Luke 22:54-62 
December 31, 2017
preached by  Jason Russell
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“We know about Noah’s drunken debacle alongside of knowing of his courage and faith. We rightly honor Abraham’s faith, while rightly remembering the fact that selfish fear could get the best of him. Moses murdered. He shrank back. His temper squandered his opportunity to physically step into the Promised Land. Yet, he also believed and courageously led. We sing the psalms of a man after God’s own heart. But this man also did terrible deeds and at times made tragic choices far beneath his calling and the grace given him. Jonah raised his fists at grace. Paul teaches us. But God made sure that we receive Paul’s teaching and integrity while knowing Saul of Tarsus’s bitter story. Peter exalts Christ for us. But we are not gullible regarding the kind of cowardly sin that Peter exemplified when Jesus was arrested.”

~ Zach Eswine

“What if God’s reason for showing us these broken heroes is that we learn who not to be but also that we can come to our senses about who we already are?”

~ Zach Eswine

“Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to him.”

~ C.S. Lewis

Sermon Passage

Luke 22:54-62 (ESV)

⁵⁴ Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house, and Peter was following at a distance. ⁵⁵ And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. ⁵⁶ Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” ⁵⁷ But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” ⁵⁸ And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” ⁵⁹ And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.” ⁶⁰ But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. ⁶¹ 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.”⁶² And he went out and wept bitterly.