdom of Heaven Fishing Evangelist Preaching the Gospel People (Good & Evil) World Fisherman Net that caught many fish Fish (Good and Bad) Sea

16. Jesus used Parables Fish = People Net = Word Sea = World

17. Matthew 17: 24-27 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” 25 “Yes, he does,” he replied.    When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” 26 “From others,” Peter answered.    “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

18. Reality of Jesus’ Situation Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

19. Matthew 17: 24-27 • Faith should not be ritualistic & superficial • Was Jesus telling to him to go back to his physical work? • Put spiritual things first, and physical problems will get solved too.

20. Hebrews 5:11 11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

21. Don’t miss this opportunity At this time Jesus is paying full attention to you like a man who has fallen in love with a woman for the first time and gives his everything to her. But when the spirits of those who missed the opportunity to believe in Jesus, and to be saved on earth go to the spiritual world, Jesus does not treat them in that way anymore. “This is because even though I have been so good to them, they have neglected and ignored Me, Jesus, who is the Savior and the King of kings, while living their lives for the pleasure of the world only. And it is because they have treated Me, Jesus, with no value.”