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TITLE: And the cock crew
TEXT: Mark 14:66-72
PROPOSITION: There is more than one way to deny our faith.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Ways
READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
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Background
- Jesus has been betrayed by Judas
- He is now arrested, in the middle of an illegal trial (1st
of 6)
- Peter is near (outside) watching
What Happened
- Peter is at the fire keeping warm
- A maid recognized him, “You were with Jesus” (67)
- He denied – I know not, don’t understand what you are
saying
- And the cock crew
- A maid said – This one of them
- He denied again
- Some stood by – You are Galilean, speech give you away
Living in the south and raised in Michigan – I have heard this, myself
- Peter – curse, swear (take oaths) I know not the man you
speak of
- Cock crows a second time
- Peter remembered the words of Jesus
- Before the cock shall crow twice, you will deny me
thrice. (Mark 14:30)
- He thought about this
- He wept – The form of the Greek verb (imperfect) implies
that he continued weeping. "It is a touching and beautiful tradition, true to
the sincerity of his repentance, if not as a historical reality, that, all his
life long, the remembrance of this night never left him, and that, morning by
morning, he rose at the hour when the look of his Master had entered his soul,
to pray once more for pardon."--Geikie.
Uses and Meanings of “Deny”
- "To say ...
not, to contradict," – John 1:20 “confessed, did not deny”
- "To deny" by
way of disowning a person, as, e.g., the Lord Jesus as master, e.g.,
Matthew 10:33 – deny me, I will deny you
2 Timothy 2:12 – we deny him, he will deny us
- To "deny" the
Father and the Son, by apostatizing and by disseminating pernicious teachings
Jude 1:4 denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ
- "To deny
oneself," in a good sense, by disregarding one's own interests
Luke 9:23 – to come after Christ, deny your self
- In bad sense,
to prove false to oneself, to act quite unlike oneself,
2 Timothy 2:13 – God remain faithful, he cannot deny himself
- To "abrogate,
forsake, or renounce a thing,"
Titus 2:12 – denying ungodliness and worldly lusts
1 Timothy 5:8 – denied the faith, worse than an infidel
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"Not to accept, to reject" something offered,
Hebrews 11:24 – Moses refused to be son of Pharaoh’s daughter
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