Part 1 | Changed for the Purpose of Jesus

From Luke 5

Luke’s Gospel is a Gospel for .

Luke’s Message: God’s Salvation is for .

📖 Luke 4:42-43 ESV And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, 43 but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”

📖 Luke 5:1 ESV On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

📖 Luke 5:2-3  ESV and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

📖 Luke 5:4  ESV And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 

📖 Luke 5:5 ESV And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 

An encounter with Jesus is a to go .

Going deeper means:

1. what I or .

📖 Luke 5:5 ESV “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 

📖 Proverbs 12:15 ESV The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

📖 Proverbs 18:2 ESV A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

📖 Proverbs 28:26 ESV Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

📖 1 Corinthians 8:1-2 ESV we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

📖 Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Going deeper means God in the where I currently I’m .

Going deeper means:

2. our own of ourselves.

📖 Luke 5:8 ESV he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

Abase– “to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation”

📖 Isaiah 6:5 ESV  “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”

📖 Job 42:5-6 ESV  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 6 therefore, I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

📖 Judges 6:22 ESV Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.”

📖 Revelation 1:17 ESV When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. 

God’s understand He operates on the basis of , not .

Going deeper means:

3. our to God’s in the world.

📖 Luke 5:10-11 ESV “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” 11 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.

God wants to take my and give it .

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