Yesterday
we considered some of the benefits of the bread and fish provided in Jesus’
brunch. Those who wish to have brunch with Jesus sometimes believe that the
content of our worship musicing should be all praise. Although praise music is
very important to worship it is not the complete content of having brunch with
Jesus When we take a careful look at
the content of Jesus’ brunch, we find that it was not completely about praise.
Dining with Jesus was about receiving but it was also about a call to action.
First,
Jesus gave them the invitation to come to Him.
Jesus gave them a call to worship which connotes coming close to
Him. Jesus didn’t hand out fish
sandwiches to them on the boat. Having
brunch with Him required coming into His presence. Only when they came close to Him, were they
able to dine with Him. Jesus did not say
to them, here is some food now go and eat by yourselves. We can only receive the sustaining benefit of
the Bread of life and the sustenance of mature meat when we dine in his
presence.
Second,
Jesus did not only demand that they come into his presence, He also required
them to bring something to His brunch.
In John 21:10 “Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have
now caught.” Jesus expected the
disciples to bring something to his brunch because His brunch was a potluck
brunch. Today, each Christian must bring
something for the congregation to eat. The disciples had made pre-preparation
for their brunch with Jesus.
It is
one thing for Christian musicians to show up and sing and play some praise
music, but is another for them to come to Christ’s brunch with a fresh
filling. Remember that John 21:11
records, “Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes,
an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the
net broken.”
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