Jesus announces the future denial of Peter
If there is a disciple of the twelve was well placed to be regarded as the greatest, it was stone. Was not he who had first confessed to recognize more than a prophet Jesus, the Son of the living God: Mat 16.16 ? Was he not, with Jacques and John, whom the Lord had he chose to attend privately to His transfiguration: Luke 9.28 to 36, 2 Pier 1.16 to 18? Was not he also the one to whom Jesus entrusted the keys to all future believers, Jew or pagan, to enter into the Kingdom: Mat 16.19; Acts 2 and 10? A simple reading of the Gospels and the early chapters of the book of Acts is enough to validate: the group of relatives of Jesus, Peter is, as estimated by the human thing, the greatest!
Perhaps because in his heart thought Peter, Jesus spoke unto him privately to tell him what soon would happen. A terrible spiritual battle would take place. The challenge, the target of this battle, initiated by the devil, was accurate. It was not Jesus (Satan had already realized that he had lost to him), but His followers. The objective revealed attacks by Satan joined in every one that the prophecy of the Apocalypse reveals: Rev. 12.17. Since he can reach the head, it attacks the body since it can kill the mother, he blames his offspring. In this test that will come, Jesus announced: no one will, Peter, the faithful among the faithful, including.
the same way as it was the announcement by Jesus of His betrayal by one of the twelve, Peter was shocked, shocked! How can Jesus say such a thing? He not only knows how He was attached Pierre? Jesus knows what is what Peter does not know yet! This is how the human heart can deceive and delude himself on his ability to implement his good intentions. Jesus makes Peter sensitive time before of his denial, when, in Gethsemane, he should have with him, watch and pray instead of sleeping: 26.40 Mat. For now though, Peter could conceive. He protests, protests, denies! He is sure: He never abandon Jesus. He is ready not only to be thrown in jail, but to die, if necessary, for Him and with Him.
As for Satan is with respect to the view that it is men: Job 1.10, 2.6 , most so-called certainty that they have to prove themselves, the filter test, false, deceptive, illusory. No, the man has no power, alone, to stand. Although he thinks, which is the backbone of his natural will is too weak to pay with his life for his attachment to truth. Jesus, in passing, mentions Peter only cause which he should, in this case, not have totally collapsed: His prayer for him and his friends. It is the faithfulness of Jesus alone that we His disciples must not deny Him and total abandonment! Believe it right! If it were up to strength of our resolutions, Satan would have no trouble making us renegades and apostates!
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