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Introduction
At this time of year many people are really paying attention to the sports world.
Right?
Next Sunday, the 13th, is the super bowl, for those who care.
If you don’t care, that’s okay.
It will still happen.
:)
How many think that the team who loses the Super Bowl should never be allowed to play football again?
Anyone?
No?
Of course not!
We recognize that it is quite an achievement to make it that far and that win or lose they have done something impressive.
Here’s the thing.
Most of us find it difficult to extend to ourselves that same thinking.
Let me explain what I mean with a common saying.
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.
But here’s what I feel when I fail.
If at first you don’t succeed, erase any evidence that you ever tried.
We have a tendency to view success or failure as the measure of our worth.
We see failure as something for which we are to be condemned.
While most of us know that God does not view us as failures when we fail, we view ourselves as failures.
Today our goal is twofold.
We need to change our view of failure (that’s the first goal) by understanding God’s purpose (that’s the second goal).
Here is what we know from Scripture.
Every failure is an opportunity for growth and learning.
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Principle:
A correct view of failure understands the purpose of God.
Guidance:
To understand God’s purpose, we embrace three objectives.
Outcome:
As we understand God’s purpose failure becomes an opportunity instead of a catastrophe.
Our passage today comes after Peter denied Jesus 3 times before His crucifixion.
In the beginning of this chapter, Peter returns to his previous occupation of fishing.
I would argue that Peter is sensing a catastrophic and crippling sense of failure.
He needs an adjustment in his thinking.
He needs to understand God’s purpose.
He needs to embrace three objectives.
Objective #1…
1.
A Task To Perform vv.
15-17
Here is something we all need to remember and never forget.
God’s purpose in choosing and calling us is in no way canceled by our failures.
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Having said that, let me clarify.
There are consequences for willful sin and bad decisions.
Peter had to live with the guilt of his betrayal.
He had to face the one he betrayed!
He had to face his fellow disciples one of whom actually heard him deny Jesus!
There were consequences for sure.
However.
Consequences do not mean that God can not use you!
There is no such thing as people so damaged that our God cannot use them!
He is in the business of redemption and restoration!
That is what we see in this passage.
Three times Peter denied Jesus, three times Jesus calls Peter to service.
I want to focus the majority of our attention on the task Jesus gives Peter, but just to tease your brains a little bit I want to give you some interesting information about this passage.
If we wanted to, we could spend all day dissecting the words used by Jesus and Peter.
Honestly, there are several important things we miss in English.
Let me just present those and you can pursue them later on you own.
The first 2 times Jesus asks Peter “do you love me” Peter responds with a different Greek word for love.
Jesus uses agape, Peter uses phileo.
The final time Jesus uses phileo as well.
That’s all the further we are going to go with that today.
The second interesting thing here is that Jesus uses several different words when He tells Peter “feed my sheep.”
We will get into that a little bit more.
The final interesting note is that Peter uses two different words for know.
In vv.
15-16 Peter uses oida which referees to am intellectual knowledge.
In v. 17 he uses ginosko which refers to an experiential knowledge.
I will mention that again.
Jesus asks Peter if he loves Him more than these.
Here is the idea.
Peter, do you love me more than anything else?
Are you willing to do anything for me?
If you love me, Peter.
Truly love me, I have a job for you to do.
In John 14:15 Jesus said this about our love for Him.
John 14:15
Peter, if you are going to say you love me, demonstrate your love through your actions.
Love is demonstrated through action.
Jesus uses a few different words to describe the task he is giving to Peter.
Here Peter is to tend the lambs.
The idea is literally to feed them.
Lambs is idea of younger, more immature sheep.
In his first epistle, Peter wrote how it is the milk of the word that grows the spiritually immature.
Peter, if you love me, take care of my sheep.
Feed them, care for them, tend them.
Love does something.
In v. 16 the pattern is repeated.
Jesus calls Peter to Shepherd my sheep.
These are both different words.
Care for my sheep like a shepherd.
Last year we looked at Psalm 23.
A shepherd provides, leads, restores, protects, and corrects.
Sheep here includes both sheep and goats.
Peter, if you love me take care of my flock!
The third time Jesus speaks to Peter, Peter is grieved.
Grieved – λυπέομαι (lypeomai) grieve; be distressed.
to be sad v. — to be or become sorrowful or unhappy.
Finite verb, aorist, passive, indicative, third person, singular.
Grieved – λυπέομαι (lypeomai)
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