Thank you. There are many kinds of power.

There's nuclear power, solar power, manpower, brain power.

But failure power?

I don't think you'll find a market for that.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how

one man's failure of faith actually empowered his future effectiveness. Alistair Begg is teaching

from chapter 14 in Mark's Gospel. We begin today with verse 66. As we've read Mark's gospel together, we have acknowledged that Mark's primary source for his material is Peter himself.

That Mark is not a firsthand observer of all of this material, but he has had it reported to him.

He writes, as it's been reported, and not exclusively, but largely, that material has come from Peter.

So you imagine that Peter is to tell Mark and tell others as well. I was so proud of myself, I was so sure that I would

do fine, but I got to tell you, I collapsed. I denied Jesus. I denied him ultimately

with oaths and curses. Now look at it, there's a progression in it. You will see that Peter is warming

himself at the fire. One of the servant girls, it doesn't say a big soldier, a big intimidating

soldier. It doesn't say the high priest himself. It doesn't say somebody of stature came and cornered

him and confronted him. It just says that a girl,

maybe she's making up this fire, maybe she's bringing materials for something, she sees Peter

warming himself and she looks at him. That verb there, she looked at him as an important little

verb. It means, you know, that she made eye contact with it.

Certainly, Peter was, in some measure, identifiable to this girl.

I don't know how to convey this in American terms, but in British terms, what is actually unfolding here in the Jerusalem, the Galilean

contingent in Jerusalem, would be akin to a group of people from Yorkshire in the north of

England hanging around in London, the capital city of England, and they would be identifiable

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