Matthew 26:69-70……Working

Matthew 26:69-70……Working

Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. 70 But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said.  

More Notes & Applications

• Teaches

Note: Here we see Peter making a public declaration when he plays dumb! Have you ever been caught in a lie? You, (I include myself, as well), try to reason            your way out of the situation by playing dumb?

Now we start to get a little upset that people are, (& you had better believe that God is!), questioning our honesty! (“Whoops, now we are REALLY lying to ourselves AND trying to ove-ride the conviction of the Holy Spirit, because we KNOW that we are caught in a lie!”) When we swear an oath, that is a major affront to God, because we are now trying to justify our sin!  (Apply to Vs. 71-72)

Teaches show it’s pretty bad, when we get to the point that we are downright TELLING God, (for that is TRULY who we are mad at, because the Holy Spirit is REALLY convicting us now ), that we haven’t done anything wrong, or that this sin isn’t that bad, (or even worse), that we haven’t sinned! (Apply to Vs.73-75)