What is God’s attitude toward you when you’ve failed? Can you still come to Him without fear to receive His love, forgiveness and help for your struggles? Let Joseph Prince show you from the account of Jesus’ restoration of Peter why you can have bold faith today to run to Him even when you’ve failed. Be strengthened by the Lord’s grace and discover how to grow in true spiritual maturity as you develop a strong sense of His love. Open your heart to the incredible magnitude of God’s love for you today, and be empowered with bold faith to overcome every temptation and challenge!
one of the first times Jesus met Peter
he still didn’t know Jesus well he was
fishing all night just like John 20:1
this looked fine
let’s follow Luke fight right now one of
the first times Peter met Jesus so it
was as the marketed press about Jesus to
hear the word of God that he stood by
the lake of the Nazareth the one you saw
on the screen just now the lake and saw
two boats standing by the lake but the
fishermen had gone from them and we’re
washing their nets
then Jesus got into one of the boats
which was Simons I’ll tell you something
whenever Jesus steps into your boat he’s
setting you up for a blessing he’s
setting you up
you know never feel like when Jesus
comes to you and you know he tells you
would you like to serve me as an usher
he’s setting you up don’t think for one
moment he wants your ministry trust me
he has myriads of angels you know
something else
the Angels never get tired like you can
when it comes into your boat he comes
into your family is always to set you up
for a blessing that’s the nature of love
and he’s perfect love amen and he got
into Simon Peters boat and asked Peter
to put out a little from the land and
Jesus sat down and taught the multitudes
from the boat
we even know what he thought it was a
soul in the sea
then after he thought when he had
stopped speaking he said to Simon launch
out into the deep and let down your nets
for a catch but Simon answered and said
to Jesus don’t forget he’s won his first
times he is new to Jesus all right he
says master which we have tried all
night and caught nothing
nevertheless at your word our let down
the net and when they had done this they
caught a great number of fish and their
net was breaking so they signal to their
partners their business partners in the
other boat to come and help them and
they came and filled both the boats so
that they began to sink I call this a
net breaking both thinking Lord of
blessings when Simon Peter saw it he
fell down at Jesus knees saying depart
from me for I am a sinful man O Lord one
of the first times he met Jesus what he
sends about the Lord His Holiness
rightfully he is holy but my friends
listen is it amazing that in the
Christian
Saiki today what is taught all right
it’s like this when you yeah you know
you grace people you talk about God’s
love cost love all the time you know and
and that its basic grace and love is
basic yeah God loves you we receive
salvation but then after that you throw
in the Lord we’ve grown the Lord you
must know his Holiness the Rizzoli it’s
a holy God it’s almost like you begin
with grace and love but then you
progress into holiness so our idea of
the Lord is this all right when you
first get to know him you send his love
and grace all right and and as he grow
you send his holiness but what we read
is the opposite what we read is that
when Peter one of the first times he
first met Jesus he sends his holiness is
Jesus holy yes but his holiness can go
to a sinner to a prostitute to a tax
collector to a leper touch the leper and
cleanse that person restore them back to
life and wholeness His Holiness is not
like you know in the Old Testament where
God is kept in the Holy of Holies and
many separated from God through a thick
veil and through the priests no more God
has come to man and he is holy yes twice
holy but Oh faith says all right I see
his grace I see his love whereas natural
flesh would say no God is holy depart
from me I’m a sinful man why did Peter
say depart from me I’m a sinful man in
one of the first times he met Jesus
because he had a sense of his holiness
more than a sense of his love and we got
his upside down we say that as we grow
in the Lord you a sense mob is holy no
no everyone everyone when they had the
thought that God might appear to them in
India in your bedroom tonight whatever
they are afraid why because they know
God loves them no they know God is holy
every one flesh knows instinctively
flesh the flesh of man knows God is holy
doesn’t have to be taught
that’s why in the Old Testament as well
as in the new every time the Lord
appears to someone or an angel appears
to someone be afraid they will say
things like like manoa Samson’s father
we die we have sinned a lot we’re going
to die Gd and also I’m going to die I’ve
seen the Lord
everyone had this idea when they see the
Lord they are afraid why no one when the
Lord I’ve seen no one when the lot of
peers is it Oh Lord thou who loved me so
what does that tell us to know his love
takes the Holy Spirit flesh flesh can
teach you God’s holiness and we think
that’s deep but the sense of his love
and grace that is faith that is growth
when you see more and more of his love
why do you think at the end I mean many
many years have passed right okay at
least Trina – more than three years
Peter now knows Jesus yet denied knowing
him we can say like he knew the lot for
some time he’s been safe for some time
we can use that same analogy and yet he
denied knowing the Lord with cursing and
swearing yet what was the thing that
brought him back in love to the Lord
the censor his love his grace is the law
still holy
oh yes and he’ll forever be holy but
more than that he wants us to see he
loves you you see you will never know
that you are loved until you know that
that person sees everything about me and
the person loves me then you feel loved