Jesus Confesses Peter Denies

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Jesus Confesses Peter Denies

• Matthew 2657-75

Presented by Bob DeWaay June 19, 2005
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Jesus Is Taken Before the Sandhedrin

• Matthew 2657
• And those who had seized Jesus led Him away to
  Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and
  the elders were gathered together.

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Peter Follows

• Matthew 2658
• But Peter also was following Him at a distance
  as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and
  entered in, and sat down with the officers to see
  the outcome.

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They Seek False Witnesses

• Matthew 2659, 60
• Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept
  trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus,
  in order that they might put Him to death and
  they did not find any, even though many false
  witnesses came forward. But later on two came
  forward,

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They Seek False Testimony and They Get True
Testimony

• Matthew 2661
• and said, This man stated, I am able to
  destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in
  three days.

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Jesus Predicted His Own Resurrection

• John 219-21
• Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this
  temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
  The Jews therefore said, It took forty-six years
  to build this temple, and will You raise it up in
  three days? But He was speaking of the temple of
  His body.

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Jesus Does Not Defend Himself

• Matthew 2662, 63
• And the high priest stood up and said to Him,
  Do You make no answer? What is it that these men
  are testifying against You? But Jesus kept
  silent. And the high priest said to Him, I
  adjure You by the living God, that You tell us
  whether You are the Christ, the Son of God.

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Jesus Does not Take an Oath But Predicts Future
Vindication

• Matthew 2664
• Jesus said to him, You have said it yourself
  nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you shall see
  the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of
  Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

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The Son of Man is Messiah

• Daniel 713, 14
• I kept looking in the night visions, And
  behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son
  of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient
  of Days And was presented before Him. And to Him
  was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all
  the peoples, nations, and men of every language
  Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting
  dominion Which will not pass away And His
  kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

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Caiaphas Believed That Jesus Claimed Deity

• Matthew 2665
• Then the high priest tore his robes, saying, He
  has blasphemed! What further need do we have of
  witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the
  blasphemy.

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The Sanhedrin Wants Capital Punishment

• Matthew 2666
• what do you think? They answered and said, He
  is deserving of death!

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The Sanhedrin Ridicules Jesus

• Matthew 2667, 68
• Then they spat in His face and beat Him with
  their fists and others slapped Him, and said,
  Prophesy to us, You Christ who is the one who
  hit You?

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Prophecy about the Servant of The LORD is
Fulfilled

• Isaiah 506, 7
• I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My
  cheeks to those who pluck out the beard I did
  not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.
  For the Lord God helps Me, Therefore, I am not
  disgraced Therefore, I have set My face like
  flint, And I know that I shall not be ashamed.

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Jesus Stands Before the Sanhedrin Peter Fails
Before a Servant Girl

• Matthew 2669, 70
• Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard,
  and a certain servant-girl came to him and said,
  You too were with Jesus the Galilean. But he
  denied it before them all, saying, I do not know
  what you are talking about.

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Peter Denies and Does So With an Oath

• Matthew 2671, 72
• And when he had gone out to the gateway, another
  servant-girl saw him and said to those who were
  there, This man was with Jesus of Nazareth. And
  again he denied it with an oath, I do not know
  the man.

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Now Peter Puts HimselfUnder a Curse

• Matthew 2673, 74
• And a little later the bystanders came up and
  said to Peter, Surely you too are one of them
  for the way you talk gives you away. Then he
  began to curse and swear, I do not know the
  man! And immediately a cock crowed.

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Peter Failed As Jesus Predicted and is Filled
with Remorse

• Matthew 2675
• And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had
  said, Before a cock crows, you will deny Me
  three times. And he went out and wept bitterly.

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Applications

• The Need for Prayer and Scripture
• The Need For Confession
• The Significance of Jesus Prediction of His Own
  Resurrection

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The Need for Prayer and Scripture

• Matthew 2641
• Keep watching and praying, that you may not
  enter into temptation the spirit is willing, but
  the flesh is weak.

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The Need for Prayer and Scripture

• Psalm 11911
• Thy word I have treasured in my heart, That I
  may not sin against Thee.
• Isaiah 517
• Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A
  people in whose heart is My law Do not fear the
  reproach of man, Neither be dismayed at their
  revilings.

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The Need For Confession

• 1Timothy 612
• Fight the good fight of faith take hold of the
  eternal life to which you were called, and you
  made the good confession in the presence of many
  witnesses.

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The Need For Confession

• 1Timothy 613, 14
• I charge you in the presence of God, who gives
  life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who
  testified the good confession before Pontius
  Pilate, that you keep the commandment without
  stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord
  Jesus Christ,

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The Need For Confession

• Matthew 1032, 33
• Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before
  men, I will also confess him before My Father who
  is in heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before
  men, I will also deny him before My Father who is
  in heaven.

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The Need For Confession

• 1John 42, 3
• By this you know the Spirit of God every spirit
  that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
  flesh is from God and every spirit that does not
  confess Jesus is not from God and this is the
  spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard
  that it is coming, and now it is already in the
  world.

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The Need For Confession

• 1John 46
• We are from God he who knows God listens to us
  he who is not from God does not listen to us. By
  this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit
  of error.

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The Significance of Jesus Prediction of His Own
Resurrection

• Matthew 2763, 64
• Sir, we remember that when He was still alive
  that deceiver said, After three days I am to
  rise again. Therefore, give orders for the grave
  to be made secure until the third day, lest the
  disciples come and steal Him away and say to the
  people, He has risen from the dead, and the
  last deception will be worse than the first.

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