Are You with Jesus?

Today we are resuming our sermon series in the Gospel of Mark. We are in the last section of chapter 14, a melancholy section where Peter denies Jesus. It is a melancholy record indeed, but one of the saddest things about it is the pleasure that we, as Christians, seem to get out of it and use it to minimise our sin. What we should do with this account is not to minimise our own sin, but rather to maximise the need that we have for God's mercy in Christ. Peter did not make it clear that he was with Jesus. He did the opposite. He denied it. We need to see how wrong this was of him and how wrong it is of us when we do it. We need to see how our Lord Jesus has provided for us in every way that we might make it known that we belong to Him, if in fact we do.