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Luke chapter 22 verses 61 and 62 and the Lord turned and looked at Peter and Peter remembered

the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, before the rooster crows today, you will deny me

three times and he went out and wept bitterly. This is the story of Peter denying Jesus three times

after saying, Lord, I'll never deny you. And there's obviously a lot we could talk about here,

but just put yourself in Peter's shoes at this point. And I don't think it's that hard for

us to do. Unfortunately, all followers of Jesus are familiar with the shame associated with sin.

I can think of so many things I have thought. I've said, I've desired, I've done, that I regret.

I wish I had not thought or said or desired or done and I just wish I could go back and do

it again and act differently, think differently. And Peter, when he realizes what he is done and

Jesus looks at him, he realizes Jesus knows what he's done. Verse 62 says he went out and wept

bitterly. That is an appropriate response to sin before God, not a cold realization and even

confession that I have sinned against God, but to see sin for the shameful act that it is for the

offense it is to God, to others and to hate sin, to weep and be broken over sin. And so I would just

ask you, even as I ask myself, is that the way we respond to sin in our hearts? And I ask that

because I know I am prone to sin and then kind of move on like it's not a big deal. Maybe to confess it

or maybe just to think, oh, that wasn't that big a deal. Instead of stopping to see sin for how

ugly it is and to confess it and whether through weeping over it or just acknowledging God,

I hate that I just did that. Please forgive me. And obviously to know that God forgives us,

He freely forgives us. Praise God through Jesus and His death and cross for our sins. We are

forgiven when we confess our sins to Him. Let's just make sure that when we're confessing our sins,

we're not just acknowledging sin, but we're broken over it. It's such a way that we are turning

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