{"id":2421,"date":"2020-08-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2020-08-09T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:18:49","slug":"two-fish-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2421","title":{"rendered":"Two Fish Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2418\">Yesterday<\/a>, I wrote about three of Peter\u2019s impetuous outbursts, trying to tell Jesus what to do, and Jesus\u2019 three different responses. Today, let\u2019s contrast Peter\u2019s responses to two miraculous catches of fish: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+5%3A1-11&amp;version=ESV\">Luke 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+21%3A1-19&amp;version=ESV\">John 21<\/a>. \u00a0<br>The fish-catching events set up the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Peter had fished all night and caught nothing. (Luke 5.5, John 21.3)<\/li><li>Jesus directed them to try again. (Luke 5.4, John 21.6)<\/li><li>\u00a0Peter obeyed.\u00a0<ul><li>\u201cAt your word I will let down the nets.\u201d (Luke 5.5)<\/li><li>\u201cSo they cast [the net].\u201d (John 21.6)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>They caught more fish than they could handle. (Luke 5.6. 7, John 21.6)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this point the responses differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Luke 5, Peter says, \u201cGo away for I am a sinful man.\u201d This is the fear-based response of someone raised in rules-based, perfection-requiring religion with \u201choly men\u201d separated (that\u2019s what \u201cPharisee\u201d means &#8211; separated) from regular people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In John 21, Peter can\u2019t get to Jesus fast enough. \u201cWhen Simon Peter heard it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment for he was stripped for work and threw himself into the sea.\u201d (John 21.7) This is the response of someone in a love relationship with Jesus (as the discussion in John 21.15 &#8211; 17 shows).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, both stories end the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In Luke 5, they leave their nets to begin the adventure:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. (Luke 5.11, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In John 21, Peter plans to continue the adventure<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He said to him the third time, \u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me?\u201d Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d and he said to him, \u201cLord, you know everything; you know that I love you.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cFeed my sheep&#8230;Follow me.\u201d (John 21.17&#8230;19, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our choice is clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4.18, 19, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about three of Peter\u2019s impetuous outbursts, trying to tell Jesus what to do, and Jesus\u2019 three different responses. Today, let\u2019s contrast Peter\u2019s responses to two miraculous catches of fish: Luke 5 and John 21. \u00a0The fish-catching events set up the same. Peter had fished all night and caught nothing. (Luke 5.5, John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Fish Stories<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-D3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}