Bible CharactersTalmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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But when Jesus came down here, He said: “Come unto Me, all ye that are
weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” And He never rebuked
any one for worshiping Him. But John fell down and worshiped that angel,
and the angel refused to let him; and when Peter wanted to put Elias and
Moses on a level with Christ, God the Father spoke and said: “This is my
beloved Son. Hear ye Him.”
No matter about Elias now. No matter about Moses now. Hear Jesus. He is
the one that God wants all of us here to worship.
Now, some one says we can not know, down here, whether we are safe or
not. Well, we have an assurance right here:
“Then Simon Peter answered Him: ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the
words of eternal life.
“‘And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the
living God.’”
I will now call your attention to Peters faults. If you will just turn
over here into the twenty-second chapter of Luke, you will find there a
fault. Begin at the thirty-third verse of the twenty-second chapter of
Luke, and you will find the following:
“And he said unto him: ‘Lord, I am ready to go with Thee, both into
prison and to death.’
“And He said: ‘I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow, this day,
before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest Me.’
“And He said unto them: ‘When I sent you without purse and scrip and
shoes, lacked ye any thing?’ And they said: ‘Nothing.’”
Now, here we find Peter’s fault of self-confidence. That was really his
besetting sin, and when the Lord told him that the cock should not crow
twice before he had denied Him thrice, he ought to have believed the
words of Christ and cried for help; but no, he was very self-confident.
“Why,” says he, “if the rest of the disciples deny You, I will not deny
You.”
Peter not only declared he would not deny Jesus, but he even tried to
make the other disciples worse by comparison. If you meet a man full of
conceit and self-confidence, you may look for that man’s downfall.
Men who have stood the highest, in Scripture, have often fallen on their
strongest point.
Moses was noted for his humility. Right there he fell. He got angry
instead of being humble, and fell through lack of humility.
Elijah was noted for his boldness. Right there he fell. Why, he stood on
Mount Carmel and defied the whole nation. He stood there alone. He seemed
to be the boldest man in the whole nation. But after a while he got
word that Jezebel was going to take his life, and then he lost all his
boldness and got scared at the threat of a woman.
There was Samson, who was noted for his strength. He lost his hair,
wherein his strength consisted, but he recovered it. They cut off his
hair, but they did not remove the roots, and it grew out again.
Abraham was noted for his faith. But he got into Egypt, and denied his
wife.
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