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Hopeless people are miserable people.
Satan is the huckster of hopelessness.
He wants you to abandon any hope.
An inscription over the huge, hideous iron gates of the prison De La Roquette, in Paris, France…Which is set apart for criminals who are condemned to death, reads, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!”
Many people live out that inscription.
People without hope are:
Like a farmer who sows, but never reaps.
Like a merchant who never sells a dollar’s worth of goods;
Like a doctor who never cures a patient.
Satan wants us to picture ourselves as beyond God’s reach.
Beyond God’s help, concern or interest.
How could God care about me?
The way I’ve treated Him...
The way I’ve talked about Him...
The way I’ve used His name...
How could God care about me?
All part of Satan’s plan to thwart the purpose of God in our lives.
In contrast to Satan’s measure of hopelessness…there is God’s incredible expanse of hope.
Bible’s greatest illustration of transformed hopelessness is found in one of the New Testament’s greatest heroes.
A man named Simon Peter.
Peter preached the first gospel message of the new testament.
Death, burial, and resurrection
Offers hearers a remedy for their failure
Acts 2:37-38
Peter is prominent figure in Acts 3, 10, and 11.
He wrote two letters to the church that deal with patience in suffering.
Peter was a hero of the faith.
Crucified in Rome.
Cruelly forced to watch as his wife was put to death, dying painfully before his eyes.
When it was his turn to be crucified, he ask that he be crucified upside down, declaring himself unworthy of dying in the same way as Jesus Christ.
Simon Peter has to be classified as a hero of the faith.
Well what does that have to do with me?
I’m no hero.
I am far from any of the things you said about Peter.
He was in the inner circle of disciples, I’ve struggled to serve the master.
Peter was a preacher, it could be argued that I’m not even a good church member.
What does Peter have to do with me?
Look at the Bible.
It is the evening of the Passover supper… Jesus has just washed his disciples feet and spent time giving them final instructions concerning the future.
They are leaving Jerusalem on the way to Gethsemane.
Notice the disciples self confidence… Simon Peter leading.
He is talking a serious level of commitment.
Even if I have to die...
The denial!
Why did Peter fail so miserably?
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This is Peter’s nailed it moment.
Our society holds in high regard…self confidence and self reliance.
Peter was both.
Even if I have to die, I will not deny you!
Whatever comes I can handle it.
Some things you cannot make it through by yourself… you just can’t do it.
Peter’s comfort became important.
He warmed his hands at the fire of the enemies of the Lord.
His seeking personal comfort led to the final thing.
When personal comfort becomes important, and we often don’t know how important it is to us.
We get tuned in to what others think.
When what others think becomes important, pride steps in.
Before Peter knew what was happening he denies the Lord three times.
We can relate to that… what Peter had committed himself to he now denies.
He disowns the Lord, not one time but three times in the space of a little time.
We know failure...
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So we can relate to Simon Peter.
But the story does not end there.
Prophecy was fulfilled.
What Jesus said would come to pass did come to pass.
Don’t have to look far to see that Prophecy is being fulfilled.
All that Jesus said would come to pass, has and will continue to do so.
Peter is brought to a crisis moment in his life.
Does he continue downward?
He’s lied and cursed.
Does he continue in his failure?
Or is there another way?
In the face of failure Judas committed suicide.
What would Peter do?
Peter went out and wept bitterly.
This is a picture of repentance.
Peter is repentant of his failure.
His failure would not be the last chapter in his life.
He wept bitterly in repentance.
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Peter, in spite of his failure, joined himself to the rest of the disciples and believers.
He was not the only failure in the group.
They had all fled.
Matthew, James, John, Thomas, Thaddeus, all the others.
All had failed at the crucifixion of Christ.
It was a company of failures.
You need a church.
Not a church of perfect people.
A church of failures.
Mixed up, messed up humanity.
A company of failures.
A specific invitation.
Don’t leave out the denier.
Tell the disciples, and Peter.
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