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Peter.

Here is the aftermath of Peter Betraying Jesus.

The broken trust here is between Me and Others.

Peter is the offender, and Jesus is the Offended.

Peter Broke Jesus’ Trust.

How was trust broken?

Peter Denying Jesus.

Peter was one of Jesus’ best friends, and at the moment it counted, when Jesus needed people to stand with him, Peter not only deserted him, but cursed his name, claiming not to know him at all.

This was complete and utter desertion.

Trust is broken between Jesus and Peter, so much so that when the angels appear to the women at the empty tomb, they tell her, “go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee.

There you will see him, just as he told you.’ ()” Peter is not even included with the disciples at this point.

How was trust restored?

21:4-6- Jesus (the Offended) genuinely helps Peter (the Offender).

Peter went right back to where he was after he started following Jesus.

Jesus has risen from the dead at this point, and Peter and the other disciples have seen him.

After his resurrection Jesus, rather than shaming Peter for his denial, genuinely helps him, and blesses him.

go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee.

There you will see him, just as he told you.’ () does not include Jesus in the other disciples.

After his resurrection Jesus, rather than shaming Peter for this regression, genuinely helps him, and blesses him.

21:15-19- Peter denies Jesus three times, and so Jesus gives Peter the opportunity to re-affirm his love for him three times.

Jesus (the offended) allows a chance for full repentance.

He does not wait for Peter to come to him.

He does not sit in his pain in pride and self-righteousness.

Going, “You know what you did.

YOU should be the one coming to me.”

He doesn’t do that.

He find Peter, and gives Peter the chance for full repentance.

I wonder if it was awkward while they were preparing the fish.

They hadn’t spoken of what happened between them since that night.

Peter, filled with this mix of joy and shame, questions hanging in his mind, whose answers he’s afraid to know.

In John chapter ??, Peter experienced Jesus’ resurrection, but I don’t think that it was until now that Peter had experienced the gospel.

The Gospel that Jesus had entrusted himself to us, the human race, even though we betrayed him through sin, and though our betrayal led to his death, he rose from the dead to give us new life, instead of giving us what we deserved.

Peter experienced that grace he didn’t deserve in this moment as Jesus invited him back into relationship, even though Jesus had every right to be right, and forsake Peter.

The New International Version.

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() does not include Jesus in the other disciples.

After his resurrection Jesus, rather than shaming Peter for this regression, genuinely helps him, and blesses him.

21:20-22- Repentance is humbling, and often makes us insecure.

We feel shame, and in that place, it is easy to expand the issue, or to distract from the problem so that taking the blame isn’t so painful.

That’s what we see Peter doing here as he pulls John into things.

Thomas.

Here is the aftermath of Thomas feeling betrayed by Jesus.

The broken trust here is between Me and God.

Jesus is the offender, and Thomas is the Offended.

God Broke Thomas’ Trust.

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How was the board (trust) broken?

Thomas bet it all on Jesus.

He had given up everything to follow Jesus as messiah.

Everything he knew about God, His plans, and his purposes for the Jews were seeming to happen through Jesus, and Thomas bought it, hook, line, and sinker.

Now, if you are a thinker, and a skeptic, you know how dangerous and vulnerable it is to put your trust in ideals.

Especially ideals you can’t control.

Thomas had not just thought through the fact of Jesus as Messiah, he had allowed those facts to cause him to hope and to dream.

And then Jesus died.

And the hope, the dreams, the sweet moments of trust that Thomas had planned his future around suddenly became like knives to his spirit.

The sweetness of his fantasies of reigning with the messiah became bitter and shameful.

He knew he shouldn’t have trusted.

He knew he shouldn’t have dreamed.

He knew that his dreams could never have been real, and now he felt like a fool for ever dreaming them in the first place.

The death of those ideas was so deep, so hard for Thomas, that he didn’t just lose his trust in God, he lost trust in his closest friends.

When the other disciples tell him Jesus is alive, his anger flares.

How dare they mock him.

How many times did they think he would be played for a fool?! He’s not as stupid as them!

He cries back, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

This pain is why we call him doubting Thomas.

Doesn’t seem entirely fair, does it.

Doubt in God is often born of this great dissonance between our understanding of God, and his reality.

We don’t undersnd why it has to be like this God.

How was trust repaired?

A lack of trust is at the heart of doubt.

Jesus doesn’t give Thomas answers to his questions.

He doesn’t give him a new understanding.

He doesn’t give him freedom from all his doubts.

What he gives Thomas is His presence.

He shows up in the inner room just to be with Thomas.

It was Jesus’ presence that had first inspired Thomas to leave his old life behind, and it was Jesus’ presence again that allowed Thomas to leave his old understanding behind.

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If Jesus had given Thomas a trust that was based on Thomas’ understanding, they would have had another broken board moment because God is too mysterious, too big, to gracious to be truly understood by us.

Jesus had deviated from who Thomas thought he was and how Thomas thought he should act, and it breaks Thomas’ trust.

God doesn’t give him explanations, he simply gives him his presence.

Judas.

Here is the aftermath of Judas Betraying Jesus.

The broken trust here is between Me and Myself.

Judas is the offender, and the Offended.

Judas Broke Trust in himself.

We know Judas betrayed Jesus, he’s infamous for it.

However, we also see Judas in a moment of panic as Jesus is going toward the cross, realizing that he was wrong.

In that moment, trust in his own self was broken.

Matthew 27:

I HAVE SINNED IN BETRAYING INNOCENT BLOOD.

CHRYSOSTOM: This was a charge both against him and against these others.

Against Judas, not because he repented but because he did so late and slowly and became self-condemned.

For that he gave himself up, he himself confessed.

And it was a charge against the others, in that having the power to reverse the verdict, they did not repent.

But observe when it is that Judas feels remorse.

When his sin was completed and had been fully accomplished.

The devil is like this.

He does not permit those that are inattentive to see the evil in due time, lest they might repent.

At least when Jesus was saying so many things, Judas was not influenced.

But when his offense was completed, then repentance came upon him.

And then it was too late to be profitable.