Hey everybody. Alright, so day three we talked a little bit about accepting at face value the Spirit of God or the things that he lays upon you without having all of the facts first. So today is from episode four. There is a scene if you want to see it y'all it is just amazing. It's 39 minutes into the episode if you want to watch it, but it uses the Fishers of Men stories in the Bible from Matthew and then I think Mark also has a count of the Fishers of Men. But basically what we see is we see these poor fishermen out there fishing all night long. They are professional fishermen so this isn't their first time out there. They have not caught a single thing. Well they come into shore. Jesus is standing there and he's preaching to a crowd and he's like, hey they really can't hear me. Would you mind if I got in your boat so that the echo would like make it easier for them to hear? And you know exhausted they're like, yeah, that's fine. So they go out. So then he tells Jesus ends up telling them, okay get it throw your nets to the side. Sir, we have literally been here all night. There is not a fish in this sea. Trust me try again. Sir, this is what we do by profession. Can you just hear yourself with that right now? I mean like how many times has God told you to do something or trust him and you're like Jesus you don't understand. I am an expert. I am a professional worrier. I have this. Sorry aside. So Jesus tells them to lower your nets pulls in this catch a fish and it is a miraculous catch a fish. So I love the thing about the chosen. This is not theologically proven because we don't have all the information but we know that there's other parts to the story. So the people of the chosen have done an amazing job of taking creative Liberty with filling in those gaps. So long as the point is the point of the scripture. It just helps you to kind of like connect to it a little bit better. So before this we see poor Peter. He has debt up to his eyeballs. He thinks that he's found this one way. This was his one shot and he could pay off the Romans because he had so many taxes that were due. It doesn't happen. So that's what they're doing. This is the last ditch effort. He is out there and basically like I love in the video. It's like he's like says go say goodbye to my wife. I gotta go like I know the guards are going to be coming to arrest me any minute and Jesus gives him what he needed. He had prayed and prayed and prayed give me the fish so that I can have the money to pay this off. But he gets ashore. He hauls the fish in he gets out and follows Jesus. I'm like I've had actually some really funny conversations in classes before where you just sit there and you're like what did they do with all those fish like who got that. Did he still get paid for that. How did that work. You know like the okay what actually fill in the gaps here. But the point of the story is that the blessing pointed to the giver so much so that Peter received the blessing had his eyes open and was like that is not at all what I need. I need Jesus. And how often do we go about our days and just accept all these blessings without focusing on the giver. Now we are to give praise and be you know show gratitude and all of that stuff. But Jesus really could care less if you say thank you. He wants you to acknowledge that it was him who gave you the gift so that you turn to him and get the even better blessing. Like if we realize that by receiving this gift that it meant that that that that that prayer works that Jesus is there and hears me. The fish don't even matter anymore. It is about my connection and maintaining that connection with the presence of the giver. So I'm not telling you not to be grateful especially we're going to be coming up on Thanksgiving before we know it. But turn your gaze after the thanks. Turn your gaze to the giver because he has something even better than the blessing to share with you.
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