13
Mar

How to Be a Consistent Christian

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