How to Completely Blow It:
- Trust your own STRENGTH . (Mk 14:29, 31)
- Disregard the WORD of God. (Mk 14:30-31)
- Neglect PRAYER . (Mk 14:37, 40-41)
- Worry about BLENDING in. (Mk 14:68, 70-71)
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Many, many, many years ago when my wife and I still got the newspaper, one of our favorite sections was the police reports.
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How many people read the police reports in the newspaper?
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Okay, many of you do.
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And there was this story, I mean we read it several times because it almost didn't seem true.
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But there was this story of this man who was out mowing his lawn and his tractor broke broke down.
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Well, he went over to his neighbor's house and just stole his neighbor's tractor right out of his shed.
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And the neighbor's wife was watching all of this take place as she's looking out the window and she calls the police.
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Like, hey, there's some guy that just stole my tractor.
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Well, the police respond immediately, and this man on the tractor leads the police on a chase He's on the mower driving down the road with the police in pursuit.
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I imagine he had to shift from turtle to rabbit.
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Is that how the tractor works?
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Well, the police caught up with him, and here the man not only had stolen the tractor, but while he was in the neighbor's shed or garage or wherever he pulled the tractor out of, he had his pockets full of his neighbor's tools and had stolen those as well.
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And the article said that when the police questioned the man, he simply put his head down and said, "I'm just having a really bad day." Have you ever had a bad day like that?
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The truth is, we all.
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You know, it's easy to make fun of something like that, but it's really a sad story because on the wrong day, that could be any one of us in this room.
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You get frustrated.
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You lose your patience.
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And you start to make stupid decisions after stupid decisions, and the next thing you know, you're the one saying, "I can't believe what I just did!
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I'm having a really bad day." The title of this message is "Failure - How the Mighty Fall." And if you've been with us, we've been walking through the Gospel of Mark in the fall.
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We saw that Jesus is Lord, picking up in February, Act 2 of this three-part act as we head down the Gospel according to Mark.
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We see that Jesus is the Lamb.
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And we've been talking about how Jesus, during this Passover meal, instituted the Lord's Supper and we talked about how Jesus was betrayed by one of his best friends, Judas.
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We talked about how Jesus was arrested.
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And last week, if you recall, we talked about Jesus' trial.
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Jesus' trial was an absolute circus, as they violated every rule of Jewish court of law in order to pass a death sentence on Jesus Christ.
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Well, the passage that we're going to look at today is meanwhile, while Jesus was in Caiaphas' living room in trial, meanwhile, here's what was happening in the courtyard.
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Now, back in these days, families often lived together.
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Their houses would be joined oftentimes in a rectangular pattern, and there'd be a courtyard in the middle.
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So understand when we're talking about the courtyard here, you'll see in a second as we set the scene, basically this scene moves from Caiaphas's living room to Caiaphas's patio.
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Okay?
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But we're going to actually start in verse 26.
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I just want to read these verses.
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If you go on our church's website, when we were going through the text, I blogged these is knowing that there are going to be some people that wanted the chronology of the verses, but I want to flash back to them because it ties in directly with what we're talking about today.
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So, everybody with me?
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Verse 26, Mark chapter 14 and verse 26.
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"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives," this was right after the institution of the Lord's Supper, verse 27 says, "and Jesus said to them, 'You "You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered, but after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.'" Peter said to Him, "Even though they all fall away, I will not." And Jesus said to him, "Truly, I tell you this very night before the rooster crows twice, You will deny Me three times." He, Peter, said emphatically, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." And they all said the same.
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And then we study Jesus goes to pray and Judas leads the temple guard and the Roman guard right to Jesus in the garden.
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Jesus is arrested.
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Jesus on trial.
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Meanwhile, let's jump down to verse 66.
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It says, "And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came.
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And seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.
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He denied it, saying, "I've neither known nor understand what you mean." And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.
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What does it mean he went out into the gateway?
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He went out basically this rectangular setup of houses in the middle.
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would be like tunnels or corridors from the outside leading into this inner courtyard. So what Peter did here, he was feeling a little heat coming on, so he kind of stepped into one of those little corridors. You can see the scene, right?
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He's in this courtyard with all these people. A little girl comes up to him and "You were with Jesus, right?" "I don't know what you're talking about." And he just kind of steps away like, "You might be getting on to me here. Let's get away from the heat. Then it says, "a rooster crowed." Verse 69 says, "and the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders." Okay, so this wasn't even directed at Peter. Now she's saying to other people. Okay, trying to step away from the heat, right? The heat's getting ramped up. So the servant girl says to these other people, "this man is one of them!" But again, he denied it. And after a little while, the The bystanders again said to Peter, "Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean." Now, how did they know that Peter was a Galilean?
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Actually, Matthew 26:73 tells us how they knew.
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They said, "Your accent gives you away." Ok?
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It was an accent.
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And you know, Pittsburgh people, live in a place that has a very unique accent, and how many times have you been out of town that somebody's like, "Hey, you must be from Pittsburgh.
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"I recognize your accent." Right, has that happened to anybody here?
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I know, I call people out.
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Like if I'm at Starbucks and the barista goes, "You know, what can I get y'all?" Or like, "Y'all, huh?
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"Like you're not from around here." He's like, "How did you know that?" I say, "Because I'm psychic." No, I say, "Because if you're from Pittsburgh, you wouldn't say you all.
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You would say, "Yins." Right, like you're not from around here.
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Okay, so that was the kind of thing that was happening here.
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They're like, "We can tell by the way you talk.
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"You're from Galilee.
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"And if you're from Galilee, "you must be with the Nazarene Jesus.
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"Your accent is a giveaway, dude.
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"The way you talk, we know you're with Jesus." Verse 71, "But he began to," look at this, invoke a curse on himself, and to swear, "I do not know this man of whom you speak." What does it mean he was cursing himself?
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What that means, he was saying, "may God strike me dead if I know this man.
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I don't know him.
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I swear to you, on my mother's grave, I don't know this man." It says, verse 72, immediately the rooster crowed a second time.
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What's the significance of the rooster crowing twice?
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Well, what that shows us is that some time passes.
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Okay?
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It doesn't mean like the rooster crowed then five minutes later.
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This would have taken place probably over the course of a couple of hours.
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It says, after the rooster crowed a second time, it says, "And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times." And he broke down and wept.
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Not Peter's finest hour, was it?
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And you can look at this passage and say, how in the world did this happen?
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This is the same Simon Peter, right?
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The same one who walked on water with Jesus for a while?
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The same Simon Peter who confessed Jesus is the Christ.
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Remember that?
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The same Simon Peter who said, "These guys will deny you Jesus, but I never will." The same Simon Peter who said, "I will die before I deny you." The same Simon Peter who, when the guards showed up, he grabbed his sword and started swinging and knocked a guy's ear off with it.
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That guy?
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This strong personality.
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this bold man of conviction who was swinging his sword in the face of hundreds of guards, now all of a sudden is confronted by a little girl.
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A little girl says, "Are you with Jesus?" And he's scared to death all of a sudden.
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He's lying.
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All of a sudden.
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Not Peter's finest hour.
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You'd say, "Well, Peter, you blew it." And church, let me ask you, do you have plans to blow it?
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How many people here today would say, "You know what, I can identify with this passage because I have plans in my life to really blow it.
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In fact, it's on my bucket list.
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I want to make a complete train wreck in my life.
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I want to set out, and I want to be like Peter.
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I want to be like the guy on the tractor.
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I want to be a guy that at the end of the day is like, wow, I made a mess of my life.
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How many people have that on your to-do list?
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Anybody?
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How many people are like, you know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to have an affair.
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I'm going to cheat on my spouse.
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That's what I'm going to do.
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There's nobody sitting here today thinking that.
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Is there somebody here today thinking, you know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to steal from my employer.
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Yeah, and I know just how I'm gonna do it.
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I'm going to steal from my employer and I'm going to get away with it.
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And eventually though, I'm going to get caught and I'm going to blow it.
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You don't have plans for that, do you?
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Is there anybody here that says, you know what's on my list today, Pastor Jeff, today, March the 8th, my plans are to lose my temper towards my children.
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Those are my plans today.
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Anybody have those kinds of plans?
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Like, this is silliness.
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Of course, I'm not going to have an affair.
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I'm not going to steal.
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I'm not going to lose my temper with my children and hurt that relationship.
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I'm not going to do that.
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I want to remind you that when Jesus told Peter, you're going to deny that you even know me.
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Peter was like, oh, that's not in the plans.
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That's not on my to-do list.
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There's no way that's gonna happen.
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So for you to sit here today and say, There's no way.
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There's no way that I could have an affair.
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There's no way that I would ever steal from work.
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There's no way I would lose my temper with my kids.
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If you're sitting here today saying that, you're standing beside Peter.
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Because 1 Corinthians 10, 12, write that reference down.
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1 Corinthians 10, 12 says, "Therefore, let anyone who thinks he stands "take heed lest he fall." I'm gonna read that again.
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"Therefore, let anyone who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall.
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Who here today is capable of completely blowing it?" The answer is every one of us.
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Bob, you're capable, man.
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It can happen to you, Bob.
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It can.
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It could happen to you.
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It could happen to me.
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Every single one of us are capable.
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Every single one of us are one bad decision away.
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You know, little series of compromises here and there.
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A couple of bad decisions.
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Every one of us are capable of blowing it.
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Like, wow, did I make a mess of my life.
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Really quick.
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I wish I could turn back the clock and go back to Sunday morning, March the 8th, when Pastor Jeff was talking about this stuff, because I blew it.
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We're all capable.
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You're like, "Well, how does that happen?" I want you to jot some notes down on your outline how to completely blow it.
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Here's how you do it.
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If this is on your to-do list, and I know it's not, but if you decided you were going to put, "I want to completely blow it," on your to-do list, here's how you do it.
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This is the Simon Peter way, by the way.
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That's what I have in my notes.
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Here's how to completely blow it, the Simon Peter way.
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Number one, trust your own strength.
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Trust your own strength.
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Look back at verse 29 with me.
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After Jesus says, "You're all going to fall away," Peter said to him, "Even though they all fall away, I will not." Ouch.
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How do you think that went over?
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like Jesus and the disciples and Jesus is addressing all of me says you're you're all gonna fall away and Peter's like them maybe me no Judas yeah probably you know Matthew yeah more than likely James and John for sure me No way. No way. No way.
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And even for those of us today sitting here who are born again, people who are spiritually alive, church, you are still living in fallen flesh.
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And the Bible says - this is a whole theology lesson for another time, but understand this for our purposes today.
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Understand that you, born again redeemed, you still live in fallen flesh that lures you and lures me making foolish choices.
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James talks about this.
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Every one of us are lured and enticed by our own desires.
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God doesn't tempt us to sin.
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James says we tempt ourselves to sin.
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We live in this fallen flesh that still has a sin craving sort of built into it.
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So we're born again.
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We have the Spirit of Christ in us, but we're still living in this corrupt, fallen flesh.
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Paul says in Romans 7, "We do not do the things that we wish." because of that.
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And you and I have this temptation to trust in our own strength at times.
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And that's called pride.
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That's called pride.
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When you start saying, "I'm strong enough.
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I have the ability." That's pride.
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When you think you're beyond temptation, you're in the greatest danger can possibly be in.
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I went to a Bible college that taught this insane doctrine called entire sanctification, which meant that you-- OK, so you're living a pagan life, and you have this crisis of faith where you come to faith in Jesus Christ, and God dispenses this first act of grace where you're justified.
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But then as you're a Christian, and you're growing as a Christian, you have this next dispensation of God's grace where you're entirely sanctified. And they would teach that during that second act of grace, temptation to sin is completely removed from you. That saved, justified, sanctified, the very presence of sin in your life is removed. The temptation has gone forever. Is that anybody's experience here? If you're like, "Dude, I'm entirely sanctified and I have not been tempted to sin at all, like since 1972 or whatever," please talk to me. I want to talk to you about that. Because, boy, they sure taught this doctrine but I have not met one person that can honestly say, "I'm beyond temptation." Because the people that I've met that have thought that are in for a fall just like Peter.
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16, 18 says pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. And I did at this Bible college, I met people that believed that. They're like, "Yeah, I'm entirely sanctified. I'm entirely sanctified. I'm not even tempted to sin anymore." Wow. That guy is about to find his car upside down in a ditch with the wheel spinning. I'm not even tempted to sin. It is completely unbiblical. And I've shared with you before, I have a lot of pastor friends. A lot of pastor friends that are still friends but aren't pastors anymore. Because they thought They were a little too good to be tempted.
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I've watched pastor friends throw away their ministry/vocation/marriage/family because of a little thing happening in a counseling appointment with a woman.
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Pastors will be like, "Well, that would never happen to me." "Hey, pastor, do you plan on having an affair today?" "No, I would never do that.
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I preach and teach about marriage.
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I wrote a blog about marriage.
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I've written books about marriage.
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I would never have an affair with my wife.
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I understand the biblical blueprints for marriage.
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It can't happen to me.
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Yeah, it did happen to you.
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And see, I can look at all these pastor friends and think, wow, boy, that was really stupid.
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He threw everything away for some woman.
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Boy, that was really stupid of him.
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and realizing that could happen to me.
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So like Peter, if you want to completely blow it, what you need to do is trust your own strength.
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If you're like, no, I don't want to blow it, Pastor Jeff, well, write these two things down under trust your own strength.
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If you're like, I'm on the I don't want to blow it plan, here's two things I want you to write down.
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Number one, don't overestimate yourself.
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Don't overestimate yourself.
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You are weak on your own.
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I don't want to hear about, oh, my family, we're all stubborn.
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We're all pig-headed.
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I'm too pig-headed to ever do something foolish like that.
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Save it.
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You're capable of being tempted just like Peter was, just like I am, just like many other people I've seen make a shipwreck of the faith.
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Don't overestimate yourself.
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On your own, you are weak.
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On your own, you are weak.
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Apart from Jesus Christ, do you know what you are?
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Nothing.
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You have no strength.
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On your own.
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How many times did we sing about that just this morning?
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You know, Christ is enough.
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Christ is enough.
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Jesus Christ is our very life.
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He's our very strength.
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from Him you don't have it.
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So number one, don't overestimate yourself.
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Number two, don't compare yourself with others.
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That's what Peter did.
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They might fall away, but not me.
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Don't compare yourself with others.
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As soon as I think that I'm stronger than the next guy, I'm smarter than the next guy, I'm better than the next guy, I'm just a little above that, I am setting myself wide open.
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Pride goes before destruction.
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So if you're self-confident, you're going to blow it.
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You want to blow it to Simon Peter way, the first thing you need to do is to just have a healthy dose of self-confidence and you're going to blow it.
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I am persuaded of better things for you.
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Number two, how to completely blow it to Simon Peter way.
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Number two, disregard the Word of God.
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We saw that in verse 30.
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Jesus knew what was going to happen with Peter.
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He knew that Peter was going to trust his own strength.
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He knew that Peter was going to ignore this very statement that he was making, because Peter did it immediately.
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Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, this very night before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times." Here's Peter again.
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"If I must die with you, I will not deny you." Jesus called it and Peter's answer was, "No way!
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Not me!" And when we're faced with temptations, it's easy for us to disregard the Word of God.
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I heard, I think it was David Jeremiah said, this is a great quote, he said, "Waiting until a crisis to decide your values is like trying to buckle your seatbelt as you are crashing." And maybe that illustration resonated with me because of totaling a car in January.
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But yeah, when your car is crashing, that's not the time to try to figure out how to get Put your seatbelt on.
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The issue of your identity in Jesus Christ is settled.
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I don't have to wonder what to do if I know who I am in Jesus Christ.
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That's why we have the Word of God to equip us ahead of time.
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I just want to encourage you in this church, if your focus is to not sin as a Christian, you're going to start frustrating yourself.
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You're going to say, "My goal is to not sin." I hear what you're saying, Pastor Jeff, and you're right.
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My goal is I'm not going to have an affair.
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My goal is I'm not going to steal from work.
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My goal is I'm not...
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What was the third thing?
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Oh yeah, I'm not going to lose my temper with my kids.
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I'm not going to do those things.
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If you understand your identity in Christ, you should be saying things a little bit differently.
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You should be saying things like, because of who I am in Christ, I understand what Christ has called me to in marriage.
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I understand this beautiful gift that I have in my wife.
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And I understand how it's my job to nurture that gift and to look after that gift.
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I'm going to try not to have an affair.
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I'm looking at things from Christ's perspective.
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This is who I am in Christ.
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He's called me to love my wife.
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He's called me to love my wife as Christ loved the church.
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You see how that puts a different perspective on it?
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It's not that I'm trying not to sin.
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It's I'm so focused on who I am in Christ, that I'm not even thinking about the sin.
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Instead of saying, you know, I'm going to try not to steal at work.
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Who am I in Christ?
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I'm somebody that God has given every resource that I need.
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God will provide every single thing that I need.
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I don't even need to think about that.
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Because God's going to give me what I need.
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Instead of thinking, I'm going to try really hard today to not lose my temper with my kids, I'm going to instead focus on the fact that God's Spirit dwells in me and one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is patience.
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And I should say instead, God, let the fruit of the patience of the Holy Spirit be made manifest in me today.
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Do you see how that makes a difference?
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Does that make sense?
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Not doing that is disregarding the Word of God.
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Peter ran into trouble there.
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If you disregard the Word of God, you are going to blow it.
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Let the Word of God equip you ahead of time.
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Psalm 119, 111, "Your Word have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against you." You know, you want the Word of Christ to dwell in you richly.
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Number three, neglect prayer.
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You want to blow it the Simon Peter way, the third thing you need to do is neglect prayer.
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We did a whole sermon on this.
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It's on the website.
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I'm not going to rehash all of that, but I do want to circle back very quickly.
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I want to remind you that Jesus told the disciples to pray that they may not enter into temptation.
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Temptation to what?
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Temptation to sleep during prayer time.
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Temptation to bail when things got rough.
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Temptation to deny Jesus.
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No prayer means no power over temptation.
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I'm sure there are people here that can think back to times in their life that they have blown it.
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Think back to a time in your life that you're like, "Man, I really messed up.
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I really messed that up.
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I really messed that up." Let me ask you, how was your prayer life during that season of your life before you really messed up?
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Like, "Oh yeah, man, I was on my knees every day crying out to the Lord and then I messed up." That's typically not it.
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It's during a season of prayerlessness.
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You're not in communion with God consistently and constantly, and you're leaving yourself open.
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You're not tapping into the power that you need.
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And instead, when you're prayerless, you get back to what we talked about in point one.
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You just start trusting your own strength.
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Tapping into the power of God.
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So, if you neglect prayer, you're going to blow it.
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And finally, if you want to blow it the Simon Peter way, you've got to worry about blending in.
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You've got to worry about blending in.
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That's how you blow it.
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Verse 54 says that Peter followed Jesus at a distance.
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That's a temptation that we can all fall into.
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Keep Jesus at a distance.
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You see what happened with Peter here.
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I'm going to follow Jesus at a distance, and these people that I'm around, they're not real big fans of Jesus, so I'm going to try to keep it a secret that I associate with Jesus.
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Do you see that?
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Because church, we have the same temptation.
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You know, when we go to a workplace that is full of non-Christians.
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You're like, well, I'm a follower of Jesus, but these people really aren't into the whole church thing, So, I'm still a follower, but I just want to blend in with these people that aren't fans of Jesus.
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You're setting yourself up for problems when you're trying to blend in.
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I hope people don't recognize that I associate with Jesus.
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You're going to run into problems.
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Did you notice Peter, he denied Jesus three times.
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Mark doesn't give us the second quote, but I think you can see very plainly from the text how Peter's denials escalated. Did you see that? The first one was like, "I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about." By the time we get to the third denial, what did Peter do? Screaming and cursing, you know, swearing, calling down God's curses on himself.
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You see how his denial quickly escalated? And if we're not careful, if we're more interested and blending in with the world, we have a tendency to ramp it up too.
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"Oh yeah I go to church. Yeah, I go to church. I mean, I mean, I mean, my wife wants me to go to church, I mean, so I kind of go with her, and it' okay. I mean, the pastor's not great, or anything. I'm like, I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, I guess I call myself Christian.
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I guess I call myself a Christian, you know, but, you know, I"m not like radical about it, and It ramps up to the point of you don't want anybody associating you with Jesus.
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Much like Peter did.
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When you're looking for fellowship in the wrong place, you're going to find yourself doing all kinds of things you wouldn't do or say normally.
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Young people, young people, listen up.
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Because the old people, they're already sold on this.
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The young people, you're not sold on it yet.
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But you can ask any of the old people here and they will verify that this is true.
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people are you listening? I want to see your eyes young people. Are you listening?
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Young people, I'm like Santa Claus. I see you when you're sleeping and I know when you're awake. Young people, you act just like the people you hang around. Old people, true or false? True. You act like the people that you hang around.
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And before we make this a public roast of Simon Peter, I like to try to give people the benefit of the doubt and I really think, I really think deep down Peter probably thought his motives were good. I just want to blend in. I just want to be close to Jesus but I can't really be close to Jesus if these people find out that I'm like one of his like most you know sincere followers so I'm just I'm just going to keep my distance.
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You become like the people that you hang around.
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1 Corinthians 15 says bad company corrupts good character.
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That's why fellowship is so important.
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That's why small group is so important.
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That's why when Dan Thompson gets up here and says, young people, you need to come to this student ministry that we're starting, because you need to be around some people that love Jesus and are going to teach you about what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
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That's why you need to make this a priority.
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That's why Satan doesn't want you to be there.
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Because you're going to become like the people you hang around.
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Peter didn't have this problem of denying Jesus while he was with the other disciples.
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Did you notice that?
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He was always going over the top to show how he was so much more devoted to Jesus when the other disciples were around.
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But you get him around a bunch of people of Jesus, Peter tried to act just like them. So if your primary concern is to appease those around you, you're going to blow it. The very last verse in chapter 14.
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When that rooster crowed, that was a sign that brought the crushing reality home to Peter and your Bible says, "And he broke down and wept." You see that scene?
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He heard that rooster crow and he immediately he remembered what Jesus said.
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He wept. Why did he weep? I failed. I was so foolish.
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Jesus was right. So we look at this passage I think we can all agree that Peter blew it. The sad reality is you will too. And so will I, but good news this was not the end of Peter's story. If you go to John chapter 21 you see that Jesus after his resurrection restored Peter.
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And I want to close this message by reminding you that when you blow it, even after hearing a message like this, when you blow it, it's not the end of your story either. Our God is about grace. Our God is about restoration. Our God is not about you walking around the rest of your life with your head down saying, "I Jesus wouldn't let Peter live there, and He's not going to let you live there either.
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He's a God of restoration.
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So maybe there's somebody here today that says, "You know what, Pastor Jeff, I recently went through a bad season in my life.
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I made some bad choices.
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I just want to pray." Father in heaven, I pray for every single one of us this morning that we would not get this idea that we're better than the next guy or that we're above temptation.
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This is a very sad account that we read in your Word today, Father, but I thank you so much that this wasn't the end of Peter.
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Your Word doesn't tell us that after this event, Peter just went off by himself and lived a life of misery and shame.
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Your Word tells us that Jesus Christ came and restored him.
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Father, there are some people in this room right now who need to experience that.
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People who have been feeling guilt and shame that you have dealt with once and for all on the cross.
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People that don't need to walk around with their head down.
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People that don't need to feel shame and guilt.
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People that need to once again come to an understanding that Jesus took all of that away when he died on the cross for our sin.
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Father, we thank You that You've given us the resources.
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We thank You that You're the God of the second chance and the third chance, the fifth chance, the tenth chance, and it goes on.
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Father, have Your way among us.
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I pray that this would be a time of healing.
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We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Mark 14:26-31, 66-72
Define pride (Mk 14:29, 31). Why do prideful people have such potential to "completely blow it" like Peter did?
"You become like the people you hang around." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why? What would this mean for a Christian trying to blend in with worldly people (at work, school, etc)?
Breakout Questions:
Did you abide through prayer and Bible reading this week? What specifically are you moved to change or apply this week and how are you going to apply it? Pray for one another.
