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August 1 - John 21 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is Thursday.
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  It is the 1st of August. Happy new month to you.
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  I hope you are going well. I hope that today, oh, he's
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  hotting up to be a good one for you, or has been a crackerjack
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  of a day. As you reach the point where you
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  can take a pause, take a moment, open up your device and invite
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  me in so that we together can read this last chapter of John.
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  I imagine John as an old man, having just penned this gospel,
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  sitting down and reading it to an audience.
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  And at the end of the story, a little kid says, but Uncle John,
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  what happened to the disciples? You can't leave it there.
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  We need more. And he said, oh, oh, all right,
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  youngster, I'll let you know. And so then he writes this
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  epilogue. I am making this up.
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  I have no factual or, or historical or theological basis
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  for what I'm saying. This is just me telling a story,
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  just to be clear. And so John records this
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  epilogue about Jesus and his disciples well after his
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  resurrection so that we can understand how Jesus sends them
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  off to begin the church. Yes, that is why you and I are
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  here, because we are part of the global church today that Jesus
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  instituted. Oh yeah.
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  And that that is the epilogue that we will enjoy today.
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  You ready for it? Oh, yeah, me too.
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  Let us read together, friends. John chapter 21.
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  Later Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Sea of
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  Galilee. This said how it happened.
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  Several of the disciples were there.
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  Simon Peter Thomas nicknamed the twin Nathaniel from Cana in
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  Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two other disciples.
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  Simon Peter said, I'm going fishing.
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  Welcome too, they all said. So they went out in the boat,
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  but they caught nothing all night.
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  At dawn Jesus was standing on the beach, but his disciples
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  couldn't see who he was. He called out, Fellows, have you
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  caught any fish? No, they replied.
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  Then he said, throw out your net on the right hand side of the
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  boat and you'll get some. So they did, and they couldn't
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  haul in the net because there were so many fish in it.
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  Then the disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, It's the Lord.
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  When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his
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  tunic, for he had stripped for work, jumped into the water and
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  headed to shore. The others stayed with the boat
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  and pulled the loaded net to the shore, for they were only about
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  100 yards from shore when they got there.
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  They found breakfast waiting for them, fish cooked over a
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  charcoal fire and some bread. Bring some of the fish you've
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  just caught, Jesus said. Sir Simon Peter went aboard and
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  dragged the net to the shore. There were 153 large fish, and
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  yet the net hadn't torn. Now come and have some
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  breakfast, Jesus said. None of the disciples dared to
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  ask him. Who are you?
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  They knew it was the Lord. Then Jesus served them the bread
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  and the fish. This was the third time Jesus
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  had appeared to his disciples since he had been raised from
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  the dead. After breakfast, Jesus asked
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  Simon Peter. Simon, son of John, do you love
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  me more than these? Yes, Lord, Peter replied.
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  You know I love you. Then feed my lambs, Jesus told
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  him. Jesus repeated the question,
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  Simon, son of John, do you love me?
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  Yes, Lord, Peter said, you know I love you, then take care of my
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  sheep. Jesus said a third time.
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  He asked him, Simon, son of John, do you love me?
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  Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time.
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  He said, Lord, you know everything.
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  You know that I love you. Jesus said, then feed my sheep.
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  I tell you the truth, when you were young you were able to do
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  as you liked. You dressed yourself and went
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  wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old you will
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  stretch out your hands and others will dress you and take
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  you where you don't want to go. Jesus said this to let him know
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  by what kind of death he would glorify God.
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  Then Jesus told him, Follow me. Peter turned around and saw
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  behind them the disciple Jesus loved, the one who had leaned
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  over to Jesus during supper and asked, Lord, who will betray
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  you? Peter asked Jesus.
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  What about him? Lord?
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  Jesus replied, I want him to remain alive until I return.
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  What is that to you? As for you, follow me.
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  So the rumour spread among the community of believers that this
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  disciple wouldn't die. But that isn't what Jesus said
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  at all. He only said if I want him to
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  remain alive until I return. What is that to you?
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  This disciple is the one who testifies to these events and
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  has recorded them here, and we know that his account of these
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  things is accurate. Jesus also did many other
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  things. If they were all written down, I
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  suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would
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  be written. Ah Jesus, you are indeed too
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  great for our world to contain. Your majesty flows beyond the
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  horizon, through space, into all time and eternity.
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  You are the God of the universe, not just the God of our little
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  world. And yet somehow, in the
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  magnitude and enormity of all that you are as God and
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  sovereign. Here you are listening, ear bent
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  toward our prayer. Oh, thank you that you would
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  give us Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, that you would
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  come. And thank you, Holy Spirit, that
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  you would stay, that you would stay here in our hearts,
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  teaching us more about Jesus every day and shaping us to be
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  in your service and giving us a compass so that we would know
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  the way to you, to your home and our home.
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  You are a wonderful, wonderful triune God, and we worship you.
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  And we dedicate again our lives to you today, our wonderful
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  Father, our incredible Saviour, and our beautiful Comforter.
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  We pray this in your name, Amen.