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SERMON NETS 3
KEYS TO VICTORY #3
#1 This Sounds Fishy
Jan 10, 2001
My teenage years were spent on the coast of North Carolina and I loved the water and "fish'n" and I just thought I would share a small slice of my life with y"all.
I worked on charter fishing boats during the summer in order to help me through Bible college. Coming from a family of watermen, my time was saturated (pardon the pun) with water activities. I would get up anywhere from three a.m., go to the waterfront, prepare the boat, gear, tackle and supplies for a day of fish'n off the coast. If I had time I might grab a bite to eat at the popular waterfront cafe, Sonny's. I would sit there and talk fish'n with the other Cap'ns and mates or with the men who were getting ready to charter a boat. Of course I was always looking for an opportunity to share Jesus with them.
At the proper time I would "shove off" and then get the rigs all ready. After finding out where we were going and what kind of fish'n we were going to do, I would cut and prepare baits. As we left the harbor, I would field all the questions about the local area, fish'n, boat'n, water recreations and any thing else a wide eyed inlander can think to ask at that time of the morn'n. Often I would put out my lures as we got to the inlet, except for the long trips, then sometimes I would grab a few winks when my work was done and every one else was asleep except, for the Cap'n, hopefully.
I would fish all day, talk fish'n all day and then when we got to the dock with our catch, I would clean fish, and talk fish'n with the tourist, Cap'ns and mates who "tied up" near our boat. I would go to Cap'n Bill's Restaurant to get some ice tea and hushpuppys and then I would go home to a fish dinner, and talk fish'n with Daddy or other family members. After supper, I would go back to the waterfront and try to get a "party" for the next day or next open day. Of course that meant talking fish'n. At night, I might get into the car and drive across the "Beach Bridge" and go down the beach to the local fish'n piers and watch people fish and talk to them about fish'n.
Now some of you are saying, "Didn't that boy ever have a day off, and what did he do on that day?" Well of course I had days off and I did lots of things.
Sometimes I would go to the beach and go swimming or surfing. Sometimes I would get in my little run-about and motor up and down the shore-line. Or go with my buddy in his speed boat and make some waves. Sometimes we would get ahold of a sail boat and just sail the coast. Often we would take a net so we could get in some....you guessed it...fish'n.
I loved the ocean and the "sound", I loved boat'n and I loved fish'n. That is why I spent so much time doing it. That is why I spent so much time talking about it. I luuuvd fish'n.
And that is why people live, eat, walk, talk and dream Jesus. They love Him. He is there life. He is their all. He is their everything. That is why we share Jesus with others, we love to fish for souls, that is why we work long hours in the gospel, we love to fish for souls, that is why we have no activity where we can not take Jesus, we love Him and we love fish'n for souls.
Remember, God has called us to be "fishers of men" not keepers of the aquarium.
Good day and good fish'n.
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