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Introduction
December 23, 2016 we started the Gospel of John.
For a year and a half we have been working through this Gospel and we have come to the end,.
How quickly 16 months have gone by. It seems like just yesterday.
Today we are going to look at three things we need to remember.
Let’s begin
John 21:9-
John 21:9-25
John 21:12-25
When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. “Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them. So Simon Peter climbed up and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish—153 of them. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.
“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread, and gave it to them. He did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him. A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Shepherd my sheep,” he told him.
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep,” Jesus said. “Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”
So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them, the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
So this rumor spread to the brothers and sisters that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
John 21:
“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread, and gave it to them. He did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him. A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Shepherd my sheep,” he told him.
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep,” Jesus said. “Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”
So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them, the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
So this rumor spread to the brothers and sisters that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
Let’s Pray
John 21:9-15
John 21:9-15
John 21:9-
When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. “Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them. So Simon Peter climbed up and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish—153 of them. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.
“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread, and gave it to them. He did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him.
In verse 15 Jesus says, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? and Peter replies, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
In verse 15 Jesus says, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? and Peter replies, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Some scholars think that there may be something interesting in these verses.
Let me give you an example, how many of you have heard of the love issue in these verses?
When Jesus says, I love you - he says, I agape you.
Agape: to have love for someone or something, based on sincere appreciation and high regard
Here is what I mean -
Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 292.
When Peter replies, he says, you know that I love you, or “you know that I phileo you.”
Phileo: to have love or affection for someone or something based on association.
Phileo is where we get the word Philiadelphia - or the city of “Brotherly love” - not the city of Agape love.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 25.33 φιλέω; φιλία, ας
to have love or affection for someone or something based on association—‘to love, to have affection for.’
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 25.33 φιλέω; φιλία, ας
to have love or affection for someone or something based on association—‘to love, to have affection for.
So through out these verses we have a play on the word love.
Jesus says, “do you love me with high regard and sincere appreciation” and Peter responds, “I love you like a brother, phileo.”
This exchange goes back and forth throughout the scripture.
- do you agape me, I phileo you
- Jesus then says, “do you phileo me?” and Peter says, “yes, I phileo you” then Peter was grieved.
Some believe that this is really important - do you love me like God loves you, agape love? And Peter replies, I love you like a brother. And again, Jesus asks him, do you love me with agape love, and Peter again says, I love you like a brother. The third time Jesus says, Peter, do you love me like a brother, and Peter says, yes, I love you like a brother and he was grieved.
For years - I thought this was the point of these verses.
For years - I thought the most important lesson in these verses was how we love Jesus.
For years - scholars and commentaries have commented on this particular issue of the play on the words love.
Then I am studying for this sermon and I run across to commentaries that explain this play on words - agape, phileo and the uses of them. And then a commentator says, “Jesus and Peter were probably not speaking Greek, they were speaking Aramaic or Hebrew.”
That changes everything.
We stand on the shoulders of those that came before us.
There are a lot of books and devotionals that are written based on this play on the Greek words for love, and then someone realizes, they were probably not speaking Greek.
Why would a Jewish Rabbi and a Jewish Fisherman be speaking in Greek?
I love this because I saw this scripture with new eyes.
Suddenly it wasn’t a play on Greek words.
The meaning was deeper than that
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him.
Do you love me more than these - unfortunately we don’t know what “these” are - maybe the other disciples, maybe the fishing nets laid out before them, maybe the 153 fish flopping on the shore line.
Do you love me more than these?
“Feed my lambs”
A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Shepherd my sheep,” he told him.
John 21:
Do you love me?
“You know that I love you.”
Shepherd my sheep.
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep,” Jesus said.
Do you love me?
“Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
Feed my Sheep.
Three times Peter denied Jesus
While Jesus was on trial - Peter was denying Him
You can’t help but wonder when
Nobody ran to Jesus and said, “hey did you hear Peter deny you?”
Peter remember what Jesus had said, “before the Rooster crows you will deny me three times.”
Imagine the pain of hearing the Rooster crow for Peter
Imagine the pain of hearing Jesus ask three times if you love Him
Peter was grieved.
Jesus knows all things - and when we encounter Jesus, when we see our own sin, when we recognize it, we can be grieved too.
We should thank God that He is a God of second, and third, and fourth chances.
Thank God that He doesn’t turn His back on us when we sin, but like the Father of the Prodigal Son - He waits for us, ready to run out and wrap His arms around us.
Sometimes there are sins in our lives that we cannot forget.
Sometimes we have done things that sear into our memories that we can’t shake.
Maybe we have said things that we can never take back.
Like Peter, denying Jesus three times - those words can never be taken back - in fact, they are memorialized in scripture for all time. Imagine if your sin was written down and looked at, studied, and remembered for all time.
But we serve a God that loves us, and forgives us.
Turn in your Bibles to
If you mark up your Bibles, circle this verse, underline it, highlight it, memorize it.
Psalm 103:11-12
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed
our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his faithful love
toward those who fear him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed
our transgressions from us.
Ps
God loves you so much that we we turn from our wickedness, when we turn from our sins, they are removed as far as the East is from the West.
God removes our transgressions, are sins
What a great Promise of the Lord
Remember: Jesus forgives our sins
“Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”
How many of you would like to know when you are going to die and how?
Jesus gives Peter a glimpse into his own death
When you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted.
But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you were you don’t want to go.
This stretching out the hands many believe alludes to crucifixion.
Church tradition tells us that Peter was crucified.
When John wrote his Gospel, many believe that Peter had already suffered martyrdom.
But God would be glorified in Peter’s death.
What a thing to hear - you are going to be crucified and God will be glorified.
Not exactly what you want to hear.
You are going to die a gruesome and horrible death - but God will be glorified.
So look what Peter does.
So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them, the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
John 21:20
So Jesus tells Peter - you are going to die, and God will be glorified.
Peter turns around and sees John and says, “Lord, what about him?”
Got to love Peter - if I am going to die, and God is going to be glorified, what about John?
“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
All of us have an appointment with death.
Death is a terrible, but natural experience.
We cannot focus on death, or be focused on others.
Look what Jesus says, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
All of us need to follow Jesus.
Remember: Jesus forgives our sins
Remember: Follow Jesus
Following Jesus is an individual relationship, we personally follow Jesus. We personally walk with Jesus.
How Jesus uses us, is between the individual and Jesus. “As for you, follow me.”
Now word spread about this conversation. We need to remember the audience that John is writing to. Scholars believe that Peter had already died when John wrote his Gospel. And a rumor was spreading, that because Jesus said, “If I want him to remain until I come,” that Jesus was coming back soon. And John needed to address that rumor.
John 21:23
So this rumor spread to the brothers and sisters that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
John was getting old - and the people were no doubt getting nervous
Was Jesus about to come back?
Look at John - he is old, I thought that Jesus said he would remain until Jesus comes back. Is Jesus coming?
So John addresses this rumor - He didn’t say he would not die, but “if I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you.”
What can we learn from this?
Remember: Jesus forgives our sins
Remember: Follow Jesus
Remember: Don’t start and spread rumors
John 21:24-25
This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
Jesus did many things while He was ministering on earth.
He changed water to wine.
He healed the royal officials son.
Healed the paralytic.
He fed 5000 people with two loaves and five fish.
Jesus walked on water.
He healed the blind man.
He raised Lazarus from the dead.
These seven miracles are recorded in the Gospel of John - and yet John says, there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
What a statement.
You look at the 21 chapters of John - and John still says, there is so much more. Jesus is so much more.
Jesus loves you so much that he died for your sins, he rose from the grave so that you can have eternal life.
Hold on to these promises.
Follow Jesus.
Let’s Pray