JESUS asked Peter 3 times, “Peter, Do you love me more than these, and Peter said, yes Lord; you know that I love you.
Then JESUS said to Peter, “Feed my sheep.”
JESUS asked Peter a second time, “Peter, do you love me, and again Peter said, yes Lord; you know that I love you.
JESUS said unto him, “Feed my sheep.”
Then the 3rd time JESUS asked him do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said it unto him a third time, Do you Love me? And Peter said unto him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.
JESUS said unto him, “Feed my sheep.”
Brothers and sisters, But what bothered me was when JESUS said, “Do you love me more than these?”
And I had to ask GOD what are these, and he JESUS said, anything other than me.
Do you love JESUS more than these? Do love the truth more than these? Have you even asked yourself, what are these?
(John 21:15-18) So when they had dined, JESUS said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me more than these?
He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you. JESUS said unto him, Feed my lambs.
JESUS said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you.
JESUS saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
JESUS said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, do you Love me? And he said unto him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.
JESUS said unto him, Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto you, When you was young, you girded yourself, and walked wherever you would: but when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and carry you where you do not want to go.
“Do you love JESUS more than these? Do love the truth more than these? Have you even asked yourself, what are these?”
(John 14:22-24) Judas said unto JESUS, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
JESUS answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our HOME with him.
He that does not love me does not keep my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
(Matthew 10:32-39) JESUS SAYS, Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Do not think that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword, (a sword of truth.)
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And he that does not take his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me.
He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find life.
“Do you love JESUS more than these? Do love the truth more than these? Have you even asked yourself, what are these?”
(Luke 14:26-33) JESUS SAYS, If any man come to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, he cannot be my disciple.
For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first, and consults whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an ambassage, and desires conditions of peace.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that does not forsake all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
“Do you love JESUS more than these? Do love the truth more than these? Have you even asked yourself, what are these?”
(Luke 18:18) And a certain ruler asked JESUS, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And JESUS said unto him, Why do you call me good? No one is good, save one, that is, God.
You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour your father and your mother.
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
Now when JESUS heard these things, he said unto him, Yet you lack one thing: sell all that you have, and give unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
And when JESUS saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved? And JESUS said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Then Peter said to JESUS, Lo, we have left all, and followed you.
And JESUS said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
“Do you love JESUS more than these? Do love the truth more than these? Have you even asked yourself, what are these?”
Brothers and sisters, Some of you love these things more than you love JESUS/TRUTH, and everyday JESUS is asking you the same things he asked Peter, “do you Love me more than these, do you Love me, do you Love me, and everyday you’re letting JESUS know exactly what you really Love, by your actions, not your words!~
For some of you love religion more than you love truth.
Some of you love people more than you love truth.
Some of you love your mother, father, children, kinfolks, and family members more than you love truth.
Some of you love the law more than you love the gospel of JESUS CHRIST, THE TRUTH.
Some of you love material possessions more than you love truth.
Some of you love the pastor, the prophet, the bishop, the evangelist, the priest, the apostle, and the minister, more than you love the truth of GOD’S word in CHRIST JESUS.
Some of you just talk about love, but you don’t really know real love, because you have no real love for the TRUTH/JESUS.
And GOD have given many of you a strong delusion to believe a religious lie, because you have not real love for the TRUTH/JESUS.
(2 Thessalonians 2:10-12) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
(John 12:42-43) Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on JESUS; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess JESUS, lest they should be put out of the church synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
“Do you love JESUS more than these? Do love the truth more than these? Have you even asked yourself, what are these?”
donna hall says
Yes, i Love Jesus more than theses, he is my everything !!! HE is all that I am and all that “I will ever be!! The GREAT I WILL BE , he is mine and I am his.My Beloved!!!