Summary
And you, when once you have turned back strengthen your brothers, he is telling Peter, you're going to turn, but when you come back, when you repent, when you come back, you need to firm up your brothers. Peter, we don't exactly know what's going on in his mind, but when he hears this in verse 33, he said to him, Lord, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death. We see this before cross after cross play out in the life of Peter, before the cross he's denying Christ so timid, so fearful and after the cross after the direction after Jesus ascended into the to the right hand of the Father in Acts the fourth chapter. They didn't like the courage of Peter that he had gained through the cross, they didn't like that he was proclaiming life in Christ and Christ alone and so they took him and John and they arrested them, but they didn't know what to do. Nothing, no one, nada, could separate him and because he had the love of Jesus and the full truth of the cross with him, he was courageous and bold to speak because it was no longer him, but it was Christ in him and he knew he didn't have to God it because Jesus had it and Jesus had him. So as we go forth today and into the week as you come up against those moments where you want or are tempted to be timid, step forward, speak with courage and with boldness that Christ has conquered, Christ has died, Christ has risen and Christ indeed will come again with Peter, with Peter, we know that we've got this because we know that Christ has got you.
Video citations
- "Courage through the Cross" 3-3-24 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, the 22nd chapter, if you're using a Pue edition of the Bible, this can be found on page 71 in the New Testament. We're in Luke the 22nd…