Hello, and thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching

ministry of Rick Warren, and today we are continuing in a series called The Miracle of Mercy.

Rick will show us how God's mercy can lift your guilt, heal your wounds, and transform the way you live. All right, we'll pick up

where we left off with part two of a message called God's mercy and my failures.

Now just think the crisis that's going on. Jesus Christ has been arrested. He's back behind this

wall going through mock trials and being tortured.

And I, Peter, am on the other side of the wall out on the cartyard, wondering what's going on.

And then all of a sudden a stranger comes up and says, hey, you're with that guy.

And he says, no, no, no, I'm not.

He's worried about what other people will think.

And now his anger comes out. And the Bible says this in

verse 71 of Matthew 26. Then Peter went out to the entrance of the courtyard and there another

woman saw him and said to those standing there, this man, this guy pointing at Peter, this man was with Jesus of Nazareth.

Now again, Peter denied it.

And this time he swore, okay, now he's cussing,

he swore an oath and said,

I don't even know the men.

Okay?

But after a while, it says the men who had been standing there,

evidently a bunch of people milling around, just bystanders,

the men who were standing there came over to Peter and said,

we know that you are one of them.

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