1. Omaha Presbyterian School for Pastors Hastings 2012 Session 4

2. Saving Peter 3. School for PastorsHear our prayer for the School forPastors, O Lord. 4. School for PastorsWe pray that you may grant, in accor-dance with the riches of your glory, thatwe may be strengthened in our innerbeing with power through your Spirit. 5. School for PastorsWe pray that you will dwell in ourhearts by faith, as we are establishedand grounded in your love. 6. School for PastorsWe pray that we may have the power tocomprehend, with all the saints, thebreadth and length and height anddepth of your love: to know this lovethat surpasses knowledge. 7. School for PastorsWe pray that we may be filled with allyour fullness, O God. 8. School for PastorsBy the power at work within us you areable to accomplish abundantly far morethan we can ask or imagine. 9. School for PastorsTo you be glory in the church and inChrist Jesus to all generations, foreverand ever. Amen. from Ephesians 3:16-21 10. Saving PeterPeters First Encounter with Jesus 11. Saving PeterThe Johannine incidentcf The Priority of John, J.A.T. Robinson 12. Saving PeterThe Lucan incident 13. Saving PeterThe Matthean/Marcan incident 14. Saving PeterThree different glances at the question,How did Peter become a follower ofJesus, anyway? 15. Saving PeterWhen does Peter get saved? 16. Saving PeterWhen Jesus declares that Simonsname will be Peter? 17. Saving PeterWhen Peter and the others leave theirnets and follow Jesus? 18. Saving PeterJesus using Peters boat as a pulpit 19. Saving PeterLet down the nets for a catch 20. Saving PeterSimon says:Master, we have worked all night longbut have caught nothing. Yet if you sayso, I will let down the nets. 21. Saving PeterSimon says (fervently):Master, we have worked all night longbut have caught nothing. Yet if you sayso, I will let down the nets. 22. Saving PeterSimon says (wearily):Master, we have worked all night longbut have caught nothing. Yet if you sayso, I will let down the nets. 23. Saving PeterSimon says (sarcastically):Master, we have worked all night longbut have caught nothing. Yet if you sayso, I will let down the nets. 24. Saving PeterSimon says (resentfully):Master, we have worked all night longbut have caught nothing. Yet if you sayso, I will let down the nets. 25. Saving PeterMiraculous catch of a boatload of fish 26. Saving PeterSimon falls at Jesus knees 27. Saving PeterCornelius fell at Peters feet (Acts 10:25) 28. Saving PeterJohn fell at the angels feet (Revelation 19:10) 29. Saving PeterJairus fell at Jesus feet Mark 5:22 30. Saving PeterWoman with bleeding fell at Jesus feetMark 5:33 31. Saving PeterSimon fell at Jesus knees 32. Saving PeterSimon fell at Jesus kneesfacedown on top of a load of fish 33. Saving PeterThe ambiguity of Simons response:Go away from me, Lord, for I am asinful man. 34. Saving PeterMatthew 16:13Now when Jesus came into the districtof Caesarea Philippi, he asked hisdisciples, Who do people say the Sonof Man is? 35. Saving PeterMatthew 16:14And they said, Some say John theBaptist, but others Elijah, and stillothers Jeremiah or one of theprophets. 36. Saving PeterMatthew 16:15He said to them, But who do you saythat I am? 37. Saving PeterMatthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, You are theMessiah, the Son of the living God. 38. Saving PeterMatthew 16:17And Jesus answered him, Blessed areyou, Simon son of Jonah! For fleshand blood has not revealed this to you,but my Father in heaven. 39. Saving PeterMatthew 16:18And I tell you, you are Peter, and onthis rock I will build my church, and thegates of Hades will not prevail againstit. 40. Saving PeterMatthew 16:19I will give you the keys of the kingdomof heaven, 41. Saving PeterMatthew 16:19and whatever you bind on earth will bebound in heaven, and whatever youloose on earth will be loosed inheaven. 42. Saving PeterWhat does it mean, that the gates ofhell will not prevail against the churchof Jesus? 43. Saving PeterWhat does it mean, that whatever webind or loose on earth will be bound orloosed in heaven? 44. Saving PeterMatthew 16:19 , . 45. Saving PeterMatthew 16:19 , . 46. Saving PeterMatthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, You are theMessiah, the Son of the living God. 47. Saving PeterMatthew 16:17And Jesus answered him, Blessed areyou, Simon son of Jonah! For fleshand blood has not revealed this to you,but my Father in heaven. 48. Saving PeterMatthew 16:21From that time on, Jesus began toshow his disciples that he must go toJerusalem 49. Saving PeterMatthew 16:21and undergo great suffering at thehands of the elders and chief priestsand scribes, and be killed, and on thethird day be raised. 50. Saving PeterMatthew 16:22And Peter took him aside and began torebuke him, saying, God forbid it,Lord! This must never happen to you. 51. Saving PeterMatthew 16:23But he turned and said to Peter, Getbehind me, Satan! You are a stumblingblock for me; 52. Saving PeterMatthew 16:23for you are setting your mind not ondivine things but on human things. 53. Saving PeterMatthew 16:17Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah!Matthew 16:23Get behind me, Satan! 54. Saving PeterLuke 22:31Simon, Simon, listen! [The] Satan hasdemanded to sift all of you like wheat, 55. Saving PeterLuke 22:32but I have prayed for you that yourown faith may not fail; and you, whenonce you have turned back, strengthenyour brothers. 56. Saving PeterLuke 22:32but I have prayed for you that yourown faith may not fail; 57. Saving PeterLuke 22:32but I have prayed for you that yourown faith may not fail; and you, whenonce you have repented, strengthenyour brothers. 58. Saving PeterLuke 22:32but I have prayed for you that yourown faith may not fail; and you, whenonce you have been converted,strengthen your brothers. 59. Saving PeterBefore There Were ChaptersArchbishop Stephen Langdon (1205)Printer Robert Estienne (1551) 60. Saving PeterSuppose there were no chapter breakbetween Matthew 26 and Matthew 27 61. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who Failed 62. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedNow Peter was sitting outside in thecourtyard. 63. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedA servant-girl came to him and said,You also were with Jesus theGalilean. 64. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedBut he denied it before all of them,saying, I do not know what you aretalking about. 65. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedWhen he went out to the porch, anotherservant-girl saw him, and she said tothe bystanders, This man was withJesus of Nazareth. 66. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedAgain he denied it with an oath, I donot know the man. 67. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedAfter a little while the bystanders cameup and said to Peter, Certainly you arealso one of them, for your accentbetrays you. 68. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedThen he began to curse, and he sworean oath, I do not know the man! Atthat moment the cock crowed. 69. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedThen Peter remembered what Jesushad said, Before the cock crows, youwill deny me three times. 70. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedAnd he went out and wept bitterly. 71. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedWhen morning came, all the chiefpriests and the elders of the peopleconferred together against Jesus inorder to bring him to his death. 72. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedThey bound him, led him away, andhanded him over to Pilate the governor. 73. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedWhen Judas, his betrayer, saw thatJesus was condemned, 74. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who Failedhe repented and brought back the thirtypieces of silver to the chief priests andthe elders. 75. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedHe said, I have sinned by betrayinginnocent blood. 76. Saving PeterThe Two Disciples Who FailedBut they said, What is that to us? Seeto it yourself. 77. Saving Peter The Two Disciples Who FailedThrowing down the pieces of silver inthe temple, he departed; and he wentout and hanged himself. 78. Saving PeterThis is the last time either Peter orJudas gets mentioned by name in theGospel of Matthew. 79. Saving PeterExcursus: Suppose Peter had heededJesus warning. 80. Saving PeterExcursus: Suppose Peter had heededJesus warning.Would Jesus have been OK with that? 81. Saving PeterExcursus: Suppose Peter had heededJesus warning.Would we be OK with that? 82. Saving PeterExcursus: the sequence of queriesWerent you with Jesus? 83. Saving PeterExcursus: the sequence of queriesMatthew: a serving girl, a differentserving girl, the onlookers 84. Saving PeterExcursus: the sequence of queriesMark: a serving girl, the same servinggirl, the onlookers 85. Saving PeterExcursus: the sequence of queriesLuke: a serving girl, a man, anotherman 86. Saving PeterExcursus: the sequence of queriesJohn: the woman at the gate, thepeople around the courtyard fire, theslave of the high priest 87. Saving PeterOur last view of The Rock is a mansitting in the corner of an alley,weeping in despair. 88. Saving PeterMatthew 28:16Now the eleven disciples went toGalilee, to the mountain to which Jesushad directed them. 89. Saving PeterMatthew 28:16Now the eleven disciples went toGalilee, to the mountain to which Jesushad directed them. 90. Saving PeterThis forms an implicit-yet-hopefuladmonition for disciples who havefailed: 91. Saving Peterfalling by the wayside need not be theend of the story, so dont give up;instead, keep showing up. 92. Saving PeterJohn 21:1After these things Jesus showedhimself again to the disciples by theSea of Tiberias, and he showed himselfin this way. 93. Saving PeterJohn 21:2Gathered there together were SimonPeter, Thomas called the Twin,Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sonsof Zebedee, and two others of hisdisciples. 94. Saving PeterJohn 21:3Simon Peter said to them, I am goingfishing. They said to him, We will gowith you. 95. Saving PeterJohn 21:3They went out and got into the boat,but that night they caught nothing. 96. Saving PeterJohn 21:4Just after daybreak, Jesus stood on thebeach; but the disciples did not knowthat it was Jesus. 97. Saving PeterJohn 21:5Jesus said to them, Children, youhave no fish, have you? Theyanswered him, No. 98. Saving PeterJohn 21:6He said to them, Cast the net to theright side of the boat, and you will findsome. 99. Saving PeterJohn 21:6So they cast it, and now they were notable to haul it in because there were somany fish. 100. Saving PeterJohn 21:7That disciple whom Jesus loved said toPeter, It is the Lord! When SimonPeter heard that it was the Lord, he puton some clothes, for he was naked, andjumped into the sea. 101. Saving PeterJohn 21:8But the other disciples came in theboat, dragging the net full of fish, forthey were not far from the land, onlyabout a hundred yards off. 102. Saving PeterJohn 21:9When they had gone ashore, they saw acharcoal fire there, with fish on it, andbread. 103. Saving PeterJohn 21:10Jesus said to them, Bring some of thefish that you have just caught. 104. Saving PeterJohn 21:11So Simon Peter went aboard andhauled the net ashore, full of large fish,a hundred fifty-three of them; 105. Saving PeterJohn 21:11and though there were so many, the netwas not torn. 106. Saving PeterJohn 21:12Jesus said to them, Come and havebreakfast. Now none of the disciplesdared to ask him, Who are you?because they knew it was the Lord. 107. Saving PeterJohn 21:13Jesus came and took the bread andgave it to them, and did the same withthe fish. 108. Saving PeterJohn 21:14This was now the third time that Jesusappeared to the disciples after he wasraised from the dead. 109. Saving PeterJohn 21:15When they had finished breakfast,Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon sonof John, do you love me more thanthese? 110. Saving PeterJohn 21:15He said to him, Yes, Lord; you knowthat I love you. 111. Saving PeterJohn 21:15Jesus said to him, Feed my lambs. 112. Saving PeterJohn 21:16A second time he said to him, Simonson of John, do you love me? 113. Saving PeterJohn 21:16He said to him, Yes, Lord; you knowthat I love you. 114. Saving PeterJohn 21:16Jesus said to him, Tend my sheep. 115. Saving PeterJohn 21:17He said to him the third time, Simonson of John, do you love me? 116. Saving PeterJohn 21:17Peter felt hurt because he said to himthe third time, Do you love me? Andhe said to him, Lord, you knoweverything; you know that I love you. 117. Saving PeterJohn 21:17Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. 118. Saving PeterJohn 21:18Very truly, I tell you, when you wereyounger, you used to fasten your ownbelt and to go wherever you wished. 119. Saving PeterJohn 21:18But when you grow old, you willstretch out your hands, and someoneelse will fasten a belt around you andtake you where you do not wish to go. 120. Saving PeterJohn 21:19(He said this to indicate the kind ofdeath by which he would glorify God.)After this he said to him, Follow me. 121. Saving PeterJohn 18:18Now the slaves and the police hadmade a charcoal fire because it wascold, and they were standing around itand warming themselves. 122. Saving PeterJohn 18:25Now Simon Peter was standing andwarming himself. They asked him,You are not one of the disciples, areyou? 123. Saving PeterJohn 21:9When they had gone ashore, they saw acharcoal fire there, with fish on it, andbread. 124. Saving PeterPeople asked Simon if he was withJesus, three timesand he denied this, three times 125. Saving PeterJesus asked Simon if he loved him,three timesproviding an opportunity to affirmthis, three times 126. Saving PeterJohn 21:15 , ; 127. Saving PeterJohn 21:15 , ; 128. Saving PeterJohn 21:15, , . 129. Saving PeterJohn 21:15, , . 130. Saving PeterJohn 21:15 , ;, , . 131. Saving PeterJohn 21:16 , ;, , . 132. Saving PeterJohn 21:17 , ;, , . 133. Saving PeterThree part commissioning:Feed my lambsTend my sheepFeed my sheep 134. Saving PeterBut when does Peter accept Jesus? 135. Saving PeterWhen does Jesus accept Peter? 136. Saving PeterHow does Jesus commission Peter? 137. Saving PeterHow does Jesus commission Peter? fisher-of-men 138. Saving PeterHow does Jesus commission Peter? keeper-of-the-keys 139. Saving PeterHow does Jesus commission Peter? foundation-of-conquering-church 140. Saving PeterHow does Jesus commission Peter? shepherd-of-flock 141. Saving PeterWhats the decision that really counts: 142. Saving PeterWhats the decision that really counts:our assessment of whether Petersresponse to Jesus is sufficient? 143. Saving PeterWhats the decision that really counts:or Jesus assessment of whether hiscall to Peter is sufficient? 144. Saving PeterWhat do we learn, about God and aboutourselves, from there being multiplestories, instead of just one, about howPeter got saved? 145. Saving PeterWhat do we learn, about God and aboutourselves, from there being more storyabout how Jesus commissioned Peterthan there is about how Peter came tofaith?