Love Steps In | Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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Summary
When your strength runs out, when fear torments your mind, and when your love falls short, God’s love steps in.
In this compassionate message, Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts teaches from John 21, where Jesus meets Peter after his denial. Peter’s love had failed, his confidence was shaken, and he no longer trusted himself. Yet Jesus restored him through love and called him to follow again. That same love is available to you.
Real transformation doesn’t come from changing our behavior — it begins with what we allow into our hearts and minds. If you change the input, the output will follow. God’s presence renews your thoughts, restores your identity, and empowers you to walk in freedom. His love casts out fear, steadies your soul, and sustains you when human love falls short.
This is a timely word for anyone who needs a reminder: Your story doesn’t end where your love failed. God’s love will meet you there, restore you, and carry you forward.
Message: “Love Steps In”
Scripture: John 21:15-18 (NKJV)
Speaker: Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Date: Aug. 24, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | My subject is love steps in. And I am in John 21 verses 15 through 18. I am reading from the New King |
| 0:12.3 | James Version. And my text says, so when they had eaten, let me give you context, Jesus has been |
| 0:18.8 | crucified, resurrected, and now he is walking the earth. |
| 0:23.3 | And as he's walking the earth for 40 days, he does a number of things. Some of them we know, |
| 0:27.8 | some of them we don't. But in this particular moment, he goes out by the sea while his disciples |
| 0:35.7 | are fishing. And there's one disciple in particular, Peter, who was out on the boat |
| 0:41.6 | fishing. Now, for those of you who may still be learning different aspects of the Bible and the story, |
| 0:48.3 | Peter was like, Peter, I likes Peter as a disciple, because he was a gangster, I'll be honest. Peter had a cutting spirit on |
| 0:58.3 | him and though I've been delivered every now and then I remind myself I've been delivered from |
| 1:03.3 | the cutting spirit. I don't know if that's been anybody else's okay y'all churchy now. |
| 1:08.4 | Y'all sitting over here by the deacons and ministers y'all don't want to admit y'all had a cutting spirit, a cussing spirit, a cutting spirit. |
| 1:14.2 | But God, I trust in God. |
| 1:17.3 | He didn't fail me, delivered me. |
| 1:20.1 | But we know Peter did, because when it was time to take Jesus, Peter cut off one of the |
| 1:25.6 | soldier's ears. |
| 1:26.6 | Sometimes that spirit just jump up on you. you save, but you forget you saved. |
| 1:31.3 | And he didn't consult with God. |
| 1:33.3 | He let that cutting spirit get ahead of him. |
| 1:35.3 | And Jesus said, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:39.3 | He thinks he's loyal, he's down for the cause. |
| 1:43.3 | And yet when it's time for Jesus to be crucified, |
| 1:48.2 | and they asked Peter, Peter, do you know him? Don't you know him? Wasn't you with him? You would think |
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