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SUNDAYS MESSAGE “LOVE”

PLEASE READ JOHN 21:15 - 25
In this chapter Jesus asks Peter 3 times if he loved Him and Peter replied 3 times that he did, in verse 17 it says PETTER WAS GRIEVED BECAUSE HE SAID UNTO HIM THE THIRD TIME. In order to fully understand these verses you need to understand that though we have only one word for love the Greek had many different words for it. The conversation actually went like this “ Simon Peter do you agape me ? That is to say do you love Me completely, Peter replied Lord you know that I phileo you, that is to say “ I love you like a friend”. The second time Jesus ask him the same words were used, but the third time Jesus asked Simon do you phileo me? This is what Peter was grieved about, not that Jesus simply asked three time but that the third time He called him Simon Which is his old worldly name and not the new name Petra or Peter the rock He had given him months before, secondly Jesus said DO YOU PHILEO ME instead of do you agape Me. This conversation took place at a fellowship meal after Jesus had risen from the gave and it appears that Peter was some what embarrassed about the question Jesus had asked him and as a result he was grieved at what he had said to the Lord. This was before the day of Pentecost and Peter was not yet converted, the word says that we must be born again or we can not see the Kingdome of God.
   This country is full of churches where the people phileo the Lord, people that call on Him when they need something but think of Him little other wise, like a selfish child that never calls just to say I love you.
   The Lord is a loving father that desires loving children the same as we do, He desires to spend time with us and to bring us comfort and peace but so very often we go elsewhere for these thing. The Lord desires that we should trust Him in all our ways but again we place our thrust in so many other things. It is difficult to trust some one we don’t have a relationship with and it is hard to develop a relation ship with some one we don’t spend time with.
   It is up to us whether we are a Petra or a Simon, whether we phileo the Lord Or we agape the Lord.
In these times I feel that the Lord is calling us to a agape relationship with Him, a tried and tested people, sheep that know his voice, the Bride Of Christ. God bless u-all and have a wonderful Sunday.
   Pastor mike

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