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Mark chapter 14, verses 30 and 31.

And Jesus said to Peter, truly I tell you this very night before the rooster crows twice,

you will deny me three times. But Peter emphatically if I must die with you I will not deny you

and they all said the same this is such a sobering passage to read, particularly when you know what happens later,

when you know that Peter, despite his heart in this moment, his insistence that he would never deny Jesus,

that he would rather die than deny Jesus.

And that's quite a statement.

I mean, Peter is saying what I trust we would all want to say

and maybe might say if we were in Peter's shoes.

Like, no way.

No way. Jesus, no way. No way.

Jesus, my life is yours.

Like, my hope's in you.

There's no way I would deny you.

But is it possible for us and our sinfulness to do things that would be unthinkable to us at one moment.

And yet the lure of sin and our pride and self-preservation and self-focus in the moment,

we do what we never thought we would have done.

Even as I say that, this passage is so humbling in so many ways. just yeah it drives us to pray god may it not be so

god there's so many unthinkable things that we just confess right now that we in our sinfulness, as much as we would

like to say, we would never do that.

We just confess, we are weak and we are prone to do, to say, to not say, things that we never thought would happen.

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