Thu Oct 8

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the word fish.

Reading

Luke 5:1-11—From Now On, You Will Be Catching People

Optional Reading

Matthew 4:12–22

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

Jesus borrowed their boat to preach from.
Then He told Peter to fish again and they had a huge catch.
Then He told Peter he would catch people.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

What did Jesus teach?
Did it make sense for Peter to fish again as Jesus commanded?
What would Peter catch if he followed Jesus?

Catechism

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What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?

To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life, with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.

(Acts 20:21; Proverbs 2:1–5; Proverbs 8:33–36; Isaiah 55:3)

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

Jesus continued teaching. We know His teaching was amazing and authoritative. He taught good news—how to be saved by believing in Him.

As he was teaching, He asked some fishermen to let Him sit in their boat and teach the crowds on the shore. When finished, He told them to put their nets back in the deep water to catch some fish. These fishermen might have thought, as Hughes suggests, what right did Jesus, a carpenter from Nazareth, have to ask an expert Galilean fisherman who had spent his life on the lake to do his bidding?

But they followed His advice, brought in a huge catch, then left it all to follow Jesus. Jesus said they would catch people—that is, they would be part of Jesus’s ministry of preaching and teaching the gospel, and people would believe.

Why do people need to believe the gospel? Because we are all sinful people. Peter, seeing Jesus’s miraculous power that brought them this huge catch of fish, recognized His sinfulness. We read in Matthew 4:19 that Jesus called Peter to follow Him. That is, to believe in Him, to fully trust Him, to obey Him in everything. Peter did. So must we.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 8b, 104a

Prayer

Thank God that Jesus calls sinners to follow Him—and He saves them.
Pray for the preparation for preaching God’s Word this Lord's Day.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.