Simon Peter

I am a sinful man!” - Peter Miraculous Catch of Fish… Take 1 * Luke 5: 8-11 “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” - Peter

Matthew 26: 31 & 33 31 Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me,  for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’” 33 Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.”

Matthew 26:75 Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”  And he went outside and wept bitterly.

“Miraculous Catch of Fish… Take 2” Last Week’s Passage “Miraculous Catch of Fish… Take 2” * John 21: 1-14

“Re-Following Jesus” * Resurrected Jesus Reinstates Peter * John 21: 15-22

What’s up, “Stalker” John? Context Matters: Verse 15 Public/Private? “These”? Verse 19 Follow where? Verses 20-21 What’s up, “Stalker” John?

“I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.” - Aslan in “The Horse and His Boy”

One of the later themes in the Old Testament (Ezekiel 34 especially) is God’s judgment on “false shepherds” and His Plans in the future to provide “true shepherds” that will have His Heart and will sacrificially care for His people.

Jeremiah 50:6 “My people have been lost sheep;     their shepherds have led them astray     and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.” Jeremiah 3:15 “I will give you shepherds  after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.”

John 10: 14-16 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me… and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.”

Three times (the same amount of times he had disowned Jesus), Peter reaffirms his phileo & agape (brotherly & sacrificial) love for Jesus. Jesus reaffirms to Peter that to love God, means to love people.

“In a world where everything revolves around self – protect yourself, promote yourself, preserve yourself, entertain yourself, comfort yourself, take care of yourself – Jesus says, ‘Slay yourself.’ He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; He is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.” David Platt

which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon “The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. When Christ calls a man, he bids him ‘Come and die.’”

Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.  The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,  who loved me and gave himself for me.”

followers of Jesus leave: “Footprints” that followers of Jesus leave: 1.) Humbleness of heart & life 2.) Tangible love for God and others 3.) Ready & willing to carry their “cross”