Follow Me (2)

Jesus talking to Peter.

Do you love me? x 3

John 21:18–25 NASB95

18 “Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.” 19 Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, “Follow Me!” 20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” 21 So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” 22 Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” 23 Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?” 24 This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true. 25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

Jesus was preparing Peter.

John 14:1 NASB95

1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

John 16:33 NASB95

33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

John 15:18 NASB95

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

John 16:1 NASB95

1 “These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

People get caught up in worshiping a God they create in their own mind.

“Follow Me”

Literal.

The Disciple whom Jesus Loved

John 21:20 NASB95

20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”

John 21:7 NASB95

7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.

John 19:26 NASB95

26 When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

John 20:2 NASB95

2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

John 13:23 NASB95

23 There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

5 Times:

Roy’s Son/Debbies’s Son.

Todd Nelson

Captain Nelson

Martye’s Husband

Jordon/Katies Dad

Nora, Linconl, Elena’s Grandfather.

For John the most important identify he had was his relationship with Jesus.

We think he was excluding the other disciples.....He was not.

We think it was a boastful claim.

For John it was a humbling claim that exalted His friend, teacher, savior and Lord.

Question ignored.

Lord, who is the one who betrays You?

assumption: if Peter is your disciple, then for him to be martyred, someone had to betray you......

Not a bad assumption, but an irrelevant one.

Question answered:

John 21:21 NASB95

21 So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?”

It’s not fair!

Job 1:21 NASB95

21 He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Galatians 6:9 NASB95

9 Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

The End:

John 21:25 NASB95

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

Contrast that with the beginning.

John 1:1–5 NASB95

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

To be continued...