Jona Lawson – Class 4: Tried by Fire

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Well, thank you very much for
that reading and good evening

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again, everyone, welcome to
those who have braved it out

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here tonight and also hello.
To those who are reclining on

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the couch at home, with a cheese
platter, enjoy that.

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But beware of reclining.
That chair, too, too much.

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I know what that’s like.
So tonight, we’ll continue our

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study of. life of Peter, and
Suppose tonight, we’ve got to

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probably the very Crux of this
man’s life.

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Having we probably the most
famous section about his life.

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Now, I’ve never done it myself,
but I’ve seen it done at

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Sovereign Hill.
I’ve seen how they refine gold

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24 karat gold.
And the way that you refine 24

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karat gold is actually quite an
intense process.

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You can go and watch it if you
visit.

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So and Sovereign Hill, I’ll show
you how it’s done but you need

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to heat the metal to around 1200
degrees.

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And then you need to take it
through a number of processes

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back and forth to slowly purify
that gold until eventually after

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process after process.
Burning this, this metal hot,

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all of the impurities are
removed from it and you’re left

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with the purity of this
beautiful metal of gold.

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Well, that process of refining
metal with gold was how G.

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How Peter later came to describe
how characters are refined.

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And how his character was
refined and how God refined his

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faith.
I developed in into the man that

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he eventually became.
Now we all have flaws in our

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characters.
Don’t we, we all have

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imperfections and impurities and
sometimes our floors are more

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obvious to other people than
perhaps.

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Even sometimes ourselves.
I know my kids are always

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telling me about my impurities
and flaws.

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But we all have them.
And Peter had some flaws in his

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character as well.
And I needed to be refined and

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they need to be worked on and
God needed to do that through

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the trials.
That would come upon his life.

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One of the things that Peters
character needed refining from.

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Is that He was a man and it
comes out in the record in a

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number of ways.
He was a man that was very

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confident in his own ability,
and he was quite self-reliant.

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And it comes out in ways, when,
when, when Peter often speaks

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before, he thinks, or he
promises something great that

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he’s going to deliver.
But can’t deliver it.

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And it also comes out with his
competitiveness with the other

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disciples.
He was always vying to try and

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be the greatest as they all were
and put themselves a little bit

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higher than the other person.
Peter needed to learn humility.

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And humility is a hard trait to
learn just come to Matthew

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chapter 18 where Jesus describes
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That humility is, is such a
essential characteristic, which

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he’s looking for an all his
disciples.

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And he says, in verse 3 and 4 of
Matthew a name and he said,

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verily, I say unto you, except
you be converted.

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And become as a little child.
You shall not enter into the

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kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever.

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Therefore, shall humble himself
as this little child?

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The same is the greatest in the
Kingdom of Heaven, All of Us

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need to if we’re going to be in
the kingdom of God, develop the

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characteristic of humility and
Peter needed to learn that.

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The other thing Peter needed to
learn and it’s related to this

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was as a result of his
confidence in his own ability.

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He often looked perhaps down at
other people and their

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abilities.
Just look over at verse 21 where

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Jesus Peter asked.
Jesus a question.

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He says, then Peter came to him
and said, Lord, how often shall

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I shall my brother sin against
me and I forgive him till seven

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times, so he comes to the law
and says, look if my brother

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just keeps defending against me,
surely Lord, surely if he does

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it seven times, that’s the
limit.

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I’ll never have to forgive After
that, they have paid a probably

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thought he was being generous.
Because, apparently, in the day,

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the Pharisees has set a limit on
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If someone sinned against you
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That’s it.
You never have to forgive them

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ever ever again.
And no doubt some of that

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hardness of spirit that was
amongst the community.

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Had rubbed off on that, man.
Peter, and he thought, surely,

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Seven times was the limit to
which you’d need to forgive your

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brother. but Jesus says to Peter
in verse 22, I sang to you Peter

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that until seven times seven
until Seventy Times Seven.

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In other words, what what Jesus
was saying was, there’s actually

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no limit to the Forgiveness that
you should give to your brother.

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Now, that was just Unthinkable
to the disciples later.

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They would ask Jesus, the
similar sort of questions,

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question.
And Jesus would say, you need to

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forgive your brother even seven
times in a day.

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And it says that the disciples
are like, are you serious?

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I cannot even understand that
concept.

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Peter needed to learn.
Compassion.

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And forgiveness for his brother
and Jesus went on in that

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chapter and chapter 18 to talk
to the user Parable, the parable

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of the unforgiving.
Servant, I’m sure you remember

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it about a servant who came to
his master and he couldn’t, he

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couldn’t repay his enormous debt
that he had. and even though the

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debt was just so enormous
because the man came and asked

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him for forgiveness, The master
forgave you.

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But then after he receive
forgiveness, when someone came

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to him and asked him to have
compassion on them, he turned

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his back on them.
And he gave them no forgiveness.

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and Jesus concluded that Parable
in verse 33 when he said

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shouldst, not thou also Have had
compassion on your fellow

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servant. even as I had pity on
you, why didn’t that servant

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show compassion to the man that
came to him?

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Because he’d failed to
comprehend.

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How much he’d been forgiven?
And that’s true, isn’t it?

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We learn compassion to others.
when we realize how much

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compassion and forgiveness, Has
been handed to us.

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And Peter needed to learn that
lesson.

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Because Jesus needed Peter to be
a man in the Ecclesia, he was

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going to be one of the leaders
of the Ecclesia and what he

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needed was a man of compassion.
Who could look out and be a hand

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to pick up those brothers and
sisters in his Ecclesia.

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So, he needed to learn.
The hard lesson.

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The tough lesson.
Of how much he needed compassion

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himself.
And so the Lord will teach the

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Lord is going to teach this man.
I’m amazed always buy this

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story.
How much the Lord is doing on

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this night.
I mean, he’s got to achieve so

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much and within all that
achievement that that man does

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that night.
He’s also making sure that

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people like Peter and John and
all these other disciples, her

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learning the little things that
they needed to learn to be

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ready.
And the Lord made sure that peda

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that night.
Learn humility.

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And compassion. and they were
going to be tough lessons for

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that man to learn And those
lessons would be learned.

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It would feel like for that,
man, he was in like a furnace of

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Fire.
And we’re going to see Peter

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tonight, descend down.
To his lowest point.

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But the beautiful thing about
this story is it’s a comeback

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story and I love comeback
stories and we’re going to watch

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tomorrow or on Monday.
We’re going to see this man Rise

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Again out of the depths of his
weakness.

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To learn the lessons that he’s
Lord wanted him to learn.

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Come to Luke chapter 22.
Where we start this awesome

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story.
It would have been a huge week

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for Peter.
Even before he got to the last

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night, there was so many things
that he had done with the Lord,

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had been the Olivet prophecy.
They’d been amazing Miracles

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that would been had been done
and Peter had been there for all

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of them.
And then it came to the very

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last night that the Lord would
be with his disciples and in

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Luke chapter, 22 and verse 18.
Sorry, not Luke chapter 22 and

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verse 8, the Lord in preparation
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It says, and he sent Peter and
John saying go and prepare us

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the Passover that we might eat.
So he sent Peter and John and

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these were the two trusted most
trusted of his disciples,

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weren’t they?
And he sent these two men.

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And they went into Jerusalem to
this upper room, but they had to

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do it in a secret.
Why they had to do it a secret

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way.
Look what he says in verse 10

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and he said unto them.
Behold when you enter into the

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city.
Now, the city was teeming with

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people.
They reckon that at the time of

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Passover in Jerusalem.
At this time, that could have

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been up to a million people in
Jerusalem.

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That’s the size of Adelaide,
isn’t it?

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Maybe a little bit less in
Adelaide and million That’s a

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lot of people, a million people
in Old Jerusalem and he sent

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with this task to enter into the
city in verse 10 and you shall

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find a man there.
And that man will be bearing a

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pitcher of water follow him to
the house where he entered, so

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they had to go into this city
teeming with people all

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preparing for Passover and they
follow this man to this special

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upper room.
Now, why was Jesus being so

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secretive about?
Look what it says in verse six,

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five and six and they were glad
said the Pharisees and chief

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priests and they can covenanted
to give unto him.

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That’s Judas money.
And he promised and sought

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opportunity to betray him unto
them in the absence of the

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multitude.
And Jesus knew that the Judas

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was looking for any opportunity.
He could to now betray the Lord,

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but the Lord knew that he needed
a little bit more time with his

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disciples.
He needed that last night with

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them in the upper room because
he had so many things to pass on

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to them before he would be taken
by Judas.

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And so he arranged this secret
passageway, where math of Peter

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and John would follow this man
with the pitcher of water and

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they would go and find the upper
room and then once they’re Jesus

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said, I want you to prepare this
Passover For us.

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And get it ready.
Let’s go to John, Chapter 13,

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where we come to the upper room
where the Lord is.

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And, of course, now it’s it’s
now night.

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And the Lord is with them in the
upper room.

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And they share supper together,
but there’s something that they

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didn’t do that.
They would normally do that was

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a custom.
And it’s interesting that they

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followed that man with the
pitcher of water upon his head

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and maybe it was that picture of
water.

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That was the water that was used
in the upper room and they watch

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that man come into the upper
room and they took that big

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pitcher of water and he placed
it down in the upper room and

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that pitcher of water.
Was to be used for the custom of

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the day.
And the custom of the day.

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So tells us in Luke to the.
In the story of Simon the

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Pharisee was that the lowliest
person in the house the servant

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It would be their job to wash
the feet.

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Of everyone who came through
that door.

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It was a humbling task but
someone needed to do it. and

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when the Lord gets Midway
through his supper, No one’s

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done it.
And wide no one Donna.

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We’ll see the disciples at this
point in the upper room although

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these are all these other things
are happening, there’s

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contention amongst the
disciples, you might remember

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that, it was just a couple of
days beforehand that the

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disciples must one of the
disciples mum’s had gone to

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Jesus and a discussed with him
and said I’ll look can I was

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just wondering right amongst all
the other things you’ve got

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going.
Just wondering whether my boys

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might be able to get two of the
most prominent positions in the

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kingdom of God.
Next to you and your right hand

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and on your left.
And you know what?

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It says that the disciple the
rest of the disciples found out

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about that and they were so
angry.

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It says they had an anger of
indignation at those other

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disciples that they got their,
mum to go and get them The

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prominent positions.
You see, there was so much

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competitiveness, and tension
between these two men are so not

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to men, 12 men.
And not one of them.

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Was going to be prepared to go
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water and be the one that was
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To watch the fight. and so, the
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And girded himself.
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he?
What humility was all about?

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There was no doubt whatsoever,
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room?
and yet, he laid aside his

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garments and took a towel.
And you imagine how the

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disciples felt when they happen.
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embarrassed, wouldn’t they?
Peter must have been embarrassed

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His way through every single one
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finally gets to Peter and what
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And he cometh, he to Simon
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And Peter said unto him.
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There is no way that you are
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He was embarrassed, wasn’t he?
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sheepish, but Jesus answered in
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you now.
You know, not.

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But Thou shalt know afterward
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words was what I’m doing for
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Hear Peter in washing your feet
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something far.
Greater Because tonight, I’m

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going to do the most humbling
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And I’m going to wash, you
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And Peter says to in verse 8,
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Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Lord never ever will you wash my

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feet.
And Jesus said to him, if I wash

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not your feet, Then you can have
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Peter needed to recognize,
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The need that he had.
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he didn’t recognize that to this
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All of us need to come to that
point where we recognize our

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need to be washed.
And we allow the Lord.

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And so, the Lord gives them an
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I’ve had to be humble. and he
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I have given you an example.
That you should do as I have

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done to you Peter, never forgot
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If you go to S, if you go to his
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about humility he says we need
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he remembered that night, when
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Now after the Lord had lost what
had washed their feet, he then

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had to bring up the elephant in
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there was a betrayal amongst
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verse 21 brings this up and he
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something that was very much
pain, the Lord and it says in

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verse 21 when Jesus said unto,
so when Jesus had thus said he

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began to be troubled in spirit
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verily, verily, I say unto you,
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And we know that what then
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started to look at each other
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room to work out who it was.
And you know what, none of them

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knew who it was.
They all suspected that maybe it

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could even be them.
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at who it was, and it’s
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Isn’t it?
Like sometimes we always because

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of what the way we know this
story so much that it would be

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that, you know, perhaps Judas is
dressed in a black cloak or

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something to be so obvious that
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never knew.
Don’t even you.

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In fact, do you know that Judas
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prominent of the disciples.
And we can find out from this

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little story here as it says in
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That Judas was actually probably
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he said the one that I dip the
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he’s the one and he’s able to do
that in verse 26 without anyone

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else.
Knowing And so we know the

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seating arrangements or some of
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And verse 23, says, that leaning
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disciple that Jesus loved and
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So, he’s got John on one side.
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and he’s got Judas on the other
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Where’s Peter?
Will Peter in verse 24 as got

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one of the back seats because
what he has to do, when this

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whole discussion, is having it
happening with the Lord verse

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24.
It says, in Simon Peter,

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therefore had to beckon with his
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asked Jesus, what’s going on?
We need to know.

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And the whole night like Julie
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That’s where Peter is he sharing
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trying to be more prominent.
He wishes, he was right next to

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the Lord but he’s right in the
back is beckoning.

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But Jesus, Jesus hasn’t put him
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Deliberately hasn’t he?
So you can speak to Judas about

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what he needs to get done.
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And it’s interesting how Judith
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Look what it says in verse 26.
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And he said unto him, I shall
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And when I have tipped it and
when he had dipped this op, he

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gave it to Judas.
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he’s cold that again, in verse
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this chapter is always called,
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Peter.
You see, there’s two Simon’s in

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this chapter.
And the Bible that the record of

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these men’s lives.
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These to Simon’s, Judas, and
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them.
Both of them when you look at

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the lists. of the disciples,
those for Less we talked about

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in our first study, always on
the top is Peter And always

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listed last is Judas.
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We know were very close to the
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Peter is very close to the Lord,
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to the Lord as well because he
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finances.
He was one of the key men

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amongst the 12 and he’s sitting
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upper room on the last night and
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And we saw that last night, and
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In Matthew chapter 16, where
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You need to refocus your mind,
not on the here and now and the

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glory.
Now what you can have But you

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need to set your your mind on
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And there’s all sorts of
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know exactly about What Judas
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them seem to be that what he was
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out to bring him to power now so
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And he was caught up in now.
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Would betray their lord.
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that they’re in the record is a
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although, they’re so similar
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final result for these two men.
And we’ll see that in our final

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two studies.
About what Peter was able to do,

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and what Peter’s Outlook was,
and how it was different from

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Judas.
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night and it must have been a
relief for for Jesus, in that

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upper room that at least now he
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Although he was so sad that
Judas went out and he was sad

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because he wanted to save him
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He now it up on opportunity.
A little window to speak to

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these disciples and tell them
what he needed to to give to

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them before he goes.
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Little children.
He says, Yet a little while I’m

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with you.
And you shall seek me.

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And, as I said unto the Jews,
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You cannot come.
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Jesus was going into some of the
most important information that

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he could possibly relate to the
disciples about some of the key

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Commandments, Peter’s not
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And we know that Peter is not
listening because look what

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happens in verse 36.
Peter just interrupts the Lord,

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and all he can think about is
what Jesus had said in the

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first, in his first message
about, I’m going somewhere and

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Peter says, in verse 30, 36
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Where are you going Lon?
What, what do you what are you

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talking about, Lord?
Where are you going?

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See, Peter still had no idea and
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Didn’t we talked about that last
night even though Jesus had

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relayed, it to them over and
over again in so much detail,

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they still didn’t know.
What later had that night?

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And so Peter wants to know, what
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Lord.
Where are you going?

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And Jesus says to him.
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Aw, sorry, Peter answers in
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Jesus answered in verse 36 with
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So verse 36, I’ll read it again.
Simon Peter said unto the Lord,

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with a goest.
Thou And Jesus answered him.

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Where I go, they are Kent’s, not
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But you will follow me
afterwards.

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So he says to Peter, you can’t
come where I’m going now.

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And Peter jump scene immediately
in verse 37, says unto the Lord.

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Why can’t I follow you, Lord.
Why can’t I go with you now?

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I will lay down my life for you.
Lord.

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That’s how much I love you.
I will lay down my life for you.

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Now, it’s going to be the other
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I wasn’t it.
It was going to be Jesus.

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That would lay down his life for
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But see Peter flipped it and
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and I am ready to do that.
See he was overconfident, wasn’t

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he?
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in the power of his own
faithfulness.

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And his own ability.
To stand right with the Lord

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that night in anything.
That was going to happen. and

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Jesus says to him verse 38, Will
you Peter?

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Will you lay down your life for
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I say unto you.
The cock shall not Crow till

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thou Hast denied me three stat,
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So Jesus gives a prophecy here
about what was going to happen

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on that night.
Now, the cock-crowing is as most

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people understand, it was
probably not a rooster, but it

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was probably this Roman Watch
chain.

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So when the guards change, they
would blow a trumpet sound and

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that would be the call to know.
They should change their watch

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and they would blow that every 3
hours after 12 p.m. so, from 12

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p.m.
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And Jesus says before that cock
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Now, Mark adds before that cock,
crows twice and marks record is

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usually thought to be the record
that Peter wrote, or Peter got

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Mark to write to write.
And so, Peter, puts a few little

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bits of information in his chat,
in his gospel record, to

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highlight some of the things.
And Peter says, there was two

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crows of the cock that night.
They were tow signals that I was

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given.
Before I was to make those three

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denials.
Now.

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As a result of that rebuke
almost by the Lord to Peter

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there.
Broke out amongst the disciples.

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Again, another big fight amongst
them about who was the greatest

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just come to Luke chapter 22.
And you can imagine how that

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probably happened.
Yeah, who wants the Lord had

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said to Peter?
Yeah.

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Yeah, you haven’t got it yet,
haven’t got it in you.

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Peter, you’re not going to be
able to stand with me.

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I’m sure some of the other
disciples played on that and

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started to stir up and say,
yeah, I told you Peter, you’re

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not up for it mate, but some of
us are and then the whole thing

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erupts in verse 24 and there was
also a Strife amongst them.

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00:30:35,900 –> 00:30:39,100
Which of them should be
accounted the greatest.

436
00:30:40,600 –> 00:30:44,600
Imagine that.
On the most important night in

437
00:30:44,600 –> 00:30:48,400
history.
And he is these 12 men.

438
00:30:50,800 –> 00:30:53,100
Arguing about which one of them
is the best.

439
00:30:55,400 –> 00:30:57,100
And the Lord gently rebukes
them.

440
00:30:58,000 –> 00:31:03,100
He knows what they’re like, he’s
been with them, he understands

441
00:31:04,500 –> 00:31:07,200
And he rebukes them for what
they’ve done and then he turns

442
00:31:07,200 –> 00:31:10,200
to Simon again and and probably
by this stage, he’d who’s

443
00:31:10,200 –> 00:31:13,600
getting all defensive or in
front of his other disciples and

444
00:31:13,600 –> 00:31:16,500
getting all worked up.
And the Lord says to him again,

445
00:31:16,700 –> 00:31:23,400
for the second time verse 31
Simon, Solomon.

446
00:31:25,900 –> 00:31:27,700
And he uses his original name,
doesn’t he?

447
00:31:29,700 –> 00:31:35,100
That name, which means listen.
Simon, you need to listen to

448
00:31:35,100 –> 00:31:38,100
what I’m saying.
Because what I’m saying to you

449
00:31:38,100 –> 00:31:45,600
is actually really important.
And he says Satan.

450
00:31:46,900 –> 00:31:51,500
Has desired to have you.
That he might sift you as wheat

451
00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:55,600
as well.
Now, Satan had been the one that

452
00:31:55,600 –> 00:32:00,400
came into the heart of Judas.
Just in Martin, John Chapter 13

453
00:32:00,600 –> 00:32:03,800
that he might go and do the
things that he was, and the

454
00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:07,800
Satan for him was probably this
this inward conflict about Glory

455
00:32:07,800 –> 00:32:11,900
Now versus glory in the future,
and Jesus says to Simon Simon

456
00:32:11,900 –> 00:32:15,800
that same conflict, which was
his in it, which is within Judas

457
00:32:15,900 –> 00:32:20,600
is within you.
And you need to be careful.

458
00:32:22,800 –> 00:32:27,000
And he says he’s desired to have
you this night and sift you as

459
00:32:27,000 –> 00:32:29,100
wheat.
The way they sifted week back

460
00:32:29,100 –> 00:32:31,100
though.
In those days is they would get

461
00:32:31,100 –> 00:32:35,300
like all the weight and they’d
put in a big area with the

462
00:32:35,300 –> 00:32:38,400
little wall around it and they
would take a big stick, right?

463
00:32:38,400 –> 00:32:42,800
And they would beat that wheat.
And I would smack that wait.

464
00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:45,400
Until what would happen is the
wind would come and all the

465
00:32:45,400 –> 00:32:47,400
charge off.
Would come off the top of that

466
00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:50,500
weight, and the wind would come
and blow it away and you’d be

467
00:32:50,500 –> 00:32:53,600
left on the bottom with the
precious sweet.

468
00:32:56,200 –> 00:32:58,800
And that was a painful process
for wheat, wasn’t it?

469
00:33:00,800 –> 00:33:03,800
And that would be the process
that Peter would go through that

470
00:33:03,800 –> 00:33:08,400
night in order to bring forth
the wheat of his character.

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00:33:09,900 –> 00:33:13,600
But Jesus says to him, look at
he says in verse 32, but I have

472
00:33:13,600 –> 00:33:20,900
prayed for you Peter.
I have prayed for you that your

473
00:33:20,900 –> 00:33:25,300
faith fail.
Not I’m right here with you

474
00:33:25,300 –> 00:33:32,300
Peter. and when thou art
converted Peter, strengthen your

475
00:33:32,300 –> 00:33:35,900
brethren.
And all Peter would have heard

476
00:33:35,900 –> 00:33:38,900
from that whole dissertation
from the Lord would have been

477
00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:42,100
two words when you are
converted.

478
00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:51,500
And he’s like, are you serious?
Just saying that I need to be

479
00:33:51,500 –> 00:33:56,500
converted.
Like, are you serious rod?

480
00:33:58,000 –> 00:34:01,900
I have given the last two years
of my whole life, I left my

481
00:34:01,900 –> 00:34:03,700
family.
I left my job.

482
00:34:03,700 –> 00:34:07,900
I gave up all for you.
And I’ve been working.

483
00:34:07,900 –> 00:34:10,300
I’ve been asking questions.
I’ve been seeking you.

484
00:34:10,300 –> 00:34:17,300
I’ve been learning about you.
I’m one of your most trusted.

485
00:34:17,400 –> 00:34:19,000
I would give everything for you,
Lord.

486
00:34:22,400 –> 00:34:24,199
And you sign on need to be
converted.

487
00:34:28,300 –> 00:34:30,199
And that’s what he says in verse
33.

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00:34:32,199 –> 00:34:35,900
Lord, I am ready.
I’ve been with you for two

489
00:34:35,900 –> 00:34:39,699
years, I am ready.
Now, both to go to prison and to

490
00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:44,100
go to death if we can if need be
And that’s what he thought

491
00:34:44,100 –> 00:34:45,300
later.
Head in the night.

492
00:34:45,300 –> 00:34:49,199
See Peters still got dreams of
beautiful, Glory of him and

493
00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:52,300
Jesus riding into Jerusalem.
On the back of horses and

494
00:34:52,300 –> 00:34:56,199
getting rid of the Romans, and
taking the glory now, and I’m

495
00:34:56,199 –> 00:35:01,400
ready with my saw Jesus.
But that wasn’t the plan.

496
00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:07,800
And Peter wasn’t ready.
They were parts of his character

497
00:35:07,800 –> 00:35:12,900
that needed to be refined. and
so, Jesus says to him again,

498
00:35:12,900 –> 00:35:22,500
gently he said unto him, I tell
you Peter The cock will not Crow

499
00:35:23,000 –> 00:35:26,300
this day.
It’s this day.

500
00:35:26,300 –> 00:35:35,400
Peter Before Thou shalt deny me.
That you ever knew me.

501
00:35:38,000 –> 00:35:47,700
That you ever knew me.
They must have been tough words

502
00:35:47,700 –> 00:35:52,600
for Peter to hear muscle night.
But you know what, he didn’t

503
00:35:52,600 –> 00:35:56,100
hear those words that the Lord
was trying to say to him.

504
00:35:56,100 –> 00:35:59,200
He was he was probably tight, he
probably took from that, he was

505
00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:02,800
more committed, he was more
determined and sits there.

506
00:36:02,800 –> 00:36:04,800
Always laugh at this verse verse
38.

507
00:36:04,900 –> 00:36:08,300
Jesus talks them and he says to
them and he said unto them, he

508
00:36:08,300 –> 00:36:10,800
was talking to them about what
life was going to be like after

509
00:36:10,800 –> 00:36:13,200
he was gone and they completely
mistook him.

510
00:36:13,200 –> 00:36:16,500
And I guarantee verse 38 is
Peter, when he said, and they

511
00:36:16,500 –> 00:36:19,700
said, Lord, it’s all right,
don’t worry about a security.

512
00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:24,800
We’ve got two swords here.
To go and J’s says, it’s enough.

513
00:36:24,800 –> 00:36:29,300
Peter You’re not getting it.
And paid.

514
00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:32,700
It was still bound up with what
he was going to do that night

515
00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:37,700
for the Lord.
Now, the Lord then went out.

516
00:36:38,700 –> 00:36:45,100
To get cemani with the
disciples. they left the upper

517
00:36:45,100 –> 00:36:51,000
room and they probably, Made
their way around the walls in

518
00:36:51,000 –> 00:36:53,700
the moon, light of the full moon
of Passover.

519
00:36:55,200 –> 00:36:57,500
And this was something that I
did regularly, so they knew this

520
00:36:57,500 –> 00:37:01,000
path but they had to be very
careful as they went around that

521
00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:03,600
path, because Jesus knew that
there’d be Judas.

522
00:37:03,600 –> 00:37:08,000
His eyes watching and looking
And they made their way around

523
00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:12,000
that path until they get perhaps
around here about halfway point

524
00:37:12,000 –> 00:37:14,800
and it’s at that point where
Jesus sits down with him again

525
00:37:14,900 –> 00:37:17,900
and he goes through some of the
things that he wanted to talk to

526
00:37:17,900 –> 00:37:20,500
them about.
And if we come to Matthew

527
00:37:20,500 –> 00:37:24,300
chapter 26, we take up some of
the words that Jesus was saying

528
00:37:24,300 –> 00:37:34,900
to them.
And Jesus needed to bring the

529
00:37:34,900 –> 00:37:38,900
reality not just to pater.
They were all thinking the same

530
00:37:38,900 –> 00:37:43,000
way and he needed to bring a
reality to their thinking about

531
00:37:43,000 –> 00:37:45,500
what was going to happen on that
particular night.

532
00:37:45,500 –> 00:37:52,900
And he does this in verse 31.
Then Jesus said unto them all.

533
00:37:53,900 –> 00:37:57,600
It’s not just Peter.
All of you.

534
00:37:59,400 –> 00:38:01,900
Will be offended because of me
this night.

535
00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:07,400
Fritz been prophesied.
I will Smite the shepherd and

536
00:38:07,400 –> 00:38:10,300
the sheep of the flock shall be
scattered abroad.

537
00:38:13,700 –> 00:38:16,700
Lost and leaderless.
That’s what’s going to happen to

538
00:38:16,700 –> 00:38:20,600
you tonight and all your ideas
of impending Glory.

539
00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:26,000
Are going to be shattered.
And ruined.

540
00:38:28,600 –> 00:38:31,600
And paid a pops up again for the
third time.

541
00:38:32,800 –> 00:38:38,200
Determined.
Verse 33, then, Peter answered

542
00:38:38,200 –> 00:38:41,200
and said unto him though.
All men Jesus.

543
00:38:41,800 –> 00:38:44,400
I don’t know about these guys.
You’re probably right?

544
00:38:44,400 –> 00:38:50,500
Lord, they’re not up for it.
But he says, though, all others

545
00:38:50,600 –> 00:38:58,700
Lord. will be offended because
of you this night, I never will

546
00:38:58,700 –> 00:39:06,900
offend I would never do.
And so Jesus, for the third

547
00:39:06,900 –> 00:39:15,800
time, Has to tell Peter. verily,
Peter I sang to you.

548
00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:22,700
This very night, Peter.
In just a few hours.

549
00:39:26,700 –> 00:39:31,700
Before the cock crows.
You’re going to deny me three

550
00:39:31,700 –> 00:39:36,700
times.
And pay to get all worked up.

551
00:39:38,800 –> 00:39:45,900
And all passionate. and he says
again, for one last time,

552
00:39:47,900 –> 00:39:52,600
though, all Would forsake you
Lord.

553
00:39:54,500 –> 00:40:00,700
I would die for thee.
And I will never deny you.

554
00:40:02,500 –> 00:40:06,900
And so passionate must have been
that last call from Peter that

555
00:40:06,900 –> 00:40:09,300
all the disciples said we’re the
same.

556
00:40:09,400 –> 00:40:14,900
Jesus will stand with Peter.
We would never ever ever.

557
00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:21,000
forsake, you And then they move
from there.

558
00:40:22,200 –> 00:40:27,700
And they went to get cemani and
Gethsemane was where the Lord

559
00:40:27,700 –> 00:40:29,700
for his hardest Battle of all,
wasn’t he?

560
00:40:31,900 –> 00:40:37,100
It says that his demeanor
changed in verse 38 and they

561
00:40:37,100 –> 00:40:40,000
must have noticed it.
Particularly the three man that

562
00:40:40,000 –> 00:40:43,800
he took closest to him, Peter,
James, and John, those three men

563
00:40:43,800 –> 00:40:45,900
came, right?
Close to the Lord and they must

564
00:40:45,900 –> 00:40:49,800
have seen the Lord, a man who is
always in such control.

565
00:40:51,900 –> 00:40:56,500
They must’ve seen the, the lines
on his face and the trouble,

566
00:40:56,500 –> 00:41:00,500
which surround him as he says
there, my soul is exceedingly

567
00:41:00,500 –> 00:41:05,000
sorrowful, even unto death,
please be with me here.

568
00:41:06,700 –> 00:41:10,500
And we know that from the Psalms
that the Lord looked for comfort

569
00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:15,100
as he wanted men to be with him
during this toughest of moments

570
00:41:15,100 –> 00:41:18,600
for him.
And so we ask those three

571
00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:20,500
closest disciples to come with
him.

572
00:41:21,900 –> 00:41:24,100
As he knelt to pray to his
father.

573
00:41:26,100 –> 00:41:31,700
But what do they do?
I fell asleep.

574
00:41:34,500 –> 00:41:39,800
You see that the night was too
big for these men. they were

575
00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:46,900
strong, tough fisherman, the
toughest of men But it was all

576
00:41:46,900 –> 00:41:50,200
too much.
For these men.

577
00:41:51,800 –> 00:41:56,000
And Jesus comes in verse 40
after he’s been praying for an

578
00:41:56,000 –> 00:41:59,500
hour or so and he cometh unto
his disciples and he found them

579
00:41:59,500 –> 00:42:05,800
asleep and he picks on Peter
again. and he says, Peter

580
00:42:08,100 –> 00:42:10,100
couldn’t you wait for me just
one hour?

581
00:42:12,200 –> 00:42:15,700
And he’s trying to get Peter to
think back and he’s violent

582
00:42:15,700 –> 00:42:19,700
disagreement with him just a few
hours beforehand when he said he

583
00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:22,600
would do anything for the Lord
and he says you couldn’t even

584
00:42:22,600 –> 00:42:26,300
stay awake with me for just one
hour.

585
00:42:32,000 –> 00:42:35,500
Now, Peter Jesus wasn’t angry
with Peter.

586
00:42:37,600 –> 00:42:39,600
Can you hate?
It was like and he says that in

587
00:42:39,600 –> 00:42:43,500
verse 41 he says, watch and pray
that you enter not into

588
00:42:43,500 –> 00:42:47,000
temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing but

589
00:42:47,000 –> 00:42:50,600
the flesh is weak.
And Peter didn’t understand that

590
00:42:50,600 –> 00:42:55,400
yet.
Jesus could see the sincerity of

591
00:42:55,400 –> 00:42:59,700
his words, but Peter yet was yet
to understand the weakness of

592
00:42:59,700 –> 00:43:02,800
his own flesh to achieve what he
thought he could achieve.

593
00:43:04,300 –> 00:43:06,400
And that’s the lesson that he
would learn that not.

594
00:43:09,200 –> 00:43:12,500
And so the Lord goes back to
pray game.

595
00:43:14,400 –> 00:43:17,300
And then I have to read prayed
three times and won that

596
00:43:17,300 –> 00:43:19,600
victory.
In the garden, all of a sudden,

597
00:43:21,000 –> 00:43:24,300
there’s a commotion in the
garden and the disciples are

598
00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:26,600
still asleep.
And Jesus goes to the disciples

599
00:43:26,600 –> 00:43:28,400
and wakes them up and says wake
up.

600
00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:33,400
There’s a crowd that’s now.
Come into the garden.

601
00:43:34,700 –> 00:43:39,500
He says that in verse 46 rise,
let us be going behold.

602
00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:44,800
He is at hand that Duff betray
me and so the disciples paid,

603
00:43:44,800 –> 00:43:47,200
who’s groggy with sleep, get up
from their sleep.

604
00:43:47,300 –> 00:43:50,300
And all right there with the
Lord and who’s coming down verse

605
00:43:50,300 –> 00:43:54,300
47 and while he yet spake Judas
comes down.

606
00:43:57,200 –> 00:43:59,200
One of the twelve and who’s with
him.

607
00:43:59,200 –> 00:44:03,400
There’s a great multitude with
swords and with staves, and the

608
00:44:03,400 –> 00:44:06,100
chief priests, and the elders,
and there’s people, they’ve got

609
00:44:06,100 –> 00:44:09,400
clubs, they’ve got swords,
they’ve got Spears, there’s a

610
00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:14,000
violent group of men that are
coming down with Judas to get

611
00:44:14,100 –> 00:44:18,500
these men.
And they’ve got violent intent.

612
00:44:22,100 –> 00:44:27,300
and when they come down, the
Lord is amazing in his demeanor.

613
00:44:28,100 –> 00:44:31,900
Always love in John’s record
when all the soldiers come down

614
00:44:32,000 –> 00:44:34,300
and they ask.
Where is Jesus?

615
00:44:34,300 –> 00:44:37,100
Who is Jesus?
And Jesus says, I’m Jesus.

616
00:44:38,200 –> 00:44:41,700
And it says, all of the soldiers
fell back onto the ground, they

617
00:44:41,700 –> 00:44:46,800
were amazed.
At the calmness of this man.

618
00:44:48,300 –> 00:44:52,800
At the clarity of mind.
See they were they would do a

619
00:44:52,808 –> 00:44:55,900
hunting fugitives every day and
no one just put up their hand

620
00:44:55,900 –> 00:44:59,100
and said I’m the one come and
get me.

621
00:45:01,700 –> 00:45:08,400
And Jesus concern in that moment
was only for his disciples.

622
00:45:09,600 –> 00:45:13,000
Mock’s record says that as they
came to take him that Jesus

623
00:45:13,000 –> 00:45:16,600
said, just can we can you please
let these go these men?

624
00:45:18,300 –> 00:45:22,000
Can you let my 12 disciples go?
I’m here you can take me, please

625
00:45:22,000 –> 00:45:27,200
don’t let them be harmed.
And in the commotion of what was

626
00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:31,900
going on.
Peter sees his moment.

627
00:45:33,700 –> 00:45:35,400
And he’s got his sword, hasn’t
he?

628
00:45:36,800 –> 00:45:41,900
In his jacket.
And he’s determined to be loyal.

629
00:45:45,400 –> 00:45:49,200
and verse 51 says, and behold,
one of them which was with

630
00:45:49,200 –> 00:45:53,300
Jesus, suddenly jumped out from
the rest of the disciples and he

631
00:45:53,300 –> 00:45:59,200
stretched out his hand and he
drew out a sword and he struck a

632
00:45:59,207 –> 00:46:03,400
blow to one of the soldiers and
took off one of his ears and

633
00:46:03,400 –> 00:46:06,500
John says that that was Peter,
Peter in a moment of Glory

634
00:46:06,500 –> 00:46:07,600
kicks.
This is it.

635
00:46:07,600 –> 00:46:11,400
This is my opportunity and he
pulls out his sword and he what

636
00:46:11,400 –> 00:46:15,000
swipe to the enemy and he takes
off an ear, right?

637
00:46:15,000 –> 00:46:17,400
I can imagine the other
disciples looking at what?

638
00:46:17,400 –> 00:46:19,300
Peter Dunne, we’re all finished,
right?

639
00:46:19,300 –> 00:46:22,900
This great commotion, and just
been like, what are you doing?

640
00:46:22,900 –> 00:46:25,600
Peter, you serious, right?
You’ve taken off this guy’s

641
00:46:25,600 –> 00:46:29,200
here.
And Jesus knew.

642
00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:34,400
That any second that could just
arrived and all of the disciples

643
00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:37,800
would be killed and Jesus acts
and instant and takes that ear

644
00:46:37,900 –> 00:46:42,200
and puts it back on the the side
of the man’s head and instantly,

645
00:46:42,200 –> 00:46:43,600
people don’t even know what’s
going on.

646
00:46:45,500 –> 00:46:48,400
And Jesus says, please let these
disciples go.

647
00:46:49,800 –> 00:46:54,800
And he turns to Peter in verse
54 and he says, and now then

648
00:46:54,800 –> 00:46:57,800
shall sorry.
Verse 53.

649
00:46:57,800 –> 00:47:01,100
He says, to Peter thinkest thou
that I cannot.

650
00:47:01,100 –> 00:47:05,700
Now, pray to my father and that
he shall presently give me more

651
00:47:05,700 –> 00:47:11,500
than Twelve Legions of angels.
But how then shall the

652
00:47:11,500 –> 00:47:16,200
scriptures be fulfilled?
That it must be.

653
00:47:18,400 –> 00:47:21,800
And that’s what Jesus had said
to Peter in Matthew chapter 16,

654
00:47:21,800 –> 00:47:27,500
you remember, Peter.
It must be This is not something

655
00:47:27,500 –> 00:47:31,900
that’s optional.
It’s something that I must do.

656
00:47:34,000 –> 00:47:39,300
And he rebukes Peter in the
garden. and then, once he’s done

657
00:47:39,300 –> 00:47:46,400
that, All of the disciples.
Realize the gravity of the

658
00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:54,200
situation. and verse 56 says,
and all this was done that the

659
00:47:54,200 –> 00:47:56,900
scriptures might be scriptures
of the prophets might be

660
00:47:56,900 –> 00:48:00,500
fulfilled.
Then all of the disciples

661
00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:07,100
forsook him and fled and you
know wasn’t an easy getaway

662
00:48:08,000 –> 00:48:12,000
marks record says that as they
scampered and scattered through

663
00:48:12,000 –> 00:48:15,000
in every single direction that
the soldiers were hunting after

664
00:48:15,000 –> 00:48:17,100
them, they ran after them, they
didn’t leave them.

665
00:48:17,100 –> 00:48:20,500
Because one of them, was one of
the soldiers, grabbed one of the

666
00:48:20,500 –> 00:48:25,700
men’s garment and Was left.
Running with nothing on Because

667
00:48:25,700 –> 00:48:27,800
they wanted to get the disciples
as well.

668
00:48:28,700 –> 00:48:31,100
Sometimes we look at that scene
and we think our answer, you

669
00:48:31,100 –> 00:48:33,300
know, the disciples were able to
walk out of the garden.

670
00:48:33,400 –> 00:48:37,000
They ran for their lives,
knowing that the soldiers had

671
00:48:37,000 –> 00:48:38,800
grabbed them.
They were going to be killed as

672
00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:42,400
well.
And they were scattered off in

673
00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:49,500
all directions Into the Night.
And then Peter as he wherever he

674
00:48:49,500 –> 00:48:54,600
went in the first instant
moment, he catches his breath.

675
00:48:57,200 –> 00:49:01,200
Any regrets himself.
And he remembers the words that

676
00:49:01,207 –> 00:49:03,500
he said to the lord, it’s all a
blur Now, isn’t it?

677
00:49:03,500 –> 00:49:06,100
Because he’s he’s thrown his
sword out.

678
00:49:06,100 –> 00:49:07,800
There’s all these things have
happened, he’s run.

679
00:49:07,800 –> 00:49:10,100
They’ve tried to get him.
But he’s found a little hiding

680
00:49:10,100 –> 00:49:13,300
spot and he thinks now about his
loyalty of what he’d said to the

681
00:49:13,300 –> 00:49:14,600
Lord.
I would never betray you.

682
00:49:14,600 –> 00:49:16,900
I’ll be with you.
I’ll stand with you.

683
00:49:19,300 –> 00:49:24,300
And so he gets back up quickly.
And verse 58 says, and Peter

684
00:49:24,300 –> 00:49:29,200
followed him.
Afar off unto the high priests

685
00:49:29,200 –> 00:49:32,300
Palace.
And he went in.

686
00:49:33,400 –> 00:49:36,500
And sat with the servants to see
the end.

687
00:49:36,900 –> 00:49:39,200
See Peter thought?
That’s what was going to happen

688
00:49:39,200 –> 00:49:42,300
now.
He thought All Is Lost.

689
00:49:44,000 –> 00:49:46,300
Everything that I thought was
going to happen this night.

690
00:49:47,300 –> 00:49:49,600
Everything that I dream was
going to happen over this

691
00:49:49,600 –> 00:49:51,900
Passover of the Lord coming to
Glory.

692
00:49:52,000 –> 00:49:55,200
It’s all now going to come to an
end and he sneaks through the

693
00:49:55,200 –> 00:49:59,400
streets of Jerusalem.
A far-off behind that band.

694
00:49:59,800 –> 00:50:03,000
And he makes his way around the
temple through the streets

695
00:50:03,000 –> 00:50:05,000
creeping.
So careful that he doesn’t get

696
00:50:05,000 –> 00:50:09,000
seen as they lead Jesus, Through
the winding Streets, back to the

697
00:50:09,000 –> 00:50:14,100
high priests house.
And Jason and Peter goes there

698
00:50:14,200 –> 00:50:18,100
to see the end.
And John’s record says that,

699
00:50:18,100 –> 00:50:22,300
when he got to the high priests
house, the door was locked for

700
00:50:22,300 –> 00:50:26,400
him, he couldn’t get in and he
knocked at the door and they

701
00:50:26,400 –> 00:50:27,800
didn’t let him in.
And you know what?

702
00:50:27,800 –> 00:50:30,000
Was a dangerous place, the high
priests house, you can actually

703
00:50:30,000 –> 00:50:32,100
go to Jerusalem today, it’s
amazing.

704
00:50:32,100 –> 00:50:34,600
You can go to Jerusalem and you
can actually they’ve actually

705
00:50:34,600 –> 00:50:40,000
found that the ruins of this
exact house and you can stand

706
00:50:40,000 –> 00:50:43,400
and walk in the areas of that
house where Pete of must have

707
00:50:43,400 –> 00:50:45,800
walked the walls.
There’s only a few of the walls

708
00:50:45,800 –> 00:50:49,400
there but You can map out and
say and it’s not a huge house.

709
00:50:51,000 –> 00:50:53,900
So it wasn’t going to be easy
for pay to go in there and be

710
00:50:53,900 –> 00:50:56,700
able to hide completely.
It was dangerous.

711
00:50:58,300 –> 00:51:00,600
But there’s a courageousness
about Peter here, isn’t it?

712
00:51:00,700 –> 00:51:04,300
At least he went He was
determined to go.

713
00:51:05,900 –> 00:51:07,700
And he knocked on the door and
he couldn’t get in.

714
00:51:07,900 –> 00:51:11,000
And John’s record says that John
had gone there as well.

715
00:51:11,100 –> 00:51:14,600
And he was already in that
priests house and the reason why

716
00:51:14,600 –> 00:51:17,900
he was there was because they
knew him somehow he had some

717
00:51:17,900 –> 00:51:20,900
kind of business connection with
them, and they knew who John

718
00:51:20,900 –> 00:51:23,100
was.
They knew that John that the

719
00:51:23,100 –> 00:51:26,700
personality of John and the
damsel at the door had left him

720
00:51:26,700 –> 00:51:30,600
in.
And paid a Siege John in the

721
00:51:30,600 –> 00:51:34,700
house, and he calls him said,
hey, John, can you get me in as

722
00:51:34,700 –> 00:51:38,400
well?
And John comes over to the door.

723
00:51:39,600 –> 00:51:41,400
And he speaks to the damsel the
door.

724
00:51:41,400 –> 00:51:43,400
He says, look this guy’s with
me.

725
00:51:44,500 –> 00:51:47,800
Can he come in?
And she knew him.

726
00:51:49,100 –> 00:51:52,500
And so, Peter is allowed in.
You can imagine Peter, I can

727
00:51:52,600 –> 00:51:54,400
imagine.
He must have had a lot cloak on

728
00:51:54,400 –> 00:51:57,300
just trying to hide himself as
he walked in there, he sees all

729
00:51:57,300 –> 00:52:00,900
the soldiers in the courtyard.
And Peter just walks into that

730
00:52:00,900 –> 00:52:04,400
courtyard to try and find a spot
where he couldn’t be seen.

731
00:52:04,400 –> 00:52:08,700
And that’s what it says in verse
58 that he came into the palace.

732
00:52:09,600 –> 00:52:13,600
The sorry verse 70.
Sorry, first 69, now, Peter sat

733
00:52:13,600 –> 00:52:16,800
without in the palace.
So, he found her a spot where he

734
00:52:16,800 –> 00:52:18,800
hopefully thought that he
couldn’t.

735
00:52:18,900 –> 00:52:23,600
Be saying.
But then someone came straight

736
00:52:23,600 –> 00:52:31,300
up to him.
From the palace and it was a

737
00:52:31,300 –> 00:52:36,300
damsel girl.
And John says it was the same

738
00:52:36,300 –> 00:52:39,200
girl that he’d spoken to to let
him in the door.

739
00:52:40,600 –> 00:52:44,400
The same one that knew John.
And she’d probably known John

740
00:52:44,400 –> 00:52:48,500
for years and she would have
known that John was From Galilee

741
00:52:48,600 –> 00:52:52,300
and she would have known that.
John was a follower and disciple

742
00:52:52,400 –> 00:52:57,100
of Jesus.
And so she comes to peda not

743
00:52:57,100 –> 00:53:00,000
long after letting him in and
Peter’s trying to hide himself

744
00:53:00,100 –> 00:53:04,200
in the porch.
And the damsel comes to him.

745
00:53:04,200 –> 00:53:08,100
And says to him, weren’t you
also?

746
00:53:11,600 –> 00:53:14,800
So thou also was with Jesus of
Nazareth.

747
00:53:16,600 –> 00:53:20,700
Sorry, Jesus of Galilee.
And John’s record says that she

748
00:53:20,700 –> 00:53:23,300
went further and said you’re one
of his disciples.

749
00:53:23,300 –> 00:53:26,800
Like John Wall’s was probably
what she was thinking.

750
00:53:26,900 –> 00:53:30,000
See she’d made the connection.
It wasn’t, it wasn’t an unusual

751
00:53:30,000 –> 00:53:32,900
connection for her to mate.
It was she just been observant

752
00:53:32,900 –> 00:53:36,200
and she’d seen this man.
Maybe she’d seen Peter before

753
00:53:36,200 –> 00:53:42,300
with John.
And paint it paid at, instantly

754
00:53:42,700 –> 00:53:50,000
replies to her in verse 16.
Sorry verse 670.

755
00:53:50,700 –> 00:53:53,200
But he denied it before them all
saying.

756
00:53:53,300 –> 00:53:58,300
I know not what thou seest.
I don’t know what you’re talking

757
00:53:58,300 –> 00:54:01,400
about.
I actually do not know what

758
00:54:01,400 –> 00:54:09,300
you’re talking about at all.
I know not who you are talking

759
00:54:09,300 –> 00:54:12,300
about marks record says, I don’t
know him.

760
00:54:12,500 –> 00:54:15,500
I don’t even know what you’re
talking about.

761
00:54:17,800 –> 00:54:23,600
How?
Was Peter able to do that to the

762
00:54:23,600 –> 00:54:27,800
Lord?
So quickly.

763
00:54:29,200 –> 00:54:31,000
After the Lord had just told
him.

764
00:54:31,900 –> 00:54:36,500
Just a few hours before.
That this would be what

765
00:54:36,500 –> 00:54:40,300
happened.
And he just didn’t tell him once

766
00:54:40,300 –> 00:54:45,700
did he, he told him three times
in detail, what would happen to

767
00:54:45,700 –> 00:54:48,800
him that you would deny me, and
here’s Peter, having all that

768
00:54:48,800 –> 00:54:51,000
information and knowing
everything about it.

769
00:54:51,100 –> 00:54:53,900
And yet, when the question gets
asked, he says, I don’t know

770
00:54:53,900 –> 00:54:55,900
him, I’ve never known him
before.

771
00:54:58,800 –> 00:55:02,800
How did he do that?
We’ll see, he was caught off

772
00:55:02,800 –> 00:55:07,000
guard, wasn’t he?
It wasn’t how the night he

773
00:55:07,000 –> 00:55:11,100
expected would turn out.
And he’d expected that the

774
00:55:11,100 –> 00:55:13,700
moment that he was going to
stand for the Lord was the

775
00:55:13,700 –> 00:55:18,200
moment of heroic Grandeur in the
garden, but this temptation was

776
00:55:18,200 –> 00:55:22,400
different.
And it came from a little girl.

777
00:55:23,800 –> 00:55:27,800
A damsel woman.
And she’s the one that asked

778
00:55:27,800 –> 00:55:29,000
him.
The question.

779
00:55:33,100 –> 00:55:35,100
And paid, I wasn’t ready to
answer.

780
00:55:36,800 –> 00:55:39,200
And you see that’s how
Temptation comes.

781
00:55:39,200 –> 00:55:43,500
Doesn’t it in our life?
Temptation comes.

782
00:55:44,900 –> 00:55:48,900
Unexpectedly.
It comes usually from Left

783
00:55:48,900 –> 00:55:52,200
Field.
It comes when we’re not ready.

784
00:55:53,800 –> 00:55:58,300
It usually comes when were in a
stressful period in our life or

785
00:55:58,300 –> 00:56:02,100
all we’re tired or there’s a
stuff going on, but we’re afraid

786
00:56:02,100 –> 00:56:04,500
or there’s all sorts of things
happening in our life.

787
00:56:04,500 –> 00:56:07,600
And all of a sudden Temptation
will strike upon us.

788
00:56:10,200 –> 00:56:14,600
It’s a lot hotter.
To resist temptation and I life

789
00:56:14,600 –> 00:56:18,200
when that happens.
And that’s what happened to

790
00:56:18,200 –> 00:56:22,000
Peter.
He was caught unexpectedly.

791
00:56:23,400 –> 00:56:28,300
By temptation.
And so, he creeps out into the

792
00:56:28,300 –> 00:56:32,500
porch verse 71 says, and when he
had gone out into the porch, so,

793
00:56:32,500 –> 00:56:35,100
he went out into another
Courtyard, that was next to it

794
00:56:35,100 –> 00:56:38,200
to try and get away from the
situation to hide himself

795
00:56:38,200 –> 00:56:40,800
further.
And marks record says, at this

796
00:56:40,800 –> 00:56:47,900
point, he heard the cock Crow
the first time And that would

797
00:56:47,900 –> 00:56:52,500
have been a reminder to him.
They’ve what the Lord had said.

798
00:56:53,600 –> 00:56:56,700
And I think Peter must have put
that into his record, because he

799
00:56:56,700 –> 00:56:59,100
did hear it.
He did hear that, that cock

800
00:56:59,100 –> 00:57:00,700
Crow.
And he did remember what the

801
00:57:00,700 –> 00:57:03,700
Lord had said that he would deny
him and he remembered what he’d

802
00:57:03,700 –> 00:57:05,700
said the first time, he couldn’t
believe it.

803
00:57:05,800 –> 00:57:07,200
He couldn’t believe that
already.

804
00:57:07,200 –> 00:57:13,800
He denied his Lord, And then he
said to himself.

805
00:57:16,700 –> 00:57:17,900
I’m never going to do that
again.

806
00:57:20,900 –> 00:57:25,700
I can’t believe I did that.
I’m never going to do it again.

807
00:57:29,300 –> 00:57:39,400
Have you ever said that?
when you been tempted, and then

808
00:57:39,400 –> 00:57:45,100
when you’ve been drawn away by
your own lust and enticed, Have

809
00:57:45,100 –> 00:57:47,100
you ever said I’ll never do it
again?

810
00:57:50,500 –> 00:57:55,200
And then you do it again.
How do you say I’m never gonna

811
00:57:55,200 –> 00:58:00,600
do it again.
And then you do it again.

812
00:58:03,400 –> 00:58:08,800
That’s Peter here, isn’t it?
He’s in the midst of Temptation.

813
00:58:11,300 –> 00:58:15,400
And he’s learning.
As we all do in life.

814
00:58:18,000 –> 00:58:23,500
About our own weakness.
As much as we want to be strong.

815
00:58:25,000 –> 00:58:27,800
As much as what we want to stand
for the Lord.

816
00:58:31,000 –> 00:58:35,500
We can’t do it.
And that’s what paid is

817
00:58:35,500 –> 00:58:40,000
discovering In This Moment.
In the courtyard.

818
00:58:45,200 –> 00:58:50,200
And they come to him again.
And this time, it’s not just

819
00:58:50,200 –> 00:58:53,500
one.
There’s a lot of them.

820
00:58:55,700 –> 00:59:00,600
There’s a crowd of them.
And Peter stands with the crowd.

821
00:59:03,100 –> 00:59:08,500
Next to the fire.
It’s easy, isn’t it relatively

822
00:59:08,600 –> 00:59:12,800
to stand with Jesus and to
profess our love for him when

823
00:59:12,800 –> 00:59:19,000
we’re in here?
It’s a lot harder when you’re by

824
00:59:19,000 –> 00:59:24,100
yourself.
Or were alone with a different

825
00:59:24,100 –> 00:59:28,600
crowd.
And that’s where Peter is.

826
00:59:31,700 –> 00:59:35,400
What man?
Huddled around a fire.

827
00:59:37,200 –> 00:59:41,400
And you’re burning, isn’t he?
He’s learning what it’s like to

828
00:59:41,400 –> 00:59:46,100
be Tried by fire to refine his
character.

829
00:59:47,600 –> 00:59:53,200
To understand who he really is.
That’s what the Lord is doing to

830
00:59:53,200 –> 00:59:56,000
me.
That’s how God’s working with

831
00:59:56,000 –> 01:00:01,900
him.
And the maid asked him again.

832
01:00:04,100 –> 01:00:08,000
And she said unto them.
So a second maid comes.

833
01:00:10,000 –> 01:00:16,300
And she says before all of them.
You’re one of Jesus disciples,

834
01:00:16,300 –> 01:00:21,800
aren’t you?
And Peter denied it.

835
01:00:24,100 –> 01:00:27,700
And this time, he denied it with
a note so that everyone could

836
01:00:27,700 –> 01:00:31,000
hear and everyone would know
I’ve got nothing to do with him.

837
01:00:34,100 –> 01:00:38,700
Have you ever done that?
He might not have done it with

838
01:00:38,700 –> 01:00:42,100
an oath.
But I’ve done that.

839
01:00:45,400 –> 01:00:51,000
I’ve denied by Lord.
I’ve not stood up for him.

840
01:00:52,800 –> 01:00:56,700
And professed on you in.
When I should have done.

841
01:01:00,300 –> 01:01:02,000
We’re no different to this man,
are we?

842
01:01:02,200 –> 01:01:04,800
And that’s what I love about him
and that’s why I love how the

843
01:01:04,800 –> 01:01:07,400
scripture depicts him.
He’s just like us.

844
01:01:09,000 –> 01:01:14,800
And in moments of life, when we
should stand for Christ. for so

845
01:01:14,800 –> 01:01:23,600
many reasons we don’t and that’s
what Peter did and a while later

846
01:01:23,600 –> 01:01:37,000
verse 73 says Peter stood again
with the crowd. and John tells

847
01:01:37,000 –> 01:01:42,000
us that by this stage, The crowd
included soldiers.

848
01:01:44,600 –> 01:01:48,500
And some of those soldiers.
With a very soldiers.

849
01:01:49,900 –> 01:01:51,400
Which had been with him in the
garden.

850
01:01:53,900 –> 01:01:55,700
And Peter knew what he’d done in
the garden.

851
01:01:57,800 –> 01:02:01,700
He’d been the one with the sword
and he and John’s record says

852
01:02:01,700 –> 01:02:05,300
that the man that recognized
Peter this time.

853
01:02:07,600 –> 01:02:12,000
Was a relative.
Of the very man who’d cut he’s

854
01:02:12,000 –> 01:02:16,500
whose ear head cut off.
And what did that mean for

855
01:02:16,500 –> 01:02:20,200
Peter?
Well, if they recognized him

856
01:02:20,200 –> 01:02:25,400
now, with all these soldiers,
That take him, wouldn’t it?

857
01:02:29,000 –> 01:02:35,500
And that cast him into prison.
And then maybe they’d cast him

858
01:02:35,500 –> 01:02:40,900
to death.
And that’s what Peter had said,

859
01:02:40,900 –> 01:02:44,600
hadn’t.
He I’m ready, Lord.

860
01:02:46,800 –> 01:02:52,100
To go with you to prison.
And to go with you to death.

861
01:02:55,900 –> 01:03:01,300
And so, they ask him.
You are with him.

862
01:03:03,100 –> 01:03:05,500
And it wasn’t just one, it was a
number of them and they all

863
01:03:05,500 –> 01:03:08,800
said, started saying Your Voice.
Sounds like a Galilean.

864
01:03:08,900 –> 01:03:11,200
You’re absolutely definitely
with him.

865
01:03:11,300 –> 01:03:14,400
And the one that knew in that
saw him in the garden said it is

866
01:03:14,400 –> 01:03:27,700
him. and in that moment, the 74
says, He began to curse.

867
01:03:29,700 –> 01:03:35,700
And he began to swear.
And he said, I know not.

868
01:03:36,800 –> 01:03:41,400
That man.
And that was the old Simon

869
01:03:41,400 –> 01:03:45,600
coming out, wasn’t it?
He became the fishermen again.

870
01:03:47,300 –> 01:03:51,800
And he forgot all the things
that Jesus had taught to him in

871
01:03:51,800 –> 01:03:56,000
that moment.
And he wanted to make sure that

872
01:03:56,000 –> 01:04:00,900
everyone knew that he wasn’t
with Jesus.

873
01:04:05,100 –> 01:04:10,500
And at that moment, that exact
moment.

874
01:04:12,500 –> 01:04:17,600
As Peter was still voicing those
words, as they were still coming

875
01:04:17,600 –> 01:04:23,500
out of his mouth.
That he’d never ever known his

876
01:04:23,500 –> 01:04:28,700
Lord.
Verse 74 says.

877
01:04:30,700 –> 01:04:34,600
Immediately.
The cock crew.

878
01:04:37,000 –> 01:04:40,600
Luke’s record says while he was
still speaking.

879
01:04:42,900 –> 01:04:45,300
And Luke’s record also goes on
to say that.

880
01:04:45,300 –> 01:04:49,200
Not only that, not only did the
cock Crow at the exact moment

881
01:04:49,200 –> 01:04:53,000
that he was making his third
denial, not only that at the

882
01:04:53,000 –> 01:04:57,000
same moment, a door opens from
up the top, maybe of this

883
01:04:57,000 –> 01:04:59,700
priests house.
And at that very moment, our

884
01:04:59,700 –> 01:05:05,700
comes the Lord And threw a
perfect line of vision.

885
01:05:15,100 –> 01:05:21,500
He sees the Lord’s eyes.
And he looks upon him.

886
01:05:23,300 –> 01:05:26,700
And suddenly it all clicks
together, and he’s mind.

887
01:05:29,000 –> 01:05:33,700
Everything that’s happened that
night. everything, the Lord had

888
01:05:33,700 –> 01:05:41,600
said, Everything that he done.
And, you know, I think that’s

889
01:05:41,600 –> 01:05:45,900
beautiful.
And why I think that’s beautiful

890
01:05:45,900 –> 01:05:50,700
as hard as it is to read is that
that didn’t happen by accident,

891
01:05:50,700 –> 01:05:56,300
did it?
The Lord orchestrated that God’s

892
01:05:56,300 –> 01:06:00,400
Providence made all of that
happen, exactly as it did.

893
01:06:02,300 –> 01:06:05,600
So that people Peter would
experience that moment with the

894
01:06:05,600 –> 01:06:09,600
Lord, and by that experience
with the Lord, he would learn

895
01:06:09,700 –> 01:06:14,900
the lessons of that night.
And why I think that is so

896
01:06:14,900 –> 01:06:16,200
beautiful.
Is this?

897
01:06:18,000 –> 01:06:21,700
Sometimes we think God’s only
working in our life when we’re

898
01:06:21,700 –> 01:06:26,400
going well.
And we’re moving on the path.

899
01:06:26,400 –> 01:06:29,900
That we think that we should go
in, but this story tells us that

900
01:06:29,900 –> 01:06:34,400
even in our weakest and darkest
moments, has God, forsaken us

901
01:06:34,500 –> 01:06:35,700
has God.
Let us go.

902
01:06:35,900 –> 01:06:41,700
No, he’s working in our life.
To bring about change.

903
01:06:43,400 –> 01:06:47,200
To bring us closer to him.
Two motifs.

904
01:06:48,500 –> 01:06:52,300
To shape us.
And that’s a beautiful thing.

905
01:06:53,100 –> 01:06:58,000
Never feel like we’ve got into
such a spot that we can never

906
01:06:58,000 –> 01:07:00,700
return or that God would never
work with us.

907
01:07:00,800 –> 01:07:04,600
He’s always working.
That’s his character.

908
01:07:06,200 –> 01:07:09,700
He loves us.
And that’s what he’s doing for

909
01:07:09,700 –> 01:07:13,000
Peter.
And what would that look have

910
01:07:13,000 –> 01:07:15,900
been like?
What do you think that look?

911
01:07:15,900 –> 01:07:19,000
Would have been like as he
looked into the Lord’s eyes?

912
01:07:20,800 –> 01:07:22,400
We actually get a couple of
clothes.

913
01:07:24,000 –> 01:07:29,300
The same word looked.
That is used here when Peters

914
01:07:29,300 –> 01:07:33,400
eyes catch.
The Lord’s is the same word used

915
01:07:34,300 –> 01:07:38,100
when he first met him.
Remember when he met him for the

916
01:07:38,100 –> 01:07:40,600
first time?
It said he looked at him.

917
01:07:42,000 –> 01:07:45,900
And he knew who he was and what
was that look all about that.

918
01:07:45,900 –> 01:07:49,100
First look it was a look that
looked into the eyes of Peter

919
01:07:49,200 –> 01:07:55,600
and he knew his potential.
And that was the same look,

920
01:07:55,600 –> 01:07:59,800
that, that Jesus gave to Peter,
he had not given up on him.

921
01:08:01,800 –> 01:08:06,700
And the other time that word is
used is when Jesus was speaking

922
01:08:06,700 –> 01:08:11,000
to the Rich Young Ruler.
And it said that he looked upon

923
01:08:11,000 –> 01:08:14,500
that, man.
And he loved him.

924
01:08:17,399 –> 01:08:19,100
It was a Look of Love, wasn’t
it?

925
01:08:21,100 –> 01:08:25,800
And from that, parable.
It was a look of compassion.

926
01:08:29,899 –> 01:08:34,399
I understand Peter.
I understand.

927
01:08:39,300 –> 01:08:43,500
And Peter Runs Out.
Into the nine.

928
01:08:46,700 –> 01:08:51,899
And he weeps bitterly.
It would have going to be a

929
01:08:51,899 –> 01:08:54,000
tough few days for Peter, wasn’t
it?

930
01:08:55,300 –> 01:08:57,700
And it was so many things that
he was going to think about.

931
01:09:00,200 –> 01:09:03,399
But amongst all that anguish and
pain that he thought about over

932
01:09:03,399 –> 01:09:05,399
those three days.
And we’ll look at some of those

933
01:09:05,399 –> 01:09:06,899
things.
He would have gone through in

934
01:09:06,899 –> 01:09:11,300
our next study.
One of the things he must have

935
01:09:11,300 –> 01:09:15,100
thought about and gone through
in his mind.

936
01:09:17,100 –> 01:09:20,200
Despite his own weakness that
night.

937
01:09:21,899 –> 01:09:23,899
As he thought about the events
of that night.

938
01:09:26,200 –> 01:09:33,000
He must have been amazed.
At the behavior of the Lord.

939
01:09:35,100 –> 01:09:41,700
And every step of the way. when
he had fallen, The Lord had

940
01:09:41,700 –> 01:09:48,300
stood strong.
In the upper room when they had

941
01:09:48,300 –> 01:09:51,300
fought and were envious against
each other.

942
01:09:51,500 –> 01:10:00,300
He was humble when he’d slept
and was unable to support his

943
01:10:00,300 –> 01:10:05,200
master in the garden.
Jesus struggle.

944
01:10:08,900 –> 01:10:12,200
When they was confused in the
garden and all of them ran off

945
01:10:12,200 –> 01:10:14,200
into different directions Into
the Night.

946
01:10:15,800 –> 01:10:20,400
The Lord was calm.
The Lord was composed.

947
01:10:22,100 –> 01:10:27,600
The Lord knew exactly what he
needed to do. and when he was in

948
01:10:27,600 –> 01:10:33,100
the upper it when he was in the
the priests house, And he was

949
01:10:33,100 –> 01:10:37,500
wracked with fear.
And he denied his Lord.

950
01:10:40,100 –> 01:10:47,000
The Lord spoke truth.
And he stood for God. and I

951
01:10:47,008 –> 01:10:53,300
wonder whether you noticed in
verse 63, what the Lord said the

952
01:10:53,300 –> 01:10:57,600
question that the Lord was
asked, And it was this question,

953
01:10:57,700 –> 01:11:00,300
which was the question that
would send into his death?

954
01:11:00,400 –> 01:11:04,300
Look what it says in verse 63,
but Jesus help, sorry.

955
01:11:06,000 –> 01:11:09,000
But Jesus held his peace and the
high priest answered him and

956
01:11:09,000 –> 01:11:18,000
said I adjure Thee, By the
Living God. that you tell us

957
01:11:18,000 –> 01:11:24,700
whether you are the Christ, the
son of God, remember that was

958
01:11:24,700 –> 01:11:33,900
the same confession that Janet
Peter had made. and when it was

959
01:11:33,900 –> 01:11:40,000
going to cost him everything,
The Lord says in verse 63 64.

960
01:11:41,600 –> 01:11:46,700
thou Hast said, He stood for
truth, even though it cost him

961
01:11:46,700 –> 01:11:50,800
his own life.
Let’s finish in First Peter

962
01:11:51,200 –> 01:11:53,800
chapter 2, where we’ll just read
a couple of verses

963
01:12:05,200 –> 01:12:08,800
years later, when the law, when
Peter was looking back at the

964
01:12:08,800 –> 01:12:12,600
example of his Lord, he penned
these words.

965
01:12:14,900 –> 01:12:21,300
In his appreciation, for all the
Lord had done for him. for a

966
01:12:21,300 –> 01:12:27,200
even tear on to verse 21, says
of First, Peter chapter 2 for

967
01:12:27,200 –> 01:12:32,300
even hereunto, were we called
Because Christ also suffered for

968
01:12:32,300 –> 01:12:36,700
us, he left us an example that
we should follow in his steps.

969
01:12:38,100 –> 01:12:39,200
He did.
No sin.

970
01:12:40,100 –> 01:12:44,700
Neither was guile found in his
mouth who when he was reviled,

971
01:12:44,700 –> 01:12:49,000
he reviled not again, but when
he suffered, he threatened, not

972
01:12:49,300 –> 01:12:53,300
but committed himself to him
that judgeth righteously.

973
01:12:55,100 –> 01:12:59,500
Who his own self bare our sins
in his body?

974
01:13:01,200 –> 01:13:09,000
On the tree. that we being dead
to sins should live unto

975
01:13:09,000 –> 01:13:13,800
righteousness.
By whose stripes we are healed.

976
01:13:15,200 –> 01:13:20,400
For all of us.
Were like sheep going astray.

977
01:13:22,400 –> 01:13:26,700
But are now returned unto the
shepherd and Bishop of your

978
01:13:26,700 –> 01:13:31,500
souls.
And Peter is going to be brought

979
01:13:31,500 –> 01:13:35,300
back in our next session by that
Shepherd.

980
01:13:36,500 –> 01:13:42,100
As he runs out into the night.
Three things that we learnt from

981
01:13:42,100 –> 01:13:47,000
tonight.
One, the need for humility.

982
01:13:48,200 –> 01:13:52,900
And Peter learnt that tough
lesson that night didn’t he, he

983
01:13:52,900 –> 01:13:59,700
also came face to face with his
own weakness and all of us at

984
01:13:59,700 –> 01:14:05,800
some point will come to that
realization, but he also came to

985
01:14:05,800 –> 01:14:11,100
the realization of the amazing
strength of his Lord.