Jesus is with us in our broken world. Verse Concepts. Christ had said, "Deny self," and Peter had never understood, and never obeyed; and every failing came out of that. Hagar, Pt. Yes! Thus, Paul sought to bring the Corinthian saints to repentance: 9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. Like the potter, God lovingly molds His people into a vessel that He is proud to display.
When Peter denied Christ, we read that he three times said: " I do not know the man "; in other words: "I have nothing to do with Him; He and I are no friends; I deny having any connection with Him." Christ had done it for him by the Holy Ghost. Like Exodus 15:13 . David confesses his sin as sin, without any excuses, without any finger pointing toward others. 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem (Luke 24:45-47). He did not confess his sin, and the result was “pure hell.” It is an amazing thing, but while sin has its momentary pleasures (see Hebrews 11:25), they are not as pleasurable for the saint as they are for the heathen. He started with the story of the lost sheep. Even so, one of the inmates complained about the way his steak was cooked. and that is my last thought. We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve” (Luke 23:40–41). He walks across the stage on “the path of sin” and tells us that repenting is not merely stopping as we walk down the path, but turning to walk back in the direction of God. The repentance, while not clearly identified, seems to be the prodigal's acceptance of the free gift of reconciliation. There are those, like Pharaoh and like Saul, who seem to repent, but their repentance is short-lived. This “taking away” of sin is not some magic trick, where God simply takes the sin of David and makes it disappear.
That was the turning=point in the history of Peter. You recollect that just after Christ had said to him: "Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven," Christ began to speak about His sufferings, and Peter dared to say: "Be it far from Thee, Lord; this shall not be unto Thee." Specifically, I would like to draw your attention to Saul, who three times before has uttered these same words, “I have sinned . How was it that Peter, the carnal Peter, self=willed Peter, Peter with the strong self=love, ever became a man of Pentecost and the writer of his Epistle?