The Bible records the death of only one of Christ's apostles, James, the son of Zebedee and brother of John. All of the apostles died for the Savior, but only two of them wrote at all about their approaching martyrdoms. One of those was Peter in the words of this text. The words that Christ had spoken to him on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, as recorded in John 21, were in Peter's mind every day for the rest of his life. Perhaps he thought that they were to be fulfilled just after the death of James when Peter was himself arrested and imprisoned. But as he became older and the Roman government's persecution ramped up, Peter knew it would be only a matter of time before he would be called to put off his tabernacle, as he described his body. His words provide for us the Christian doctrine of mortality and immortality. They describe a proper Christian attitude toward the mortal bodies in which people live in this world, and a proper Christian attitude toward the reality that those bodies must one day be laid aside. Peter knew that the death of the body would not be the end of his life, and so he devoted himself to ensuring that those who would survive him would be dominated by the truth of the Gospel that Peter had given his life to proclaim.
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Rev. David Mook is the pioneer pastor of Phoenix Free Presbyterian Church, founded early in 1986. Following his graduation from Bob Jones University in 1974, he joined the faculty in the Division of Speech, continuing there until 1983 when he entered the Free Presbyterian...
