03.21.16 - Hope From Him

2:11 AM

1. 1. When All Seems Lost

1. a. Coming up on the Easter Week, look at the hoplessness that Peter must have felt with things did not go his way the week The Lord was crucified.

1. i. John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing . They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. KJV

1. b. This was not going at all the way Peter must have thought it would go.  His Lord, his Friend, his Teacher, his Master was dead.  He had seen it all.  Going back over the lessons, the conversations trying to make sense of what had happened must have been flying through his mind.

1. c. When things take a turn we often go back to what we were before The Lord . . .for Peter, this was fishing.  This was what he resorted to when he didn’t know where else to turn.

1. i. For some it is . . .

1. 1. Drugs

1. 2. Sex

1. 3. Power

1. 4. Work

1. 5. Food

1. a. . . .For Peter it was his old life . . .it was fishing

1. 2. Not Unbelief But Emptiness

1. a. To be filled with Christ, we must be emptied of all other things.  For Peter this meant he must be drained of his hopes, his plans, mostly his will.  When we die to the things of this world and ourselves, we then are in a position to be resurrected in the likeness of The Lord

1. i. Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. KJV