Weekend, June 13, 2020
Wrong People, Wrong Place, Wrong Thing
"The guards lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there" (Luke 22:55 nlt).
Peter hoped to go unnoticed in the larger crowd, but he was with the wrong people at the wrong place, about to do the wrong thing.
Why does it come as a revelation to some that if you spend time around ungodly people, they'll pull you down?
So, there Peter stood at the fire, and a woman noticed him and said, "This man was one of Jesus' followers!" (Luke 22:56 nlt).
Peter said, "No, I am not."
Jesus predicted that Peter would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed in the morning. That was Peter's first denial. You would think at that point Peter might have said to himself, "Hold on. I did the thing I said I'd never do. I've got to get out of here."
But, he didn't. Then Luke tells us, "After a while someone else looked at him and said, 'You must be one of them!'" (verse 58 nlt). |
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