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Gospel Jesus commissions the twelve Apostles. </b></span>Perhaps we can see here a 
fulfillment of his prophetic invitation to the first disciples: <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“Come 
after me and I will make you fishers of men.”</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“Come
 after me.”</b></span> This is a Hebraicism that indicates discipleship. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus is 
not <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">offering a doctrine, a theology, or a set of beliefs</span>. He is offering
 himself. He’s saying, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">“</span></b><b>Walk in my path; enter into the world that I 
have opened up.”</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“And
 I will make you fishers of men.”</b></span> This is one of the best lines in 
Scripture. Notice the first part of the phrase: “I will make you...” <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>God
 is the one who makes u<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">s </span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">from </span>nothing.</span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>To live in sin is to live outside
 of</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the creative power of God</b></span>, to pretend that we can make ourselves. 
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>How wonderful that he tells us that he will make us!</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">And
 what he makes us is always a reflection of himself: a fisher of
men. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>God wants to draw all things and all people into a community around
 him, in him. He is a fisher of people—and so wants <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us </span>to be.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div>

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