Allen Laben – Class 4: Denial

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We’re ready to begin our fourth
class in the story of the

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Apostle, Peter and the fourth
class will be denial.

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Will read Mark 14 verses 66 to
72 in preparation for this

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class.
Mark 1466 through 70 72 and as

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Peter was beneath in the palace,
there cometh, one of the maids

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of the high priest and when she
saw Peter warming himself, she

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looked upon him and said and
thou also was with Jesus of

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Nazareth.
But he denied saying I know not.

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Neither understand I what thou
sayest and he went out into the

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porch and the cock crew And a
maid saw him again and began to

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say to them that stood by.
This is one of them and he

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denied it again and a little
after they that stood by sit.

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Again, to Peter, surely Thou Art
one of them for thou art, a

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Galilean in thy speech with
Griff there, too.

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But he began to curse and to
swear saying, I know, not this

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man, whom you speak.
And the second time, the cock

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crew and Peter called to mind
the word.

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That Jesus said unto him before
the cock Crow twice, Thou shalt

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deny me Thrice and when he
thought their own he wept, if

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this time will call upon our
brother Alan Laban and his class

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denial Good morning, everyone.
It’s good to see everyone again

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this morning as we continue
through our studies on the life

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and the example of Simon Peter.
So as was mentioned, this is our

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fourth class looking now at
those events that are leading up

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to the culmination of Peters
experience.

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With Jesus, during his ministry,
will be looking deeply into his

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denials.
And let’s start with some

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context, our last class
yesterday morning.

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Ended about six months away from
Jesus death, right?

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Before, Jesus started to make
that final trip down south from

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the area up around Galilee, he
was up in caesarea Philippi.

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When we left him down south to
Jerusalem in Luke is the one

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that really takes over the
narrative here.

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And he talks about these travel
narratives.

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This Narrative of his router
geographically, a rather

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indirect route.
He makes as he goes down to

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Jerusalem.
And Peter appears specifically,

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three times through these travel
narratives.

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He asks, three different
distinct.

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Questions, he asks, about
forgiveness.

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How shall my brother sin against
me?

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And I forgive him, that was one
of Peters questions to Jesus.

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He asks about the explanations
for a Jesus Parables around the

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kingdom and he asked about the
rewards, the disciples would

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receive once that Kingdom came.
And as we progress through these

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final six months and into these
final into the final week with

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Jesus, it seems as if all for
the gospel writers, slow down

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the pace and they pay greater
engagement.

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Greater attention to each
detail.

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We looked at this chart
yesterday and saw how the

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gospels are concentrated.
Not only on this last year of

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Jesus’s life, 64% of all the
verses in the four gospels are

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in the last year, but especially
on this last week that makes up

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34% over third of the Gospel
record.

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And so now, Jesus arrives in the
area of Jerusalem about six days

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before Passover and starts to
make these daily trips from the

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area that he’s staying in,
Bethany up around the Mount of

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Olives.
I was down to the kedron valley

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and through the south gate up
into Jerusalem and then each

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night during those final six
days, he retraces his steps down

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to the Kidron Valley around the
Mount of Olives and back out to

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Bethany.
And it’s during this final

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period that we see the
interactions between Peter and

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Jesus, just explode with
frequency.

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Here’s our timeline that we
looked at yesterday and you also

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have in your handout, we covered
the interactions Peters, three

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calls during his first year.
We looked at the vignette of

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him, walking on the water at the
close of the second year in the

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start of the Third.
We looked at Peter’s confession

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of faith in the rebuke that
immediately followed it in the

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third year.
And here we are in that final

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week when all these interactions
cluster together between Peter

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and his master.
And while many of these

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interactions between Peter and
Jesus are recorded in, maybe one

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or two of the Gospel records,
there is one series of

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interactions.
That is recorded in all four

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gospel records, and that is in
the The denials of the denials

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of Jesus, this chart gives us a
visual representation of where

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each gospel contains information
that is unique just to that

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gospel, right?
So the Mark only has a very

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small little bit that are eating
the green, that’s only found in

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Mark.
Matthew has a slightly larger

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portion that’s only found in
Matthew.

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Most of the unique material in
Luke, isn’t that travel

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narrative portion?
As Jesus Journey Down south From

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Galilee down to Jerusalem and
then John as you read it, it

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reads like a A very unique
narrative, has the majority of

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its unique information, compared
to the others, and a lot of that

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is concentrated on that last
week and even on that last

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night.
The blue is where the gospels

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have items that are in common
where multiple gospels talk

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about the same event and
whenever you see it, you should

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take note.
And the Bible repetition is a

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teaching device.
And so when something’s

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repeated, we should pause and
say, ah, why is that repeated?

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What can I learn from that and
all four?

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Gospels Converge on talking
about Peter’s denial.

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It’s interesting to note that
the most information we get

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about Peters denial is from
Mark’s gospel and we haven’t

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really dug into this fact too
much this weekend but Mark was

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the Gospel.
That was most likely written

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based off of Peters testimony.
And so you get a unique

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perspective on Peter by looking
at the gospel that was largely

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comprised of Peters observations
about Jesus and Peter in his

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humility in Mark’s gospel.
It records the Detail.

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It’s one of the only places
where Marc records more detailed

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in the other gospels about that
Denial.

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In addition to what we read in
our opening reading in Mark 14

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16 66 to 72 Peters denial is
also recorded over in Matthew

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and Luke and in John, and I’ll
be putting all four passages up

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on the screen here as we try to
harmonize those accounts.

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So we’re going to start with the
last supplements.

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This is that with the Last
Supper, as a narrative of the

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four gospels converge.
This is where it’s helpful to

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read a parallel Bible account
that lines up the events.

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As you can see on the screen
here, it’s only through

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aligning.
Those four counts that we get a

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complete picture of all the
events in the sequence.

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That’s taking place around that
last supper leading up to

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Peter’s Denial on the night of
Jesus.

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Betrayal will be zeroing in here
on three episodes in Alert

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during the Last Supper that set
the stage for the denials, just

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like there were three denials
Jesus warned.

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Peter about those denials three
times and three times, Peter

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also made these overarching
promises of how he would never

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deny Christ.
He would always stay by his

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side.
It’s John that records, the

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first warning.
Please turn there with me to

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John chapter 13 after they
gathered in the upper room,

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Jesus washed his disciples feet
as recorded in those opening

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verses of John chapter 13 verses
1 through 17 at first, as we

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know Peter resisted and then he
insisted, he’d be washed all

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over and while we don’t have
time to look into it.

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Now, this was another turning
point for Peter, realizing that

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a life following Jesus meant a
life of service Jesus.

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Said at the end of that
encounter, if I then your Lord

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and Master have washed your
feet, you also ought to wash one

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another’s feet.
Brave given you an example that

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you should do as I have done for
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In John 13, moving down to
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Jesus warned, that one of them
that that supper would betray

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him the disciples are there,
left wondering if it was them

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that would be betraying Jesus.
They didn’t know at that point

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it was Judas it’s in that
context that they eat that first

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Memorial meal when they witness.
The example of Jesus washing

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their feet and now examining
their own Hearts to see, could

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it be them?
That would be trailer Master.

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Jesus privacy privately, let’s
Judas know that what that he

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knew what was going to happen.
And then when Judas leaves the

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meal and goes out into the
night, Jesus knows they’re only

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hours left the clock starts
ticking, then turning back to

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his disciples, he addresses them
all, in John 13, Verse 33 little

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children.
Yet a little while.

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I Am with You, ye shall seek me.
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whether I go, you cannot come.
So now I say to you, Peter

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hears, this and is Disturbed.
First Jesus says someone there,

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someone among the 12 is going to
betray him and now he talks

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about going to a place he can’t
follow.

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If there’s one thing we’ve
learned about Peter by this

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point is that Peter wants to be
close to Jesus.

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He does not want to go to a
place where Jesus is not he

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wants to follow Jesus everywhere
and that brings us to the first

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of the three warnings Jesus
gives Peter about the upcoming

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denials.
So, moving down to a verse 37,

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Peter says unto him.
Lord, Ready.

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Why cannot I follow the now?
I will lay down my life for thy

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sake.
At one level, we can see Peters

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growth here.
Peter wants to go wherever Jesus

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is going nomura, trying to
resist his call.

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Like we saw back on the shores
of Galilee.

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No more like trying to stop him
as we saw him dirty back down

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from caesarea Philippi and Peter
here makes the first of his

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three promises.
I will lay down my life for you

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at this point.
He does not know the ironic

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nature of that.
Statement.

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It was Jesus, that would be
laying down his life for Peter.

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And Jesus responds lay down your
life for me, by the time, the

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night is over.
You won’t even admit to knowing

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me.
From here.

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We’ll leave John’s account in
John Chapter 13 and move over to

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Luke 22 where we see the second
promise from Peter.

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And the second warning from
Jesus.

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About those upcoming denials,
going back to our timeline, the

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parallel account for Luke, 22
indicates, that, after Jesus is

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first, warnings debate started
to arise among the disciples

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about, who would be the
greatest.

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It was certainly a misplaced
conversation, considering the

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the context, but we can see
where that debate arose from

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right.
What?

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What happened?
Just before, go back to the

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time.
When Jesus announces, that one

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of them is going to portray
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All the disciples are wondering
is it?

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I they’re examining themselves
and it says over in Luke 22

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verse 23, they began to inquire
among themselves.

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And as is so often the case,
what should be an examination of

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ourselves individually turns
into an examination of those

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around us, turns into a
comparison of ourselves first

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others, the flesh tries to lift
itself up by comparing ourselves

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to others the flashlights to
avoid examination.

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When it can just examine the
faults in someone else.

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That’s much easier to examine
the faults of your neighbor.

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And then the thoughts of
yourself, it’s like when Jesus

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talked about the Pharisee back
in, Luke 18 who looked up to

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heaven and I prayed I thank thee
that I am not as other men are

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and we can fall into that same
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We can compare ourselves to
those around us and when we’re

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called to examine ourselves and
light of the memorials is not to

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the other sitting around us it’s
to the example of our Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Jesus addressed the topic here

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but then turns his attention
back to Peter and gives him his

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second warning.
Now down in Luke, 22, verse 31.

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So based on the debate, the
disciples had all just engaged

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in.
Jesus knew that Peter hadn’t

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really heard his first warning,
so picking up in verse 31, Jesus

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appealed to Peter calling him
Simon.

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Simon a double emphasis.
The only time we see this used

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in scripture using his old given
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That means to here.
Reminding this He needed to

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listen, he needed to listen.
Jesus says to Peter behold,

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Satan, hath desired to have you
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You as wheat.
Who is the Satan that Jesus was

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referring to hear?
What Satan was Desiring to have

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peer.
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This could be a reference to
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flesh, his own personal saying,
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precedent for that.
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that Peter was called Satan by
Jesus on their road back from

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caesarea.
Philippi Peter was again being

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his own adversary here by not
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Seriously, Jesus is warning.
So convinced of was he of his

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own loyalty?
That he wasn’t pausing to listen

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to hear what Jesus had to say.
We’re it’s reminiscent of what

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we see over in First Corinthians
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Wherefore let him that thinketh.
He standeth, take heed, lest he

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fall, Peter was convinced.
He was going to stand and he had

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to paused and realized that he
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But the other possibility here
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rulers of the people similar to
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Revelation.
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To the roaming, Roman ruling
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how Peter himself later referred
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As the devil could Satan here,
be referring to the ruling

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class, to the Sanhedrin who had
been conspiring over that

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previous week to arrest Jesus.
Were they interested in Peter as

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well?
That language that Jesus uses

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May sift.
You as wheat is significant, it

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comes from Amos, chapter 9 verse
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Israel.
Self being sifted among the

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nation’s, the Jewish rulers,
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disciples, sort them in separate
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Ironically, it was those Jewish
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sifted as wheat in 70 AD Jesus
says that he prayed for Peters

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And he also tells Peter, that he
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strengthening his breath
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primarily on himself.
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Why can I not follow you?
I will lay down my life for you.

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Jesus not only prayed that Peter
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would help his Brethren not fall
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Either, this was a lesson that
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later in acts, in his Epistles
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strengthen his Brethren and that
word that Jesus used strengthen

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becomes a term Peter touches on
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And again, for example, in a
first Peter, he Moses his

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epistle and first Peter 5:10
with these words but the God of

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all Grace who hath called us
unto his eternal, glory by

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Christ Jesus.
After that ye have suffered a

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while, make you perfect
established and also the opening

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of his Second Epistle Peter
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Strengthened, wherefore, I will
not be negligent to put.

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You always in remembrance of
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them and be established that
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So interesting here is the use
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We alluded to this in our first
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and Jesus toward the end of
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Ministry in still.
Peter has yet to be converted.

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It just means to turn again or
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to say that Peter at this point
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But what Jesus is instructing us
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continual process.
Just as is growth, there will be

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multiple points in our lives.
It’s we have to turn in turn

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again toward Christ.
Continuing back in Luke’s

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account in verse 33.
Peter responds, Lord.

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I am ready to go with thee both
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If there’s one thing we can say
for Peter it’s that he tries and

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his response, he is showing that
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Listen to what Jesus said and
recalled the last time he heard

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Jesus used that word Satan and
and the conversation he was

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trying to prevent Jesus from
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So, you can see some growth
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Now, Peter, accepts that Peter
is not trying to prevent Jesus

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from going down this path.
He’s now saying, wherever it

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leads, he will go with his Lord.
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I tell thee Peter, the cock
shall not Crow this day before

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Thou shalt Thrice deny.
That thou knowest me just like

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the double use of that name.
Simon Simon previously, would

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have caught Peters attention.
Now, Jesus is catching Peters

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attention by using his name.
Peter You see even though Jesus

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changed the name.
Simon’s, name to Peter back in

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their first encounter.
Jesus had only used that name

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while at this point to other
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I had that first instance, back
in a John 1 verse 42, when he

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was initially called.
And that second instance, as we

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saw after that great confession,
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So this is only the third time
that Jesus is using that name.

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Peter, it would have made Peter
perk up as we know Peter in the

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Greek is Petros.
Meaning a A rock is contrasted

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with the more common term for a
large mass of rock Petra, Peter,

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that piece of rock would only
find his strength in connection

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with that larger foundation
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And like, this was Peters,
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Jesus’s second warning to Peter.
Jesus warned, Peter, that in his

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coming denials, he was about to
treat that rock of Christ as a

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stumbling Stone, Peter himself
would treat.

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Jesus, as a rock of offense,
Iraq, to be rejected returning

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to our Harmony of the accounts
will next move to Matthew.

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And Mark, where we’ll see Jesus,
warned, Peter, a third, tyrants,

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are you missing?
We’re working our ways right?

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To left the first warning in the
first promised in John, the

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second warning, the second
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And now the third warning, the
third promise in Matthew and

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Mark setting up this denial
sequence following Peter second

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warning, Jesus warned, all of
his disciples of the struggles

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to come and exhorts them to
embrace.

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Peace of God, the disciples then
leave the upper room after they

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sing A Hymn and they begin to
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And at first, this would seem
like the prior six nights in

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Jerusalem where they exited down
to the south gate, start to make

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their way North to the Kidron
Valley round, the Mount of

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Olives and head out to Bethany
with Jesus, talking to them, and

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teaching them along the way.
However, this time they didn’t

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go all the way up to Bethany as
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instead, they went off to this
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in 22 verse 39, that they have
done this before so it may not

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have seemed as unusual initially
and it’s here in as they’re

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heading into the garden that we
read of Peters, third warning in

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his third promise, just before
Jesus is Agony, there in the

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garden.
Matthew and Mark record, what

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happens next?
I’ve got both accounts up here

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on the screen now, he isn’t now,
this warning isn’t just directed

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at Peter, but at all, the
disciples Matthew 14:27 records,

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that Jesus said to them all, ye
shall be offended.

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Because of me, this night for it
is written, I will Smite the

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shepherd, and the Sheep shall be
scattered, but after I am risen,

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I will go before you into
Galilee Jesus words.

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Here were meant as a warning,
but also to give some comfort

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though, they see.
Soon would be scattered, Jesus

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would see them again back in the
place where it all began on

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those shores of Galilee, though,
he is the shepherd would be

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struck.
He would come back for his

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sheep.
Peter’s response here was

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immediate, although all shall be
offended yet, will not.

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I eagerness here can be
commended.

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His commitment.
Here is absolute.

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There is no doubt that his mind
is made up that regardless of

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what happens around him,
regardless of, if all the other

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disciples leave I would stick
with his lord, and there is a

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real admirable quality.
We can be quick to criticize

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Peters overconfidence here, but
there’s a real admirable quality

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in what Peter says and one that
we should emulate.

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He says, they’ll all follow away
regardless of who chooses and

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who chooses not to follow?
Jesus, Peter is resolved.

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He would still follow and it
raises a question for us.

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If everyone else left, would we
stay?

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If our family chose to leave the
truth, what do we still remain

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her?
Friends left the truth.

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Would we as well?
What about our children?

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Our spouse.
Our closest friends are if our

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commitment to God is first and
that commitment should remain

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regardless of the decision of
those around us.

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And so you see, Peters adherence
to Jesus as an admirable quality

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and in Jesus responds to Peter
note that Peters commitment

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isn’t criticized, Peter wasn’t
Wrong for expressing his

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loyalty, nevertheless.
Jesus gives Peter his third and

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final warning about what was
going to happen.

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But he was Peter still missed
the warning that Jesus was given

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giving to him and as will now
see Peters commitment of, never

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wanting to leave Jesus aside and
even being willing to die for

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Jesus that commitment.
Wasn’t even going to last

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another two hours because before
the morning broke Not only would

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Peter show himself unwilling to
die for Jesus, but he wasn’t

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even willing to admit that he
ever met Jesus.

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And then this failing that we’re
about to read about Peter is a

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portrait of each one of us.
We all face.

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James challenge, we all know the
right standards.

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We know what we should be doing.
We make a commitment and the

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martyrs of baptism and each new
week as We Gather here to

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remember Jesus, but In the Heat
of the Moment will often forget

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those commitments or reject them
entirely Paul captures, the

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sentiment really well in Romans,
chapter 7, right after the

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baptism chapter of Romans
chapter 6, which details the

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commitment that we make to put
the flesh to death in.

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Romans chapter 7, Paul talks
about how we still struggle with

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the flesh.
Anyway, And doing the things

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that we know are against Christ
that we don’t want to do.

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But yet there’s this law in our
members that wages war and we do

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them anyway.
Why do we understand the right

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thing to do on an intellectual
basis?

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And then so often forget to
apply it.

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Peter said, though, all shall be
offended yet.

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Not I and yet a few hours later
he is swearing that he never

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knew Jesus.
How do we not do the same thing?

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How do we not just make
commitments?

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It starts their their commitment
is good, but how do we take it

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beyond that level of It means
make it stick and bring it to a

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level of action.
We might know how we should

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behave in the particulars, but
how do we control ourselves to

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make that a reality?
It’s easy to pay lip service to

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the principles of courage and
Purity and peace and tell you in

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a moment of danger Temptation or
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So let’s see.
Now as we move to the denial of

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sequence, what we can learn from
Peters experience with this

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though, we’ll follow the account
through all four gospels.

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Please turn with Renee.
Now over to John chapter 18, for

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the sake of time, we’ve already
passed over the conversation

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about the two swords and now
we’re going to pass over the

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agony in the garden.
How Peter was specially asked to

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stay awake and then fell asleep.
Three times again, we’ll have to

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pass by Jesus, arrest and
Peter’s, lashing out and

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violence with the sword, though.
That episodes going to come back

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to haunt him in the denial,
sequence, this will bring us to

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the scene of the three denials
to the house of the high priest,

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after his arrest him.
Garden.

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Jesus was taken into the City
and to Anise the father-in-law

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to the high priest Caiaphas
you’ll see over in John chapter

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18, verse 15.
It notes that Peter, followed

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Peter had momentarily fled in
the garden with the others when

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they were dispersed, but he was
back.

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Now, maybe thinking that he’s
starting to make good on his

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promise, so far to never leave
Jesus and follow him wherever he

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goes.
But notice the parallel accounts

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I have up on the screen for
Matthew Mark.

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And Luke, they though.
Peter is following Jesus, he’s

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following him afar off.
Let’s now take a look at where

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these annexed next events took
place.

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So I will know that there are
two different ways of looking at

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the text here.
The view I’m going to take, is

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that all three denials occurred?
At the same location at the

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combined House of Anna’s and
Caiaphas the other view is that

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these residents were in two
separate locations that Peters

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first.
And I’ll took place in the house

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00:24:41,700 –> 00:24:45,000
of Anna’s in the last two
denials have or the second or

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00:24:45,008 –> 00:24:48,100
third denial happened.
In a separate house belonging to

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00:24:48,100 –> 00:24:51,700
Caiaphas the reason I take the
first few that all three of

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00:24:51,700 –> 00:24:53,600
these happened in the same
location.

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Is the archaeological record
seems to support that I see in

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00:24:56,900 –> 00:25:00,300
the 1970s, our brother lean, RIT
my Iran, an archaeological

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00:25:00,300 –> 00:25:04,300
architect, it’s oversaw the
Reconstruction of What’s called

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the palatial Mansion, which is
believed to be where Anna’s the

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high priest lived in.
Though he was no longer the high

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priest himself during the time
of Jesus, he was still among the

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most powerful man in the city in
the layout.

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Out of his home, gives away how
much wealth and Prestige he

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00:25:20,900 –> 00:25:23,900
would have commanded the
footprint of this house was

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absolutely massive, some 6,500
square feet.

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It was about two stories high.
The total square footage between

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the two stories would have been
around 13,000 square feet, to

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put that in perspective, the
average home in Israel around

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that time, based on kind of what
we can piece together from the

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archaeological record was around
600 square feet, it would be to

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00:25:45,800 –> 00:25:48,100
put it in perspective.
Basically moving from something.

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The size of a trailer to a 15
bedroom mansion the two key

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features of this palatial
Mansion where Anna’s lived was a

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large Courtyard.
That was open to the air and a

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large Meeting Hall, where their
Sanhedrin could gather, the

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locate not only did the size of
this building matter.

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And on a side note, this was,
this has been the largest single

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structure we’ve uncovered in
Jerusalem, But Not only was the

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00:26:12,500 –> 00:26:15,800
size a matter of prestige, but
its location was important.

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00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:18,800
It was only a short Short walk
over there to the Temple Mount.

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So the priest could directly
leave the house without going

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00:26:21,800 –> 00:26:25,200
down to the Central Valley could
walk right across to the temple.

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Complex the house contained,
multiple baths for ritual

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00:26:29,100 –> 00:26:32,700
washing it had different houses
or different rooms for the

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priests a reception hall into
which Jesus was brought in

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00:26:36,000 –> 00:26:39,100
adjacent Courtyard where Peter
would have stood warming himself

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00:26:39,100 –> 00:26:42,600
by the fire and this would have
not just been the home for anise

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but also for Caiaphas and it had
it was big enough to host the

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entire sin.
Read the fact that Peter

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00:26:48,600 –> 00:26:51,300
followed Jesus and now that he
gained entrance into the

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courtyard, was a testament to
Peter’s loyalty.

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And this was especially a bold
move by Peter, considering he

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had just cut off the ear of one
of the residents of that house.

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Malka see the high priests
servant or representative about

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00:27:06,600 –> 00:27:09,200
30 minutes before this, this
house is only about a mile or

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two from where Jesus was
arrested in the garden.

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Wouldn’t have taken that long to
get there so that memory was

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still fresh in everyone’s mind.
And in your booklet, if you want

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to follow along, you can see a
Harmony of the denial sequence

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00:27:22,100 –> 00:27:27,400
will look at on page number 14.
Looks a little bit like this, so

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I’ll go through it.
Briefly kind of the 15 touch

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points.
We have between the four gospels

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and then we’ll dive into each of
the denials in particular.

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So after John gets access to the
house, he allows he gets the

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made to allow Peter and as well.
Peter then sits by the fire.

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And then we have the first two
now, I know him not Peter after

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that, goes out to the porch,
just outside the other

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00:27:50,700 –> 00:27:52,800
Courtyard.
And then after a little while,

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returns back to the fire, in the
meantime, the maid is speaking

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00:27:56,100 –> 00:27:59,900
to others and now that Peters
back by the fire, we have the

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second denial, I do not know the
man in a rooster crows.

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The first time an hour passes, a
relative of Malcolm joins, kind

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00:28:09,000 –> 00:28:12,900
of changes the equation a little
bit and a larger crowd begins to

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00:28:12,900 –> 00:28:16,900
gather around the fire
bystanders join and then we Of

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00:28:16,900 –> 00:28:18,800
the third.
To now with Peter cursing and

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00:28:18,800 –> 00:28:21,600
swearing an oath.
Now, I know not this man of whom

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00:28:21,600 –> 00:28:24,600
you speak.
A rooster crows again.

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Jesus looks to the crowd at
Peter and Peter remembers.

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So as we walk through these
events, you can line them up

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with likely where they occurred
in that, palatial mansion.

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And as we get to the end of this
sequence, you’ll see why the

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location of these things brings
another significant element to

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the account.
So let’s now turn to our opening

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reading of Mark, chapter 14 and
verse 66.

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Mark includes this interesting
little note that he was beneath

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in the Normally either beneath
something or in something, you

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00:28:57,900 –> 00:29:01,000
don’t often see that you’re both
but it’s little details like

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that that helps with paint the
picture and helps kind of give

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00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:05,500
this reality to the text.
The courtyard.

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00:29:05,500 –> 00:29:08,500
Was in fact slightly recessed,
it was a few steps down from the

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00:29:08,508 –> 00:29:11,300
reception hall where the trial
took place, but that courtyard

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00:29:11,300 –> 00:29:13,700
was still in the palace.
So yes, it was both beneath a

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00:29:13,700 –> 00:29:17,900
few step down from the main area
and still in the palace recessed

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00:29:17,900 –> 00:29:21,000
by only a step or two.
So the events in that main hall

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00:29:21,100 –> 00:29:24,900
would still certainly be Audible
and maybe even visible to those

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00:29:24,900 –> 00:29:28,900
who stood with Out Matthew
chapter 26 and verse 69,

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00:29:28,900 –> 00:29:32,300
likewise notes that he sat
without, but was still in the

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palace, meaning that he was
inside the complex, but in an

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00:29:35,500 –> 00:29:38,700
open area, such as a courtyard,
modern translations, make it a

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00:29:38,708 –> 00:29:40,700
little bit easier for us to
piece This Together by just

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00:29:40,700 –> 00:29:45,200
using the term Courtyard, Luke
knows that he was by the fire.

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00:29:45,400 –> 00:29:48,400
This detail helps us Place.
Actually, we’re in the

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00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:51,000
courtyard, Peter was standing
because you see when brother

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00:29:51,000 –> 00:29:54,000
Ling Whitmire did some of these
excavations, you could still see

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00:29:54,000 –> 00:29:58,300
The Scorch marks on the tile of
where fires were built in that

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00:29:58,300 –> 00:30:00,600
in that courtyard to provide
light and warmth.

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00:30:01,200 –> 00:30:04,400
One of those fires was near the
door of where the courtyard

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00:30:04,400 –> 00:30:07,900
joined, that Great Hall, where
Jesus would have been in from

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00:30:07,900 –> 00:30:10,600
this location.
Peter could not only here, but

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00:30:10,600 –> 00:30:14,000
also possibly have that line of
sight into what was happening

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00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:18,500
inside the physical arrangement
here is significant, and as you

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00:30:18,500 –> 00:30:21,800
can see, from the layout with
the courtyard was close enough

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00:30:21,800 –> 00:30:25,000
to the main hall, that people
could be aware of what was going

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00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:26,900
in and out.
Larger chamber where Jesus was,

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00:30:26,900 –> 00:30:30,500
that’s why people were gathering
their, thus, all the while Peter

549
00:30:30,500 –> 00:30:33,300
stood with out in the courtyard,
he was close enough to hear what

550
00:30:33,300 –> 00:30:36,400
was going on.
And so here is Peter by the fire

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00:30:36,800 –> 00:30:40,000
and the servant girl of the high
priest, the same girl who had

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00:30:40,000 –> 00:30:43,400
let him in approaches him.
Perhaps it’s a question that had

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00:30:43,400 –> 00:30:46,300
been nagging her in her mind
since she had opened the door to

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00:30:46,300 –> 00:30:47,800
let him in.
And now that Peter was by the

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00:30:47,800 –> 00:30:49,700
fire.
She could get a closer look at

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00:30:49,700 –> 00:30:52,900
his face.
Perhaps she had seen Peter in

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00:30:52,900 –> 00:30:55,300
the around the temple area that
week, they had been there.

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00:30:55,400 –> 00:30:59,300
For six days already.
Jesus and his disciples were had

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00:30:59,300 –> 00:31:02,400
been in the area quite a bit.
There’s no reason to think at

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00:31:02,400 –> 00:31:05,300
this point that her question,
she asked here in verse 17 was

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00:31:05,300 –> 00:31:08,500
entangled Mystic, for example.
Look at the context.

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00:31:08,500 –> 00:31:11,900
Look back, a few verses in John
back to verse 16, the main knew

563
00:31:11,900 –> 00:31:14,900
that John was one of Jesus
disciples and no harm had come

564
00:31:14,900 –> 00:31:16,800
to John.
Look at the word.

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00:31:16,800 –> 00:31:22,000
Also in verse 17, was she not
simply wondering if Peter also

566
00:31:22,000 –> 00:31:24,700
like John was one of these
adventurers from the area of

567
00:31:24,700 –> 00:31:27,000
Galilee.
But Peter wasn’t ready to be

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00:31:27,000 –> 00:31:30,100
acknowledged.
He was still in stealth mode, he

569
00:31:30,100 –> 00:31:34,300
had followed Jesus to the high
priest home but had done so far

570
00:31:34,300 –> 00:31:38,100
off at a distance, not wanting
to get too close to be noticed.

571
00:31:38,300 –> 00:31:41,500
And now that he had gained
entrance, he wanted to remain

572
00:31:41,600 –> 00:31:45,200
anonymous observing what was
going on but this girl is

573
00:31:45,200 –> 00:31:48,900
questions, risk blowing his
cover Peter had no doubt chosen

574
00:31:49,100 –> 00:31:51,200
chosen this spot by the fire
strategically.

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00:31:51,200 –> 00:31:53,500
So he could be aware of what was
going on in the main room but he

576
00:31:53,500 –> 00:31:55,100
didn’t want to be the center of
attention.

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00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:59,100
So, there we have Peters, first
denial, as it’s recorded in

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00:31:59,100 –> 00:32:02,100
John.
I am not and that must have

579
00:32:02,100 –> 00:32:04,900
taken her back.
Moving over to Luke, we read

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00:32:04,900 –> 00:32:06,300
that.
She looked upon Him intently

581
00:32:06,400 –> 00:32:09,500
rather than a question in Luke.
She forms a statement.

582
00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:13,300
This man was also with him.
She almost Whispers to himself

583
00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:16,500
Matthew and Mark also record
that she said to him.

584
00:32:16,800 –> 00:32:21,700
Thou was also with Jesus of
Galilee or or and Mark Jesus of

585
00:32:21,700 –> 00:32:24,600
Nazareth, Peter.
Now loud enough to be heard by

586
00:32:24,600 –> 00:32:26,900
others around the fire said, Ed,
I do not know him.

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00:32:26,900 –> 00:32:29,400
It says in Luke, I don’t know
what you’re saying, it says in

588
00:32:29,408 –> 00:32:31,700
Matthew, I don’t understand what
you’re saying.

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00:32:31,900 –> 00:32:36,500
It says in Mark, and in this, we
can see an image of house in

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00:32:36,500 –> 00:32:38,600
Works.
In each, one of us, it’s a

591
00:32:38,608 –> 00:32:41,000
progression, it’s Progressive,
it starts with something,

592
00:32:41,000 –> 00:32:44,700
seemingly small, but there’s a
slippery slope that starts to

593
00:32:44,700 –> 00:32:48,300
descend down in his first and
I’ll peers statement was simple.

594
00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:52,100
I have not, and it quickly grew
into more forceful, absolute

595
00:32:52,100 –> 00:32:53,600
statements.
As we see recorded in the

596
00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:55,600
parallel gospels, we’re going to
see this.

597
00:32:55,800 –> 00:32:58,400
Chattering continue over the
next few verses and we don’t

598
00:32:58,400 –> 00:33:01,400
have time now to consider it,
but John in particular is

599
00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:04,700
starting to draw a number of
parallels at this point between

600
00:33:04,700 –> 00:33:09,800
Peter and Judas from how he is
standing with others by the fire

601
00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:12,600
to some of his own word choice
used to describe Peter.

602
00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:16,400
We see Peter starting down a
similar dark path.

603
00:33:17,200 –> 00:33:20,000
Mark notes in verse 68 that he
didn’t wait for another

604
00:33:20,000 –> 00:33:23,300
statement from the girl.
He moved away out into the porch

605
00:33:23,300 –> 00:33:25,300
away from the Revealing Light of
the fire.

606
00:33:25,300 –> 00:33:26,800
And Slipping away into the
darkness.

607
00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:29,700
Almost as Judas went out into
the darkness of the night after

608
00:33:29,700 –> 00:33:34,200
the last supper and as he did,
the rooster crow echoed through

609
00:33:34,200 –> 00:33:35,900
the night.
At this point, it’s likely

610
00:33:35,900 –> 00:33:38,700
around midnight.
Jesus said before the cock Crow

611
00:33:38,700 –> 00:33:43,100
twice, you will deny me Thrice.
And with that first rooster crow

612
00:33:43,100 –> 00:33:46,000
Peter was given a warning sign
to turn back.

613
00:33:46,700 –> 00:33:50,100
And so to it’s often with us as
we head down the wrong road,

614
00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:52,700
there will be warning signs to
indicate that we should take

615
00:33:52,700 –> 00:33:56,400
notice and turn back.
At this point, Peter did not

616
00:33:56,900 –> 00:34:00,100
Peter’s now outside on the porch
where things were just starting.

617
00:34:00,100 –> 00:34:02,800
While things were just starting
to get underway in the Great

618
00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:06,400
Hall the Sanhedrin while Jesus
or Peters out in the port is

619
00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:10,199
trying to do three things to
seek testimony from Jesus to put

620
00:34:10,199 –> 00:34:14,500
him to death, John 18:19
records, the strategy of the

621
00:34:14,500 –> 00:34:17,199
Sanhedrin and questioning Jesus.
First, they were questioning

622
00:34:17,199 –> 00:34:20,100
Jesus about his disciples, we’re
not told specifically what

623
00:34:20,100 –> 00:34:23,000
questions were being asked, but
could it be that that

624
00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:24,800
conversation happened in that
Great Hall?

625
00:34:25,000 –> 00:34:28,199
Is what sparked individuals in
that courtyard to ask Peter.

626
00:34:28,199 –> 00:34:30,600
They overheard that the Great
Hall are asking Jesus about his

627
00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:32,500
disciples, the people in the
courtyard.

628
00:34:32,600 –> 00:34:34,300
Listen, and hear that
conversation.

629
00:34:34,300 –> 00:34:36,500
Look at Peter’s, like, wait a
second, aren’t you one of them

630
00:34:36,900 –> 00:34:39,300
second over in John, chapter 18,
verse 19.

631
00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:43,600
They are asking Jesus about his
teaching, they had, many false

632
00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:46,100
Witnesses come forward.
And give testimony about his

633
00:34:46,100 –> 00:34:48,800
teaching that either Twisted,
the words of Jesus or

634
00:34:48,800 –> 00:34:53,300
misrepresented them and evidence
to find evidence in an effort to

635
00:34:53,300 –> 00:34:56,699
find evidence of blasphemy.
The third over in Matthew in

636
00:34:56,699 –> 00:35:00,200
marks account, we see that they
were also trying to get Jesus to

637
00:35:00,200 –> 00:35:04,200
identify himself as Christ, the
son of God, a confession that

638
00:35:04,200 –> 00:35:07,600
Peter himself and the other
disciples had made earlier, but

639
00:35:07,600 –> 00:35:11,200
he was not now willing to repeat
in the presence of those

640
00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:14,200
Witnesses.
But Peter now being out on the

641
00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:15,900
porch, it was missing all of
this.

642
00:35:16,500 –> 00:35:18,400
Peter wanted to go back down to
the fire.

643
00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:20,900
So he wasn’t going to miss
anymore.

644
00:35:21,400 –> 00:35:23,900
It’s at this point that there is
a difference in interpretations

645
00:35:23,900 –> 00:35:25,900
of how to read this.
One view.

646
00:35:25,900 –> 00:35:28,900
Is that the scene shifted to a
know, a new home over to

647
00:35:28,900 –> 00:35:32,000
Caiaphas the high priest where
the final two denials would have

648
00:35:32,000 –> 00:35:33,900
taken place.
The other view is the one I’ll

649
00:35:33,900 –> 00:35:36,200
continue with here that the
palatial Mansion was, the

650
00:35:36,200 –> 00:35:39,700
residence of both individuals.
And as and Caiaphas and that the

651
00:35:39,700 –> 00:35:42,200
narrative continues in this one
location.

652
00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:45,700
And so, like, a moth drawn back
to the flame.

653
00:35:45,900 –> 00:35:49,100
Peter moves back down from the
porch and side to the Courtyard

654
00:35:49,100 –> 00:35:52,100
around that fire where he had
previously warmed himself.

655
00:35:52,600 –> 00:35:55,400
But while Jesus Is trial, was
taking place in Side, the Great

656
00:35:55,400 –> 00:35:58,600
Hall Peters trial would continue
as well.

657
00:35:59,500 –> 00:36:03,500
Matthew chapter 26, and verse 71
notes that the questions about

658
00:36:03,500 –> 00:36:06,200
Peter didn’t stop when he
removed himself from the fire

659
00:36:06,200 –> 00:36:08,500
out to the porch.
Another made caught a glimpse of

660
00:36:08,500 –> 00:36:10,800
him out there in commented to
the others at the fire.

661
00:36:11,000 –> 00:36:14,400
This fellow was also with Jesus
of Nazareth, Mark.

662
00:36:14,400 –> 00:36:17,800
Chapter 14 verse 69 picks up
now, the door girl, who asked

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00:36:17,800 –> 00:36:21,800
the first question reasserts her
statement, this is one of them.

664
00:36:22,200 –> 00:36:25,100
Thus, when Peter returns and
stands around the fire of Holes

665
00:36:25,100 –> 00:36:28,200
and John 18 verse 18, the others
around the fire.

666
00:36:28,200 –> 00:36:32,000
Ask the question, based on the
maids assertions art thou not

667
00:36:32,000 –> 00:36:34,900
one of his disciples, Peter
responds.

668
00:36:35,300 –> 00:36:38,400
I am not.
He had a second chance with the

669
00:36:38,400 –> 00:36:41,300
exact same question.
That the door girl had asked

670
00:36:41,300 –> 00:36:44,500
previously, and he makes the
exact same mistake.

671
00:36:44,900 –> 00:36:49,800
And again, just like before
Peter’s fast, dismissal raises

672
00:36:49,800 –> 00:36:53,500
the suspicions of the others.
And Luke chapter 22 and verse

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00:36:53,500 –> 00:36:55,700
58.
Another Leans forward and makes

674
00:36:55,700 –> 00:36:58,400
a statement just like the goal
of the, the door girl did

675
00:36:58,400 –> 00:37:02,000
originally, Thou Art.
Also one of them Peter’s reply

676
00:37:02,000 –> 00:37:06,300
as harsh, man, I am not Peter
now goes further than he did

677
00:37:06,300 –> 00:37:10,200
before in Matthew chapter 26.
Verse 72 he confirmed his denial

678
00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:12,200
with an oath.
I do not know the man.

679
00:37:12,500 –> 00:37:15,400
Mark implies in verse 70 that
there was much more to this

680
00:37:15,400 –> 00:37:20,100
statement as well that we’re not
that’s not recorded here verse

681
00:37:20,100 –> 00:37:21,800
7.
He could read that Peter denied

682
00:37:21,800 –> 00:37:25,900
it again and again and again the
word there’s Continuous sense,

683
00:37:26,200 –> 00:37:30,700
only hours before he had
proclaimed, his undying loyalty

684
00:37:30,700 –> 00:37:34,600
to Jesus and now it was not even
willing to be remotely

685
00:37:34,600 –> 00:37:37,800
associated with his Lord.
And the question for us is, can

686
00:37:37,800 –> 00:37:40,700
we sometimes be the same each
Sunday morning?

687
00:37:40,700 –> 00:37:43,800
Each start of each new week?
We come here to associate

688
00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:46,700
ourselves with Jesus to identify
ourselves with Jesus and his

689
00:37:46,700 –> 00:37:49,300
resurrection.
We look at his examples and make

690
00:37:49,300 –> 00:37:52,200
a commitment to have the same
level of faith.

691
00:37:52,600 –> 00:37:55,600
We make a commitment to take up
our cross and to Follow him.

692
00:37:56,000 –> 00:37:59,800
But do we then turn around the
next day in live, in such a way

693
00:37:59,800 –> 00:38:03,200
that shows we are ashamed of
being associated with Jesus.

694
00:38:03,400 –> 00:38:06,800
There’s social pressure in the
way we appear before others

695
00:38:06,900 –> 00:38:08,900
cause us to shrink away from
that.

696
00:38:08,900 –> 00:38:12,400
Commitment to Christ, Peter’s
statements seem to have shocked

697
00:38:12,400 –> 00:38:15,200
those around him.
Luke notes that there was about

698
00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:17,300
an hour gap between the second
and third denials.

699
00:38:17,300 –> 00:38:20,900
We see that over in Luke chapter
22, verse 59, during which the

700
00:38:20,900 –> 00:38:24,300
trial of Jesus continuing on in
Peters now in a position to hear

701
00:38:24,300 –> 00:38:26,700
what’s happening.
That must have been what kept

702
00:38:26,700 –> 00:38:30,300
Peter there and perhaps how
Peter Justified his denials to

703
00:38:30,300 –> 00:38:31,900
himself.
I’m just saying this little

704
00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:34,900
making these statements.
So I continued, I can continue

705
00:38:34,900 –> 00:38:38,400
to be near my Lord at least
physically, and that brings us

706
00:38:38,400 –> 00:38:41,500
to the third denial.
At this point, you get a sense

707
00:38:41,500 –> 00:38:44,000
that Peters confidence might
have been growing.

708
00:38:44,300 –> 00:38:46,900
He is there by the fire for
about an hour now, with no more

709
00:38:46,900 –> 00:38:49,200
mishaps.
I mean, yes, he denied knowing

710
00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:52,900
Jesus, but at least he is
physically in proximity to Jesus

711
00:38:52,900 –> 00:38:55,700
in the next Hall over, and yes,
Had lied twice about his

712
00:38:55,700 –> 00:38:58,900
associations but he wasn’t going
to do it anymore and at least he

713
00:38:58,900 –> 00:39:01,500
wasn’t in the shadows anymore,
back in the dark on the porch

714
00:39:02,300 –> 00:39:06,800
and then the tables shift,
someone new comes into the scene

715
00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:10,000
in the anti, goes up over in
John chapter 18, verse 26.

716
00:39:10,000 –> 00:39:13,900
We read one of the Servants of
the high priest being Kinsman.

717
00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:17,300
Being his Kinsmen, whose ear.
Peter cut off.

718
00:39:17,300 –> 00:39:20,000
Saith, did not.
I see the in the garden with

719
00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:21,600
him.
No doubt.

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00:39:21,700 –> 00:39:24,600
This man also explained exactly
what Peter might have.

721
00:39:24,800 –> 00:39:28,800
And in that Garden what he did
to Marcus and how Peter was the

722
00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:32,500
man that lunged forward and
chopped off his ear, even though

723
00:39:32,500 –> 00:39:34,700
Peter had boasted that, he would
be willing to go to prison and

724
00:39:34,700 –> 00:39:38,000
to death for Jesus.
When faced with a real prospect,

725
00:39:38,000 –> 00:39:40,900
that that supporting Jesus at
this moment.

726
00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:44,300
May elicit some Vengeance.
Peter does not go through with

727
00:39:44,300 –> 00:39:46,200
his previously proclaimed
loyalty.

728
00:39:46,900 –> 00:39:51,200
This was the spark that ignited,
the flame of Peters fear after

729
00:39:51,200 –> 00:39:54,000
the statement by malkos
relatives others started to join

730
00:39:54,000 –> 00:39:56,700
in.
And Matthew we read they that

731
00:39:56,700 –> 00:39:59,800
stood by said to Peter.
Surely Thou Art one of them for

732
00:39:59,800 –> 00:40:03,000
thy speech betrayeth thee.
It was a Galilean dialect.

733
00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:05,400
That was the giveaway notes Mark
and Luke.

734
00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:08,800
They are insistent of a truth.
This man was also with them for

735
00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:12,800
he is a Galilean sin as we said
before is Progressive what?

736
00:40:12,800 –> 00:40:16,600
Often starts out.
Small grows and we see the same

737
00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:21,200
here with Peters denial.
His reaction here is Extreme in

738
00:40:21,207 –> 00:40:24,600
Matthew 2674.
It says Peter began to curse.

739
00:40:24,700 –> 00:40:27,900
To swear in such a way designed
to completely disassociate

740
00:40:27,900 –> 00:40:30,300
himself with the Lord.
The idea of a curse in this

741
00:40:30,300 –> 00:40:34,700
context isn’t what we think of
today as a profane words, but

742
00:40:34,700 –> 00:40:36,300
more.
So it’s proclaiming that.

743
00:40:36,300 –> 00:40:39,500
If I lie in this thing may this
horrible outcome come upon me

744
00:40:39,700 –> 00:40:42,300
such as let me be cut off from
the land of the living.

745
00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:47,000
If I lie and telling you this, I
don’t know the man and as Peter

746
00:40:47,000 –> 00:40:51,100
swore that he didn’t know Jesus,
the air was rent by that second,

747
00:40:51,100 –> 00:40:54,900
rooster crow, Luke notes that
the rooster called while He was

748
00:40:54,900 –> 00:40:57,900
yet speaking catching him in his
speech, if you happen to have a

749
00:40:57,900 –> 00:41:01,300
Dye go out on you, it suggests
that the cock crowing in this

750
00:41:01,300 –> 00:41:03,300
instance wasn’t actually a
literal rooster.

751
00:41:03,300 –> 00:41:05,700
But instead, it was the the
trumpet sounding of the changing

752
00:41:05,700 –> 00:41:07,900
of the Roman guard.
The last two shifts were

753
00:41:07,900 –> 00:41:09,800
apparently called the cock
crows.

754
00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:13,400
This sequence does seem to line
up with the timings given to us

755
00:41:13,400 –> 00:41:16,300
and Luke and Mark, and would
give us a sense of a timeline of

756
00:41:16,300 –> 00:41:19,900
the first denial around.
Midnight the just before the

757
00:41:19,900 –> 00:41:21,800
Third Watch, started, the third
denial.

758
00:41:21,800 –> 00:41:24,500
Then would have happened at the
end of the Third Watch.

759
00:41:24,700 –> 00:41:27,500
Which would have been around
3:00 a.m. and the second denial,

760
00:41:27,500 –> 00:41:30,600
somewhere in between the two,
the rooster or the trumpet.

761
00:41:30,600 –> 00:41:34,300
Whichever one, it was pierce the
night and that is what stopped

762
00:41:34,300 –> 00:41:37,200
Peters mouth.
And something else happened that

763
00:41:37,200 –> 00:41:40,600
moment as well.
Luke records, what happened at

764
00:41:40,600 –> 00:41:45,700
that same moment, the Lord
turned and looked at Peter, it’s

765
00:41:45,700 –> 00:41:49,300
that same word for look, that
was used back in John chapter 1,

766
00:41:49,300 –> 00:41:53,000
verse 42, during their first
meeting together based on the

767
00:41:53,008 –> 00:41:54,800
context.
It means not just just the

768
00:41:54,808 –> 00:41:57,700
physical act of looking, but a
deep penetrating.

769
00:41:57,700 –> 00:42:01,200
Look to perceive what’s really
going on the physical location

770
00:42:01,200 –> 00:42:02,800
again.
Here is significant, the amazing

771
00:42:02,800 –> 00:42:05,000
thing about the palatial Mansion
uncovered in Jerusalem.

772
00:42:05,000 –> 00:42:07,900
Is there is a line of sight
between where Peter was standing

773
00:42:07,900 –> 00:42:10,500
in the courtyard, based on The
Scorch marks on the earth and

774
00:42:10,500 –> 00:42:15,400
where Jesus would have stand
stood in that, Great Hall there.

775
00:42:15,400 –> 00:42:20,200
Jesus physically, looks at Peter
with that, penetrating gaze one.

776
00:42:20,200 –> 00:42:24,500
That was also full of love and
hope even as he looked upon him.

777
00:42:24,700 –> 00:42:28,400
Some three and a half years
earlier by the Jordan River that

778
00:42:28,400 –> 00:42:32,300
encourages Peter to finally look
at himself and he remembers

779
00:42:33,000 –> 00:42:36,000
Jesus face would have been
battered at this point as it

780
00:42:36,008 –> 00:42:40,500
says, oh, when Isaiah chapter 50
2 and verse 14, Peter would have

781
00:42:40,500 –> 00:42:42,000
realized that.
He was also fulfilling a

782
00:42:42,000 –> 00:42:45,300
prophecy of his own that he was
being one of Jesus’s, close

783
00:42:45,300 –> 00:42:49,900
neighbors that was rejecting
him, Psalm 31 verse 11, Peter

784
00:42:49,900 –> 00:42:53,900
remembers Jesus is warning now
but it’s too late, but in the

785
00:42:53,900 –> 00:42:57,500
future he would continually call
this lesson to mind throughout

786
00:42:57,500 –> 00:42:59,700
his Epistles.
One of the major themes that we

787
00:42:59,700 –> 00:43:03,400
see Peter returned to is that of
remembrance Peter may have

788
00:43:03,400 –> 00:43:09,100
remembered the words of Jesus
over in Luke chapter 12 verse 8,

789
00:43:09,100 –> 00:43:13,500
and 9, I say unto you whosoever
shall confess me before men

790
00:43:13,500 –> 00:43:16,200
shall the son of man.
Also confessed before the angels

791
00:43:16,200 –> 00:43:18,400
of God.
But he that denieth me before,

792
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:21,400
men shall also be denied before
the angels of God.

793
00:43:22,600 –> 00:43:27,300
The scene here ends, rather
Darkly Peter Runs Out weeping

794
00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:29,100
bitterly.
It says, or more literally

795
00:43:29,100 –> 00:43:31,900
weeping violently.
He stumbles through the streets

796
00:43:31,900 –> 00:43:34,900
of Jerusalem as he runs until he
comes to the place where Jesus

797
00:43:34,900 –> 00:43:36,700
was crucified.
We see that note over enough

798
00:43:36,700 –> 00:43:41,000
first Peter. 5:1, it seems he no
longer considers himself worthy

799
00:43:41,000 –> 00:43:44,300
of even being called a disciple.
As he completely followed, not

800
00:43:44,300 –> 00:43:46,600
only to now because he
completely failed, not only to

801
00:43:46,600 –> 00:43:50,500
follow Jesus, but even to
acknowledge Him at this point in

802
00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:52,200
the narrative, if the gospel
record stopped.

803
00:43:52,800 –> 00:43:55,600
There wouldn’t be much
difference between Peter and

804
00:43:55,600 –> 00:44:00,100
Judas both enemies.
Stood with the enemies are both

805
00:44:00,100 –> 00:44:01,800
men.
Stood with the enemies of Jesus,

806
00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:06,000
both denied their lord in word
or In Deed.

807
00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:10,000
Both failed to follow him.
When it mattered the most both

808
00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:14,300
went out into the darkness and
finally became convicted of the

809
00:44:14,300 –> 00:44:19,100
gravity of their sins and fled
But there’s a difference.

810
00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:22,900
The different seems to be in
that Peter knew that in spite of

811
00:44:22,908 –> 00:44:26,800
his sin, the Lord was full of
love and mercy.

812
00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:31,300
Well, Judas despaired and took
his own life, Peter held onto,

813
00:44:31,300 –> 00:44:35,200
hope, Judas, figured that he
betrayed the Lord denying him,

814
00:44:35,200 –> 00:44:37,300
indeed, and Inward.
And surely this would mean that

815
00:44:37,300 –> 00:44:41,700
there was no hope that.
As it says in Luke 12 verse 9,

816
00:44:41,700 –> 00:44:44,300
that he would be denied before
the angels of God.

817
00:44:44,800 –> 00:44:47,500
But Peter may have remembered
the next thing that Jesus said,

818
00:44:47,500 –> 00:44:50,500
and one of Peter’s most
redeeming qualities as he held

819
00:44:50,500 –> 00:44:53,700
on to the word of the Lord.
Judas may have stopped at that,

820
00:44:54,000 –> 00:44:57,700
that quote from Jesus denied
before the angels of God.

821
00:44:58,000 –> 00:45:01,200
But in Luke 12 verse 10, Jesus,
continued and said, whosoever

822
00:45:01,200 –> 00:45:06,200
shall speak a word against the.
Son, of man shall shall be

823
00:45:06,200 –> 00:45:09,100
forgiven him.
Peter ever.

824
00:45:09,100 –> 00:45:12,600
Remembering the word of the Lord
remembered that, his Lord was

825
00:45:12,600 –> 00:45:16,100
merciful the difference between
Peter and Judas wasn’t the

826
00:45:16,100 –> 00:45:20,600
degree of their sin.
As much as it was their degree

827
00:45:20,700 –> 00:45:24,900
of belief in the mercy of the
Lord and that belief would not

828
00:45:24,900 –> 00:45:27,400
be disappointed after three
days.

829
00:45:27,700 –> 00:45:30,800
Jesus had these gracious words
for Peter, when he appeared to

830
00:45:30,800 –> 00:45:34,300
the women returning from the
tomb, go tell my disciples.

831
00:45:34,600 –> 00:45:39,000
And Peter also, the disciple who
had wandered the farthest away

832
00:45:39,300 –> 00:45:41,800
was called the loudest to come
back.

833
00:45:42,200 –> 00:45:46,000
There were still yet a role for
Peter and God’s plan.

834
00:45:47,000 –> 00:45:49,100
So what can we learn from this?
Where did Peter go wrong?

835
00:45:49,100 –> 00:45:51,800
Well, first, he overestimated
himself, he didn’t recognize his

836
00:45:51,800 –> 00:45:55,000
own weakness, you didn’t heed
the warning that Jesus gave him,

837
00:45:55,100 –> 00:45:56,700
and there’s a warning there for
us as well.

838
00:45:56,700 –> 00:45:59,800
We need to be careful, not to
overestimate ourselves and we

839
00:45:59,800 –> 00:46:02,500
are weekly given a tool to
remember that as we will soon.

840
00:46:02,500 –> 00:46:05,900
Remember in the memorials, one
of the, easiest ways to

841
00:46:05,900 –> 00:46:10,600
overestimate ourselves is to
compare ourselves to others and

842
00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:13,500
we’re called each week, not to
examine ourselves against our

843
00:46:13,500 –> 00:46:15,200
Brethren.
But against the example of the

844
00:46:15,200 –> 00:46:19,100
Lord Jesus Christ, Her learned
that lesson.

845
00:46:19,100 –> 00:46:21,500
And as we’ve seen in our studies
this weekend, he became an

846
00:46:21,500 –> 00:46:24,600
amazing example of humility
going forward, and he spoke of

847
00:46:24,600 –> 00:46:28,700
the need to Humble ourselves and
be clothed in humility, so that

848
00:46:28,700 –> 00:46:31,600
God Can Lift us up.
Peter also failed to remove

849
00:46:31,600 –> 00:46:34,700
himself from Temptations path or
heed the warning signs that were

850
00:46:34,700 –> 00:46:38,200
along the way unlike Jesus.
Who said, get thee behind me.

851
00:46:38,200 –> 00:46:41,700
Satan back in Matthew 16 and
move, so that Satan was

852
00:46:41,700 –> 00:46:44,900
physically behind him.
Peter lingered, and lingered and

853
00:46:44,900 –> 00:46:47,700
lingered some more around the
coals of the fire until he was

854
00:46:47,700 –> 00:46:49,500
grown.
Julie worn down.

855
00:46:49,800 –> 00:46:52,700
There’s a lesson for that in us
as well to heed the call of the

856
00:46:52,700 –> 00:46:55,700
rooster and remove ourselves
from Temptations pass.

857
00:46:56,300 –> 00:46:59,900
But there’s also a lesson here
of mercy and of Grace and of

858
00:46:59,900 –> 00:47:04,700
Hope a lesson that no matter how
much we have failed, how far we

859
00:47:04,700 –> 00:47:08,100
have fallen, we have a Lord that
is looking for us to come back.

860
00:47:08,100 –> 00:47:10,400
That is reaching out and calling
us the loudest.

861
00:47:10,400 –> 00:47:13,200
When we are the furthest away to
come out of the darkness and

862
00:47:13,200 –> 00:47:16,300
into that Marvelous Light, we
have a Lord that is gracious.

863
00:47:16,600 –> 00:47:20,600
Full of tender Mercy And though,
we may reject him will call us

864
00:47:20,600 –> 00:47:22,900
back to come and follow him all
the same.