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weby reading reading the word of God
from John
22 after these things Jesus showed
himself again to the disciples at the
Sea of
tiberias and in this manner showed he
himself there were together Simon Peter
and Thomas called the
twin and Nathaniel of canaa in Galilee
and the sons of zebede and two others of his
his
disciples Simon Peter Sith unto them I
go a
fishing they say unto him we also go
with thee they went forth and entered
into a boat
immediately and that night they caught
nothing but when the morning was now
come Jes Jesus stood on the shore but
the disciples knew not that it was
Jesus then Jesus sth unto them children
have you any food they answered him
no and he said unto them cast the net on
the right side of the boat and you shall
find they cast therefore and now they
were not able to draw it for the
multitude of
fish therefore that disciple whom Jesus
loved said unto Peter it is the Lord
now when Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord he Girt his Fisher's coat unto
him for he was naked and did cast
himself into the sea and the other
disciples came in a little boat for they
were not far from the land but as it
were 200 cubits dragging the net with
fish as soon then as they were come to
land they saw a fire of coals there and
fish laid on it and
bread Jesus said unto them bring of the
fish which ye have now
caught Simon Peter went up and Drew the
net to land full of great fish 1
and3 and although there were so many yet
was not the net
broken Jesus sth unto them come and
dine and none of the disciples dared ask
him who art thou knowing that it was the
Lord Jesus then cometh and taketh bread
and giveth them and fish
likewise this is now the third time that
Jesus showed himself to his disciples
after he was risen from the dead so when
they had dined Jesus sth to Simon Peter
Simon son of Jonah lovest thou me more than
than
these he sa unto him ye Lord thou
knowest that I love thee he sa unto them
feed my
Lambs he said to him again the second
time Simon son of Jonah lovest thou
me he Seth unto him yay Lord thou
knowest that I love thee he sa unto him
feed my
sheep he sath unto him the third time
Simon son of Jonah lovest thou me Peter
was grieved because he said unto him the
third time lovest thou me and he said
unto him Lord thou knowest all
things thou knowest that I love thee
Jesus Sith unto him feed my sheep verse
19 and when he had spoken this he Seth
unto him follow me then Peter turning
about seeth the disciple whom Jesus
loved following who also leaned on his
breast at supper and said Lord who is he
that betrayeth thee Peter seeing him s
to Jesus Lord and what shall this man
do Jesus sayth unto him if I will that
he tar till I come what is that to thee
follow thou
me a great lesson in
today when Simon Peter denied his
Lord his sin affected two areas of his spiritual
spiritual
life his
fellowship and his discipleship
ship now his sin did not affect his [Music]
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sonship the Lord Jesus Christ still
dealt with Peter as a child of
God nowhere do the gospel writers tell
us that Peter lost his sonship because he
he
sinned but he did lose his
fellowship and his
discipleship and these had to be restored
restored
many times we have read from Psalm 23 he
restoreth my
soul well Peter experienced that in
this experience of John CH
21 privately the Lord Jesus Christ met
with Peter and restored the
fellowship you'll recall on that Easter
morning the Angels said to the women go
tell his disciples and Peter
now I think that extra phrase has two
meanings to it number one Peter has
somewhat lost his discipleship at number
two don't let him get discouraged go
tell his disciples and
Peter and that Easter afternoon the Lord
Jesus Christ met with Peter personally and
and
privately when the Lord is restoring our
fellowship he doesn't hang the dirty
wash out in public
but discipleship is quite something
else discipleship means living for the
Lord that's
public discipleship means learning from
the Lord walking with him listening to
him serving him and this is
public consequently the Lord had to deal
with this matter of
discipleship in The Fellowship of the other
other
disciples and so here John chapter 21 we
have the Lord Jesus Christ restoring
Peter to his place of
discipleship I'm glad that he did this
I'm glad Peter let him do it it's a
tremendous encouragement to us if anyone
here today has gotten out of fellowship
with the Lord or your discipleship has
failed you're not walking with him
you're not serving him then notice what
the Lord Jesus Christ Christ does in
John CH 21 as he restores the Apostle
Peter to his
discipleship I think that too many times
we Christians undervalue what it means
to be a disciple of Jesus Christ I grant
you the word disciples not used often
after the four gospels but the idea is
still there walking with the Lord
listening to the
Lord living with the Lord serving the
lord making progress day by day as we follow
follow
him you see the Lord Jesus Christ
restored the Apostle Peter to the
Privileges of
discipleship and there are four of them
and I would say to you today that Jesus
Christ wants you and me to enjoy the
Privileges of discipleship not just
sunship I know I'm going to heaven but
discipleship Heaven has come to me and
I'm walking with the Lord and following
him now what are these privileges what
privileges did the Lord restore to Peter
when he restored his
discipleship first the privilege of serving
serving Christ
Christ
1-6 if ever you have a p picture of
ineffective service it's right here they
were waiting for
Jesus the Lord Jesus had said now look
I'll I'll meet you in Galilee Matthew
tells us that the Lord appointed a
mountain where he would meet them in
Galilee and so they're waiting and
they're waiting I don't know about you
but in my life it's harder to wait than
it is to
work I confess to you there are times I
even get
impatient in my automobile waiting for
the light to
change I'm so important and I have so
much to do the Lord says sit there the
light's broken you're going to wait a little
little
while and they're waiting and while
they're waiting Peter says I'm going
fishing and the other men say we're
going with you now it's interesting to
read all all of the Bible commentaries
on this and discover they're divided
right down the middle there are those
who say Peter was right in going fishing
why waste your time go out and catch
some fish there are those who say no
Peter was wrong in going fishing God
didn't give them any orders and they
should have waited I'm inclined to
believe that Peter and the other
disciples were
wrong they should have just waited and
been where the Lord wanted them to be
when he was going to come to them but be
that as it may you certainly have here a
picture of ineffective service they had
everything going for them they had the
equipment Nets and boats they had the
experience four of those men were
experienced fishermen
they had the enthusiasm let's go fishing
I'll Wile with you that's always the
tragedy when some servant of
God gets out of the will of God he
always drags somebody else with him I've
seen this happen in
churches where one of God's uh children
will say I'm going to do this and he
drags somebody else with him then you've
got a problem but notice what happens
they fished all night and caught
Darkness disappointment
defeat empty
stomachs empty
Nets it's a picture of what happens when
you and I try to serve the
Lord without his
guidance Jesus Christ appears on the
shore and they don't even recognize him
and he calls out and says man have you caught
caught
anything that's a that's a bad question
fishermen and they just answer
no the least said the
better cast the net on the right side of the
the [Applause]
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ship Travelers in Palestine tell us that
people on the shore can sometimes look
out into the lake and actually see the
schools of fish in fact some fishermen
used to have guides posted on the shore
and they would signal where they could
tell where the fish were sometimes you
could see more from the shore than you
could from the boat that's not what happened
happened
here the Lord was performing a
miracle and the difference between
success and failure was the width of the
ship you know sometimes you and I are
closer to success than we think we are
and the Lord Jesus Christ just has to
give us the orders and they obeyed him
and they caught a great catch of fish
and then John says it is the
Lord You See Jesus Was
preparing the Apostle Peter and the rest
of the disciples for the kind of fishing
they were going to do in the book of
Acts you see John 21 you turn the page
acts chap 1 they're
waiting and this time they don't go out
fishing Acts chapter 2 they go fishing
and catch 3,000 fish acts chap 4 2,000
more by the time it gets to Acts chap 6
the disciples are so busy taking care of
converts and sorting out the fish they
have to get help the Lord is preparing
them see one of the beautiful privileges
of being his disciple is serving Christ
effectively I fear a lot of Christians
are doing what these people did There's
enthusiasm there is equipment there's
expertise there's experience but there's no
no
blessing and they learned that morning
that Jesus when he said without me ye
can do nothing he meant just
that without me you can do nothing ah
but I've been fishing all my life
without me you can do nothing the best
Nets we could get without me you can do
nothing one of the Privileges of being a
disciple is the privilege of serving Christ
Christ
effectively and Peter learned that
lesson that morning without me you can
do nothing
there's a second privilege of being a
disciple it's found in Verses
4-7 the privilege of knowing Christ
Christ
intimately now it's one thing to serve
the Lord it's quite something else to
know the Lord and here is Peter pulling
in the net and John not Peter John says
Lord you see John was the one who used
to snuggle right next to the Lord's
heart this may bother some of you men
but I don't see a thing effeminate or
weak about that I see strength in it
John was a man's
man there was nothing about the Apostle
John that was
weak and John wanted to be close to the
Lord Jesus love has its eyes open and
when they caught this great host of fish
John said says it is the
Lord Peter didn't know that Peter should
have known
it when they caught this great host of
fish Peter's mind should have began
clicking and Peter should have said hey
I had a day like this once before did
you ever go through that experience that
the psychologist call Deja
Vu you've had that experience we've been
through this
before he had been through this before
in Luke chap five he'd fished all night
and caught nothing and Jesus showed up
on the shore and got in the boat and
said launch out into the deep and he let
down his Nets and caught a great host of
fish Peter should have remembered
that but he
didn't and John says it's the
Lord you see the Lord has those who are
far from him and the Lord has those who
are close to him there was a great
multitude of people around the Lord
Jesus during his ministry then there was
an inner circle of those who followed
him and then there was the inner circle
of the Apostles and then there was the
inner circle of the Apostles Peter James and
and
John and one purpose for an apostle is
to get to know Jesus better not just
serve him more effectively but get to
know him more intimately and that
morning Peter didn't know the Lord you
see he had sinned against the Lord and
he had
lost his
discipleship and now Jesus comes on the
shore The Stranger on the
shore and Peter doesn't recognize him
you see one of the evidences that we're
not really walking as close to the Lord
as we should is we don't recognize him
when he shows
up we don't see him in the word like we
ought to see him we don't see him in the
lives of others as we ought to we don't
see him in the hym book The Way We ought
to we don't see him in circumstances the
way we ought to and you know the Lord
Jesus wants us to get to know him more
intimately Peter knew him as Savior but
that's not
enough Peter needed to know him as Lord
and his friend and as the one whom he
heart which raises the question just
now are you and I getting to know the
through the word of God and through
prayer and through worship and through
fellowship with God's people are we
getting to know him more intimately Paul
had been saved 30 years when he wrote
that I may know
him know him when John was on the aisle
of patmas he knew a lot about the Lord
Jesus but then the heavens were opened
and he learned things he'd never known
before Oh that I may know
him that's the privilege of discipleship
if I speak to someone right now who's no
longer walking with the Lord you've
turned your back on him look what you're
missing the privilege of serving Christ
effectively and helping to catch the
fish and the privilege of knowing Christ
intimately but this leads to a third
privilege in verses 9-1
17 there is the priv privilege of loving
Christ more deeply now these go together
as we serve the Lord more effectively we
get to know the Lord more
intimately it's not the people who sit
in the grand stands and applaud who get
to know the lord it's those who are down
in the boat fishing it's those who are
out in the battlefield fighting it's
those who are out in the yard the farm
yard throwing out the seed
and you know as we get to know the Lord
more intimately we come to love the Lord
much more deeply and this is the thing
that Jesus talked to Peter about he said
Peter I just blessed your
hands you threw out the net and you
caught the fish but now Peter I want to
deal with your
heart I've opened up your eyes you've
seen me but now I want to deal with your
heart Peter
do you really love me more than these
you see you've got to remember that
Peter had boasted this way Peter had
said though all else forsake you I will
not forsake you I will go with you to
prison and to death it's a dangerous
thing when you compare your love for
Christ with the love that others have
for Christ and Peter as it were put
himself up in a pedestal and said Lord
the rest of this crowd may not love you
but I love you and Jesus says to him
Peter do you really this whole
circumstance was set up that Peter might
come to the place of a broken heart look
at it now they'd fished all night and
caught nothing and then Jesus appears
and says cast The Net they cast The Net
they caught the
fish that's what happened when Peter was
called in Luke chap 5 and Peter had
fallen down at jesus' feet and said Lord
depart from me and Peter heard Jesus say
oh no I'm not going to depart from you
you're going to follow me and I'm going
to make you Fishers of Men that was his
call when Peter got on the
shore there he saw bread and
fish the usual breakfast for a fisherman
bread and
fish and those bread that that bread and
those fish reminded him of something
back in John chap 6 he had taken bread
and fish and he'd helped to feed 5,000
people and then Jesus had preached a
sermon and the crowd got up and left
him and Jesus turned to his disciples
and said will you also go away and Peter
spoke up and said to whom shall we go
thou Hast the words of eternal life and
we believe and are sure that thou art the
the
Christ you see this circumstance not
only reminded Peter of his call but it
reminded Peter of his
confession Peter remember when you
confessed that I was the Christ and then
he saw a fire of coals the only other
place in the New Testament where you'll
find those words is in John 18 and Peter
came and stood by a fire of coals and
that was where he denied the Lord and so
my savior calls Peter and the other
Apostles to a fire of
coals that was an awfully quiet breakfast
breakfast
nobody was saying anything conviction
was deep shame was
real and how tenderly the Lord Jesus
deals with us now if you and I had been
doing this we would have said Peter
let's get things straightened out then
you can eat have you parents ever said
to your children unless you take care of
this you can't have
dinner our Lord didn't do that he said
come and dine back at the beginning of
John's gospel Jesus said come and and
see now he says come and dine and he
feeds Peter bread and
fish and then after he feeds him he
talks to his heart you know the Lord
does this I'm glad that when I have
strayed away the Lord doesn't come with
a with a pickaxe and a crowbar and
dynamite he comes with bread and
fish and he feeds me and shows me what
I've been missing and then he says now
once again the scholars are dis are
divided over the um these Greek words
you Greek students know that there are
two different words used here for love
there's the word fileto Philadelphia
Brotherly Love filo which means a fondness
fondness
for and then there is agapa which means
a deep sacrificial love if you'll read
the Gospel of John carefully you'll find
these two words are used interchangeably
but I think here the Lord is trying to
make a point he's saying Peter do you
really have a sacrificial love for me
were you willing to lay down your life
for me Peter says Lord you know that I
have a fondness for you Jesus uses agapa
and and Peter uses fetto in this Greek
text and so Jesus tries again and says
Peter do you have this agape love for me
and he says Lord you know that I I have
a fondness for you and so then Jesus
uses Peter's word well Peter you have a
fondness for me he said Lord you know
everything oh my dear friends we have to
grow in our love for the Lord don't we
not just have a fondness for him a
friendship for him but get to the point
where we are really
willing to lay down our lives for him
that's easy to talk about and easy to
sing about but so difficult to practice
he said Peter the day is going to come
they're going to put you on a cross and
carry you out and you're going to die
and that
happened one of the Privileges of
discipleship is the privilege of loving
Christ more deeply do we do this we want
to serve him more
effectively we want to know him more
intimately we want to love him more
deeply but it doesn't stop there in
verses 18-
21 there's a fourth privilege of disci
discipleship our Lord says Peter you got
away from
me Peter you have had your fellowship
restored now I want to restore you to
your discipleship I want you to serve me
effectively there's a fellow named
Cornelius who's going to need you and
Peter I want you to serve me effectively
I want you to know me intimately I want
you to love me deeply and
obediently I want you to follow me and
keep your eye upon me and that's why he
says to him in verse 19 Follow Me He
restored his discipleship the same thing
he said back in Luke 5 follow me I'll
make you Fishers of Men He says it again
aren't you glad our God gives us another
chance I'm glad that Jesus didn't say to
Peter you're through I've given three
years to you I died for you but you're
through he doesn't say that men say
that but God doesn't say that God said
Abraham you really fouled things up in
Egypt but get out I'll give you another
chance Jacob boy have you made a mess of
things but go back to bethl let's start
all over again Jonah woo you have really
disobeyed me but the word of the Lord
came a second time to
Jonah Peter you've disgraced me and
yourself you've disobeyed me but follow
me I want you to follow
me obediently you see how Jesus has
dealt with all of the inner man I want
you to know me intimately that's the
mind I want you to love me deeply that's
the heart I want you to follow me
commission he said Peter up till now all
you've been doing is catching
fish I don't want you to stop doing that
but I want you also to start taking care
of the sheep you see the Lord uses two
different pictures of people here when
we go out to win souls we're catching
dead fish and giving them
life but when we take care of God's
people we aren't taking care of fish
we're taking care of sheep that's why he
says to him feed my sheep Shepherd my
sheep feed my Lambs care for my people
when you read first Peter you find him
doing this in chapter 5 he talks about
the Lord Jesus as the shepherd He talks
to the Elders of the church as the
overseers and the
Shepherds he says Peter I want you to
obey me and follow me let's go he gives
him a brand new call and a brand new
commission and when Peter got up and
started to walk and follow Jesus he had
no idea where he was going he didn't
have to know as long as he was close to
the shepherd that's all that counts and
Peter was going to walk right into
chapter one of Acts and help them elect
a new Apostle he's going to walk right
into chapter 2 of Acts the holy spirit's
going to come in power 3,000 are going
to be saved he's going to keep on
walking following the Lord and winning
flock but from the very beginning he had
the same old
problem he got
distracted and as he's walking following
the Lord he hears footsteps behind him
and he does something a disciple must
never do he got his eyes off the lord
it's the third time now that Peter's
gotten his eyes off the
Lord in Luke chap 5 when he had this
great catch of fish he got his eyes off
the Lord on himself and said depart from
me I'm a sinful man and Jesus said get
your eyes off yourself Peter follow
me in Matthew 18 when he was walking on
the water he got his eyes off him off
the Lord and started looking at
circumstances we've all done that and he
began to sink now he gets his eyes off
the Lord and starts looking at other
Christians a disciple cannot follow the
lord while he's watching other
Christians these three distractions
cause a great deal of trouble look at
yourself you'll get discouraged look at
circum stances you'll start to sink look
at other Christians you get critical
critical
proud we have a lot of this going on
today the chief Indoor Sport of many
Saints is people
watching and they have binoculars with
Bible verses on
them and they're always watching some
preacher or some evangelist or some
Saint find out what they're doing and I
feel like saying to these people what
Jesus said what is that to thee keep
your your eyes on the
Lord you know I have enough to do to
keep myself following the Lord without
trying to straighten everybody else out
now I do have a shepherding
responsibility and I do try to fulfill
it but you know what I'm talking about
that critical spirit Lord what's this
man going to do what's that to
you follow
me during Mr Moody's Ministry there were
always people who were critical of Mr
Moody we've forgotten those people Mr
Moody is still remembered
what is that to thee follow thou
me and he had the privilege of following
Christ obediently do you see what you
miss when you aren't walking with the
Lord oh to me it would be a
tragedy if Peter had not been restored
to his
discipleship he would have missed
serving Christ effectively he that doeth
the will of God abideth forever he would
have missed no KN Christ more
intimately he would have missed loving
Christ more
deeply he would have missed following
Christ more
obediently and I wouldn't have been
talking about Peter
today but maybe we aren't talking about
Peter maybe we're talking about you or
me perhaps there's someone here today
who needs to come to the Lord Jesus and say
say
Lord I I used to follow you I used to be
one of your
disciples I was getting to know you and
serving you and loving you and and then
I got away but I want to come back will
he have you back of course does he want
you back
yes will he forgive yes will he restore of
of
course perhaps someone here today says I
never started I've never come to trust
the Lord Jesus but if this is what
salvation is all about being being
forgiven and then serving him and
knowing him and loving him and following
him that sounds like excitement where
does this Trail end it ends in
glory there came a Time When They
Crucified Peter and his body was laid to
rest and his soul went home to
Heaven his discipleship was
over oh my friend if you've never
trusted Jesus Christ come to trust him
if you have trusted him and strayed over
Way come back to him because the life of
a disciple is a privileged life and
you're missing so
much without
him thank you Father for the joy and the
blessing and the privilege of
discipleship I pray for any here today
who have never entered into this
beautiful life who have never trusted
Christ that today they will come and
Trust him for those who have strayed oh
Lord bring them back today may they find
at your
feet the satisfaction and the
forgiveness and the new beginning that
only you can give we pray in Jesus name
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