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Grace for Breakfast - Run Over by the Grace Train | Pastor Joby Martin
August 5, 2025 · 55 min
Jesus doesn’t give second chances at life- He gives new life.
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Joby Martin is the founder and lead pastor of The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida. Since launching the church in 2012, he has led a movement for all
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Grace for Breakfast 0:03 Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Good? You look great. Are you ready for the ninth and final week of run over by the grace train? How many of you need grace again, and again, and again? Right? We're gonna do a little0:14 grace for breakfast, that's what we're gonna do. If you got your Bibles, and I hope you do, make your way to John chapter 21. And as you are on your way to John 21, on behalf of 40000 babies a year in0:26 the state of Florida, I wanna thank you for voting no on amendment 4. Way to go. Way to go. Now, a0:38 little prophetic encouragement while you're all excited about everything, and it is this, that is not the finish line, that is the starting line. It's easy to vote because of our veterans, thank you. It's0:50 easy to vote and it's easy to cheer. Now, we have an opportunity to love 40000 babies and 40000 mamas and to help every single image bearer of God know that they are dearly loved1:02 by Jesus Christ. Amen? So we're not done. We've just got the right to now take care of some people. Amen, amen, amen. Alright. If you got your bible, I want you to get it out. If you don't have it, get 1. If you don't1:11 have a bible, there's a free copy in front of you. That's our gift to you. Feel free to take it home. If you got 7 or 8 of our gifts, bring about 6 or 8 of them back, please. But I want you to see these things, okay?1:23 We're gonna talk about grace. We're gonna talk about grace for 9 weeks. And this is a very familiar passage. I've taught on it, I think 4 or 5 times in our 12 years as a church here. And it gets really familiar, so let1:35 me just set this thing up for us, okay? Anybody need grace? How about I say it this way, you ever royally screwed up? I mean like real bad.1:48 You ever over promise? And you couldn't do the things that you said you were going to do, but you promised? Had the words ever come out of your mouth? And they betray what you thought you believed in your heart, and you2:00 go what's wrong with me? You ever do it in front of your friends? You ever make promises in front of your friends? You say I'll never do this and then you lied and they found out. Or you cheated and they found out. Or2:11 you drank it again or you took it again. Or you called him back. Or whatever the thing is that you swore he would never do. Get that in your mind. And then, can you imagine, what if after making a promise, the person2:22 that you loved and respected the most wanted to talk to you about it in the presence of the people that you made the promise in front of? That's what's going2:34 on here. John chapter 21. It says this, after this, and the this is that. Peter, the apostle Peter, is made a promise, and he2:46 lied. He denies Jesus. There's a lot going on. It's the night that Jesus was betrayed. The disciples meet together in the upper room. They prepare what's known as the Passover meal. The Jewish people have been2:57 celebrating this all the way since the days of Moses. It was to commemorate when God set his people free, that he sent the angel of death through Egypt, and whoever had the blood of a lamb on the doorpost of their house,3:09 that angel of death would pass over. And then they remembered it because God was their redeemer, God was their savior. He heard the cries of his people, and whoever had the blood of the lamb on the doorpost would not be3:20 inflicted with death of the first born. But they were set free, they walked on dry ground, through the red sea, and eventually they made their way to the promised land. And Jesus gathers everybody together that night3:32 and as they're celebrating the last supper, he's instituting the last supper, what we know as the last supper. He says, fellas, 1 of you tonight is going to betray me.3:44 And Peter, who's always gonna talk first and most? Peter. Peter's like, guess who has 2 thumbs and won't? This guy. And Jesus is like, no, actually, before the rooster crows in the morning, bro, you're done. He goes,3:55 nope. Peter constantly puts Jesus in his place. Can you imagine? Hey, listen rabbi. Why don't you hang on for a second. I don't think you know who you're talking to. Even if all these other cracker jacks that you pick,4:07 they may deny you, but I would never leave you. I would lay down my life for you. Little while later, they go to the garden of Gethsemane. Jesus gets arrested and they're4:18 taking him to Caiaphas' house to try him, to beat him, to brutalize him, to begin the journey that will eventually lead to the cross. Peter kind of sneaks along, he's outside of Caiaphas's house, Caiaphas is the high4:29 priest, and while he's there, he walks up and a guy comes up to him and he's like, hey man, I heard your accent, you sound like a Galilean, are you 1 of Jesus's followers? And Peter goes, not me. Little while4:41 later the bible says that Peter is warming himself by a charcoal fire. This matters. And the reason that the bible points out that it's a charcoal fire, that's not a normal fire. Any of you have a green egg, alright? You4:53 know, like you grill real bougie, right? That's you? You know how much they charge you for that charcoal? It's expensive, right? Can you imagine what a waste it would be if you warmed your hands over that charcoal? If5:03 you were just building a fire to warm yourself with, it would just be like sticks and trash, but this is a charcoal fire. It has a distinct smell, and Peter is outside of Caiaphas' house warming himself with some other5:13 guys, and a servant girl walks up to him and says, you're 1 of his, right? And he goes, nope. Now here's what's crazy. Based on Roman and Jewish culture, this servant girl in the first century, she5:25 did not even have the authority to give her testimony in a court of law. In other words, she can't even do anything about it. She goes to checks and comes back and says, no, no, no, no, no. My uncle told me you cut off5:34 my cousin's ear. And then the Bible says that Peter curses and says no. So he says, I don't say bad words. Whatever you would say, blank no.5:47 That's what he says. Strike 2 and 3. And then the Bible says that Jesus is led out of Caiaphas' house. He's on his way to Pontius Pilate's. He's gonna be crucified. He makes eye5:59 contact with Peter and the Bible says that Peter weeps bitterly. Jesus is crucified, dead, buried, but on the third day he's resurrected. The women see6:11 him at the tomb. The angels say, hey hey, go tell the disciples that Jesus is not here. He's alive and tell Peter. Why? Peter thinks he's done. Peter thinks he screwed up. So they're6:22 waiting, they're hanging out in the upper room. They're afraid, right? Because if you take out the leader, maybe they're coming for us next. And Jesus appears 2 more times. Everybody, they got the locked door because6:31 they're afraid that the Romans are gonna come get them, so they're afraid, and the door is locked, and all of a sudden, Jesus doesn't knock on the door, doesn't open the door, just shazam, he's in the room. And he says,6:41 peace be still. Why? Because everybody just messed themselves a little bit. Because they saw Jesus dead, now he's alive, he's standing in the room. He appears to them. Thomas isn't there, and when Thomas gets back,6:52 they're like, hey dude, you ain't gonna believe this, Jesus was here. And he's right. You're right. I ain't gonna believe it unless I see it with my eyes and touch his wounds with my hands and put my hand in the side.7:02 It's weird. That's why they call him doubting Thomas. That's why you don't want to miss church. You never know what might happen. Jesus might show up. And then sure enough, Jesus shows up and proves himself to Thomas.7:13 And then Jesus says, Y'all hang out in this room until the spirit of God shows up 1 day. And then, Peter, though, Peter, after this, says after this, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of7:25 Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Verse 2, John wants to let us know who is in this situation. Simon Peter, Thomas called the twin, Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee, the sons of7:37 Zebedee, that's James and John, and I love this so much, especially older I get. And 2 of his disciples were together. Do you know why it says this? Because John wrote this when he was an old man.7:49 He can't just make stuff up. This is the word of God. You can't be wrong. You ever do this, especially when you get old? You're like, you know, Thomas was there, and Peter was there, and then, you know, what's his face,7:58 and what's that guy's name? They were there too. Why does it say this? Because this is not a Bible story. This is not a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. This is an actual event and these men were actually in8:10 this event. Another thing, just to point out, especially in this time, the amount of unity that was happening in the church is supernatural. It's exactly what Jesus was8:21 asking for in John chapter 17, when Jesus says, and they, the world, will know that we are Christians, by the way, that we love 1 another. If you had If I had time to go through all the people that are named here as the8:32 disciples, the amount of diversity that is unified around the cross here is mind blowing. You you you had you had royalty like Nathaniel, and you had blue collar fishermen like Peter, James, and John. You8:44 had people that politically were way over here on 1 side. Simon the Zealot, he had like a make Jerusalem great again hat on, and Matthew is collecting taxes and giving it to Rome who's trying to kill Jerusalem.8:56 These people could not be more politically divided, and yet, their political division and opinion was not the primary thing that defined them. They were defined by the blood of Jesus because they were primarily children9:06 of God, made in the image of God, and they were following Jesus, and that unity changed the world. And this is who's there. Okay? So all these guys. And then verse 3. Check this out. And Simon9:18 Peter said to them, I'm going fishing. And they said, we will go with you. Alright. This is different. This is different. All you gifted class, do you remember9:30 what Peter did before he ever started following Jesus? He was a fisherman. So when Peter says, I'm going fishing, this is not like just, it's not like a hobby. It's kinda like in9:42 19 95 on ESPN, there was a news break. And the news anchors from ESPN come on and the greatest basketball player of all time is giving an interview. His name is Michael9:54 Jordan. If you don't believe me, make a fist, punch yourself in the face, because you're too dumb to talk to, okay? He's the greatest basketball player of all time and he simply says this, I'm going to play basketball.10:05 Now when he says I'm going to play basketball, it means something different than if we say we're going to play basketball. If I were to say, Christian, I'm going to play basketball. She would say, please don't get hurt,10:14 take Advil. I hope you make it back without a pulled hamstring. Because she thinks I'm going to my neighbor Sean's house to play basketball with the kids. When Michael Jordan says that he's going to play basketball, he10:22 says, I don't know what I was thinking about the baseball thing, I'm going to return to the thing that I know how to do best. Do you understand? When Peter says I'm going fishing, he does what so many of us have a10:34 propensity to do. When something happens to us, or we happen to us, or we sin, we're filled with shame, we're filled with embarrassment, we think we're too far gone and God is done with10:45 us, we have a propensity to hit the reset button and return to the old lifestyle, the old ways, the old things that we used to do. Peter is probably thinking God must be10:57 done with me, because I let him down. I'm too far gone. I've screwed up too bad. I mean, I bragged in front of everybody that I would never leave him, I would never forsake him and I can't even admit11:09 that I know who he is. So I guess I'm out. It's 1 of the primary schemes of the enemy is to try to get you to define you by your past, by your mistakes, by your sins, and by11:21 your scars. And 1 of the things that we're going to see is Jesus is going to show up and say, no, no, no, no, no. You don't let the devil define you by your scars. You're gonna be defined by my scars. Only I get to tell11:32 you who you are. And by the way, you don't have to do the things you used to do because you're not the person that you used to be. The old you is dead, and the new you in Christ is alive. So you don't have to go back to11:43 that old lifestyle. And I promise you, if you go back to your old ways, if you go down that road that you used to live on, you're gonna wake up just as empty as you used to.11:55 Don't believe me? Read the Bible. Here's what it says in 3 B. And they went out and they got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Bummer. Verse 4. Just as day was breaking,12:07 Jesus stood on the shore. Yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Verse 5. And Jesus said to them, children, here's how you know that the resurrected Jesus is about to jack with the12:19 disciples. Because this word, he doesn't say fellas, doesn't say brothers, doesn't say men. He calls them little boys. He's like, hey little guy, that's what he does. And you12:31 know they're like, who does this guy think he is calling us little boys? That's what he does. And a part of the reason I want you to see this is, I don't know why it is necessarily, but the resurrected Jesus jacked with12:43 everybody that he appeared to. Do you know who this is? Remember Mary shows up at the tomb and she's looking for Jesus and he's standing right there and she's crying and he's like, excuse me, why are you crying? He knows12:53 why she's crying. You ever ask questions, but you know the answer, but you just wanna mess with people? Alright? That's what he's doing. And she thinks he's the gardener. And then he's like, Jesus. She's like, what? Then13:04 he leaves. Same thing, road to Emmaus. Remember the 2 guys are walking along 7 miles away to Emmaus, and they're talking about Jesus being crucified? And he walks over and says, what you guys talking about? He knows what13:14 they're talking about. And then at dinner, he breaks the bread and says, it's me. And then poo poo, disappears. This is what he's doing. Children? Part of the reason I want you to see this is because oftentimes13:26 we think when we screw up royally, we think the voice of God towards us is condemnation and he's gonna look at us and go, how dare you? That's not what he does. He doesn't wait for them to get their act together13:38 and make it back to the holy city. That's the last place they saw it. But he relentlessly pursues his rebellious kids all the way to the Sea of Galilee and he starts out with a playful tone in his voice and he13:50 says, children. And then he jacks with him. Do you have any fish? He knows there ain't got no fish. Husband, you ever go fishing, Mr. Johnny, and you don't catch nothing? It's a bummer, right? And then14:02 you get home and your wife's like, did you catch anything? And you're thinking, woman, you know I didn't catch anything. Because I would've texted you, my Instagram would've been like, little fish pictures, you know what14:11 I mean? Day on the boat, better day at work. All the things, man. You say all that on the inside. And then he says to them, do you have any fish? And they answered him, no. And he14:23 said to them, cast the net on the right side of the boat and you'll find some there. And they're thinking, what? Who is this guy? The Bible's gonna tell us in a minute, he's like a hundred yards away.14:35 And they're like, what is this guy doing on the right side of the boat? That don't make no sense. Have you ever been fishing in the first century in the sea of Galilee? No, let me tell you. A fishing boat was about 714:44 feet wide. The steering mechanism was on the right side of the boat. And a hundred yards off the shore, there's no sides of the boat. There's just water all under there. And they're like okay, you think they're not over14:56 here, but they're gonna be over there. You dummy, what are you talking about? But listen, somehow, they do what Jesus tells them to do. By the way, the best thing you can do with your life is15:08 do whatever Jesus tells you to do. In John chapter 2 verse 5, I think it's the greatest advice in all of the world. He's out the waiting at Cana, they run out of wine, his momma comes to his son, they're out of wine,15:19 he's like, what's this gotta do with me? It's not my time yet. And then she gets the service together and she says this, John 2 5, do whatever he tells you to do. Now listen, if you think Jesus is gonna tell you to do15:31 things that make sense in the natural, then you don't know who you're talking to. Because he tells these servants, and he tells these fishermen to do things that don't make any sense in the natural. He tells the servants15:40 at the wedding to go get those water jars where people have been washing their hands with the nasty water, Fill it up, scoop some out, take it to the master of ceremonies. They're like, that don't make no sense, and15:48 little do they know there's a miracle on the other end of about 4 steps of obedience. These guys are in the boat, it don't make no sense to throw the nets on the other side, and yet, little do they know, there's a15:59 miracle on the other side of a step of obedience. My question for you is, what is he telling you to do? And if you can't look back over your life in the past month and see some things that did not16:11 make any sense in the natural, but you did them anyway, it could be because you're not listening to the voice of God. He's a good shepherd, he speaks to his sheep, and every single time we do what he tells us to do,16:23 it always leads to abundant life. Not cash and prizes, it leads to him. Because He is our ultimate reward. And so what is He telling you to do? This is what they do.16:36 But, if you keep doing what you've been doing, you're going to keep getting what you've been getting. If you keep doing what you've been doing, you're gonna keep getting what you've been getting. And so many of you16:48 are doing life the world's way, and all you're getting is what the world offers. Like you're doing money God's way, though he's calling you to be generous and trust him with it, you're not, you're trusting in you with16:59 it. And no matter how much or little you have, it's not satisfying you and you say what's wrong. Or some of your relationships are jacked because you're doing it the world's way. You are, man, you're hooking17:11 up, shagging up, breaking up, and repeating, and thinking that that's gonna lead to this deep and abiding marriage that glorifies God. Or some of you are dating the world's way, and you wonder why it ain't working. You17:23 dummies, you go out every Friday night, and meet some dumb boy at Jack's Beach Bar, and you think, oh but I could fix him. Listen, if you wanna fix something, go to the panel, get you a puppy, alright?17:38 You wanna meet a man and make babies, you don't wanna meet a baby and try to make it a man. That's never gonna work for you, do you understand? Do it God's way, I promise his way is better than our ways. And so they17:49 try it, man. They're like, alright. They throw the nets over, so they cast it. And now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish. And that disciple whom Jesus loved, I love this so much,18:01 that's John, He's only called this in the book of John, written by John. But there is some legitimacy here. Remember last week we talked about the word beloved? Can you imagine the confidence you could walk around with18:13 if you knew? Like, hi, I'm the disciple that Jesus loves. Because he does, man, he does. Maybe if you could begin to see yourself the way God sees you, maybe you could speak on behalf of God. It's a really big deal. And18:25 the disciple whom Jesus loved, although earlier he does let us know that in a race to the tomb, that John can outrun Peter. I don't know why he too upset. I think it's his insecurity, but whatever. The disciple whom18:37 Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, it's the Lord. What he's talking about here is, this has happened once before. All the way back in Luke chapter 5, the first time that James and18:48 John and Peter and Andrew meet Jesus, they were fishing. Same place. Same Sea of Galilee. Same seashore. And that night they caught nothing. And Jesus walks up to them and says, push out again and why19:00 don't you try this side of the boat and when they did it back in Luke chapter 5, they caught an enormous amount of fish just like this. And so, they're fishing all night. They don't catch anything. Guy on the shore says,19:11 children, have you had any fish? No. Try the other side, they do it. Boom. And then John goes, this smells like Jesus. Peter, look at what he does. And when Simon Peter heard that it was the19:23 Lord, he put on his outer garment for he was stripped for work and he threw himself into the sea. Oh, I love it so much. I love it for so many reasons. First of all, Peter's kind of a sons out, guns out guy.19:35 He's always looking for an opportunity to take his shirt off, so he's out there getting some sun. He sees Jesus, they recognize Jesus, And I don't know if you remember this back, Luke 15, the prodigal son. It it was it19:46 it was dishonoring for a person, for a grown man to, like, hustle to see another person. This is why the dad you know, most dads didn't run, but the dad in Luke 15 runs. But Peter doesn't care, man. He doesn't19:58 care what it looks like to anybody else. Also, can you just see, Peter's a mess. Peter's still a mess. He puts on his cloak to go swimming. That doesn't make any sense at all. And, how about this? The Bible does not say20:08 he dove into the sea. It says he threw, he just, he just kinda throws himself into the sea. And how great is this, man? Jesus is not waiting for you to clean yourself up to make yourself20:20 presentable before him. That man, when you see him, when you recognize him, then you just throw yourself on him and something's changing in the heart of Peter in the life of Peter. Back in Luke chapter 5,20:32 the first time there was the catch of the miraculous fish, then what Peter does when he recognizes, uh-oh, I think this is actually the son of God. The Bible says that Peter falls on his face and says get away from me,20:43 cause I am a wicked man. He runs away from him. Now, even after he screwed up royally and he knows it, he runs to him and not from him. Listen, the20:55 grace of Jesus Christ poured out at the cross invites us when we sin to run to him and not run from him. If when you sin you run from him, it means you don't understand the good news of the gospel. It's21:07 like this. Let me put it on the bottom shelf. You ready? You don't get the gospel if you think, oh no, I've messed up. Don't tell dad. You begin to understand the power of the gospel in your life when you21:19 begin to think, oh no, I've messed up. Somebody needs to call dad. This is what's happening here. He hurries to him. Verse 8. And the other disciples came in the boat dragging the net21:31 full of fish, for they were not far from the land about a hundred yards off. By the way, there is a leadership lesson here for all you like bosses, CEOs, if you lead a team or whatever. Service is something you do with21:41 people, not to people. So don't get so far out ahead of them that you leave them for do all the work while you got this great vision, you know? Can you imagine Peter's like swimming and they're rolling by him, like, what21:49 are you doing? But they're left to do all the work. They're bringing in the fish. Back to the sermon. Verse 9. And when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire in place. Now22:01 why a charcoal fire? I told you, there's only 2 times charcoal fire is mentioned in the whole Bible. And Jesus is putting this thing way down here on the bottom shelf just to make sure Peter understands22:13 what's going on. He's actually converging about 3 different things in 1 event just to make sure that Peter understands what's going on. He's resetting the scene because it was by a22:25 charcoal fire that Peter denied Jesus. Don't wanna spoil this for you, but Jesus is gonna ask Peter 3 times if he loves him. Why? Because 3 times Peter denied him.22:37 He's doing it on the same seashore that he met him the very first time. He does it right after a miraculous catch of fish, and the reason that sometimes God has to put things way down on the bottom shelf is, I don't know22:48 if you know this, but sometimes church people can be a little slow to get it. Have you met anybody like that? Let me give you an example. Have you realized that for the last 9 weeks of23:00 this series called run over by a grace train, that we have been looking at a train? Has anybody noticed that the set that we made up here is the front, the grill of a23:12 train with lights and the grill, and I talked to my staff and so many people didn't get it. And so just to make sure you don't get it, our lighting director, Dallas,23:27 help him get it. Alright, you get it? It's been a train the whole time. And you're like, oh, 0.23:40 Right. In fact, after 1 of the service I heard somebody ask me, you have a lighting director on your staff? Yeah, his name's Dallas. He's awesome. By the way, I don't know if you've read about heaven. There not gonna be23:50 any preachers in heaven, but there'll still be lighting directors and worship leaders. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it. Alright, so, that's just true. So, I got really good news for you, by the way. If it takes24:01 you a couple times to get your head around what the Bible says, if you're a little slow on the uptake on the whole Bible study thing, if it takes you a little while to understand the words of Jesus, I got some really24:11 good news. You can make a great disciple. This is why he puts it on the bottom shelf. This is also why the Bible calls us sheep. Cause we're dumb. That's what it means, alright? And so he's got this24:22 charcoal fire. He has recreated the scene. There's a charcoal fire in place with fish laid out on it and bread. This is grace for breakfast, man.24:34 I'm telling you, if we got up every morning and we ingested a good healthy dose of grace, it would change every day of our life. And grace is being invited to a breakfast with Jesus that you don't deserve to be invited24:45 to and all you need is already there. That's what he invites him to. And so Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish that you have just caught. So Simon Peter went aboard and he hauled the net ashore full of large24:56 fish, 153 of them. Do you know why the Bible says 153? Because they caught 153 fish. This is an actual event. This is not a made up story. Have you ever been25:08 fishing and not count them? Of course you count them. 1 of them were about 153. People make up all kind of stuff of what it can mean. Maybe it does, maybe it don't. I don't know. It hundred and 53 fish. And all there,25:19 there were so many, the net was not torn. And Jesus said to them, come and have breakfast. Now none of the disciples dared ask him, who are you? They knew it was the Lord. And Jesus came and he took the bread and25:31 he gave it to them and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. And the bible wants you to know, John wants you to know that this is an25:43 actual, physical, resurrected Jesus. He was doorknob dead in the tomb and now he's alive bodily and physically. This is not a ghost. This is25:55 not a dream. He ate fish. This isn't like cookie monster, where he's like, and it just all fell on the ground. That Jesus was bodily and physically resurrected, and he is the prototype,26:07 prototoco from the dead, and just like he was resurrected from the grave and went first, all who believe in him, we will be resurrected with him. So after they had finished breakfast, verse 15, when they had26:18 finished breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, now it doesn't even say that he like pulls him aside. Apparently, everybody's still there. And what do you think he's gonna say?26:31 And Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, are you gonna do better next time? He said, yes sir, you know that I will. Simon, son of John, are you sure? Are you sure you're going to try harder and get it right?26:42 And he said, I'll do my best. And Simon, son of John, promise me you won't screw up anymore. Is that what he said? No, that's why I told you to get your bible out in the beginning, but you didn't. I just made that up.26:55 Don't trust what's on the screen. I mean look what's on there now. That's a hot mess. It's not what it says, But that's how we27:07 act. That's how we act. You know when Jesus, Jesus gave us this promise. He said, alright, I'm going to leave, but I'm going to send you a helper. And he's going to help you understand everything I've taught27:19 you. And a reality of 1 of God's prophecies that gets fulfilled in my life is when he teaches me new things in his word. I've taught this, I've taught John 21 5 or 6 times at27:30 11 22 in the last 12 years. I wrote a chapter of a book on it, and edited it, and read it for an audible. And for the first time this week it occurred to me that Jesus didn't say,27:43 are you gonna do better? That's how we act, isn't it? I mean parents, honestly. That's how we get after our kids. From now on.27:55 And when we screw up to God, isn't that the promise we make? I'll do better. I'll try harder. And it's not the question that Jesus asked. The question that he28:07 asked is the foundation of the whole gospel. Do you love me? Do you love me? Now belief is important, because you can't have right, you can't28:19 rightly worship God without right thoughts about God, so doctrine matters man, and belief matters, that stuff matters, but the core is do you love me? Because if you love him, I promise, over time, maybe not overnight,28:30 all of these things will line up. Jesus says, if you really love me, then you'll do what I say, because to love me is to trust me and know me. And then you'll trust that my ways are better than your ways, and even and28:41 especially when it doesn't make sense, then you'll follow me and do what I say. He says, do you love me? And then the Bible tells us what love is. Says this is love, not that we love God, but he first loved28:53 us, and he sent his son as the propitiation for our sin. And you know, if you know any theological term of 11 22, you know propitiation. Propitiation is a payment that satisfies. Satisfies the justice of God, the law of29:04 God, the holiness of God, that when Jesus died on the cross and said it is finished, then God's wrath was fully and finally satisfied with Christ. Therefore, if you are in Christ, then God cannot be dissatisfied29:16 in you. So when you screw up you don't have to run from him, you can run to him. And he invites you once again. Do you love me? Do you love me?29:28 You know what the greatest commandment in the whole bible is? There was this lawyer in the new testament. Don't trust those people. Okay? And they, because they're always jacking with Jesus.29:40 And he comes to Jesus and he says, hey, I got a question. What's the greatest commandment in all of the Old Testament? What's interesting is, what happened is in the first century, people would gather around and they29:50 would watch religious leaders fight about doctrine. That's what they would do. And there was like a game to it. You were supposed to ask a question at a 30000 foot level, very general, and then another guy would answer29:59 it. He'd go down a little bit. And eventually, they'd get down to a point of disagreement and they would fight it out, have a little biblical jiu jitsu. And then people would watch, because you know, there was no30:07 Netflix. So what else are you gonna do with your time? So, this lawyer comes up to kinda pick a fight with Jesus and says, what's the greatest commandment? And Jesus just goes, what do you say? And God's like, that's not30:17 what you're supposed to say. And so he says, I guess it's, and he goes to Deuteronomy 6. Says, the Lord our God, the Lord is 1, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And the30:28 second one's like it, you should love your neighbor as yourself. And Jesus is like, yep, you nailed it. That's it. Are you doing that? He gets very, very personal. He says, the greatest commandment is to love God,30:40 and because of that love, that we love 1 another. And there's no need for a law if you do these 2 things. Now think about this. Alright. All you recovering Catholics and30:52 Anglicans and Episcopalians and you know, all you real high church people, think about how many creeds that you know. You could pop up right now and you could probably do the Nicene Creed and the Apostle's Creed, because31:02 you grew up saying it over and over and over and over. You know how hard it is to find a creed in the early church that says anything about loving God? It's just I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe. Belief is31:12 important. I'm not saying it's not important. Jesus just said the most important commandment is to love God. Let me ask you this. Do you love God? Sometimes I have these conversations. I have these 231:24 conversations that go the same. 1, is sometimes I have these conversations with people that claim to be Christians, and essentially what they're asking me is, what's the minimum amount I have to31:36 do, or what's the maximum I can get away with and still be a Christian? And I'm like, what? Hold on, do you love God? Because if you love him, if you call him your Lord, what31:48 you want to say is, I'll do whatever you want me to do, and if I'm doing something wrong, examine me and show me that, so I can walk in your ways. The other time is, sometimes I'll be talking to a couple,32:00 and the husband will basically ask the same question. What's the minimum I have to do to get what I want to out of this? And I'm like, well hold on dude, hold on wait. Do you love your wife? Because if you don't love32:10 her, this whole thing is jacked. That you're supposed to love her like he loved you, that's what we're called to do. And so Jesus is just asking us, do you love me?32:22 So the first thing he asks, he says, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? And I think John's a lot, I mean I think Peter's a lot, more than these what? More than these other disciples? Because that's what32:33 he promised at the last supper. He's like, these cracker jacks may leave you, but not me. Is that what he's asking? Or he may be saying, do you love me more than these fish and boats and nets and lifestyle?32:46 You see, because on this seashore, 3 and a half years ago, I came and called you out of all of this. And I had a higher call and a higher purpose and that was to come and to follow me and I was gonna make you a fisher of32:57 men. So why have you reverted back to the things that you used to do? So let me, I'm gonna tell you, man, when it hits the fan in your life, you will revert to the things that you love the most. And if you love33:09 your job and if you love your house and you love your car and you love your stuff and you love your status and you love your own self determination most, that is where your affections go and Jesus will say, do you33:21 love me more than these? Because those things will always let you down and he never ever will. And so he says, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? And he says, yes Lord, you know that33:33 I love you. And he says, feed my lambs. In other words, be a pastor. Pastor and shepherd are the same thing in Greek. Here's what he said. I'm not done with you, man.33:45 Why do you think you're disqualified? I haven't disqualified you. Feed my lambs. And he said to him a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? He said, yes Lord, you know that I love you. And he said, tend to my33:56 sheep. He's like, alright. Verse 17. And he said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? And Peter was grieved. Because he said to him a third time, do you love me?34:08 See, Peter was like you with the train thing. He's like, oh. I see what you're doing. I denied you 3 times by a charcoal fire and now you're gonna ask34:20 me 3 times? But here's what I need you to hear. Jesus is not condemning Peter. He's inviting confession and repentance. Listen, sometimes34:32 God will take you through the place of pain for your own healing. What are you talking about? The bible says that Jesus is the great physician. And you know what a great physician does? A34:44 great physician that is for you and wants to heal you does not mind you going through a temporary amount of pain in order for you to get healed. Like if you went to see an orthopedic with a broken arm, and you walked in34:55 with a broken arm, guess which arm he's gonna put his hands on. If he began to reach for the broken arm, you're like, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, no, no, no, no, no, no,35:02 no, no, work on my foot, it feels good. That doesn't make any sense at all. And he's putting his hand on that arm to reset it, which is gonna cause an immense amount of pain, but it's only through that pain that you're35:13 going to experience the healing. So when you come into this place and you begin to get stirred up because you begin to feel conviction, condemnation is the devil saying he's done with you. Conviction is the35:25 warm invitation of the spirit of God is saying, hey man, I'm just getting to work on you for the sake of healing because I'm not done with you. That's what's happening. Jesus wants Peter to know, there35:37 is more grace in me than sin in you. I know you've sinned, I know you denied me 3 times, but 3 times I'm just going to ask you so you can hear you say it out loud.35:49 And listen, he's not making light of sin. He's not saying sin's not a big deal. Sin is such a big deal that Jesus just a few weeks earlier went to the cross to die for the36:01 sin and pay for the sin that he is now getting Peter to experience. That Jesus on the cross, when he says it is finished, paid in full, Peter, that counted for you,36:13 so you don't have to live like you used to live because you're alive and you get to walk in the newness of life. And he says, Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you. And Jesus said to him, feed my36:24 sheep. Look, man, Jesus isn't condemning him. He's restoring him. You can't out send the grace of God. You can't out sin the grace of God. And if you hear36:36 that as freedom to sin, then you haven't been hit by the grace train. The good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ is not free us to sin, it frees us from sin. Billy Graham used to say this,36:48 we're freed from the penalty of sin, we are being freed from the power of sin, and 1 day we'll be free from the very presence of sin. That's what's happening. Yeah, there's a thing that's happened recently in our37:00 culture called cancel culture. That if you did something in the past and somebody finds out about it, you're canceled. Thank God we didn't have social media when I was in high school. Good gracious. That'd be done.37:11 Jesus isn't into cancel culture. Jesus is into canceling your sin so that you could be restored. I mean, there are some institutions in this world that should be canceled. Okay? Again, abortion for no reason or37:23 any reason, that whole institution should be canceled. The the pornography industry should be canceled. And even in light of that, Jesus would come along, and if you are a person who's had an abortion, performed an37:35 abortion, paid for an abortion, or participated in pornography as a recipient or even a maker of the stuff, Jesus would come along and want to redeem you, not cancel you. Colossians37:47 says that he nailed the record of debt to the cross, canceling it effects, so that he could transfer you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. This is what he wants Peter to know right here.37:59 It's grace man, it's grace. And then he says this, he gives him a prophecy. Who wants a prophecy from Jesus? I want to do a calendar 1 day of promises from God.Show more In this video 0:00 Grace for BreakfastComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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