The Bryce Crawford Podcast - Luke Series Chapter 5 (EP 153)

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

In this episode, Bryce breaks down Luke 5.

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because I believe that God is preparing a word specifically for each city we visit. So go to Jesusandestreet.org slash tour, get your tickets. And we'll see you guys, 2026 for the live podcast tour. What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryxton. Today we are in Luke chapter five. But before we get into it, I name my elf hand Dylan. Dylan, let's open a Christmas gift. All right. Let's go with, let's go as one of these guys right Ooh, I like it, a bag. Yep. I haven't done a bag in a long time.

Oh, dog toys for Moses. For a junior. You know what? This might be the most thoughtful one we've opened so far. That was very kind. Dylan, you know, I appreciate your thoughtfulness. That was super sweet. Thank you for getting me dog toys for Moses.

He's the best. That was kind. Thank you for doing that. Yep. But as always, we're going to get into the Word of God today. So we're going to be in Luke chapter 5. I'm going to begin reading Jesus about to call his first disciples. It says on one occasion while the crowd was pressing him to hear the word of God,

he was standing by the lake of Geneserate, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. So he got into one of Simon's boats. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into the deep and let your necks catch. Now, think of mine, they've been up all night trying to fish, and these are fishermen, their masters at their craft,

and they got some Jewish rabbi coming over there saying, hey, throw your net in one more time. he'd be frustrated and Simon answered master we toiled all night and took nothing but at your word I will let down the nets and when he had done this they enclosed a large number of fish and their nets were breaking

they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help and they came and filled the boat so that they began to sink but when Simon Peter saw it he fell down at Jesus' knees saying depart from me for I am a sinful man oh Lord that kind of sounds like the prophet Isaiah when he wrote Isaiah chapter 6 you know he sees the glorified lord and he's like forgive me lord i'm a man of unclean lips that's what i kind of think um and then we see in verse 10 he says do not be afraid from now on you will be catching

men i think that is so important you know what's crazy is that even in the story i'm so encouraged is oftentimes we can become masters at our craft we can become masters that the things we're good at. But even when we think we know it all when it comes to the intricacies of our life, God has something far more greater in store. God has something far better in store. And I think that is so good. Think about. Verse 12. Well, he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. This is important. You see, these lepers would be sitting as an outcast outside of the city with a staff that would have a bell on it so that when they could hear him walking, they would know that the leper was coming so that they would scatter and not touching me. He was so unclean. There was no hope for

improvement for the leopard. Do you ever feel like you have no hope for improvement? Have you ever felt like you're too far gone? Maybe you can relate to the leper in this story. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him saying, I will be clean. God desires to clean you. What the difference is, just like the leper, you and I, the same way the leper brought his leprosy to Jesus. Jesus, and said, will you make me clean? Jesus' heart was obviously desiring to make him clean, but the leper had to bring his junk to him.

In the same way, a lot of you guys are wondering why God won't fully heal your sin and your past, but you're gripping onto that sin. Like, you can still fix it yourself. You can't fix it yourself. You never will and you won't ever to be. You can never break the chains of your own sin. You're going to need to get honest with yourself and bring it to Jesus. And if you want something you've never had,

you've got to do something you've never done. You might have to get honest with God for the first time in your life. you might have to cry out to Jesus honestly for the first time in your life, but do something sincerely. And he says, and you charge him to tell no one, but said, go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for cleansing, as Moses commanded for a proof to them. But now, even more, the report about him went abroad,

and great crowds gathered to hear him and to heal of their infirmities, but he would withdraw to desolate praises and to pray. Once again, the fuel of Jesus' ministry with solitude with the Father. What's the fuel of your relationship with God? Is the only fuel for your relationship with God? Podcasts? Chat, GPT?

Is the only fuel for your relationship with God? Church on Sunday? What people think about you? Our fuel should be alone time with the Father. Then Jesus heals a paralytic. Immediately afterwards, he says, on one of those days, he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers, everyone was gathering around, and some men were bringing a bed, a man who was paralyzed,

and they were seeking to bring him in the lay before him, but the crowd was so big, they couldn't find a way to bring him in there. But these men, these friends of the paralytic were so persistent to see breakthrough for their friend that they cut a hole in the roof and lowered him down, and it says, and when he saw their faith, when Jesus saw their faith, he said, man, your sins are forgiven. There might be some people in your family, friends, close to you that are in a rut in a season of darkness and a season of trial and they don't have enough faith to believe that God's going to pull through and you need to believe for them.

You might be the rock that needs to be believing on behalf of your family and your friends and your relationship and your marriage and your job and dependence. You might need to be the one that has the faith for them to encourage them. It's faith that moves God's heart and he says, man, your sins are for given. Jesus forgives the man's sins. He deals with the heart first and the scribes say, who do you think you are to forgive sins? Only God can forgive sins. And he says, why do you question your hearts? What's easier for you to say, your sins are forgiven or rise and walk? You know, for men, both this power of healing and and forgiveness, the power of healing and the power of

forgiveness is hard for human beings. And we watch Jesus do both. But that you may know that the son of man is authority on earth to forgive sins. He said to the man, I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home. That's how to the son of man comes from the prophet Daniel, who references the Messiah is the son of man. So he's speaking their language saying, I am the man that you've been waiting on that Daniel prophesied about.

And immediately that guy rose up, picked up his bed, and walked out. And everyone was amazed. as we have seen extraordinary things today. Then we see Jesus called Levi. You know, Levi, who's Matthew, his original name was Levi. Levi's a tax collector. Tax collectors were hated by the community

because, like I said, they were greedy thieves that took more money than they needed to for themselves. And so he took it. He called Levi, says, follow me, he follows him. And so Matthew throws this great big feast. There was tax collectors and sinners, and prostitutes at the table.

And the Pharisees says, why do you eat with the sinners to Jesus? And he says, those who are well do not need a physician, but those who are sick, I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners, the repentance. When's the last time that on a healthy day,

you've called the doctor and said, hey, Doc, I'm feeling good right now. Man, I'm great. My vitals are great. My blood's great. I don't got a sore throat. Man, I'm having the best day of my life. You never call the doctor

on the best day of your life. In fact, you call the doctor on the worst days of your life. man my throat is hurting i can barely move i'm sick i'm in need of help and it shows a sign of dependence and trust in someone greater that has a greater understanding than you in the same way you and i are calling on the great physician who can do heart surgery and heal our hearts and mend the sickness of sin in our life bring the real antidote which is the blood of jesus to cleanse us for all that we call on him who has a greater understanding about our lives because he created us it's powerful

And then to close out this chapter, there's a question about fasting the disciples of John. They fasted often. This is what Jesus says about fasting. He says, can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and they will be able to fasten those days. No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wine skins.

If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled in the same. skins will destroy. But new wine must be put into new fresh wine skins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says the old is good. He says two things about this. First thing he's saying, he's saying, look, you are

with me. He's like, I am God. You're with me. You're going to fast when I'm gone. To sharpen yourself, your spiritual awareness to me, when I'm not physically with you. But then he says this thing about the old wine skins and the new wine.

every day God is doing something new. Every day God is doing something powerful. And we oftentimes like to confine whatever God is doing something new into the old history and the old past. No, no, no. Let God do his thing. Let the new wine flow. Let it flow. Let God move. Guys, I pray that Luke chapter 5 was an encouragement to you

and we will see you guys tomorrow for Luke. Chapter 6. Hey, thank you guys so much for watching the Luke series. I pray that this thing is a blessing to you. And the ultimate heart is so that you go and read this word daily. You don't rely on the podcast. You rely on the word of God and the Holy Spirit. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you like the episodes, subscribe, follow us on social media and we'll see you guys in the next episode.