Peter's Denial (Mark 14:66-72)
Bob Schultz, March 29, 2015Part of the Sunday Messages series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
This week we will study Mark 14:66-72 and wrestle with the three part denial of Peter. What's interesting about this passage is that it's as much about us as it is Peter. We learn timeless lessons on our total depravity and spiritual overconfidence. Not to mention the positive promise that God restores those who truly repent after monumental spiritual failures.
Mark 14:66–72 (Listen)
66 And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” 68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. 69 And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.” 70 But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.” 71 But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.” 72 And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. 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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