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Introduction
Opening - Lead with a Story!
Textual Idea - Peter Fails Twice in Admitting He knows Jesus
Main Idea - When the Pressure Mounts will You Admit you Know Jesus?
Transition -
Remember in the last scene, the High Priest, Annas sent Jesus off to the High Priest for that year, Caiaphas to face another illegal, Jewish trial.
1. Do You Buckle Under the Pressure of Direct Confrontation? (vs.
25)
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Standing by the fire warming himself and standing with the enemies of Jesus.
Jesus stands in front of a different fire.
Look at what Jesus was dealing with while Peter was warming himself.
Jesus is on trial before Caiaphas.
The synoptics fill in the gaps here (Matt 26:57-68; Mark 14:53-65; Luke 22:54) and Mark’s account is the most robust...
By the way, Jesus had to meet with Caiaphas for an official trial in order to have the opportunity to go before the Roman Governor...
So while all of this is going on at 2 am Friday morning, Peter is comforting himself by a fire while standing with sinners.
An interesting contrast.
Jesus is standing for the truth and not comfortable at all.
Imagine, Jesus is being interrogated and Peter is scared to death!
After all, it wasn’t too long ago that Annas asked Jesus about His disciples.
Perhaps Peter overheard this exchange and it freaked him out?
Something gave his identity away.
Maybe it was the light of this fire that caused someone to see Peter’s face and recognize him?
Peter, couldn’t catch a break!
He just wanted to remain incognito to see what what going on with Jesus.
And now, over and over people keep pestering him about who he is and does he have a relationship with the guy on trial!
This is the second time someone has asked him the same question...
Do you see his response?
First look at how he responds to the accusation in verse 17
Now look again at how he responds in verse 25...
He denied it!
“I am not”!
“I AM NOT”
Jesus response to the soldiers?
“I AM HE”
‘John has constructed a dramatic contrast wherein Jesus stands up to his questioners and denies nothing, while Peter cowers before his questioners and denies everything’ (Brown, 2. 842).
But what is really interesting is when we harmonize the accounts, according to Matthew, there was another denial between John 18:17 and 25.
Look at Matthews account...
Folks, pardon my phrasing here, I mean no disrespect, but in quoting the Apostle Peter, it is as if he is saying, “I swear to God I do not know the man!”
Illustrate - Something about one person not admitting to knowing anther person out of embarrassment and
Argue - The pressure was mounting on Peter.
More and more accusation (albeit true ones) were mounting against Him.
Peter was buckling under the pressure.
Do you notice a contrast in this chapter?
Jesus before the roman soldiers?
Jesus before Annas -
Peter before the door keeping servant girl -
And as He warmed himself in front of the fire and was confronted by the officers and the servants?
“I am not”
John is laying our a very clear contrast between the perfect boldness of Jesus and the frail fear of Peter and the other disciples.
He, they buckled under the scrutiny and immense pressure of being a disciple of Jesus.
Apply -
Review - When the Pressure Mounts, Will you Admit you Know Jesus?
Do you buckle under the pressure of direct confrontation?
2. Are You Broken Over the Reality of Determined Failure (vs.
26-27)
Here again we see yet another denial from the Apostle Peter.
In the Thomas and Gundry “A Harmony of the Gospels” the authors claim that between the four gospels there are at least 4 times Peter denied Jesus.
Over and over when given the opportunity to stand for truth, Peter buckled under the pressure.
In his gospel account, John moves from the rooster crowing right into the trial before Pilate.
But the other gospels paint a more complete picture for us...
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Argue - Jesus loves Peter even though He screwed up big-time.
Jesus Knew this would happen, said it would happen and it happened and brought him back in.
He knows our sins before we sin and still
Apply -
Review - When the Pressure Mounts, Will you Admit you Know Jesus?
Do you buckle under the pressure of direct confrontation? 1.
2. Are You Broken over the reality of determined failure?
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