A fisherman from the sea of Galilee makes a radical decision.  He leaves the family tradition, follows an itinerant preacher, and watches from the sideline as the man he chose to follow is brutally executed on a hill by Roman soldiers—another example that NO ONE can get away from the tyrannical rule of an evil empire that rules with an iron fist.

 

And yet…..MANY got away from that tyrannical rule.

 

You see—-the world has a grip on us.

 

We are destined to die.

Those we love are destined to die.

Our work is hard.

Our days are long.

Our lives are often times broken and discombobulated.

 

And that is not the worst of it.  No one can escape the tyrannical earthly threats of the enemy of God—-Satan.  Satan is constantly calling us out as a failure, continually urging us to fall short, and unhesitatingly telling us to do the wrong thing.  Jesus even goes so far as to say that he has one mission: To steal, to kill, and to destroy.

 

All of this is true.  And all of this was true for that fisherman 2000 years ago as well.  He had to think: “The enemy has won again”…….

And then—-something changed.  The man who He saw die a brutal death on a cross rose again.  And He reappeared and began to teach about what was coming.

 

John was changed by Jesus.  And He was changed in a radical way that compelled him to write the gospel of John.

 

A radical change of events.

 

An uneducated, unholy, and ill-qualified fisherman begins to write like an author who knew nothing else.  And he writes the greatest book I have ever read. The book of John.

 

You see…..our world can be great.  But it can also be very tough. We live under a tyrannical rule and sometimes are denied the opportunity to ever get ahead……..

 

But that truth only exists without Jesus….and that is exactly why John wrote this book.

 

John 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

 

I encourage you to read this sentence over and over again until you truly understand it.

 

This was not written by a scholar from Cambridge.  It was written by a fisherman from Galilee who had just discovered that he was walking beside the living God.

 

In the beginning tells us that THIS is the beginning of the Bible and I have always treated it as such.  John wrote those words so that we could read them on May 22, 2019 and be compelled to reach out to Jesus with all that we have.

 

Never forget where you came from.

 

Yes, you have an earthly mother and father and an earthly life and an earthly plan—–but you will find that your plan and all that is around you has holes in it that cannot be filled by anything on this earth.  And if you have ever felt that you have the cards stacked up against you and that you can’t make anything work……..you are correct in that. It is called the curse of Adam.

 

John walked his days and toiled and he discovered that his only hope was in Jesus……and because of it—he began to put the broken pieces of his life back together—not just for him—but for everyone around him.

 

Are You Ready To Make That Commitment?  Because I know a Jewish Carpenter that can change your world.  And all you have to do is invite Him to come and do it.

 

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J