Title Luke 05:1-11 The Holy Dream
Contents Luke 5:1-11
The 21st century is the era of pursuing the value and meaning of life. This is the time to seek inner stability and peace. Futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that the 21st century would be the age of spirituality. Our life that follows Jesus today is the pursuit of the value and meaning of life, spirituality and peace.
As the Lord prophesied, Peter went from a fisherman to a man-taker apostle. I started a new voyage of life with a tremendous harvest, in which 3,000 people repented once in a lifetime who worked all night and had nothing to gain. What made an ordinary fisherman so great?
The reason was the vision. Peter was a man of vision. The person who used to deal with fish has now turned into a person with the ability to deal with people and change people.
Vision is to see what no one else can see. It's about seeing things from a different perspective. Seeing it from God's perspective. It's about looking at problems from a new perspective.
Because it was Peter who had the vision of God, he was able to do such a great thing.
Peter was a man of passion. As the American essayist Emerson said, "No matter how great a thing may be, it can never be accomplished without passion." Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven belongs to the violent." The reason that they cast their nets into the depths by relying on the Word was because of the burning passion of faith that 3,000 people repented and believed in Jesus because they received the Holy Spirit and preached the gospel.
Peter was a man of prayer. When we pray, God works. As Psalm 2:8 says, “Ask of me, and I will give the nations as an inheritance, and your possessions to the ends of the earth”, when you constantly ask God and pray, God pours out abundantly. It was Peter who emphasized the need to be alert and pray when referring to the end times (1 Peter 4:7).
Peter is a proud worker who has been greatly used as the chief disciple of Jesus. Although Peter was a fisherman, he is a man of vision who dedicated himself to God as an apostle who took people. The Korean church we serve is a proud church and a church that gives vision.
When the gospel first came into Korea, the blood of martyrdom laid the foundation for the Korean church. During the Japanese colonial period, they were humiliated and abused for refusing to visit shrines. The church was even disbanded. It is a Korean church that produced many martyrs during the Korean War. The seniors of faith who defended the truth exclaimed that the gospel is the only way to live with the faith of 'Jesus'. They left us as a legacy the sheer faith that was protected by martyrdom.
Now, the Korean church must become a people-taking Peter, evangelize unbelievers as believers, and stand at the center of national evangelization and world evangelization. The Korean church is a huge powerhouse of faith, and it must spread the gospel to society as well as to the nations of the world. All churches must be faithful to the essence of the gospel to achieve national evangelization domestically and to contribute to world missions externally.
John Wesley proclaimed 'the world is my parish,' and declared 'the greatest grace is with us.' The members must claim that the Korean church is a proud church. We must declare that the Korean church is a church that gives vision.