May 7, 2023
Peter: Restored
Sermon Series: Jesus
Scripture: John 21:15-19
15 When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,[a] 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. 16 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.
17 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. 18 “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.” 19 He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”
Webster’s Dictionary defines restoration as
“A bringing back to a former position or condition”
Biblical restoration
When God takes something broken and makes it brand new
Joel 2: 25
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hatheaten… “
Psalm 51
11 Do not banish me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore the joy of your salvation to me,
and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit.
17 The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.
You will not despise a broken and humbled heart,
God.
”… Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
Do you love
Jesus said “Feed my lambs”
A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Do you love
Jesus said “Shepherd my sheep”
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John,do you love me?”
Will You Glorify
Jesus said “Feed My Sheep”
And after saying this he said to him, “Follow Me”