Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, July 7, 2024

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12 Denials of Christ We Never Saw Coming

Today Michael is looking at one of the most famous denials in history.

Jesus was carried to face the Sanhedrin, with Caiaphas leading the charge of trying to find something they could use to put Jesus to death.

The high priest asked if Jesus declared himself the Messiah? To which Jesus answered, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of Heaven”. This was seen at this mock trial as proof positive that Jesus was making a clear claim to be God and they had the admission they needed to put Him to death.

Meanwhile, Peter is watching all this and his heart is breaking, though he is too afraid to do anything about it. The servant girl, saw his face and asked him, “Don’t I recognize you, I’ve seen you with Jesus of Nazareth” to which Peter denied, very loudly, that she did not know him. A rooster crowed in the distance. The servant girl stated this to the crowd and he denied it again. Then finally a man saw Peter at the fire and recognized him, and others recognized Peter’s accent, as being from Galilee, and Peter denied Jesus yet again. And a rooster crowed a second time.

This time Peter remembers Jesus’ prediction that when a rooster crowed twice, he will have denied Jesus three times, which, of course, he had.

We are in the same situation today; we deny Jesus through our actions but your lives say otherwise.

The take home for today is, “Let your life declare I know Jesus”. Sometimes our lips say it, but our life may not match it.

The Twelve Denials of Christ We Never Saw Coming (or how we currently don’t live what we say we do, as Christians).

1. Compromising your integrity.
2. Neglecting to help. Run towards the messes.
3. Taking part in gossip or slander. See Ephesians 4 on this one!
4. Placing comfort over people.
5. Withholding forgiveness.
6. Neglecting to share your faith.
7. Conforming to worldly values.
8. Ignoring injustice.
9. Living hypocritcally.
10. Neglecting personal spiritual growth.
11. Not taking a stand, we have to be salt and light.
12. Failing to love like Christ.

(CSB Bible Notes) 14:53-65 No single Gospel comprehensively records Jesus’s trials, and each emphasizes different perspectives and events. It is clear, however, that both Roman political authorities and Jewish religious leaders were involved in handing down Jesus’s death sentence.

Today’s verses can be found in Mark 14: 53 - 72.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.