Sermon - Epiphany 5 - “Into The Deep” - Luke 5:1-11 - 2/7/10
February 7th, 2010Click play to listen to the audio version of this sermon.
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We get a sense of the kind of attention that Jesus was getting, from St. Luke’s report of “one occasion” when He was standing by the “lake of Gennesaret.” Luke reports, the “crowds were pressing in upon Him to hear the Word of God.”
They had it right. If you want to hear the Word of God, you’ve got to get close to Jesus. Not the stars or the psychics or the god of your choice. You hear the Word of God from Jesus. He is, after all, “the Word of God made flesh.” (John 1:1). “This is my Son, My chosen One. Listen to Him!” (Luke 9:36). The writer to the Hebrews puts it like this, “In the past, God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and various ways. But now in these last days, God has spoken to us by His Son…” (Hebrews 1:1).
So, “the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God.” That’s a pretty good picture of the Church right there.
It would have been nice to hear the sermon he preached on this “one occasion” but Luke doesn’t tell us. If what follows however is connected at all to what He had just said, then maybe He had spoken to the crowd about the way God rules over His creation, from all the birds in the air to all the fish in the sea. In the beginning, God gave Adam ‘dominion’ over the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. But after he sinned, Adam had a hard time convincing the fish to swim into the net. But now, Jesus is about to present the 2nd Adam, Himself, who has dominion over creation, even the fish in the sea. God is making everything right again through Jesus Christ. Read the rest of this entry »




