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We can't depend on anybody else's unwavering faithfulness except God himself. And Peter, can't

you hear you? I'm ready. I am ready. He's going, you ain't ready? You anywhere near ready.

And in fact, I think maybe it was that point exactly why he was ready for a sifting is he thought he was ready to follow Jesus anywhere and do anything he asked, follow him all the way to the

death.

The story we are about to retell never ever gets old to me.

You know how some stories you could just hear it over and over again and it probably has to do with the fact that somewhere in your journey you had such need of it that it became such life and breath and hope to you, that

every time you hear it, it just reaffirms again that season of your life that you think maybe

you might not have made it had you not heard it. There are places like that. There are moments in the scriptures that are so defining, and they may only show up one time.

Some things, there are accounts of several times.

In first and second kings and first and second chronicles, a few overlapping things in Ezra and Nehemiah,

so much agreement and congruence between all four

Gospels, some things that are told in acts that are also mentioned in the epistles.

But there are occasionally stories in the Word of God that you only find that one time on that one page in those few scriptures.

Moments that are of such hope to us that make us sit up and think, that's me.

I can see myself on that page and I want to believe that this is what Jesus could do for me too.

I'm thinking of moments like when Jesus said to the thief that was

hanging next to him on the cross, today you will be with me in paradise. Do you know what hope

all of us have found that there could be those last moment confessions of true faith in Christ?

What would we do without that moment?

And I want to remind you of that,

that everything in the Word of God

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