last chapter of the Gospel of
John. And here's my subject this evening
is basically three words, love, obey, and follow. Love, obey, and follow. We're in the last chapter of
the Book of John. Look at verse 15 and I'll just
read the text to you. And I'm going to read down through
the 22nd verse. And the scripture says, and so
when they had dined, that is the Lord Jesus and these seven
disciples, and they had quit the ministry and they had decided
to go back to their former way of making a living. And the Savior
went after them and he does that to his disobedient sheep. They didn't wait for him in the
mountain as the Lord had instructed them to do, but rather, I suppose
they were there for a little bit and then they just decided
upon Peter's prompting, Peter said, I'm going fishing. I'm
not gonna wait anymore. I'm going fishing." And the other
guy said, well, we're going too. And so they all went fishing.
And you know the story, how that they weren't catching anything.
And the Lord Jesus, very tenderly, isn't it good he's always full
of compassion toward his people, even when we err. He still loves
us. He didn't write these men off.
He didn't say, well, you quit the ministry, now I quit you. You're finished with preaching
the gospel, so I'm finished with dealing with you. No, He doesn't
give to us like, unfortunately, sometimes we give to Him. He
doesn't reward us for our unfaithfulness. But rather, He is very patient. He's very forgiving. He's full
of pity. He has great compassion for all
of his people. And he manifests that here in
John chapter 21. And so he has fed these men now. They made no contribution to
the feast. The song she played just before
the service, the master calls, come and dine. all things were
ready for them. And he gave them an appetite
and they came and their appetite was satisfied. And so after they
had eaten, verse 15, now we get there. So when they had dined,
Jesus saith to, he saith to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, lovest
thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord,
thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. Then the Lord Jesus said to him
again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord,
thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because
he had said unto him the third time, lovest thou me? And he
said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that
I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, feed my
sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkest whither
thou wouldest. But when thou shalt be old, thou
shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee,
and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying
by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this,
he saith unto him, follow me. And then Peter turning about,
he saith the disciple whom Jesus loved following. That is, he's
talking about John. John, which also leaned on the
Savior's breast at supper and said, Lord, which is he that
betrayed thee? Of course, he's referring to
a passage back in John chapter 13. Peter seeing him saith to
Jesus, and evidently the Lord Jesus began to kind of walk away. John just got up and he was the
one who followed him. And Peter, he's seeing what's
happened. He saith to Jesus, Lord, and
what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, if I will
that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou
me. So here are the words we want
to work on this evening. Love, obey. and follow. You know, one of the first things,
I was rereading this again today, and I always like to kind of,
if I'm going to preach on a passage of scripture, I like to kind
of saturate my mind with it. because it's an amazing thing
about the Word of God. And I know you have discovered
this, even as I have, that the more you read a portion of Scripture,
the more you will see in it. It's like a gold mine, and the
deeper you dig, the more nuggets you'll find. That's the way it
is with the Word of God. It is the Word of the infinite
God, so it's the infinite Word of God. And as I was rereading
this, it dawned on me what the Savior, what is said concerning
these men. Look back at verse 9. And as
soon as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there
and fish laid thereon and bread. Have you ever read that expression
before, a fire of coals? Well, go back to John chapter
18. Look at John chapter 18. And
I'm wondering if this didn't, I'm almost certain it did, it
triggered Peter's memory. Because when he saw what the
Savior had for him, here's a fire of coals. I'm sure Peter's mind
went right back to this occasion just a few days before this.
John chapter 18 and verse 18, and the servants and the officers
stood there who had made a fire of coals. And guess who's there? Simon Peter is there. And they
warmed themselves and Peter stood with them. He stood with the
enemy at these fire of coals. And he warmed himself. And now
here he is in John chapter 21, and once again he is chilled. After all, he has been out fishing
all night long. He is hot and sweaty and he had
shed his clothes. And then when they heard the
master's voice, children, have you any meat? He dived into the
water and he began to come to shore, dragging the net with
the 153 fishes that the Lord had because the Lord had said, cast
the net on the other side and here comes Simon Peter, he's
pulling the net in and so he gets to shore and he goes up
on shore and there he sees, guess what? He sees a fire of coals. But on this occasion, it's the
master who has made the fire. It's the master who is going
to warm him. And I think of how faithful the
Savior is to us. Here is a needy disciple who
has been disobedient. He's a wayward disciple. He has
denied the Lord three times. And it was all right there at
a coal of fires. And now here's a coal of fire,
or a fire of coal. And it's the master who has made
this for him. And he warms himself. And I think
that as I read this, this fire of coals, it was like a preacher
to Simon Peter. You know, the Lord can use inanimate
objects to speak to his people. He can use it to trigger a memory
to trigger an emotion within us. And I'm sure this pulled
the trigger on Simon Peter, because the last time he was in a situation
like this, he was with the enemy. He was siding with the enemies
of the gospel. And here this time, it's his
savior. It's the master. The master sends
this ever so silent preacher, but oh, so powerful. He knows just how to get our
attention, doesn't he? He gets Simon Peter's attention.
And he doesn't give a harsh rebuke to Peter. And certainly he doesn't
give him a word of condemnation. He doesn't say, you're going
to pay for this. You're going to pay for those
three times that you denied me. And now you've quit the ministry.
No, there's not a stern word of rebuke. Now there are times
when the Lord rebukes his errant people. But even when he does
that, it is always with, there's love behind it. There's a pity
behind it. And so he comes to Simon Peter
to speak to him. And Peter, of course, had denied
him three times. And now he's going to ask Peter
virtually the same question. He'll ask this three times. Three
is the number of fulfillment, the number of completion. As
he had denied the Lord three times, now he will avow his love
for the Savior three times. That brings us to the first word
we want to consider, which is love. Love. Peter is questioned as to his
love. Without love for the Lord Jesus,
we're We're nothing. We may have a great profession
of faith. We may say we believe much, and
we may speak much, and we may do much, and we may give much,
but without love for the Savior, it's all useless. Everything
is worthless if there isn't back behind everything if there isn't
love. We read in, there's a passage
in, you know it well, 1 Corinthians chapter 13, it's the love chapter.
And there we read love doesn't fail. That's 1 Corinthians chapter
13, verse eight. Charity never faileth. It will never fail. It will never
end. Real love for the Savior will
never end. Why is that? Because His love
has been shed abroad in our hearts and we love Him because He first
loved us. Will His love for us ever end?
No. Will His love for us ever be
cooled? No. Will His love ever change? No, because He's the same and
His love is the same. And because He is the one who
loved us and He poured His love into our hearts, therefore we're
going to love Him. Now, we won't love Him perfectly
till we get to heaven. But we do love Him. Love is so
vital. Love gives value to all the things
that we do as believers. It's love for Christ Jesus. You
know, there in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, we read that love
never fails, and then it says that now abides faith, hope,
and charity. as most of the translations today
say, love. And that's a perfectly reasonable
translation now by faith, hope, and love. What is faith? Well, it is believing the Lord.
It is laying a halt of the Lord. Faith is based upon knowledge. It has to do with agreement with
the knowledge, and then it has to do with commitment. If you
ask me to tell you about faith, I'd say, well, it's based on
knowledge. People say, well, you folks just
have blind faith. No, faith isn't blind. We believe
the Word of God. We believe God is who He says
He is. We believe we are who God says
we are. We believe that the Lord Jesus
is the only Savior for folks like us. We believe the Word
of God. This is a knowledge that we have. So you people don't know anything. Well, we do know a few things,
and more than that, we know someone. We know Him, whom to know is
life everlasting. We know there's God. We know
God's holy. Don't have any idea how holy,
but I know He's holy. He's so holy, He can't receive
me as I am. And I believe I have a knowledge
of myself. God gives to everyone he saves
a knowledge of themselves. At least some degree of understanding
of their lostness and their spiritual disease. And we having been given that knowledge
and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, the only savior, and that by
his sacrifice upon the cross of Calvary, people are saved.
We're given this knowledge and then we agree with that knowledge.
I don't wanna have any argument with what the word of God says.
We're not like those who say, I know what the Bible says, but
I just don't believe it's that way. Oh, that's not a believer
speaking. Because a believer says, I have
this knowledge. God is teaching me of himself. He's teaching me of myself. He's
teaching me of the Savior, the only mediator, the only way to
God, of his bloodshedding, of his righteousness that I've got
to have. I've got this knowledge that
I'm learning, and I agree it's all true. That's what faith said. Faith says, I agree with what
God says, notwithstanding what anybody else might say. Faith
says, I agree. But faith is based on more than
knowledge and more than agreement. Faith is commitment to that one
that the Bible speaks of as being the only savior of sinners. And
we commit ourselves to him. That's what faith does. That's
why Paul says, I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that
he's able to keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day. I've committed my soul. I've
committed my life. I've committed my eternity. I've
committed my all to Christ Jesus alone. Sinking or swimming or
whatever, I just run to him and I lean on him. And this is a
way a believer goes through life. We go through life leaning on
the beloved, leaning on the Savior. And when time comes to die, that's
the way to die. Leaning on Christ Jesus. That's
faith. And then hope. What is hope? It's a confident expectation
of future blessings based on God's Word, based on what God
has said. That's what a hope is. And we
have a good hope, Paul says, through grace. But now abide in faith, hope,
and love. And this is what he says, but
the greatest of these is love. Why do you say that, Paul? Because
faith is going to someday be exchanged for sight. We believe, Peter says, we believe
him whom we haven't seen. But one day we're gonna see him. We're gonna see him face to face.
And faith as we know it now will be no more. And a hope. Hope is a confident expectation
of future blessings based on the word of God. But one of these
days, hope will be exchanged for reality because we'll know
the fulfillment of all the blessings of God in Christ Jesus when we
see him face to face. But love, the greatest of these
is love. Love will never end. It will
only be perfect in heaven. Therefore, Peter is asked this
question three times, lovest thou me? Lovest thou me? Lovest thou me? Do you love me? This must be
vital for the Savior to put the question to Simon Peter three
times in a row. And you'll notice what he didn't
ask, and there are any number of things I could say to you
at this point, but this is what kind of got my attention this
morning as I was thinking over my days in Armenian religion
and thinking about so many false prophets today. He didn't say,
Simon, son of Jonas, do you believe that I died and was buried and
rose again the third day? That's a question a lot of people,
preachers ask today, right? You hear that asked? And people
say, yes, I believe that. And they say, well, you're saved.
You're saved. Believing those facts about the
Lord Jesus Christ, even believing that they're the truth, that's
not salvation. The devils believe in tremble.
Ask the devil, do you believe Jesus lived, died, buried, and
rose again the third day? Say, yeah, I believe that. What,
you gonna pronounce him saved? He's not saved. Here's what they don't have,
and here's what most people don't have, a love for the Lord Jesus
Christ as he is set forth in the word of God. We've got to
love him as God sets him forth, as the Lord, as the sovereign,
as the ruler, as the divine one. This is what the Jews hated about
him. They hated the fact that he said,
I'm the son of God. They had no use for Jesus of
Nazareth because of that. Listen, I love the fact that
he's the son of God, don't you? If you're a believer, you love
the fact that he's the son of God. That means he can do business
with God on your behalf. He's qualified. He's qualified
to enter right into the presence of God and do business with God
on my behalf because number one, he is God and number two, he's
my brother. He's bone of my bone and he's
flesh of my flesh. And before I get off on the next
point, go to the next point, which is obey, I give you one
other thing. I was thinking about Simon's
threefold denials. And I was thinking about his
last words to the Savior before the Savior went to die. You remember what he said? And
I'll bet you these words, I bet you they just haunted him. over and over again, because
here's someone that he loved the Lord Jesus Christ, but more
than that, the Savior loved him, and the Savior truly loved him
with all of his heart, right? He loved Simon Peter with an
everlasting love, and I'm sure as Simon Peter, he had denied
the Lord, he'd denied the Lord three times, and then the Savior,
after that last denial, the Savior caught his eye. He just broke his heart, broke
Simon Peter's heart. He just went out crying. And I'll bet you he thought to
himself, what was the last thing I said to the Savior before he
went to die for me? I said, though all men shall
be offended because of thee, I will never be offended. You
can count on me. He said, though I should die
with thee, yet will I not deny thee. I won't be offended. I'll never fall away. That's
what he would say. I'll never trip and fall. I bet
those words, I bet those rolled around in his mind quite a bit. Last thing I said to the Savior
before he died, There's been many a person, you know, they
think about it. Maybe they're loved when they
died an unexpected death, and then they get to thinking, what
was the last thing I said to them? Oh, no. Maybe I had a fuss
with them, or I said something I shouldn't have said. And people
grieve over that sort of thing. And it's a heartbreaking thing.
You know, I wish I'd have told them I loved them. I bet Simon
Peter said, I wish I'd have told the Savior, oh master, thank
you for your willingness to lay down your life for me. But no,
I had to be a hot shot. I had to be a big mouth. I had
to show my arrogance and show my pride. Oh God, I'm sorry. Don't you expect that's the way
he felt. I just know it's how he felt. but he really did love the Savior. He said, preacher, what is a
Christian capable of doing? Anything a non-Christian will
do, except for the grace of God. I'll never deny him. Oh yeah,
that's what Simon Peter said. All these men will, you can't,
Lord, you can't count on these other guys. But you can count
on me, really. Famous last words. Okay, second
word is obey. After each of the confessions
of Simon Peter, of loving the Savior, the Savior instructed
him, feed my lambs, feed my sheep, feed my sheep. This is obedience. Peter is, he's given a command
to do something. Now, first of all, these lambs
and sheep are not without an owner. He says here in verse
15, feed my lambs. Verse 16, feed my sheep. Verse 17, feed my sheep. Who are the lambs? Well, young
believers. And I think feeble believers.
Those that are weak, those that are struggling, feed the lambs. And then feed the sheep. The
sheep are more mature, but they still gotta be fed. But whether
they're lambs or sheep, the Lord says, and he makes sure Peter
understands this, they're my lambs. They're my sheep. They're not yours. They're mine. Peter was an apostle. He was
a preacher. He was gifted in many ways, but
the sheep and the lambs didn't belong to Simon Peter. They have
an owner. It's the Lord Jesus is the owner
in His high priestly prayer to the Father. He said, I have manifested
Thy name unto the men that Thou gavest Me out of the world. Thine
they were and Thou gavest them Me. They're My sheep. They're My sheep by divine choice. All that the Father "'Giveth
me,' he said in John six, "'shall come to me, and him that cometh
to me, "'I will let no wise cast out, "'given to him an eternal
election.' "'It was for these that he came to lay down his
life.'" They're his sheep by gift, they're his sheep by purchase.
He bought these sheep, they're here, they're bought and paid
for. If you go to the store and you buy something, you fully
expect for the cashier to have someone bag it up, or maybe you
have to bag it up yourself these days, but you fully expect to
get what you pay for and to walk out of the store with it. You
paid for them, you got it. The Lord Jesus paid for his sheep. He paid for the lambs. He bought
us with a tremendous price, his blood. He bought us, he ransomed
us. And having paid our debt, having
fully purchased us from divine justice, He says, these are my lambs,
my sheep. They're mine by gift. They're
mine by purchase. And then he could say they're
mine by effectual calling. I've called them. I drew them. I wooed them to myself. They're
mine. They're mine now by volunteering
faith. That is, they had believed me
and they believed me because I gifted them with faith. They're
my sheep. And he's the shepherd. He's the
seeking shepherd. He's the nourishing shepherd,
the seeking shepherd. He came to seek and to save that
which was lost. Ezekiel chapter 34, verses 11
and 12, for thus said the Lord God, behold, I, even I will both
search my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out
his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered,
so will I seek my sheep. I will deliver them out of all
the places where they have been scattered in a cloudy and dark
day. And he's the nourishing shepherd.
Isaiah 40 verse 11, he shall feed his flock like a shepherd.
He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his
bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young. And is this
not your testimony that he has carried you in his bosom? You're
one of his sheep, you're one of his lambs. You were lost and
He pursued you. He found you and He picked you
up. Luke chapter 15. He puts you up on His shoulders.
And He goes home rejoicing. And He says there in Luke chapter
15, Rejoice with Me, I have found My sheep, My sheep, which was
lost. That's what He did for you. You're
His. And he's the good shepherd. John
10, 14. He knows his sheep. John 10,
11, he's the good shepherd who gives his life for the sheep.
And he's the great shepherd. Hebrews 12, 20. Now the God of
peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting
covenant. And he's the chief shepherd.
who will soon appear," 1 Peter 5 and verse 4, and you shall
receive a crown of glory. Well, and here's what Peter is
to do. Feed the lambs and the sheep.
That is his order. That's the command that he gives.
Feed my lambs and my sheep. He didn't say entertain my sheep.
He certainly didn't say fleece my sheep. He didn't say, beat
my sheep. He didn't say, punish my sheep.
He didn't say, fuss at my sheep. He didn't say, weed out those
that you don't think they are sheep. No. He said, feed the sheep. Here's what a preacher's responsibility
is, with the Lord's lambs and sheep. is to feed them sheep
food. And it's amazing, the food will
of itself, the food has such power, the gospel, the word of
God has such authority, it has such power that it will seek
out the sheep and you'll know who the sheep are because they'll
eat the food. And the goats will say, I don't
like this food. And so then they go off and they
start eating briars. Or they'll start eating empty
tin cans. Goats will eat about anything. That's why I call false churches
goat pastures. Because the goats will eat anything,
but the sheep are very peculiar. They only want the grass. They want the good stuff. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Feed means nourish and keep my
sheep. In fact, it has within it the
idea of indoctrinate my sheep, instruct them. Remember the Savior
said, to his disciples, go ye into all the world, and baptizing
them in the name of the Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost,
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you. And lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the world. Amen. Teaching means you give
biblical instruction, doctrinal knowledge. There must be a ministering
of the Word of God. I'm not here to entertain you.
I'm here to feed the sheep, which means give out the Word of God. And you'll know who the sheep
are because they'll say, hmm, that's good. Good, not because I say it or
any other preacher says it, but good because it's the Word of
God. It's sheep food. It nourishes. When Paul met with
the elders of the church at Ephesus in Acts chapter 20 and verse
28, he said, feed the church of God, which he purchased with
his own blood. And the word there means indoctrinate. Lest someone else come in and
misguide the congregation. Let's be specific. Let's say things and let's never
be ashamed to say things the way God says things. If God says
election, let's say election. Is that okay? If God says predestination,
let's say predestination. If God says justification, let's
say justification. If God says righteousness, let's
say righteousness. Let's say it the way God says
it. And the sheep will say, amen. The sheep will feast on it. And then here's the last thing. Follow. Love, obey, follow. And I think follow includes faith. You'll notice here in John chapter
21, the Lord Jesus says to Simon Peter at the end of verse 19,
he says, follow me. That's not the first time he
said that to Peter or to these other disciples, follow me. He
said, follow me before at the beginning of their ministry,
I'll make you fishers of men, follow me. And then Simon Peter,
look at verse number 20, turning about, he sees the disciple that
Jesus loved following. And he seems to find a little
bit of fault with John for following. Well, that's what the Savior
just said to him, follow me. Peter looks over and the Savior
is walking away. There goes John. And Peter says to him, what's
this man gonna do? What's this man gonna do? And
the Lord Jesus said in verse 22, he said, if I will that he
tarry till I come, what's it to you? What's it to you? You do what he's doing, follow
thou me. Simon Peter, you gotta love him. Because he's all the time putting
his foot in his mouth. He's just, if it comes up, it's
coming out. That's the way it was with Simon
Peter. And the Savior says, follow me. And he sees John get up and
starts following the Savior. What's going to happen to him?
How's he going to die? What's up with him? And the Lord
says, basically, it's none of your business. Follow thou me. You follow me. I tell you, it's one of the characteristics
of the sheep of the Lord. They follow Him. John 10, 27. It's the reason
I read that passage. My sheep hear my voice. What
is the voice of the shepherd? It's the gospel of redeeming
grace. It's the gospel of substitution. It's the gospel of satisfaction.
It's a gospel of how God can be just and justify the ungodly
through the doing and the dying of the Lord Jesus. My sheep hear
my voice and I know them. I love them. And they all have
this mark. They follow. They follow me in faith. They
follow me as the example that I set before them. They follow
me. They submit to my word. They
submit to my will. If I'm a child of God, I'm a
follower of Christ Jesus. I'm not a follower of a preacher. I'm not a follower of, I appreciate
John Gill, but I'm not a follower of John Gill. I'm not a follower
of John Calvin. I'm not a follower of Charles
Spurgeon. And I wouldn't want to shock you, but I'm not a follower
of Henry Mahan. I'm a follower of Christ Jesus. Somebody said, you blindly, you
people up there at that church, they blindly follow the preacher.
I hope not. Let's be like the Bereans and
search the Scriptures daily and make sure these things are so.
We follow the Savior. We follow Him. I seek to mold my doctrine, to
mold my thoughts, to mold my words, to mold my character,
to mold my deeds after the example of Christ Jesus. I follow Him. We're students of the Savior.
We bow to his teaching. And any teaching contrary to
his teaching, we turn away from. And in following Christ, we're not
to concern ourselves with what other men are doing or what other
men or women are doing. You see, this was Peter's problem
here. Follow me, what's gonna happen to that guy? What business
is it of yours? That's between me and him. I'm
talking to you, Simon Peter. Why are you concerning yourself
in John's business? We tend to do that. You hear
a message and you say, boy, I hope so-and-so heard what he had to
say. You hear it and you just kind of throw it over your shoulder.
That's for somebody else. That's for somebody else. That's
the way it was with Simon Peter. No, this is for you, Simon Peter.
Follow thou me. Follow thou me. In following the Lord Jesus,
we seek to glorify Him. We seek to honor Him. And I'll
give you this real quick. I must follow where He leads.
Number one, I must follow whether my family follows Him or not.
I hope they will. I pray they will. I long for
them to follow Him. But if they're not gonna follow
Him, by the grace of God, I am. I am. I don't know what others
are gonna do, but by His grace, I'm gonna follow Him. Number two, I must follow
Christ regardless of my want to, regardless of my desires. The flesh wants a good many things,
but listen, The Lord Jesus, He's my savior, He's my master. I
follow Him. Number three, I must follow Christ
regardless of personal cost. There's a passage in Hebrews
chapter 12. The writer of Hebrews basically says to those Hebrew
believers, you haven't suffered under blood yet. You may have
had some tough times, but you haven't been persecuted yet.
I paid a small price for following Christ down through the years,
and there have been a lot of times I've failed, but I've tried
to do what He would have me to do. And even when other people
said, don't do that, Don't do that. I don't listen
to other people. Now, I say I don't listen to
them. They may be very wise, but ultimately,
I've gotta follow what I feel like the Lord would have me to
do, and that's the way it's gotta be with you. That's the way it was when I
came down here. There were people who said, you're not gonna go
down there, are you? What are you leaving this nice
church up here for? Everything's going good, comfortable. Why would you ever want to do
that? The only thing I can tell you is the Lord put a burden
on my heart. Regardless of personal costs,
regardless of what anybody says, you've got to do what you feel
like the Lord to have you do. And I must do so, and you must
follow him willingly and lovingly. Not, okay, I'll go, but I don't
like it. I'll do what he would have me
do, but I'm not happy about it. Well, that's a bad attitude. Let's do what we're supposed
to do and what he calls us to do and do it out of love. Why
must I follow Him? Because He owns me. That's why. He owns me. And when must I follow
Him? Always. Well, if I follow Him, where
will my pathway lead me? I don't know where it's going
to lead you on this earth. But I can tell you where it will
ultimately lead you. And I'll give you this and we'll
quit. Go back to John 13. You follow him. I'll tell you
where you'll wind up. John chapter 13. Look at verse
36. Once again, Simon Peter said
unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Where are you going? He said, I'm going away. Where
are you going? And the Savior answered him,
whither I go, thou canst not follow me now. I'm going to die,
and I'm going back to the Father. You can't follow me now, but
thou shalt follow me afterwards, because you're gonna die, and
you'll follow me right into the Father's house. Love, obey, and follow. God helps to do that, to love
Him, to obey Him, to feed His sheep, feed His lambs, and to
follow Him. Lord, bless the Word that has