Luke 5
The Calling of the First Disciples

1 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God, He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” 6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 Then they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 When he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.

What a great picture of our Savior coming out to preach and call his first disciples. Jesus was the God who created the universe, the earth, the Lake at Gennesaret and all the fish that the disciples are about to catch as well. Amazing little picture here is, ” the Word of God,” teaching the word of God to the people crowded around him. That is a very awesome thought the Word of God teaching the word of God.

4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”
5 When answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” It is interesting that Simon is obeldient when Jesus gives him a command here. He might have been thinking that this is a wise man so I listen to him but you know we have been out fishing and we are like fisherman so it might not work.

8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Simon falls down and calls him Lord here and confesses his sinfulness. It appear here that Simon got genuinely converted in the boat and acknowledges his sinfulness and the Lordship of Jesus. Jesus did not have to get him to bow his head or play soft music or lead him in a prayer, Peter fell at the knees of Jesus and confessed his sinfulness.

Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.” 11 so they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him. A true sign of a follower of Jesus is displayed by the two actions here. Obedience and sacrifice. Jesus tells them they will be fishers of men and the immediately pulled up their boats showed the desire the Lord has put on their hearts to obey him and James, John and Peter do it. The next action is sacrifice,” they left everything.” They left it all behind to follow Jesus. They left everything to follow the Lord.

Jesus is amazing here, He teaches the Word of God, He saves Peter and he gives the believers a direct lesson in obedience and sacrifice. This is a great illustration for us as well. Do we love the Word Of God? Did we fall at the knees of the Lord Jesus and ask for forgiveness of sin? Do we see in our lives obedience and sacrifice? I hope that we do.

You have seen them, two very friendly young men show up at your door and would like to tell you about Jesus Christ and the Heavenly Father and the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Siaints. They say all the right things, “Jesus, Faith, Repentance, Heaven,” but is what they say true? We at TNT Ministries have found this interesting video with some beliefs that Mormons hold to. Most times the nice young men who come to your door will not mention these beilefs but we have them here for you to view. Take a look at this video and see for yourself if this is what the Bible clearly teaches.

What a wonderful opportunity we have as believers to go out and invite people to the wedding. The wedding is ready, we do not have to wait any longer for the wedding to be made ready , it is ready now for the guest. Jesus tells us here to go to the highways. Why the highway? The highways are were there are a lot of people. Lets got were are the people are and find them and invite them to the Lord. So the servants went out. It is interesting in this scripture that they went. They did not sit around and talk about it, they did not have committee meetings, they did not say that they were or were not qualified to go, they did not say they could not go because they did not have the spiritual gift of inviting people to the wedding, they went out. A true mark of the servant is that he obeys what the Master ask him to do. Both good and bad, it did not matter who came both the good and bad people were asked to come in and attend the wedding. You got to love that. Ask them all to the wedding. All we have to do is invite the people. Let God convert them just invite them. And the wedding hall was filled with guest, the servant did the job their Master had asked them to do they were obedient and filled the hall with guest. What a wonderful thing to fill the hall with the guest for Christ.

ERIN PASSING OUT TRACTS

MIKE TELLING A GENTLEMAN ABOUT JESUS

IAN WITNESSING ON STREET CORNER

DEBORAH SPEAKING WITH WOMAN ABOUT CHRIST

This is a friend of mine and preaching machine Saki. Saki set himself up in front of the main entrance and read the Bible loudly to the people going into the show. He also preached for a while as well. It was very encouraging evening and it was amazing how many people heard him preaching at the show.

Tim Jones made the trip to the concert and handed out a lot of tracts the folks heading into the show. You know it is amazing how many folks will take tracts from you. It seems that a lot of times you can reach more lost people at one concert than many churches will reach in a year.

This was and amazing picture of the light God made streaming down through the clouds as we headed to the Chris Isaacs concert to pass out tracts and witness.

I found this through a friend of mine where Bob Dylan admits he sold his soul. I hope these guys repent.

We spoke with this young man for a while. He was extremely receptive to the Gospel and stayed around and listened to us while his meal got cold. We planted some great Gospel truth with him and hope that he gets saved.

The Lord let us see a beautiful sky he made at 5 Points. It was amzing to take a break from our work and see what He had put in the sky.

This Adoni witnessing to the the Muslim fruit stand guys. We have spoke with them before and we hope that the Lord opens up their hearts.

This young man we were speaking with wanted to stick around and hear the Gospel even though his freinds were trying to pull him away and another very loud man kept yelling at us every few minutes. He told us he had been in prison and really wanted to get his life right with the Lord.

Ian Swain explaining the Gospel to two young men.

The first incident happened when we first arrived at Five Points with Zack, almost instantly a man came up and started cursing us and blaspheming the name of God the Creator. He was foul mouthed and was yelling at us. Zack said he had bumped into him earlier and that he had tried to spit some food at him. That being said a few minutes later we had a great witness with young man who wanted to give his life to the Lord and turn from sin. The witnessing encounter was awesome and a great encouragement to all us who were standing around.

The next distraction was a little tougher. We had a very argumentative woman who would not leave us alone. She hung around for 20 to 30 minutes condemning us and yelling us that we were leading people astray. She kept barging into witnesses and was used by the enemy to run off people were trying to talk to. Leah Rosser kept telling the woman that she loved her and that God loved her too. Every time Leah would say this she would get angry and walk away. We tried our best to reason with her but she was not listening. We ask that you pray for this woman and that she will not return to disrupt our ministry.

The next interruption we had was from the Marta Police. Many time the police will push us off the corners because they say that we are breaking a law. Brother Zak brought a copy of the rules down this time so we could see if we were within our legal limits. Thank God we were protected and we discovered that we have a lot of freedom with Marta as well.

The really praiseworthy thing about this night is that even through all of the distractions that we were still able to witness and tract a good number of people. God is so good to let us do this.

We had a great time this past weekend at the Ringo Starr concert. There were a few things that I noticed at this outreach. What I thought was very interesting is that the concert itself had many empty seats quite a good many. If you do not know who Ringo Starr is he was one of the members of the Beatles. Now back in the day when the Beatles came to town there would probably be 60,000 fans who would have easily shown up to see this band. Now in days he is having a hard time selling out a 6,900 seat arena. This is sad to think that this guy has poured his life into leading people into horrible lifestyles of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Ringo is currently out beating the drum for the Transindential Meditation crowd as well. How many folks have listened to this music and been lead down a path of sin drenched misery? I hope this guy really repents and believes on Jesus so he will not be held accountable for all the lives his career has wrecked.

The other thing that was really neat is something that Tim Jones pointed out to me after the outreach. He said that getting the Gospel into someone’s hands is very easy. He went onto say that passing out tracts is extremely easy and takes almost no skill to do it. The tracts are usually novel and very easy to pass out. Here what he says to people to get a tract into their hand, “Did you get one of these?” Most folks will take a tract when offered this question. So getting the Gospel into a person’s hand is very easy.

Dan At Ringo Starr Concert

Robert and TIm Witnessing at the Ringo Starr Concert

Zak Holding up his sign at the concert

We have a great outreach day planned for the 4th of July. What a great time to be able to announce freedom from sin through the Lord Jesus Christ. So many people will be out celebrating this holiday let us give them something to truly celebrate this 4th.

Schedule For the 4th: Please feel free to join us for any event or all events

Peachtree Road Race
6:00 AM till 11:00 AM
We meet at the Publix Grocery Store at 2900 Peachtree Road NW Atlanta. We meet at 6:00 AM and will be at this location till about 11:00 AM

Lunch
11:30AM till 12:30 PM

Centennial Olympic Park Outreach
1:00 PM till 3:30 PM
We meet at the Park in downtown Atlanta at about 1:00 PM and hand out tracts and witness one to one to the people. We will be there until about 3:30 PM

Break at Scott Rowe’s House
4:00 PM till 5:30 PM
To get to directions to Scott’s House please email him at ScottR404@aol.com

LENOX FIREWORKS
6:00 PM till 10:00 PM
We head down to Lenox to from Scott’s apartment about 2 blocks away to witness, tract and preach at the largest fireworks show in Atlanta. We also get a great chance to watch an awesome fireworks show too.

DINNER
10:30 PM till 12:00
We Head back over to Scott’s House for dinner and fellowship. Let the traffic die down around Lenox and relax after a great day of witnessing.

Look forward to seeing there.

This past week we had a great time at two outreaches. It is very interesting how we came across two situations at two events that were totally different. The first thing that happened was on Tuesday night, we were out witnessing and we met a man waiting for a bus at 5 Points on Alabama Street. Mike and and I started up a conversation with this man and spoke to him for a while. He was waiting to board his bus so he had a few moments to speak with us. As we were witnessing to him, he revealed to us that he had been tried in court for molesting a three year old child and found not guilty. He told us that he had been found not guilty due to lack of evidence. My reaction and Mike’s reaction were the same instantly, we were both instantly repulsed by this situation. I wish I could say that it did not bother me but my skin started to crawl at thinking about someone trying to molest a three year old child. Mike and I continued talking to the man and we begged him that even though the court threw his case out that Holy God would not throw his case out and he would be guilty and be sent to Hell to for his other law breaking. He said he would think about what we said to him then he left us.

You know I thought about it and said to us this is a really sick guy but you know this is the guy that Christ died for. Titus 3:4,5 says, “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” It is interesting that this scripture says that He saved us, it does not say he saved us except the child molester or the murder or the liar. He saves the sinner against all violations. I then thought, our sin must be as abhorrent to God as this guys. I stand in the same position as he does even if I find his action personally revolting. If you really think about it the Christians sins could be considered worse or more offensive to God because we sin with light.

On the other end of the spectrum. Tim, Deborah and myself went down to the Hawk’s playoff game this past week to hand out tracts. We were joined by a young man of about 10 or 11 years old who loved handing out Gospel tracts. He would come over to us and got a stack of 100 or so tracts every few minutes and then went to pass them out to the massive crowd of people heading into the game. He came up to us later and said something great that I wanted to share with you. He told us,” If the people don’t want to take the Gospel tracts they have to deal with Jesus later.” That is super encouraging to us to hear a little fellow who understood the seriousness of the Gospel. What a true pleasure it was to watch him hand out the tracts.

Tuesday 4th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Saturday 8th 4 Corners Witnessing 2:00 – 5:00
Sunday 9th TNT Soccer Game 3:30 – 5:00
Monday 10th HAWKS Game Witnessng 6:00 – 8:15
Tuesday 11th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Thursday 13th Bible Study Postponed
Saturday 15th AUM Dinner Service 4:30 – 6:30
Sunday 16th TNT Soccer Game 5:00
Tuesday 18th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Thursday 27th Bible Study 6:30
Friday 28th AUM Chapel Service 6:30 – 8:30
Saturday 29th Outreach Atlanta 10:00 – 5:00
Sunday 30th TNT Soccer Game 3:30 – 5:00

A HINDU GOD STATUE

This past Saturday we had the the Atlanta Outreach. Atlanta Outreach is a a once a month where we send an entire day witnessing, tracting and preaching. It is a great opportunity to be a local Missionary for the day. The Outreach this month was a little different due to the rain we had. The rain made it almost impossible to speak to people outside so we started looking around for a good indoor spot. Sister Deborah suggested we go to the Global Mall on Jimmy Carter. This is a mall that caters primarily to Indians so it was like taking a mission trip to India for the day. Three of us went in and started handing out tracts and witnessing. There were many people here so we a good field to work in. During the course of the day all us wound up witnessing to Muslims. Muslims are very difficult to witness to for a few reasons. One, usually they don’t listen to much and many times will try to over talk you. Two, many times they are self righteous and proud and think they are not evil. So we witnessed to a few of these types on Saturday. I spoke with Omar, Zahed and Ahmed. These three guys had 1,000 reasons not to become Christians, ie the Bible has been changed, God has given us a final profit etc. Answering the objections can be tiring and go nowhere. During the course of the conversation I kept taking them back to the Law and showing them there condition before God. The Law would silence them for a moment and then they would go back to the objections. May I recommend that you stay behind the Law when witnessing. The Law was made for the self righteous such as these guys. They stayed and spoke to us for quote a while. I will ask that you pray for these three young men we spoke to and ask God to open their heats of stone.

IAN WITNESSING AT 5 POINTS

STREET WITNESSING FOR REAL

DEBORAH HANDING OUT TRACTS AT GLOBAL MALL

JASON AFTER EATING SOME SPICY FOOD AT GLOBAL MALL OUTREACH

TNT SCHEDULE FOR APRIL

Tuesday 6th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Saturday 10th 4 Corners Witnessing 2:00 – 5:00
Tuesday 13th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Saturday 17th AUM Dinner Service 4:30 – 6:30
Tuesday 20th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Friday 26th AUM Chapel Service 6:30 – 8:30
Saturday 24th Outreach Atlanta 10:00 – 5:00
Tuesday 27th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Wensday 28th HAWKS Game 5:30 – 7:30
Thursday 29th BIBLE Study 6:30

Please contact if your interested in attending:

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