In our run-up to Easter, please join us in this week’s PODCAST as we follow Jesus step-by-step on this Virtual Israel Study Tour through the final hours of Jesus’ life.
Last week, we joined Peter in the seclusion of the Garden of Gethsemane. This week, we’ll meet again in the courtyard of the High Priest.
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You’ve perhaps heard the old line, “Things aren’t always as they appear to be.”
Well, as you are about to hear in this PODCAST, sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be.
Case in point, Peter’s exposé of Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer.
Kudos to Peter. The apostle properly diagnosed the terminal condition of Simon’s tortured soul with pinpoint accuracy.
A diagnosis that, were I to be honest with you, hits me way too close to home. For as much as I am ashamed to admit it to you, I have battled this very demon too.
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If this doesn’t send shivers up your spine, I don’t know what will.
In this PODCAST, you are about to hear an absolutely amazing story about a most-remarkable individual, whom we barely met last week—Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer.
A man, BTW, whose eternal destiny—when all is said and done—remains a question mark, shrouded in mystery.
For of Simon we read,
“Then Simon himself believed and was baptized” (Acts 8:13).
So far, so good!
But then we read a mere 8 short verses later,
“But Peter replied… ‘Your heart is not right with God.’”
Uh oh.
Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer—A living, breathing contradiction—as we might expect from someone trafficking on dark side.
There is so much to this story that it is hard to know where to begin. So we will start with this…
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The angel said to the women, “But go, tell His disciples — and Peter…”
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, kudos to Peter for allowing Mark to include this rather inglorious detail about this darkest hour of Peter’s storied life. If the trajectory of Peter’s faith journey was filled with ups and downs, the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, here Peter hits rock bottom.
What was the significance of the angel’s words to the women,
“But go, tell His disciples — and Peter…”?
More than you and I could ever imagine. An epic story of falling and rising, regret and redemption.
You want to see redemption in real time, here it is. A story of hope and promise that you will not want to miss.
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