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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time that we can come and study your Word together.

We just ask for your presence to please be with us, to guide us and lead us with your Spirit, O Lord.

And I pray that you would please help us to understand the message that you have, the words that you have for us this evening.

May you guide us with your spirit that he may illumine our minds and not that we just understand but we'll have wisdom to know how to apply these words to our lives that we might increase in faith this evening and that truly we might know that we have been in your presence and that you've been with us today.

Thank you, O Lord, for we pray in Jesus' name.

So our study for this evening is entitled Jesus' Encounter with the First Disciples.

This is already the second study of the Encounters with Jesus, a series of studies that my brother and I had written quite a few years ago, but as we're going through it, this is something that we study every Friday night.

We just finished Hebrews 11 together and I pray that you were blessed and this is our second study this evening.

Jesus's encounter with the first disciples.

Last week we studied about Jesus' encounter with the devil.

We started there because it was right after his baptism.

Jesus went into the desert, into the wilderness to pray for his future ministry, to prepare himself personally for what God had sent him forward for the work that he had been sent to the earth for and of course the devil came to tempt him at his weakest moment and Jesus would overcome the devil in every temptation that was thrown him with it is written And that was in Matthew chapter 4.

Now, this is what we read right after the encounter in Matthew chapter 4.

From that time, Jesus began to preach and to say, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee saw 2 brethren Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.

And he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

And going on from thence, he saw other 2 brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets.

And he called them, and they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him." Jesus, He began to preach to start His ministry.

He was preaching the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

This was right after He was baptized and it's a similar message that we should be preaching today For truly the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

1 of those signs that we are seeing in a great degree today is what?

And we truly see that the signs really in our days are much, much, much closer as every day draws closer, right?

But you see, after his preaching he calls the first disciples and in Matthew we get this big overview.

He calls Simon Peter who we know usually just as Peter and his brother Andrew, and then he calls also James and John brothers as well.

And I see here that OBS has disconnected my software.

If you're there please say you can hear me or something like that but it just disconnected.

Okay I hope you're all all able to follow.

But anyways Jesus after he's preaching He calls Peter, Andrew, James and John all together and these are the first 4 people that Jesus calls.

In Matthew chapter 4 here, we just see a brief overview, a brief encounter and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go over to Luke where we are going to see more detail.

So Luke and we're gonna start there in chapter 5 but we're gonna end, go to the end of this story so I can show you that this is the same story that we're looking at in Matthew chapter 4.

It says here in Luke 5, 10 to 11, And so was also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon.

And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not, from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all and followed him.

So James and John, they were brothers who were called after Peter and Andrew who were also brothers as well.

But these 4, Peter, Andrew, James and John, they were all partners together in this fishing quote-unquote business I guess but the 4 of them were working together when Jesus calls them and Matthew seems to indicate that Peter and the brother were called first and then James and John but we see here that they all came together at the same time.

Okay, but now let's go back to the beginning of Luke chapter 5.

What can we learn from Jesus' encounter here with the first disciples in their call from being fishermen to be fishers of men.

Luke chapter 5, and we're going to go to the beginning now.

And it came to pass, that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of Gennesaret and saw 2 ships standing by the lake.

But the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets." So Jesus At this time, as we knew from Matthew chapter 4, he was already preaching.

And he had only been a short time in ministry.

We don't know how long, for a couple of days, for a few weeks, we don't know exactly.

But As he began to preach, people began to flock to him to listen to him.

Because people had never heard such amazing preaching before.

Or in the words of what the Roman soldiers had said, man had never spoken like this man before.

They were bringing many people to repentance.

Such power that attended the preaching was rarely heard.

Yes, John the Baptist preached that way, but apart from that, this man was different.

The messages that he brought was different.

And so crowds would come in the days where there was no social media, in the days where people were not saying, hey I'm in the area please come.

The word of mouth brought flocks and flocks of people to come and listen and as Jesus was standing there, there was so many people that were pressing up against him.

Made it difficult for him to minister to them, made it difficult for him to preach.

Well Luke chapter 5 verse 3 tells us, and he entered into 1 of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship.

He got into 1 of those ships that was sitting there at the shore and this ship just happened to belong to Simon Peter or Peter as we know him.

And he asked Peter to push away from the shore so that Jesus could sit there and teach the people and be able to minister to everybody.

Had he had not done that he probably would have been able to minister just to only 25% of the people that were present because the crowd was just pressing in on him and he would not have been able to preach to the people that were standing far back.

And so he gets into the boat and he's able to teach and to preach from the comfort of the boat.

Now look, Peter was helping the gospel cause.

Peter, just by letting Jesus into the boat, was helping Christ and the work of the gospel so that Jesus could be the 1 that would teach everybody.

And you know friends, at the beginning, Jesus doesn't always come to me or come to us I should say and just say look I want you to teach, I want you to preach.

At the beginning, maybe he's just telling you today, hey, why don't you open your house?

Why don't you open the doors of your home and let people come in?

And then show them a video or get the pastor to come and teach or preach or get your neighbor or someone, your elder, whoever it is.

But there is an importance of the gift of hospitality.

Peter was allowing Jesus into his personal space.

Peter was allowing him to come into his his boat when no 1 else had dared to enter.

They were cleaning their nets, they had done.

But Jesus came into his boat and maybe, maybe today Jesus is asking you, why don't you let me in to your personal space?

Maybe God is asking you, hey, if you want to help in the gospel cause, maybe you can't teach and preach.

Maybe you can't be an Evangelist, but you can open your home.

Maybe you can bring the food The gift of hospitality is a gift that is underrated in many ways They say the power of the spoon does a lot of power for good It is sometimes more powerful than the pen.

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