{"id":560,"date":"2025-11-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/?p=560&2025"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:27","slug":"failing-towards-humility-luke-22-54-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/failing-towards-humility-luke-22-54-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Towards Humility: Luke 22:54-62"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"spoiler spoiler-style-2\"><div class=\"spoiler-title\">Focus Passage: Luke 22:54-62 (NASB)<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-content\" style=\"display: none;\"><p><sup>54<\/sup>\u00a0Having arrested Him, they led Him <em>away<\/em> and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance. <sup>55<\/sup>\u00a0After they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter was sitting among them. <sup>56<\/sup>\u00a0And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, &#8220;This man was with Him too.&#8221; <sup>57<\/sup>\u00a0But he denied <em>it,<\/em> saying, &#8220;Woman, I do not know Him.&#8221; <sup>58<\/sup>\u00a0A little later, another saw him and said, &#8220;You are <em>one<\/em> of them too!&#8221; But Peter said, &#8220;Man, I am not!&#8221; <sup>59<\/sup>\u00a0After about an hour had passed, another man <em>began<\/em> to insist, saying, &#8220;Certainly this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean too.&#8221; <sup>60<\/sup>\u00a0But Peter said, &#8220;Man, I do not know what you are talking about.&#8221; Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. <sup>61<\/sup>\u00a0The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, <span class=\"red-letter\">&#8220;Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.&#8221;<\/span> <sup>62<\/sup>\u00a0And he went out and wept bitterly. <\/p><p class=\"passage-read-more\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke 22:54-62&amp;version=NASB\" title=\"Read the passage on BibleGateway.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hyperlink-underlined\">Luke 22:54-62<\/a> in context and\/or in other translations on BibleGateway.com!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>In the event we are looking closely at in this journal entry, we come across all four gospels including Peter\u2019s big failure on the night Jesus was arrested. This was an event Jesus predicted would happen just hours before, and it happened just as Jesus said it would.<\/p>\r\n<p>This leads us to a question that has implications for us all: <em>Would Peter have denied Jesus if Jesus hadn\u2019t said anything?<\/em> <em>Or in other words, did Jesus\u2019 prediction change the course of the events of that night and take away Peter\u2019s free will to choose a different path?<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>These are questions that we must answer if we want to understand more about God\u2019s nature, and these the questions are found in the heart of the idea of predestination \u2013 which can be described as God knowing whether someone will be saved or lost before they are even born. Does predestination take away a person\u2019s freedom of choice?<\/p>\r\n<p>We could frame what happened in this event a different way.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jesus knew Peter\u2019s future. Jesus knew who Peter was and what Peter would become in the coming years. Jesus also knew Peter was about to make the biggest mistake of his life \u2013 one that he would regret for the rest of his life.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jesus knew that regardless of the details surrounding how Peter chose to deny Him, Peter was going to directly separate himself from Jesus at three separate points. Nothing Jesus would say or not say would change that \u2013 however, by saying what would happen, Jesus offers Peter a warning and a direct, personal reason to place even more faith in Him when their relationship would be restored in the coming week(s). And, by giving Peter the clear warning on the front end, Jesus helps Peter break some of the pride in His heart, because if you fail in a huge way, right after Jesus warns you about it, you basically don\u2019t deserve the prestigious position as leader of the disciples.<\/p>\r\n<p>Perhaps Peter had let his position as the vocal one in the core group of three disciples get to him. In many ways, he was the unofficial leader of this group of Jesus followers \u2013 and a \u201csecond-in-command\u201d position like this likely had allowed some pride to creep into His heart. A huge failure after a direct warning and prediction about it had the potential to re-humble the most famous of Jesus\u2019 disciples.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Jesus does know the future, but just because Jesus can see our actions and choices before we make them doesn\u2019t mean that He is predestining us to make good or bad decisions. Jesus didn\u2019t want Peter to deny Him, but it would have happened whether Jesus had said something or not.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<div id=\"aj-wrap-up--560\" class=\"aj-wrap-up\"><p><em>This thought was inspired by studying the <strong>Walking With Jesus<\/strong> \u201cReflective Bible Study\u201d package. To discover insights like this in your own study time, <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/\" title=\"Check out Reflective Bible Study!\">click here<\/a> and give Reflective Bible Study a try today!<\/em><\/p><p><em><a class=\"underline\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick=\"rbs_aj_inline_subscribe(this, '560');\">Subscribe<\/a> to this blog and never miss an insight.<\/em><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the event we are looking closely at in this journal entry, we come across all four gospels including Peter\u2019s big failure on the night Jesus was arrested. This was an event Jesus predicted would happen just hours before, and it happened just as Jesus said it would. 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