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With y'all been a long time since
I've been back here and certainly appreciate it. I remember going
to McKenzie back in the 70s and preaching there for Brother Pascal
and having such a good time there. He liked to laugh. He did. He liked to laugh. He liked to
hear a good story. And he had a heart that was joyful. Now he could be, you know, amen. Okay, but he did like to laugh
and I told some jokes and he liked them. And I come from down
on the coast. My family, Fayard, how many of
you know of any other Fayard but me? Well, you know my wife. She was a bowing, The Fayards
came to America in 1729 on a ship called Lafayette. And my great,
great, great, great grandpa's name was Jean-Baptiste Fayard
de la Lancette. I cut off that de la Lancette. But his wife's name was Francois. And they weren't British. You
know, they were Frenchmen. And my grandma on my dad's side. She was quite a bit Cajun. She
would get upset with us children and say things I never did know
what they were were and I don't want to know. Because she would
really get upset with us. Grandma's get upset with grandkids
I mean. They do and they discipline them. I remember getting in the fire
and you don't know what a fire and yes. and getting in the fire
ants and get them little sores that would come up, them little
bumps, you know. And then we'd scratch. And she'd take what's
called Dr. Tishner's. Anybody remember, anybody know
about Dr. Tishner's? It's way down on the coast. It
was used, the first antiseptic ever used on the battlefield
was formulated by Dr. Tishner. And he used it for the
Southern Army, thankfully. And when we'd scratch, she'd
put that stuff all over there. And I think a brother, Raymond
Johnson, we would do a war dance. I mean, we really would. We'd
get we'd get to going on that. But anyway, I've grown up. We
went to school with Charlie Boudreaux with Renee a bear and that spelled
Herbert. Uh-huh, you know what I'm talking
about a bears and all of that bunch But I grew up around that
so that's in my heart, you know I can talk like this better than
I can any other way, but you know, you don't do that everywhere
But I remember and y'all remember hearing about Hurricane Katrina
Uh-huh Hurricane Katrina Man, it wiped out my grandma grandpa's
house just completely destroyed it. They lived on the bayous
they were in the Triangle type deal and by use came out and
just wiped the house out and all of that and my good friend
over in Louisiana named Boudreaux He is a shrimper, and he was
out on the boat thinking about what to do after the hurricane
and so When he got back home. He got his wife two little dogs
and Two little dogs. And he said, I'm getting ready
to go back out. While I'm going, you name these dogs. And she
said, OK, I'll do that. So when he got home, he said,
what do you name them dogs? She said, I named one Timex and
one Rolex. He said, why did you do that?
She said, they're watchdogs, aren't they? Oh, man, I enjoy my people. Amen. But I like Kentucky. I pastored up here for quite
a while in Marion and in Murray. And God's been good to us through
the years. And now we're in this shipping
ministry and shipping the Bible all over the world. And thank
the Lord for that. Take your Bibles today and turn with us
to Matthew chapter 13 and verse number 47. Matthew chapter 13
and verse 47. And I want to speak on the subject
of the parable of the net. The parable of the net. Matthew chapter 13 and verse
number 47 where the Bible says, again, the kingdom of heaven
is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and
gathered of every kind. And I want you to remember that.
phrase and gathered of every kind, which when it was full,
they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good into vessels
and cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of
the world, the angel shall come forth and sever the wicked from
among the just. Verse number 50, and shall cast
them, the wicked, into the furnace of fire, There shall be wailing
and gnashing of teeth. In this parable, we find several
things. It's delineated in this way.
First of all, the fishnet. The fishnet represents the true
churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. When I hear the word church,
it doesn't mean everything that's got a steeple. Because everything
that has the name church is Not a church. A church is a body
of believers who have been baptized by immersion under the right
authority. I believe that churches ought
to start under a right authority. I don't believe you can just
go and plop down somewhere and get some people together and
say, this is a church. I believe in succession. I'm
not link chain, but I believe that there has been a church
of the Lord Jesus Christ since the days on the seashores of
Galilee. And that church exists today.
And I use that word church in the institutional sense of the
churches of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So the fishnet
represents the churches of our Lord Jesus Christ who are preaching
the gospel. then and now the fishermen that
we find in this parable they're the disciples of our Lord now
in our day and then in that day they are the disciples of the
Lord the fish are those who are caught in the net those that
are caught in the net And then we'll learn about the
separation, the judgment, where they are separated by the Lord,
where the fish are separated. After we would drop the troll
out in the Gulf of Mexico, my papa and I, and drag that troll,
had boards on it that would be weighted on one side, and then
they would go out and spread the mouth of the net. On the
bottom, you had weights that kept it down along with the boards
that kept it down. And on the top, you had floats. Everybody I guess here has seen
a picture of a net with floats on it or have actually seen one
somewhere. Well, once you put it down, the
floats would open the mouth and the chain and the weights would
keep the bottom of the net down on the floor of the gulf. And all kinds of things would
come into that net. Cigar fish, they look like a
cigar. Cow fish, they look like a little
cow. Stingrays, we always cut the
stinger off. that knife-looking thing. I had
one that was that long one time, kept it for years, and I guess
Hurricane Katrina got it, too. We'd catch all kinds. My papa
said, for everything on the earth that lives, there's something
in the sea that's likened unto it. So we caught all kinds of
things in the net. You know what's gonna happen
with the churches of the Lord Jesus? We will get in all kinds
of folk. Amen? We'll get in, thank the
Lord. I've got some friends who were
formerly drug addicts, but now they're saved. And they're members
of a New Testament church. There'll be drunkards who'll
come to know the Lord, hallelujah. And then there'll be some just
plain old sorry That's what I was. Religious
but lost. And they come into the net. They
hear the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection and
come unto the Lord. Those who are caught in the net,
and then there's a separation. The separation is where they're
divided out. They're separated out. In our
parable, they're separated by the Lord. He separates the good
from the bad. I'm not good, but the Lord is
good. And therefore, if any man be
in Christ, he's a what? New creature. Amen. New creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. That's my life's verse. Well, that's what's happened
to me because I got caught in the net, amen? And so there's
separation. When we would bring the net up
the trove, we would lift it up in the air, had a bag on it that
was tied, where everything that came into it would go into that
bag, and then we would open it, and everything would fall out
on the deck. And then we would tie it back,
and we would put the boards back over, put the troll back over,
and drag for two hours. During those two hours, we were
separating the good from the bad. The good from the bad. Now, the number one good thing
we were after were shrimp. Any of y'all like shrimp? Hallelujah. Man, just give me a shrimp etouffee. And I'm a happy man. Fried shrimp,
boiled shrimp, shrimp, shrimp. Love them. Love them shrimp.
But we'd be sorting all that. If we caught, like I said, a
stingray, we'd just cut, pop him in the head, throw him overboard
dead. Didn't want him, or cut his stinger off and throw him
back in. but we separated from the good,
the good from the bad. We kept the good, but we threw
overboard the bad. And the seagulls, maybe you've
seen pictures of seagulls around a fishing boat. You know why
that is? Because some things are being
thrown over and the birds come down and eat that. There are
illustrations of that in the Bible where the birds come down
and eat the flesh. And we find that. And then the
net, we find it examined in chapter 13, verse 47, the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a net. That's what the Bible speaks
of here. There's the kingdom, there's
the church, and there's the family. We have those that are spoken
of in the Bible. The net, as I said, represents
the true churches of our Lord Jesus Christ who are preaching
the gospel of the death, burial, and the resurrection. Preaching
the Bible doesn't necessarily mean preaching the gospel because
people are only saved by hearing about what Christ did for sinners,
how that he died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
and that he was buried and how that he rose again the third
day according to the Scriptures and let me say this about our
net that we had it was not invisible Can you imagine trying to catch
Shrimp and fish in an invisible net There is no such thing as
an invisible church We don't have an invisible church When
I pastored, I had some members that were almost invisible. You
hardly ever saw them. But the church is local. It's
visible. You can see it. And you can feel
it in worship. The churches are of different
sizes. Some nets are small nets. Now,
we used to use a cast net to go down front of Beauvoir. How many of you know what Beauvoir
is? Beauvoir is the last home of
Jefferson Davis. The last home. That's where he
lived before he died and then he was taken up to Montgomery
and then now he is buried over in Richmond, Virginia. But that's
where he lived. And my papa and I, when we weren't
out on the boat, we were out in the water anyway. And we would
wade out there and cast a cast net. And we would catch a fish
called mullet. Mullet. But Steve, you know what
a mullet is. And that's not a haircut. But
we'd catch mullet. We use that so it was a small
net that we used for catching mullet to use a larger net We've
got boats down on the coast called pokey boats They catch a little
fish called a pokey and that fish stings Terrible we have
a plant close by us. It's called a pokey plant and
they process those into dog food and cat food and When the wind
is wrong, I don't want to say right because When it's wrong,
you can smell it. And it stinks. They're all kind
of fish. And they're all kind of churches,
amen? There's no doubt about that. And so there are different
capacities, capacities that we have in these nets. And true
churches make up a network that reaches the world. We work together. Boats work together you have
boats that work together and bring in the fish and shrimp
to the factory Let's look at the fishermen Matthew 13 verse
47 the net was cast into the sea who cast it into the sea. I Think Peter James and John
did Amen It was cast into the sea. I So we need to get the,
listen, we need to get out of our comfort zone. And we need
to cast the net into the sea of the world. And that's what
we see there. So the true churches make up
a network that reaches the world with the gospel. Dr. J.R. Graves, I've been to the
grave of graves. If you go to Memphis, Tennessee,
And you go with the Elmwood Cemetery you can go to J.R. Graves grave. And you say why would you do
that because. I think we ought to honor. Men of God of the past. And remember who they. were and
their influence jail grave said this the kingdom of Christ is
a definite organization set up for a definite purpose and constituted
a definite material his true church I believe that I believe
we have a net we can work with and we need to be doing that
Matthew 13, 47, the net was cast into the sea. Who cast the net
into the sea? The fishermen did that. If you don't get outside of those
doors and tell others about Christ, you're not casting the net into
the sea. The world is the sea. And we're
to cast the net into the sea. casting it into the sea. And
there's something else unusual about these fishermen. The fishermen who cast the net
into the sea were once fish themselves. I'm talking about true churches.
We were fish. We were floundering. Amen. And then the Lord drew us in. Amen. And that's what we did
with the net. We drew it in. And the Lord draws
by the Holy Spirit. All is vain except the Spirit
of the Lord come down. There has to be a working of
the Holy Ghost of God. There has to be a moving of the
Holy Ghost of God. So the net is cast by fishermen
who were at one time fish themselves. Now these men are called fishers
of men. Fishers of men. The Bible speaks
of that. Fishers of men. In Matthew 4, 19, it says, and
I want you to note it here, the words of Jesus, and he saith
unto me, follow me and I will make you fishers of men. You say, well, I don't know,
God's gonna save his elect and he'll do it in his way and all
of that, but he uses means. Amen? And the Bible says, follow
me and I will make you fishers of men. You are to be concerned
about those that are lost. Matthew chapter four, verse 19
says, and I want you to make note of these words, Follow me,
follow me, follow me, follow me, and I will make you fishers
of men. Now, the fishermen who follow
the Lord Jesus and fish, they're called wise. You say, where does
it say that? It says it in the book of Proverbs. It says it in the book of Proverbs. In chapter 11, verse 30, where
the Bible says, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
and he that winneth souls is wise. Now, we know God has to
draw, but he uses men to cast the net. Do you agree with me?
He uses men to cast the net. One thing that you never want
to be is hardshell. Amen? We're not hardshell. We believe in the sovereignty
of God, but we believe in means. We believe in getting the gospel
out. And these faithful ones are going to shine one of these
days. At home we talk about cutting the shine, but we're going to
shine, the Bible says, And they that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness
as the stars forever and ever." Daniel 12, 3. I don't understand
all about that, but I do understand it. We are to get the Word out,
go into all the world, and preach the gospel. all the world. That's why we put Bibles on board
ships and Scripture portions on ships. Why? So we can go into
all the world. And we preach to them, we talk
to them, but we also give them the Word of God. Faith cometh
by hearing, hearing by thee, what? Word of God. Comes by the
Word of God. Oh, dear friend, we need to get the Gospel out.
The field is the world. Matthew 13 38 the field is the
world the good seed is the children of the kingdom but the tears
are the children of the wicked one you know sometimes we would
catch something that would tear our net we catch something after
a hurricane they were catching cars and it was easier to catch
a and get a Volkswagen bug up than it was a Cadillac Eldorado
But all of those, I mean, all that, a lot of stuff was just
pushed out at sea and a lot of logs and stuff out there. And
we'd have to deal with that kind of thing. All kinds of things
are in the sea, in the sea. The net is cast, the gospel is
preached. And that's why missions is so
very, very important. And I want you to notice this
in Acts 1.8, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost
is come upon you. Come upon who? The church. After that the Holy Ghost, the
church was gathered. After that, the Holy Ghost is
come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem,
and in Judea, and in Samaria, and unto," what? What do you
fellas tell me? The uttermost part of the earth.
That's why we're missionaries. That's why we have a commission.
Mark 16 and verse 15. And he said unto them, go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to all kinds of fish,
to every creature. Now, who did the captain say
that to? Now I'm talking about Jesus as the captain of our salvation. Who'd he say it to? He said it
to the fishermen. And if you're saved, you're a
fisherman. Keith back there, he knows about
Jug fishing. Minus Cox used to love to fish,
love to fish. And put those jugs out and catch
the fish. Fishermen, follow me and I will
make you fishers of men. We find in Luke 5, 4, now when
he had left speaking, he said to them, launch out into the
deep. I've been in some deep water.
And let down your nets. You gotta put the net out. You
can't keep it on the deck. In other words, if you keep it
in the ship, in the boat, you're not gonna catch anything. If
you stay within the confines of the church and you don't get
out, You're not going to catch anything.
Oh, yeah, there'll be those who will come and hear the gospel
and be saved. But we are told to go into all the world and
preach the gospel. We're to get the gospel out.
That's what we are committed to do, commanded to do. Launch
out into the deep, he told Simon. Let down your nets for a haul. And Simon said this and this
is what a lot of our churches are saying. When I say that I
mean folks that believe in the sovereignty of God who believe
in what the Lord has to do. Simon the Lord spoke to Simon and said
launch out into the deep. And let down your nets for a
draught, a draught's a haul, a draught's a bunch. And Simon answering said unto
him, Master, we have toiled all night, and have taken nothing
nevertheless at thy word. At thy word, I will let down
the net. Will we let down the net at his
word? He said, well, we're comfortable
in here, but we're not comfortable out there. Well, you ought not
be comfortable out there, but you've got to get out there to
do the fishing. You've got to. It's what the
Bible tells us to do. How can you do it? Well, you
can do it by personally being out there, but you can do it
through home and foreign missions, amen? You can do it through missions. You may not be able to climb
the gangways and get on board the ships or go and work with
the Coast Guard or do other things like that, but you can help others
that do. You can help others that do. Then we find in Matthew 13, 47,
the last part of it, that they gathered of every kind
all kinds of fish do you know I've talked I've spoken to Japanese
fish fishers of men you know I've spoken to African fish Mexican
fish Russian fish Ukrainian German Egyptian and most recently Ethiopian
95th 96 nation now You say, why do you keep count?
I keep count because I want to know that I'm fishing. Amen? Hey, you go fishing, a lot of
you count the fish you got. I didn't get any of those, the
Lord gets them, amen? But I want to know where I'm
going, what I'm doing. Because I want to reach the world,
go into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature. The Ethiopian, I was telling
some of the folks about it, the Ethiopian, he had never thought,
he never thought he'd meet a Christian coming to the ship and being
able to get scripture for him. But what a blessing that is.
All kinds. The gospel, net, is to be cast
over everywhere you say this is going to be redundant
go you and all the world preach the gospel to every creature
I think sometimes we've got to be beat over the head before
we get the message amen sometimes we hear it but we don't hear
it the Bible says that they cast the net into the sea you can't
get a fish, you can't catch fish without going fishing. Follow
me, the Bible says, and I will make you fishers of men. And
Jesus said to them, come ye after me, and I will make you fishers
of men. It's in there over and over and
over. And then we find there's a separation
of those fish. We spoke a little bit about it
earlier. But no matter how good a fisherman you are, you'll catch
something you don't really want sometime, amen? You'll catch
a fish that's not good. Now, y'all like catfish. I like
catfish. I like it grilled with some of Tony Sachery's put
up on there. And then, I don't want Texas
Pete, I'll take it, but I want some Tabasco. Amen? And just kinda dab it on there. And that's good. I love gumbo. I like oysters. We used to dredge
for oysters growing up. I like fishing. I don't get to
do it much. Don't do it much. But you're
gonna catch some fish. But let me say this about saltwater
catfish. You don't want them. We don't
eat saltwater catfish. They're not good. But there are
some other catfish, like pond-raised Mississippi catfish, that are
excellent. And you can have you a good supper
with them. They sat down, gathered the good
into vessels, cast away the bad. The good fish The Bible says
they're trophies of grace. It's not because you're any good.
Because in this flesh there dwelleth what? No good thing. No good thing. No good thing. The good fish are trophies. I was in a place over around
Plummerville, Arkansas the other day, and they had these fish
that were up there, somebody had caught. Some of y'all might
have some in a house, I don't know. You caught a trophy. Fish. Do you know that we're trophies?
We're trophies. Ephesians 2, 7 says that in the
ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus, for by grace are
you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is
the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. He chose us, he separated us
from others, and no matter how hard the fisherman may try, he's
gonna get some bad ones. I mean, it happens. Benjamin
Keech, someone quoted Gil, Last night, and I like Keech, I like
Gil, but Keech said this. He said,
a net takes fish out of their element. You know what the Lord
did when he saved me? He took me out of my element.
That's what a net does. So those sinners who are spiritually
and savingly wrought upon by the preaching of the Word are
taken out of the element where they lived and loved to live
before. Taken them out of that. Out of a course of sin and wickedness. and such die presently to sin
and to the vanities of the sea of the world." Thanks to Calvary,
I don't go there anymore. Thanks to Calvary, I don't have
a taste for it. How about you? There are things
I used to do, but I don't do it anymore. I don't want to do
it because I have new taste buds. The Lord's given me good meat. There are a lot of verses that
deal with this thing of separation. It may be that you're here and
you do not know the Lord, and I pray God would do a work of
grace in your heart. Matthew 13, 49, so shall it be
at the end of the world, the angels shall come forth and sever
the wicked from among the just. evildoers shall be cut off, but
those that wait upon the Lord they shall inherit the earth.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment." Revelation 20 and verse 13, and
the sea gave up the dead which were in it. and death and hell
delivered up the dead which were in them. And they judged every
man according to their works. And death and hell were cast
into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Second death. And whosoever was
not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake
of fire. This church has a responsibility
to get the gospel out. I thank God for the printing
ministry. I've been helped through the years by the printing ministry.
That's outreach. But we individually need to be
involved in getting the gospel out. If you do not know him,
I pray that you'll be caught in the gospel net. I pray that
you will see Christ as the one and only hope and help. I like casting the net. I like
getting the word out. I like being there when souls are birthed
into the kingdom. How about you? How about you? So I just, I don't have a heart
for it. You need a heart. Somebody told me one day, well,
I gave my heart to Jesus. No, he don't want your wicked
heart. He wants to give you a new heart.
Amen? Amen. All right, brother, you come
ahead.
Parable Of The Nets
| Sermon ID | 51924144624723 |
| Duration | 38:13 |
| Date | |
| Category | Camp Meeting |
| Bible Text | Matthew 13:47-49 |
| Language | English |
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