God is always ready to forgive. Let’s live as one forgiven by the grace of God.
Sermon Title: TWO FACES OF FAILURE
Scripture Text: MATTHEW 26:59-65; 27:1-10 (NIV)
Sermon Series: THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM
Sermon Notes:
MATTHEW 26:69-75 NIV
69 Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. 70 But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. 71 Then he went out to the gateway, where another girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.” 72 He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!”
MATTHEW 27:1-5 NIV
1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
2 They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
4 “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
PETER’S FAILURE
Peter’s failure was because he did not prepare for weakness.
MATTHEW 26:41 NIV
41 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
It was in that garden where victory could’ve been won but was lost (for Peter).
MATTHEW 26:75 NIV
75 Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Are you expecting from Christ what you think he ought to do or have you truly surrendered your life to him?
JUDAS’ FAILURE
ACTS 1:24-25 NIV
24 Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen 25 to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.”
JOHN 6:70-71 NIV
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
JOHN 17:12 NIV
12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
MATTHEW 27:1-5 NIV
1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
2 They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
4 “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
MATTHEW 27:3 NIV
3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
MATTHEW 26:12 NIV
12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
MATTHEW 26:14-15 NIV
14 Then one of the Twelve--the one called Judas Iscariot-- went to the chief priests 15 and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty silver coins.
God is always ready to forgive.
LUKE 19:9-10 NIV
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”
JOHN 8:10-11 NIV
10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Let’s live as one forgiven by the grace of God.
Don’t be a stranger to prayer.
“Our failure in prayer is not an accident. It’s the product of cultivation.”
Howard Hendricks
Jesus’ victory in Gethsemane guarantees us his help in our darkest struggles.
For Sinners Only.
By Grace Alone.
Psalms 73:26 NIV
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.