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John 21:15-22
Stephen Caswell © 2005
Strawberries & Cream
Sometimes things are better in pairs or threes.
Bacon goes better with eggs.
Strawberries are better with cream and meat pies need tomato sauce.
*/So too in the Christian life, service needs to go together with love./*
One without the other is incomplete.
Believers are called to follow Jesus Christ.
That’s what disciples do.
Early in His ministry Jesus called some disciples to follow Him at the Sea of Galilee.
They left their nets and followed the Lord for about 3 years.
/He taught them how disciples must live./
At the close of Christ’s ministry on earth Jesus had a few last lessons to teach them.
In *John 21* we learn some important things about discipleship.
We will see the marks of a disciple.
The disciples learnt a lot about themselves and Christ their Master that morning on the beach.
*/1.
Disciples Love Christ; 2. Disciples Serve Christ; 3. Disciples Follow Christ./*
1.
Disciples Love Christ
*/Love is the first mark of a disciple.
In fact love is the greatest quality disciples share.
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/a.
Love/
*John 21:15:* /So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, 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./
After Jesus had provided breakfast for the disciples He publicly restored Peter to ministry.
This was important since Peter was a leader in the early Church.
Christ asked Peter if loved Him more than these.
/What were the *these *Jesus referred to?/
*1.
Other Disciples:* The DVD based on the Good News translation adds the word */others /*implying the /other disciples/.
The word /other/ is not in the Greek text.
Peter had promised to be faithful even if all others forsook the Lord; but then Peter denied Christ.
/Yet, how could Peter know if He loved the Lord more than the other disciples?/
Only God knew.
*2.
Fishing: *Fishing had been his career until Jesus called him.
In fact he went back to fishing again.
This is the present continuous tense.
I am going to keep fishing.
After His failure Peter may have felt unworthy to serve Christ.
Certainly he was returning to something he knew and loved.
/Did Jesus ask Peter if he loved Him more than his career?/
*3.
Friends: *Peter had* *some of his best mates on the beach that morning.
They had spent many hours together fishing.
Good friends are special.
Peter enjoyed the company of his mates.
Peter had gone back to fishing with His friends.
He had forgotten His call to fish for men.
/Perhaps, Jesus asked Peter did He love Him more than his friends?/
I think that *2* and *3* are the things Christ was referring to.
/Jesus wanted to know if Peter loved Him more than anything else./
This included his career and his comrades.
The Lord Jesus Christ wants first place in our lives.
He wants us to love Him more than anything.
*Luke 14:26-27:* /If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
/God doesn’t want us to hate our family, but to love them less than we love Him.
/The highest Christian love is not devotion to a work or to a cause, but to Jesus Christ.
- *Oswald Chambers.
The thing that God wants more than anything else is your love.
*Do you love Christ more than your friends?
Do you love Him more than your job?
Do you love Him more than you family & possessions?
Do you love me most?/ */Peter replied, yes Lord you know I love You.
/*When it came to the crunch, Peter loved Christ most.
/Do we? /
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Loyalty/
*John 21:16-17:* /He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonah, 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 Jonah, 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 all things; You know that I love You.
Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep./
*/Jesus didn’t leave it there./*
He asked Peter the same question 3 times.
Peter do you love me.
/Why did the Lord do this?
/For a very good reason.
Peter had publicly denied Christ around fire place in Jerusalem.
He hadn’t been loyal as He said that He would.
His love for Christ had been forgotten.
Now the Lord asked Peter 3 times to affirm His love for his Master.
Jesus wants both our love and our loyalty.
God wants us to be faithful to Him. *Luke 12:8-9:* /Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God.
But he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
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We can deny the Lord Jesus Christ verbally or by keeping silent when we have the opportunity to witness for Him.
Praise God that past failures can be forgiven.
Peter was grieved that Jesus asked him 3 times to affirm his love.
But this godly sorrow led to Peter to forgiveness.
Peter was restored to fellowship with Christ.
One failure wasn’t the end.
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Gratitude/
*/Why should we love Christ?
/*/We love Him because He first loved us./
*1 John 4:19* In this passage Christ commands Peter to care for the sheep.
This reminds us how much Christ loves us.
He loved us so much that He the Good Shepherd died for the sheep.
*John 15:13:* /Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends./
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