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I want to preach today on The Clarion Call.
The word "clarion" means "a clear, sharp announcement that sometimes is even loud."
The clarion call of Jesus.
Take your Bibles and turn to *John 1:43-44*.
This is background.
This is preliminary.
Let's look at the beginning of the ministry of our Master Jesus Christ as He begins gathering His disciples.
"The following day, Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip."
Philip didn't find Jesus.
Jesus found Philip.
You didn't nor did I find Jesus.
I wasn't looking for Him, and neither were you.
He found us! "The Son of Man came to seek and to save."
The initiative is God so loved us that He sent Jesus to seek us, find us, and save us.
Say AMEN!
So Jesus finds Philip.
Philip wasn't looking for Jesus, "and when He found Philip, He said to him."
It is implied in the language here that before the word "follow" is the word "you."
It's implied that when Jesus spoke to Philip, He said, "You follow Me."
When Jesus began to formulate His disciples, He told them to "Follow Me."
*1 John 1:9 *says, "We must confess our sins," but we have such an erroneous teaching today.
We tell people all they have to do is come to the altar, pray a little prayer, go into the water and get baptized, then sit in the church pew and collect dust until Jesus comes and takes them home to glory.
No, no, no.
*You're saved to follow Jesus!
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Look at *Verse 44*.
I have to see what Philip's response was.
"Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter," and when he got the message, he took off looking for his brothers.
Bethsaida here means "the town, or the city, of fishermen."
You must note that.
From this little village, which scholars and researchers just recently found, Jesus called five world changers to follow Him.
Peter, Philip, Andrew, James, and John all came from this little village.
That may not mean anything to you, but that would be like bringing five presidents out of one little town--Rock Branch.
Five world changers shook the world, came out of one little village, and that village was called "the village of fishermen."
Turn to *Matthew 9:9*.
Matthew is a tax collector, and he is in his office.
He is a successful businessman.
He is an IRS man.
He not only collects taxes from the Jews and Gentiles for the Romans, but he adds a little bit on top of that so he can make himself some money.
He is very successful, and Jesus finds Matthew.
When He finds him, He tells him, "Follow Me." "So he got up [You have to get up.] and followed Him."
Now turn to *Matthew 4:18*, and I want you to know something.
God doesn't do anything by accident.
He isn't drawing these men and women out of the world just so He can have some big shots.
Matthew was a big shot tax collector, a businessman; but Peter, James, John, and Andrew were just local workers.
They were fishermen.
They came from a town of fishermen, and the prophecy in *Jeremiah 16:16 *is a prophetic prophecy about this call.
He says, "But now I will send for many fishermen, declares the Lord, and they will catch them."
They won't go fishing and come back empty-handed.
He is calling for fishermen.
He is calling for you to go out and catch fish.
No, catch men and women, boys and girls.
Look at *Matthew 4:18*.
This is a powerful Scripture.
"And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen."
They weren't using poles.
They were using nets.
They weren't catching fish one at a time.
They were catching many of them at a time.
*Verse 19: *"Then Jesus said to them."
*It's a personal call.
*There was no mistake as to whom He was calling.
Church, today Jesus is giving you a personal call.
The call is not to join a church, the call is not to sing or to preach, the call is *to follow Jesus!* It's not just on Sunday mornings.
It's not just occasionally when you don't have anything else to do.
It's all the time!
He says, "Follow Me."
Now, you might tell me that this call for these guys back there isn't for you.
Before you were ever born, before you were even formed in your mother's womb, the Bible says in *Jeremiah *that "God knew you."
God was calling you and giving you a destiny.
You're not an accident.
I don't care if you were told that you were not wanted.
I don't care if you have been told that you are stupid or dumb.
I'm here to tell you that God knew you before you were ever conceived in your mother's womb, and God has a reason for your being on this planet.
Don't waste your life.
We Americans are after one thing: ME!
I want to feel good.
It's for me and mine.
People come to church as consumers.
What do you have for ME?
What do you have to offer ME?
I want something for ME.
If it's not for ME, then it's for MINE.
You have a call on your life, and *that call is permanent.*
*Romans 11:29 *tells me that "the call of God is permanent" for every person in this building.
The Message Bible says, "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty."
I like that.
You say, well, God called Billy Graham, but he hasn't called me.
No, no.
It's for YOU.
God has an assignment for YOU.
God has an assignment for ME, and that is to *follow Him*.
"God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty, never cancelled and never rescinded."
The New Century Version says, "God never changes His mind about the people He calls."
Oh, but Brother Wright, I've done this and that.
"God never changes His mind."
But Brother Wright, I've failed.
"God never changes His mind."
But Brother Wright, I've fallen into the trap of the devil.
Oh, that ought to excite somebody!
The devil is a liar.
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