Peter’s Denial
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On the same night when he took up a sword to defend Jesus from soldiers, Peter denied the Lord, intimidated by a servant girl. Today, R.C. Sproul preaches from the gospel of Matthew, examining Peter's wavering and urging us not to shrink from identifying with Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | The Christian church has been built on the shoulders and on the backs of heroic men and women |
| 0:07.3 | who were not ashamed to be identified with the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 0:12.7 | And so I urge you, dear brothers and sisters, that you never shrink from your identity with |
| 0:19.5 | Jesus. |
| 0:20.8 | We have to be willing to be humiliated in the social strata in which we live. |
| 0:27.5 | It's the cost of what it means to be a Christian, but it's a cost that it is so slight and so |
| 0:34.2 | small that it's infinitesimal compared to the cost that was paid for your redemption. |
| 0:40.4 | Jesus warns that whoever is ashamed of him and his words, the Son of Man will be ashamed |
| 0:52.2 | of them when he comes in his glory. |
| 0:54.1 | Yet when we're asked if we're Christians, particularly in a public setting at work, maybe |
| 0:59.1 | at school, it can be easy to fumble and not be as bold as we ought to be. |
| 1:04.0 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind. |
| 1:09.2 | Perhaps the most well-known example of someone denying Jesus is the Apostle Peter. |
| 1:14.4 | As was foretold, he denied the Lord not once, not twice, but three times. |
| 1:20.0 | Today on renewing your mind, we find ourselves in Matthew's gospel, and our C-Sproul will |
| 1:24.9 | preach on this great denial of Jesus, but also the great restoration that follows. |
| 1:30.5 | Here's Dr. Sproul. |
| 1:32.1 | Well, today we continue with our study of the gospel according to Saint Matthew. |
| 1:40.7 | We're still in chapter 26 at the very end of it. |
| 1:46.2 | I'll be reading verse 69 through verse 75, and I would ask the congregation, please, to |
| 1:55.5 | stand for the reading of the Word of God. |
| 2:09.5 | While Peter sat outside in the courtyard, and the servant girl came to him saying, you |
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