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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "SIMON SON OF JONAS, LOVEST THOU ME MORE THAN THESE?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Jesus has some unfinished business with Peter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In the hour of great trial, Peter failed the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is nothing more discouraging than failing in our time of testing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Especially when you had confidence that you were above the temptation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You lose some of your self-confidence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. You begin to wonder if the Lord will ever use you or trust you again.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. After they had dined, Jesus addressed Peter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In the question, "We do not know what (these) are?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Here is where it would be convenient if we had a video. We could then see what Jesus was pointing at or perhaps nodding towards.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. One of the difficulties in scripture is that the tone of voice is not given, and many times that leaves us free to interpret what was really said or meant.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You can say harsh things in a joking way.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Much is implied by the tone of voice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. When God said to Adam, "Adam, where art thou?" What tone of voice did God use?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. When Jesus said to the Syrophonician woman, "It isn't right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs." What was the tone of voice?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Was the "these," a net full of fish?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Peter had been called to leave his nets and follow Jesus who promised to make him a fisher of men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Was Peter's declaration "I'm going fishing," a turning of his back on the call of Jesus, hence the "Do you love Me more than these?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Do you love Me more than success in your chosen profession?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Was the "these" the other disciples?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Jesus had announced to the disciples that all of them would be offended because of Him, Peter had responded, "Lord, though they may all be offended, I will never be offended."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In a sense, Peter was declaring that he loved the Lord more than the others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Peter, do you still maintain that your love for Me exceeds that of the others?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Here is where I believe that the Lord deliberately leaves us without a positive answer. For in all of our lives there is a "these."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. With some, it might be one thing, with others something else, but there is a "these" in all of our lives.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. That thing or interest, that rivals for my supreme love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The question then becomes applicable to all of us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE QUESTION "LOVEST THOU ME." THE WORD LOVEST IS THE GREEK AGAPAS, WHICH IS A SUPREME LOVE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is the kind of love that Jesus professed to have for us. "Greater love (agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This, the kind of love that we are to have for God. "Thou shalt love (agape) the Lord thy God with all of thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. There are other Greek words translated love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Eros, love on the physical level.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Phileo, love on the emotional level. To be fond of, to have an attraction toward.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Philadelphia, phileo adelphos.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The word kiss is philema.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Thus, the use of the word agapas by Jesus is calling for the deepest love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Now he did not use the word, agape, but the Greek word, philo. I have affection for Thee.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. Jesus responded, "Feed My lambs." The Greek word for feed is (bosko) which is to feed. The lambs would denote the younger sheep.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. Jesus said unto him the second time, "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me?" This is the very same question.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">H. Peter answered with the very same answer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">I. However this time when Jesus said, "Feed My sheep." Jesus used a different Greek word translated feed. The Greek word poimaheeno, which is to shepherd, or tend, or watch over. The Greek word sheep is the more mature flock.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">J. He saith to him the third time, "Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou Me?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This third time Jesus used Peter's word, phileis. Do you have affection for Me?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Now Peter was grieved because the third time Jesus said, "Phileis."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He was grieved because he brought Christ down to his level, rather than be raised to His level. It is always a time of grieving when we force Jesus down to our level.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Why would Peter not confess the supreme love for Jesus?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Perhaps because he had led the defection of the followers of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. It was Peter that said, "I'm going fishing."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. Jesus had said, "He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth, (agapown) Me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">4. In going fishing, Peter was not keeping His commandments.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">K. Peter answered, "Lord, You know all things, and You know that I am fond of you." Peter stuck with his word even though it hurt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It should be noted that when Peter wrote his first epistle he said, "Whom having not seen you love." There he uses the agapas.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">L. Jesus answered, "Feed my sheep." Feed My mature flock.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The greatest task of the overseer of the flock who truly loves his Lord is to watch over, tend, and feed the flock of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. In <a onClick="return mV('Jer',3,15);">Jeremiah 3:15</a>, God promised to give them pastors after His heart that would feed them with knowledge and understanding.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There are multitudes of sick sheep in the church today because they have not been fed a nourishing diet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. God told Ezekiel to prophesy against the shepherds in Israel, "Woe unto the shepherds that feed themselves and not the flock."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Again in Peter's epistle we read,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Pe',5,1);">1PE 5:1</a> The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Pe',5,2);">1PE 5:2</a> Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Pe',5,3);">1PE 5:3</a> Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Pe',5,4);">1PE 5:4</a> And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.</div>
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