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Restoring Hope

• A Special EASTER Message
• John 2115-23

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FOUR VIGNETTES As The Backdrop Of Our Text
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VIGNETTE 1 Palm SundayJesus Triumphal
Entry to Jerusalem
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"Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the Lord, even the King of Israel!" John 1213
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VIGNETTE 2 PredictionJesus Predicts Peters
Denial
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"Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the
rooster crows twice, you will deny me three
times." Mark 1430
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VIGNETTE 3 Roosters CrowPeter Denies Jesus
Three Times
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Peter replied, "Man, I don't know what you're
talking about!" Just as he was speaking, the
rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked
straight at Peter. Luke 2260-61
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VIGNETTE 4 153 Risen Jesus Shows up to the
Disillusioned Disciples
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Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net
ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but
even with so many the net was not torn.  John
2111
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• John 2115-23 ESV
• 15When 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." 16He 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." 17He 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. 18
  Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young,
  you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you
  wanted, but when you are

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• John 2115-23 ESV
• old, you will stretch out your hands, and another
  will dress you and carry you where you do not
  want to go." 19(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."
• 20Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus
  loved following them, the one who had been
  reclining at table close to him and had said,
  "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?"
  21When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord,
  what about this man?" 22Jesus said to him, "If it
  is my will that he remain until I come, what is
  that to you? You follow me!" 23So the saying
  spread abroad among the brothers that this
  disciple was not to die yet Jesus did not say to
  him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my
  will that he remain until I come, what is that to
  you?"

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HOW DOES THE RISEN CHRIST RESTORE OUR HOPE?

• The Risen Christ restores OUR HEARTS for a new
  beginning.
• He said to him the third time,
• "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" (v.17a)
• Why ask this question? It was more for Peter.
• Why ask three times? Threefold confession of love
  was for restoring Peters disillusioned heart in
  his threefold denial of Jesus.
• Jesus can also restore our hearts as well if we
  surrender our hearts to him Religion vs. Jesus
  DO vs. DONE.

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• 10He does not deal with us according to our sins,
• nor repay us according to our iniquities.
• 11For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
• so great is his steadfast love toward those
  who fear him
• 12as far as the east is from the west,
• so far does he remove our transgressions from
  us.
• Psalm 10310-12
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HOW DOES THE RISEN CHRIST RESTORE OUR HOPE?

• The Risen Christ restores OUR HEARTS for a new
  beginning.
• He said to him the third time,
• "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" (v.17a)
• Why ask this question? It was more for Peter.
• Why ask three times? Threefold confession of love
  was for restoring Peters disillusioned heart in
  his threefold denial of Jesus.
• Jesus can also restore our hearts as well if we
  surrender our hearts to him Religion vs. Jesus
  DO vs. DONE.
• Why? Jesus offers us an exchanged life a new
  life in Christ!

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• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
• he is a new creation
• the old has gone, the new has come!
• 2 Corinthians 517
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HOW DOES THE RISEN CHRIST RESTORE OUR HOPE?

• 2) The Risen Christ restores OUR PRIORITIES for a
  new love.
• Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John,
• do you love me more than these? (v.15b)
• What was required of Peter for reinstating
  Peters leadership? Not competence, a to-do-list,
  or promises
• BUT, his matchless love for Jesus! That Jesus
  would be not just prominent but PREEMINENT in
  Peters heart.
• What about us? This new love changes our
  priorities from a SELF-centered life to a life of
  JOYJesus first, Others second, Yourself last.
• Why? Because Jesus loved us firsthe died rose
  for us!

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• 14For Christ's love compels us,
• because we are convinced that one died for all,
• and therefore all died. 15And he died for all,
  that those
• who live should no longer live for themselves but
  for him
• who died for them and was raised again.
• 2 Corinthians 514-15
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HOW DOES THE RISEN CHRIST RESTORE OUR HOPE?

• 3) The Risen Christ restores OUR CALLING for a
  new direction.
• Feed my lambs Tend my sheep Feed my sheep
• You follow me. (vs.15, 16,17,22)
• Jesus calling and reinstatement of Peters
  leadership gave Peter a new direction meaning
  in life.
• New direction for Peter? To follow Jesus in the
  way Jesus lived, loved, and served others!
• What about us? Jesus calls us to follow HIMnot
  religion, rules, ideologies, but Jesus the Risen
  LORDas his apprentice/follower.
• In following Jesus, we are to keep our FOCUS ON
  JESUS not on how others are following Jesus!

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Only Prerequisite That Matters

• Now Jesus gives him the even greater
  responsibility of teaching those who have been
  caught. What is the prerequisite for such
  service? What is the acceptable motive for
  leading and teaching others? It is not moral
  perfection in the teacher, otherwise, there would
  be no teachers. It is not an academic degree. It
  is not an overwhelming urge to bring in Christs
  kingdom, not the ability to raise more money
  There is only one prerequisite. It is love for
  Christ issuing in the desire to serve Him This
  love does not get wrapped up in mystical
  experiences. It cares for others. John said it
  well in his first letter, My little children,
  let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but
  in deed and in truth (1 John 318). If we love
  Christ, we will love those others for whom He
  also died and we will do our best to serve them
  in love.
• - James Montgomery Boice

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THREE PRACTICAL QUESTIONSFOR OUR EVERYDAY LIFE

• Will you give your HEART/LIFE to Jesus for an
  exchanged life from the Risen Christ?
• Will you surrender your PRIORITIES to Jesus for a
  matchless love the Risen Christ?
• Will you say yes to your CALLING from Jesus to
  follow the Risen Christ?

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Jesus, the Risen Christ, invites you to come to
him TODAY

• 28"Come to me,
• all you who are weary and burdened,
• and I will give you rest.
• 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
• for I am gentle and humble in heart,
• and you will find rest for your souls.
• Matthew 1128-29

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