Do you have one big regret of some past event? Even if you have a mountain of matters you wish you could do over, does one stand out above them all? If so, does that event define you? Have you been able to move on from that failure?

The Apostle Peter had one such event. It is likely the one thing people remember about him above all others. He denied Jesus 3 times and Jesus told him he would. All 4 gospels record the event and I am convinced it was a time of absolute crisis for him, as his reaction seems to show.

We are in John 18:25-27 this morning to look at the events, as John records them, and we will also look at the other gospel accounts for added detail. We do so to answer the question of whether it is possible to get beyond massive failure or not. This question is not in the psychological sense of some self-help philosophy, but how did Peter recover from this?

Make no mistake, It wasn't a matter of "time healing all wounds", or "we all fail", or some other slogan. What we see in Peter life was coming face to face with Jesus after He resurrected. This would make Peter's failure fade away and focus him of far greater things. We know much of Peter's state of mind after all of this by reading his epistles and The Book of Acts, as they record much.

Healing from failure is not something that can be erased by some mind over matter philosophy. Though we cannot forget past failures, being focused on eternal matters helps to put temporal failures in context.

Do you have one big regret of some past event? Even if you have a mountain of matters you wish you could do over, does one stand out above them all? If so, does that event define you? Have you been able to move on from that failure?

The Apostle Peter had one such event. It is likely the one thing people remember about him above all others. He denied Jesus 3 times and Jesus told him he would. All 4 gospels record the event and I am convinced it was a time of absolute crisis for him, as his reaction seems to show.

We are in John 18:25-27 this morning to look at the events, as John records them, and we will also look at the other gospel accounts for added detail. We do so to answer the question of whether it is possible to get beyond massive failure or not. This question is not in the psychological sense of some self-help philosophy, but how did Peter recover from this?

Make no mistake, It wasn't a matter of "time healing all wounds", or "we all fail", or some other slogan. What we see in Peter life was coming face to face with Jesus after He resurrected. This would make Peter's failure fade away and focus him of far greater things. We know much of Peter's state of mind after all of this by reading his epistles and The Book of Acts, as they record much.

Healing from failure is not something that can be erased by some mind over matter philosophy. Though we cannot forget past failures, being focused on eternal matters helps to put temporal failures in context.

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