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Watch your Walkbecause

Walk that Matters

Welcome

Sharon Christian AssemblyThane


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Read the Scriptures

Matt 14:28-31; Matt 16:21-24;Matt 26:73-75 :

Introduction:


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Identify Yourself in

Three Incidents from Peters Life:

A Man with the Bad Beginning:

1) In Matt 14:30 Beginning to Sink

- The Lord Caught him.

2) In Matt 16:22 Beginning to Stray

- The Lord Corrected him.

3) In Matt 26:74 Beginning to Swear

- The Lord Challenged him.

By the Gracious Intervention of the Lord


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Peter Beginning to Sink (Matt 14:30)

We are not focusing on a Failing Disciplebut a

Faithful Saviour. His timely intervention.

May be today, here and now in your life.

Notice Three Things:

a) Crises he Experienced

b) Cry he Expressedc) Care he Enjoyed


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Crises he Experienced:

Are you sinking in

Sea of Difficulties:

- Bereavement

- Unemployment

- I am losing my spiritual level. I cannot handle. I am going down

- Pressures of life.Sea of Doubts:

- More workload, How to go on? Is it worth?

- Failure, increased responsibilities. Unable to copeup.

Sea of Devotion:

- No Quiet Time. Eliminated. No hearing from the Lord.

- Instead of ScripturesScreens, wandering in sites not healthy andholy.

- Keeping Christian front, but deep within know Sinking.

Any unequal yoke? You were committed but not so now.


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The Crises he Experienced but

The Cry he Expressed

It was cry of desperate faith & not desperation

You saywhat can I do?

Get back to the Lord, Dont wait. Have youneglected prayer?

Where the water level was?

Knee, vest, chest or chin level? Or Crossed alllevels?

Detect, cry, confess.


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The Crises he Experienced but

The Cry he Expressed and

The Care he Enjoyed

Cry, Call, Confess, Clear between you and Lord

The Care of:- The Arm of Omnipotence

- The Grip of Grace

- There was no wind, no wave, no storm

that can dislodge Peter from Him.


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Remember

He was sinking in well known water

you can go down in waters that are very familiar

Samson, began to sink near home.

David, began to sink within his own palace.

Peter, began to sink in familiar sea.

There are dangers on every side, you may thinkyou can handle it, but we need Lords hand.

Thank God, immediately, the Lord Caught him.


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Peter Beginning to Stray (Matt 16:22)

He began to rebuke the Lord

The Road he Resented &The Role he Adopted

It is not my national way, nor natural way.

Who should decide whose path?

We are associated with Christ whom the world rejects

- We like the soft path, options, rewrite the program.

- Remember: When Saviour will have His Rightful

Place, we will have ours

- Thank God, He Catches when we Sink & He Correctswhen we stray and stumble.


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Peter Beginning to Swear (Matt 26:74)

What was Peters Denial?

- He didnt use obscenity, vile language, cursewords.

- He didnt deny His Deity but Relationship.

To Reinforce his position, the guise of:

- Certain Language

- Certain Dress

- Calculated Moves to prove.


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Peter Beginning to Swear (Matt 26:74)

But Cock Crew & Peter Knew

He Used his VoiceLord used Roosters Voice

He went out and wept bitterly. Notice:

- The Speech that he employed

- The Signal that he heard- The Sorrow that he experienced

Cock CrowSignal of Warning & Signal of Dawning


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Signal of Warning & Signal of Dawning

Its time to Awake. He Wept.

He Walked Out:

- Not out of life- But into life for the Lord

- Sermons he preached, Souls he led

- Letters he wrote, life he offered.He had bad beginnings bt He finished well.


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How did Peter finish well?

Because of the Timely Interventions of the Lord:

1) In Matt 14:30 Beginning to Sink

But - The Lord Caught him.2) In Matt 16:22 Beginning to Stray

But - The Lord Corrected him.

3) In Matt 26:74 Beginning to SwearBut - The Lord Challenged him.

It is not so much of

Failing Peter but Faithful Lord

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