If you will this morning, turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 5, and we will be reading Luke chapter 5, 1 through 9. And it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret and saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed to him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a drought. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net break. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the drought of the fishes which they had taken. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for bringing us here once again to worship Thee. Thank you for keeping those who have traveled here safely to come and worship Thee. We thank you, Lord, for the message that was brought to us this morning, how beautiful it was to hear how faithful you truly are and how much you love us, Lord. Please make this message no different. Let us hear thy faithfulness. Let us hear thy gospel, Lord. It should be thy will. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. If you turn back with me to Luke 5, where David read for us this morning. I want to paint for you the setting that we have before us. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ walked down to the seashore And as he saw, he had a bunch of multitudes of people following him. And so he saw Peter and those that had been fishing all night, and they were washing their nets because they were finished. They were going to put their nets away because they were finished. So Jesus told Peter to push his boat out a little bit from shore so that Jesus could address all the people there. They stood on the bow of the ship and started to teach to them and preach to them the gospel. And then when he got done speaking, he turned back to Peter and he said to Peter, Go out fishing again. Now, that's that's an amazing thing, he says, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a drought. He instructs Peter who was the master fisherman. Peter had fished this lake his whole life as a fisherman. Peter, this was his wheelhouse, so to speak. This is where his expertise was. He knows where the fish are biting there. He knows where the schools of fish are. He's toiled all night. He and the other, they've toiled all night. Jesus tells him to get back in the boat and go out and go fishing again. Those nets that you've cleaned, put them back in and go out there and go fishing. And the very first thing that Peter says, as I would venture to say, is the very first thing you and I would say is we would show our unbelief. Because don't we know better than the Lord? And Simon answering said unto him in verse five, Master, we've toiled all the night and we've taken nothing. We've caught nothing. I know what that means. I've done this long enough. That means you wash off your nets. You call it a day because the Lord didn't bless it. But then something miraculously happens in the midst of unbelief. Faith comes and he says something. Nevertheless, you're going to hear me say that word a lot today. Nevertheless, in spite of what I know, in spite of my intellect, in spite of what I see. Nevertheless, at thy word. Nevertheless, this is what your word said to me, and I will do it. You said to do it, I will do it. And dear ones, the only way you and I will ever say that, nevertheless, is if we are given the same gift of faith that Peter was given. Right in the midst of unbelief. Is anything too hard for the Lord? He proves that to us over and over every day. And for Peter, Peter, as I said, he's an expert. He knows it's a waste of time. But he has followed his Lord. And faith credits the word of God. It credits his word. It lays hold of Christ. It says, give me Christ or I will die. And the words that came from my Savior, I must live by those words. And what was just missing, the Lord imparted to him. He blessed him with faith to say, Lord, I've taken it nevertheless at your word. I'm going to let down my net. I'm going to go right back out there, right where I was, and I'm going to throw that net over the side. And I'm going to go to go efficient. And dear ones, as I said, the valuable lesson that the Lord has for us is always in reference to the word of God. The Lord tells us he has given us his word. We have so many things we go to in this life. The Internet has become our friend. We go there a lot to find out what's wrong with us or what's wrong with our car or what's wrong. Dear ones, we need to hear his voice. The child of God must hear from his shepherd. His shepherd has all wisdom. His shepherd is wisdom. So we need to hear from him. Romans 3, 4, the beginning of that is, you know what that is? Let God be true and let every man be a liar. Because that's what we are. We don't have the ability to be true without the truth. And when the Lord said to him, you go and you do this, our unbelief would be right there with him. Well, Lord, we've been here many times. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how many times you've been there. He's sovereign. He's not bound by time. He's not bound by anything that we put our restrictions upon ourselves. Faith doesn't. It looks to him. It looks to the one who we leave our intellect, we leave our knowledge, we live no matter no matter how important it is, no matter what man has said it. God said, let me be true and let every man be a liar. And dear ones, when you go to the doctor's office and they give you a verdict, on what they think is wrong with you, you've got to hear it from Him. You have to. There's too much doubt in this world. Too much doubt in you. We know too much. We think we know. His ways are higher than our ways. That's what He's proven to Peter. My way. I'm sovereign. You can't say to me it's been this way. You can't say to me that you fished all night. You can't say to me they weren't biting them. Those are my fish. I'm going to make them jump into that net so much so that it took two ships to pull the net of all the fish in. So that's the word I have for you today. The word is nevertheless. Nevertheless, Lord, at thy word, that's what faith says. Faith says, in spite of what I know, in spite of what I think I know, Your word, faith credits the word. How do we know it unless we're in it? This is the bread of life that he gives us that speaks of him. This is his word. He speaks to us through the word. When Peter heard the audible word of Christ, so he said, nevertheless, Lord, at thy word. I'll push back out, I'll go back out there. Is anyone surprised of how much fish he caught? Well, he was. And when he threw himself down, he knew that that's the revelation of sin. You're so wicked, Peter, you don't trust him. And even when he pushed out there to go out there at the word of the Lord, he still doubted. The Lord, in his mercy, proved himself again. When Peter came back and he threw himself down, he saw he just got on his knees. Lord, I'm a sinful man. I continue to doubt you. And we do. We doubt him over and over again. But what I hope to convey to you this morning is that word, nevertheless. The Word of God uses it a lot. We're going to go to many places today where the Lord used the word, the word of God says, nevertheless, in spite of this, listen to me, listen to what what I his word always goes against any of our conventional wisdom. We're dependent every day of our life, and he proves that over and over. I remind us all the time, the Lord took that child and he set him right in the midst of them and said, unless you come like him, where he's just dependent upon his parents and everything for life. He can't provide food. He can't provide anything. He can't provide shelter. He can't provide a peace when he's scared at night. He goes to mom and daddy. Where do you and I go? Where do you go? Does faith say to you, nevertheless, Lord, at Thy Word? Thy Word tells us to trust Him. Trust in the Lord always. The Word tells us to rejoice in the Lord always. The Word tells us we should always be praying. We should always believe in Him. These are the things that the Scriptures tell us. Proverbs 16 25 says there's a way that seemeth right unto a man But the end thereof are the ways of death You know why I said that? Because dear ones that's the best we can do The best of our intellect ends in death. You know why because we get fear we get when we go looking We can't calm ourselves We can't the things we were isn't it? I hate this about myself. I will have a problem and I'll go and read it on the Internet and it becomes the gospel. Does it not? Do you not credit it just like it came from God? Well, this is what it says I should do. Let me go do it. I don't go to him. See, nevertheless, in spite of what I just looked up, this may not be the truth. You know, I was taught in my young age, my walk with the Lord, that any door, any door the Lord opened, you walked through. The Lord's taught me that's not true. He's sovereign over every door. Every door that some of those doors are a test. Do I trust him? Do I lean on the world? I think you all can attest to that. The times that we went without being sent. Without the Lord with us. Without the Lord going before us. And we've stumbled and we've fallen. Praise God. It shows us our dependency upon Him. Man's wisdom will always question the Word of God. You have probably questioned the Word of God. You start right at the beginning of the Word of God, where God said, let there be. Ex nihilo, out of nothing, God made creation. He spoke it into existence. You and I can't do that. We can't speak something into existence. So we doubt. Is that how the worlds are framed? We're bombarded today with man telling us this is how things originate. And yet they can't. They can't go back. Even if they go back to that little spot that we all came from, you can't get past the spot where the spot come from. Even if you go to intelligent design, there's somebody intelligent enough to design it. But they're not going to give glory to the Lord. Unbelief never will. And then and then as we We go through creation, we think of what the Bible says, that in one man, all of humanity was thrust into death, that we're all dead in Adam. Do you accept that? There are times in our life that we think, are you kidding me? I wouldn't have done that. God said not to eat of the tree. Why would I eat of it? We esteem ourselves too highly. Because the Bible is true. Every one of us would have took of that apple. Every one of us would have loved our wife more than or our husband more than the Lord. We would have. That's our that's our nature. We're put into a perfect place. We're not going to choose him. He's proved that the word says that we're all dead in Adam. But how many quote-unquote religions, denominations do we have today that don't preach that? That preach that you're in a salvable state. You can save yourself. God's put you there. Now all you've got to do is choose Him. Where is the sovereign Lord in that? And where is that in the Scriptures? I don't see it. But only by grace and by faith I don't see it. I'm kept by Him. But you see where I'm headed with this, all the all the word we can just sit there. I mean, listen, they're still disputing whether there was an ark, the Red Sea party. Oh, no, it must have been down here on the shallow end because that could never be. You know, we've sat through those things, we've heard those things. Nevertheless. At thy word. Does your faith, the faith of the Son of God, if that's the faith you have, does it credit the word? Does it lay hold of this word and say, my Lord speaks to me here and what he says, let him be true and everything else a lie and all my intellectual knowledge that I've picked up in my life that puffs me up, let it all die because my Lord has life. There's power in his word. Oh, yeah. You know, we question everything we we question, is the Lord coming back? It's been a long time. Right. What about the resurrection of your body? There's people I know that don't believe in it. They'll tell you the science don't make sense. You're going to die and you're going to go back to dust and your body's going to be there for 500 years. And by the time 500 years goes by, they're going to scrape up enough to put in your pocket. And when the Lord comes and he speaks to that body, he's going to bring that body, that vile body and change it to a glorified body with no sin. He's going to do that. Who believes that? Children of God do. Why? Because nevertheless. I know what the world says. But Christ says, I said it. I did it. Therefore, it's true. So this morning, I want to go and answer this question. The question is, what is nevertheless? Nevertheless is, is in spite of that or however, we know that this is the situation. But what does the Lord say about it? And I want you and I desire you when you leave this place today, that that word, nevertheless, is something the Lord has written on your heart. Because you're going to have opposition out there to what the word tells you is how to live and what is glorifying to the Lord and how to live. And how to trust him. You're not going to find that out there. So the first thing I want to ask you today is what about prayer? What about prayer? Now, now I was, you know, when I was young and I was taught that, you know, when we make our petitions, we got to make demands. We make demand, we tell the Lord, you know, you're God, you should heal me. Basically, you're telling the Lord that you should heal me that like there's some kind of entitled reason that I should be that God should heal me. No. What did the Lord say? Well, let's go to Matthew 26. Matthew 26. You'll see that Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane. We'll just. We'll just start in 38, then said he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Terry, you hear and watch with me. And he went a little further and he fell on his face and he prayed saying, Oh, my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me the cup of sin, the cup of wrath, the cup. We could go on and on about what this cup represents, but I don't want to get stuck on that. We do know that the Lord asked if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. But look at immediately what he says right after that. There's that word. Nevertheless. You know, we can go into places and we can hear people talk about the Lord's Prayer and they'll call it what the model prayer, what he taught us how to say these words, or then we'll go to John 17, which I believe is the Lord's Prayer. But in this prayer, he teaches us this is the only way to touch God's will. That's it. We pray and the only answered prayer is the prayer that touches God's will. We don't have the command over that. We don't get to command God and say, you answer to me, regardless of what man says. Nevertheless, the Lord is teaching us how it is we are to pray. Thy will be done. Nevertheless. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. Now, listen, we all know people in this room We have people in our life that are close to us that we know don't know the Lord. And that's a huge burden that we carry. How do you pray for them? Do you ask the Lord to save them? Yeah, I do. But the Lord teaches us how to pray. Nevertheless, Lord, thy will be done. What brings you glory? What is it that brings you glory? Not my will. Not my will. Have you been convinced in your life that His will is superior to yours? That His will is better for your life than your will? Yeah, He's taught me that. I won't say that was the case at the beginning. I won't. I rebelled in religion. Rebelled against that very thought. that the Lord knows more than that. He doesn't need my will. He doesn't need me. No, he doesn't. Absolutely not. In all of our prayers, the Lord teaches us to say that it's not our will, but his will be done. That's the faith of nevertheless. That's the faith in prayer. And I'm talking about a true emptied person who's praying before the Lord. I'm not talking about foreign prayers. I don't have any problem. You pray any way that you're led to pray. But the prayer that touches the will of God, the one authored by the Holy Spirit, is the one that prays according to his will. Lord, whatever brings you glory. We can't pray in the will of God until we're brought here. Not making demands. Not us. He doesn't owe us anything. I hope you've been convinced of that. But what about when you're called to minister to others? Paul was a preacher. I'm a preacher. So I know what the Lord's taught me. But in your daily walk, the Lord may bring people in your path. What does he tell us about our deportment? How we carry ourselves as we're ministering to others and how we receive what they say back to us. Turn with me over to Second Timothy. 2 Timothy chapter 1. Look at verse 12. Paul had just gotten done explaining how he has suffered a lot for preaching the gospel, for teaching the gospel, for preaching the gospel. And I'm going to tell you now, I've been preaching a while. I have not entered into nor have I been asked to suffer the way Paul did. I haven't suffered any shipwreck. I haven't had an asp on my hand. I haven't been beaten. I haven't been all the other things. But I have suffered persecution for what I preach. I have been called a lot of names. I've been called the devil and I rejoiced in that day because my Lord was called the devil. I got to enter into his suffering. Praise God for that. But look what Paul says in verse 12. He says for the for the witch cause, I also suffer these things. I suffer many things. And and as the Lord has called me to preach the gospel. Nevertheless, in spite of all of those things, in spite of the beatings, in spite of what man has said, in spite of the name calling. Nevertheless, I'm not ashamed. It's not going to change the gospel that's on my lips. I pray to God, he sustains me and keeps me all the days of my life. That is whatever the last day that he has ordained for me to live, that his gospel is on my lips then. And I pray the same for you because you will be rejected by the world. You will you will be trotted down under their feet. Does it matter? Do the accolades of men or the acceptance of men, is that what we speak to others about the Lord about? Does that alter how we walk forward? And Paul said, I'm not ashamed. It's not going to keep me because for I know whom I have believed. That's faith. That's the faith of nevertheless. Listen, I may preach and I may have everybody run me out of the town, wherever it is the Lord leads me to preach. I was heading home last week from Apopka and I told my wife and I told them there, I've preached in places that as I'm preaching the message, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, this is all I see out there. Heads going that way. But last week I got to see this, just like I see it this morning. I see the head nodding. Yes, that's my Lord. That to me speaks volumes. That gives me joy beyond belief. To know that the Lord's people receive, hear, love, cherish the gospel. Because that's what life is. Nevertheless, world, you can scoff. You can berate, you can throw things, you can label me. I know whom I believe and I am persuaded that he is able, not me, I'm not keeping myself, that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day. Oh, that's the resolve. That's Christ in me, the hope of glory. I hope that's Christ in you. I've always told anybody that asked me, I want to speak to this person. I want to speak. The answer lies in the unction. Has the Lord went before you? Has the Lord given you? I'm not one of those people is telling you to beat down people's walls and go door to door and tell them about. I'm sorry. The Lord knows who his people are. We're going to see that here in a minute. He knows. He'll send the gospel to who he has the purpose of the gospel here. And that includes those who reject it. Oh, I know who I believe. So that's the nevertheless and how we deal with others. Faith says no matter what we hear, no matter what kind of opposition there is, The faith of the Lord lays hold of Christ and says, never look, they called my Lord a lot worse things than they called me. And as I started this, this section, Paul has, he, the Lord sustained him. He went through a lot more than I have. Praise God. He's faithful. Well, what about all the, the false prophets we hear? What about What about, I know you get sick of it. I know. And some of those people that the Lord brings in your path that you do speak the gospel to and they then give you right back a false prophet or a false God or some kind of false religion. I know how that makes you feel. I know how it makes me feel. I'm going to be honest with you, I get angry most of the time. That's not the place to be. That's not the place to be. That's when I need his long suffering. That's when I need his kindness. Because if you're going to speak the truth, your speech, as the Bible says, should be seasoned with grace. Should be. The compassion Christ had to feed 5,000 people. The compassion he had to heal the sick. The compassion you and I have to speak this glorious word. But there are many false teachers and false preachers in this world. Just turn your page over one to 2 Timothy 2. I want to show you what he says here in 18 and 19. He says, who concerning the truth, speaking of Hymenaeus and Philetus in the verse before false preachers, they have erred, saying that the resurrection has passed already and they've overthrown the faith of some. Now, I hear that and I think of Jesus's words in Matthew 24, 24, where he says, for there shall arise false Christ and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible. They shall deceive the very elect. That used to scare me because that's back when I thought I had to save myself. And when I heard the devil could change himself into an angel of light, that really scared me. How am I supposed to discern the wicked one coming as an angel of light from the Lord coming? How am I going to do that? I can't. Do you believe there are people preaching that you can? You have the ability. You, you can discern those things. You have the faith. All you got to do is turn it on. You know, it's tiresome. It is. It's very tough. But look what Paul said. He said all that. He says, nevertheless, there's that word again. Faith lays hold of Paul under the power of the Holy Ghost, who's writing these words to say this. The foundation of God stands sure. The Lord, having this seal, the Lord knows them that are his. Do you know that? The Lord knows those who are His. And here we are getting upset. You know why we're getting upset? When the false religions... First of all, we hate it. But second of all, that's what we're thinking. Oh my goodness, they're leading all these people to hell. It's true, they are. But see, the Lord knows those that are His. If those people that are hearing that false message If one of those people is the Lord's people, or how many they are, the Lord's put a hedge about them. They're not going to drink down that poison. They're the Lord's people. I'm not telling Paul, I'm not telling me that you've got to go save them. No, preach the truth. Preach the truth. Preach the gospel. Teach the gospel. Speak of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is your life, your hope, your everything. The foundation of God stands sure. He has this seal. The Lord knows them that are his. We're preserved. We're preserved wherever we go. We have eternal security. It reminds me of what Jesus said in John 6. If you don't want to turn there, I'll turn there. I think I've got it marked. I do. John 6. Verses 37-39. I love to hear this. This is why I read these quite a lot. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. Boy, that just takes me out of it. All that the Father has given the Son will come to Christ. And He'll draw them. And Him that comes to me, I will in no wise cast out. They can't lose. They can't send away their grace. When the Lord does a work and they come to it, can we backslide? Absolutely. Are we still full of unbelief? Absolutely. Does that keep our Lord from saving us? No. No. Nevertheless. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will know why I was cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which sent me, that of all that he's given me, all that he elected before the foundation of the world, and he presented to me and gave to me, all of those that are in me, I should lose not any of them. I got one even better. He says but I will raise them up again at the last day That's that's beginning to end. Is it not that's preservation of the Saints right there That's the Lord doing it all that is I Just I just say man. I'm with you. Amen on that But I'm gonna tell you something about this walk I And I look across the faces in this room and I know that there are people in this room probably that have walked a lot longer than I have. And I know how tiresome it gets. And I know how burdensome it gets. Do we have a nevertheless for that? Of course we do. Turn with me to Philippians 1. Philippians 1. I want to read to you what Paul said. Paul said this in Philippians 1, starting in 21, he says, For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. I could go on and on about that, but I tell you, to have that testimony, that's faith right there. For me to live, for me to walk out there is Christ. I'm living for Christ. But dear ones, you can't say it if it ain't true. I mean, you could say it, but it makes you a liar. Christ is your life. That is our testament. Christ is my life. To live is Christ and to die is gain. What's what's missing there? The fear of death. Let me show you something. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall choose, I want not. It's not my choice whether I stay here with you or whether I go to be with my Lord. For Paul said, I'm in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart. And I know when I say that in front of you today, that there's some in this room that will cause them great trepidation. It's my family. They don't want me going anywhere. I understand that. But I want you all to know, I desire to be with him. I do. I desire to see my Lord every day where my sin doesn't cut my communion with him. Where this old man that I've carried all this life doesn't rise up every time, every moment of the day. Where I don't, and I'm not even talking about the pains and all that stuff. I mean, that's wonderful and glorious that we're not going to have that. But to see my Lord, I desire it. I really do. I do. If the Lord took me today, and I want you all to know that, if He takes me, praise God. Praise Him. Don't cry for me. Praise the Lord. Paul said that. I'm in a straight. I really am. Because I know it's beneficial because the Lord still has me here writing letters and speaking the truth. And I know it's beneficial because the Lord has raised me to preach the truth. So I know that he's got that's his purpose for me right now at this hour is to preach the truth. I'm stuck. I'm stuck in between two. I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. There's that word again, faith lays hold of nevertheless. That's what faith says. Nevertheless, Lord, thy will be done. Isn't that what he's saying here? To abide in the flesh is more needful for you. I know that. Paul knows that. That's why I'm writing these letters. That's why I'm in jail. That's why I'm nearing the end of my life. But it's not the end of my life. The Lord has still given me breath to proclaim the gospel. And I know that I may have a desire to depart, and I do. to see him because of his love for me. Because of that love, I love him with that love. But is that the truth all the time for me? No, because there's times I'm faithless. And I need the Lord to say to me, be not faithless, but believing. And when he does, guess what? I believe him. And that's the only way. See that nevertheless that when when faith lays hold of that. And I want you understand this. This is remember our text today is nevertheless at thy word. That's why I'm showing you these places in the word for the Lord to take you in the word when you're when you're in your week and you're going through these things. What does the word say? What does the Lord say in his word? Nevertheless, faith credits his words. This is true. Not the thoughts I have. Let God be true and every man a liar. How many of you worry about the future? I mean, we got an election coming up. You want to call it that? I don't know. You know, do you worry about this economy? Do you worry about things like that? Do you worry about the future? I do. I mean, I live in this country. It is where the Lord's put me. But there are things that I worry about my kids. And then I've got two of my young ladies in here with child. So they've got another generation coming. Of course, I'm a little concerned about that. What does the Lord tell me? Well, let's go to second Peter. Second Peter. Chapter three. Now, let's look at verse 10. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. In the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth and also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy? Conversation in godliness now Peter just told us That the whole earth is going to be dissolved It's going to melt Look at look at 12 looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God wherein the heavens being on fire Shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Can you even imagine that? All these things that you go and you work for, that we make money for, to barter with, to bring to us, all of that's going to burn. Everything in this world that we value so much, that house, that car, the cares of this world. I mean, seeing what he said, he said, which the heavens shall pass away, the great and the elements, the firmament, the earth and all the works. All of those things that we put all this value on. This is the end, dear ones. This is when the Lord says it's over. This is the day of the Lord, when the Lord comes. And he says this. Guess what's here? Nevertheless. See, we always are anxious about that, aren't we? Aren't we anxious about the future? And the Lord in his faith comes and says, nevertheless, nevertheless, we, the church, those in Christ, according to his promise, what is his promise? That's his word. That's what we just read. Nevertheless, at thy word, Lord, I'll let down my nets. Who said that? Peter. Who's writing this? Peter. Something the Lord taught him. The Holy Spirit now says it again. He says, nevertheless, we, according to his promise, according to his word, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Who's that? The Lord, our righteousness. We look into Christ. We're not looking to who's going to be president because there's a higher, there's a there's one over him and he's still reigning. We're not looking to this economy. We're looking to the one who's reigning. Nevertheless, dear ones, we look for the promises of God. And dear ones, I cannot stress to you enough his promises are in his word. Oh, may he draw you there. Let's go back to our original text now as we went everywhere. Let's go back to Luke five and I'll make a couple comments and we'll finish up. Back to Luke five. Simon answering said unto him, Master, we've toiled all the night. We've taken nothing. Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net. Then we have the moment where he sees himself as a sinner. We have astonishment of all of them and all of the fish that were caught. And then we end this section in verse 11. And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all. and followed him. You know what that is? That's faith. That's the faith of the Son of God. Nevertheless, at thy word. He's faithful, dear ones. He's faithful to call his sheep to the shepherd. He's faithful to lead us into the sheepfold. He's faithful to lead us out of the sheepfold. He's faithful to lead us back into the sheepfold. We come in and out. but He never leaves us and forsakes us. May the Lord write that word upon your soul today and as you see the faith of the Son of God in it, nevertheless. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank Thee, Lord, for Thy Word. Bless it, Lord, as only Thou can, and send it to the places, Lord, that You believe glorifies Thee. that thy will will be done. For this I ask in Jesus' name, Amen.