Matthew 26:69–75
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the most excruciating and instructive failures in all of Scripture. If the Bible were a book written by men to impress other men, this story would have been quietly left on the cutting room floor. And in this, there is a severe mercy for the rest of us. Just a few hours before, in the Upper Room, Peter was full of what we might call sanctified bluster. This is the language of high resolve, of passionate loyalty, of what the flesh always imagines it can do for God. We must understand that Peter's fall did not begin in the courtyard. It began in his heart, in that moment of self-confident boasting. Pride is the advance scout for the army of humiliation. Whenever a man boasts in his own strength, he is setting himself up for a fall.