Into The Deep

Great, good morning everybody. Good morning. Thank you for coming today, family. I believe God is going to bless you with the Word today.

Do we have any guests with us this morning? Anybody new? First time here. Good morning.

Welcome to have you today. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much.

Thank you for joining us. Well today, I really just want to go a little bit of a different direction today. We ended our last series, but I want to talk to you today about a phrase from Luke chapter 5 where Jesus tells Peter to launch into the deep. And so the name of my message today is Into the Deep.

And interestingly enough, as we read through the story, the word launch that we find in the Greek is mentioned twice in this story. One time it says, when Jesus says, hey, I want you to put out a little from the land. And that's when Jesus got in the boat. He said, I want you to put out a little from the land and Jesus stood and taught the multitudes.

That taught the multitudes from the boat. And then after he was done teaching, he then tells Peter, he turns to Peter, he says, now that that's over. Now I want you to launch out into the deep. And so there's things that God wants to teach us as we move from the shore into more shallow water.

But then there's greater things that as we launch beyond that and push out into the deep, that he wants to reveal to us through his Holy Spirit. And that when we look at the word deep, the word deep obviously has to do with depth. A lot of times it has to do with the sea or the ocean. Sometimes the word deep can even mean height.

But more often it means depth. Metaphorically in the Bible, it has to do with mystery. It has to do with what we would call the deep things of God or the mysteries of God. And so that when we tap into these things, when we tap into that, we always find the presence of God there.

And so I just want to take you on a little journey today through Luke chapter 5. And we want to talk about three things that really what the deep is, spiritually the significance of the deep. And so three things I want to talk to you about today is that one, the deep is a place of riches. Now I want to say riches, I'm not talking about money.

It could be, but it's really not money. It's abundance. It's abundance that we have in Christ. And so that the deep is a place of riches or abundance.

Number two is this the deep is a place of revelation and understanding. That God gives us hidden wisdom through His Holy Spirit when we're out in the deep, so to speak. And then the final thing, number three, is that the deep is a place of resonance. The deep is a place of resonance.

That there is a frequency in the deep that we resonate with because we're made in the image of God. And I really want to release, that's really where I want to close today. And I just want to, hopefully, I told Pastor Seth, hopefully I can communicate verbally today. What's stirring in me emotionally today.

I'm not a feeler by nature. I'm a thinker. But God, I feel something today. And I trust by the power of God's Word and the Holy Spirit that He'll enable me to communicate exactly what's stirring in me.

And put it into words, and I pray that it touches your heart as well. If you have your Bibles, Luke, chapter 5, I was prepared again today. Do you remember last week I was getting ready to go off-road because we had no PowerPoint? Well, it came back last week and it went out during worship again today, and Pastor Seth brought it back to life.

So, thank God, we have a PowerPoint. But eventually, maybe you just need to start bringing your Bibles, and that would be a good not bad thing either. So if you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn to Luke, chapter 5. We're going to read the first 11 verses of Luke 5, and then we'll make several of those points as we talk through it.

And just see what God has for us today. So Luke, chapter 5, verse 1. It says, so it was, as the multitudes pressed about Him to hear the Word of God that He stood by the Lake of Ganesirith. Now, Ganesirith is just another name for Galilee.

So, the Sea of Galilee, the Lake of Ganesirith, the same body of water. And He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and He asked to put out a little from the land, and He sat down and taught them altitude from the boat. And when He stopped speaking, He said to Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

But Simon answered and said to Him, Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the nets. And when He had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So, they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them.

And they came and filled both boats so that they began to sink. And when Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus, and he sang, and he sang, for me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord, for he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken. And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid from now on, you will catch men.

I feel like there's a lady here today that needs that word. If you, huh? Anybody need that word today? You will catch men.

You know, sometimes the Holy Spirit just highlights something as you're reading it. Anybody need to catch a man. We bless you with Luke chapter 5 verse 10. It says, so when they had brought all their boats to the land, they first took all and followed Him.

Thank you, Lord, for your word we pray in Jesus' name. Speak to us today. Father, we ask you to, we know that your word cuts deep, that it's sharper than a two-edged sword that your word is alive. It's dividing a son to soul and spirit.

So Father, I pray today that the word would penetrate to the deepest regions of our soul and spirit. And we ask it in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. So here's Peter.

Peter and his brother, Peter and Andrew, they're in one boat. They run a boat and we have James and John, sons of Zebedee, that they're running another boat. And they're all partners in this fishing venture. They fish together.

They're a professional fisherman. They do this day in, day out. It is their livelihood. In this particular night, they had fish.

Now at that time, fishing, the best fishing at that lake took place on the Sea of Galilee. It took place at night. They would fish at night. And then as the sun would come up, they would head back to shore.

And in this particular night, they batted a big zero. Anybody ever go fishing and not catch a thing? Yeah. Most of us, that's why it's called fishing and not catching.

If you always caught something, it would be called catching. But there's always an element that you may not. And so these guys, fish all night, they come back, they exited the boat, and they're on the boat washing out their nets. Now the nets were shallow water nets.

These were not deep water nets. They were shallow water nets. They would be cast out in shallow water, the fish, and then they pulled them up and put them into the boat. And so these guys, new day and day out, how to do this.

And along comes Jesus. And he sees them washing their nets on the shore. They're getting them ready. They're repairing the tears.

They're cleaning them up, getting out. Maybe they got a few barnacles or whatever is in there. They're getting ready for the next day. And Jesus says, hey, Simon, put out a little bit from the land.

And I want to teach because the people want the word. And so Simon does, and he gets in the boat, and he puts out a little bit from the land and says, Jesus sat down and taught the people. Now it doesn't tell us what Jesus taught. It doesn't even tell us what he taught about.

We don't know. That's part of a little bit about the mystery of the deep here. A lot of times it's not as much as what Jesus says, but a lot of times it's more about what he has. And sometimes it's more about what he has hid for us to later discover.

And so that as Jesus, when he finishes teaching, he says, Simon, I want you to launch out into the deep and let your net down for a catch. Now think about this. Simon had just fished all night. He was the professional.

Now if you're good at something, you really don't want to novice telling you what to do. I mean, I have people all the time telling me how to do my job. And it's okay. I welcome feedback.

But there's certain things I'm really good at. And when somebody has no experience trying to tell somebody that has experience, it tends to rub you the wrong way. I'm sure Peter, you know, he was that kind of guy. He's like, who is this carpenter from Nazareth?

Think that he is. He's a carpenter. I'm a fisherman. He's from Nazareth.

I'm from this region. I've spent my life on these seas. I know that the fish are caught in shallow water. They're not caught in deep water.

Matter of fact, I've toiled all night. I'm tired. I'm weary. I'm exhausted.

It's not for lack of trying, but for whatever reason, I came up empty. And I think some people, I'd be remiss to say if there weren't some people here today that probably have pursued certain things in life, have exhausted resources, have exhausted time, and you're just tired. You're just tired. And you're not only tired, but you're empty handed.

You haven't received the very thing that you spent all night working for. And so he said, we've toiled all night, and we've caught nothing. You know, sometimes what can happen is we can let our expertise keep us from the deeper things of God. We can let our experiences keep us from the deeper things of God.

Well, I did it before and it didn't work. Sometimes we just get down right depressed. It's like, you know, I just throw my hands up. I don't know what to do anymore.

And so all in that circumstance, Jesus, he says, Peter, launch out into the deep and let your, this is important, let your nets, singular or plural. Now, I really like the King James here because it catches the Greek. Let your nets down for a catch. Peter said, master, we've toiled all night and caught nothing.

Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net. Singular. Go back there to Luke chapter 5 for me. Verse 3 and 4.

I want you to see this. Next verse. Verse 4, launch into the deep and let your, how many? Nets down for a catch.

Simon answered and said, master, we've told all night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net. See what happens sometimes our level of experience inhibits our level of obedience. Because who are you to tell me the pro-fisherman how to do this?

And so, and so what Peter ends up doing, his, I want to tell you this, his nevertheless was not the same as Jesus is nevertheless. Peter's nevertheless was an attempt to satisfy Jesus. Well, I know what, I'll humor you for a minute. Jesus's nevertheless in the Garden of Kosemony was an act of complete submission to the Father.

Peter says, nevertheless, at your word, I'll let down not two, but one. And so the great catch of fish, the abundance that Peter experienced, was not because of his perfect obedience. If anything, it was a lackluster obedience. I know what I'm doing.

I've done this before. I just spent all night. I know where the fish are in this lake. I got the best fish finder money can buy, and they're not there.

But nevertheless, I'll let down a net. See too often, we don't catch the depths of God's abundance because we're only fishing with one net when he tells us to drop two or more. See, what happens is when Peter goes out, God doesn't reward him for his perfect obedience or even for his holiness. Peter recognizes in the moment he says, depart from me, I'm a sinful man.

So it's neither. It's not a reward for his perfect obedience. It's a revelation of the goodness of the Father. See, even in the wilderness, when the children of Israel were complaining, God gave them water in abundance.

Psalm 78, 15 says this. He says that he gave them water in abundance as from the deep. He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep. Under an inferior covenant and to people who were complaining about God.

And because it wasn't about them, it was about the goodness of God. See, here's what happens a lot of times. Abundance is not found in my expertise. Abundance is not found in my experience.

Abundance is not found in my know-how or my intelligence. Abundance is found in him. Jesus said, John 10, 10, and I put the Amplified up here because I like it. He says, I have come that they might have and enjoy life.

You might have life abundant to the full, to the overflow. Like we talked last week about losing the man of mindset, getting out of this thing of, oh, God, if I just get enough for today, if I can just make it through today, if you just pride for today, God wants you to walk into the promised land to the place where you live in houses you didn't build, drink from wells you didn't dig, and eat from vineyards you didn't plant. There's more than enough. It's said the man I see the day after they ate from the goodness of the produce of the land.

That God has abundance for you. He has abundance that Jesus came to give you an abundant life. But here's what I want to tell you about this. As we step into the more of God, as we step into the depths of what God has for this church, I believe this.

It says that when Peter puts down the one net, it said the net began to do what? Break. And it said so he signaled to his partners in the other boat. Yo, get over here.

Because I can't do this alone. The goodness that God's pouring out on me right now is more than I can even carry. And it says that he signaled to his partners they came over and they began to fill both boats to the point where both boats began to sink. And let me tell you this, they still didn't catch all the fish.

There was still more fish that got through the broken nets. I believe that God wants to pour something out on this church and on this city that's so magnificent and so great that no one person here can carry it alone. I believe it takes ministry partnership. It takes me doing my job, you doing your job, you doing your job, and that collectively we can tap in because if any one of us try to do it alone, my boat's going to sink.

My net's going to break. And I want to say let's step into the depths of what God has and get the nets ready for this great catch of fish that God's about to pour out on Cumberland, Maryland. Like I'm ready. I'm ready.

Anybody ready to get in the boat? Right? See, there's a season where Jesus says, I want you to launch out or put out a little from the land and let me teach you. I'm going to feed you.

And after I feed you with the word, we're going to launch a little deeper and I'm going to fill you. And I'm going to go from teaching you and feeding you to filling you and overwhelming you. And that's the place that God wants us to see. If I don't have enough for me, then I don't have anything left to give you.

I need to live in a place of continual overflow in my life so that you can partake of, and I can partake of the rivers of living water that are flowing out of you. Like there is an abundance in the deep. There's an abundance in the deep. Number two is this.

We'll skip that one. The deep is a place of revelation. See, the deep is a place of revelation. There was something Peter saw after they caught the fish that he didn't see before.

See, all of a sudden when I step into the deep and I launch into the deep and I experience the goodness of God, all of a sudden my eyes are open to something I couldn't see before. It says that when he saw it, when he saw what? When he saw the abundance of God's goodness, it says, we're going to see it later, that Jesus didn't accept this statement. Peter says, depart from me.

I'm a sinful man. In the presence of the goodness of God, Peter has a revelation that he needs a savior. Romans 2, 4 says this. He says, do you not know that is the goodness of God that brings man to repentance?

That when God pours out his abundance and his goodness and his love and his grace on you, it's so great in comparison to what you are and what you have, it actually brings you to a place of changing your mind. It's not the judgment of God. It's not the condemnation of God that brings man to repentance. It's the goodness, the kindness, the said, as it says in the Hebrew of God that brings man to repentance.

And when Peter saw it, it awakened something in him. It brought him to a greater revelation that there's more than I ever realized. In Ezekiel 47, I don't think I don't have it up there, but if you remember Ezekiel's vision of the water that flowed out of the temple. He says, I saw water flowing out from under the threshold of the temple and the man, this angel takes me and says he took me 1,000 cubits, which is 1,750 feet.

He takes me 1,000 cubits to water that was up to my ankles. And then he took me another 1,000, 1,750 feet, another 1,000 cubits and it was water to my knees. And then another 1,000 cubits and it was water to my waist. And then another 1,000 cubits and it says it was water too deep to cross over water that you could only swim in.

And once he got to the place of deep water, the man brings him back to the shore and he says, look, do you see it? And there's things that you never see in the shallow water that till you get to the deep water that they're going to come alive. It's not that they weren't there before, but God opened your eyes to things in the spirit realm that he wants you to see. He says that there were trees covering either bank or the river, trees whose leaves were for healing.

It says wherever the water flowed, everything came to life and whatever the water touched was healed. There were many fishermen on the banks who caught more fish than are in the Mediterranean Sea. But he couldn't see it until he stepped into water that he could only swim in. So you don't see those things in ankle deep water casting a shallow water net.

I think of it like this, to be near sighted means you struggle with seeing things far away, right? I always get this confused. Any automatrist in here? To be far sighted means that I struggle, I have issues seeing things close up.

I think God wants to heal us of shallow sightedness. Shallow sightedness means I have trouble seeing into the deep. And I believe God is healing shallow sighted eyes today to give us eyes to see into what he wants to reveal. It says in 1 Corinthians 2 verses 9 through 12, it says this, It says as it is written, I has not seen nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things that God has what?

Prepared for those who love him. If we only said that verse alone, that's bad news. Paul is quoting Isaiah here. There's no hope in that.

It said that God has prepared these things. In eternity past, he's prepared things for us. The natural, I can't see it. The natural ear can't hear it.

And the natural heart, it never enters the heart to even understand those things. But God has revealed them to us by his spirit. He goes on to say, he says, the spirit searches all things. Yes.

What? The deep things of God. Do you realize that earlier in 1 Corinthians 2, it says Paul says that we speak wisdom to those that are mature, the hidden wisdom of God. Here's what God does.

God has wisdom that he's hidden for you today. I've preached on this before, so I won't spend much time there. But he has things that he has prepared and protected from the enemy so that they would be intact for you today. He goes on to 1 Corinthians 2 and says this, it says, had they known by crucifying the Lord of glory, they were sealing their own faith?

Like had they known that crucifying Jesus would have come back to bite him in the rear end? They wouldn't have done it. But see, God kept that plan hidden for millennia, for eons, until the appropriate time. And he has things for each one of you that he has hidden.

It says in Proverbs 25, it says it is the glory of God to conceal a matter. But it is the glory of kings to search it out. See, when God hides something, hidden wisdom, he doesn't hide it from you. He hides it for you.

And there's a glory, he says that he's ordained this. It says earlier in 1 Corinthians 2, he says, he's ordained it for our glory. There's a glory in searching out what God has prepared for me. You don't hide anything valuable in the shallow dirt.

If it's valuable, it's going to be where? Deep. I'm not really watching it, because I'm not a, what's it called when you watch a bunch of series? I'm not a binge watcher.

That's just not me. But I caught a few on get this regular television. I don't know, does anybody watch regular TV anymore? Cable.

This is on cable. I may not be speaking your language. But it was this island that had this treasure that they've been searching for for years that's like hundreds of feet in the ground. And they find this shaft, like they keep discovering the shaft keeps going down.

And you got to imagine if somebody took the time to go that deep, there's going to be something good at the bottom. What's that called? Anybody watch that? Oh, the mystery of it.

Is the mystery of Oak Island? Okay. Yeah. But if man dug deep to hide something valuable, how much deeper do you think God has things hidden for you?

Like it's in the depths of who he is. See, it says in verse 11, in 1 Corinthians 2, it says that who knows the things of a man except the spirit of man that's in him? Or who knows the things of God except the spirit of God? Like God has things that I can't know.

But the Holy Spirit knows. The same way there's things, anybody got any secrets that nobody knows? Anybody going to the grave with that secret? All right?

Jesus went to the grave with a secret. And he came back to life. And it's waiting for you to discover it. The Holy Spirit knows it.

And it says, who knows the things of man except the spirit of man in him? Who knows the things of God except the spirit of God? Now we have not received the spirit of this world, but we have received the spirit of God that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. See, that we may know is not a guarantee.

It's the subjunctive mood. It's the mood of potential and possibility. It means it's available. It's there.

But it doesn't mean you're going to get it if you don't pursue it. You're never going to discover hidden treasure if you don't go get a shovel. It isn't just going to pop up one day and explode. I was looking out my window.

I was in my closet in my bedroom. I've got this window. And it's a high window so people can't see me getting dressed, right? But it's up here.

And it sits probably 15 feet from the ground level outside because it's on the second floor. And one day, about five years after we moved into our house, I look out the window and I see a black gusher out my window. I'm like, and all I thought of was the Beverly Hillbillies. Jed Clampit, we done struck oil.

If you ever remember that show, like they go to Beverly Hill and they strike oil. And I thought, my God, I'm living on a blessed piece of ground. God miraculously made a gusher of oil spout out. I'm already spending the money.

I'm like, oh man, I can sell the house. I'm going to retire. I'm going to run an oil well in Ridgely, West Virginia. Well, to my surprise, I run outside and find out my septic tank backed up.

No gusher of oil. Just a bunch of poo. And the last step check, nobody was paying for that. But a lot of times that's what we do with the deep things of God.

We just think, well, they're not there for everybody to access. They're deep. They're hidden. They're God keeps them protected.

In Daniel chapter two, I want to read this to you. Because Daniel, if you remember the story of Daniel, Shadrach, and Meshach, and Abednego, and Daniel, they're slaves. In Babylon. And Nebuchadnezzar, the king.

He, in chapter two, he has a dream. Now he's got soothsayers. He's got magicians. He's got the caldians that interpret dreams.

Daniel was trained as a caldian. He's trained in this. Daniel's actually one of the magicians. You talk about being a follower of God that gets woven into the fabric of society to bring about change.

Daniel's your guy. Because here he is living as an interpreter of dreams with a bunch of heathens. But he's faithful to God. And the king says, hey guys, come in here.

I have a dream and I want you to interpret it. I'm like, oh, no big deal. Go ahead. What is it?

Tell us the dream and we'll tell you the interpretation. He said, no, I'm not going to play this game again. Here's what I'm going to do. You're going to tell me the dream, and you're going to tell me the interpretation.

And if you don't do it, you're going to be cut into pieces, and your homes are going to be burned into ash. And they're like, okay, like they say there is not a man on earth who could do what you're asking. That only the gods, little g, have the ability to do that, and they don't dwell in the flesh of men. But what they didn't know about was God's capital, g, that came upon Daniel.

And so they go and tell Daniel, Daniel's one of these guys. They're going to be cut to pieces, slaughtered into pieces, and everything burnt. And Daniel goes to his friends and says, let's pray for God to show us the impossible. Like, it's literally impossible to know somebody's dream.

Like, it's hard enough to interpret one. There's not even a gift of knowing dreams. There's a gift of interpretation. But here Daniel says, you know what, I serve a God with whom nothing is impossible.

I believe that the Holy Spirit knows everything, that God even knows the dream that he dreamed in his bedroom last night. And if I ask him, he can reveal that to me. If you're like, well, I don't get revelation. I don't understand the deep things of God.

First question is this, did you ever ask? Did you ever ask? It says in Daniel chapter two, it says, he speaking of God reveals, this is after he gets the interpretation. He reveals deep and hidden things.

He knows what is in darkness and light resides in him. Oh, God, my Father, I acknowledge and glorify you. For you have bestowed wisdom and power on me. Now you've enabled me to understand what I requested from you.

See, God had it all the time. See, it might be in the dark for you, but it's in the light for him. Light exists in him. And he says, now I give you glory because you've now given me power and wisdom.

And you've given me what I requested from you, you've enabled me to understand the king's dilemma. When God calls you into the deep, get your nets ready. When God calls you into the deep, get your nets ready. When God calls you into the deep, you better surround yourself with some people of God that have nets too.

Because it's going to be so abundant, you won't be able to contain it. Do you remember, Malachi 3, 10, he says that I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing that you cannot contain. The final thing is this, number three. Carter says to me for a word, he walked up on stage, I said resonance.

He says, you mean like resonate? It's a music word. It's musical. It has to do with sound.

That the deep is a place of resonance. The deep is a place of resonance. That there is a frequency in the spirit that resonates with your spirit. It says this, do you remember what Peter said after he had, he says, Peter saw it.

And he said, Lord, depart from me. And what Jesus said, yeah, you're right, you big center, I'm out of here. Peter said, depart from me. Jesus said, follow me.

Depart from me. Jesus said, you're right, you're an idiot. You only placated me with a little bit of obedience. Jesus said, no, I can work with that.

Follow me. And I'll make you a fisherman. And it says that they first took everything. They left it.

They dropped it. And they followed him. There's a verse in Psalm 42, 7, and 8 that I think illustrates this. And I want to illustrate it even a little farther as this.

It says, deep calls unto deep. Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls. Your waves and billows have gone over me. The Lord will command His loving kindness and daytime.

And in the night His song shall be with me. Deep calls unto deep at the noise or at the sound of your waterfalls. Your waves and your billows. Your waves and your billows have gone over me.

Reading this in context, this is not written by some person living at some spiritual high in the depths of God, calling to the depths of God. This is written from the standpoint, Chapter 42 starts out, it says, as a deer, pants for the water. So my soul longs after you. He says, I've called out to you out of the distress of my soul.

See, in context, it's talking about being in the depths of deep despair, calling to the deep of God's love, power, and grace. But I wonder, as I read that, there's nothing in there that says which deep is which. And I ask God, I'm like, God, is it the psalmist calling to you from the depths of despair to your deep? Or is it you calling from your deep to him in the depths of his despair?

And I felt like God said, yes. I said, God, that wasn't either or question. Not a, see, my wife is a professional at this. I'll ask you, and either or, and she says yes or no.

I'm like, that wasn't a question. No question. It was an either or question. And God said, yes.

It's a bidirectional call. It goes both ways. So I think it's bidirectional in this that there's a thing in science, and I want to hopefully I can illustrate this correctly. Don't get weird.

I'm not going to pour any wine this morning. There's a thing in science called sympathetic resonance. Sympathetic resonance. Anybody ever remember in science class?

Maybe you had tuning forks? Ding! And you pull it up to the other one and it goes, hmm. Sympathetic resonance is when the frequency of one object has the identical same frequency as the second object, and sound waves travel between the two, and the transfer of energy takes place, and the second object releases the same sound because it's of identical resonant frequency.

Now for a wine glass to do this, I didn't bring two, you can watch it on YouTube, because it's kind of hard to do. I only got it to work one time, so I thought it wasn't. My success rate was not good. So for a wine glass to have sympathetic resonance, it has to be the identical same shape, the identical same material, and it has to be filled with the exact same amount of water.

You can watch this online, and you can set a straw on one, and the straw will move. But when this happens, you have too much water. You hear that? It's resonating with a frequency.

And if I had another glass of equal material, equal size, filled or not filled with the identical same amount of water, the waves would travel from one glass to the other, and the second glass would begin to resonate with the same frequency as the first. And when we call out to God from the depths of our despair, it says in Hebrews 4, 15, it says that we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with the feelings of our weaknesses. See, because it says in Philippians chapter 2 verse 7, it said that he poured out himself, he said aside his willingly laid aside his godlike qualities, not that he wasn't God, but he restricted self-imposed restriction, and said he became a man, and he came in the form of a bondservant in the likeness of man. So that everything you ever go through, when you cry out to God, it resonates with him.

It says deep calls into deep at the noise of your waterfall. The word actually is not waterfall in the Hebrew, it's water spout. It's a water spout that's caused by wind that takes place. It's like a tornado over top of the water.

And it does this, and it pulls water up, and it connects the clouds to the earth, and it creates waves. And see, there's a sound, there's a frequency, not just the sound that we admit to God in our distress, but there's a frequency, a God frequency, that he releases in the deep to you. Because you're made in his likeness, you're made in his image. You're a new creation that's never existed before, that's filled with the same amount of water that he's filled with.

And when God calls you to the deep and begins to speak with you, because you're made identical to him, because you have God's DNA in you, something begins to resonate on the inside. And you begin to know this is what I was made for. This is what I'm alive. You find your purpose there.

God's spirit begins to speak, and he made a sound, and it resonates deep in. It says, your waves, your billows, the frequency of your voice crashes over me. When Jesus was walking on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24, verse 32, it says earlier in the chapter, you remember, he shows up to these two disciples, and they don't know who he is. And they're like, what do you think of all the stuff going on in Jerusalem?

He's like, what are you talking about? And they're like, we don't know? And it says, he began to expound about himself starting from Moses through all the scriptures. And then they said, well come eat with us, he eats with them, and then all of a sudden, phew, he's gone.

And it says their eyes were opened. And they said, did not our hearts burn within us as he opened the scriptures up to us? See, there's a sound of God's voice. There's a sound of God's word that resonates here.

On the day of Pentecost, it says, when the day of Pentecost was fully calm, they were all together in one accord, in one place. And suddenly, Acts 2, 2 says this, a sound from heaven. It was a sound from heaven. It was not a rushing mighty wind.

It was a sound, like a rushing mighty wind. And it said it filled the entire house where they were sitting, a sound from heaven. And it resonates in their spirits. Like, I know why I'm alive.

God's calling me of something more. It says in verse 6 of Acts 2, it says, when the multitude who was unsaved heard the sound, they came together. See, there's even a place in an unbeliever that resonates when the voice in the Spirit of God moves upon them. And they know that they know that they know that there's something in their life that's not complete.

It's not fulfilled. So I just want to pray for you today. You're made in the image of God, and therefore you're created to resonate at God's frequency. What did Jesus say?

My sheep hear my voice. You have the ability to hear God. You have the ability to discern the voice of a stranger versus the voice of Jesus. Because your frequency is not set at the frequency of the enemy.

If you're resonating with the enemy, it's because you've altered your frequency. You have the frequency of God in you. And God's calling us as a church. He's calling us to deep water.

He's calling us. It's time to leave the shore. It's time to get rid of the excuses. Well, I've toiled all night.

I'm exhausted. I'm tired. I don't have, like, I have an experience what I've been working for. It's not in your effort.

Well, maybe it's not God's will. Maybe it's bad theology. It is God's will. And He's calling you to feed you and then to fill you.

He's calling you to reveal hidden purposes to you. And He's calling to let you know why you're alive today. He's calling you into purpose. See, here's what happens a lot of times.

We can get so caught up in the third heaven we forget to go fishing. I wrote this down this week. I put it in my notes. I make notes all week and then I end up preaching whatever my notes are.

But I wrote this down. There's no unsafe people in the third heaven. See, when you go to the deep place of God, they didn't stay in the deep. They went back to the shore where the people were.

And so once you've been filled, once God has spoken to you purpose, once God's provided all that you like, He wants you to go catch some people. Like the unsaved people are not living in glory. They're here. They're here.

See, a lot of times we can get so sidetracked washing the nets we never catch any fish. We're doing ministry, but nobody's getting saved. We're like Mary and Martha that Martha says she was distracted by much serving, which is ministry, that God's calling us to be effective. God's calling us into purpose and destiny and to impact Cumberland.

To release His glory, like I want you to think of like this, Cumberland should look like heaven. Cumberland, let's make it a prophetic declaration. Cumberland looks like heaven. I'm so tired of reading.

Cumberland looks like the pit of despair. It looks like it because that's what we're prophesying over it. Cumberland looks like heaven. He's called us to release heaven here.

He's calling us to live at a higher level, to reveal Him, to share Him, to let people know why He loves them. And He uses us, average fishermen. Think of that. He uses everyday people to do great exploits.