Sermon Tone Analysis

I - Me Cleaning house, Me shoveling snow, Like what is the point!

A time I worked very hard at something, and failed.

The bible has a word that captures this.

Atzav.

“anxious toil

Cleaning our house,

Y - working sometimes, unfixable problems, messed up relationships, Issues with no real answers.

When you try hard and you fail miserably

When work, relationships, culture, everything just seem broken and unfixable

WHen work stresses you out.

We long for clairty.

Context.

A story that makes sense out of it.

A healing

"im working hard now, but I'm paying my dues." it will pay off eventually!

I may not be perfect, 'but others respect me and see my worth"

"Im right and they will see soon enough."

"my ship will come in someday."

"the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice."

"progress - decline"

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

with painful labor you will give birth to children.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;

through painful toil you will eat food from it

all the days of your life.

The bible has a word that captures this.

eye-tza-bon “anxious toil”

The opposite of that feeling of accomplishment.

Satisfied exhaustion,

Its used in the Book of Genesis to describe what life is like as a result of a broken world.

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

with painful labor you will give birth to children.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;

through painful toil you will eat food from it

all the days of your life.

2 things

Bearing Children - eye-tza-bon

Work, particularly Farming - eye-tza-bon

Anxious labor.

It just so captures for me that feeling when...

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We can spend our lives trying to make sense of that feeling.

We ignore it, tell stories about it, and explain it away.

When I call out to God, and really want to hear from him, it often has something to do with this.

But it nags, eye-tza-bon

G - the “because you say so life.”

TRANS: Well our text today is the story of one of the first people in Luke to Hear Jesus and respond positvely

Jesus comes to Peter after a night of Eye-tza-bon (hard work - with nothing to show for it)

Tell the story from Peter’s perspective...

Peter’s Day so far… (Fishing in Galilee)

עִצָּבוֹן

One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, 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.

3 He 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.”

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.”

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.

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.

Why is peter able to say this, when others arent?

“Because you say so.”

I don't think Peter follows Jesus because he feels like he ought to, because he thinks he has something to offer Jesus, he doesn't do it to say thank you for the fish, actually I don't think he views it as a sacrifice to leave his boats and fish at all.

Peter follow Jesus because he really believes that the road behind Jesus leads to a better life than the one he is currently living.

It's doubtful he knows much about what will happen because he followed.

But he does know that he can trust Jesus with whatever is next.

Peter really thinks it will be worth it to follow so he does.

Like the Merchant that sells everything for the Pearl of Great price and the person that sells everything for the treasure in the field.

Jesus comes to peter after anight of eye-tsa-bon

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A night of Fruitless toil.... work with nothing to show for it.

Jesus steps into peters eye-tsa-bon and speaks into it.

spoke into peter’s eye-tsa-bon

Peter restponded “bcause you say so” + dropped the “im Good” story

Jesus steps into peters eye-tsa-bon and speaks into it.

he invites Peter to come along.

3 times.

Each time requiring more from the tired, overworked Peter.

put out from the shore.

Put out into Deep Water.

Come fish for people.

each time peter has a choice, each time he could say no, or turn away.

Each time Peter has plenty of good reasons to choose no.

But he doesn’t.

Simon/Peter is not special.

BUT something separates him from many others throughout Luke.

People way smarter than Peter, way more moral than Peter, who knew way more about the bible, who had way more authority, who had way more money, people with better character, better values, who were way more successful, People who had known Jesus for way longer, and prayed way more often than Peter.

Failed to hear Jesus, failed to make the choice that peter did.

each time where the majority of people turn away.

Peter follows.

Peter responds, “because you say so” where others challenge, question, get angry, or walk away.

What separates Peter and others who say “because you say so” from the majority of “better people” who walk away?

Its all reflected in verse 8.

8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!