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Speaker 2: Have you ever been absolutely confident in how you would

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Speaker 2: Most of us think that we are going to be

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Speaker 2: calm under pressure, We're going to be loyal, we're going

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Speaker 2: to be helpful. But the reality that we find in

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Speaker 2: March chapter fourteen is that fear changes people. Today, we're

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Speaker 2: going to take a look at Peter, who confidently tells Jesus,

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Speaker 2: even if everyone else falls away, I won't. And by

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Speaker 2: the end of the night he's cursing Jesus's name and

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Speaker 2: denying that he even knows him. And this is not

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Speaker 2: because Peter is uniquely weak. It's because fear really does

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Speaker 2: change us. Let's take a look at the painfully familiar

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Speaker 2: story in March chapter fourteen of Peter. Every week we

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Speaker 2: come together to study scripture, not just to gather information,

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Speaker 2: but to really understand the story of what God is

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Speaker 2: telling us about himself and about us, and about how

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Speaker 2: we can experience Him in our everyday life. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: how to say the Bible, My friends. I'm so glad

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Speaker 2: that we have a chance to be together and to

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Speaker 2: walk and discover slowly through Mark fourteen fifteen sixteen. This

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Speaker 2: really powerful truth that changes everything for us. So today

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Speaker 2: we're going to be in Mark chapter fourteen, and we're

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Speaker 2: kind of looking at this middle section.

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Speaker 1: I would love for you to read it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to be able to read through the

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Speaker 2: whole passage, it's quite long, but we're going to get

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Speaker 2: this story that really tracks Peter's denial of Jesus, and

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Speaker 2: for many of us, this may be a very familiar story,

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Speaker 2: but I would invite you to read it again because

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Speaker 2: every time we go to scripture, it's so dynamic and

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Speaker 2: we are always changing as human beings that when you

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Speaker 2: slow down and actually allow yourself to be curious and

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Speaker 2: to ask questions of the text, you usually will find

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Speaker 1: I know that was my experience this morning.

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Speaker 2: As I was preparing for this, I thought, Wow, this

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Speaker 2: is just coming to life for me again, just the

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Speaker 2: can be easy sometimes with scripture to kind of see

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Speaker 1: Flat, very much like the villain or the hero of

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Speaker 2: But underneath those details, I really think that the invitation

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Speaker 2: that the Spirit is giving us is to find ourselves

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Speaker 2: And there's really no character that anyone who is adventurous

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Speaker 2: too fast. There's no one that you can identify more

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Speaker 2: us to take a look at kind of what happens

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Speaker 2: over the context of fourteen twenty seven through seventy two.

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Speaker 2: So first we see Jesus predicting Peter's denial. He tells

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Speaker 2: Peter Peters declares his allegiance to Jesus. He actually distances

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Speaker 2: can't even accept that. It's sort of like that whole

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Speaker 2: We think we're gonna be a certain way, and Peter

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Speaker 2: Jesus cries out to his father. He's praying so earnestly.

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Speaker 2: He knows what's coming. And if anyone's ever thought like, oh,

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Speaker 2: We see the disciples begin to fall away from Jesus.

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Speaker 2: And there's this just like compassion that comes over me

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Speaker 1: And they aren't able to. They fall asleep again and again.

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Speaker 2: Everyone flees after the arrest, and then, just like Jesus

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Speaker 2: told Peter, when Peter actually hears the rooster crow for

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Speaker 2: This whole idea of being spiritually alert, that spiritually being

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Speaker 2: scripture hopefully daily, is that you don't get ready for

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Speaker 2: to love people because of the preparation that you've put

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Speaker 2: is moving in people's lives around you. He's moving in

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Speaker 2: you're wondering, why does my life feel empty? Or why

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Speaker 2: And that's what he's saying when he talks about being

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Speaker 2: part of the human condition is recognizing who we really are,

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Speaker 2: what does it look like to understand God's calling on

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Speaker 2: a part of right in your everyday life.

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Speaker 2: guys to check this out as a resource for you

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Speaker 2: in this season. Okay, everyone, So when we think about

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Speaker 2: Human confidence is fragile. Human confidence is tested under pressure

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Speaker 2: Fear can reshape our behavior very quickly, probably more quickly

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Speaker 2: Will you show only where that is so we can

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Speaker 2: I think that he felt like he was very loyal

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Speaker 2: to Jesus, more so than anyone else, and he probably

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Speaker 2: relied on the confidence that he had in himself rather

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Speaker 2: than confidence that comes from God. Here's our Psalm connection

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Speaker 2: for today Psalm fifty six, verse three. When I'm afraid,

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Speaker 2: I put my trust in you. Here's a one sentence

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Speaker 2: stronger than I really am. All right, guys, fear may

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