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Fall On Your Knees

Luke 5:8 
"When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord."

This week we continue our FALL sermon series about the Seasons of Life. Last week we studied FALLING into GOD'S Arms! We read from the Gospel record the mind blowing events around Lazarus' death and resurrection. The verses tell us that the eyewitnesses that were there did believe in Jesus after this event. Many of them went on to see Jesus also return from His own grave!!! These first believers knew the man who was Jesus and then they experienced Him as GOD! 

Let's think about this dynamic for a minute. If we flip back to the Gospel of Luke, chapter five, verse eight we read about the instance when many of the Disciples first met Jesus. Jesus told this group of fishermen where to drop their nets and it yielded a record catch! In today's verse we read Peter's reaction; "he FELL DOWN at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord." IF that is the reaction to a bunch of fish being miraculously caught; how much more was the reaction to a brother and friend being brought back to LIFE from death!!!

AND! THEN! WHEN Jesus, Himself, is executed by the Roman authorities and comes back from the grave three days later! What was the response by the eyewitnesses? Many of them worshiped Jesus! They knew He is the Son of God! They fell down on their knees and worshiped the one TRUE GOD! Which will be our focus in this week's study; Fall On Your Knees.
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