Gone Fishing // Summer in the City // Ps Quincy Harriman

foreign [Music] um [Music] john chapter 21 verses 1 to 2 and it reads like this you can watch on the screens if you don't have a bible there's also some at in the foyer after service all right after jesus appeared again to his disciples by the sea of galilee it happened this way simon peter thomas nathaniel from cana and galilee the sons of zebedee and two other disciples were together let me give you the context for this chapter before we keep moving too far along too quickly this is john chapter 21 and john chapter 21 is giving us the account of the third appearance that the disciples have with the resurrected jesus this is pretty rad this is pretty cool and um the last two appearances happened in the previous chapter in chapter john chapter 20 and we find that this chapter kind of feels like it's the post credit scenes for the book of john now some of you are wondering what am i talking about i'm a marvel fan i like movies i like movies probably way too much i love all marvel i know my boy joel in the back we talk about marvel talk pretty much every week but i love it back to 2008 tony stark days i was all for it in the theater waiting like 17 minutes after those credits rolls for those three seconds you know me and nick fury i wanted that i wanted those things i i'm a sucker for it i google how many post credit scenes there's going to be in movies yes i am that guy yes i am the guy that you got to walk by because i'm going to stay there still eating my popcorn while the credits are rolling not because i'm looking for my cousin's name in the present because i just want that post credit scene i want it so bad and um john chapter 21 is like the post-credits scene for the book of john at the end of john chapter 20 he kind of wraps it up really and it seems like he would be the end it seems like the credits should roll but we get one more story and one more story that's incredible and i want to kind of run with you guys today about john chapter 21. see really what my heart my desire today and what i want to talk to you about is what do you do next what should you do next and see the disciples here had spent three years with jesus doing ministry with them walking around with them seeing miracles after miracles happen they saw him be crucified arrested crucified and resurrected they've now experienced the resurrected jesus but they still don't know what to do and the incredible part about is a lot of people don't realize that jesus was on earth for 40 days after resurrection 40 days sometimes we just think it's like four minutes when we read the bible but it was 40 days and the first time they appeared to the disciples was a day after resurrection and then it was eight days later and then now we're sometime a week or two weeks later that jesus still hasn't appeared to them and we get this third appearance so they're wondering what do we do i've we we believe in everything that you said jesus we now know that it's real that you are the resurrected jesus you are what you said you were gonna do this is incredible but what do we do with it where do we go what's next and i feel like there might be some of you in this place today and as i was preparing for this as god dropped this in my heart even just a few weeks ago i was feeling there's some of you in this place that you've had an experience with jesus maybe you've come to church maybe you've been to church for a while maybe you've gone through a freedom group come on freedom groups maybe you've been in another group maybe you've done something you've had an experience with jesus but you're still wondering what should i do next what's the next thing that i should do where do i go from here where do i go and we find this in verse 3 it says this i'm going out to fish simon peter told them and they said we'll go with you so they went out got into the boat but that night they caught nothing you know this is kind of like it's just interesting to me peter is the leader of these like other six disciples he's kind of the crew the ringleader of the crew he's the older reckless one that everyone kind of wants around that you're just gonna run with be like let's do it peter wants to go fishing let's go let's go fishing peter didn't know what to do in this moment but he figured he might as well do something and the answer was fishing you know if there ever was an accurate marketing slogan for fishing it would be well i have nothing else to do so i'm gonna go fishing now i know there's some of you that are like hating on me right now like come on like you're out fishing yesterday but let's just be for real like my dad took me fishing as a kid and i'm pretty sure i skipped more rocks than i did any fishing and it was like i'm pretty sure that the only reason i went fishing with my dad was just to boost his confidence at the end of fishing like dad it was so much fun and it's like what are we gonna do now like snow cone i want ice cream like that's that's what fishing was but peter essentially put up a sign on the door and said he was gone fishing see it was easy for peter because this was a way of life for him this was tradecraft this was the things that he's done before and so peter was impatient and said you know what i can't just wait around wondering what i'm going to do wondering when jesus is going to show up next wondering when i'm going to get my marching orders i need to do something and his something was fishing he was gone fishing and you know what i kind of relate to peter i relate to that feeling of like what do i do when i lack direction with my life where do i go what do i feel like what's the next step and what i might need to do and the question is what's the right thing to do today what's the right thing for you to do in this season what's the right thing should we do going into the fall see peter decided that he was going to go fishing he was gone fishing he checked out he did what was easy what was comfortable he was a fisherman it was just easy for him he saw a boat and he's like man i'm just going to go do this i'm going to get in the water and i'm going to feel good i feel like some of us maybe this summer i want to challenge you we're coming out of the summer i want to challenge you that let's not be checked out let's not go fishing in our marriage let's not go fishing in our relationships let's not go fishing in our in our relationship with the lord i believe god wants to push us beyond just taking the easy comfortable road and he wants to say there's more for you today there's something more that he wants in and through us see it was mindless and it was purposeless it was just fishing they were out fishing all night and they caught nothing now let me just be honest there's nothing worse than staying up all night and really it amounting to nothing you know when i was in high school i worked a job on the weekends from 11 p.m to 6 a.m every weekend in grade 11 uh painting office buildings it sucked it was it was horrible the only thing that was redeeming was i would go get like a just a greasy breakfast afterwards and that was basically my nights and my parents made a deal with me they said you can work this um because you're not getting paid minimum wage i was getting paid a little bit more like eight bucks an hour i was so excited and i was just rolling it in and um and and my parents said you can do that job only if you get up to go to church on sundays and i would do it i would work all night i would stay up go to church and just crash for the rest of the day and there was something about that staying up all night i understand what it would be like to be peter and the disciples they were out fishing all night which was a custom practice that they would fish during the night so they would have fish ready in the morning to be able to sell at the market but they went and they spent all this work and they caught nothing zero you know it's it's interesting what god can do with your night of disappointment and discouragement you know we're going to see in just a moment but god can do with nothing you know i was talking to my kids last night and we've been going through different different devotionals and we just finished one about the names of god and my kids now you know they're getting to the age where they have questions like the hard questions you know like where did all the kids come from and you know like who where did all the people in the world come from was it just adam and eve's kids and um like all you know the good ones right and so we start talking about it but they're asking like where did god come from who created god like thanks it's like it's like eight o'clock on saturday night and i'm having to get into a deep theological discussion with my seven-year-old and um but it's incredible that god is the one who can create something out of nothing he it says ex nihilio that actually is a latin term for who god is he can create something out of nothing so i like it's not like my kids when they got to go do a drawing and they got to get some markers and a paper god can actually create something out of nothing so your moment of nothing your moment of despair your night of feeling like it was wasted isn't wasted with god it isn't wasted with god that's what i love they they they catch nothing they've gone fishing and they're feeling disheartened they're feeling discouraged and they're feeling probably just done and i actually just think the really the real big part of this is they're wondering what they need to do and they're lacking direction in their life and see when you lack direction in your life it's easy to just drift and i've been there when you lack purpose you end up doing things that are purposeless and this is where the disciples were and so today what i want to do is over the next few minutes i want to give you kind of three things three keys that i believe will help you to be able to walk into what's next what god has for you if you put these things into practice in your life i do believe it's going to make a shift for you in august into your september and all the way into the whole new year this is what i believe and so as we continue to keep reading in verse 3 we just read this but as i read this i want you to make note of how many times they say the word they i'm going out to fish simon peter told them and they said we'll go with you and so they went out and got into the boat but that night they caught nothing the first point if you're taking notes please do it it just makes us feel good that's the reason why we say it you know it just it's good it's good for you and i also allow you to remember the first thing is that you need the right people with you you need the right people see peter there's been a bad rap on this chapter of the bible as if peter was doing something bad by fishing i just think he was just distracted i think he was just doing what he just normally did i think it's like how we just naturally turn on netflix it was like fishing was his netflix he just did what he was used to doing he just did it he was like he was waiting he had nothing else to do so he just went fishing and so what he but what he did do it with was with the right people he spent time with his disciples and i want to be clear with you we're launching a new easy group semester i have the privilege of overseeing our freedom ministry here and i want to encourage you if you haven't been in an easy group or a freedom group you need to do it there's just no option there's no option if you come to me i love you and i'm extremely pastoral but i'm one i want you know if you come to me it's like quincy my relationships are a hot mess and you are not in an easy group you are not plugged into a freedom ministry there's something lacking in the right people in your life and you say well wait wait i got my own friends that's fine but i believe right now that god has put you in a church for a reason so that you can be a part of a church a community on mission together taking over the city and the nation together this is why we do it it's not because we just want to have fun and not all we actually believe that when you're with the right people you get the right mindset and we have the right mindset man anything can happen anything can happen and that's why i'm excited about it get the right people on board yes they said they went they caught nothing yeah they still had a disappointment but they did it together they had it together man it would suck if peter was in that boat by himself imagine how the enemy would have attacked him imagine what would have come in his mind imagine what how we would have thought that yeah i denied christ just a couple weeks ago i'm such a failure i had there's there's nothing for me imagine what would have happened but he had his bros with him he had his crew with him he had the people that were fighting and believing and praying with him get the right people by your side see in ecclesiastes chapter 4 9 to 10 says this two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor bonus so if you're starting a job do it with two people if either of them falls down one can help the other up but pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up i just want to be clear right now there might be someone in this room even watching online that you had no one that's the whole reason why you came today we're here for you we're here for you i want you to know that you do not have to leave this building feeling alone you don't you don't have to walk out into the patio in the scorching heat in the next couple hours and feel like you are alone we are gonna find you we are we're going to talk to you we're going to connect with you we're going to encourage you to be a part of community because we know that being a part of the right people makes all the difference community is key let's keep going on verse 4 to 6 it says early in the morning jesus stood up on the shore but the disciples did not realize that it was jesus he called out to them friends haven't you any fish no they answered he said throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some see a random stranger asks them to try one more time on the right side and it was the precursor for the miraculous see they didn't know it was jesus at that time they didn't recognize them i don't know why i don't know if they just needed glasses or if jesus was looking different if like he got like a haircut i don't know what happened but they just didn't know who he was they didn't know what was going on and this man says jesus says throw the net onto the right side see this is a detail that john includes in here that it says the right side of the boat see in the bible there's a reference to the right hand of god 166 times in the bible does it reference the right hand of god and really what that means without getting into it too deep is that it means that that's the authority of god there is authority given when it's mentioned the right hand of god see what's happening here is there's authority given in jesus's name for the miracle in that moment see it's only by his word by jesus name by his word does a miracle happen see for them they don't know what's going to happen but i feel like there's a testimony of faith here there's a testimony of trust here there's a testimony of obedience here where they were challenging them that they needed not just the right people but they needed the right side they needed the right side and i want to encourage you what does that mean what does that mean is that are you on the right side with god are you on the right side with god there is an order that god has made for everything and it's the right way of doing it there's a right way for having a conversation there's a right way for your marriage there's a right way for that dating relationship there's a right way for your money there's a right way for walking in faith there is a right way and you know what the other way is or our way it's our way it's our way and there's a difference between when we choose to do it our way then we allow the resurrection jesus to be a part of it and see that's what was happening in this moment is that they were like man one more try like they could have been frustrated think about it like man i don't think i would have had the best attitude his some dude was yelling at me after a whole night of fishing and we got nothing like not even a little guy you know me like nothing i'd be like dude where's your boat you know like i probably would come up with something sassy to say but they decided we know what let's try it let's go for it what would it look like if we went one more time i want to encourage you today that i believe it's time to cast your dance again what would it look like for one more time in your life what would it look like for you to just say god i want to believe for that miracle one more time 10 years ago in march of this year of 10 years ago of 2011 i lost the hearing in my left ear completely gone um i was on an international flight came back had a head cold never got it back um went to many doctors i know a lot of you will probably give me recommendations after the service because that's the way it goes feel free my my emails quincy at experience church and um i'd love to get them hopefully the spam filter's high um but i've i've been i've gone through all all of the tests all the stuff multiple times and during this i found out that i lost the nerve i had nerve damage in my ear my ears totally fine i just the nerves don't work to it and so i can't hear it in my left ear that's not to have pity on me that's because i want you to know that when the miracle comes when the miracle comes it's because every time every time that there's an opportunity where i can press in is to believe for that miracle you know what i do i don't cross my arms and wonder if it's not my time i say one more time with jesus it just takes one more time one more time i believe that in your marriage i believe that in your family i believe that over you one more time just one more time with jesus can change everything see this is what the disciples they thought you know what we're gonna try it one more time what would it hurt they throw the nets over one more time i want you to cast your nets this is a trust exercise today would you trust jesus not just with your life but with every area would you so let's keep reading here verse 6 to 8 says when they did this they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish then the disciple whom jesus loves said to peter it is the lord as soon as simon peter heard him say it is the lord he wrapped his outer garment around him for he had taken it off the dude was sun tanning and jumped into the water and the other disciples followed in the boat towing the net full of fish for they were not far from short about a hundred yards you don't just need the right people and the right side you need to have the right posture you need the right posture see like you can't miss this this is so huge peter didn't care about the miracle he he didn't but as soon as the miracle happened he jumped overboard because he knew who the miracle maker was man man that hits home for me that hits home for me sometimes it's easy to pursue the miracle but not chase after the miracle maker man you know peter does the microphone michael phelps and does the 100 meters swim into shore leaves the boat for the rest of the dudes what a pancake like you got to pick it up you guys got to carry the load here but what was it doing in that moment was it was interesting because three years prior in luke chapter five the first interaction that peter has with jesus is literally the same miracle in luke chapter five you can read it i won't read all of it but jesus goes jumps in a boat because there's a big crowd that he's teaching he pushes off the shore he does his teaching and at the end he pulls out a miracle he asked them hey cast your nets one more time at the same time they were out all night and they had caught nothing they this time peter kind of has a little bit of rebuttal and being like i just don't think it's going to work but he does it reluctantly he does it there's a a miraculous catch of fish that's so large it breaks the nets they bring another boat over it sinks the boat they have so much fish they don't know what to do with at the end of this there's this incredible interaction that is literally the opposite response to what peter did now and it's in luke chapter 5 verse 8 it says peter says after the miracle to jesus go away from me lord i am a sinful man do you understand the difference here the difference is that when you want to know what's next with god you don't want to run away from god you want to run towards him and this is what peter wanted to do he was so committed to jesus he was so in love with his jesus that he wanted to go to him as fast as he can as fast as he can he had the right posture he had the all-in can't wait gotta get there as fast as possible kind of posture this is what i believe we need when we get into revival week why we create the space is because we need a posture for jesus i gotta get to the building man chris walkington is a boss when we do like 6 a.m prayer mornings and we were doing them he'd be here before anyone praying around this place believing for it he was up probably even two hours before that because he we couldn't wait to be in the presence of jesus there's something about that when you're around people that can't wait to be in the presence of jesus you know what you don't need people in your life to be like nah i don't need church today i i don't know i don't need to read my bible man prayer i do that when it when it's good for me you need somebody to say man i can't wait to be around jesus i can't wait to spend time with him i can't wait to hear what he's saying to me today and you know those people you know those people because they're different they're not chasing the miracle they're chasing the miracle maker so you need to have the right people you need to have the right side you need the right posture and there's a couple byproducts of that that we learned from this story there's some things some some results some stuff that comes from it when you get those in alignment and we find this as we keep reading the story in verse 9 to 10 and 12 it says when they landed they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it and some bread and jesus said to them bring some of the fish you have just caught jesus said to them come and have breakfast see one of the byproducts of being able to know what's next and putting this in your place in your life is that you get closeness intimacy with christ there's a closeness that comes with you and jesus see i love jesus and for a whole nother day we could go through so many stories of how jesus takes eating with people as an invitation for intimacy he does it throughout the whole bible from his first miracle at a wedding feast down to the passover meal down to disciples asking for food after the resurrection the guy was was wanting a snack after he walked through a door like it's so cool even on the road to emmaus he ends up showing and appearing himself to the people after he eats with them even to now one of the last things he does with the disciples is makes them breakfast man i love breakfast you got some breakfast connoisseurs in the house come on man you can clap for it too is something you just like thinking about that right now like man i just didn't eat breakfast thanks and um i love breakfast i got breakfast all day every day it's like my favorite meal i'll eat at all the greasy places i love all of them um equally but i also just like i'm game for just like the classics but then there's this place in banff i don't even know what it's called but they make stuffed french toast and it's like this thick i don't even know why i'm talking about it but it is so good it is so good there's like intimacy with jesus when i'm eating that french toast and um but there's something about when you spend time with jesus in a close proximity that's why he's inviting them to breakfast he's saying hey guess what you've chose the right people you've done the right side and you've done it together and you've done it in the way that you've come to me once you come close i got something for you i got something for you and i believe right now that's what god wants to do in our church he wants to get us to a deeper level with him a closer intimacy with him that's one of the byproducts the other byproduct is that and we can have keys come up now and one of the other byproducts is that we see is in verse 11 it says so simon peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore it was full of large fish 153 of them but even with so many the net was not torn see there's a byproduct of you get close with jesus but there's also the byproduct of a supernatural capacity that you're going to have see the miracle here was twofold the miracle was the catch but also that the nets didn't tear this time this is what's incredible about this story is that what happened is that when you align yourself for what's next in your life god's gonna bring a miraculous catch that you've never seen before but you're gonna be able to hold it you're gonna be able to hold it it's not gonna break you it's not to wreck you it's going to be able to launch you and that's what i'm believing today is that god has a miraculous catch i love how john kind of mentions 153 fish like we have no idea what that even means why 153 but i just think it's kind of like one of those boss moves of like when you see those people in florida and they're holding up their big fish it's like it's like yeah it's like that selfie with it this is kind of what john's doing in this book he's saying hey there's so many that i want the rest of the world to know i want you to know how big of a catch this really was i want you to know this wasn't just small fish this was a 153 large fish this was everything that i couldn't even have dreamed of i couldn't even imagine god did this see the net wasn't torn the net wasn't torn the net had the capacity for the reach of god see the net wasn't anything supernatural it wasn't like made out of like material from god it was still their net it was still their net it was still theirs but god made it so that it wouldn't tear i believe right now that we're going into a season where there's going to be a miraculous catch but there's also going to be a miraculous capacity to hold it so what's next for your life what's next restoration in your marriage that's what's next i'm believing that the capacity can hold it i'm believing right now what's next is freedom in your life salvation for your family this is what's next i'm believing for healing in your body for peace in your mind i believe right now the miraculous catch is going to come with miraculous capacity even in our church i'm believing right now that there's going to be services constantly full to the place where we have no choice but to be looking to buy buildings across the street come on i already started i believe right now that there's going to be other campuses launched where they're going to be full because of the miraculous capacity that god's bringing to this house this is now this is what's next i want to live in a moment where i believe right now that god wants to build capacity in me to hold the miracle that he's bringing to us he has a miracle for each and every one of us he has a miracle for ec and the miracle is going to come and are we going to be ready are we going to have the capacity to hold it are we gonna say god i need you today to be able to build the capacity in my life to hold the miracle that you have i believe this is where god wants us to go today and it only happens when we all live with the right people the right side in a right posture would you just bow your heads and close your eyes with me i just feel so strongly that there's some people in this place that you just need to get right with god there's this time where it's like man you've been trying to do things on your own strength for far too long and i want to give a couple opportunity here first of all i think there's some of you that maybe as your eyes are closed and as we just take this private moment some of you maybe have had a moment where you said god i just haven't put everything in full trust in you i haven't allowed you to be the ruler over every area of my life i just want to pray for you right now if you're feeling right now that you just want to like get on the right side with god you want to just make things right with him if you've had a relationship with him but you've been just kind of astray you've been drifting purposeless mindless would you just raise your hand i just want to pray with you i just want to believe right now that god just wants to bring purpose over your life we're going to pray for that in just a second i see those hands raised i'm just going to take just a moment right now even just to pray over that and then we're going to just pray over one more thing lord i just pray for every person in this place that's just feeling like they're lacking purpose it's been feeling like maybe they were peter on this boat they just kind of put up a gone fishing sign i just pray right now lord god that you just remind them the things where they've been trying to do in their own strength but now they can put it into your strength into your word in jesus name there's even just one more person in this place that i just want to pray for i think there might be a few of you but you haven't had a chance to make yourself right with god to give yourself an opportunity to say i want to start my life with you you haven't asked him into your heart you haven't said this is the day that everything changes see in second corinthians it says that now is the day of salvation i believe today is the day the moment that you're going to say god i need you to take over my whole life and so i'd love to pray with you we're going to pray this together and in just a moment i'm going to ask you just to raise your hand if you've never made a decision to follow jesus before this is your opportunity to say i want to start my life with god with jesus at the forefront one this is your time two come on guys we believe right now today is the day of salvation three would you just raise your hand if you want to start your life with jesus yeah i see that hand we see the hands we want to just take a moment and we just want to pray with you ec family we're going to pray this together so would you repeat after me jesus i want to start my life with you would you forgive me from everything i've done and start afresh today in jesus name amen come on 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