Matthew 26:57-75

Peace: the calm assurance that what God is doing is best

Hope: the confident expectation of something better ahead based on God’s promises

The inconsistent Christian – from the highest heights to the lowest valleys

• Matthew 26:41

Jesus on trial

• Matthew 26:57-68
• John 2:19-21
• Psalm 110:1
• Daniel 7:13

Peter on trial

• Matthew 26:69-75

The true cost of failure is not measured in tears but in the distance of lost fellowship that we experience.

Where could the conversation have led Peter?

• To speak for Jesus
• To speak about Jesus

What do you do when your language betrays you?

Two paths, two choices

The Sanhedrin

• Jesus is the Messiah
• Jesus is a blasphemer

Peter

• Jesus is the Messiah and I will speak for him
• Jesus is the Messiah but I will act in fear

Jesus

• I am the Messiah and boy, are you in trouble
• I am the Messiah, humbly submitting to the will of the Father

GRACE

The Sanhedrin

• If the Bible is true…
• Saving grace to believe

Peter

• If I truly seek to live for Jesus…
• Empowering grace to be bold

Jesus

• If I want to live in the fullness of God’s will…
• Sustaining grace to live completely in his will

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