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Another one of Jesus post-resurrection appearances.

Let's look at John chapter 21, the first four team versus

After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of tiberias and he showed himself in this way.

Gather there.

Together were Simon Peter Thomas called the twin Nathanael of Cana in Galilee the sons of Zebedee and two others of his disciples.

Simon Peter said to them.

I'm going fishing.

They said to him, we will go with you.

They went out and got into a boat, but that night, they caught nothing just after Daybreak Jesus, stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to them children, you have no fish, have you?

And I answered him know.

He said Castanet to the right side of the boat and you will find some so they tested and now, they were not able to haul it in, because there were so many fish that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, it is the Lord when time and Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on some clothes for he was naked and jumped into the sea, but the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish for.

They were not far from the land only about a hundred yards off.

When I have gone ashore based on a charcoal fire there with fish on it and bread.

Jesus said to them, some of the show Simon Peter winner board and haul the net.

Ashore of large fish.

And though there were so many the net was not torn.

Jesus said to them and have breakfast.

Now, none of the disciples dare to ask him.

Who are you.

Because they knew it was the Lord Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them.

And did the same with the fish.

This is now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

This is the word of the Lord.

Let us pray.

Give us Grace on Lord, to hear your word for us today.

All men.

What are the reasons I like this story is because it has breakfast in it.

Who doesn't like breakfast?

Anybody not like bread, cuz I mean, I'm sure there's one of you but you're an outlier.

If you don't like breakfast breakfast yesterday, I woke up to the smell of bacon and we had thanks to Cecily bacon sausage and homemade blueberry muffins and a whole bunch of other stuff that I mean, how do you beat that?

Breakfast?

Is pretty darn good.

Well, I'm sure those disciples were thinking about breakfast after a long night, fishing years ago, Cecily and I were on the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania.

We were there a couple of months doing some language study.

And from our little flat, we could see out on for the Indian Ocean.

And as we looked at one night, we saw hundreds of little white from The Horizon and the fishermen had gone out in the night and these little boats to catch fish.

It was a really amazing sight.

Couple of weeks later.

They moved on as the schools are fish moved on and that was the end of it every day for those months.

We were in.

Zanzibar.

We went to the market practiced, our language, but also bought fresh seafood.

Anything you can imagine, we had it every day.

It was just an amazing time.

Those fishermen like the fisherman, and our gospel story were working.

They worked all night.

Why were they out there?

Well, what a week?

And it been, they had seen Jesus on the cross crucified.

They had experienced him being taken down, put in a, to stay at heard the stories of the Tomb being open.

But Jesus, they had not seen.

They had an experience.

Whether it was discouragement or whether Peter just needed some time to think or whether he has ran out of pocket money and had to go make a living for whatever reason.

Heater said, I need to do something and what I know how to do is fish.

I'm going fishing and the other disciple said, let's go.

They all went together fishing all night.

And how many fish did they catch that first go-round?

I'm a fisherman.

I have finished all my life and I've done those all night fishing trips and boy, when they are coming in.

There's nothing better than a night passes like that.

But there are those other night and those other nights when you try every trick in the book, and every little GPS spot you put for your little honey hole and you try every trick that Dad and Granddad told you how to fish and you get nothing.

That's a long night.

And that's how I imagined was a long night for those fishermen because not only did they not catch anything.

They had all this weight on their shoulders, on their minds, in their spirit.

I don't know about you.

I don't, I don't talk a lot about the things that bother me, so Cecily kind of frogs and pulled it out after a while, but if something's really bothering me.

That makes sense if probably experienced this on Monday.

I was a long night efficient because I bet all those guys didn't say a whole lot and didn't catch a thing.

They came back to Shore and this scene is really funny.

I mean, I can picture it on the nights and the days when I've caught nothing and I pull back to the marina to pull the boat out and people are anxiously paying well, well what you catch nothing and then they proceeded to tell me how to fish.

It doesn't go over very well.

Can you imagine these disciples who are an expert at knowing every nook and cranny of the city of Bowie?

And here's this guy that Jesus, yet.

Bring the net on the other side of the boat.

Now, I think they were just too tired, too worn out to discourage, to come up with some snarky comment or other choice words to say to Jesus.

So they just okay.

And lowan behold fish.

They caught lots of fish, lots of fish, 153 of them.

Spell.

Why in the world did John put 153 in there?

A lot? A lot of fish.

Well, that's a long time.

You're not the first.

People besides, you know, back in the early church, fathers Augustine in the 4th and 5th Century.

He had this complex mathematical formula, which he came to the conclusion that this meant, all those who were saved under the law and saved under grace were within Jesus.

Giant, net of Salvation that idea Jerome said 153 represent the varieties of the species of fish found in the sea.

And so what this represents is the church has room for everyone.

All are welcome.

All Nations should be brought clothes.

Another one of the 100 is the fullness of measure a hundred.

The hundred sheep, a lot of sheep before.

Heard the hunger.

It is a hundredfold, the potential of a seed to grow a hundredfold.

The 50 stands for the remnant of those.

House of Israel, who would come under the lordship of Christ in three of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

One of our modern commentators.

When William Barclay says, I think, let's look at the net.

He says it look but that didn't break.