John 21:15

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1. Lectures on Revivals of Religion · Charles G. Finney

   Lecture XX. Instruction for Young Converts cites John xxi. 15

   LECTURE XX. INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. Text.—Feed my lambs.—John xxi. 15. I REMARKED on this text in my last lecture, and was obliged, for want of time, to omit…

2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   1.2 Love cites John 21: 15

   …the offering; it is the grace which Christ inquires most after. ‘Simon lovest thou me?’ John 21: 15. Love makes all our services acceptable, it is the musk that perfumes them. It is not so…

3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

   An exhortation to love God cites John xxi. 15

   …of his apostleship; see how Christ goes about to comfort him. “Peter, lovest thou me?” (John xxi. 15). As if Christ had said, “Though thou hast denied me through fear, yet if thou canst say…

4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

   The worst things work for good to the godly cites John xxi. 15

   …not say he loved Christ more than the other apostles. “Lovest thou me more than these?” (John xxi. 15). He durst not say so, his fall broke the neck of his pride. The foiling by a temptation…

5. The Key Teachings of Hudson Taylor · Ochorus Originals

   Mine Own Vineyard cites JOHN 21:15

   …It will be, in his phrase, “service with Jesus as well as for Jesus.” Feed my lambs. JOHN 21:15 The distinction matters. Much Christian service is done for Christ in His absence, as it…

6. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

   Reproof of such as sin against this merciful disposition in Christ. Of quenching the Spirit cites John xxi. 15

   …requite so good a Saviour, who counteth the love and mercy shewed in feeding his lambs, John xxi. 15, as shewed to himself? Last of all, they carry themselves very unkindly towards Christ…

7. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites John 21:15

   …great Shepherd, is himself a Lamb, and believers are also lambs; all the flock are lambs: John 21:15, “Feed my lambs.” Luke 10:3, “I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.” The…

8. Lectures on Revivals of Religion · Charles G. Finney

   Lecture XIX. Instructions to Converts cites John xxi. 15

   LECTURE XIX. INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. Text.—Feed my lambs.—John xxi. 15. YOU, who read your Bibles, recollect the connection in which these words are found, and…

9. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

   Book 4, Chapter 6 — Of the Primacy of the Romish See cites John 21:15

   …my Church” (Mt. 16:18). Again, “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?” “Feed my lambs” (John 21:15). But to give strength to these proofs, they must, in the first place, show, that to him…

10. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 19 — Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called cites John 21:15

    …but duly to undertake and maintain the government of the Church (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:15; John 21:15). 29. With the reality the ceremonies perfectly agree. When our Lord commissioned the…

11. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section I cites John xxi. 15-17

    …Let her show her love to her LORD by feeding His sheep, by caring for His lambs (see John xxi. 15-17), and she need not fear to miss His presence. While sharing with other under-shepherds in…

12. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Lovest Thou Me? cites John xxi. 15-17

    …the dead. Three times He asked him the question, “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me.” (John xxi. 15-17.) The occasion was remarkable. He meant gently to remind His erring disciple of His…