April 22nd - Cookin
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I. Me and We
A. Let down - you believed in yourself and you let others down. You let yourself down. You were sure of yourself
B. Self-Compassion - ability to fogive oneself.
II. God
Jesus met his disciples on the shore. He had fish cooking on a charcol fire. They sat. They ate. I’m sure they taked perhaps about many things.
When breakfast was over, he turned to Peter and had three questions for Peter.
The fire, still burning, left the aroma of charcol in the air. Perhaps the same armoa as in the courtyard of the high priest when Peter was asked three very different questions: Surly you are one of his disciples.
Each time he was aksed if he was a disciple of Jesus, he denied it. Now Jesus asks him three different kind of questions.
When they 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.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
Jesus asked about Peter’s love. Then, Jesus gave him a job, a mission, a purpose. Peter was to feed Jesus’ lambs.
A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
Perhaps Peter thought that was the end of it, but it wasn’t. Jesus asked the exact same question a second time. Do you love me?
Peter, surprised, affirms his love or Jesus. Jesus, once again, affirms the mission and prupose he has for Peter, “Tend my sheep”
We could spend time talking about the difference in this second mission, but I don’t think that’s the point. Jesus isn’t dealing with nuances. In order to feed Jesus’ lambs, he would also tend to them.
He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Jesus still isn’t done. Jesus asks a third time, do you love me.
John tells us that at this point Peter couldn’t take it. He was hurt, or perhaps, even grieved. How could Peter show Jesus his love was real?
Perhaps at this point Peter’s mind went back; to the charcoal fire. The three questions. The three denials. Peter, facing his own night of failure, once again answers, you know that I do.
[How Do We KNOW that we are Forgiven]
We’ve all been there. We’ve all let someone else down. Perhaps we let down someone who we love deeply. In a moment of weakness and indescrition we did what we knew we shouldn’t. We caved. We fell. We sinned.
When it was all over we were heartbroken. Then, we encounter the one whom we failed. They know we’ve let them down. We know that we’ve hurt then.
They assure us, eveything’s okay. We are forgiven. They understand. But, we are left wondering is everything how it was. How could it be?
I can’t imagine the thoughts poring through Peter’s mind.
He had believed in himself. He told JEsus, even though the others might fail him and turn away, he would be faithful even if it meant faith! Not even a day later he found himself at the center of attention being grilled about Jesus. He denied JEsus. He denied himself as well.
Jesus is doing something significant here. In order to move on, we must face what we’ve done. Jesus sets the stage for Peter to face his sin. Not just on the surface, but to the core.
After every question, Jesus answers, Peter, if you are serious. If you really love me the way you do, here’s how you live it out.
How did Peter know he was forgiven? Jesus still had work for him to do. Jesus still was going to use him for the mission.
Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.”
John 21:17
(He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”
III. You and Us
A. Do you love me? - That is the question.
Fiddler on the Roof Clip:
The answer is how we live that out. Leadership is not an option for a disciple of Jesus.
“Leadership in the Christian church should not be a matter of obligation or oughtness but of a willing desire. It should likewise not be from a goal of achieving personal gain but from a sense of calling to serve others. And it should not be because one wishes to dominate others but because one is willing to model the way of Christ in serving God’s flock (cf. 1 Pet 5:3). Seeking power and personal aggrandizement should not be any part of the goals among Jesus’ disciples.”
“I want to know one thing,—the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way: For this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. O give me that book! At any price, give me the book of God! I have it: Here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri. [A man of one book.] Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit down alone: Only God is here. In his presence I open, I read his book; for this end, to find the way to heaven. Is there a doubt concerning the meaning of what I read? Does anything appear dark or intricate? I lift up my heart to the Father of Lights:—“Lord, is it not thy word, ‘If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God?’ Thou ‘givest liberally, and upbraidest not.’ Thou hast said, ‘If any be willing to do thy will, he shall know.’ I am willing to do, let me know, thy will.” I then search after and consider parallel passages of Scripture, “comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” I meditate thereon with all the attention and earnestness of which my mind is capable. If any doubt still remains, I consult those who are experienced in the things of God; and then the writings whereby, being dead, they yet speak. And what I thus learn, that I teach.”