Jesus showed himself again to
the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. And on this wise showed he himself. It says the Lord showed himself
again. Brother Ronnie was reading about
several appearances of our Lord. Back here in John chapter 20.
Verse 1. There's something significant
here that I want to call to your attention. It says in verse 1 of chapter
20, the first day of the week, Sunday morning, the Sabbath was
over. Our Lord lay in the tomb, His
body lay in the tomb, all day on the Sabbath. But early Sunday
morning, the first day of the week, cometh Mary Magdalene early,
when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone
taken away from the sepulchre. He arose on the first day of
the week. Our Lord came forth from the
grave on the first day of the week. Down here in verse 19,
that same day at evening, being the first day of the week. When the doors were shut, where
the disciples were assembled, the disciples were assembled
together on this first day of the week. For fear of the Jews, Jesus said,
they assembled with the doors closed. And Jesus came and stood
in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And down here in verse 26, after
eight days, again on the first day of the week, that Sunday,
you remember that day, they were there. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Verse 26, after eight days again,
his disciples were within, assembled together, doors being closed.
Thomas was with them this time. He wasn't there the first time.
He was this time. Then came Jesus, the doors being
shut. stood in the midst of them and
said, peace be unto you. Evidently, it seems to me that
the disciples began from that time to assemble together for
prayer, worship, preaching on the first day of the week. If
you notice two other references over here in Acts chapter 20,
Acts 20, and you might jot those scriptures down, and people ask
you, why do we meet on the first day of the week? Why don't we
meet on the Sabbath? Acts chapter 20, verse 7, it says, and upon the first day
of the week, when the disciples came together, they came together
to worship, assemble together, to break bread. That is, the
Lord's table is talking about that. Paul preached to them,
ready to depart on Monday on the Myra, and continued his speech
until midnight. Then turn to 1 Corinthians 16. Here's some instructions. You
know, the Old Testament says, let's come together and worship
the Lord. Bring an offering. Come and worship
the Lord. Psalm 45 or 95, I forget which
one, often. But here in 1 Corinthians 16,
verse 1, there's some instructions concerning our offerings, our
gifts, worship. Verse 1, chapter 16, 1 Corinthians,
now concerning the collection for the saints. As I've given
orders to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye upon the first
day of the week. Why, that day, that's the day
they met. That's the day they came together, the day they assembled,
worshipped, preached, break bread. And on that day, the first day
of the week, let every one of you, everybody, doesn't matter
whether gifts are great or small, the amount has no bearing whatsoever,
no significance to the amount. Our Lord commended the widower
who brought a penny. Two pennies. That's all she had. But she did come and bring an
offering. And he said, you do it on the first day of the week.
Let every one of you lay by and store it as God has prospered
according to your ability. Not according to what you don't
have, but according to what you do have. There'll be no collections
when I come. Paul said, when I come down there,
he's going to come visit them. And he said, I don't want to
take up collections and offerings. You do it on the first day of
the week when you're meeting together. And so I'm saying that
evidently, this is so significant here, that the Lord arose on
the first day of the week. The disciples were meeting on
the first day of the week. His appearances to them on the
first day of the week. And I don't read in the New Testament. any congregation of Christians
meeting on the Jewish Sabbath. I have gone through it, you know,
through writing the commentaries and teaching and preaching. I found absolutely no evidence
whatsoever that any of the believers in the New Testament kept the
Sabbath day as the Jews did and even met on that day. Because
they wouldn't put a burden on Gentile believers that their
fathers couldn't bear. Now Paul, when he'd come to a
place on the Sabbath day, he'd go to the synagogue and preach
to those people. But he wasn't going there meeting
with believers. He was going there meeting with
those Jews, trying to show them that Christ is our Sabbath. Christ
is our mercy seat, Christ is our Passover, Christ is our Redeemer. So you might jot those scriptures
down and look at them again, pray about
them. You know, it said the Bereans,
when Paul preached to them, this is a good practice for all of
us to adopt in reference to hearing a preacher, hearing me or any
other preacher. Those folks down in Berea, it says they were more
noble than the people at Thessalonica. Because when they heard Paul,
they went home and read the Scriptures to see if these things were so.
So you do that too. So it says here, after these
things, Jesus showed Himself again to the disciples. Now His appearances to His disciples
was not just to prove that He lives. He wasn't appearing to them just
over and over again. As I say, I am risen. I believe there's three reasons
for these continual appearances. One is to show that His redemptive
work is complete. His redemptive work is complete.
That's what the Scripture says over here in Acts. I'll turn
to it. Acts 17. 31, that's what this is saying. God,
because God hath appointed a days, Acts 17 31, in the which he'll
judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained. Now listen. Whereof he hath given
assurance unto all men in that he raised him from the dead.
Our Lord having completed His righteousness and redemptive
work on the cross now stands before these men. And He stands
there as evidence and proof that His redemptive work is complete.
He finished. And the Father accepted Him and
His work and us in Him and showed it by raising Him from the dead.
And then secondly, He keeps a continual appearance to them to show He
loves them. Like I said this morning, When our Lord died in
such a shameful ignominious death, Joseph of Arimathea Nicodemus
came and claimed the body and ministered to it and wrapped
it and gave him an honorable burial in a beautiful tomb. Where were the disciples? They
had forsook him and fled. And his continual appearance
is to show he loves them. No matter what they've done,
having deserted him, he still loves them. You know, when he
arose from the tomb and said to the woman, he said to the
women, he said, go and tell my disciples that I'm risen. And he adds two words. You know
what they were? Go and tell my disciples Anybody? And Peter. And Peter. Peter denied him. Peter cursed
and swore and said, I don't even know him. You be sure to tell
him I still love him. And that's what he said. And
then thirdly, he's meeting to encourage them. To assure them
of his presence. To instruct them. to send them
forth as my Father sent me, I'm sending you." Before they go,
our Lord keeps meeting with them and talking with them and appearing
to them. I'll never leave you. I'll never
forsake you. Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the
earth. Now you go. I'm sending you as my Father
sent me. Well, verse 2 and 3, these seven fellows were together.
Verse 2, there were together Simon Peter, Thomas, called Didymus,
Nathanael, Canaan, Galilee, James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
and two other disciples. They were all together. And Peter,
verse 3, he was usually the spokesman. He said to them, I go fishing. And I've often said that Peter
wasn't going fishing Some of you fellas go fishing for recreation. Peter was a fisherman. Somebody
wrote a book, The Big Fisherman. That was his vocation. That was
his job. That's what he was doing when
the Lord found him. James and John, too, were cleaning
their nets, weren't they, when the Lord found them? He called
them. What he's saying here, I believe,
I'm going This preaching business and ministry has hit a dead end. I'm going fishing. And they all
said to him, it's amazing how we influence other people, isn't
it? Especially when we're wrong. They all said, we'll go with
you. So they went forth and they entered into a ship immediately,
and that night they caught nothing. They toiled all night. You see,
the next verse said, the morning was now come. They fished all
night and caught nothing. Our Lord is sovereign even over
the fish. He wouldn't let them catch anything.
He wouldn't let them be successful. He prevented them from being
successful. He frustrated them. These were
competent, experienced fishermen. And they trawled all night and
caught nothing. And the reason being that they're
fishers of men. This is not their vocation. This
is not what God called them to do. And our Lord, being sovereign
over the fish, He wouldn't let them catch anything. Well, verse
5. Verse 4, When the morning was
come, now come Jesus stood on the shore. The disciples knew
not it was the Lord Jesus. Early in the morning, mist rising,
they're only a hundred yards out, mist rising from the water, cool
night, warm water. He didn't recognize them, but
he said, children, have you any meat? They answered, no. And he said to them, we'll cast
the net on the right side of the ship and you'll find. You reckon how many times they'd
cast that on that side of the ship, this side, that side, all
around. And they did. They cast therefore,
and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of
fish. Two lessons here. One, toiled
all night, caught nothing. Without me, you can do nothing. Children of God. Children of
God. Without Him, we can do nothing.
Without Him, we meet in vain. Without Him, I preach in vain.
Without Him, you hear in vain. Without Him, there's no fruit. There's no success. Nothing.
But a second lesson I see here is that He can supply our needs
miraculously. I don't know why we're so unwilling
Cast our cares upon Him. Wait on Him. He will supply our
need. My God shall supply your need
according to His riches and glory through Christ Jesus. We toil all night. We toil all
night and catch nothing. Just like that. We catch so much
we can't even bring it in because He's in it. God's in it. There's not a more important
lesson for us to learn than that. We can make waves and we can
exert effort and we can do a whole lot of things, but we can't produce
fish without Him. of fruit. But if He is there,
if He commands and He directs, it will be blessed. It will be
blessed. Alright, verse 7, Therefore that
disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter, you notice here John
just never calls his name, his own name. He knows the Lord loved
him. He knows they had a special relationship. He said to Peter, it's the Lord.
It's the Lord. He didn't say it's Jesus, did
he? No, he wouldn't do that. They never called him Jesus.
Called him Master. He said, you call me Master and
Lord. You say well, so I am. Now, when they're writing, They
said Jesus said this and Jesus said that and Jesus did this
and Jesus did that. They're writing for people then
and now. And if they were writing, when
they were writing, they were saying Jesus. If they said Jehovah
or God or the Lord, folks say, well, the Lord said it, not this
man. It's just like our Lord identified
himself to Saul of Tarsus when he was on the road to Damascus.
This proud Pharisee who hated, who claimed to love God, who
claimed to know God, who claimed to follow God and believe God,
but he had no use for Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified one. So when he was smitten down,
the great light blinded him, and the voice from heaven said,
Saul? Why persecutest thou me? He said,
who are you, Lord? What's he going to say now? How's
he going to identify himself to this man? Well, I'm the Lord.
Well, he is. I'm God. He is. But the place
where Saul was rebelling is Jesus of Nazareth. The name of humiliation. The crucified one. And the one
in glory said, I am Jesus of Nazareth. That's who I am. So if I'm writing to identify
my Redeemer to this world, or to anybody, to a novice, to a
new person, to one seeking, I'll say Jesus of Nazareth died on
the cross for our sins. But if I'm talking to you, I'll
say it's the Lord. See what I'm saying? It's the
Lord. Lord, what will you have me do?
He changed his tune then, didn't he? I'm Jesus of Nazareth whom
thou persecuted. Lord, what will you have me do?
So John said, It's the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that,
it was the Lord. He girt his fisherman's coat
around him. He was naked. He had on a loincloth,
you know, but he was stripped to the waist, and he cast himself
into the sea and swam. He said they were a hundred yards
out. Why did he do that? I think there are several things
going through his mind. One, he's the one who denied
the Lord, not the rest of them. They did forsake him, but Peter
actually flat out denied him. After boasting, he never would.
He led this expedition out there to begin with. It was Peter who
suggested they go out there and take up their old occupation.
He wanted back in fellowship. His conscience was killing him.
He was under a lot of stress over his foolish ways. He truly loved the Master. You
know he did. We're going to settle that in
a few minutes. But he was anxious to get up there first and fellowship
with his Lord. So he dived in this water and
swam. Verse 8, and the other disciples
came in the ship. What if they all had left the
ship? They couldn't do that. But this
is Peter, you see, he's impulsive. He is out there with a ship with
153 fish and a net, and he just dives in the water and starts
swimming to the shore. But that's Peter. And as soon as they would come
to land, here, this is beautiful here, imagine this scene. Peter got there to the shore
and they got the boat up there and drug the fish along behind
them because they couldn't get them into the boat, there's too
many of them, they just drug the net. And they came to the
land and they saw a fire, a comforting fire in that early morning, the
comfort and warmth. They saw fish on the fire and
bread. Our Lord had prepared for them
a meal out in the depths, out in the darkness, out on the sea,
and He calls. And they come in, and that's
all prepared. That's our redemption. It's all
prepared by Him. All we bring is our hunger. All
we bring is our emptiness. Let not conscience make you linger,
nor fitness fondly dream. All the fitness He requires to
fill your need of Him. And these men have been out there
all night, thirsty, hungry, weary, tired, And they came in, there's
a fire. And on that fire, you know, our wives and daughters and granddaughters
are wonderful cooks. But wouldn't you love to have
this meal? Wouldn't you? The Lord Jesus
Christ. I love home-baked bread, but
just think about this bread. Sweet, wonderful. This fish,
this fire. He made the fire, cooked the
fish, made the bread. He prepared everything. And then
let me show you something down here in verse 12. And He called
them. All things are ready. Listen
to verse 12. Jesus saith unto them, Come and
help me fix the meal. No sir. Come and bring what you
have. No sir. Come and dine. Come and eat. Eat my flesh, drink
my blood. Come and dine. And none of the
disciples just asked him, who art thou? They knew it was the
Lord. Now what's the next thing? He prepared the meal fully, completely,
without their help. He called them to come and eat,
receive all that he had prepared for them. And listen to the next
verse. And then Jesus cometh, and taketh
the bread, and giveth them, and the fish, like he served them." I hear people talk all the time
about serving the Lord, the God I serve, and they sound like
God has no hands but your hands, no feet but your feet. We can't
spell church without you serving the Lord. We don't serve Him. There's nothing
we can add to Him. We serve one another, and by
serving one another we serve Him. We honor Him. We glorify
Him. But we don't add anything to
Him. This thing of redemption, heaven, eternal life, righteousness,
sanctification, wisdom, whatever. He prepared it. Every bit is
finished. He called us. You come and dine. And He served us. Everything
I have, He gave me. Everything I know. He taught
me. Everything I am, He made me.
I am what I am by the grace of God. No contribution whatsoever
to the meal of grace. The banquet of mercy is served
up by one host, the Lord of glory. That's right. And that's what the Lord is showing
us here when those disciples came in. And all they brought
was their coldness, tiredness, emptiness, hunger, thirst. And
he prepared the meal. He said, you come and dine. And
then when they sat down, he served them. Here's your portion. Here's all
you need. I'll give you all you need. I'll
make you meet and herd the saints in life. All of grace. Well, down here in verse 10,
though, I skipped over this, Jesus saith unto them, They came
to shore and they saw this fire and the fish on the fire and
the bread. They didn't run, grab it. He called them. He invited them
when it was time. But before, listen to this. He
said to them, bring of the fish which you've now caught. Bring
them where? Bring them in the shore. Like I told you, they
couldn't get all those fish on the boat. They drug that net
in. And they came over to where he was. And so he said, now you
go back. and take care of those fish.
So verse 11, Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land full
of great fishes, 153 of them. And for all there were so many,
yet was not the net broken. What I'm saying is our Lord does
not condone carelessness and poor workmanship. and neglect
of responsibility. These men had fished and they'd
caught some fish and we're not going to come here and talk about these matters until
these things are taken care of here. Bring those fish in. Don't lose them. Don't waste
them. Bring them in. Take care of them. Do your responsibility. Our Lord doesn't condone neglect. and irresponsibility and those
things. Even though there's some great
matters to take care of and some great matters to deal with and
some great matters to settle, there's this ordinary things
of life. The Bible puts a great premium
on work and labor and doing it as unto the Lord. Doing it with
care and diligence. Do the best you can. He interrupts
his disciples here in this awesome time and says, you go take care
of those fish. That's good instruction isn't it? You go take care of
the fish. You take care of your responsibilities and do it well.
And then we have plenty of time to talk. Spiritual things are
not in any big hurry. A whole lot can be accomplished
spiritually in a short period of time if a man, if God's there,
the Spirit of God's there, the Word of God's there, and that
man's there. And he's really committed to
it. Really committed. And they're
going to be committed here. Now watch. Verse 15, so when
they're dying, the Lord Jesus singles out Simon Peter. I'll
tell you why he singles out Peter. Peter was the spokesman. You
see, all the way through this, he's the first one. He's the spokesman. He's the
impulsive one. He singled out Peter. Secondly,
Peter was the one who denied him. Thirdly, Peter led this
fishing trip, and then this setting here is very similar to the one
where Peter denied the Lord. Here there's a fire, and there
there's a fire. Here there's a gathering here
of believers, there's a gathering of unbelievers. And three times
around that fire, they asked Peter, are you a disciple? Are
you a disciple? Are you a disciple? No, no, no. So here around this fire, our
Lord looks at Peter and said, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou
me more than these? Now, I've said this to you before,
but let me say it again. Our Lord wasn't talking about
Peter loving him more than John or Nathanael or Thomas. He's pointing at those fish and
that boat and that sea. This man's occupation, vocation, interest. You love me more than
these things? A man's not going to be an effectual
minister of the gospel until he loves Christ more than his
occupation, his family, his own self, his welfare, his luxuries, and so forth. That's what our Lord's, you love
me more than these things. I'm not going to play second
violin in this band. He'll be Lord of all or not Lord
at all. I'm talking especially those
who preach. More than my family, more than
your family. Wife and children. They come
second. That's what he's asking, Peter.
And Peter said, Yea, Lord, you know that I love you. He said,
Well, you feed my lambs, my little children, my little ones. You
feed them. You teach them. You preach to them. You go where
they are. You minister to them. You care
for them. You pray for them. You feed my
lambs. He said to him the second time,
Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? He said, yea, Lord, thou
knowest that I love thee. He said, feed my sheep. Feed
the mammas and daddies too. Feed the old bucks and old ewes
as well as the lambs. Feed them too. Never come to
a time when they don't need feeding too. And what you give the lambs,
you give them too. You don't have to prepare a special
meal according to age. You just be sure you feed them.
Said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
And Peter was grieved. His mind went back several hours
because he said to him the third time, lovest thou me? And he said unto him, You know
all things. You know that I love you. He
said, Peter, then feed my sheep. Some years ago, I wrote down
several genuine evidences of true love. You may remember them, you may
not. It's been quite some time ago. But if you wish to, you
can jot these down. If we love, If we love. If we love someone, number one,
we think of them often. The Lord said, this doing remembrance
of me. If we love someone, we think
of them. They're in our hearts, they're remembered daily. We
never forget them. We love Christ, we think of Christ.
Secondly, if we love someone, we love to read their writings,
their letters. How precious is a letter from
a loved one? I don't care, they're right here
in town. Or right in your family. Sometimes
we'll give gifts and my grandchildren write me a note. And I go out
to Mailbox and get it. And I read it two or three times.
I love it. Love to read it. Because it's
from one of them. Or a letter from you. I got a
letter this week from one of our members talking about how
much they appreciated the gospel I preached. I read it over and
over again. You love to read, and if you love Christ, you love
His Word. You never get tired of His Word.
Thirdly, if we love someone, we love to hear their name, and
hear of their glory and success. Don't you just love to hear about one of your children come running
in and says, I got a promotion today, or I got me a new job,
or I did this. Their success, their glory. Oh,
that's so delightful. Their happiness. Any report of
their activities and their blessings and successes and glory is of
great interest. When I was preaching about our
Lord and His sufferings and glory this morning, some of you were
so thrilled. One person said, I could sit
there all day listening to you talk about the Lord Jesus. Because
you love Him. Because you love Him. Fourthly, if we love someone,
we love to please them. We love to please them. When
He said to Peter, go feed My sheep. Well, Peter was ready
to go because he loved the Lord. His commandments are not grievous.
His commandments are grievous to people who don't love Him.
But to people who love Him, His commandments are not grievous. A loving wife is glad, so happy
to please her husband whom she loves, and vice versa. Just love
to please them. Love to make them happy. You
love someone, you love to please them. If you love me, keep my
commandments, he said. Number five. If we love someone,
we love those whom they love. My children's husbands, my daughter's
husband, my son's wife, my son's wives are always welcome in my
home. I love them because they love
him and he loves them. See, whoever your loved one loves,
you love them too. You certainly do. Your daughter goes out and brings
a strange fellow into the house and poor Long marries him. But you just love him because
he's good to her, you're good to her. Her daddy will always
love you. Thank God for you. Thank God
for you. And why? The big reason was because
she loves you. You love her. That's the reason
the Lord said if you don't love his people, you don't love him.
He said, that's an impossibility for a man to say, I love God
and hate my brother. You can't do that. In the sixth place,
if we love someone, we love to talk to them. Conversation is
no problem. That's the reason prayer is no
problem for a man who loves Christ. It's not how much you talk. It's
not how many words you use. It's just you just enjoy being
together and communicating. Let's do it that way. Prayer
is communication. Communicating with God. He communicates
with me through the Word. I don't require Him. He speaks
to me through the Word. He speaks to you through the
Word. I speak to Him in prayer. Ronnie led us in prayer. And
we were speaking to our Lord. And it's a pleasure, isn't it? It's a great responsibility,
public prayers. Especially private prayers are
not nearly as difficult as public prayers. Not nearly as difficult.
How can we live without praying? If you love someone, you love
to talk to them. Love to talk to them. Find no
difficulty in communication. And you divulge your deepest
feelings, secrets. You talk to them about things
you wouldn't talk to anybody else about. And listen, I find
this true of myself, when Doris and I talk many times, and I
say, I don't have anybody to talk to like I can talk to you.
Isn't that right? I have nobody that I can talk
to like I can talk to her, like you all talk. You don't tell
everybody everything, but you tell him. I can tell you, he
understands better than she does even. We have not a high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but as in
all places we are tempted yet without sin. Cast your care on
him. He cares for you. He showed it
on the cross, didn't he? In the seventh place, If we love
someone, we want to be with them. We really want to be with them.
And that's the reason Paul said, I'm in a straight betwixt the
two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is
far better. Verse 18, let me give you this in closing. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Peter, our Lord is still talking to
Peter, when you were young, you dressed yourself, girded yourself,
you walked wherever you wanted to go, well, you're going to
preach the gospel, you're going to feed my sheep, and then you're
going to be old. You're going to get old. You'll stretch forth
your hands like a man on a cross, and another will gird thee and
carry you where you would rather not go. And this he spake, signifying
by what death Peter would glorify God. Peter was crucified. Tradition has it that he was
crucified upside down, because he wouldn't be crucified as his
Lord. Now, I can't, I haven't read
that in the Scripture. That's tradition. Maybe so, maybe
not. But that's what the Lord's saying,
that he'll be crucified. And he said to him, he said,
you follow me. You follow my example. You said
one time, Let me read you this, John 13. Turn back here. Peter
said one time, John 13, 36. Look, you'll be interested in
this. John 13, 36. Simon Peter said to him, Lord,
whither goest thou? And Jesus answered him, Whither
I go, you cannot follow me now, but you shall follow me afterwards. And he did too. Can't do it now,
but you will. You follow my example, follow
my command to feed my sheep, and follow me. Me, not someone
else. You follow me. Then Peter, this
is interesting here, then Peter turning about, seeing the disciple
whom Jesus loved there, John again, following them, which
also leaned on his breast at supper and said, It says, Lord, which is he that
betrays thee? This is John talking about himself.
Peter said to the Lord Jesus, Lord, what shall this man do?
What's John going to do? I found it interesting reading
different comments that people made on this. One man said he
might have been curious about what kind of service that John
would render the Lord. Another said he was concerned
about John's future. But I believe the apostle Peter,
this man said he was thinking, am I the only one who is to feed
the sheep? Am I the only one who will be
a prisoner and die? Am I the only one who will be
crucified? Shall not this man receive the
same treatment? What about what is he going to
do? That may have been true, but let's not tag that on him. But he asked, what will this
man do? And our Lord's answer may give
us a clue. He said to him, Peter, if it's
my will that John never die till I come again, till he tarries
on earth, till I come again, what's that to you? You follow me. The body of Christ
is made up of many members. The goal and purpose of that
church and every member is to glorify Christ, to preach His
Word, minister to His people. And our gifts are different. And the Lord's will and purpose
for each of us is different. So let's do what He said to Peter. You follow me. Well, normally
this is what would happen Verse 23 said, then went this saying
abroad among the brethren that John, the disciple, would never
die. But the Lord didn't tell him
that John would never die. He said, if I will, if that's
my will, that'll be alright with you, won't it? If that's my will. That's what he said. He didn't
say John would never die. He said, if that's my will. What
is that to you? What part do you play in that?
And John, identifying himself again, he said, This is the disciple
which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things, and we
know that his testimony is true. Listen. And there are also many
other things which our Lord Jesus did, which, if they should be
written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could
not contain the books that should be written. Well, the day has
ended, and we say Amen. May God bless the word preached,
the word read. Here and in all places where
it has been preached today, make it effectual. Let us take it
with us through this coming week, whatever our path, wherever our
path may lie. It will supply all of our needs,
won't it? We can feed on what we've read
today, John 19, 20, and 21, all week, can't we? I hope you'll
read it again, meditative on it.