John 18:25-27 – Peter’s Second and Third Denials
- “ The End is just the Beginning”
- Peter is asked a second and then third time if he is a disciple of Jesus.
- How depressed must he have felt when that rooster crowed!
- It was not that he was caught out.
- The relative of the man who’s ear was cut off did not know it was him for sure. The light in the garden was very dim and the same in the courtyard where there was a small fire that burned but never flamed. It was very dark and Peter in both places far too dark for the man to ever be certain.
- But that is not the point – Peter would have been crushed to hear the animal’s cry.
- He found out something bad about himself that he had never guessed – he could betray Jesus.
- It must have felt like the end!
- And yet sometimes the end is just the beginning.
- In fact sometimes our real ministry and influence cannot start until something comes to an end. That something is usually something in us.
- In Peter’s case; pride.
- Wonder what it will be in my case?
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