Week 48 | Failure is the Door to Glory

Steve starts this week’s podcast with Psalm 56:3. When I feel fear, it’s a sign that it’s time to trust. By placing ourselves in the Word of God when we are in fear, it will lead us into faith through great trust (in His power and not our own ability to save ourselves). If we don’t know the Word of God, we will follow fables about Jesus. When we are not constantly in the Word, fables become our primary doctrine. And we add-on things to Jesus’ salvation, which will destroy us rather than save us.

This is Peter’s week: John 20-21, Acts 1-4, I Peter and II Peter. We walk his journey of failure and being called back by Jesus in the same manner as he was at first. Once Peter massively fails Jesus, he returns to who he was before he met Jesus: a fisherman with empty nets. When we are face-to-face with our failures, if we don’t return to the Lord, we will return to ourselves in the lie of separation from Him. Yet, in His sovereignty and mercy—“I’ve prayed for you, Peter, that your FAITH WILL NOT FAIL, AND WHEN YOU RETURN, strengthen your brothers.”—the Lord is right there waiting to restore Peter into his calling and inheritance, “Follow me.”

Peter’s experience of Jesus (eating, living, breathing with Him for 3 years) did not give him the capacity to confess Christ before a servant girl. In Acts 3, it was the Holy Spirit Who brought the Word of God forward with power through Peter to witness to the resurrection of Jesus, which is declared in Scripture. And Peter who failed miserably without the Holy Spirit in-dwelling, becomes the father and discipler of the new Church of Jesus Christ in I and II Peter.

The Word shows me ME. It reveals my heart in the mirror of Who Jesus is. It calls me out of darkness (my own self-deception) into His glorious light (the sanctification of Jesus).

We are to reflect Christ, not through our gifting, but through our submission. We need to be born again…again.

Scripture Readings:
Tier One – NT: John 20-21, Acts 1-4, 1 Peter 2-5, 2 Peter 1-3
Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 22-29

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