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Peter’s Denial
Good morning everyone!
We hope you’ve had a great week!
It was a hot week here in our community and man oh man, God was at work!
We had a great week hosting the community Youth Sports Camp!
We had missionaries from Georgia, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, and Portugal.
and we had a good group of local volunteers that did so much each day as well.
They came and worked hard and you never heard them complain.
They served with a kingdom mindset.
About 85+ kids everyday, and it was amazing watching them, seeing the team minister and work with them.
Sharing the word with them each day and knowing that Kingdom seeds were being planted..
And there was a harvest....
Harvest info.......
I want to thank you for investing in the lives of so many young people, what a huge blessing!!
So Today we come back to the gospel of Matthew and we are going to look at Matthew 26, verse 30-35.
This passage is a famous one, it is the passage of the Jesus words to the disciples and to Peter, telling them… soon you will deny me.
These are hard words to swallow my friends, I can imagine Peter and many more o those disciples thinking, what?
How could he think he would be guilty of such a thing????
He love Jesus.
And all those but Judas did love Jesus, there is no doubt about that…But love will only take you so far in the midst great turmoil, there has to be commitment.
So lets look at our text today my friends....
So remember where we are, it is the night of Jesus arrest, they have just celebrated the passover with Jesus and in doing so Jesus has brought and instituted new covenant with them.
And when they had finished Jesus led them out of the Upper room and out of the city, by the Eastern gate to the Mount of Olives.
Here Jesus will take with them, and is words will be so difficult to hear...
So lets begin here with this first thought today.
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A Prophecy....
As the disciples left the upper room, they had no idea what the night held for them, they had no idea that His hour was upon them.. Jesus was about to be betrayed.
Remember, Jesus has told them, one would....
But they really couldn’t comprehend that… Why would any of them betray him..
The thought seemed so out of place.
And now as they make their way to the Garden of Gethsemane, on the eastern side of the city.
Jesus delivers another word of prophecy to them.
You will abandon me, you will fall way… Look at verse Matthew 26:31
Wow, We forget that while Judas falls away and betrays Jesus… this night, all will fall away, all will fail Jesus.
They will all flee Jesus, Let me take you ahead to verse 56 in this chapter…Matt 26:56
I cannot imagine the events these disciples will face emotionally, spiritually…All they know, their lives will be turned upside down.
But I can tell you this, they were scared.
And in a moment when they should have remained close to the Master, in a moment when he needed them close, praying .....they fled and in doing so they fulfilled what was said in the Scriptures.
Now when Jesus tells the disciples, “I will strike the Shepard and the sheep will be scattered” he changes that verse by placing in it what perhaps is implied..
In saying “I will strike the shepherd...” We see this is the work of the father.
The suffering, punishment, death and yes the future resurrection is the work of God....
The action God commands … remember John....3, verse 16
Even though sinful men will do these action, God is the one who is at work to redeem the world unto himself.
This prophecy Jesus shares with them, He, the Good Shepherd was about to be struck down and the sheep… His disciples would be scattered not knowing what to do,
Well, not till he visits them again..Remember that after the resurrection, while they are in hiding, terrified and worried in the upper room… Jesus will come to them.
So we see a prophecy, Jesus reminded them that Scripture was about to be fulfilled in and through him.
It was difficult to hear, but truthful.
Now lets move forward and look at The plan Jesus was giving them....
2. A Plan to Remember...
As Jesus walked with His disciples along the way that evening, moving toward the Mount of Olives, we know he shared a prophecy with them, we just looked at that thought.
But then, Jesus gives them some encouraging words.
He tells them he will see them again, very soon in fact.
Look at verse 32
Now this is important my friends… Here is why....
First....
A. Jesus tells them of His resurrection.
Now this is important.
Why? - He has been talking about his death, that He would be betrayed, that He (the Son of Man) must suffer and die at the hands of sinful men.
That the Good Shepherd, God’s Messiah that Zechariah foretold would be cut off and the people scattered.
Death was coming....
But death wasn’t the end...
He is the resurrection and the life....
The resurrection is important...
Lets think about them, in that day… the Pharisees believed in a general resurrection from the dead, that at the last day God would call up everyone and judge them.
some to life and some to death.
Some Jews didn’t believe in the resurrection… But here we know some did and what is Jesus affirming?
He is affirming the resurrection.
He says after I am raised up (reminding them He will suffer and die) … Jesus says death isn’t the end......
Jesus would suffer and die, be buried in a empty tomb and rise on the third day.
The resurrection tells us that what God has promised for the Son is the same truth that He has promised for us.
Paul in the book of Colossians tells us that He is the firstborn of the dead...
What does this mean.... Jesus is the first to experience the resurrection.
To be brought back to life and to never die again.
And since Jesus lived, died and rose again, all those in Christ will as well.
why…verse 20 We have been reconciled… made right friends.
So the resurrection is important.
His resurrection guarantees our resurrection.
And then listen to what Jesus tells them....
B. I Will Go Before You....
Not only will I be raised up, but when I am, I will go before you into Galilee...
Now we know Jesus will see them in the upper room, there in Jerusalem, but He will also go before them and they will be with Him, walking with Him like they did before in Galilee.
Galilee is a special place to for them, it is there away from the city that Jesus and they alongside of him ministered and loved the people who they encountered.
So these two phrases are meant to be remembered, they needed to know they would see Him again.
The disciples needed that assurance.
But in the midst of that assurance, Peter is still thinking about his going way, and that someone would betray him.
This brings me to my last thought of the morning...
3. A Protest ....
Peter is a leader, and at times we could be really hard on him.
But can we - really?
We don’t always get it right either...
Peter in that leadership mentality steps up and says what is on his heart and mind, “.....I will be faithful...”
But that is easily said at times.... and its not that we don't mean it, but we’ve really not been tested yet...
I think the same is true of Peter here....
Look with me at verse 33....
Now he is pretty bold, even if all fall away,his protest is simple.
Lord, I don’t know about the rest of this lot, But I promise you I’m different.
I will stand faithful....
I believe he meant it…
But lets look at what Jesus says in return to Peter....
Wow,
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