This is Amy Hall, and I'm here with Greg Kokel.

You're listening to Stand to Reason's hashtag STR-esque podcast.

Right.

You ready for the first question, Greg?

Yes, ma'am.

All right.

This one comes from George.

Faced with death, if they do not denounce their faith, can a Christian pretend to denounce

in order to get out of the situation?

Can they then carry on living their life for God and not have their family, et cetera,

lose them, and also maintain their salvation.

Tension between Matthew 1033 and also Matthew 2675.

Yeah.

The verse is just for reference now.

Matthew 1033, Jesus is speaking about confessing before men, and he who does, he will confess them before the father,

but he who denies me before men, I will also deny him before my father who is in heaven.

Now, it turns out, Peter denied Christ.

That's the second reference, Matthew 2675. And there it talks about Peter denying him, and he weeps bitterly. But, and so, so you do have this occasion where you have a denial and a retraction. Now, in the case of Peter, that was a different set of circumstances than

what George described in his question. He was describing somebody who is appearing to deny Christ

for the sake of saving their life or maybe saving the lives of others in their family. Did I catch that right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

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