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Instant Gratifier- Patient Postponer
Jesus is going to challenge Peter in the chapter and we wont get through it all.
It normally cost us something for us to forgive.
Sometimes its money, sometimes its other things.
The majority of the time for us when we forgive, the greatest cost is pride.
But essentially the challenge is this-
Lack of forgiveness breeds a lack of service in the church, and in reality, we are acting like foolish children.
Don’t trade the temporary for the eternal.
In order for their to be restoration, there must be forgiveness.
We are commanded to forgive.
Don’t leave what is comparatively greater to chase after something clearly lesser.
This passage we see Jesus model this for us.
John ends his book differently the other Gospels.
Matthew ends it in the commission- The Great Commission
Marks ends it with the resurrection
Luke ends his Gospel with the Road to Emmaus- Ascension- which he will pick back up in Acts
John ends his Gospel with a commissioning, but his commissioning is a restorative commissioning.
There is something that has to be dealt with.
Peter’s sin and the other disciples sin.
John records the restoration of Peter.
We won’t get through all of this today.
We are in a bit of a transitional period.
The disciples at this point know that Jesus is alive, but his appearance to them were more periodic than continuous.
The first time, ten of them are in the room together and he appears to them.
The second time, we discussed this at length last week, Thomas is with them this time as he appears to the whole 11.
Now he manifest himself to them again.
Manifest means to reveal- key term in the life of Jesus
Here is where you should know that Jesus’s entire ministry is about manifestation.
He came to be Emmanuel- God with us.
He came dwell with us.
To manifest God to us.
The beginning of John tells us this.
The goal of these manifestation is that we would see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ has come in order that he may reveal or manifest the Father in this world.
And He does this for a purpose.
Its not because he is bored in heaven.
Jesus is manifesting Himself after the resurrection not merely because Jesus wants to see the disciples.
Sure they are his friends, but more so than that, he manifest himself to them that they would be his witnesses.
There is a purpose behind every appearance.
the purpose- he makes himself known as the resurrected Savior to empower their present faith and their future ministry.
The same is true today.
If by God’s grace, the Spirit of God has opened your eyes to see, appreciate and trust in the resurrected Christ, then he does so not merely to entertain.
Reading the Bible isn’t about entertainment.
Its about encountering the resurrected Lord in order to empower and to embolden us to go and do the will of God.
Read your Bible.
Logically then, an encounter with Jesus will inevitably lead to two distinct and separate responses.
We’ve seen this through the book of John.
We see it today.
Two responses.
Repentance, Belief, and Submission- this is the correct response to a resurrected Lord.
In fact this is the only response that makes sense in light of the resurrection.
If he is raised from the dead, then I should listen to what he says about sin.
If there is sin in my life, i ought to repent- I ought to turn
If he is raised, I ought to believe he is who he says he is.
I ought to follow him faithfully.
If he is raised from the dead, then I ought to serve him with my life.
And this is the response we have to call for in the Gospel message.
We call people to repent- to turn from their sin.
We call people to believe- to trust in Christ alone for salvation.
We call people to submit to His Lordship.
We don’t just ask them to ask Jesus in their heart, sign a card, and go get baptized so that we can have a better report at the convention.
The response we must call for is the biblical one.
That is the only biblical response.
Everything else would fall into the second category.
The second response is completely opposite.
This the response of someone still dead in their trespasses and sin.
It really is the opposite of the other.
They refuse to repent.
“Yeah I believe in Jesus, but they are living completely opposed to the will of God.”
Stated belief + Actual Practice=Actual Belief
They love their sin.
They refuse to believe.
Biblical belief is more than a mental assent- The Demons believe and shutter.
They refuse to submit.
One day they will though.
So moving forward in this passage and really any passage of Scripture we come to the goal of Jesus revealing himself for us is that we would repent, believe, submit.
That’s why he manifests himself to the disciples, and thats why he manifests himself to us.
Knowing this, this account and every other account we come to, the application of every passage will fall into the category of eliciting repentance, belief, or submission.
Look in verse 2-3
Peter, often if not always is mentioned first with regard to the disciples.
He is the leader within the disciples.
His leadership in this chapter is evident as well.
He is the one that leads the disciples to go fishing.
He is the one described as the one who will throw himself into the water to go meet Jesus first.
He is the one who Jesus will speak to at the end of this chapter and book and challenge and restore.
Peter is a leader within the disciples, but his leader ship has suffered under the weight of three denials.
So, Peter decides that he will go fishing.
The people I have read seem to disagree as to why Peter decides to go fishing.
Some suggests that he is killing time while they are waiting for Jesus.
This is entirely possible.
Some suggest that Peter, having betrayed Jesus and feeling unworthy to ever serve Christ faithfully again, decides to go back and do what he had previously done before he met Christ.
He was a fisherman.
This was his job. he felt like he could be successful at that.
Having denied Jesus, he goes back to fishing.
This is possible as well, in light of Jesus’s conversation with him in verse 15 and following.
Both of these are speaking beyond what the passage gives us, but it is interesting, that even after seeing Jesus alive, and after he has called them to drop their nets before, they return to their fishing nets.
Maybe they killing time.
Maybe they are working trying to make money.
Maybe Peter doesn’t know what else to do.
Maybe he feels unqualified.
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