Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your fate. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

Let's pick up right there at Mark Chapter 1, verse 14, with the second installment of savage

Jesus.

After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.

The time has come, he said.

Kingdom of God is near.

Repent and believe the good news.

As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galileeilee he saw Simon. That's the guy

who got his name change to Peter, because God doesn't call you what other people call you.

He doesn't call you what you call yourself. You call yourself a failure. He calls you

a masterpiece of grace, a canvas waiting to be painted on.

So that's who Simon is, and we believe that Peter gave Mark the recollection for this gospel

account. Mark was writing down a lot of the memories of Peter. That's what scholars tell me

anyway. I wasn't there. Let's continue. He saw Simon and his brother, Andrew Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

Come follow me, Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men.

And once they left their nets, followed him.

When he got a little farther, he saw James, son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat preparing their

nets, getting ready to go do what they did. Without delay, which is Mark's favorite phrase in

scripture, it's translated different ways, but it's immediately or suddenly he writes that way.

It's breathless, the account that he gives of the life of Christ, because knowing that he has no time to waste in getting to the cross, he can't really take

a lot of time with trivial details.

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