Now, how do you think that Satan “sifted” Peter like wheat? He got him to thinking that his own determination to do what was right was enough to enable Him to go with Christ into this great spiritual battle. He didn’t have to watch and pray. Jesus had warned him twice that he needed to watch and pray lest he enter into temptation. His spirit was willing, but His flesh was weak. This is how it is for all Christians. This principle of truth must be believed and we must indeed watch and pray that we enter not into temptation. To enter means to give in to the temptation. What then must we do that we not enter in? Watch and pray. Watch against fleshly weakness and try to understand the Devil’s tactics. In Peter’s case it was to get him to think that he could follow his Master to the cross and die, without wrestling and struggling in prayer over it like Jesus Himself did.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...