July 7

<p>Luke 5-6 We are in the Christ Stream reading from the New Living Translation. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Stream | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Jesus, thank you for teaching us.  Our adherence to what you told us will be what our lives hinge upon. Give us your strength to do in your Name what is otherwise impossible to do on our own.  Amen</div> </blockquote> <div>This is the first calling of the Disciples.  Mark has this incident in chapter one. Luke, as we have discussed earlier, begins by including much of Jesus' background, credentials, infancy, so it is not until ch.5 that the first "Calling" shows up in Luke. A couple subtleties that are worth noting in the story: nothing happens for Peter until he obeys Jesus and gets into deeper water as instructed.</div> <div> ['want something to happen with you in the Spirit for Jesus' sake? -get in deeper with Him.]</div> <div>The catch was so great, they couldn't haul it all in/nets tore. They hadn't committed to Jesus...yet. Note that in the post resurrection parallel scene - the nets <em>didn't</em> tear! John 21:6-11.  And notice that Peter/James/John - future GIANTS in Christendom, followed Jesus <u>immediately</u>. When Jesus calls, do not dawdle     !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div> <div>Jesus then encounters a severely leprous man who worshiped Jesus and pleaded and asked according to if Jesus was willing.  It's a rather touching attitude this man has. When Jesus healed him and told him to keep quiet about this, he was merely trying to slow the tidal wave of the crowd morphing into a bandwagon to make Jesus the Messiah King - [as they were shouting for on Palm <span class="aBn"><span class= "aQJ">Sunday</span></span>. a couple years later]</div> <div>Jesus healing the paralytic that the four friends brought on a stretcher is a very pivotal miracle in terms of chronology, importance, and theologic