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My experience in 60 years and over 40 following Je-sus, is that sooner or later we all encounter troubles, heartaches, situations that challenge us to the core, that even threaten to overwhelm our faith.
We are living in days where highly credentialed medical professionals suggest that stress and anxiety is fast becoming the number one cause of death.
One of the most famous conversations in the Bible Jesus had with anyone - in Matthew 26:31-35.
Peter said, Lord….I will never fall away…
A most boastful declaration by any man and we know it ended with a catastrophic personal failure in Peter’s life. A failure that shook him to the core and almost causes his faith to collapse.
This is what we are going to talk about because Je-sus is going to tell Peter three (3) important facts about his troubles that are going to enable him to endure and get through it and survive it in a biblical Christlike way.
His lessons for Peter are meant for us now.
Background - Passover meal, the Seder with His disciples the night before He was betrayed. In just a few hours from Luke 22 Peter is going to experience the failure we just talked about; deny the Lord 3x and then in shame he’s going to slip away and quit the ministry and go back to fishing.
But prior to all this look what Jesus tells him.
Luke 22:31
I. God’s Authority Is Over All
Peter, Satan himself is asking My permission to sift you - nobody asks permission from someone who has less authority than they have…
We only ask permission from someone who has more authority, a greater authority and a higher authority than we have.
So you have to ask yourself, who in the universe has more authority, higher authority than the very prince of demons himself - we know the answer is only almighty God.
The devil had to ask Jesus for permission to act against Peter - yet one more proof that Jesus really is Jehovah God in the flesh, exactly as He claimed to be.
What did Satan ask of Jesus; Jesus said Satan asked to sift you like wheat?
• Ancient days - farmers would take wheat grain, hard grain, put in a machine called a sifter and grind it over and over until soft clean flower was the result.
• Satan was asking to crush Peter into flower - us-ing his fears to deny the Lord, then the shame and embarrassment that followed - that he would get him to give up spiritually and quit the ministry and go back to fishing.
Luke 22:32
Clear that Jesus has granted Satan’s request and he’s coming after Peter to destroy him - To eliminate him permanently as a servant of Christ.
A. Trials may sift us but God restores us
Jesus says right here it’s going to be rough, but your faith will not fail, you will recover, you will return, and when you do, use what you learned from this sifting experience to encourage and strengthen the people of God.
Satan got Peter to deny Jesus. Peter left broken. Peter went back to fishing…but in John chapter 21, Jesus came after Peter and He revitalized his faith, removed his guilt, restored him to the ministry and he went on to be a mighty servant of God whose NT sermons and letters still strengthened the hearts of God’s people even to this very day.

God protects us, He is the strongman

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