GETTING A FRESH START
New Year’s Message 2024
John 21.15-22
JESUS’ FRESH START CHANGES HOW WE SEE …
PAST: FACE OUR Failures Honestly
Proverbs 9.7–8 “Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse … [but] reprove a wise man, and he will love you.”(esv)
v. 9 “When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place …” (esv)
v. 17 “Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’” (esv)
Luke 22.32 “But I have prayed for you … And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” (niv)
2 Corinthians 7.10 “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret …” (esv)
PRESENT: DISPLAY OUR Love Consistently
v. 16 “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” (esv)
v. 17 “Feed my sheep.” (esv)
John 13.35 “… all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (esv)
v. 18 “… when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (esv)
FUTURE: EMBRACE OUR Destiny Humbly
v. 21 “Lord, what about this man?” (esv)
v. 15 “… do you love me more than these?”
Mark 14.29 “Even though they all fall away, I will not.” (esv)
v. 22 “… what is that to you? You follow me!” (esv)
v. 19 “Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, ‘Follow me!’”(niv)