Christ’s Plan to Reach into Your World
(Morning Service)
Text: Matthew 4:18-25
Sometimes it is good to look at bigger portions of Scripture. It may allow us to see the wood rather than simply the trees closest to us. Through looking at such a large amount of text my hope is to consider together Christ’s plan for reaching into your world. By your world I mean those relationships which you are involved in, be it with family members, loved ones, friends or work colleagues.
“While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
(Matthew 4:18–25 ESV)”