JESUS IS FORGIVING 3

DAY 3:

📷BIBLE STORY

Peter Denied Jesus and was Restored (Luke 📷 John 18:15-18; 21:1-19)

TODAY'S POINT

Jesus is forgiving even when I sin.

📷 BIBLE VERSE

Make your ways known to me, LORD; teach me your paths.

Psalm 25.•4

Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Psalm 25:4 (KJV)

LEADER DEVOTION

God knows everything that is happening all the time. We know that. However, during the excruciating hours betv Jesus' arrest and final breath on the cross, my mind wants to think everything else stopped. However, even as Je stepping in to be our Redeemer, He was fully aware of the falling away of Peter. Even then, Jesus had plans to re and restore this soon-to-be church leader.

Jesus prayed for Peter and told Peter so. Peter declared that he would follow Jesus to prison or even to death. said Peter would deny he knew Jesus that very night before the rooster crowed.

As Jesus stood before the high priest, Peter tentatively followed and stood near a fire in the high priest's courtyæ Three times Peter was asked if he was one of the men who traveled with Jesus. Each time Peter's "no" was issuu increasing vehemence. The rooster crowed. Peter looked up and met Jesus' eyes. Peter left, weeping bitterly.

Based on Scripture, it appears Peter was not around as Jesus was led away to be crucified or when Jesus breat His last breath. He didn't follow to see where Joseph and Nicodemus placed Jesus' body, though he raced to th when Mary told the disciples that Jesus' body was missing.

Peter was one of the people to whom Jesus appeared the day of His resurrection. Twice more, Peter was in a lc room with the disciples when Jesus appeared. Still the memory of his emphatic, "No, I don't know Him!" must hæ in his ears.

Sometime later, Peter and six of the other disciples decided to go fishing. They fished all night but caught. nothil Early the next morning, a man on the shore called out the question most fishermen who have caught nothing hi hear, "Got any fish?" Then the man said, "Toss your net on the right side of the boat." Suddenly the net was so f seven grown men, many of whom had experience with this type of fishing, could not pull the net in. That's wher recognized the man. It was Jesus!

All the disciples in the boat shared this experience, but let's focus on things that may have been impactful for P the miraculous catch of fish had to create immediate flashbacks to the first catch of fish when Jesus called Pet€ His disciple. Peter may have remembered his overwhelming sense of unworthiness and Jesus' promise that Pe become a fisher of men.