john twenty one and i'll start in verse one afterwards jesus appeared again to his disciples by the sea of tiberius it happened this way simon peter thomas called didn't miss nathaniel from zebedee and two other disciples were together i'm going out to fish simon peter told them and they said we'll go with you so they went out and they got into the boat but that night they caught nothing early in the morning jesus stood on the shore but the disciples did not realize that it was jesus he called to them friends haven't you any fish no they answered he said throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some and when they did they were able to haul the net and because of the large number of fish then the disciples whom jesus loved said to peter it is the lord and as soon as simon peter heard him say it is the lord he wrapped his outer garment around him for he had taken it off and he jumped into the water and the other disciples followed in the boat towing the net full of fish for they were not far from shore about a hundred yards the first principle this morning jesus authenticates his message with his life and his miracles jesus didn't just talk about the resurrection jesus is the resurrection in so he had a powerful message but even more powerful were his miracles and the resurrection is the exclamation point for our faith it's an absolute exclamation point for everything jesus said  by the way if there is no resurrection of jesus there's no christianity first corinthians fifteen there's no reason to celebrate today there are sin is still on us it's not in jesus there's no eternal life there's no kevin the bible says we're to be pitied i'm up here spreading a lie christianity is a big hoax if there's no resurrection but there is there is and if if skeptics wanted to destroy christianity in one minute all they would have do you is find jesus is body in the ground that would destroy the whole thing but you know what for two thousand years they haven't found it and they won't find it because you can't find what isn't there he's not in the grave this is not dead religion he's a risen savior in his exclamation point is the resurrection so let's go back to this appearance the sea of tiberius also known as the sea of galilee what's interesting in matthew twenty eight verse seven the angel gives the promise to the disciples that jesus is going to meet up with you in galilee so a promise from god to meet the resurrected savior in galilee and look what we have here an appearance in gal meet the disciples jesus keeps every single promise whenever you read a promise in scripture you can highlight it write it down bank on it because when god makes a promise he doesn't lie in so jesus shows up and  again with the resurrection appearances many places many times many days many people over five hundred witnesses doesn't that bring credibility i mean when over five hundred people say oh i saw the  disease space it out because he's building more in more evidence for the resurrection more people more places more times in so we have all of the historical evidence that he's given to us and it's powerful now jesus asked the disciples a question have you caught any fish do we have anyone here that likes to fish yeah a lot of people now if you catch a lot of fish you don't mind being asked the question have you caught any yes glad you asked come on over here take a look there's over a hundred fish now if you haven't caught any fish that's not the question you want  asked have you caught any fish in the disciple simply say no in the greek no no means  some of them maybe want to say we almost we pretty much did you know there there were so many that got away you know the one that got away but they simply say no these guys been professional fishermen they know you go at night to catch fish there they are doing their own thing have you caught any fish you know the answer would be no jesus simply says throw your nets down on the right side of the boat and what he's really saying to them  walk by faith walk by faith we've been fishing all night haven't got a thing who is this to tell us to put our nads on the right side of the boat and they put the nets on the right side of the boat walk by faith when jesus tells you to forgive everyone that is wrong you walk by faith when he says be baptized walk by faith when he says keep praying and don't give up walk by faith when he says find a church home and get connected walk by faith when he says take your the widows in the orphans walk by faith they drop their nets in they pull such a large number of fish and  jesus kept his promise again and they are walking by faith they can listen same position of the boat same group i'm in same equipment same skills one thing is change jesus it god's word jesus is in it if god's not in it we don't want it but if god's in it we don't want to miss it and that's the difference god is in it they're in a walking by faith in the blessings pour out now at this point john steps up and says it is the louvered do you have any friends that are very spiritually discerning in that they see things maybe before you see them i mean disciples are just like who fish fish fish fish fish in john's like that is the lord jesus had been speaking for a while but not everyone recognized him maybe jesus has been speaking in your life to you personally and do you recognize it john says it is the lord and indeed it is the lord and there's pure excitement peter as usual is going to lead the charge in this pure excitement and he's going to jump into the water he's got a hundred yards to get to the lord and he's going to do his best michael phelps and off he goes everyone else in the boat peter swimming did you notice it says he put back on his outer garment why would he do that because in the culture a greeting it was respectful if you had your garment on so he's so excited but he's still thinking side note here kind of two types of christians in this passage there's the ones that dive in and there's the ones that come along later in the dinghy right in the dinghy so  if you're a dinghy christian and you want to criticize those type of christians who dive in just know that peter is still think and in this excitement he still reverence the reverence is still there for the lord he puts on the outer coat and he swims with an outer coat excitement and reverence and there he goes if you're one of those christians and we need christians who dive in they kind of wake up the rest of the body when we also look at snoozy you know that i've been christians i let's get going if you're a little more of a diving christian be careful you don't judge your other brothers and sisters in christ who are in the dinghy love you're doing your brothers and you're doing your sisters in the lord now the brothers and sisters they're a little more call in a little more even keel and we need to act in the body of christ they're a little more kill kill lated if peter runs ahead who is going to bring in the boat who's going to bring in the fish peter is getting excited even keel calculated think about the fish think about the boat we bring it in body of christ amen we're all doing this together we need each other so little side no picture the main thing here is that jesus is risen he's alive he's not dead judy rivers stepped into her bank to open up what was a new bank in a new account and she went up to the teller and explained she wanted to open up a new account and the teller said let me check the records next thing you know the teller goes back the branch manager comes out in tells judy i'm sorry but there's a problem with your social security number in fact it's been d activated for two years due to your death in she said excuse me i've been dead for two years and no one told me about it and so they had to do some more research but she entered the bureaucracy the social security administration by the way this is not so unique it stated that about twelve thousand people a year are falsely reported as dead and deactivated and they say it's because of the key stroke errors so she is not the only one that had to go through something like this and she's trying to tell them that she's alive and i kind of think that jesus who's alive and well in the resurrection trying to let everyone else know i'm not dead i am alive in so what did she have to do duty when through  unable to secure a job make financial transactions file taxes or even visit a doctor when through months of process to clear the bureaucracy to prove to everyone that she is duty and she is alive if you're feeling dead this mornin and you want to come to life you don't have to go through months of bureaucracy you can just do it in about one or two seconds when you just come to jesus and you say jesus you are risen i commit my life to you may your life be in me and come alive surrender to jesus or get the bureaucracy to bring it to life so that's the main passage in our text let's go back to verse nine and we also read this when they landed they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it and some bread jesus said to them bring some of the fish that you have just caught simon peter climbed aboard and drag the net ashore it was full of large fish one hundred fifty three but even with so many the net was not torn jesus said to them come and have breakfast none of the disciples dared to ask him who are you they knew it was the lord jesus is the savior of the world and he wants to have breakfast with you it's a both and he's the savior of the world and he wants to have breakfast with you any foodies here anyone that kind of likes food decides me yeah yeah well represented an important no food note here is that i see the resurrected jesus in his resurrected body is able to eat and enjoy  you know what that tells me people ask in have in are we going to be able to eat we sure enough are it is very much in my theology that in our resurrected bodies we will be picking reassurance thanks for watching our program today and i want to let you know about our web site activate life died or you can send us your prayer requests we are honored to pray for you we also have daily devotions and other resources you can sign up for and if you want to support us financially you can do that through the website now or get back to the teaching as we get into god's word together jesus is relentless in pursuing you with his love and his grace and his gifts and his blessing john story today so powerful and i just think of how jesus pursues us when we're in pain jesus pursues us when we have addictions jesus pursues us in the darkness he pursues us in prison he pursues us when we know we're doing what's wrong he just keeps coming with that love and that grace that grace that's greater than sin in all of us we can say jesus never gave up on me jesus never gave up on me and we're so grateful for that in this passage there are empty nets in those point us back to jesus because empty net remind us that he gives us what we don't have in then provision comes in and prove usually also points us to jesus for we know who gives us these good gifts so both empty nets and provision both pointing us back to the lord is this the season of your life where you'd say empty nets and the nets feels barren and you know you need jesus help or maybe it's a season with abundant gifts and blessings and you just want to thank jesus because you know where these gifts have come from this passage reminds us life doesn't always need to be fancy jesus is relational life is more important with the who then the white in a materialistic prosperous country we need to be reminded of the relational aspect of our savior that life is more about who then what and i know we get into marriages and what makes marriages work in their complicated and intricate but i will say this my big thing in marriage number one is love how much love is there is the love of jesus in your marriage say parenting there's so many things different development stages in ages and personalities in every child is unique but i'll say number one with parenting is love but every child wants love number one our relationship with jesus is love the love he first gives us before we love him and then the love we experience in the love we have for jesus yesterday we had an easter egg hunt in our neighborhood and one of our kids was so excited it was running over there and tripped and hit his knee on the cement and it just really came open and none of our stomach want to hear the details of this but suffice it to say six stitches missed the egg and you know all the kids saw it happen you know i had to go in to the hospital and come back with the sixty it is and you know what's happening at the egg hunt the other kids were bringing eggs over and saying could you give it to him could you give it to him and we got a knock on our door after he came home from the hospital in one of his little buddies had come  he had twenty aides in our front yard knocked on the door he just said i know he missed the egg hunt so i put some eggs in front if he wants to go get him and he application today what is the resurrection mean for us it means number one there is sufficient grace to cover all of our failures all of our failures the disciples knew layers of levels of failure on the one hand they had caught a fish they all felt like a failure and that was small but on a bigger scale they felt like and they knew they didn't stay awake in ghosts salmon e g zz's asked them to pray they didn't pray at the cross they ran away they were scared they were hiding they were ashamed they deny jesus they were just sitting and all this sense of failure and here comes his grace and i want to turn back to luke chapter five you say how did this all start  five you can turn there if you want a couple books to left from john listen to this account is so insightful now jesus finished speaking in verse four to simon and he said put out in deep water let down the nets for catch they hadn't caught anything simon answered master we've worked hard all night we haven't caught anything that because you say so i will let down the nets when they had done so they caught such a large number of fish that the nets began to break sound familiar so they signaled to the partners to the other boats to come and help them and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink when simon peter saw this he fell at jesus's knees in said go away from me lord i must see in ful man in jesus grace right there at that moment throw peter's life grace grace grace and now almost the same things happening at the resurrection in peter's just thinking more grace you love me so much jesus and you are so forgiving what's interesting is the nets were torn in the beginning of following jesus they were torn and jesus in some ways was tearing down their pride and self reliance in here and in their resurrection appearance the nets aren't torn and it's really a time of restoring in healing these disciples that had gone astray and building them up again and then realizing jesus knows better than us you know we thought the one area we know better is fishing i mean we're professional fish we know fishing jesus you know bible we know fishing it's like now jesus knows have everything he so why in powerful in good in jesus knows who needs special encouragement he knows in this room who needs a special touch special reminder special grace and he meets them where they are here's the second thing you have a clear calling in a compelling daily purpose jesus adds in luke chapter five he says this to them as they were astonished at the catch jesus said don't be afraid and then from now on you will catch men so they pulled up their boats on shore they left everything and they followed him jesus at the start real simple follow me or abide in me and then respond in go make disciples that was jesus's starting call that's his call after his resurrection that's his call today life two things faithfulness to jesus stay close to him abide walk with him in then go change the world make disciples that's everyone's purpose and what a privilege to be an ambassador for jesus so  you know it's kind of a new old calling it's new it's not new it's not new because they had heard it before it's new because they want to follow him more than ever it's not the first time they had heard it but it might as well be the last because this time they're not going back this time they're all in this time is different they are reminded they they have a vision that's recast they they start to have a faith it's reinvigorate and so they're not going to look back in fact the apostles will die for their faith they will die for their faith they're not looking back anymore they're going forward with jesus you know i read yesterday for the first time wycliffe bible translators i don't know if you know this but all the major languages are available the bibles available but there are so many smaller languages where there's no bible in wycliffe ministry the translator are are just busy trying to finish the translation in every language but in some areas the world is dangerous in northern africa i just read the story even though it happened you know several months ago for the translators were killed attacked the office tried to get rid of all their stuff killed them the lead translator survived because the other translators piled on top of the lead translator so the translator could survive in the question came for wycliffe do you want to shut it down you want to stop trying to translate the bible and they said no we want to redouble our efforts see why because there's a passion and there's a calling to make jesus known and to make much of jesus and when we abide with him that's what comes out is to make much of jesus in so coming back to that calling they're hearing it again they're saying yes here's the final verse in our passage look at verse fourteen this was now the third time jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead third time third time first time he showed up the disciples were in the room he said peace be with you he said that so often after resurrection peace be with my peace be with you in this world you can have trouble but my peace be with you and then you know he told the disciples as the father sends me so i send you all of us are sent as the father sends me so i send you disciple saw jesus heard this there start to come alive there was one who wasn't there that day his name is thomas and he said i'm not believe in that business i know i like you guys i know we've been hanging out i know you're telling me as jesus i don't believe until i see jesus and guess who shows up jesus meets he knows who needs a special he says thomas touch these scars thomas touch  but see fingers reach out touch him stop doubting and believe thomas my lord my god he's going to end up dying for his faith live in faithful to the end the turning point again by the way if you have doubts we all doubt in different ways different times this is what thomas did though he stayed in the community of faith when you doubt don't get isolated that's where the devil does work when you doubt stay in the community faith jesus will meet you just be patient who meets you there stay in truth so that's what thomas does jesus is so real and then the disciples and we could ask the question how can you be casual about the resurrection how can you stay casual about the resume how can you give the resurrection a little golf clap you know how how what jesus is trying to do is change hearts to go from the resurrection questionmark resurrection fine period to resurrection exclamation point in our hearts how do you put it right after resurrection so we have wonderful evidence in a reliable source of joy i want to hear a story from joe in brazil he's seventy one years old incredible story he lives in an island village just outside of rio de janeiro he's a retired bricklayer and he found a tiny penguin a couple of years ago covered in oil and close to death the penguin was lying on the rocks on his beach and joe found him cleaned the oil off as the penguin was dying and then fed him daily a diet of fish to build his strength any named the little penguin d n d i'm a little bit of parallel there with the disciples they're covered in sin they've got no lobe jesus is risen he's going to forgive he's going to build them up he's going to feed him some fish  and you know strengthen him build him up again so this is how the story continues after a week he tried to release little the indium back into the sea but the indium wouldn't leave he stayed with me for a levon months and then just after he changed his coat with new feathers he flew off and disappeared and then just a few months later dindin was back he spotted joe out on the beach one day any followed him back home again so now for the past five years dinned him has spent eight months of the year with joe and then he spends the rest of time reading off the coast of argentina in chile so he does other stuff and then he he comes back  he's swims five thousand miles every year to be reunited with the man who saved his life and i just think about peter swimmin through that water to get to jesus a hundred yards and why because peter's never been loved like that in to be close to jesus and to be forgiven and to have the savior right there there's just nothing better and he never forgets who saved his life and now  i love the penguin and i believe the penguin loves me no one else is allowed to touch the indium because he pecks them if they do i don't recommend that he lays on my lap though and he lets me give him showers he lets me feed him sardines and pick him up everyone said he would return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past five years and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even happier to see me waving his tail and honking with delight is your affection for jesus growing your gratitude growing to the savior you know how to look in peter's life in acts chapter just going to go into his house a gentile in the holy spirit says go talk to cornelius in peter just simply says you know jesus he was dead he's risen we saw it we saw it resurrection is real can't  and cornelius knows this is the truth this is the savior the world this is the grace of god his entire household says yes and peter says is anything going to stop them from being baptized no they should be baptized too in when the excit t there it goes just passing on your faith just sharing what you know sharing what is true searing so other people can experience jesus in that is worship in peter's thinking inside this is what life is all about close to jesus loving people caring for other people's souls here's the take on let the resurrection of jesus bring healing bring 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