Dr. J. Vernon McGee's Notes and Outlines

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John 21
After breakfast is over and they are sitting around, Jesus asks 3 questions of Simon Peter, gets 3 affirmations, and gives 3 exhortations. His first question (verse 15) is, "Do you love me?" using the Greek word agapao, meaning "love with all your heart." Peter's answer is, "I have an affection (phileo in the Greek) for you." Peter, who had insisted that he would die for Him and that same night denied that he even knew Him, is not boasting anymore. Keenly conscious of his own failure, he is eing completely honest and is grieved that he cannot come up to the level of agapao. Notice that on the basis of his love—so weak that he is ashamed of it—Christ commissions him, "Feed my lambs."

I. Interrogation	II. Affirmation	III. Exhortation
1. agapao	1. agapao	1. phileo
2. phileo	2. phileo	2. phileo
3. Feed my little lambs	3. Discipline my lambs	3. Feed my lambs

You and I must pass through that gate of affirmation before we can serve Him!

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