Recognizing Jesus

This week, I’d kinda gonna begin where we left off last week. This isn’t a second part of a series, simply a quick tie-in.

John 21:9 “Then, as soon as they had come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.”

John 21:12 “Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” ...

Here’s the second follow up from last week:

Jesus begins his earthly ministry calling “fishers of men”

After the resurrection He transitions from “fishers of men” to “tenders of sheep”.

So, after breakfast, Jesus has a walk on the beach with Peter and tells him:

“feed my lambs”

“tend my sheep”

“feed my sheep”

Jesus is telling Peter “after you catch these fish (people), you must disciple them”

You must feed them (feed them My Word)

Tend them (teach them, love them as I have loved you)

Last week, I encouraged you to have breakfast with Jesus. Did ya?

Friday morning I did. Men’s devotional.

Here’s the familiar passage that I read with new eyes this past week:

Psalm 51:10–12 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”

My big take-away in the past, was David asking God to create in him a clean heart.

The key word there for me was “create”.

David didn’t ask for God to “re-create” in him a clean heart, but to “create” in him a clean heart. Meaning he had never had a clean heart up until that plea to God!

Renew a steadfast spirit

Don’t cast me from Your presence

Do not take your Holy Spirit away from me

Restore joy

Uphold me

David is asking these things of God with a heart of:

Admission- admitting that he can’t do it without God.

Submission-I’m giving this all to you.

Surrender- This is the warrior King David y’all. He didn’t know the word “surrender”. Not in his vocabulary.

Yet, here he was, surrendering to God.

This is David’s plea of repentance to God

But listen to David’s promise to God:

Psalm 51:13 “Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.”

Is that you?

Recognizing Jesus

I’d like us to examine 3 key passages today.

John 20:15,16 and

John 21:4 and

Luke 24:15-16 so

Go with me to:

John 20:15–16 “Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).”

John 21:4 “But when the morning had now come, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.”

Luke 24:15–16 “So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.”

Here’s what I’d like to consider today:

Why didn’t the disciples recognize Jesus after the resurrection?

Today’s message is “Recognizing Jesus”

In all three of the verses, these are disciples. Not someone that had never meet Jesus!

Let us examine 3 things today:

How the world sees Jesus

How the world sees us

How we see Jesus

Let’s begin in:

John 1:10-12 so, stand with me as we honor God while reading His word (read from my bible)

This is telling us how the world sees Jesus.

As Christians, in order to fully recognize Jesus we must:

Identify Him

Acknowledge Him

Approve Him

Give Him glory

With the exception of a couple of years, I have had facial hair since I was 18. I graduated high school and that summer grew a foomancho!

When my kids see photos of me without facial hair, they don’t immediately recognize me!

In all three of these passages, they knew who Jesus was by his identity, but they didn’t recognize Him.

Curious, to say the least.

All the depictions of Jesus are with Him having a beard, maybe He decided to come out of the tomb “clean-shaven”, I don’t know!

John 1:10 “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.”

Read it with a break-down of “world”.

John 1:11 “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.”

They recognized Him, but they didn’t receive Him.

They didn’t acknowledge Him.

I’m not asking you to raise your hands or anything, but have you ever said “He’s not MY president”!?