The crucifixion of Jesus is a heartbreak

story. It's gut wrenching. How could this be God's plan for his own son? Today

on Truth for Life we'll examine the death of Christ from a number of different

perspectives. Alistair Begg is teaching from the book of Acts and we're looking

at verse 23 in chapter 2 and verse 28 in chapter 4.

I think we would be agreed, wouldn't we, that Simon Peter was not by any means a

straight-A student in the School of Christ. It's perhaps not fair to single him

out but there's a sense in which he just asks for it. He's just like a naughty boy

in school in many ways. He was always putting up his hand, always saying I have the

answer, I have the answer, I have the answer. Many times he did but he was often good

at getting it for a moment and then falling back dreadfully. His life was sort of

a burst of enthusiasm followed by periods of chronic inertia and that from the

very get-go when he manages to come up with the right answer to the question,

who do you say that I am? And he says, well you are the Christ, the son of the

living God. And then within a matter of moments he's banished to the bottom of

the class where he's told, get behind me Satan because you don't have in mind the

things of God. Jesus, you should know that if everybody deserts you, particularly

some of these fellows, my friends here, if they all leave you, you can count on me

right to the very end. I am your main man, I will be with you all the way through.

And then the rooster crowed and the eyes of Jesus and Peter met one another and

immediately while he was still denying Jesus, he went out and webbed bitterly. I

begin in that way as a backdrop for consideration of what we then have in

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