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Hook - Mistake and Forgiveness
John 21:15–19 (ESV)
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.”
He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved 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.
Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.)
And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
The memory of Peter’s failures must have still felt fresh to Peter.
That devastating night where Peter turned his back from Jesus.
How he must have felt?
John Stott provides a very
Herod and Pilate, Gentiles and Jews … had together “conspired” against Jesus (Acts 4:27).
More important still, we ourselves are also guilty.
If we were in their place, we would have done what they did.
Indeed we have done it.
For whenever we turn away from Christ, we “are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace” (Heb 6:6).
We too sacrifice Jesus to our greed like Judas, to our envy like the priests, to our ambition like Pilate.
“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” the old negro spiritual asks.
And we must answer, “Yes, we were there.”
Not as spectators only, but as participants, guilty participants, plotting, scheming, betraying, bargaining and handing him over to be crucified.
We may try to wash our hands of responsibility like Pilate.
But our attempt will be as futile as his.
For there is blood on our hands.
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