DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 85

By the Sea Once More

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Qp4nF7ugDg

Vividly they recalled the scene beside the sea when Jesus had bidden them follow Him. They

remembered how, at His command, they had launched out into the deep, and had let down their net, and the catch had been so abundant as to fill the net, even to breaking.
Then Jesus had called them to leave their fishing boats, and had promised to make them fishers of men. It was to bring this scene to their minds, and to deepen its impression, that He had again performed the miracle.
It showed them that the death of their Master had not lessened their obligation to do the work He had assigned them.
But the lesson which Christ had taught him by the Sea of Galilee Peter carried with him throughout his life. Writing by the Holy Spirit to the churches, he said:
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
*Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;
*not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
*neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
*And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 1 Peter 5:1-4