Greetings everyone and thanks for joining me for this edition of our Sunday School preview. This Sunday’s lesson is entitled “Called To Significance” and is found in Luke 5:1-11.
Significance is a word that means something that is worthy of notice, attention or respect. Have you ever taken the time to consider what makes a person’s life significant or what makes your own life significant? What makes you or another person worthy of notice, worthy of attention or worthy of respect. It depends on who is being asked.
What may be significant to one person may be insignificant to another person. So significance depends on who is being asked. Peter, Andrew, James and John were all fishermen. They managed to feed themselves and their families from what they were able to do by fishing.
Beside their fishing business, they may have had a family including a wife and children and worldly possessions they had been able to purchase with what they had earned or inherited. The notice, attention and respect they gave to these persons and things are similar to what similar persons and things mean to us today.
Everyone is significant to God. Everyone is worthy of notice, attention and respect of our Creator. This is why Jesus came. In the lesson text, Jesus used one of Peter’s boats as a platform from which to preach to a crowd that was standing offshore.
After He had finished preaching, He told Peter to take the boat out into the deep water and let the nets down for a catch. Peter was skeptical because they had not long left fishing and had caught nothing.
Nevertheless, there was something about Jesus that caused Peter to do what He asked. Maybe it was something He had heard Jesus say or something someone said about Him or something he knew about Jesus.
Whatever it was, Peter said even thought he thought it will be a waste of time, he will do it just because he respected Jesus and His word. The bible tells us that they caught so many fish that the nets were breaking and the ships were sinking even with help for other ships.
When Peter saw what happened, he felt like Jesus was someone special and that he was not worthy to be in His company. Jesus told him that from now on he world be a fisher of men along with his brother Andrew and fishing partners James and John.
Their life was about to take on a new significance. For they were about to help make the difference between people living with God or dying without God. While all of us may be significant in our own eyes and in the eyes of our family, friends and others, God gives us the same opportunity to take on a new significance.
We can affect the lives of an untold number of people by becoming fishers of men just as they did. No matter what we may think and other may think of our significance and that of others, nothing can compare to the significance our lives will mean and have when we dedicate them to saving the eternal souls of our fellow human beings.
By coming to us and doing what He said and did, God proved to us that we are all significant and can become more so. Unfortunately, we are not all saved.
Well, I hope you will be able to attend SS this coming Sunday. Invite someone to come and share your thoughts with the class. Sunday School at Flag Branch will begin at 9:00 am and you are invited to join us at www.fbmbc.org and clicking the online services link.
You and others can also join us by dialing 508 924-2490. If you have any comments or questions before then, be sure to place them in the comment section of this preview and I will get back to you. So, as always remember to fear God and keep His commandments.
Pastor Jordan
