Oh, How I Love Jesus

• Only Jesus could save him.

• It was Jesus that lifted him.

YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH…. AMEN

Now, right after this miracle of Jesus and Peter on the water, Jesus taught large crowds about the Bread of Life. The Bible tells us that the crowds had a hard time accepting Jesus’ message and were offended.

Amidst the crowds turning their backs on Jesus, he looks back to his disciples with a broken heart and asks them, if they were gonna leave him too?

Peter is the one says “to whom shall we go, you alone have the words of eternal life, we believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”

Peter is saying, I believe without any doubt that you alone can save.

We too should want to be near Jesus because he alone can save. We should have enthusiasm and a passion about encountering Jesus today.

We encounter Jesus today primarily through His Word and also through His people who possess His Spirit. We should THIRST for the opportunity to encounter him because Jesus alone saves. In fact, it’s by his stripes that we are healed.

So, if you haven’t heard, let me be the one to tell you the “Super News”.

• Jesus alone can save.

• You can’t bring eternal life to yourself;

• You can’t be saved without first coming through Jesus.

Matthew 20:26-28 states: “But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Brothers and sisters, I hope that you want to encounter Jesus the way that Peter did. I hope that you have the desire to meet him. I hope that you pick up that great book of masterpieces, called the Bible, and began to understand the words that were written for you and I. I hope that you visualize the words right off the pages in HD and 3D and get excited about Jesus, because :

• He calms the storms of life,

• He is our creator and sustainer,

• He is our “Superhero”,

• and he alone can save.

Peter was the type of guy that always longed for an opportunity to be used by God. Sometimes it was that same enthusiasm to serve God that got him into trouble. Peter had an exceptional enthusiasm and passion to serve Christ. He was excited about what he believed.

Now, just like us, he was human. Sometimes he didn’t always think things through and spoke before he really had to time to consider what he was saying, but his heart was usually in the right place.

Sure Peter had faults like the rest of us, but his passion serves as an example for many. Peter wanted to be an instrument to be used by God and he was. AMEN

There’s a story of a woman who’d been married to a very cruel man. He constantly criticized her for everything. Early on in their marriage he handed her a list of 25 rules for her to follow. Yeah, you heard me right. This imperfect man gave his wife “rules”. If I gave my wife one rule, she might…….Well, anyway, she hated it… and she hated him.

You can imagine how frustrating it was to her to have to constantly check her list to see if she was pleasing him - and to stay out of trouble. She usually failed miserably and each time, he demeaned her all over again. He made her feel miserable and small.