Peter in the \u00abcross-fire\u00bb of Jesus\u00bb resur\u00adrec\u00adtion. A rup\u00adtu\u00adre that ends in departure.<\/p>\n
\u00ab<\/span>Prai\u00adse be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for in his gre\u00adat mer\u00adcy he has given us a new birth. Now we have a living hope, becau\u00adse Jesus Christ has risen from the dead\u00bb (1 Peter 1:3 NL<\/span>). \tWhy did God tell Peter in par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar that Jesus was alive? Peter in the \u00abcross-fire\u00bb of Jesus\u00bb resur\u00adrec\u00adtion. A rup\u00adtu\u00adre that ends in depar\u00adtu\u00adre. \u00abPrai\u00adse be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for in his gre\u00adat mer\u00adcy he has given us new birth. Now we have a living hope, becau\u00adse Jesus Christ has risen from the dead\u00bb (1 Peter 1:3 NL<\/span>). Eas\u00adter mor\u00adning \u2013 that was a turbulent\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","wpfc_preacher":[35],"wpfc_sermon_series":[72],"wpfc_sermon_topics":[],"wpfc_bible_book":[],"wpfc_service_type":[12],"class_list":{"0":"wpfc_preacher-bernhard-hohl","1":"wpfc_sermon_series-metamorphose","2":"wpfc-sermon-single","3":"post-3444","4":"wpfc_sermon","5":"type-wpfc_sermon","6":"status-publish","7":"hentry","10":"wpfc_service_type-gottesdienst"},"acf":[],"sermons_blog_filters_topics":"\t\t\t\t
\nEas\u00adter mor\u00adning \u2013 that was a tur\u00adbu\u00adlent mor\u00adning! Two women want to embalm the body of Jesus, but he is no lon\u00adger the\u00adre. The tomb is emp\u00adty. An angel frigh\u00adtens them, but then enligh\u00adtens them: \u00abJesus is risen! Ari\u00adse! Tell his disci\u00adples, espe\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly Peter\u00bb (Mark 16:7). The women jog to the disci\u00adples with the good news. After\u00adwards, Peter and John race to the emp\u00adty tomb. Like\u00adwi\u00adse the two disci\u00adples of Emma\u00adus: after their encoun\u00adter with the Risen Christ, they race back to Jeru\u00adsa\u00adlem as fast as they can to tell them their experience.
\n\u00abTell his disci\u00adples, espe\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly Peter,\u00bb the angel said to the women. I don\u2019t know how Peter took this remark. But it was a balm for his soul! It was a coded mes\u00adsa\u00adge: \u00abPeter, I am still coun\u00adting on you! You are still on my team!\u00bb Peter must have been embar\u00adras\u00adsed after all he had done two days ago. Jesus wan\u00adted to wash his feet like all the others! Only he vehe\u00admen\u00adt\u00adly refu\u00adsed: \u00abWhen he came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, \u00abLord, why do you want to wash my feet? Jesus ans\u00adwe\u00adred, \u00abYou do not under\u00adstand now why I am doing this; one day you will under\u00adstand. No, Peter pro\u00adtes\u00adted. You shall never wash my feet!\u00bb (John 13:6\u20138a NL<\/span>)
\nLet\u00adting Jesus help and ser\u00adve us is not that easy! We alre\u00ada\u00addy noti\u00adce this with the youn\u00adgest ones: \u00abNo, Mum, you don\u2019t have to help me, I can do it mys\u00adelf! Covid19 held up a mir\u00adror to us young seni\u00adors in par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar: \u00abNo one has to do the shop\u00adping for us, we can do it our\u00adsel\u00adves!\u00bb What has to hap\u00adpen to you befo\u00adre you accept help? How long do you toil befo\u00adre you let yours\u00adelf be ser\u00adved? Isn\u2019t that the pri\u00adde of peo\u00adp\u00adle that is stir\u00adring, espe\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly behind the con\u00adfes\u00adsi\u00adon \u00abI don\u2019t need Jesus to die for my fail\u00adures, I\u2019ll eat that up mys\u00adelf.\u00bb The ans\u00adwer Jesus gives Peter makes him sit up and take noti\u00adce: \u00abJesus repli\u00aded: If I do not wash you, you do not belong to me.\u00bb In other words, Jesus is say\u00ading, \u00abIf I do not wash you, you do not under\u00adstand what I will do for you through my suf\u00adfe\u00adring; then you under\u00adstand the Gos\u00adpel; the good news of being washed clean of sin. With this act of love, Jesus makes it clear to his Jewish disci\u00adples that they can for\u00adget all the ritu\u00adal washing once and for all. This could be com\u00adpared to a car wash. You can go through it every week, but if you don\u2019t do any\u00adthing in the car, it quick\u00adly beco\u00admes a mess.
\nThe disci\u00adple John unders\u00adtood this, for he later wro\u00adte in one of his let\u00adters: \u00abIf we live like Christ in the light of God, then we have fel\u00adlow\u00adship with one ano\u00adther, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cle\u00adan\u00adses us from all sin. If we con\u00adfess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to for\u00adgi\u00adve us and cle\u00adan\u00adse us from all evil\u00bb (1 John 1:7,9 NL<\/span>). Jesus is a model for the disci\u00adples with the washing of feet. Be the\u00adre for others; inter\u00adce\u00adde for others; what Jesus does for you, pass on to others. This is the logi\u00adcal con\u00adse\u00adquence of Jesus\u00bb ser\u00advice to us. Jesus rose from the dead so that he could live on in us and through us! We as the church are his body. As his disci\u00adples, we are Jesus incar\u00adna\u00adte (lite\u00adral\u00adly, Jesus clings to our bodies\u2026). I have the impres\u00adsi\u00adon that the clo\u00adser Jesus came to his suf\u00adfe\u00adring on the cross that evening, the more important his words to the disci\u00adples beca\u00adme. The more he spo\u00adke plain\u00adly, as when they went out to the Mount of Oli\u00adves: \u00abTonight you will all lea\u00adve me, Jesus said to them. But when I have risen from the dead, I will go ahead of you to Gali\u00adlee and meet you the\u00adre. Peter asser\u00adted, Even if all for\u00adsa\u00adke you, I will remain with you. Peter, repli\u00aded Jesus, I assu\u00adre you that this very night you will deny me three times befo\u00adre the cock crows. No!, Peter insis\u00adted. Not even if I had to die with you! I will never deny you! And all the other disci\u00adples affirm\u00aded the same\u00bb (Matthew 26:33\u201335 NL<\/span>).
\nAll the disci\u00adples had this high opi\u00adni\u00adon of them\u00adsel\u00adves. It was a team oath! But they all fai\u00adled. They were all asleep in the Gar\u00adden of Geth\u00adse\u00adma\u00adne when Jesus was wrest\u00adling with his Father in pray\u00ader. And soon his team goes into hiding. Judas com\u00admits sui\u00adci\u00adde, John still meets Jesus brief\u00adly at the cross. Peter cau\u00adtious\u00adly sneaks back into the sce\u00adne, but when he is reco\u00adg\u00adnis\u00aded, what Jesus had fore\u00adtold him comes true: Three times he denies in the stron\u00adgest terms that he knows Jesus. Then the cock crows! Luke men\u00adti\u00adons a note\u00adwor\u00adt\u00adhy detail about this moment in his Gos\u00adpel: \u00abAt that moment the Lord tur\u00adned and loo\u00adked at Peter\u00bb (Luke 22:61a NL<\/span>). Then Peter imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly remem\u00adbe\u00adred what Jesus had fore\u00adtold him! That look! Tho\u00adse eyes! Peter walks away and weeps \u00abbit\u00adter\u00adly\u00bb. The Greek word \u00abpikros\u00bb means more than sad: pai\u00adned, suf\u00adfe\u00adring. Wee\u00adping until it hurts you. Peter has been brought to a total brea\u00adking point. May\u00adbe this sounds fami\u00adli\u00adar to you. Per\u00adhaps you have also wept pitiful\u00adly over yours\u00adelf. About your failure!
\nAnd now on the resur\u00adrec\u00adtion mor\u00adning, ever\u00adyo\u00adne is still the\u00adre, except one. Even Peter is back in the team. We find the reason for this in Jesus. He pray\u00aded for Peter and told him, \u00abI have pray\u00aded for you that your faith may not fail. So if later you have tur\u00adned back and come back to me, streng\u00adthen your brot\u00adhers\u00bb (Luke 22:32 NL<\/span>). Jesus cares for us, for each and every one of us, and I am con\u00advin\u00adced that he also prays for you from time to time. What the disci\u00adples expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced the\u00adre shows us that our meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis can some\u00adti\u00admes hurt and even lead to breaka\u00adge. But through this ordeal you are chan\u00adged; Jesus shapes you.
\nThe Resur\u00adrec\u00adtion of Jesus
\nJesus dies and rises again on Eas\u00adter mor\u00adning. Jesus lives! The risen Jesus show\u00aded hims\u00adelf to his disci\u00adples seve\u00adral times. Not an easy reuni\u00adon for the 11 disci\u00adples, but Jesus greets them with a recon\u00adci\u00adling Shalom: \u00abPeace be with you!\u00bb Jesus has alre\u00ada\u00addy pro\u00admi\u00adsed this peace to his disci\u00adples in his fare\u00adwell spee\u00adches: \u00abWhat I lea\u00adve you is peace: I give you my peace \u2013 a peace such as the world can\u00adnot give. Let not\u00adhing shake your faith, and do not be dis\u00adcou\u00adra\u00adged!\u00bb (John 14:27 NG\u00dc<\/span>)
\nThat is a bit of future per\u00adspec\u00adti\u00adve for us! I can ima\u00adgi\u00adne that when we then sud\u00adden\u00adly stand befo\u00adre Jesus, we will feel as unwor\u00adt\u00adhy as Peter did back then. But Jesus will greet us in the same way: \u00abPeace be with you!\u00bb For Peter, then, the encoun\u00adter with the Risen Lord by the Sea of Gali\u00adlee was very moving. The disci\u00adples were fishing and had once again caught not\u00adhing. The\u00adre is a man stan\u00adding on the shore whom they do not know and who asks them if they have caught any\u00adthing that they could eat tog\u00ade\u00adther for bread. The disci\u00adples ans\u00adwer in the nega\u00adti\u00adve and at the stranger\u2019s behest they once again cast the net. When they noti\u00adce that they have a super catch in the net, John says to Peter: \u00abIt\u2019s the Lord!\u00bb Peter jumps out of the boat into the water and wants to get to the shore as quick\u00adly as pos\u00adsi\u00adble. Jesus alre\u00ada\u00addy has a fire rea\u00addy for the fresh\u00adly caught fish. At break\u00adfast it is remar\u00adkab\u00adly quiet, for no one dares, not even Peter, to ask Jesus if he is real\u00adly their Lord and Mas\u00adter. But actual\u00adly ever\u00adyo\u00adne is con\u00advin\u00adced that he is. Just the mira\u00adcle and how he ser\u00adves us again.
\nAfter break\u00adfast, Jesus has the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to ask Peter a few per\u00adso\u00adnal ques\u00adti\u00adons: \u00abSimon, son of John (Jesus addres\u00adses him by his ori\u00adgi\u00adnal name, lea\u00adving asi\u00adde Peter, the rock), do you love me more than the others? Yes, Lord, you know that I love you! Jesus says to him, \u00abFeed my lambs.\u00bb Then he asks again, \u00abSimon, son of John, do you love me? He ans\u00adwers again, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you! Feed my sheep; For the third time: Simon, son of John, do you love me? Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you. Feed my sheep.\u00bb Jesus has chan\u00adged Peter. He no lon\u00adger sounds arro\u00adgant as he often does. He no lon\u00adger needs to exalt hims\u00adelf abo\u00adve others and set hims\u00adelf apart from them. A new, hum\u00adble trust in Jesus, who knows ever\u00ady\u00adthing, shi\u00adnes forth. Jesus clo\u00adses the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon with the call: Fol\u00adlow me! Peter expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adces a second cal\u00adling. Jesus leads his team out of the who\u00adle\u00adso\u00adme bro\u00adken\u00adness and back into his discipleship.
\nWe all have much reason to rejoice on this day! Our joy of life and faith rests on a firm foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon! After all that hap\u00adpen\u00aded then on that meaningful Eas\u00adter mor\u00adning, we can say with all our hearts: \u00abWe do not put our trust in human effort, but are proud of what Christ Jesus did for us. My desi\u00adre is to know Christ and to expe\u00adri\u00adence in my own body the migh\u00adty power that rai\u00adsed him from the dead.\u00bb (Phil\u00adip\u00adpians 3:3b and 10a NL<\/span>)
\nAmen!
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\nPos\u00adsi\u00adble ques\u00adti\u00adons for the small groups
\nRead the Bible text: John 21:3\u201314<\/p>\n
\n\tWhat does it take for you to seek out\u00adside help?
\n\tWe are tog\u00ade\u00adther the body of Christ in this world. Why do we for\u00adget this so quick\u00adly and have to keep drum\u00adming it into our heads?
\n\tHave you ever expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced breaka\u00adge? Have you ever cried over yourself?
\n\tPeace be with you \u2013 Jesus said to the disci\u00adples. What does this peace contain?
\n\tCan you rela\u00adte to that awk\u00adward\u00adly silent break\u00adfast by the Sea of Galilee?
\n\tUsing Peter\u2019s exam\u00adp\u00adle of meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis, what can you basi\u00adcal\u00adly say about metamorphosis?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"