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Luke chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 5 Let us pray our Father is in heaven, hallowed be
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  thy name, Thy Kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth, just
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  as it is in heaven. Give us today Our Daily Bread,
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  and forgive us for our sins as we forgive those who sin against
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  us. Lead us not to temptation God,
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  but deliver us from the evil one for yours is the Kingdom and the
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  power and the glory forever. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And it came to pass that as the
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  people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the
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  lake of Geneser. So here we're going to see this
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  miraculous catch of the fish to and saw two ships standing by
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  the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were
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  washing their Nets. 3 And he entered into one of the ships,
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  which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a
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  little from the land, and he sat down and he taught the people
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  out of the ship. So we know that Jesus loves to
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  use these ships as a backdrop. Four.
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  And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out
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  into the deep, and let down your Nets for a catch. 5 And Simon
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  answered him, said, Master, we have toiled all the night and
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  have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at your word I
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  will let down the net. That is where we need to be with
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  the Lord. We need to trust Him even
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  whenever it defies and goes against our own logic. 6 And
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  when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of
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  fish, and their net broke. There were so many they couldn't
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  take them in seven. And they beckoned unto their
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  partners, which were in the other ship, that they would come
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  and help him. And they came and filled both
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  the ships, so that they began to sink.
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  There were so many fish, it was so heavy that the ships started
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  to sink. 8 And when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus
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  knees saying, depart from me, for I am a sinful man oh Lord.
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  So here's another appropriate response, friends, that when the
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  when Jesus comes in, when the Lord comes in, our only response
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  is to fall down and to worship him and to know that we are in
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  desperate need of a touch and desperate need of a cleansing
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  and desperate need to be covered with his righteous blood.
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  And that is the only way that we can stand.
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  That is the only way that we can gird up our loins is by being
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  covered in the righteous, pure blood of Jesus Christ in here.
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  Simon Peter understood that he was sinful, 9 for he was
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  astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of the
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  fish which they had taken. 10 And so was also James and John,
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  the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon.
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  And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not, from now on you shall catch
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  men. So he calls them fishers of men.
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  11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they
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  forsook all and followed him. There is another appropriate
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  response, friends, when Jesus calls you into ministry, you
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  should be able to drop everything and to leave and to
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  go and to not hold anything tight fisted.
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  But everything that has been given to you, friends, you
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  should be able to let go of. And Job said it well, that we
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  came into this world naked, and we will leave naked.
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  We came into this world with nothing, and we will leave with
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  nothing. And all of our righteousness is
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  nothing but filthy rags, friends.
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  And we desperately need to be connected to the power source
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  and to be connected to God Almighty and to be connected to
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  Jesus and the righteousness of Jesus and the holiness of Jesus
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  is available to you, friends. But we need to let go of
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  everything that is holding us back, friends, everything that
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  we're holding on to, friends, we need to be able to live open
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  handedly. And they forsook everything.
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  And they followed him. 12 And it came to pass when he was in a
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  certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy, who seen Jesus fell
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  on his face and begged him, saying, Lord, if you will, so
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  you can make me clean. So here he knows that he has the
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  ability to, but he did not know if he was willing.
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  And so many times we pray, friends, and the healing doesn't
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  come, but we should never doubt that God can, and that God wants
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  to, and we should keep pressing for the healing even when it
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  doesn't come. And he put forth his hand and
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  touched him, saying, I will be clean.
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  And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
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  So you can see that Jesus has power over the sickness and
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  disease. And Jesus was not offended and
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  Jesus was not scared. And Jesus was not filled with
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  fear. And Jesus actually reached out
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  and touched this leper. He was not afraid of being
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  defiled here. He was not offended that this
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  leper would come so close to him. 14 And he charged him to
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  tell no man, but go and show yourself to the priest, and
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  offer for your cleansing, according as Moses commanded for
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  a testimony unto them. So you can imagine that this
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  leper went in to the synagogue and showed all of the religious
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  leaders that he had been cleansed of leprosy.
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  And what amazement when they traced it back to Jesus Christ,
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  the carpenter's son, the son of Joseph.
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  What an amazing testimony unto them, the power that Jesus
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  possessed and possesses for you and for me, and for today and
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  for such a time as this. And it is the same healing power
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  that is available to us friends. 15 But so much the more went
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  there, a fame abroad of him, and great multitudes came together
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  to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmity. 16 And he
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  withdrew himself into the wilderness and prayed.
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  Jesus often withdrew to desolate places, and the disciples
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  understood that all the power that he possessed was directly
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  connected to his prayer life. And look at how Jesus forsook
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  the crowds to get a loan. And we would do well, friends,
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  to go and be recharged, to go and make sure our cups are full
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  and overflowing and not empty and it is impossible to pour out
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  of an empty cup. And Jesus understood the need to
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  get a loan with the Father. 17 And it came to pass on a certain
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  day as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors
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  of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of
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  Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was
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  present to heal them. So you can see that this
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  paralytic is about to be healed. You can see that the Pharisees
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  and all the religious leaders were there, and we're going to
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  see what their response is, and it's going to reveal to us their
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  motives. It's going to reveal to us their
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  inner thoughts. 18 And behold, men brought in a bed, a man
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  which was taken with a palsy, and they sought means to bring
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  him in and lay him before him. 19 And when they could find not
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  a way that they might bring him in because of the multitude,
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  they went on the housetop and let him down through the tiling,
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  with his couch in the midst before Jesus.
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  So they broke open the roof, and they let their friend down into
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  the house. 20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto them,
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  Man, your sins are forgiven you as he said that to you, Friends,
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  have you reached out, and have you grabbed a hold of the hem of
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  his garment? Have you received your healing?
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  And look at how he forgives him of his sins, which is the
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  greatest miracle that we could ever receive. 21 In the scribes
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  and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this
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  which speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God
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  alone? They did not realize who they
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  were messing with. They did not realize who they
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  were looking at. They reasoned within their own
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  hearts and minds that he spoke blasphemies and Jesus is God. 22
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  But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered and said
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  unto them, What reason you in your hearts?
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  23 Which is easier, to say your sins are forgiven you, or to
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  say, rise up and walk? So he realized that this man's
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  infirmities were nothing in comparison of his need for a
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  clear conscience, for his need for his restoration to the heart
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  of the Father. He saw that his sins desperately
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  needed to be forgiven. And that is for every single
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  human being who has ever been born, is living, or will ever be
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  born. We all, every single one of us
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  need our sins to be forgiven. And there is only one way and
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  His name is Jesus. Jesus said, I am the way, the
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  truth, and the life, and that no one comes unto the Father except
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  through me. And that is Jesus telling us
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  that He is the only way. He is not one of many ways.
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  He is the way, and He is the forgiveness of our sins and the
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  remission of our sins. He is the way that we can have
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  peace with God, and He is the only way that we can have peace
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  with God. 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has
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  power upon earth to forgive sins, he said unto the sick of
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  the palsy, I say unto you, Arise and take up your couch, and go
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  into your house. 25 And immediately he rose up before
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  them and took up that which he laid, and departed to his own
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  house, glorifying God. And that's what we need
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  desperately glorified God in the highest when he brings about the
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  healing. 26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God.
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  And we're filled with fear, saying, we have seen strange
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  things today. And you will see stranger things
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  when you see Jesus coming on the clouds with the multitude, and
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  when you see the glory of God resting upon this earth.
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  We have seen strange things today, and this is just the tip
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  of the iceberg of what is about to happen.
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  And we are closer today than we were yesterday. 27 And after
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  these things, he went forth and saw public and named Levi,
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  sitting at the receipt of custom.
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  And he said unto him, Follow me. This is the calling of Matthew,
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  friends 28 and he left all rose up and followed him.
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  And that is our appropriate response, friends, when the Lord
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  calls us into ministry, leave your everything and go and
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  follow him and don't worry about anything.
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  Just know that you're connected to the power source and just
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  know that your food and clothing will be taken care of.
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  He rose up and followed him, and what a sacrifice this man made.
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  29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house, and
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  there were a great company of publicans and of others that sat
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  down with them. This was a big going away party.
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  30 And but their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his
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  disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and
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  sinners here? They're coming and they're
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  looking upon this feast, they're looking upon this dinner, and
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  they're seeing the disciples, they're seeing Jesus the Christ
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  sitting with sinners and tax collectors, and he is the friend
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  of sinners, friends. And he did not come for the
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  well, He came for the sick friends. 31 And Jesus answered
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  and said unto them, They that are whole do not need a
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  physician, but they that are sick. 32 And I came not to call
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  the righteous, but sinners for repentance.
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  We need to understand that if a man had 100 sheep and one went
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  astray, he would leave the 99 and pursue the 1.
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  And I tell you, there's more rejoicing in heaven over 1
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  Sinner who sees his need for repentance than for the 99 who
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  do not. And those 99 are the ones,
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  friends who think of themselves as righteous. 33 And they said
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  unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make
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  prayers? And likewise the disciples of
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  the Pharisees? But you eat and drink.
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  So here they're calling him a wine bibber, they're calling him
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  a glutton. They're asking why the disciples
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  are not acting like John's disciples, and what is he going
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  to tell him? 34 And he said unto them, Can
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  you make the children of the bride chamber fast while the
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  bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when
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  the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and they shall
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  fast in those days. So there was a cultural
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  connotation that's attached to what Jesus is saying here and
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  during a wedding feast, during the time that the bridegroom was
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  with his groom's men. There were some exceptions that
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  were allowed and here He is showing them and they would have
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  been well aware of what Jesus was trying to say.
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  And Jesus here was telling them that there is coming a time in
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  the day where they will fast. But during this time, this is a
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  time of festive and festivities. This is a beautiful time that
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  Jesus was with his disciples and teaching them, and he tells us
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  that we would do well to fast. 36 And he spoke a parable unto
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  them. No man puts a piece of a new
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  garment upon an old. If otherwise, then both the new
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  makes a RIP, and the peace that was taken out of the new agrees
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  not with the old. So he's telling us he's doing a
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  new thing, friends, and you cannot put this grace into the
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  law. And he did not come to abolish
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  the law, but to fulfill it. And he was proclaiming this
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  acceptable year. He was proclaiming to them that
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  we are no longer under the law. And he was telling them that
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  it's time to do a new thing upon the earth. 37 And no man puts
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  new wine into old bottles, else the new wine will burst the
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  bottles and be spilled, and the bottles will perish. 38 But new
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  wine must be put into new bottles for and both are
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  preserved. So he's saying that it is
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  important that we do not just abolish the law, that yes, those
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  things are still good and they are still acceptable, but we are
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  no longer held to that. He gives us grace, and grace and
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  grace abounds, friends, but we should not take that grace and
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  abuse it. And we need to be able to
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  rightfully discern the full counsel of God's Word. 39 No man
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  also having drunk old wine, straightway desires new, for he
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  says the old is better. And he's showing us, friends,
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  that it is these two working together.
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  It is not that we just throw out the old.
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  We need to know that God's complete authority, God's
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  complete Word is all working together congruently in this
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  beautiful tapestry, friends. And Jesus is the word in the
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  word was the in the beginning was the word and the word was
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  with God and the word was God. And we know that the word became
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  flesh, friends, and we would do well to have the full counsel of
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  God's word that we tap into and it all reveals Jesus, every bit
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  of it. I hope you've been blessed this
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  chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and so does God. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.