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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture,

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Speaker 1: a calming Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you

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Speaker 1: end each day with God's word in your mind and

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Speaker 1: on your heart. Right after this short word from our sponsors,

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Speaker 1: will reflect on tonight's scripture, John chapter twenty one. Tonight's

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Speaker 1: Scripture reflection is written by Britt Mooney and read by

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Speaker 1: Carrie Eickburger, John chapter one. Afterward, Jesus appeared again to

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Speaker 1: his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way.

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Speaker 1: Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didymus, the Thaniel from

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Speaker 1: cana and Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two other

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Speaker 1: disciples were together. I'm going out to fish, Simon Peter

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Speaker 1: told them, and they said, we'll go with you. So

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Speaker 1: they went out and got into the boat. But that

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Speaker 1: night they caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood

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Speaker 1: on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that

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Speaker 1: it was Jesus. He called out to them, friends, haven't

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Speaker 1: you any fish? No, they answered, He said, throw your

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Speaker 1: net on the right side of the boat and you

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Speaker 1: will find some. When they did, they were unable to

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Speaker 1: haul the net in because of the large number of fish.

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Speaker 1: Then the disciple whom Jesus loved, said to Peter, it

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Speaker 1: is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard him

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Speaker 1: say it is the Lord, he wrapped his powder garment

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Speaker 1: around him, for he had taken it off, and jumped

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Speaker 1: into the water. The other disciples followed in the boat,

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Speaker 1: towing the net full of fish, for they were not

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Speaker 1: far from shore, about one hundred yards. When they landed,

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Speaker 1: they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish

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Speaker 1: on it and some bread. Jesus said to them, bring

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Speaker 1: some of the fish you have just caught. So Simon

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Speaker 1: Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore.

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Speaker 1: It was full of large fish, one hundred and fifty three.

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Speaker 1: But even with so many fish, the net was not torn.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, come and have breakfast. None of

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Speaker 1: the disciples dared ask him, who are you. They knew

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Speaker 1: it was the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread and

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Speaker 1: gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

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Speaker 1: This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his

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Speaker 1: disciples after he was raised from the dead. When they

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Speaker 1: had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter Simon's son

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Speaker 1: of John. Do you love me more than these? Yes, Lord,

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Speaker 1: he said, you know that I love you. Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: feed my lambs. Again, Jesus said, Simon said of John,

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Speaker 1: do you love me? He answered, yes, Lord, you know

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Speaker 1: that I love you. Jesus said, take care of my sheep.

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Speaker 1: The third time, he said to him, Simon, son of John,

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Speaker 1: do you love me. Peter was hurt because Jesus asked

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Speaker 1: him the third time? Do you love me? He said, Lord,

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Speaker 1: you know all things. You know that I love you.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, feed my sheep. Very truly, I tell you.

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Speaker 1: When you were younger, you dressed yourself and went where

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Speaker 1: you wanted. But when you are old, you will stretch

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Speaker 1: out your hands and some one else will dress you

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Speaker 1: and lead you where you do not want to go.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by

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Speaker 1: which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him,

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Speaker 1: follow me. Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom

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Speaker 1: Jesus loved was following them. This was the one who

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Speaker 1: had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, Lord,

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Speaker 1: who is going to betray you? When Peter saw him,

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Speaker 1: he asked Lord, what about him? Jesus answered, if I

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Speaker 1: want him to remain alive until I return, what is

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Speaker 1: that to you? You must follow me. Because of this,

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Speaker 1: the rumors spread among the believers that this disciple would

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Speaker 1: not die, But Jesus did not say that he would

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Speaker 1: not die. He only said, if I want him to

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Speaker 1: remain alive until I return, what is that to you?

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Speaker 1: This is the disciple who testifies to these things, and

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Speaker 1: who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

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Speaker 1: Jesus did many other things as well. If every one

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Speaker 1: of them were written down, I suppose that even the

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Speaker 1: whole world would not have room for the books that

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Speaker 1: would be written. Even Christians moments where we quit or

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Speaker 1: follow our own path for a time. Fortunately we have

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Speaker 1: a redeeming, restoring God. We don't deserve his mercy the

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Speaker 1: first time, or else it wouldn't be mercy. The same

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Speaker 1: is true of Greece. God's loving and empowering nature to

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Speaker 1: save and keep us on the right path. In John

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Speaker 1: twenty one we find a narrative with insight into God's restoration.

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Speaker 1: The night before jesus death, Peter denied being Christ's disciple.

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Speaker 1: Peter was one of the three closest to Jesus, his

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Speaker 1: denial was extreme. After the resurrection, Jesus seeks out Peter

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Speaker 1: and leads him through a process. First, Christ makes it

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Speaker 1: about love. He keeps asking do you love me? God

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Speaker 1: doesn't want someone obligated to follow him. He seeks our

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Speaker 1: hearts first. The greatest commandment is to love God with

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Speaker 1: our whole lives. Jesus brings Peter back to this core,

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Speaker 1: and he does the same with us. Nothing can move

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Speaker 1: forward without establishing do we love him? Next, Jesus shifts

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Speaker 1: the focus from Peter to the apostle's mission others. God

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Speaker 1: has called us to himself first and then to serve others.

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Speaker 1: He's given each of us a supernatural gift for this.

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Speaker 1: The second gradest commandment, inseparable from the first, is to

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Speaker 1: love others. Our restoration includes loving others freely from our

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Speaker 1: love for God and his for us. As Jesus did

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Speaker 1: with Peter. Our restoration bite grace will resenter our hearts

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Speaker 1: on our love for God and others. Heavenly Father, you

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Speaker 1: restore me when I wander and choose my own way.

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Speaker 1: You shall mean mercy I never earn, and grace that

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Speaker 1: empowers me to follow you. You search my heart and

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Speaker 1: ask what matters most? Do I love? You? Draw me

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Speaker 1: again to love you fully with all I am, recenterr

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Speaker 1: my life on you. Then send me to love others

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Speaker 1: with the same grace you give me. Let my redemption

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Speaker 1: become compassion for the broken, speaking truth and hope to them.

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Speaker 1: Strengthen me to follow you, faithfully, anchored in your love

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Speaker 1: in Jesus Name, Amen, How did Tonight's scripture speak to you?

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