191 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 3 - Book 16 - Introduction to Acts

http://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 16 INTRODUCTION TO ACTS Turn to John's Gospel Chapter 21. John 21:1,2 John 21:3a "Simon Peter saith unto them, `I go a fishing,...'" Here Peter is reverting back to his old lifestyle, as a fisherman. Even though Peter has seen the resurrected Lord, he still doesn't understand the picture. John 21:3b-5 The Jesus saith unto them, `Children, have ye any meat?' God won't lose one of them, as Peter lost none of these 153 fishes that were in the net. John 21:12 "Jesus saith unto them, `Come and dine.' John 21:13-15a "Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise. Who is Jesus referring to when He asked Peter, "...lovest thou me more than these?" The Lord is putting old Peter on the spot. "Peter do you love me more than your fishing?" John 15b,16 "...He saith unto him, `Yea Lord: thou knowest that I love thee.' He saith unto him, `Feed my lambs.' He saith to him again the second time, `Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?' He saith unto him, `Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee, He saith unto him, `Feed my sheep.'" I think when Jesus said to Peter, "Feed my sheep" and, of course, He said it three times in a row to compensate for what other three? Peter's denial. I think Jesus is confining Peter to the Nation of Israel and we have the answer back in the Book of Galatians. Then The Lord Jesus made His own analogy in that classical verse in Matthew 7:13,14: Matthew 7:13,14 Galatians Chapter 2. I think The Lord is confining Peter's ministry to the sheep, the Jews, the Nation of Israel - and we are going to see The Lord do that in the Book of Acts. Let's start at verse 6. Galatians 2:6 Galatians 2:7 "But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision (Gentiles) was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision (Jew) was unto Peter;" Galatians 2:8 "(For he [God] that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision [The Jew or the Nation of Israel], the same [God] was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)" Peter and the Eleven confined their ministry to the Jew. Paul, Barnabas, and later on Silas, went to the Gentiles. How Jesus knows the beginning to the end. Jesus has just chosen the Twelve up in Galilee. Matthew 10:5,6 So all through Jesus' earthly ministry, He has that analogy that Israel is the "sheep." Now back to John Chapter 21: John 21:17b,18 "...Jesus saith unto him, `Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee (Peter), When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old (Peter's probably in his forties), thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.'" John 21:19 "This spake he (Jesus), signifying by what death he (Peter) should glorify God (which we know by legend at least, that Peter was crucified upside down. John 21:20-22 "Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, `Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?' Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, `Lord, and what shall this man do (John)?' Jesus saith unto him, `If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? John 21:23 In other words Jesus had said, "Peter, it's none of your business whether John lives to be a hundred or lives until I return." John 21:24,25 No mention of Gentiles whatsoever. Then as a nation of priests, Israel could give them the knowledge of their Jehovah God. Isaiah 42:1 Now verse 49: Isaiah 49:6 "And he (The Lord in verse 5) said, `It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob (Israel), and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.'" "Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, `Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.'" "And the Redeemer shall come to Zion (Jerusalem), and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. Isaiah 60:1-3 "ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee (Israel), and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light (Israel), and kings to the brightness of thy rising." Once the light would come to the Nation of Israel, the two in concert would be the light of the world to the Gentiles. Peter knew the light had come to Israel, but Israel hadn't fulfilled their part. And we are going to see Peter try to make the Nation of Israel realize this in the Book of Acts. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible