The Story of Judas and Peter
John 11:1-27
Main Thing to Know:
If we’ve we should forgiven
1. Through we experience
Judas failed by Jesus
Peter failed by Jesus
Be careful of:
• you
• you
• you
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill [Jesus], for they feared the people. Then , surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them. (Luke 22:2-4)
And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, , that he may sift you as wheat.” (Luke 22:31)
. . . the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
—Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate . . . So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me . . . For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. (Romans 7:15-19)
2. Through we experience
• Remorse says, “I broke ”
• Repentance says, “I broke ”
Three Steps to Finding Forgiveness:
To my
To my
To God’s
A stain that once represented shame and guilt and fear and rejection now represents love, grace, and acceptance.
—Kyle Idleman
Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
(Isaiah 1:18)
. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
(1 John 1:7)
If there be in you the height and depth and length and breadth of sin, there is also much more the height and depth and length and breadth of mercy in God.
—Richard Sibbes
How deep the Father’s love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure
(Stuart Townend)
Main Thing to Know:
If we’ve been forgiven we should live forgiven