“Feed My Sheep” | John 21:15–30

You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a

couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in

practical ways. Well, good morning, good morning. We talked the

whole let through. Good morning, good morning to you and

you and you Hey, so awesome. You know what, I

don't think I've have ever done it on a Friday.

Never on a Friday, I don't think so. I think

we can go back through almost a thousand episodes and

you've never done it.

I don't think I have so good more in Vietnam.

Not a blessing you are to us, Chris, Thank you, sir,

I appreciate that. So this week is everybody's favorite, Oh,

everybody's favorite segment Friday? What made Chris mad this week?

So I what you stepped out for just a second?

I did right in between episodes recording as my customer is,

and so I just typed into chat GBT. Yes, what

made Chris mad this week? What I did?

Why would you ask him that?

I'm just curious?

And what did he have to say?

Clarify which Chris? You mean? You and I talk about

a few different people by that name, for example, Chris

arbou Herida's church or possibly another Chris you're connected with.

If you tell me which one you're asking about, I

can help track down what frustrated in this week? Did

you mean pastor Chris Sarba or someone else? Come on,

that's what says. Yeah, So then I said Ball. I

don't have a record of what specifically made Chris Sarball

mad this week. Do you want me to take a

look through your connected files and notes to see if

anything about him came up? Or are you asking more generally?

Because you're heard he seemed upset, So it seems genuine

concerned about you.

He's so nice. I've nicknamed him he.

I said, we have a segment on the podcast each

week that asks that question, and I was wondering what

your guests would be to that question.

Oh my goodness.

So I didn't say the name of the podcast right,

and it says, ah, got it. You're talking about the

Bible Guy's weekly segment. What made Chris mad this week?

You have gotten Chris usually gets worked up about funny

every day frustration more observational than heavy. Here are a

few likely guesses you could use for this week. No,

it knows because it's all on the internet. Everything we

do is on the internet.

That is crazy stuff, So it.

Says funny every day frustrations. So it says, here are

a few likely guesses that you could use for this

week's bit Are you kidding me? Possible things that made

Chris mad this week? This is parking lot shenanigans, Oh

my word, restaurant annoyances.

That is actually in the category of what I'm gonna share.

Tech trouble like your phone auto correcting something embarrassing, or

an app that updates itself right when you need it. Yeah,

shopping irritations, wow, sports rage, Yeah, Lions preseason hype already

get into him? Or someone trashed talking the Tigers. That's funny.

And then airline gripes, boarding groups that don't follow the rules,

or people standing up second the plane lands, something like that.

So you could set it up. And then it suggests

to me I could set it up by saying something like,

all right, it's time for everybody's favor segment? What made Chris?

Literally it said that, yeah, And then this is it says, Hey, Jeff,

I've got a few guesses. Was it parking lot of

people again, or maybe the self checkout at Kroger, or

did Siri betray you again. Yeah, and it says, would

you like me to cook up a top five lists

you could rotate through each week? Okay, greatest hits? Is

that amazing dude watching you? Not only that, but like

it knows you.

We've all seen the movie Terminator. It's coming to coming.

I robot like, how do I know?

Allow? How two thousand or whatever?

Yes, dude, the robot turns and then come slaves.

It was it was worried about you.

It's the Matrix, just Ris upset. It's also the Matrix.

By the way, there are plenty of movies that warn

us of this.

It's coming.

It is coming that that friendly, that friendly little device

is gonna be our doom. It's gonna be the doom

of all of this.

Well, I'm no one who's the other day to go

back to flip phones. So okay, well, what made you

mad this week? Besides the fact that chat GPT knows

what makes you mad?

Wow? Well, so here's what happens to the listeners. Let's

give it listeners a little bit of insight because this

this is gonna be a pretty quick segment. Okay, So

usually what happens is we come in we record five

episodes at a time, and if it comes down, we

never look at them. We don't we don't prep. We

don't prep, and we especially our second clearly, we don't prep.

But no seriously because, by the way, that's intentional. We

do that intentionally because we believe that a person can

sit down, read a passage of scripture and then talk

about it interesting ways that is meaningful, applicable.

So this is like you and your buddy sitting down

at the coffee shop and just that's right, shit chatting,

that's something you just read in the book.

So and then we don't prep segments because it's usually

better when we just do it off spot. It's more fun.

Yeah, so anyway, and we don't prep because.

But but to come up with something that makes me mad,

I usually have to think about that for a minute. Yes,

So what do I traditionally do? Go visit the restaurant.

Yeah, that's right, that's right. You have a potty break.

Yeah, so I go visit theressroom because we've already recorded

four and I said, let me go think. Well, as

I was washing my hands, I actually thought to myself.

Which, thank you for that.

You're welcome, You're welcome. You're welcome, everybody's welcome. As I

was doing that, I actually thought to myself, it has

been a quite a while. It's been quite a while

since I've talked about my frustrations with a server. Right.

In fact, it was probably that last Remember they're closing early.

Remember that was Remember that was a long time ago. Right,

So I thought to myself, Okay, I'm going to express

what happened today at lunch. So today something made me

mad today. All right, now, ultimately, here, ultimately, here's the

main thing that made me mad. Why is it that

a server will come out, bring you all your food

and then say everything. Look okay, you say yes, then

all of a sudden they disappear.

Forever fraternity for eternity.

Yes, right, and so's it's actual to be.

In three lunches and the amount of time it took

for them to come back.

Okay, And here's the thing, ready for ready for this, servers.

This isn't new information. I'm not trying to insult your

intelligence if you're a server. But I'm pretty sure every

human being already knows where I'm going to say rip

before I say it. And that is it's actually the

most critical time to check on a person after they

receive their food, right, so, hey, oh man, you forgot

the catch up, or you forgot this, you forget that,

or can I please have this? Or hey, I'm missing

a knife or whatever it is. Right, it's most critical

to check on something while it's still hot and see

if they're okay. After they try their food.

So you set it down. Does everything look okay? That's

a fair question in the moment, But the reality is

we're so excited about getting our plate, we don't remember.

We don't remember all the things you see, all things

we need. So come back like three minutes later and

say you guys still lost that and then that lets meet,

Oh I need a one, I need a little bit,

you have salt.

Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, because chance chances

are if you need something, it's going to be after

you take a few bites.

Yes, that's right.

Okay. So that's the ultimate thing that was not good

to Okay. However, the other thing that was in addition

to this, and by the way, her not coming back

added to this. If I were to say to you,

I'm going to order a loaded baked potato because I

already told you had steak. Yes, today, a loaded baked potato.

What comes on that potato, Jeff.

In my mind, a loaded baked potato is going to

be a split baked potato, that's correct. That's going to

have some sour cream yep, some cheese yep, a little

bit of bacon yep, and maybe something else.

Maybe butter, butter, and sometimes some chibes.

Yeah, something a little green on.

The top, something little gre Okay. Now, the very first

thing out of your mouth was sour cream. So I

ordered a loaded baked potato with my steak today. And

I'm not going to tell you the restaurant because I

don't want it down the restaurant anything.

Just give the initials.

But it's Aspen restaurant right on the road. And I said,

a loaded baked potato. And they came with this potato

with no butter, no butter it and no sour cream.

And it was loaded with a tiny bit of cheese,

and then like piles and piles of like soft bacon,

and then these green actually it was green onions.

Green onions are good, Yeah.

Green onions are good. It was the driest baked potato

in the history of.

Potatoes because there was no sour cream or no butter.

So so as I'm eating pounds of floppy, soft bacon

and hardly any cheese, so.

It was loaded. It was just loaded with bacon.

It was loaded with soft bacon. And notice how I

said soft.

Nasty bacon bacon.

Yeah, so it was cooked bacon, but it was just

nasty cooked bacon. And as I'm eating the pounds of

bacon on this dry potato, I actually thought to myself,

this is not loaded, because where's the butter and where's

the sour cream? Loaded is everybody knows what loaded means. Loaded.

Loaded is a week's worth of cholesterol. The world knows

what loaded me this week's we're the cholesterol.

And furthermore, it can't be dry, that's right. So anyway,

and then all of a sudden, I'm thinking, okay, I

need I need sour cream. And then hey, hey, where's

the waitress? Like dust dust billows, waitress, waitress, tumbleweeds go across.

The call them waitresses anymore, we call them servers.

Yeah, that's for sure. Anyway, let's end the segment because

we're at our time.

No, I appreciate it, man, Yeah, but you're with me

on this. Thank you. I'm with you both on both accounts,

both both accounts.

Thank you.

Truly, these are two things I loathe, Yes, loathe them.

And by the way, I actually said to the guy

went to lunch with our staff, Quinn actually said to Quinn,

I said, my very first thought, I swear to you

this is true. My first thought immediately was not for me.

Not for you. I thought to myself, what kind of

world are we living in where all these people are

suffering like I'm suffering right now?

I thought, Here's what I thought. I thought, how come

this passes the test of loaded baked potato? So so?

Did they just forget the sour cream and butter or

or or or does does nobody complain? Does nobody say anything?

Is this okay? How does this survive?

Yeah? Yeah? Yeah right, well I can imagine how how

difficult of a life you're living in? This?

Yeah, well, this moment. I mean, you know, I mean,

I know you just came back from Africa.

All the losses but sour cream, all the lost puppies

and kittens out in the world, all the children missing

a meal today. You didn't have any sour cream on here,

your potato that was a good one though. Thank you, yes,

thank you Chris for your anger on behalf of all

of us, you know, speaking of it was a challenging moment,

speaking of.

Going long, Jesus actually stayed on the earth after his

resurrection for a pretty long time. Did he did?

He did?

Yeah. He appears to his seven disciples, is what mine says. Look,

he appears to his seven disciples. It says the word seven.

Oh, there's only seven of them in this story.

I guess, I guess. So.

Yeah, but this is a challenge too, right, And that

was a challenging experience in your life. Oh, that was

your transition, was giving me my transit the transition? No, No,

it's okay, it's okay. This was your week.

Okay.

So after breakfast, So we're in John chapter twenty twenty one,

verse fifteen. It says after breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, Simon,

son of John, do you love me more than these? Yes?

Lord Peter replied, you know I love you. Then feed

my lambs, Jesus told him. Jesus repeated the question, Simon's

son of John, do you love me? Then? Yes, Lord

Peter said, you know I love you? Then take care

of my sheep, Jesus said. A third time, he asked him, Simon,

son of John, do you love me? And Peter was

hurt that Jesus asked him the question a third time.

He said, Lord, you know everything, You know that I

love you. Then Jesus said, then feed my sheep. I

tell you the truth. When you were young, you were

able to do as you liked. You dressed yourself and

wherever you wanted to go. But when you're old, you'll

stretch out your hands and others will dress you and

take you where you don't want to go. Jesus said

this to let him know by what kind of death

you would glorify God. And then Jesus told him follow me.

I feel like we need to read the end here, Oh,

read the end.

Then Peter turned around and saw him saw behind in

the disciple Jesus Love, the one who had leaned over

to Jesus during the supper and asked, Lord, who will

betray you? If Peter asked Jesus, what about him, Lord, jesusupplied,

if I want him to remain alive until I return,

What is that to you? As for you? Follow me?

So the rumor spread among the community believers that this

disciple wouldn't die. But that isn't what Jesus said at all.

He only said, if I want him to remain alive

until I return. What is that to you? This disciples

want to testifies to these events and has recorded them. Here.

We know that this account of this, that his account

of these things is accurate. Jesus also did many other things.

If they were all written down, I suppose the whole

world cannot contain the books that would be written. That's

what I wanted you to read it.

I wanted you to read that because I love that phrase.

I suppose the whole world.

The whole world cannot contain the books that could be

written or that would be written.

That's great.

Yeah, So what a great phrase. If we wrote down

everything that that that Jesus either did or is it

part of or thought, the whole world would not be

supposed that the whole John supposes the whole world. I

think that's a great statement. Okay. So one of the

reasons why I liked you reading that is because I

love also how John breaks the fourth wall and he says,

guess who that guy was? That was me?

The one Jesus loved it was me this guy.

It was this guy.

So it's funny. Through this whole book he humbly goes,

never mentions his own name. Right, the whole book, he

never mentions his name. He just goes. You know, the

disciple Jesus loves never says it, but he cannot get

to the end of his book without saying, actually, it

was me.

Here's the big reveal.

He loved me. It's fun and John was the youngest

of the disciples, right, so that just makes it even

funnier to I think, right, yeah, it was really really

fun I love this guy.

Yeah. So I mean at the beginning of the passage

that you started to read, it says it. Actually it

starts with Jesus asking him three questions. It's so great, So, Jeff,

why did Jesus ask Peter the same question three times?

I believe Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him,

because it aligns with the fact that Peter denied Jesus

three times. He denied Jesus three times before his death.

He's given him three opportunities to come back and going, know, Jesus,

I really loved you.

Yeah, and even though we didn't read that story, the

Bible says that when Jesus, excuse me, when Peter heard

the rooster crow that it actually says in one of

the Gospels, I think it was actually John where it

says the Lord turned and looked at Peter and then

the rooster crowed.

Yeah. You imagine how brutal that was. Yes, they make

eye contact. Yes, after Peter just denied him the third time.

In the cussed and he was cussing right to try

to prove that he didn't have the same language or

the behavior as a Galoleean. So what does he do?

He he he cusses, He cusses, uh, this this young

girl who's accusing him, and and uh denies Jesus three times.

And then it says and then he remembered to that

point he wouldn't remember, but but Jesus had said, you're

gonna deny me before the rooster crows, And that was

just after Jesus said I'll follow you to death and

Peter and Jesus looks like, yeah, Peter says I'm gonna

follow you. Well, all die for you. And Jesus looks

at them and says, die for I mean he didn't

say it this way, but he goes like, die for

me before the rooster crows in the morning. You're gonna

deny me three times. And then it says that the

Lord Turner looked at Peter. Now, by the way, that

was in the Caiaphas's courtyard. Were you there at Caiaphas's house.

No, we didn't get that. It was close.

Oh man, there's like a there's like a courtyard and

and and there's like some gates. And you would have

thought that, like if Jesus went into Caiaphas's yard, the

commoners would still be out there, because you know, this

was a this is a prominent person's house. They would

they would go there sometimes to to to petition to Caiaphas.

So there was like a courtyard of commoners and then

and to the door. And so it must have been

and it didn't have to be this way. But there's

a good chance that Jesus was beyond the gates. He

gets his sentencing, you know, and Caiphus is like take

him to hair and all these different things, and all

of a sudden the gates open, and then all of

a sudden, that's when they're able to look at each other,

and then the rooster crows, and it says, Peter goes

out and weeps bitterly. Well, if you think about it,

how would you feel Jesus comes back to life? He

is the resurrect in Messiah.

Oh, I think you'd have a hard time make an

eye contact, wouldn't you. I think, wouldn't you think so? Well,

you don't find Peter being very assertive after the resurrection

until this moment, right, it's it's now, it's it's Thomas,

James and John. Right, only Peter ran of the tomb.

But after that, you don't really find Peter talking much, right,

it's it's we hear more from Thomas and John during

these times than we did and all the rest of

the stories combined just about yeah, right, but then James.

But then all of a sudden, there's this moment. I

think it's I think as as bullheaded and out front

as Peter always was after the Resurrection, up until this moment,

I think Peter was pretty reserved and he'd be just

so embarrassed.

Well, he probably felt like he was sort of the

leader of the disciples.

He let he was the oldest of this.

He was the oldest and he you know, he certainly

was looked upon as as one of the chief leaders, right.

He was always chosen and picked by Jesus. Like you said,

he was older.

And Jesus has said, I'm going to build my church

on you.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Jesus already said, dude, I have so many plans for you. Yeah,

right on this rock, all this kind of stuff. And

now I let you down. I probably blew it. Yeah,

you know, I'm embarrassed.

Yeah, well, I think that he was embarrassed, embarrassed and

ashamed in front of his other disciples he was trying

to be an example for, but most of all embarrassed

in front of Jesus, who basically said, are you going

to stay with me? Oh? Yeah, Lord will die with you.

And he looks at him and says, no, you won't.

You know, there's a great note here, and it just

reminded me of the meanings of the word love, which

is fabulous. So it says in a life application study Bible,

Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him. The

first time Jesus said do you love me? And the

Greek he used the word a goape, which is a

volitional it's a self sacrificing love. That's what a gape is.

It's the kind of love God has for humanity. That's

Do you have this sacrificial love for me more than these?

Do you love me more than Peter, James and John

and not Peter James and John and Andrew and these guys?

Do you love me? Yes? Jesus, you know I love you?

And then he says the second time, Jesus focused on

Peter alone. He now he's not comparing to the others,

it's only Peter, and he says, he still uses the

word agape. Are you willing to sacrifice everything for me?

And he goes, yes, Jesus, you know I love you.

And then the last one, Jesus uses the word that's

trandlated in the Greek as falato, which is affection or

brotherly love, affinity. And he's literally asking are you even

my friend? That's the question he's asking at that point,

are you even my friend?

That's really powerful, right?

Can you imagine how painful that question was? This is

why Peter gets upset. He's not upset that Jesus asked

the same question three times. He didn't ask the same

question three times he asked the same question twice, do

you love me enough to sacrifice everything? Because that was

his claim right before he denied Jesus, I'll die for you. Jesus,

so you asked him that question. You sure you're gonna

die for me? And Peter's like, yes, I'll you know,

all die for you. But the last one was not

the same as the first two. The last one, are

you my friend? Man? That's a heartbreaker moment, and this

is why he gets so sad and he goes, Jesus,

you know that I love you, and Jesus gives him

a mission. All right, then I need you to feed

my sheep.

Yeah, well it was. It was similar to all three

questions and just had much different application to it.

An implication Yeah, well, well, fallet Oh doesn't mean will

you sacrifice for me? He's so, will you sacrifice for me? Yes?

Will you sacrifice for me? Yes? Are you even my friend?

It's a whole other thing, right, And then he says

that's the betrayal that was. I think the betrayal for

Peter was the not being his friend, not being there

for Jesus when Jesus was there for him.

And I love how he tells Peter how he's going

to die and then says, follow me. So he says,

he said, hey, when you were little, you do whatever

you want. You know, you dress yourself, he said, but

when you're old, you will stretch out your hands and

others will dress you and take you where you don't

want to go. And Jesus said this to let him

know by what kind of death he would glorify God.

And so he's basically saying, someone's gonna take your arms,

someone's gonna take your legs. When you were little, you

put clothes around your arms and legs as you saw

fit and did whatever you wanted to do. When you're older,

somebody's gonna take your arms, somebody's gonna take your legs,

and they're going to lead you where you don't want

to go. And they're going to stretch out your hands. Well,

stretch out your hands. I mean, that's what Jesus just

did on the cross, right, he stretched out his hands

and died. So here's you know, Jesus, and he's literally

giving us insights, saying he's told him this because he

was going to let him know that that's how Jesus

Peter was going to die.

Well.

According to church tradition, we know that Jesus or excuse me,

Peter was crucified, right, He was crucified bid upside down

because he asked the people crucifying him if he could

be crucified upside down because he didn't feel worthy enough

to be crucified or killed in the same manner which

his lord was. So they gave him his request and

they crucified him upside down. So here Peter is just

you know, in the YETI follows him, he says, He says, Hey,

by the way, are you really in sacrifice for me? Yes?

Are you will in sacrifice for me? Yes? Are you

my friend? Of course you are great. You're going to

die in a horrific way to glorify God. Now follow me,

and then Peter follows.

Death can glorify God? Is a really strange thing that

this method of his death was an act of worship. Yeah, right,

glorify God. It's an active worship.

Well, greater life is greater love is the man than this.

When a man lays down his life for his friends.

Yeah, so everybody's gonna die. Yeah, you might as well

make it matter. You might as well make it an

active worship right. Too many Christians, honestly, honestly, too many

Christians are terrified of death when Jesus already has victory

over death. So since life is one hundred percent terminal,

why don't we prepare to glorify God even in our

death right? My dad wrote me and my brother's a letter.

You know, we're all in the ministry, So before he died,

he took time and he wrote each of us a letter.

He wrote some things to me that he wanted me

to keep doing a ministry and things like that. He prepared,

He prepared to honor me and honor God and his

death right, and he pushed me towards Jesus in that moment.

There's something about that we're preparing for your death in

a way where you know, I'm not in a hurry.

But man, if Jesus really did defeat death, you know,

Paul says, oh, death, where is your sting? Where's your victory?

Where's your sting? Jesus took your stinger out. You don't

have to be afraid of a bee that doesn't have

a stinger. Right, So at that point, then death is

only a transition, So pain happens. But hey, pain happens

in childbirth. The reality is you and I wouldn't have

any babies.

If men were if men had that job.

But women want babies. They want to have a baby

knowing the most difficult pain of their life is coming.

They say, the only other pain that's similar to that

is breaking your femur. No, that's right, right, or hey,

for fun, for fun, you want to break the pain.

Oh honey, I just want to break my femur, right, yeah,

let me break my femur. We wouldn't we wouldn't long

for it. But it's for the joy that you know

is coming, that little life, that that amazing thing of

being a mom is so incredible. Right, If we could

see death, even even the pain of going through it,

just as the birth of that new life, it's not

a problem. It's not that bad. It's it's it's a

short thing that goes into eternity. It's the birth into eternity.

If we could see that, then it's a totally different thing.

And I think that they're standing here looking at the

resurrected god Man saying it's not that bad, guys, Yeah, right, right,

And so he's letting him know. But I think It's

still funny. Even at the very end. Peter's like, yeah, yeah,

I hear you. You're giving me a mission. What about

what about him? Remember right right? And Jesus says, what

does it matter to you? Follow me? And I think

this is it. It doesn't matter what's going on in

other people's lives. It doesn't matter that other people have

blessings Jesus. Jesus says, it doesn't matter. What does it

matter to you? It's none of your business. I can

do whatever I want to with him. You follow me,

and that's the every one of us. Faith is a

personal journey. It's not private, but it is personal. You'll

you're not automatically a follower of Jesus because your parents were.

Every individual has to make this choice to be a

follower of Jesus. And so this is his challenge to him,

is it doesn't matter what I'm doing with other people,

what are you going to do with me? Are you

going to follow me? And he had a mission for

him Even though you failed me before, I hadn't given

up on you. Will you feed my sheep?

Yeah? And by the way, I have to admit that

that is probably something that I might ask if Jesus

looked at me directly and I'm standing next to you,

and he says, he goes, yeah, you're gonna die, horrific death.

I'd be like, really, what about it? What about what

about this guy?

Right?

I might say that too, right?

And John lived to be over one hundred and ten

years old, right, right, And.

He's the only one who didn't get martyred.

He got boiled and oil.

Well it's a little yet attempted martyred.

I don't know, living through an attempted execution might be

worse to be.

He would have miraculously survived, yeah, as opposed to walking

around knocking around with no pain. Look up, one big.

Scat, No, it'd be I think he was one big,

one big scar, was he? Yeah?

Well, hey, that is all of our time for certain.

In fact, we've went a little bit long. But that's

because my segment was so long.

No, it was a bonus section.

It's a Friday, Yeah, that's right, Friday, right, Fridays, extra

bonus material. Hey, thanks for being with us, and hopefully

we'll see you on Monday. On the Bable guys,