How do I prove my love for Jesus? (John 21:15-23)
- By Caring for his people. (John 21:15-17)
- By being Faithful no matter what. (John 21:18-19)
- By refusing to Compare myself to others. (John 21:20-23)
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Father in heaven, we thank You for Your Word.
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We thank You for the glorious truth that You have revealed to us in Your Word.
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And today, I just ask again, Father, for all of us, that You would open our hearts.
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It's so easy for us to apply a message or apply a word to somebody else.
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Help us today, Father, to apply it to ourselves.
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In Jesus' name we pray, that all of God's people said, "Amen." Open up your Bibles with me please to the Gospel of John.
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We're going to be in chapter 21.
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While you're turning there, we are in a sermon series right now called Bible Basics.
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We're looking at the story of the Bible as a whole, and along the way we're meeting some people and we're learning some lessons.
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And sorry if you missed last week, but last week was the main event.
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Because last week we talked about Jesus Christ.
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God in the flesh who came and died on the cross for your sins, who rose from the dead so that you might have eternal life.
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Well, during Jesus' three years of earthly ministry, He chose twelve men that He constantly was pouring into.
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And today, we're going to be talking about probably the most famous disciple of Jesus.
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We're going to be talking about Peter.
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Peter was a fisherman that was called by Jesus to be a disciple, and Peter eventually went on to become a leader.
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And I'm going to give you a bit of an on-ramp here before we look at...
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We're going to start in verse 15, but I want to give you an on-ramp to this.
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In John chapter 21, this is after Jesus resurrected, and He had already told the disciples to go wait in Galilee on the mountain.
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That was in Matthew chapter 28 and verse 16.
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So the disciples are there waiting for Jesus and Peter, John tells us, turns to the guys and like a lot of men would say, Peter says, "I'm going fishing." And the others, there were at least six other guys with him, they joined him.
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Now, okay, wait on the mountain and Peter's like, "We're going fishing," or, "I'm going fishing and you can join if you want." I was studying this this week and there were a lot of different ideas of why Peter went fishing.
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Some people thought, "Well, he just wanted to earn some money," right?
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Or some people said, "He was just killing time." And we're going to see here in the passage that I don't think either of those are true.
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I think Peter thought he was done following Jesus in ministry.
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Because, do you remember the account when Jesus was arrested?
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Do you remember Peter at the time denied that he even knew Jesus three times?
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Peter pretended like he had no idea who Jesus was.
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"I don't know him." Which is something that Peter swore he would never do, even though Jesus said, "This is exactly how it's going to go down." Remember Jesus said, "Peter, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me." Okay, so in John chapter 21, the disciples are out fishing and they're not catching anything and Jesus appears on the shore and he provides For them a miraculous catch of fish. He's like throw it on the right side They threw it on the right side and they brought in a massive catch Remember that because that's gonna be important here in a second and at first they didn't recognize them and then John was like hey That's the Lord and Peter jumped off the boat and he swims and everybody joins them and they're all on shore and they saw that Jesus made them breakfast, which was fish and bread.
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Anybody have fish and bread for breakfast this morning?
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Well, that's the breakfast that Jesus made.
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They're not gonna tell you to try that, I guess.
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Okay, so you have to see now, they're on the beach and Jesus made them breakfast.
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And you know right here what Peter's thinking about.
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The unresolved elephant in the room.
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Lord, I failed.
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Hugely.
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Inexcusably.
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I really, royally messed up.
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I mean, I was supposed to be your number one guy.
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And when it all got hard, I just, I pretended like I didn't even know who you were.
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I'm like, I just, I completely failed.
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I knew better and I failed.
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Is there anybody here this morning that can identify with Peter?
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Is there anybody here that can say, you know what?
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I have messed up so badly and I have no excuse.
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I'm such a failure.
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Or maybe it's not that you did one thing very badly, maybe you just keep messing up repeatedly.
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What the heck's the matter with me?
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I'm such a spiritual loser.
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Why can't I get it together?
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I know better and I do it anyways.
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I'm a failure.
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I'm a spiritual failure.
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And you know, church, sometimes our sin and our failure just crushes us and it's right in our face and we carry the guilt around and we start to think, why am I so weak?
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What's the matter with me?
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God surely has to be done with me.
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God surely has to be done.
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Surely God's not going to do anything in my life because He sees what a terrible screw-up I am, all the time.
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Has anybody ever felt like that?
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You don't have to raise your hands.
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Please don't, but is there anybody that feels like that today?
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Somebody might be sitting here like, "Dude, I don't even know why I'm here.
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I am a royal screw-up.
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God's wasting His time with me." What do we do about that?
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What do we do when we're like Peter, we're just so paralyzed by our guilt that we're ready to throw in the spiritual towel and we're just going to go back to fishing or whatever is familiar?
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Because obviously we stink at following Jesus and we don't know what we were thinking and Jesus must be so disappointed in me.
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I think we've all felt like that.
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Jesus must be so disappointed in me.
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Well today we're going to talk about the reason Jesus showed up on that beach.
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Wasn't to have fish and bread.
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That was like a secondary thing going on here.
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The reason Jesus showed up was to restore Peter.
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And as we talk about being restored, I want you to embrace three foundational truths.
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Now these aren't like the three things on your outline.
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These are like the three things you need to embrace before we can even get to the stuff on your outline.
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But you need to embrace three foundational truths as we talk about restoration.
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Quickly, number one, Jesus knew you were going to fail before you did.
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Did you royally mess things up?
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Jesus was not shocked.
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That's something that Peter's account teaches us, right?
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Jesus knows you're gonna mess up before you did.
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That leads us to the second one.
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If you've received Christ as your Lord and Savior, all of your sins are forgiven, even the bad ones, even the ones you haven't committed yet.
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You're like, well, how can that be?
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How can I be forgiven by a sin in the future?
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Do you realize when Jesus died on the cross, all of your sins were still in the future?
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You see, when you receive Jesus Christ, you're in a state, you are in a position of being pronounced not guilty.
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You can't do anything to earn salvation, and you can't do anything to lose salvation, and your standing with God is in no way, shape, or form affected by your performance.
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Your standing with God is based on Jesus Christ.
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Nothing can change that.
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If you had the greatest day of your life yesterday, God loves you perfectly in Jesus Christ.
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And if you had the worst day of your life yesterday, God still loves you perfectly in Jesus Christ.
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So Jesus knew you were going to fail before you did.
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If you've received Christ, your sins are forgiven, even the bad ones, even the ones in the future.
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Third truth you got to embrace before we get to this outline is that today is the day to get back in the game.
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I really messed up, Pastor Jeff, and maybe someday, maybe, maybe, maybe someday, today.
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Today. Today's the only day you have for sure. Right?
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So today's the day.
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So Jesus comes to restore Peter, and He didn't ask Peter if he was sorry.
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He didn't say, "Peter, do you promise to never ever ever do that again?" Jesus, He went right to the heart. Look at verse 15.
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It says, "When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of John, do you love Me?'" I want you to see that Jesus challenged Peter's love. Why?
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Because Jesus knows that if he gets your heart, the rest is going to follow.
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And that's what Christ wants from you. He wants your heart.
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When He has your heart, He has everything.
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You know, Jesus, He proved His love for you, didn't He?
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There's not a person walking this planet today that can question, "I wonder if Jesus loves me?" He clearly demonstrated that.
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There is no question as to whether or not Jesus loves you.
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But what you have to evaluate is, "Do you love Jesus?" You see, that's where Jesus went with Peter.
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"Do you love me?" So on your outline today, "How do I prove my love for Jesus?" "How do I prove my love for Jesus, even though I royally messed up, and I know I'm forgiven, but it's still hard?
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How do I prove my love for Jesus?" Number one, write this down, "By caring for His people." You want to prove your love for Jesus, you've got to take care of Jesus' people.
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Pick up again verse 15.
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It says, "When I had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." First of all, notice that Jesus called Peter - we know him as Peter, Jesus called him Simon.
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Jesus actually renamed Simon.
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Jesus, He gave him a new name, He called him Peter, which means "rock." You see, Simon was the rock before Dwayne Johnson was the rock.
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Somebody will have to explain that to you after service maybe.
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But he was the original rock.
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But sometimes, he didn't act like the rock.
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He wasn't acting like the rock.
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Jesus would not so subtly make notation of that by calling him Simon.
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"Hey, you're acting like your old self, Simon." You see that throughout the Gospels, by the way.
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Just make note of that.
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You can tell how Peter's acting, by the way, by the name that Jesus uses to address him.
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But he says, "Do you love me," notice this, "more than these?" More than these?
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More than what?
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Do you love me more than what?
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There's all kinds of ideas about what that means.
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There's some people that are like, well, he's talking about the fishing boats and the fishing gear, the nets and the sails and all that.
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Like, do you love me more than you love this fish?
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stuff and I don't think that's what he's talking about.
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Some people said, "Well, do you love me more than you love the other guys?" Like Simon, "Do you love me more than you love Bartholomew or whatever?" And I don't think that's what he's talking about either.
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What Jesus is saying to Simon, to Peter, to the rock, what he's saying here, "Simon, do you love me more than the other disciples love me?" Why do I think that that's what Jesus is asking?
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Because, John 5.26-33, Mark 14.29, before Jesus was arrested, Jesus said to His disciples, "You're all going to fall away on account of Me." Jesus was telling them, "I'm going to be arrested, and you're all going to scatter." But Peter speaks up.
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He's like, "Not me." And Peter went on to say, "Jesus, they might..." to the other disciples? They might! Even if every single one of them fall away, Jesus, I got your back. I would never abandon you. And I think with that in mind, Jesus is saying to Peter, "Peter, do you love me more than they do?" And Peter's response was not only humble, but he was focusing on the Lord's knowledge, not his own. You notice that he says, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." And "Take care of my people." "You love me? Take care of my people." Now, Peter wished that the conversation would have ended right there.
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But it did not.
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Look at verse 16 and 17.
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"He said to him a second time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' He said to him, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.' He said to him, 'Tend my sheep.' He said to him the third time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?'" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything.
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You know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep." See Jesus, he asked Peter three times.
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And I don't have a doubt in my mind that Peter made the connection.
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How many times did Peter deny knowing Jesus?
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Three times.
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How many times did Jesus ask him if he loved him?
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Three times.
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But there's a nuance in the Greek that is worth mentioning.
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You see, in English we have one word for love, and it's love.
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And it's hard because we use that word for everything, right?
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I love the Pittsburgh Penguins, I love my wife, I love pizza, I don't love all those things the same way, right?
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Well, there are different words for love in the Greek, and sometimes these words were used synonymously.
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In this context, you're going to see there is a very clear distinction of the words that are used for love between Jesus and Peter that helps us see what makes this conversation so impactful.
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So I believe the nuance is ultra-important here, and that's why I want to share this with you.
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But there's two words in this text being used for love. One word is "agape." Agape is self-sacrificing, committed, devoted, lay my life down for you, love.
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And the other word is phileo, which is brotherly affection.
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It's like the feeling that I would have for Ross Howes, that I wouldn't have for just some stranger I pass on the street, that I'm like, "Oh, I like this guy! He's my friend!" Okay, so agape is like self-sacrificing, devoted, committed love.
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"Phileo" is friendship, affection.
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But in the Greek, and here's how this conversation went down, Jesus said to Peter, "Peter, do you agape me?" "Peter, are you fully committed to me?" And Peter says, "Lord, you know I love you." He said, "Lord, you know I phileo you." He said, "Lord, you know we're buddies." And then the second time, Jesus said, "Peter, do you agape Me?" "Peter, are you totally committed to Me?" And Peter says, "Lord, you know I phileo you." You know we're buddies.
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Here's the twist, the third time, Jesus says, "Peter, do you phileo Me?" And that's why the Bible says Peter was grieved.
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Jesus used Peter's own word.
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Like, "Do you agape Me?" "I phileo you." "Do you agape Me?" "I phileo you." And Jesus is like, "Oh, you full-out owe me." And Peter's response, he says, "You know everything.
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And obviously from my failure that you totally predicted, it's obvious that you know me better than I know myself, Lord.
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And you know I full-out owe you.
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You know I care about you." You see, Jesus was saying, "Peter, you totally committed to me." Peter says, "Lord, you know we're friends.
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What's going on here?
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I think it's pretty obvious." Peter was reluctant to make the claim of total commitment.
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You see, for Jesus to say, "Peter, you totally committed to me." Peter's like, "I think we all saw that. I failed.
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Like Jesus, I swore that I was the most agape, devoted disciple that you have, and I think everybody around here saw that that wasn't true." Peter's like, "You know, Lord, I care about you. You know that.
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That's all I got.
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Because that's all I've been able to prove.
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So Jesus showed up here to restore Peter, and I want you to see Jesus' plan to restore Peter was just one question.
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And that's the most important question.
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And that's a question that you have to get to the heart too.
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Do you have total committed love for Jesus Christ?
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Do you love Jesus?
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Are you totally committed to Jesus?
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You're like, "Well, how do I know?" Jesus tells Peter again three times, "Feed my sheep. Feed my lambs.
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Tend to my people." So you here today who are feeling off track, you here who are feeling that you're not close with God right now, maybe you who are listening to this and say, "I'm so ashamed of myself." I've got a word for you.
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Jesus loves you.
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That never changed.
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The question is, do you love Him?
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Because the same call that Jesus made to Simon is real to you. Do you love Him? Are you committed to Jesus Christ? Then feed Jesus' sheep. Love His people. Get involved in ministry. Get involved in a small group. But be intentional about showing your love for Jesus by loving His people. So how do I prove my love for Jesus? First of all, by caring for His people. Secondly, by being faithful no matter what. By being faithful no matter what. Look at verse 18, Jesus continues, He says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old you will stretch out your hands and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go." Jesus here is telling Peter the cost of of his love, of his devotion, where it's going to end up taking him.
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Once you see that Jesus compares Peter's past with his future, he says, "Peter, you know what?
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You used to live for yourself, right?
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You used to live - it's Peter's world!
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And you used to live for yourself and do what you wanted, and it's not going to be like that.
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You're going to be living a life of submission." And the way Jesus phrased this, admittedly, is very strange.
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So, thankfully for us, John clarifies what Jesus was talking about.
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Look at verse 19.
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He says, "This he said to show by what kind of death he was going to glorify God.
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After saying this, he said to him, 'Follow me.'" Again, John clarifies what Jesus meant.
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That Peter was going to give his life to Christ, totally committed, And ultimately, he was going to glorify God in his death.
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And history tells us that Peter was crucified as a martyr for his faith.
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And history tells us that Peter didn't even consider himself worthy of being crucified in the same way that Jesus was.
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So he has to be crucified upside down.
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And he was.
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And that's what Jesus was talking about, that you're going to be stretched out.
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In verse 19, Jesus says to Peter after all of this, He says, "Follow Me." This is so significant.
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Because you see, three years before the beach scene, let's have a flashback here.
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Three years before this, Jesus showed up at the Sea of Galilee.
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And there were some fishermen there, one of them was this dude named Simon.
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And they weren't catching anything, and Jesus shows up, and He provides for them miraculous catch of fish.
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And after that, this is in Luke chapter 5 by the way, after that Jesus says to this Simon, he says, "Follow me." Now three years later, at the same sea, after another miraculous catch of fish, Jesus turns to that same fisherman and says, "What?" "Follow me." Do you see the beauty of this scene?
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It's like this is where Jesus found Peter, And this is what Jesus said to Peter at the beginning, and now, the story continues as it began.
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Peter answered the call before.
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Now Jesus is calling Peter to recommit for what's next.
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What's next for Peter?
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He became the leader of the early church.
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We just spent three years in the book of Acts, we spent a lot of time talking about that.
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Follow me.
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Being led by the shepherd, wherever he takes you.
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Follow me!
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Jesus was making it clear to Peter, as Jesus made clear so many times in His ministry, that being a disciple only means being willing to follow all the way.
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Only.
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That's the only kind of real disciple there is.
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If you're like, "I'm a part-time disciple," then you're not a disciple.
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If you're like, "I'll follow Jesus as long as it doesn't cost me anything," then you're not a disciple.
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You're a follow Jesus as long as it doesn't get too hard.
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You're not a disciple.
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There's no variance here.
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You're either a hundred percent or zero percent.
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And I think that's why Jesus was telling Peter, this is how you're gonna die.
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Because like the heat was on before and you pretend you didn't know me.
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The next time the heat's on, you're gonna lay down your life.
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Being a disciple only means being willing to follow all the way.
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wherever He sends you.
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Wherever He sends you, whether that's your backyard, whether that's out in this community, or whether it's overseas, wherever He sends you.
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But that also means whatever happens to you.
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When you follow Jesus, or if you are following Jesus, are you going to follow Him even if a terrible sickness enters into your life?
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Whether it's you or somebody else close to you, Are you still going to follow Him then?
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What if you experience great loss?
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Are you going to keep following Him then?
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What if you experience a terrible tragedy in your life?
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Are you going to keep following Jesus then?
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What if you face incredible opposition?
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What are you going to do? Are you going to quit?
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Because really the difference between you and Peter is just simply this.
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Peter was told how he was going to die.
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And again, I think that was to reassure him that, "Hey Peter, next time things are going to go down a little bit different." But that's the difference. He was told how he was going to die.
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But do you know what you and Peter have in common?
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Is you're both told how to live.
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Do you love Jesus? Follow Him.
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Every new call that He places on your life is a chance for you to renew your commitment.
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Do you love Him?
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Then you be faithful to Him no matter what happens in your life.
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No matter how hard it gets, no matter what it costs you, follow Him.
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And finally for today, how do I show, how do I prove my love for Jesus?
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By refusing to compare myself with others.
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By refusing to compare myself with others.
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Look at verse 20.
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Okay, so Jesus just said, "Follow Me!" Verse 20, "Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who had been reclining at the table close to him, And it said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?" Now that's John.
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John is pretty modest, and he doesn't identify himself in the Gospel.
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So when he's talking about himself in a scene, he just refers to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
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Right?
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So he was following them.
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Apparently they were walking as they were talking.
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Verse 21, it says, "When Peter saw him," John, When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" Now listen, listen, if you hold your Bible up close, you can almost hear the face palms of the other disciples when Peter said that.
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That they go through this whole exchange, "Do you love me?" and "Feed my sheep" and "Follow me." And then immediately Peter looks at John, he's like, "Yeah, what about him?" What about Him?
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Do you remember, Peter, do you remember what happened the last time you were comparing yourself with the other disciples?
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Do you remember that?
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"Oh, even if they fall away, I never will." How did that work out?
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And you, Peter, seriously, you still have your eyes on what the other disciples are doing?
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Seriously?
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Look at verse 22.
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"Jesus said to him, 'If it is my will that he remain until I come,'" What is that to you?
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"You follow Me, that John remain until he come." What does that mean?
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Was this some spiritual thing or was this just purely a hypothetical statement?
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If he remained until I come, what did that mean?
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Well, I know what it didn't mean because he tells us in verse 23.
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"So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die.
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Yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but if it is My will that He remain until I come, what is that to you?" Okay, so John clarifies again.
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Jesus wasn't saying John was going to be immortal.
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But if you're fixated on what that statement meant, then you're missing the point.
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Because you see, when Peter's like, "What about Him?" What Jesus was saying in a very Jesus way was, "It's none of your business." "It's not your business. You follow Me." Now before we pick on Peter, and before we're all like, "Shame on you!
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You should have learned your lesson, Peter!
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Can't believe you're still comparing yourself, Peter!" Look, we all do it, okay? We all do it.
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We get more interested in other people's journeys than our own, don't we?
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Positive or negative, we get more fixated on what other people are doing with Jesus or what Jesus is doing with other people, instead of focusing on our own walk.
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And I gotta tell you, as a pastor, that is tough not to do.
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You know, because I'm like, "Well, what about that church down the street it's doing a sermon series based on Michael Jackson songs.
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I'm like, "What about them, Lord?
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I mean, they're not even preaching the Bible!
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They're like on Michael Jackson songs!
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Like, what about them?" And Jesus says, "That's not your business." Jesus says, "You follow me." And we're all like, "Well, what about the sex abuse in the Catholic church?" Yeah, pray for them.
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Pray for them, but you know that has nothing to do with your walk with Christ.
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That has nothing to do with your walk with Christ.
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Jesus says, "You follow Me." And somebody's like, "But what about my husband?
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My husband doesn't even go to church.
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My husband doesn't even seem interested in church." Yeah, Jesus is going to deal with him.
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In the meantime, Jesus says to you, "You follow Me." And so many times over the years, I've heard, "You know, Jeff, that preacher on TV did this." "I went to this church and the pastor was caught in a scandal, and you're all just a bunch of hypocrites." And they somehow excuse themselves from following Christ personally, because something they saw some other Christian do.
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And if this is you, hey, it's not your business, man.
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It's not your business.
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Jesus says, "You follow Him. You follow Him." You're always going to find somebody that's further down the road than you spiritually.
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And you're always going to find someone who dishonors the name of Christ.
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So comparing yourself and your walk with someone else and their walk is pointless.
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Because here's the thing, God has a plan for you.
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God has a plan for your journey.
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And the only person whose walk with Christ you need to be focused on is yours.
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You know, sometimes we just make things harder than they need to be.
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Have you completely blown it?
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Are you off track?
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Do you feel guilty about how you've failed Christ?
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You're forgiven.
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He has already taken care of that.
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What you need to do is get back to this one thing.
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One thing.
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And that one thing is this, do you love Jesus? Do you love Him?
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Do you really love Him?
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Then get back on the horse.
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Care for His people.
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Be faithful to Him no matter what happens.
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And don't compare yourself to other people.
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Because like Peter, to you, today, Jesus is saying, "Do you love Me? Then follow Me." Let's pray.
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Father in Heaven, what a glorious thing that Your love is not in doubt.
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Your love has been so clearly demonstrated in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Your love is so clearly demonstrated in that you spared not your own son, but delivered him up for us all, and on top, freely give us all things.
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Your love is so clearly demonstrated, Father.
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God, you know we're fallen people and we mess up.
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We have done stupid things, we have said stupid things, we have had horrible attitudes.
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God, there's not a person in this room more guilty of that than me.
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And sometimes, Father, we feel kind of like Peter standing on the beach.
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I messed up.
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God must be disappointed.
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But Father, we thank You that You're a God who restores.
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But Father, today I pray for myself and for my brothers and sisters here, that we would just get back to that one thing.
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Do we love You?
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Do we love You?
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Do I love You?
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Father, let us, yes, make restitution to people where needed.
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Let's apologize where needed.
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But Father, please, by Your grace, by the power of Your Spirit, Let us not wallow in the failures that we committed that you knew we were going to do before we did.
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But instead, Father, let us get back to the thing that you've called us to, which is following Jesus Christ.
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Not comparing ourselves, not throwing in the towel when things get hard, but by intentionally loving Jesus' people.
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Only by your power and your grace, Father, we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Small Group Discussion
WHOLE GROUP
Read John 21:15-23
1 - Though we know we are forgiven in Christ (those who have received Him!), we do we still struggle with guilt from time to time?
2 - Discuss the usage of the words for “love” in the exchange between Jesus and Peter (John 21:15-17). What is the significance? What kind of love does Jesus call us to? What does that look like?
3 - How do we often compare ourselves to other Christians / churches? Why do we do this? How does Jesus’ statement to Peter (John 21:22) address our desire to compare ourselves with others?
BREAKOUT
What are YOU doing right now to “love Jesus’ people”? What is He calling you to do? What is keeping you from doing it?