"What's Your Net Worth?" - Mark 1:14-20 - (January 21, 2024 - Epiphany 4)

Grace Alone Online

Jesus spoke to a crowd of people on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. For everyone to see and hear Him preaching he asked Peter to let him board his boat and push out a bit from the shore. With people standing on the shore, and fishermen in the boat, Jesus preaches and teaches about the kingdom of God – to repent and believe for the Kingdom of God was at hand.

Then, in a seemingly random way, Jesus tells Peter, “Push out to deeper waters and let down your nets.” Peter does, and the nets nearly broke from so many fish that they had to call James and John to help them pull in the catch.

We might think, “OK, Jesus did this to show that He was the Messiah so that they would follow Him.” People look for signs, wonders, miracles to prove things. But there is something much deeper the way Luke tells the story, deeper than the sea of Galilee. Jesus links the nets of the fishermen with the preaching of His Word. Let’s revisit the story.