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Our minds are souls to take up our cross and follow you.

Florida to follow you without question without.

Meditation Lord Tiffany and Grove as the disciples you have called us to be came in this morning in the one who enjoys fishing.

Raise your hand if you enjoy fishing.

I haven't the patience to truly enjoy fishing.

I like the quietness.

I like being able to go out somewhere and not be disturbed and have everything going around me, but I've never really been a good fisherman.

Now, growing up in south Louisiana, we are Sportsman's Paradise, right?

You hide few fish.

That is what it is to live in and I remember going to buy you the Solomons and buy you, gosh throwing up and fishing for a little nap and fishes.

These little silver fish and literally you put your pull into the swap right there and you pull out a little fish and you can do that all day without any hesitation and that type of fishing I like to fish.

Fruit Fishing Station.

Jesus is telling us this morning that he is going to make him Fishers of Men.

We have patience.

Don't we? Amen.

Can we share the gospel with me and try to share our faith?

We never know what the end results of that is going to be.

It may be years and years.

Before you see fruits, have someone coming to know Jesus, as a result of God using you to show your face and you don't get those instant results.

And sometimes that can be challenging for us,

Australia.

Maybe it's a family member, you've been working on for 15 years, telling them about Jesus and maybe yeah, it made a proclamation of faith.

But this is a good news.

If product size, is it?

The Holy Spirit convicts the hearts of men.

Toronto claiming his word.

If you've been at church.

The last couple of this repeated theme.

What is that?

Repeated theme St. James have been the last couple weeks.

Anybody baptism anyone else? Come on.

All right.

Well, that makes me feel good.

You know why?

Because every week I sent me, and I feel like I'm preaching the same message.

Right?

And it has to do with it.

I follow the lectionary text so it says pre described scriptures.

That is handed down for Generations, right?

If we go through the Bible, every three years.

And the last several weeks have been evangelism, evangelism evangelism,

Then.

2:00 this week.

I am going to make you Fishers of Men.

I'm going to teach you how to evangelize right at the course and I had to where you got the Pope Francis is right, okay?

This is his cross.

And it's the cross of the Good Shepherd, right?

It's the cross of Jesus going out and bring us into the fold.

And it is kind of my soapbox, right?

Because there are so many lost sheep without the Good Shepherd.

In one way we eat.

They don't know Christ will end up in hell, right.

And I'm not going to hit here to pound Helen to you, but it is a reality of those without faith.

We have to be able to take that understand that these people are going to suffer.

If they don't hear.

And I don't care if you been a Christian, your whole life or your brand-new to the face, right?

Or maybe you're not home to evangelism per se, but we are called to be Fishers of men and women who understand the context, are we want to be able to say they understand the law? a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ to receive the sacraments

when the great mothers and fathers of our faith struggled with their faith, right?

And Martin Luther struggle with his face.

He Shrugged.

Mean kid.

Again, with that magnifying glass Mother Teresa many times as she struggled with her personal relationship with Jesus, as she didn't know, she was saved and the list goes on and on of these great spiritual Saint struggled in their face.

Now, get it wasn't until a couple years ago.

I really understood for myself to through the waters of baptism.

Right?

Did I have Assurance of my face in the Lamb's Book of Life that I don't have to worry?

I don't have to be concerned with the fact of where I go, when I die.

Amen.

Isn't that such a great relief that is but that's what makes our theology.

James Lutheran Church in every Lutheran Church Archaeology is special and unique.

That is grounded in the true belief of The guy has done it all.

Prices going for us on the cross, but he died for us.

And when we go out to make sure to be Fishers of Men, this is is that we get their share and this world that is beaten up.

And this world that struggling to find direction.

We have truth.

Grounded in the Gospel of Jesus Christ that we stay here in the Book of Matthew this morning.

Starting to hear in book, 21 and 22 are working with their father, as fishermen not getting to take some good and have good careers as fishermen of the air.

And Jesus says, Follow me, follow me.

Emma.

Right away the follow Jesus.

Now want you to imagine each of us think of your career whatever you did for a living before retirement.

And I'm still working, right?

You leave your job.

Your boss, your family, now.

Society, as a whole has become more and more transient, right?

I mean, we have our family has nowhere near Indian and I've shared this before at Council and what not?

You guys are my family, right?

My kids have aunts and uncles and grandparents But imagine, and follow me.

Follow Jesus, follow his will.

What are the early church?

Fathers wrote that we are ourselves and a live with Jesus 23 over Galilee.

Preaching and Healing Springs.

The good news of the kingdom of God is at hand and opens the possibility opportunity to follow.

Jesus shows his authority, his divinity, Healing The Sick, you know, what's so incredible.

In that later on and scripture, right?

He did the disciples that Authority.

He says go there for making cycles of Jesus Christ baptizing them in the name of the father, Son and Holy Spirit, Healing The Sick.

He goes on casting out demons.

When you understand the amount of authority, he has given the church.

Amen means it's true, right?