The Middle - Week 3

“Get Up”

 

Luke 22

 

31 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 

 

32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

 

33 But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”

 

34 Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”

 

 

54 Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. 

 

55 And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. 

 

56 A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.”

 

57 But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said.

 

58 A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied.

 

59 About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.”

 

60 Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. 

 

61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” 

 

62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.

 

 

 

 

The Devil’s Desires 

 

 

Unfailing Faith 

 

 

Proximity

Place

People 

 

People are either a plus or a minus in your life. 

— John Maxwell 

 

 

Persistent Pressure 

 

 

 

Peter denies his relationship with Jesus.

 

Peter disassociates himself from the disciples. 

 

Peter denounces his personal revelation. 

 

 

 

Have you ever broken a promise to God?

 

 

 

Luke 24 

 

9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 

 

10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 

 

11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 

 

12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

 

 

 

However 

 

 

What am I going to do right now?  

 

 

Get Up!